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Reading the Slashdot article about Dave Mitchell from Great Britain, who got a 47 pounds refund from Dell for returning his copy of Windows was an inspiration for me to check, if it is possible in Poland, too. This is my success story. (more…) » Post Purchase:  Text Link

Another dockable application that keeps track of your laptop’s battery usage. Most common feature in windows world is keeping track of laptop’s battery usage. This is also supported in Fedora Linux and comes with more feature. WmACPI also supports how long your laptop is running on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Fedora repo supports a wide variety for desktop, server and laptop rpm packages. One of them is APMD rpm package. APMD is a set of programs for controlling the Advanced Power Management daemon and utilities found in most modern laptop computers. APMD can watch your notebook’s battery and warn... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

laptop-mode-tool contain everything you need to work with laptop mode.

chooser is a script for wireless networking that will give you a nice list of access points in range.

Laptop theft is one of the fastest growing problems in this age of Information Technology and Security. Who can forget the nightmare scenario that occurred at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs around 2006 May? A department analyst loaded a file onto his laptop and took it home for the night, where burglars promptly walked off with it — along with identifying information on 26.5 million veterans. While the laptop was eventually retrieved, most are not. I derive the motivation for this post from such incidents. In this post, lets learn about a few basic tips which can certainly prevent your laptop from getting stolen.

SlashDot: Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router.

LinuxDevices: Tri-band SDIO WiFi card runs Linux.

Linux.com: Linux laptop retailers fearlessly face name-brand competition.

LinuxDevices: Ubuntu MID Edition Ships.

The Eee PC is becoming increasingly popular as a cheap, handy ultra-portable laptop option, but the Linux-powered model limits its users to only Asus-approved applications out of the box. One...

PowerTop is tool that detects which Linux programs and kernel tunables are resulting in the largest power consumption and use of battery time.

Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, believes that Linux software is a key to the low-cost laptop computer movement and hopes to create a community around the devices, a top executive said.

InternetNews: Google Shows Off 'iPhone-like' Android Features.

C|net: Acer aspires to lead low-cost (Linux) laptop race.