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Asus EeePc available on the Romanian market!
This one came in the mailbox, the post_mail_box, of course. Mediagalaxy included this cutie in their latest advertisement paper. We’ve been watching it for a while, now that it’s here it seems unbelievable! Intel Mobile 900MHz, 512MB DDR2, 4GB storage, webcam, Wlan, card reader, built-in speakers and mike. It comes with Linux and – this one made me giggle – is Windows XP compatible! It is sold as being the lightest laptop (in Romania perhaps), only weighing 0,9 kg. Now all we have to do is go and get one before they run out of stock. Oh, did we mention the price yet? It’s 1149 RON, that would’nt be cheap at all compared to the initially vehiculated price tag of $200. Conversion gives 329EUR or $478, and one can pay off in monthly rates of less than 10 EUR, but by the time you are done maybe no one remembers what the EeePc was…
With Love from GNU/Linux: sidux 2007-04 “Ερως”
We told you it’s coming, a few days ago, you could smell it. Here it is, still steaming, the fourth release of sidux, named Ερως after Greek mitholgy! Another snapshot of debian’s unstable branch (AKA sid) spiced up with sidux’s own scripts and the ever so up-to-date slh-kernels, all this as sidux is approaching it’s first birthday. You can download the images, for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a ≈445 MB KDE lite and a ≈680 MB KDE full flavour. You will love it, just as it loves you, it’s named that way, isn’t it?
Release notes for Ερως
Our fourth release concentrates on X.org 7.3/ xrandr 1.2 and X detection related changes and the new upstream kernel 2.6.23, combined with an updated mac80211 wlan stack and drivers, which brought support for a number of additional wlan cards. While the last two months have been pretty turbulent in Debian sid with X.org 7.3 entering the scene, several library transitions and infrastructural problems, these issues seem to be mostly resolved for sidux and now allow to provide the best possible opensource support for various graphics chipsets and advanced runtime configuration options provided by xrandr 1.2 compatible drivers.
Further efforts have been invested into an advanced USB installation, kernel stabilisation and the live persistency framework. Various updates, fixes and adaptions have been applied to basically the complete package list and a lot of translation and localisation related endeavours were started to improve the situation for our non english/ german speaking users.
Read more about what’s on the menu for now here .
Debian/GNU/Linux on the Asus Eee Pc?
Still your eyes on the little beauty called EeePc? There’s some cooking happening, Debian style, aiming to run Linux on the cutie. No much content yet, but hey, Asus’ small portable just recently made it into our homes! Hopefully this project will become real and alive ASAP. We will monitor this, as it seems something that makes a real tech-heart pump.
Few days to new sidux snapshot!
That’s right, snapshot! ‘Cause sidux is a “rolling release”, always fresh from the latest in the debian/sid repos. It has been from it’s early days one of our fun-and-work environment, we only can recommend it. The second preview of sidux 2007-04 “Ερως” is already out and being reviewed, there are no major reasons for delay, except the state of the pool. “…a turbulent week behind the scenes of Debian sid, with an accidental glibc upload, a broken openssl version (#449200) affecting wpasupplicant and ries.debian.org (ftp-master) breaking down due to filesystem problems…” but this will not hinder another fresh release ASAP.
“sidux is a full featured Debian sid based live CD with a special focus on hard disk installations, a clean upgrade path within sid and additional hard- and software support. The ISO is completely based on Debian sid, enriched and stabilized with sidux’ own packages and scripts.”
What you can expect to find? Here you are, some infos, read more here.
- amd64 (AMD64, Intel Core2, newer 64 bit capable AMD Sempron and Intel Pentium 4 CPUs (watch for the “lm” flag in /proc/cpuinfo or use infobash -v3) and i686 (Pentium pro/ Pentium II, AMD K7 Athlon or newer)).
- Debian sid, as of 2007-11-05.
- kernel 2.6.23.1 (smp, hard preemption).
- libata support for parallel ATA systems.
- X.org 7.3.
- KDE 3.5.8 (en + de).
- completely new X.org probing, finally amd64 compatible.
- new USB fromiso Installer.
- new artwork created by cleary and the sidux art team.
- offline manual for en + de directly on the disc, online manuals for more languages online at http://manual.sidux.com/ and available via apt; a big thank you goes to the documentation and translation teams!
Please note that the offline manual is only available on the running live CD or the installed system. - iwlwifi3945/ iwlwifi4965 1.1.19.
- b43/ b43legacy support for Broadcom wlan cards.
- rt2x00 2.0.12+gis-8647-g130dd8f support for RaLink cards.
- experimental support for RealTek RTL8185 wlan cards.
- support for RealTek RTL8187 wlan cards.
- support for ADMtek ADM8211 wlan cards.
- support for Intel 82801I, 82566DM-2, 82562GT-2, 82562G-2 and 82562V-2 Gigabit Ethernet cards (ICH9).
- enhanced hardware support libraries.
- fw-detect to probe for hardware with non-free needs.
- memtest86+.
- overhauled partition and file system detection.
- basic lvm2 detection and support (no installer support).
- several X.org 7.3 and kernel 2.6.23 related bug and compatibility fixes.
- siduxcc overhaul.
