08.21.08
Links 21/08/2008: Award to Red Hat, New GNU/Linux Devcies
Red Hat
- Global Knowledge Named Red Hat Premier Training Partner of the Year for 2008
- Q&A: Red Hat’s JBoss business hits overdrive
It sounds like an exciting time to be at Red Hat. Its operating systems business continues to thrive, while its middleware business heads into overdrive. Red Hat is putting itself into a position that it could move in a number of different directions (e.g., dramatically building out its middleware business, adding applications, etc.). Success does that for a company.
GNU/Linux
- Linux popularity across the globe
In general, Linux seems to have a stronger popularity in the East than in the West, with some exceptions (like Cuba). This is perhaps not surprising, considering that it is free software and many of the countries where Linux is most popular have a relatively low income per capita compared to most countries in the West. Or perhaps there is just a stronger focus on free software and Open Source in these regions.
- Linux-powered internet radio platform raises potential for third party expansion.
Pure, the British company best known for its DAB digital radios, has launched its first radio capable of receiving internet stations along with an iTunes-like web-based media portal it has dubbed the ‘Pure Lounge’.
- Linux: Low end capable does not mean inferior
One of the things that Microsoft has been silently beating Linux over the head with for the past couple of years is that, since Linux works so well on older, and lower end PC’s, it is an inferior, obsolete, and outdated OS. I find FUD like this to be a bit annoying, as the inverse is true of Windows.
- Raketu Releases RakOut Dialout VoIP WebPhone Service for Mac and Linux Users
Robotics
- Open-Source Robotics and Process Control: Sensor, Actuator and Control Circuit Examples - Part 1
- Laser-guided French robots run Linux
F/OSS
- Has security become a non-issue for enterprise Open Source?
- Is visibility the key open source value?
- Open source stack solid foundation for All Homes
- How can anyone not love the GIMP?
I love the GIMP because, like Perl, it makes the easy jobs easy and the hard jobs possible.
- GNU is 25 by Matt Lee
- Nagios integration boosts open source server management for PRIMERGY
- Talend readies open source tool to tackle dirty data
- PacketFence 1.7 offers client-free open-source NAC
- OpenLogic’s open source census is just another survey
- WebKit vs. Firefox: choice is a victory for integrators
- First US Training Courses for Leading Open-Source Data Mining Solution RapidMiner
Sun
- Sun Bangs OpenSolaris Drum… Again
- Sun Says Open Source Storage Is Catching On
- Open Source, Dtrace, and tuning
Asterisk
- Dialogic’s Dworkin to Address Open Source Community
- CFO Buy-In Critical To Open Source Success
- Open Source, Masochists, Friendly Puppies… Sounds Like Fun!
MAFIAA
Rights
Leftover
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Ian Lynch, UK open source education visionary 01 (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.