IBM Linux handheld
“Widening its adoption of the Linux operating system, International Business Machines Corp. Friday said it would collaborate with Sharp Corp. of Japan on a handheld computer that runs the open source software.” - Associated Press via Yahoo.
The TeleRead take: Let’s hope hope this helps set back the idea of Windows-only e-book formats for consumers. MicrosoftReader has its glories, but needs to be available in Linux, too. A TeleRead approach, of course, would address the format issue.
March 15th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
This may not be revelant but i figured i’d post this anyway. If you’re using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you’re resolv.conf with your ISP’s DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf