TuxMobil News Archiv 2002

August

05 August: SATURN Austria offers Gericom Bellagio laptop with SuSE 8.0
TuxMobil: The SATURN electronic shops in Austria offer the Gericom Bellagio 1720E laptop pre-equipped with SuSE 8.0. This machine features a 1.7GHz Celeron, 128MB DDR-RAM, 14" TFT display, SiS 650 graphic chip, 20GB harddisk and DVD. COMPLETE STORY

11 July: Familiar - PDA distribution v0.5.3
TuxMobil: Familiar, the distribution for Linux PDAs features now MMC support. COMPLETE STORY

18 June: IBM's Linux ThinkPad support project being dropped
TuxMobil: Keith Frechette the lead developer of IBM's Linux ThinkPad support project declared that "after 3 years, Lenovo (former IBM) has decided to no longer fund that project, and as of Monday, June 24th 2002, I will be layed-off from IBM as part of IBM's recent Server Group "resource action."" See also the Linux laptop status survey of manufacturers. COMPLETE STORY
17 June: New Issue ACER HotKey Driver
TuxMobil: A new issue of the ACER hotkey driver for special keys on ACER laptops is available. COMPLETE STORY
12 June: MobiliX wins against Obelix
TuxMobil: The court Landgericht Munich I has rejected the arguments of a trademark case filed against MobiliX, which cited the similarities between comic book character names and a mobile UNIX/Linux software firm. COMPLETE STORY

17 May: First SpeedStep Utility Available
TuxMobil: speedstep provides a daemon to switch between different SpeedStep modes. Be aware that this utility only supports Intel Pentium III Mobile-M CPUs, on all others, it might kill your data or fry your machine. Check /proc/cpuinfo. COMPLETE STORY

01 Apr: IBM ThinkPad Scroll Daemon
TuxMobil: The initial version of IBM ThinkPad Scroll Daemon is now available. COMPLETE STORY

12 Mar: New Driver Synaptics TouchPad
TuxMobil: A new driver for Synaptics TouchPad (ACER TravelMate and other laptops) is now available. COMPLETE STORY

24 Feb: New Driver for Anycom BlueTooth(TM) PCMCIA Cards
TuxMobil: The Linux driver for Anycom BlueTooth(TM) PCMCIA cards made by Marcel Holtmann is now available. COMPLETE STORY

21 Jan: Response to Trademark Charge Against MobiliX
TuxMobil: The response of the MobiliX lawyers Jaschinski, Biere & Brexl - JBB consist of 22 pages (without attachments) and is available online in German. COMPLETE STORY

The copyright of the above mentioned information belongs to the respective owners. Please respect the according restrictions.