Sven Luther at LinuxTag 2003 with the Pegasos

In 2003 LinuxTag was held at the Karlsruhe Kongresszentrum. You can still read Nicholas Blachford's 2003 show report online (Nicholas works for ARM Inc. now). At the time, we were just trying to get Debian running on the Pegasos.

This year LinuxTag is being held this week in Berlin. It has been hosted in Berlin for a few years now: LinuxTag 2009.

FFmpeg Booth LinuxTag 2009

What you see in the second picture is Big Buck Bunny (itself an open source project) running in high definition mode on a beagleboard (The Eagle has Landed). Luca Barbato and Måns Rullgård are manning the FFmpeg Booth at LinuxTag. Måns gets the credit for getting the beagleboard this far. That is the beagleboard on the desk in front of the display.
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Application for striking off.
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With the average selling price falling for computers, the major vendors are experiencing some pressure. According to Gartner, netbook shipments are expected to reach 21 million this year. Profits at many PC companies are already falling due to lower prices even as they ship more units. There is change afoot.

It is almost time to power up

The first batch of Efika MX Developer Kits have shipped. The next batch will ship in a couple of weeks.
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The days of broadcast analog television are over in the USA. The conversion to digital transmission is complete. Retailers are hoping for a boost in sales of smaller TVs. Broadcasters spent $5 billion in infrastructure upgrades and another $1.2 billion on consumer education campaigns, according to the National Association of Broadcasters. We are not sure Broadcasters will ever recover their investment. hulu is better and more broadly attractive.
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This week Samsung launched a solar powered capable mobile phone, the Crest Solar. As Matt observed last week at SID 2009, what would it take to do this with a netbook? The phone has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging. It will probably take a few more years to support normal netbook usage.

Or, perhaps we should say:

How about a solar *smartbook*?

Also last week, Computek was held in Taiwan.
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Most of the good work we have done with the Novell and openSUSE folks over the last few years can be attributed to Peter Czanik. Peter is an industrious, hard-working sort of guy. He is working on bringing up openSUSE support for ARM and the Efika MX now. He is also recently the proud Father of Son #2.

Peter Czanik is on the job!

openSUSE is being ported to ARM. The infrastructure for this work is the openSUSE Build Service, which supports the ARM architecture using Qemu.
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A picture is worth a 1000 (licensed copies) of Word...

Please let us know if you would like to test the software

The first batch of Efika MX Developer Kits have shipped. We are and will share the results as the work progresses. We will have plenty of good news to report in the weeks ahead. Please keep track of the progress being made on PowerDeveloper.
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As mentioned yesterday, things are developing quickly...

Wireless and networking are working

The first batch of Efika MX Developer Kits have shipped. We are happy to share the results as the work gets underway. We will have plenty of good news to report in the weeks ahead. Please keep track of the progress being made on PowerDeveloper.
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It did not take too long to start getting the first pictures...

Michal Schulz and Michael Grunditz are up and running!

The first batch of Efika MX Developer Kits have shipped. We are happy to share the results as the work gets underway. We will have plenty of good news to report in the weeks ahead. Please keep track of the progress being made on PowerDeveloper.

In accounting, residual value is the value given an asset after it has been fully depreciated. The residual value is calculated after depreciation from a base price.

The EFIKA Open Client was quietly retired last month (discontinued products). The last three units were shipped to buyers in Italy, Japan and the Netherlands. The very last Open Client we shipped is now here. There may still be a few units available with resellers.
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