Marvell promises $100 tablet for students

I have no idea why an FM receiver was included in the spec. Does any student really listen to the radio anymore?

Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says.

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Marvell-Moby/

On the other hand, here's a pretty slick looking device for the same price:

A startup that includes former members of Openmoko has begun shipping a hackable Linux-based "copyleft" clamshell for $99. Qi Hardware's Ben NanoNote incorporates Ingenic's MIPS-compatible 336MHz XBurst Jz4720 processor, 32MB SDRAM, and 2GB NAND flash, and offers a 3-inch, 320 x 240 display.

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Qi-Hardware-Ben-NanoNote/

That's My Girl

Transcript for the spiders:

[19:59] Jasnea Tosh: hi
[19:59] juliantosh: hi jas. what you doing?
[19:59] Jasnea Tosh: just chatting with you
[20:00] juliantosh: cool. so do you want to try and help jessica with her computer problem?
[20:00] Jasnea Tosh: yeah
[20:01] juliantosh: ok. we will have to try and find a spare hard drive around the house and burn another copy of Fedora to a dvd. then we will talk to her mother
[20:02] Jasnea Tosh: sound good:)
[20:02] juliantosh: i would be so proud of you if you converted some of your friends to Linux!
[20:03] Jasnea Tosh: it is goin to be fun helping a friend
[20:03] juliantosh: yup. what is your favorite thing about linux?
[20:05] Jasnea Tosh: you dont have any problems
[20:07] Jasnea Tosh: and it rocks

A New Video Editor for Linux

OpenShot is filling a void in Linux video media editing. Currently available as a package under Debian, soon to be compiled and packaged for other major distros like Fedora.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/openshot-finally-excellent-video-editor-linux/

Zenoss: We Can Ditch Nagios Now

Another perfect example of open source software gone commercial is Zenoss. As a full-featured network and service monitoring solution, Zenoss is one of the best monitoring tools available.

Most importantly, Zenoss combines two functionalities. First and foremost an enterprise environment requires host and service monitoring, with notifications. Network monitoring really means checking services, checking that hosts are up (they ping), and possibly writing your own plugins to check various other aspects of a server or network device. Until now, Nagios has filled that role.

Second, once a decent monitoring solution is in place, getting time-based information becomes desirable. Memory and CPU usage is the most prevalent example: if you’re checking available swap space every so often with Nagios, you may know when you start running low. But it may be just as important to see a graph of the last week’s usage. Tools like Cacti or Munin, which collect data frequently and use RRD graphs to display it, are very useful.

Zenoss fills both roles, without the annoying shortcomings prevalent in the alternative solutions. Zenoss uses the terms Availability Monitoring and Performance Monitoring to describe these two fundamental roles.

http://www.zenoss.com/

Linux: Can it get any easier?

In recent iterations of Ubuntu the process of sharing folders has become incredibly easy. No more configuring of Samba (at least not by the user). But can anything in Linux be that easy?

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1310