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Tech Broiler: "So the iPad and iBooks Textbooks are too expensive and also too proprietary. That much is a given. What do you replace it with?"

Tech Broiler: "In 2011 Google's Android brought us splits in versions, open source commitment, carrier and OEM implementations, preferred device vendors and application ecosystems."

Tech Broiler: "We just haven't seen any of the type of enterprise-oriented exploitive apps that the device has been meant to run yet.

Heck, there aren't enough apps to look at on the device yet, period."

Tech Broiler: "Along with Bigfoot, the lost city of Atlantis, and the Bermuda Triangle, the lack of Android tablets continues to be an unsolved mystery."

Tech Broiler: "openSUSE 11.3, the latest version of Novell's community Linux OS was released on July 15th.

I've put the OS through its paces for the last several days and I have to say that while I continue to be impressed with the functionality of openSUSE, I'm not seeing a huge amount of sexy in the latest release."

Tech Broiler: "What's the big deal about Linux Mint and why is it so popular among Linux users? It's because that it includes a number of improvements and tweaks that aren't set up out-of-the-box in the base Ubuntu distribution"

Tech Broiler: "Two years ago, we visited the subject of free desktop virtualization hypervisors. At the time, the two preferred free solutions were Sun's xVM VirtualBox and and VMWare Server 2.0.

Things have changed quite a bit in the last two years"

Tech Broiler: "Intel's Wind River Hypervisor and technologies like it could usher in a new age of Device-agnostic Smartphone Operating Systems and unprecedented customer choice"

Tech Broiler: "Amazon is not going to participate in the Open Source community and is the antithesis of Google.

It wants something closed but with a rich application environment. It wants its cake and to be able to eat it."

Tech Broiler: "However, I think that one particular segment that has been overlooked is not deploying Linux to children in an educational setting, but at home, for children younger than the age of 13, as a parental controls and child protection mechanism."