05.25.08
Links 25/05/2008: More Linux Phones and Reviews; O’Reilly Compares MicroHoo Obsession to ‘Penis Envy’
Steve Ballmer won’t appreciate this analogy…
GNU/Linux
Musix, FreeNAS, VMKnoppix, Big Linux and Ultimate have just had new releases.
- Less Than 80% of Android Code Will Be Open to Developers
Andy Rubin, head of Google’s Android project and co-founder has revealed how much of Android’s code will be open source after the first Android phones are launched. Out of the 11 million total lines, 8.6 million lines will be open for developers to take advantage of.
- Linux May Power New Nokia Phones
- Linux Brings Open Source to the .car Era
- Exploration Ubuntu
So, tommorrow, May 24, 2008 the Ubuntu Massachusetts team will be holding our first quarterly Exploration Ubuntu at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge from 10am to 5pm. If you’re new to Ubuntu, come check it out! Already an Ubuntu guru? Come help out, hang out, and present something neat to new users!
- Linux Review 9- Mandriva KDE 2008.0
- Mandriva Linux – Very Easy and Advanced OS
- Exclusive Fedora Interview – With project leader, Paul W. Frields
- Gentoo 2008.0 beta2 – Even Better
- antiX M7.2 “Vetevendosje”: Mepis/Debian Linux At The Speed Of Light
It’s an Albanian word which means “self-determination” and has been adopted by Kosovans who oppose the administration of their region by the United Nations, and who vigorously campaign for full independence.
F/OSS
- Amarok 2: Visual Changelog
Amarok multimedia player is one of the best programs of its kind not only for Linux but for any operating system nowadays.
- 5 Things You’ll Love about Firefox 3
- Adventures with open source apps on Linux – Part 1
- SugarCRM’s Latest Is ‘SaaS in a Box’
Microsoft
- MicroHoo: corporate penis envy?
My advice to Microsoft: outsource your search to Google too!
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Fighting over search is a bit like the Free Software Foundation re-implementing cat, ls, sort, and all the other Unix utilities that were already available in the Berkeley distributions of Unix. The real problem was solved by someone outside the FSF, when Linux Torvalds wrote a kernel, a missing piece that became the gravitational center of Linux, the center around which all of the other projects could coalesce, which made them more valuable not by competing with them but by completing them.
- Vista Called as Vulnerable as Predecessors
It looks as if Vista’s reputation for improved security could be heading for the pages of history. PC Tools has renewed last week’s attack on the platform with new figures that appear to back up its claim that Vista is almost as vulnerable as its predecessors.
- Zuneral this Saturday!
