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A Drooling Attack Over the BeagleBone Black

By Katherine Noyes
May 2, 2013
LinuxInsider
1192 Words

There's been no shortage of gloom and doom here in the Linux blogosphere lately, what with Fuduntu's demise, a fresh round of anti-FOSS FUD, and even criticisms of Linux distros' girth. So it was with particular joy that Linux bloggers received the news about the all-new BeagleBone Black. "BeagleBoa...

LINUX BLOG SAFARI

Facebook Home: Brilliant Stroke or Desperate Measure?

By Katherine Noyes
Apr 8, 2013
LinuxInsider
1132 Words

Political and economic news from around the globe may bombard us with annoying regularity here in the tech community, and as most of us know, the news is almost always bad. That, of course, is why it's such a good thing we have Facebook to filter out what we don't want to hear. It's also why we all ...

LINUX BLOG SAFARI

Lenovo, Linux, and the Coming of the Chromebooks

By Katherine Noyes
Jan 21, 2013
LinuxInsider
998 Words

However great the strides made by user-friendly distros such as Ubuntu and Mint in recent years, it seems fair to say that Linux has not yet enjoyed any sweeping successes on the desktop the way it has on the mobile side with Android. That, however, may be changing. Thanks once again to none other t...