Notes from All Over at Robert Pogson

ASUS new $199 eee PC X101 running MeeGo, Intel’s take on Linux, looks good to me:

Alibaba has produced a new OS with interesting features. Aliyun OS:

can run Android apps…
HTML 5 stuff…
has 20 “cloud” apps providing services from Alibabe… and
100 gB of virtual storage.

See “China’s Alibaba Unveils New Mobile OS“

Userful will report at LinuxCon 2011 that the deployment of 500K GNU/Linux desktops in 50K schools in Brazil has been completed. That’s a multiseat X system.

MrPogson.com is at 112005 in Netcraft’s site ranking today. We were around 300000 a couple of years ago. At this rate, in ten years we will be really big…

A large French energy supplier uses a super-computer built on Debian GNU/Linux beowulf diskless nodes combined with some non-free software for networking and a file-system. This system is 43_rd in the Top500 list of super-computers. With 1454 nodes, they saved a bundle on licensing and got improved performance.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.