TurnKey Sponsors Appliance Development Contest

Do you like developing virtual servers and helping the open-source community?  Do you also enjoy winning money and/or the esteem of your peers?  If so, TurnKey Linux’s appliance development contest might be just the way for you to put your leisure time to good use this summer.  Read on for details.

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Embracing the “Meta Release Cycle”

One of the greatest problems hindering desktop Linux is its diversity.  With 800+ distributions, dozens of user interfaces and lots of different applications that do the same things, it’s no secret that the Linux world is convoluted for developers and users.  But if Mark Shuttleworth has his way, the free-software community might become a little saner.

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Sub-$200 Ubuntu PCs Sell Out

Interesting update from The Debian User, indicating that sub-$200 PCs running a variant of Ubuntu have sold out at Wal-Mart and ZaReason. I was at Wal-Mart Saturday. When I asked about the sub-$200 Linux PCs (built by Everex), the Wal-Mart sales team said they had never heard of it. Bummer.

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