We announced already the imminent availability of one of the worlds smallest notebooks, which was due at the end of September, beginning of October. Now we learn that changes are made to the time line of the release. According to DigiTimes Asustek Computer is expected to delay shipments of its Eee PCs to the end of October.
Asustek’s Eee PC was originally expected to hit the market in the third week of September, noted the channel distributors. However, as the company expects to gain more power in the market and to …

Apparently Apple has issued a patch that was initially intended to block the iPhones unlocked to use any network, but not only those. The patch, available only via iTunes, apparently breaks the devices permanently and affects legitimately used ones as well. Read more here.
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The Linux Driver Project was announced, by Greg KH, last January as a program to write Linux drivers for companies for free. The response was encouraging from both those who wanted to help write drivers and from the companies who wanted drivers for Linux. Unfortunately, Greg was not able to handle all of these different developers and company requests on his own. He had a full-time job, and a full part-time hobby doing Linux kernel development. So the requests ended up going unanswered
Now Novell have assigned him full time …

Mac Rumors has posted an article which reveals that Mac OS X Leopard seed (9A559) has two remaining “issues” of which one was simply a test case for a new feature.
The actual bug is about “Archive installs” from Tiger to Leopard on PowerPC machines, and appears to be a true outstanding issue.
This means that it looks like OS X 10.5 is getting very close to release. It is meant to be released in October (which of course is only a few days away). Like all major software releases it needs …

A French court decided yesterday that Acer had to pay back € 311,85 for unused and unwanted pre-installed operating system + software to a guy who bought an € 599,– notebook.
Additionaly they had to pay € 650,– for the time lost in court plus all court related costs.
Full article here: http://perso.libre-zone.net/article-125 … -ro-4.html (French only at the moment)
thanks slam for the info!
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It looks like OS X 10.5 will need a fast-ish CPU to run. It has been reported at Apple Insider that OS X 10.5 will require “an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 (867 MHz or faster) or G5 processor.” Other system requirements include a DVD drive, built-in FireWire, at least 512MB of RAM (additional recommended), and at least 9GB of hard disk space.
This shouldn’t come as too much of a shock as the minimum requirements for Windows Vista are a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of system memory …

Following an interview published on a German website, which we reported here, where it was revealed that John Carmack is no longer as committed to Linux as he has been, John himself posted on Slashdot saying “There is certainly no plans for a commercially supported linux version of Rage, but there will very likely be a linux executable made available. It isn’t running at the moment, but we have had it compiled in the past. Running on additional platforms usually provides some code quality advantages, and it really only takes …

A german web site has published an interview with Todd Hollenshead, id Software’s CEO, that reveals that id Software and John Carmack are no longer as committed to Linux as they have been.
In the interview Todd Hollenshead discusses the upcoming id title Rage and the engine it runs on, codenamed ‘id Tech 5′. When asked about Linux, CEO Todd Hollenshead said that “John Carmack is no longer as interested in Linux as before.”
You can read more here.
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I already mentioned a very cool way to make your Linux desktop show off using Compiz Fusion, the result of a merge between the well-known Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras, a community set of improvements to the Compiz composite window manager.
Now Compiz Fusion has web presence! There you can find a homepage, wiki, planet (where all the blogs are syndicated to – giving you a mass perspective on everything compiz fusion), forum, gitweb and status.
Status is a user-friendly way of notifying the user whether it is safe to …

Everyone hosted on Layered Tech’s network, you better rush to your site / server and change your root password! According to this post by LayeredTech president, Todd Abrams, “the support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login details for 5 to 6,000 of our clients.”
I am not sure all clients hosted on their network are following their blog, where they post every downtime, maintenance, news, …