06.20.08
Links 20/06/2008: GNU/Linux and Mini-Laptops, SCO Delay, Yahoo Exodus
GNU/Linux
- Laptop scheme draws flak
Said Omkar Ainapur, a lecturer who swears by Linux, “It is disheartening to note that the Goa government is promoting Microsoft Windows when the latest trend is to switch over to an open source software.”
- H-P 2133 Mini-Note best of ultra-portables - for now
That little Linux-powered laptop was so successful, though, that every major – and minor – computer maker has rushed its own similar model to market.
- Nokia: Open source developers should play by our rules
Nokia’s tools hadn’t leapfrogged the open source tools; instead, the open source community leapfrogged Nokia.
- Phoronix Test Suite brings Linux benchmarking to the desktop
- Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.1 Released
- Radeon HD 4850 Works With Open-Source Driver Already
- Open-Source Firmware: Old Routers, New Tricks
- Registration Now Open: The Linux Plumbers Conference
Red Hat Summit
- Cobbler pieces together mass Red Hat Linux installations
- Red Hat Opens Its Network to Space
- Red Hat beefs up identity and security management
- Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor
- Ingres Joins Red Hat Exchange
- Red Hat In Boston, Part 1.2: In Open Source, You Can’t Be Half-Pregnant
- Release: QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters Certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
F/OSS
- MySQL quits Torvalds’ former BitKeeper love interest
- ‘Java Is finally Free and Open’
- SugarCRM CEO John Roberts Describes SaaS Strategy, Potential 2010 IPO
- Portrait: Dominic Sartorio
- Subversion 1.5 Now Available Through CollabNet-Sponsored Subversion Open Source Community
- Sun’s McNealy touts open source for telecom
- Hosted open source monitoring service ups the ante
- Acquia commercializing Drupal open-source publishing platform
- Managed Services, the Open Source Way
- Open-Source SOA Proves Valuable to Business Processes
Windows
- Windows Vista accepts incorrect passwords
- Microsoft blames human error for critical security update failure
- Dell charges extra $50 for XP
- A visit to the Microsoft Newseum
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.
lorrain said,
June 20, 2008 at 4:52 pm
You’re famous! Read the comments in these posts:
http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/desktop/gnome-y-la-decadencia.html
http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/distros/opensuse-11.0.html
I hope you will find someone to translate it
Regards.
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 20, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Thanks a lot. Yes, I got the translation and read it through.
fresh fish for fresh penguins said,
June 20, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Please lift the ban on tor users in #boycottnovell, I’m one of the good tor users who suggested you create the channel in the first place, I feel sad and lonely.. so sad and lonely.. please lift the ban, or instead just ban the PUBLIC tor users and NOT the tor gpg key users! the tor gpg key users may be seen with their gpg key as part of their cloak, these are the noticably good tor users who have taken the time to register on freenode with their gpg key and don’t cause problems for the network.
thank you
Slated said,
June 21, 2008 at 1:12 am
@fresh fish for fresh penguins
Done.
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 21, 2008 at 3:56 am
fresh fish for fresh penguins,
We blocked Tor because several foul-mouthed trolls used it to sabotage the channel. We’ve just reversed this ban.
Sorry to have thrown the baby out of with the bathwater.