Links for 2009-06-13

• Can Bre Pettis Replicate Himself?

  via Boing Boing

• Linux multi-touch technology demo’d

  via LinuxDevices.com
  A development group at ENAC in Toulouse, France, reports that it has developed a proof of concept for adding iPhone-like multi-touch support to the Linux kernel. The group has released a video showing multi-touch effects such as resizing and rotating using Linux 2.6.30.

• Palm’s Linux phone "exceptional," says reviewer (LinuxDevices)

  via LWN.net

  LinuxDevices takes a look at the Palm Pre with screenshots and links to reviews. Several reviews came to the same conclusion: The Pre may not be an Apple iPhone killer, especially with the arrival this week of the iPhone 3GS, but with its multitasking and synchronization features, it may give RIM’s BlackBerry a run for its money in the corporate market. Others note that in order to do that, however, the device will first need to spread beyond the Sprint network, as planned for early next year, to Verizon Wireless and possibly AT&T. Palm will also need to quickly boost the number of available WebOS apps, say reviewers.

• Sun starts porting OpenSolaris to ARM chips

  via Design And Reuse
  Sun Microsystems has started porting its OpenSolaris operating system on to ARM processor cores, targeting mobile, handheld and embedded applications, on the heels of being made available on Sparc processors targeting mainframes and servers.

• Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)

  via Techmeme
  

  Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
  Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder —  A question which regularly pops up in the TorrentFreak mailbox is “How do hide myself online?  How can I get free anonymous BitTorrent?”  Our answer is usually something along the lines of “Free anonymous BitTorrent isn’t really a reality right now.

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