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Open source USB key to $2bn laptop plan
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| Speaking to iTnews, Cybersource CEO Con Zymaris said a $2 billion funding
| injection – double the original commitment – would be needed to put some four
| million netbooks on the desks of Australian school students.
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| The Federal government estimates the total cost per laptop to be up to $2,500
| over four years.
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| [...]
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| Cybersource is proposing a variation of a model adopted by French schools ,
| where students are issued with a 2-4 GB USB key that contains a self-booting
| Linux operating system ‘and all the core applications they need’.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/90863,open-source-usb-key-to-2bn-laptop-plan.aspx
PCs for schools: an open source solution
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| Last year, when Australia went to the polls, one of the major promises held
| out by the Labor Party - which ultimately returned to government after 11
| years - was the provision of computers to school-children, one for each child
| in grades 9 to 12.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22225/1090/
There would be Microsoft cronies and kickbacks to defeat. The convicted
white-collars criminals never play by the book.
Recent:
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| Earlier in the year, I was doing a feature for Custom PC, using the
| incredibly small and light “Slitaz” Linux distribution. What started as me
| writing an article on it, ended with me knee deep in scripts and contributing
| a significant number of changes to the OS - making it possible to simply
| install it to a USB drive in a wizard like manner. I really liked the way the
| OS was only 22MB, yet had a modern look and everything you need from a Cloud
| OS - FireFox, Pidgin, GIMP etc. However, I think it needs to mature a
| little - mainly by adding in better network card support and wireless - so I
| am no longer using it on any of my machines.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/andrewm/2008/12/03/if-boottime/
Microsoft Executive: Netbooks Risk Cannibalizing Windows
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| "My personal view is that there's some cannibalization and some incremental (
| growth in units)," Bill Veghte, who runs Microsoft's Windows unit, said at a
| technology conference.
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| Veghte said that Windows was on about 70% of Netbooks in the market.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200812031212DOWJONESDJONLINE000716_FORTUNE5.htm
is there a long-term future for the netbook?
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| The retail impact of Linux in the netbook market has been huge, with many
| retailers reporting that Linux based netbooks were taking up 40% or more of
| their notebook class shipments.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-there-long-term-future-for-netbook.html
Linux Carried Along on Netbooks Wave
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| Morvay revealed to Linux Magazine Online that there were no specific figures
| for Linux netbook sales, but that it lay somewhere in the 40th percentile.
| Even though this figure seems a little high, it is known that many of the
| world's netbooks have Linux on board since their first inception 18 months
| ago.
|
| For example, notebooks with Linux make up about 5.5% of the notebook market
| in Germany...
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/linux_carried_along_on_netbooks_wave
Microsoft Missing Out on Netbook Growth as Linux Wins Sales
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| Small laptops are becoming a big problem for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
| business.
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| A new breed of lightweight computers called netbooks are beginning to crack
| the company's dominance of operating systems. Acer Inc. and Asustek Computer
| Inc., which together account for 90 percent of the netbook market, are using
| the rival Linux software on about 30 percent of their low-cost notebooks.
|
| The devices, which usually cost less than $500, are the fastest-growing
| segment of the personal-computer industry -- a trend that's eating into
| Microsoft's revenue. Windows sales fell short of forecasts last quarter and
| the company cut growth projections for the year, citing the lower revenue it
| gets from netbooks. When makers of the computers do use Windows, they
| typically opt for older and cheaper versions of the software.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a3VyE_ofSwwE
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