LINUTOP was at the SOLUTIONS LINUX EXHIBITION last week
If you were not there to see the launch of the new LINUTOP 4 , look at this video

Exhibition and conferences
May 10th, 11th and 12th 2011
CNIT Paris la defense

Opening hours:
10th May 9 am to 6 pm
11th May 9 am to 8 pm
12th May 9 am to 6 pm

Linutop Booth E35

See you there!

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Paris, January 31st, 2011 (Never too late)

Happy New Year
Feliz Año Nuevo
Ein Gutes Neues Jahr
Bonne Année
Onnellista Uutta Vuotta
ukkig Nieuwjaar
Gott nytt år
Felice anno nuovo
Godt nytår

So, What’s New??
- Linutop OS 4.0 Try it out on your own PC.
- Linutop 3 with ATOM processor
- Linutop 2 Less than 8 Watts
- Linutop Kiosk for digital Signage and Secure internet access for public location
and many new things coming up for 2011!!
Save the snow for the penguin: use energy efficient computing solutions!
Linutop Team is wishing you a Happy Green Year 2011!

Linutop is small and can be shipped anywhere !

Our clients smallest but also prefered model : Linutop 2 is in the sales for a limited time : 220€ (instead of 280€ – nearly 30% discount).
Take the most of it !

Specifications

We’re happy to announce the new version of Linutop 3 : more powerful, while requiring less enery consumption (<16w), thanks to its new Atom based N270 processor.

Linutop 3 is :

• fanless with no moving part
• energy efficient,
• robust,
• maintenance free,

which is a great advantage over other solutions.

The new Linutop 3 is powered by Linutop OS 4 , lightweight and optimized Ubuntu Gnome distribution including internet and display kiosks for professional uses available for download or on a USB key . It boots up around 25 s after bios when installed on the flash card.

The brochure and the quick userguide (pdf) have been updated.

The new Linutop 3 Atom is available on Linutop Shop for the same attractive price  : 340€  w/VAT

Charbax, of  ArmDevices.net just interviewed Frederic Baille, founder of Linutop; followed by  a screencast of the Linutop Kiosk at 4′36

Thanks Nicolas !

We just released a new video, demoing the various features useful for your company or personal use, including :

• Secured Internet Kiosk
• Digital display solution

You can download an evaluation version of Linutop here and try it on any of your PCs.

We’d be happy to get your feedback (in the comments section) on how you use Linutop and what other useful feature you would like to find in Linutop OS.

Being small and silent, Linutop makes a perfect server machine. But installing all the desired server packages such as Apache, MySQL, and ProFTPD manually and then tweaking their settings requires both skills and time. There is, however, a better way to turn your Linutop into a LAMPP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP+Perl) server: the XAMPP solution comes with pretty much everything you need as a single neat package. Better yet, you can install and configure XAMPP in a matter of minutes.

To install XAMPP, download the latest .tar.gz archive from the project’s Web site. Use then the following command to unpack the archive and copy all the components to the /opt directory:

sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.tar.gz -C /opt

That’s pretty much it. You can then start all the servers using the sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start command. To make sure that everything works as it’s supposed to, point your browser to http://localhost and you should see XAMPP’s default page.

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Thanks to extensions you can do pretty much anything without leaving the convenience of your favorite browser. But can you play games? Indeed, you can. There are a few rather good games you can play right from within Firefox. One such game is Clines, a clone of a popular Color Lines game for DOS.

The original game was developed by Oleg Demin, and it was hugely popular in Russia along with another Russian blockbuster Tetris. The idea behind Clines is rather simple. Using the mouse, you have to align at least five balls of the same color horizontally, vertically, or diagonally on the 9×9 field. When you do that, the row disappears. Your task is to align and remove as many balls as you can. It may sound like a dead-simple thing to do, but it is not. Each time you move a ball, the game places randomly three new balls on the field, and they can block the ball you want to move. As the number of balls on the field grows, moving them around becomes more and more difficult. Every time you make a line, you receive points depending on how many balls there are in the line:

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