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Tweet Linux Eee Box now available, MS giving away XP? Two months ago I commented on the non-availability of either of the two Linux versions of the Asus Eee Box 202 that had been announced months ago along with its XP-equipped sibling, which has been shipping for two months already. It appears you can now [...]

Tweet Red Hat Unveils Integrated Linux-Based HPC Platform Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced the delivery of an integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters. Historically, [...]

Tweet Mandriva Linux 2009.0 is out – but do you care? The first time I ever saw Mandrake Linux (Now Mandriva) was on a retail store shelf. That was probably 9 years ago and to be honest in the last few years I personally haven’t seen Mandriva running much (as I shoulder surf desktops at [...]

Tweet Google’s Android ‘opens up’ the smart phone With the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone 3G launch in Canada, not to mention Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, one might think there’s hardly room for yet another contender in the highly competitive smart-phone space.Google would beg to differ. The web-search giant’s much-hyped Android mobile [...]

Tweet Microsoft Promises New, Fluffier Version of Windows Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, has hit the European press circuit in full-on tease mode. He’s talking up a new version of the Windows operating system that will cater to so-called “cloud computing” technology, where people use software that’s running in a data center rather than on [...]