Debian powers sleek, two-pound mini-PC
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| German Web retailer Manufactum has introduced a sleek, low power mini-PC that
| runs Debian Linux. The 450-Euro Manuscriptum is based on a 500MHz AMD Geode
| LX800, is equipped with an 80GB hard drive, and offers 1920 x 1400 graphics,
| according to the company.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9615148023.html
Debian and the grass roots of Linux
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| Debian GNU/Linux was the first project to be deliberately modelled on the
| principles of distributed software development, and provides the core
| software for many of the more successful commercial Linux distributions.
| Though Debian does not have the high profile of other Linux distributions the
| commercial success of Linux may owe more to the Debian community than
| advocates of Linux in the enterprise are ever likely to acknowledge...
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/applications/features/135084/debian-and-the-grass-roots-of-linux.html
Related:
Ministry of Education from Brazil is buying 90,000 Debian GNU Linux computers
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| All computers will be installed at 9000 brazilian schools.
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http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/mec_buying_90000_debian_computers
Linux: The Little Operating System That Really Can
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| I began what I like to think of as my “Linux Adventure”, in February of 2006
| on a short, much-frazzled shoestring. I couldn’t afford to buy a new, or
| even a late model second-hand computer to use with Linux and I wasn’t
| prepared to give up Windows. Used computers are comparatively easy to find
| but my choices were narrowed down to what I could afford. My first Linux
| computer was a 266 MHz P2 with 128 MB of RAM. Of several full featured
| distros, Debian 3.1 (Sarge) was the only one I was able to install on it and,
| at that, I had to learn how to do some very geeky post-install tweaking. I
| later acquired a 333 MHz Celeron with 256 MB of RAM and it too seemed best
| suited to Debian 3.1. As time progressed I was able to finagle and trade my
| way up to my current Linux machine which is an 800 MHz Duron with 512 MB of
| RAM running Debian 4.0 (Etch). Debian Etch, by the way, didn’t require any
| geeky post-install tweaking, although I did have to ascend a short learning
| curve to give it multimedia capabilities, and is at least as user friendly as
| was my first Windows 98 computer. In my opinion, anyone who contends that
| Linux isn’t ready for the ordinary desktop user hasn’t tried it and/or isn’t
| an ordinary desktop user.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/2007/10/28/linux-the-little-operating-system-that-really-can/
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