05.18.08
Links 18/05/2008: Call for FOSS in Philippines E-Voting, GNU’s Own Firefox
F/OSS
- Open source software use sought in automated election system
- Need FF2 in Hardy? Try GNU’s IceCat.
- Reader Response: Open source IP-PBX’s: Ready for the enterprise?
GNU/Linux
- 10 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktop.
Over the years I came across many many linux Desktop screenshots, it’s amazing how someone can spend huge amount of time tweaking and customizing their desktop look.
- 7 Audio Players for Linux - Review
- War§ow — a different FPS game for Linux
War§ow is an FPS computer game, aimed at network gaming; it is characterized by specific graphics and an emphasis on tricks and good fun.
- Back from vacation at Disney World and Tux Racer is all over.
- Adventures with Ubuntu and XP and the family computer
So yes, that means Microsoft in one of their post SP2 updates introduced some bug that rendered our computer nearly unbootable, which drove us to Linux which was brain dead easy to install.
- And this is why I use open source software
- KDE at LinuxTag 2008
- Linux week in Vienna
- rPath Linux 2 available
- Ubuntu’s need to catch a wave
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.
MonoHater said,
May 18, 2008 at 11:04 am
Looks like the MONO guys are trying to prove that MONO is faster than Java. It’s pretty funny.
http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2008/05/debian-language-benchmarks-sumfile.html
Those guys are such idiots.
MonoHater said,
May 18, 2008 at 11:06 am
Looks like the MONO guys are trying to prove that MONO is faster than Java. It’s pretty funny.
http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2008/05/debian-language-benchmarks-sumfile.html
You can see the “proof” there.
Ball_Mer said,
May 18, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Roy which distro do u use ?
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 18, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Fedora at the labs, Ubuntu at home at the moment (just plain KDE with apt). Next one will be PCLOS or MEPIS, I think.
Ball_Mer said,
May 19, 2008 at 12:08 am
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/Casablanca
ZFS + Linux + Chocolate + Peanut butter + Open Solaris ??
hehe. makes no sense !!!
Ball_Mer said,
May 19, 2008 at 12:13 am
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/casablanca
WTF
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 19, 2008 at 5:57 am
Hans is gonna kill him if he finds out that Linus sleeps with another filesystem.
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