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[News] VIA Goes More Open, Puts GNU/Linux on Ultra-mobiles

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Via laptop goes Open Source

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| The design drawings are offered for download under a Creative Common 
| Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license, but you'll probably need to hire a few 
| engineering Phds and come up with a couple of million quid in development 
| capital to make it all work out.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/27/via-laptop-goes-open-source

To be available with Linux too.


Recent:

End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip

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| The $398 Everex gBook is being sold at Wal-Mart with a 15-inch screen, a
| 1.5GHz Via C-7M processor, 512MB of DDR2 system memory, a 60 GB hard disk
| drive, optical drive, Ethernet, and wireless. It uses the gOS Version 2
| operating system, a Linux distribution.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9945568-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code

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| VIA has released over 16,000 lines of code that provides a frame-buffer
| driver in the Linux kernel. This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and
| appears to be crafted by VIA's Joseph Chan. Supported by this driver is VIA's
| Unichrome CLE266, K400, K800, PM800, CN700, CX700, K8M890, P4M890, P4M900,
| and VX800 IGPs.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Nw
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