(Press release) Eric Kanagy writes “June 18, 2007 GOSHEN, Ind. – RedPost inc., an Indiana-based tech startup, today announced the launch of RedPost/Kit, a do-it-yourself digital photo frame kit that comes with everything you need to get up and running. And that’s as much press-release language as you’re going to get. Sorry, no pithy made-up quotes or long, bragging, uninteresting paragraphs.
Anonymous Reader writes “If you are reading this, chances are you are running a RT2500 based chipset wireless card that worked perfectly with Ubuntu Edgy and then stopped working after your upgrade to Feisty. Am I pretty close? Yeah, I feel ya, believe me. Well today, I have a solution for you that will hopefully offer you a way to get around Ubuntu’s latest wireless “fix”.”
Some say the Classmate PC is Intel’s answer to (or competition with) the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) effort. Intel is hawking the lilliputian laptop in “emerging markets” like Nigeria, India, and Mexico as a solution for worldwide education of primary and secondary students. It’s to be officially released and shipped en masse to schools in Africa and South and Central America by the end of June. Recently my children and I borrowed a Classmate PC loaded with a custom version of Mandriva Linux. Most of us had fun.
The GNOME Foundation is scheduled to announce the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE) today at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. The initiative is aimed at bolstering GNOME usage as an embedded and mobile development platform. Founding members include open source organizations and commercial interests such as ACCESS, Canonical, Intel, Debian, Nokia, Red Hat, Fluendo, the Linux Foundation, and Maemo.
In a long-anticipated move, Ed Colligan, president and CEO of Palm, Inc., told investment analysts this week that the company plans to release Linux-based mobile devices by the end of the year. Reaction from the mobile computing community ranged from excitement to caution.
In January, Motorola announced the formation of the LiMo foundation, the not-quite open source project that will collaborate on a Linux-based ecosystem for mobile applications development. Now, with the launch of the new OpenSAF project, Motorola and friends are moving up to middleware, and moving closer to true open source in the process.
Last week, Motorola and five other cell phone manufacturers announced the official launch of the LiMo Foundation, a “global mobile Linux initiative.” The foundation will work off mobile Linux in a private collaborative development environment that has its roots in open source, but isn’t quite.
Anonymous Reader writes “uClinux 2.4.19 has been ported to the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP). It boots into an interactive shell and minimal userland. Communication is through a serial port located on the headphone jack of the PSP.”
One of the greatest new features for laptop users in Ubuntu is network-manager. With this shiny new application it is finally easy to connect your Ubuntu system to any wireless network. Where previously you had to jump through hoops to do WPA or 802.1x authentication, network manager makes this completely transparent.
A recent Slashdot item on Wi-Fi security was a timely reminder of the weaknesses of default Wi-Fi encryption protocols, and the dangers of using unencrypted, public Wi-Fi connections. Fortunately, you can use FOSS utilities to securely tunnel your Wi-Fi connection sessions and protect your Web and email traffic.
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