06.14.08
Links 14/06/2008: Schools in Korea on GNU/Linux, OEMs Increasingly Give Choice
GNU/Linux
- Koreans to showcase open source experience in Cebu summit
KIPA has been actively pushing open source use in government. One of its projects resulted in a local version of Linux (called Buyeo) now used in nearly 200 schools in South Korea.
- Please don’t take our XP away from us!
The users are asking, ok screaming, to Microsoft to please, oh please, don’t take our XP Pro away from us. So far the big dumb company from Washington state is ignoring their customer pleas.
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Dell offers Ubuntu 7.10 on several of its systems and Dell will soon be offering Ubuntu 8.04 on its PCs, laptops, and its forthcoming UMPC. Acer will soon be offering Linpus Linux on its UMPCs and laptops.
- Tagan Icy Box NAS4220 NAS Enclosure
What makes this device more interesting to us is that it runs Linux and Tagan is more than happy to let its customers modify the unit and write their own software.
- uClinux console servers add open source UPS mgmt
Opengear has integrated uninterruptible power supply (UPS) monitoring tools in its uClinux-based remote access equipment. Opengear’s console servers (pictured at left) now include tools derived from the open source Network UPS Tools (NUT) project, says the company.
- MontaVista expands in France and Spain
Laptops
Open Source/Free Software
- Benjamin Mako-Hill on Open Source vs. Free, GPL and Prepping for OSCON
Now the GPL, the GPL and other copy-left licenses sort of prevent that from happening by saying, no; you need to share–you need to insure that the freedoms that you had when you received the work are something that can be passed on downstream. And that’s a tactical decision because the FSF who sort of puts out the GPL and continues to modify it–modifies it believes that by insuring that the downstream users have freedom and continue to have freedom that there will be more freedom overall. The more people that will release their stuff as free software, the more people will be encouraged to keep things more free in the long run and that ultimately there will be more free and open source software as a result. So–and the GPL is designed to protect that.
- OpenOffice.org PDF import extension is now online
- MySpace plans redesign for next week
It said it was working with Lucene Open-Source engine and community, marking the first time MySpace has contributed to the open-source community.
- CRM Vendor for Nonprofits MPower Accepted by SourceForge [Dual with GPL]
- Railo to go open source under JBoss [LGPL]
- Fonality Records 15 Quarters of High Growth, Leads Open Source Telephony Market
- Get Ready For A New Platform War. Google Gears Drives Straight At Microsoft’s Profits.
Competition
- Next year critical for Sun’s ‘Project Copy Linux’
Not helping its case is the fact Sun put OpenSolaris under its own license – Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Sun joins a league of other vendors including Microsoft who have written their own licenses rather than use existing open-source licenses. Debian, by contrast, got to its position in the industry using a spread of different, and existing, licenses. Another complication is the Sun-domination of the OpenSolaris work.
- Future OS X To Be DRM Restricted?
Europe’s High Standards
- EU Commish Hearts Open Software, Open Standards
“As new form-factors such as netbooks and MIDs (mobile Internet devices) bring Linux to users, they are often and largely unaware of the operating system. Distributions such as Ubuntu, Xandros and others have proven Linux can be as easy to use as Windows. Vendors are also making Linux easier to run, offering options to run Linux inside of Windows, alongside Windows, on USB and LiveCDs, so that complication/difficulty factor is changing,” he explained.
- Why Microsoft’s EU problem isn’t going away
Yahoo-Goo-Soft!
Vadim P. said,
June 14, 2008 at 5:10 pm
That Asialinux you mentioned has partenered with Symantec.
Fail!