A “Solid State” computer is one with little or no moving parts; a fanless system using flash storage or an EPROM based solution as opposed to a typical spinning platter type hard drive. Moving parts have the highest likelihood of failure, due to friction, which also produces heat. Moving parts tend to consume […]

Washed out has-been portals such as slashdot have been blindly praising Dell for offering what has been inaccurately described as a Desktop PC Primed for Linux. Typically a day late and dollar short, Slashdot reports inaccuracies while The Register gets to the truth of the matter. Dell’s Open Source PC is not only a rip-off, their apparent support of Open Source for the desktop user is a complete facade. (more…)