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Portable Ubuntu runs on Windows: Forced, by circumstance or your boss, to run Windows but missing Linux? Then you might want to take a look at Portable Ubuntu for Windows which runs the entire Ubuntu operating system as a Windows application. Portable Ubuntu can be run from a flash drive, hence the name, and runs as a Windowed application on your Windows desktop.

IBM pulls back $7 billion Sun offer: A week after rumours first started to appear suggesting IBM was about to buy Sun Microsystems, IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion bid. Sun’s share price has soared over the past week on the back of the acquisition talks.

Open source gaming rig ready to ship: Envizions has announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers, resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro.

Source: Tectonic