- persistency fixes.
- bitsetting/ xrandr compatible driver for ATi cards (6.7.195).
- several X.org detection improvements and bugfixes.
- /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ superseding the monolithic /etc/apt/sources.list.
Stability to window manager: Compiz-Fusion
If you were with your eyes on this, you may already know that on the compiz community forum the first stable version of Compiz-Fusion, that is 0.6.0 has been released. But if you happen to use debian unstable, aka sid, you may want to add to your repositories that of “shame“, whose packages work well, in my case with the speedy, shiny, always up-to-date rolling-release distro called sidux.
This release includes:
Compiz Plugin sets (plugins are split into three packages according to their
usefulness and stability):
compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
This is the main plugin set, fully supported and providing the most
significant features. Check the list of plugins included in this
pack, with descriptions on http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/PluginsMain
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
This is the extra plugin set, fully supported and providing less
significant features. Check the list of plugins included in this
set, with descriptions http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/PluginsExtra
compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported:
This is the unsupported plugin set, which components should work but
aren’t officially supported by the development team. Check the list
of plugins included in this pack, with descriptions on
http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/PluginsUnsupported
compiz-manager:
Compiz-manager is a wrapper script intended to start compiz with the
appropriate arguments for the environment in use. It is intended
both for use in distributions and by end-users who install Compiz
Fusion in other ways than using their distribution’s packages.
compiz-bcop:
BCOP is a code generator that provides an easy way to handle plugin
options by generating parts of the plugin code directly from the xml
metadata file. It is used for most of the Compiz Fusion plugins.
libcompizconfig:
CompizConfig is an alternative configuration system for
compiz that provides the following features :
- Automatic plugin list generation.
- Import/Export of the current configuration.
- Configuration profiles.
- Parsing of Compiz metadata files to provide an easy to use API for
configuration managers.
- Conflict handling for plugins and actions.
- Support for different configuration storage backends.
- Desktop environment integration. If a backend provides desktop
environment integration, then Compiz will share the keybindings
and settings with the default desktop environment window manager
like metacity or kwin.
- Its own Compiz configuration plugin “ccp” to provide all features
of libcompizconfig with compiz.
compizconfig-backend-kconfig:
The kconfig backend for CompizConfig. It uses the KDE configuration
system to store the compiz configuration and provides integration into
the KDE desktop environment.
compizconfig-backend-gconf:
The gconf backend for CompizConfig. It uses the GNOME configuration
system and provides integration into the GNOME desktop environment.
compizconfig-python:
Python bindings for the compizconfig library.
compizconfig-settings-manager (a.k.a. ccsm):
A fully featured Python/GTK based settings manager for the CompizConfig
system, targeted to power users.
Stay tuned, this is a winner environment and my guess is: the best is yet to come.
One more day till Asustek’s EeePC hits the market
We’ve been waiting for it, tomorrow it will happen: the small beauty from Asustek, Eee PC is to hit the Taiwan market with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the product through Best Buy and Newegg in the US by the end of this month, while availability in the China market may arrive by the end of the year, the company added. Asustek, on June 5, unveiled its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, at Computex Taipei 2007. The company highlighted that the Eee PC will carry a suggested retail price of US$199 at that time. When it comes to the price you will have to pay to own one of this things, Jonathan Tsang, president for sales and marketing at Asustek Computer, has revealed that the company will announce the price tag for its Eee PC on October 16. He also noted that prices for the product in the retail market will not be lower than US$200 with the price tag of US$199 only available for contract purchases. Even so the Taiwan company stated its has received contract orders of over one million units from countries in emerging markets. Thanks Yen Ting Chen for the info.
Delay of EeePc shipment by Asustek
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 expand its software applications, Asustek decided to postpone its schedule, said the distributors.
Asustek noted that after testing the company gained many comments. Thus, it decided to add Linux-based software applications to the Eee PCs. This is the major reason the company is pushing back the launch of the products, said the company. Asustek indicated that it expects to ship Eee PCs soon, adding the launch should be no later than that of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC)’s latest plan in November.
Despite the plans to add additional software to the Eee PCs, Asustek stated the cost will remain the same.
Earlier this month, Asustek said it plans to ship 200,000-300,000 Eee PCs by the end of this year and annual shipments for next year will grow to more than three million units at least.
France: € 311,85 Remboursement For MS-Tax
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!
Compiz Fusion composite window manager now on the web
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 compile from git without major breakage. Status simple has a green, yellow and red light next to each component indicating whether there will be breakage or not.
thanks to smspillaz for infos.
Linux will not yet connect to the new iPhones
It is known by now that Apple has blocked their new iPods from synching with third party applications (anything that isn’t iTunes). The most significantly affected userbase in all this is the Linux community, who’ve been able to upload songs to their older iPods using free software such as gtkpod and Amarok for a while now. The tweak to the new iPod database files doesn’t appear to be incidental either, with a number being added to the front of the database file causing the iPod to be exclusively tied to a single copy of iTunes. “Not yet”, because fortunately, the problem isn’t beyond a little bit of reverse engineering, so Apple’s rather pointless meddling could be reversed given time. Thanks to www.edgadget.com for the info.
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