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Watch out Asus Eee PC -- a flood of low-cost laptops based on Intel's new Atom N270 processor are set to come out in the upcoming months, the first being the MSI Wind.

I am pretty sure that Linux Journal has about the smartest readership of any publication I can think of. Seriously, I have met many of you. You're absurdly bright people.

LiMo (Linux for Mobile Devices) is an industry consortium working to create an open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.

Today Verizon joined LiMo. Verizon isn't dropping support for Android as a result of the move, but LiMo will become their "preferred OS". Their first LiMo handsets will ship in 2009.

Stop! Before you run off and write YACPORA (Yet Another C, PHP/Perl/Python, Or Ruby Article), let's try something a little different, something to broaden our horizons.

KDE4, persistent USB key support, updated packages and FreeIPA support are just a few of the major changes in this release of Fedora.

Fedora 9 can be downloaded here.

I just got this job listing in my inbox and thought I'd share it with readers in case anyone was interested.

Company: Six Apart
Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator
Description: Terms: Salaried Employee with full benefits
Hours: Full Time
Location: San Francisco, CA
Department: Operations

It's not ready for production mode quite yet, but OpenOffice 3.0 beta is here to play with.

It hit me this week how great of a name Ubuntu is. Despite being a Zulu word from South Africa, it rolls off the tongue so nicely regardless of your language. At least, that is my hunch, anyway. Here is why I say it. Earlier this week, I was hanging out with a friend who almost never uses a computer. I fired up my Kubuntu laptop to show him something online.

Beer + Linux Journal employees = Free stuff

Come join some of the Linux Journal crew in San Antonio Saturday, May 10th at 7pm for free beer and swag at the Flying Saucer. No agenda -- we just want to hang out with some Linux folks while we're in town (we know the SA Linux crowd is pretty serious and are looking forward to meeting more of you).

This 30-minute walk-through video tutorial (split into 4 parts) walks you through the partitioning and installation processes of Windows and Ubuntu.

HOUSTON, TX – May 1, 2008 – Belltown Media, Inc., publisher of the award-winning monthly magazine Linux Journal, has announced the winners of its annual Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards.

synthead shows us one way to install yaourt, a wrapper for pacman that adds many features, using only a terminal and links.

Last night about 200 of us were fortunate enough to get to see Guy Kawasaki speak at the Houston Technology Center. He most recently penned the book "Art of the Start" and his presentation was based on just that.

If you're not yet subscribed to Linux Journal, you're missing out on seriously in-depth technical projects, articles, and reviews that you can't find here on LinuxJournal.com. Not to mention our famous (and even award-winning) authors' monthly columns which include:

From the Linux Journal Flickr pool, Linux enthusiast jabzbiz brings us:

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Linux Journal Gadget Guy, Shawn Powers, takes us through installing Ubuntu on a machine running Windows with the Wubi installer.