03.29.08
Links 29/03/2008: Thumbs up to GNU/Linux ‘Home Server’; 400,000 Linux Laptops in Peru
- Linux in schools can save the planet
- No Recession at Red Hat
- Red Hat Roars in Q4
- HP Media Vault 2100 Linux Server Reviewed: One Kick-Ass Little Penguin
- Linux adapted to Uzbek language - Times of Central Asia [subs]
- Vista purposely cripples connections to other operating systems.
- ‘White Spaces’ test device breaks again
- Laptop Training Begins in Peru
- With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
- SliTaz GNU/Linux, the Smallest “Desktop” Distro Ever Created
- “Net neutrality” debate heats up in Canada
- Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
- Linux Mint - The Distro to Fill the Missing Gap
- Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 Release Notes Rewritten in Plain English
- Free Software Supporter
- Wikipedia hits 10 million total articles
- Linux everywhere
- A Rosy Future for Open Source
- Open Source Software within the European Commission – a co-ordinated strategy
- Major Web Sites Hit With Growing Web Attack
- Attackers booby-trap searches at top Web sites
- Managed Services: Built On Open Source?
- We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In?
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
Victor Soliz said,
March 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I think we need people to use the firehose more often since it is currently very likely something lame will appear, for example :
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/29/1414218
Linux won, but the title of the article kind of implies that both vista and ubuntu won.
Roy Schestowitz said,
March 29, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Slashdot is a lost cause, IMHO, so I try to stay out of there. Here is an E-mail I received an hour ago:
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You linked to this one:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/vista-purposely-cripples-connections-to-other-operating-systems-23331
There you see the author has been assimilated. MS Vista has a problem
and somehow it’s the other system’s fault. Same spin happened on
Slashdot.
The wording should be changed from
“It has been reported as a bug in the code on slashdot
which lead to this article about how many swedes in Lund
are unable to access the internet because the cities
infrastructure runs on Linux.”
to a more accurate description:
“It has been reported as a bug in the code on slashdot
which lead to this article about how many swedes in Lund
are unable to access the internet because they are
trying to run MS Vista”
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Believe it or not, USENET’s Munchkins have already blamed and accused me of lying when I posted this. They reside in various sites, including Slashdot. Yes, how ‘dare’ /anyone/ blame Vista? They always have a consistent spin and Slashdot can, by nature, be easily gamed. Look back at the previous posts about Slashdot to see evidence of manipulation.