08.19.08
Links 19/08/2008: Freescale Joins LiMo, Red Hat Expands
GNU/Linux
- Freescale backs Mobile Linux with LiMo move
Freescale Semiconductor is the latest semiconductor firm to join the LiMo Foundation, the industry group behind an open Mobile Linux-based software platform for mobile phones.
- Linux platform sets the Diamond Standard
Provides developers with a complete embedded Linux platform that has been integrated and tested for Tensilica’s 232L Diamond Standard processor core.
- Hardware Review: Tekkeon TekCharge MP1550
- Voxeo Announces Prophecy 9 with New SIP APIs, Support for MAC OS X and Linux
- Where Red Hat (And Its Partners) Profit Most
- Red Hat expands Australian presence with new regional HQ
Growth in Linux vendor Red Hat’s Asia-Pacific engineering and support business has resulted in a move to new premises. The world’s biggest specialist Linux company’s Brisbane, Australia, site is now its largest engineering centre in the region.
- Option unveils Compal as first MID customer
- Debunking Myths That Say Linux Won’t Reach the Desktop
Users will only be confused if they have to make the distro choice on their own. If users can get help to narrow down the choices to one distro, they won’t feel confusion and frustration due to the massive amount of distros.
- Linutop 2.2: A desktop where smaller is better
Linutop has a lot going for it: solid build quality, adequate software bundle, extremely low power consumption, and the easy-to-use configuration utility. With its €280 (approx. $435) price tag, Linutop is not the cheapest machine out there, but the money buys you one of the smallest and greenest computers on the market.
- 42 of the Best Free Linux Scientific Software
- Distro Update: Musix GNU+Linux
- Lenovo’s September Surprise: Servers
Kernel
KDE
- KDE Commit Digest: 3rd August 2008
- Configuring the Plasma Panel
One area that could use improvements in documentation is configuring panels in Plasma. Sebas did a good job but he only dedicated one paragraph to it in the documentation and it didn’t have any pretty pictures. Most people react to visuals more so I decided to supplement the documentation.
Artwork
Win32
- 4 Ways To Play Windows Game On Linux
Playing Windows games on Linux is not really a difficult task. Most gamers are reluctant to migrate to Linux because they have this misconception that Windows games cannot be played on Linux. How wrong they are. If you are one of those avid gamers that I mentioned above, here are 4 ways that you can play Windows games on Linux.
1) Wine
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2) PlayOnLinux
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3) CrossOver Games
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4) Cedega
- Internet Explorer on Linux with Bordeaux
F/OSS
- SAP and Oracle Explore Customer (In)elasticity of Demand
- Free Software movement fights to keep internet freedom in Brazil
- Open Source (Still) Seeds the Startups
- The LXF Test: OpenSolaris 2008.05
Rights
- UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on snooping silo
- Authoriterrorism…
- Can sites violate net neutrality?
Leftovers
- Microsoft gets paid twice as Vista users downgrade to XP
- Google Tops in Customer Satisfaction
- Microsoft: Everybody Else is Doing it
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Richard Stallman - Part 15 (2004)
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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.