»Click here to calculate your site FeedRank Today«
FeedRank, a newly developed algorithm for ranking RSS feeds only on RSSMicro
Click here to learn more
 3/10 Fair --- www.fedoraproject.org http://planet.fedoraproject.org/rss20.xml
| Fedora People: http://planet.fedoraproject.org ... |
Friday, July 04, 2008 --- 57 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ShadowLogs/Fedora/~3/326468573/linpus-linux-fedor
 http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/acers_linpus_linux_lite_ultra_portable_laptop The hardware is based on the Intel Atom Processor which will be used in the Asus EeePC 1000. If you navigate to /etc/system-release you will discover that Linpus is based on a fork of Fedora 8 (Werewolf). That’s better. Much better. Fedora has managed to avoid shabby deals with Microsoft and playing fast and loose with Kernel source code and the GPL. At last, a version of GNU/Linux on an ultra portable you can use with a clear conscience. Being a stripped-down version of Fedora it lacks both make and gcc (and probably ncurses too, though the binaries may be included in the distro but just excluded from the default installation). That will not bother novices or newbies much but it will hack off advanced users—no pun intended. On the plus side though, Linpus comes bundled with MP3, WMV and Flash support and plugins. Package management is courtesy of Synaptic but as Linpus is really Fedora, packages are RPM and presumably Yum could be used on the command line. Despite all the caveats, Acer has joined Asus, Dell and others in something which may have a profound effect on the future of free software; and, above all, at last a pre-installed version of GNU/Linux that will sit well with a free software conscience. No source code ambiguities or GPL violations or any funny business playing fast and loose with the principles of free software. Just a hacked ve ... |
|
|
Recent Posts
|
|
|
Facebook Del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon Reddit Google
Anytime
