06.07.08
Links 07/06/2008: More of Linux Everywhere; Intel Antitrust is Go; Windows Live Expo is Kaput
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GNU/Linux
- Linux On Mars
- Pico Technology Releases New Linux Driver for its 2000 and 3000 Series PC Oscilloscopes
- Glide OS 3.0 Transforms the 3G iPhone into a Mobile Business Computer
- Acer blames Microsoft for Linux move
- Asus the Unstoppable Innovator?
- Wine 1.0rc4 Released
- Three Opteron clusters for Japanese universities
Open source tools and operating systems, such as Linux, are being used.
- Brazilian Blends
- Open source migration must be evolutionary
- Linux adoption corrupted by the highest bidder?
- Cheap Mobil Computing
- PowerPC VoIP appliance comes with Linux cross-tools
- Chinese SoCs run Linux
Applications
- DOSBox, a multiplatform PC emulator
- Linux Got Game: Warzone 2100
- KDE Everywhere
KDE4 will go there even some steps future with it’s by-design cross-platform, modular and innovative architecture while KDE3 keeps on to be the perfect super-stable super-long-time branch for next few years where only bugfixes are allowed to land. What a good starting point into the age of the world-wide digital freedom.
- Nokia to finalize Trolltech acquisition today
- Google’s I/O conference: an open source perspective
- Software Appliances: Delivering Open Source
- Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
- Open Source Systems Management: Zenoss expands platform support, an interview with Mark Hinkle
- Extentech Inc. Offers Free Open Source SaaS Spreadsheet Mashup Tool
Free Software
- Breaking Barriers: using free and open source software for development
Breaking Barriers: using free and open source software for development In line with the book findings, Zea Partners, a non-profit network of Open Source businesses, provides additional cases studies outlining the positive impact of Open Source software as a tool for Social progress.
- FLOSSInclude, a European project to foster open source international collaboration
- A Technological Singularity: What are the Implications for Free Software?
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
Laptops/UMPCs
- Paging Dr. Tux
- Ending the Hardware/Software Rat Race
More importantly, if the PC manufacturers are so successful with their Linux-powered devices that they can convince Microsoft to change the tune that it’s been piping with Vista, we could be in for some very exciting computing times, indeed.
- Ubuntu Netbook Remix: a detailed explanation
- Photos: Five of the best mini laptops
- Meet Linpus Linux
- Is Linux a Lonely Word?
- Weekly Roundup: Telstra finds friction in their national broadband plans and open source gets a leg-up
People
- Walter Bender Discusses Sugar Labs Foundation
- Portrait: Pia Waugh
- Open Source Developers: Fabio Marzocca
Open
- Should governments legislate open source?
- Saving lives with mobile open source
- ‘Anybody who legally downloads music is an idiot!’ says irate record store owner
- Beijing Subway Single Journey Ticket Route Map: Made by Wikipedia [techblog86 EXCLUSIVE]
Intel
Microsoft
- Windows Live Expo set to expire next month
Chalk one point up to Craigslist: Microsoft has decided to shut down Windows Live Expo, the classifieds service that it originally launched in February 2006.
- Bill Gates’ Closed Source World
The Vista solution to hunger, poverty, disease, lack of power and climate change? Eeek.




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.