http://blogs.zdnet.com/…

I affirm, I really was going to drop this Ron Paul rant I pursued in my earlier post.

But some facts in this morning’s post by my highly respected Washington, D.C.-centric colleague Declan McCullagh entitled Ron Paul: The Internet’s Favorite Candidate” made me realize there are some lessons that still need to be taught to all you Libertarian-leaning fans of the Republican Presidential candidate.

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https://direct.openmoko.com

The Neo 1973 boasts the following hardware specifications

• 2.8″ VGA TFT color display
• Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers
• 266MHz Samsung System on a Chip (SOC)
• USB 1.1, switchable between Client and Host (unpowered)
• Integrated AGPS
• 2.5G GSM – quad band, voice, CSD, GPRS
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Micro SD slot
• High Quality audio codec

The base unit costs $300 and advanced kit is $450. It looks like a good start but I’m more interested in a cell with an actual qwerty keyboard. Something like the Sidekick but with a touchscreen plus an open Linux platform would be a killer device.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/…

At least two large online retailers are selling Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet for $140. Originally priced at $400, the 770 was Nokia’s first Linux-based consumer device — and arguably the first product in an emergent new generation of pocketable WiFi-connected Web tablets.

My college roommate has one of these 770s and loves it (except that the community firmware he installed didn’t support suppend). And for him the metal cover is a requirement as he lugs it around in his pocket all the time. I’ve considered picking the N800 up but I’m holding out for something with a physical keyboard that’s more subnotebook like. Hopefully the Palm Foleo will fill that desire.

http://www.freelists.org/…

I have the pleasure to announce I have ported OSSv4.1test to BeOS. It’s not finished yet, but it runs and plays some sound.

The goal is to use its drivers to get wider audio support for Haiku, the FreeSoftware rewrite (under BSD/MIT) of BeOS.

Good to see. Haiku is really coming along. Audio support is pretty important for a multimedia OS recreation. :-)

 http://lists.gnu.org/…

On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebrationas we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment, in revision of the world’s most popular free software license.

Um… yay? It’s a license. It has little affect on the actual software.

http://www.artima.com/…

Here’s a long-awaited update on where the Python 3000 project stands. We’re looking at a modest two months of schedule slip, and many exciting new features. I’ll be presenting this in person several times over the next two months.

I’d expect there will be more changes but whats listed there seems decent enough. As such a junior Python developer little of this really affects my usage.