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New HP Mini for the classroom will have option to install with SuSE Linux (SLED 11) operating systems.  The HP Mini 100e will be available worldwide in July. Pricing will be set on a per deal basis and is not expected to exceed $300 per unit.
HP today announced an education-focused Mini netbook designed to help schools around the world acquire affordable, reliable computing technology.
The HP Mini 100e Education Edition features a modern, innovative design with the durability and functionality essential for …

Ubuntu 10.04 which is based on Debian distribution available today on their website. The version is LTS version which mean it is a long term support for the OS. It includes three years of support through free security and maintenance updates.
New in 10.04 LTS:

Boot speed: Noticeably quicker on almost any machine and super-fast on SSD-based machines such as netbooks, which means users can speed straight to the browser for fast web access.
Social from the start: The new ‘Me Menu’ in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS consolidates the process of accessing and updating …

LG is organizing a Robot Vacuum tournament next month. They expecting 32 teams to join the tournament by using this robot as a soccer player and fight each other to win great prizes such as 42 inch LED Canvas LG TV. If you want to join the tournament, you must be in Korea this 16 May.
The tournament is called 2010 LG Roboking. Detail here.
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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the fifth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5. Adding features designed to operate across physical, virtual and cloud deployments, the update offers enhanced virtualization and interoperability capabilities combined with support for important new hardware platforms. As with all Red Hat updates, application compatibility and certification with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform is fully maintained, …

Dolphin System settings
KDE has released a first preview the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), 4.4 Beta1 The first beta version of KDE SC 4.4 provides a preview and base for helping to stabilize the next version of the KDE Desktop, Applications and Development Platform.
The list of changes this time around is especially long. Important changes can be observed all over the place:

The Nepomuk Semantic Search framework has made leaps: A new storage backend makes it a lot faster, new user interfaces to interact with the Nepomuk database are first delivered …

After OpenSuSE 11.2 is out, i have download the distro to try it out. Unfortunately there is a problem to install at that time due to the MD5 checksum failed during installation. I have made MD5 checksum on the iso, i found that the MD5 is not same. Perhaps the DVD corrupted during download.
Once again I download the OpenSuSE, this time using office connection. Once finished, I continue to make MD5 checksum and found no problems.
Back to OpenSuSE, the installation is not so difficult. More or less with the installation …

Dedicated servers are the ideal medium for people to host web site and Internet services that require the maximum level of performance, bandwidth, configurability and security.
With dedicated server(s) you are in complete control of your machine and can install any application you need. Your machine’s CPU cycles, disk storage and memory will not be shared with anyone else.
You can opt to have it unmanaged meaning as the provider has no control/rights over the machine whatsoever, or you can have a managed dedicated server where provider take care of the required …

The openSUSE Project, a worldwide project sponsored by Novell, announced today that openSUSE 11.2 is immediately available for download at http://software.opensuse.org. openSUSE is a secure and stable Linux-based operating system that is easy to use and includes everything needed to get started with Linux on the desktop or server. The openSUSE distribution provides the foundation for the award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell.
What’s New in openSUSE 11.2
openSUSE is an excellent Linux distribution not only for experienced Linux users, but also for users who are new to Linux and interested in …

Open Office mouse
In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world’s leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys presently permit.
The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org …

Samba is a free software for sharing files and printer across network between Linux and Windows. It can also integrate with a Windows server domain either as PDC or as a domain member. It can also become a part of an Active Directory domain.
Samba can run on most Unix and Unix like system such as Linux, Solaris, BSD and also Mac OS X server. Samba usually is a standard package come with the Linux distribution can commonly included as basic system service in Unix based OS. Samba is an Open …