Everex hits the books with $298 open-source desktop
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Blog: Everex announces Wal-Mart will carry its Windows-based, back-to-school $298 desktop, which features open-source productivity software.
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Addition of high-end graphics to computers based on open-source platform helps company go beyond its proprietary products.
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This week you'll learn about Ubuntu, a free, all-in-one operating system that includes an office suite, media tools, a Web browser, a graphics package, an e-mail client and more. Once installed, you're up and running right away. By Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Ivan Krstic, David Murphy, Jonathan Jesse, Peter Savage and Corey Burger. 0723
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Wal-Mart began selling $298 PCs from Everex on Wednesday that use Windows Vista, are free of so-called "bloatware" and feature open source software.
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Ziff Davis - At half the price of its high-end system, the new ftServer W Series 2300 system offers users an alternative to clusters.
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Blog: The Web and the desktop are increasingly blurring, as Adobe's Apollo project demonstrates. Unfortunately, open-source licensing remains in beta while we're about to go into production.
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Surprise! The KVM open-source virtualization software is at the foundation of a desktop virtualization software start-up's business.
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A rash of supremely affordable PCs preloaded with Linux has hit mainstream retail stores. And trying one is not as risky a proposition as you might think.Photos: Three sub-$200 Linux PCs
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The price of the ft4400 is far higher than that of a clustered solution, Infoworld's reviewer says. But if your goal is a completely fault-tolerant single-server, Linux-based solution, he says, look no further.
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Desktop features BTX motherboard for improved airflow.
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Jumping onto the design-and-simplicity bandwagon, Gateway unveils the 'One' desktop and touts it as an affordable and practical alternative for consumers who might not want to shell out the bucks for, well, Apple.
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Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores.
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Previous tips showed you how you can use Expos&#233; to instantly unclutter your desktop or an application. Expos&#233;&#146;s coolness doesn&#146;t end there, though. How would you like to see it work in slow mo&#146;?  [Dec 22]
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There are further big doings on the tiny-laptop front, as Everex announced Tuesday that they will indeed offer a model with a 9-inch screen -- answering the unspoken challenge lain down by Asustek's similar news earlier this month concerning their Eee.
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After a slight delay, Everex has started shipping its Cloudbook ultraportable PC and will follow up with future models that support touch-screen applications, the company announced Friday.Priced at $399, the Cloudbook is designed to compete with inexpensive ultraportable computers like Asustek&#39;s Eee PC. The Cloudbook runs a version of the Linux OS, includes a 7-inch screen and weighs 0.22 kilograms (0.49 pounds).The company has already shipped 20,000 of the notebooks to retailers including Wal-Mart, Newegg, and TigerDirect, said Paul Kim, director of marketing at Everex. Wal-Mart will start selling the product on its Web site on Thursday, he said.ZaReason, which distributes Everex products, said on its Web site Friday that the Cloudbook had sold out. Everex had shipped a few hundred Cloudbooks to ZaReason, Kim said. As of Friday, the PC was not yet available on TigerDirect or Newegg.The Cloudbook was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show last month in Las Vegas. It was originally due to ship in January, but last-minute tweaks to the GNOME interface software caused the delay, Kim said.The computer is powered by a 1.2GHz Via Technologies C7-M processor and runs on the gOS, a flavor of Linux based on Ubuntu. It includes a 30GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, wired and wireless networking, a DVI (Digital Video Interface) port, a 4-in-1 media card reader, and a lithium-ion battery.The company is also developing a Cloudbook with a touch-screen interface that it plans to make available worldwide by the end of the year, priced at $499, Kim said. It hopes to enlist the open-source community to help it create touch-screen applications for that product. It said it plans to put about 2,000 of the touch-screen Cloudscapes on sale to developers at the end of March for this purpose.Everex may also incorporate solid-state drives in future Cloudbooks as the price of flash storage drops, he said.The Cloudbook will compete with Asustek&#39;s low-cost Eee PC, which has sold around 350,000 units to date since its launch late last year. Acer and MSI are expected to launch low-cost PCs later this year.
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion ??? helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more