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Time ripe for a Linux console?

I was watching my son the other day on our XBOX 360 that’s tuckednicely in our cabinet under the TV with our DVD player, digital cablebox, and receiver. He was playing Halo 3...

16 years 9 months ago

Open Source Handhelds

Quite a while ago now I posted about the open source gaming devicefrom Korea know as the GP2X. At the end of the day, it ended up with astoried history and while I love the concept...

16 years 10 months ago

Wind River Webinar: Q and A

Hello All, last week as some of you know I was the featured presenter / presentation for a Webinar.(you may have problems watching that with firefox…) . During thecourse of the...

16 years 11 months ago

Who's leading anyway?

The LinuxHater linked off to Christopher Blizzard’s(from OLPC fame and now at Mozilla) blog on the current state ofaffairs with the GNOME project. He gives some very eye opening...

16 years 11 months ago

Is Vista another ME?

I have an ongoing lunchtime discussion with some ofmy coworkers about Vista. We’ve covered the usual topics: the hardwarerequirements, the OS footprint, the driver challenges...

Bye Bill. You will be missed

Reading the news I see that today was Bill Gates last day at Microsoft.Apparently, they held a tearful farewell in Redmond for him. And itreally does mark a significant moment in...

Mobile phones clear for take-off?

A few months ago I commented on some of the technical developments in passenger in-flight systems (‘ In-flight Internet access…and mobile phones too?’).In recent weeks, there have...

17 years 2 months ago

Processing Paradigm: it's all about capacity

When I was a kid anything that was a computer, or had one in it, waspretty obvious. Computers weren’t "just everywhere". Now we’ve gotmultiple CPU chips on a board, multiple CPU...

17 years 3 months ago

Hacking Time & Linux Appliances

One of the curses of being an Engineer is that we have the knackfor hacking things, not just computers, but pretty much anything aroundthe house, garage, or office. It’s a curse...

17 years 5 months ago

An Industry and Technology Revolution is on the Horizon

Limo, and in a slightly different way Android, have killed the standards-based approach to open source development in mobile. In the Linux world, creating an esoteric, theoretical...

17 years 5 months ago