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ACM OSR Linux Issue Available For Free Download
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| In accordance with the ideals of the issue's open source topic, the ACM has
| agreed to make the July issue of Operating Systems Review: Research and
| Developments in the Linux Kernel available for download free of charge.
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/08/09/196222.shtml
Related:
The Laptop Crusade
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| Within the next 12 months, as many as 10 million laptop computers
| will be distributed to children in Argentina, Brazil, Libya,
| Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Uruguay. Countless youngsters who
| live in remote villages, perhaps without electricity, who may not
| have access to clean water or health care, will suddenly have
| computing power pretty close to that of businesspeople and
| college students.
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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/4985
Mary Lou Jepsen: Laptops for All
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| In June 2005, the OLPC team hadn?t even finished its design when it
| found itself pitching the $100 laptop concept to the Brazilian
| government. Brazil immediately committed to 2 million units.
| "The cacophony it created!" Jepsen marvels. "Every other head of
| state in Latin America contacted us by the end of the week."
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb07/4900
Radio Revolutionaries - A Massachusetts company reinvents the cellular base
station
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| Vanu's code, by contrast, is all written in a high-level language,
| C++, running under the Linux operating system. "When we change
| platforms, we maybe rewrite 5 percent of the code, versus 50 or
| 60 percent for our competitors," Chapin says
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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4833
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