Eee PC

With Nokia’s defection and Intel’s relative silence regarding the subject, you might think that you’ve already seen the last of the MeeGo operating system. Well, perhaps, but Intel is keeping MeeGo alive in cooperation with Samsung in a new Linux-based open-source mobile OS initiative called the Tizen project. A post on the official Tizen web [...]

Before I can even sit down and just revel at how open portable computing devices are nowadays, out comes this white little tablet computer with Google’s Android operating system and an empty cup of tea. Dubbed the Chinese iPad, this device features a 7-inch WVGA display, 600MHz ARM 9 processor, some buttons lined along the [...]

While most netbooks can be easily loaded with Ubuntu and other open source tools, Lemote plans to show off one where all the pre-bundled software are open-sourced. We previously saw them here with their tiny Fuloong netbook, they are now releasing a slightly larger 8.9″ Yeeloong 8089. Like the previous device, this also has an [...]

The guys over at Datamation have compiled a list of 25 open source applications that will work on an Asus Eee PC netbook. The list focuses mainly on Linux based applications, for the original Eee PC 701, but some are compatible with Windows and some apps solely Windows. Within the 25 open source applications, 19 [...]

According to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, “the Linux netbook market is not realizing its full potential” because the manufacturers are “employing an outdated business model.” Overall, he noted, the only thing the sorry state of Linux on netbooks is doing is giving Microsoft a chance to gain even more market share [...]