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There has been quite a buzz in the open source community of late, thanks to the announcement of a pure Linux stack tablet by Aaron Seigo, one of the lead developers of KDE. This new tablet is called the Spark, and aims to be completely open source from the hardware up.

As you can imagine, people have been excited by the news, and many are asking when the tablet will be available. While the Spark has not yet gone into production, the good news is that it is now available for pre-order!

At this stage it is not known which countries the Spark will be available in, but from previous blog posts by Seigo indicate that it will likely initially launch in Europe, but then become available in other countries in due course.

The Spark can be pre-ordered from MakePlayLive for a target retail price of €200 (final price will be determined by the region you reside in).

These are the top stories from the past week's editions of Christians in OSS Daily.
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Just this week in the news, Jonathan Riddell, the leader of the Kubuntu project, announced that Canonical had decided to pull him off the Kubuntu project. Riddell explained that Canonical has decided to suspend Kubuntu's status as an official Ubuntu derivative, and to stop providing paid support for it.

This has left many Kubuntu users with a bad taste in their mouths, and wondering what will become of Kubuntu.

These are the top stories from the past week's editions of Christians in OSS Daily.
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These are the top stories from the past week's editions of Christians in OSS Daily.
Please note that these stories are automatically selected, and therefore do not necessarily reflect the beliefs and values of the Christians in OSS blog.

My family flew over to the USA to visit my wife's family in October 2011, and I couldn't pass up an opportunity to buy something technological for a lower price than I can get it in South Africa. One of the things I'd been wanting to buy for a long time was a netbook.

With this in mind, I did some searching and some research and decided to buy the Toshiba NB505 from Amazon.com. A number of the reviews on Amazon mentioned using Linux (usually Ubuntu) on the netbook, and they all said that it ran well. With this key piece of information, and a friend's recommendation of a similar model from Toshiba, I decided to save up some money and buy the NB505.

Most people I've met, when I talk about Open Source Software, have a hard time understanding why people would choose to give their software away for free. One of the questions I hear often is, "But then how do you make money?"

Actually, you have it all wrong. Very few applications written by developers today are ever sold. Most applications are "in house" - in other words, they are written internally by a business to fulfill the needs of the business, as opposed to being written to be sold.

These are the top stories from the past week's editions of Christians in OSS Daily.
Please note that these stories are automatically selected, and therefore do not necessarily reflect the beliefs and values of the Christians in OSS blog.