07.05.08

Links 05/07/2008: Symbian-Linux Discussion Revisited, FOSS in the Philippines

Posted in News Roundup at 9:23 am by Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

• Aspire One: the netbook Eee PC killer from Acer?
• Linux 2.6.25.10
• ‘Virtualisation is the way forward’
• Eating Crow
  

  I’ve taken actions to back up those words. I’ve purchased a Mandriva Power Pack subscription and I’ve got the DVD burned and ready to install Mandriva 2008 Spring over Ubuntu 8.04.1. In addition to purchasing a Power Pack subscription I also purchased the USB key version. I’m waiting for it to arrive, hopefully sometime next week.

• Why Is So Hard for Windows Users to Understand That Linux Is Not Windows
  

  This is just a rant (hopefully it will be regarded as pertinent and non-’laming’) on why Windows users try Linux and return frustrated to Windows after several hours or days. I won’t praise Linux and the way it works, I won’t even compare and say ‘here Linux is easier because …’, instead I have a few questions for all of you who blame Linux for not being and behaving like Windows.

• Ubuntu MID - part 1: application list
• Ubuntu MID - part 2: communication
• First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex
• An Introduction to Linux for Activists (And Others)

Gaming

• Apricot - Open-Source Blender Game
• New Features, Games Coming To CrossOver

Desktop Environments

• The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Desktop Environment
• Salute to an icon
• Response to “Lancelot, KDE and Gnome” (showed in Aaron-colour)

Symbian vs GNU/Linux

• Nokia acquires Symbian: so what?
• Developers see good, bad side in royalty-free Symbian
• Nokia’s open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims
• Nokia and the battle for open source’s soul
• Open source calls the tune for phones

F/OSS

• S’pore to host region’s largest OSS conference
  

  The OSSPAC, however, aims to include other open source technologies in its lineup, such as PHP and Rails, as well as Linux, said Barnard.

• Scribus: Free, Open Source Desktop Publishing Muscle
• Open Source BI: Spawned by Commoditization or Complexity?
• What Hath Open Source Wrought?
• Open-source CRM Delivers More Control, Less Cost
• Benefits of open source ERP
• Open source could doom Exchange, one IT pro believes
  

  The following post is a guest blog from new Google Subnet blogger Garett Kopczynski who this week launched Network World’s Google Watcher blog. Kopczynski is an IT professional for the city of Keene, N.H., and has been involved in the transformation of the IT group as it increasingly explores cloud computing and Google Apps.

• Asterisk Pioneer Calls for Innovative Open Source Applications
• Good-bye Windows XP, Hello Open Source?
• GNU CLISP 2.46 (2008-07-02) released
• Open Source Development: About Community and Sponsored Projects
• Firefox Nabs 19 Percent Marketshare

F/OSS Startups

• Collaborative Contagion
  

  Utah is now testing the resulting product, which should soon be available to all 50 states. Then each state will be able to adapt the product for free but will need to hire CSI to manage its maintenance through contracts that cost up to $450,000 a year.

• Opsera and NTT Europe Online Forge Strategic Partnership to Support Open Source Software Solutions for High Growth Start-ups and Enterprises
• UK’s leading Open Source services group restructures for growth

Philippines

• Philippine DILG Undersecretary Sees Local Opportunities In Open Source Market, reports MyLinuxSupport
• Developer says RP should contribute to open source community
• RP CAN TAP US GLOBAL ICT MARKET WITH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
• Sun urges Filipino programmers to become software entrepreneurs
• Philippine Software Group Eyes U.S.

Leftovers

• Microsoft’s Facebook stake influenced ConnectU case
• Most spammed man in Britain
  

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