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This week, the news arrived that Dell is putting ARM processors alongside Intel Core Duo chips in high-end Windows-based laptops that can boot Linux for instant-on application usage. The company's Latitude Z notebooks run Windows on a Core Duo Intel processor, but will let you jump in and out of simple applications and browsers for on-the-fly tasks when you don't want to wait for Windows to boot.
The concept isn't new. The idea of instant-on computers has been around for more than 15 years, but Windows computers have mostly been diametrically opposed to the concept. We have written about DeviceVM's Linux-based SplashTop instant-on software a number of times, and I've used it. It's excellent for when you want to check on a quick bit of information without loading a bloated operating system. Still, who wins if this idea takes off on a widespread basis in portable computers?
Why aren't schools adopting open source? Outside the U.S. schools are doing so, but not inside.
Top 25 OpenOffice extensions. Here are many good ways to get more out of the open source app suite.
Eyeing Google, Splashtop partners with Yahoo for instant-on web search. It's a pre-emptive strike against Chrome OS.
Open source advocates still called zealots. That's the moniker that a New York Times blog post chooses.
Installing VirtualBox 3.0 on a Fedora 11 desktop. Here's a tutorial that will allow you to run multiple operating systems concurrently.
Splashtop, the instant-on Linux distribution found on Asus motherboards has been hacked. The hack allows for it to run on a USB stick, within a virtual machine, and more.....
MySQL appliance vendor Kickfire raises $20 million.....
Beta 1 of Mandriva Linux 2009 is now available.....
Is it time for Microsoft to officially rescind its Linux lawsuit threats?.....
Ex-inmates apply open source to rehabilitiation.....
