08.25.08
Links 25/08/2008: New Version of gNewSense and New Ubuntu Derivative (Freezy)
GNU/Linux
- 25 killer Linux apps
- Downgrade to XP or Upgrade to Mandriva
- PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniME - Beauty Meets Beast!
- Acer Cuts Price of Aspire one Subnotebook
- Canadian Firms Get Behind OpenMoko/FreeRunner
- New Linux-powered Kindle on its way
The Kindle, Amazon’s Linux-powered electronic paper book will have at least one new version out for the 2008 holiday season.
Ubuntu
- Review: Kubuntu 8.10 ‘Intrepid Ibex’ Alpha 4
- Ubuntu 8.10 - My Thoughts So Far
- Freezy Linux is a free, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system
- [gNewSense-users] DeltaH CD 2.1 gNewSense Release
- Ubuntu: Can Your Business Trust A Free System
- Creating a Flamerobin/Firebird livecd with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.1
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 105
FSFE
Apple/Linux
- Other smart phones are people too, says ex-Apple team
Support for a second platform is due by the end of the year. Hoddie would not say what that platform will be, but noted: “We really like Linux - the OEMs are using Linux under the covers. It works beautifully there.”
Linux would certainly have more to offer for Kinoma than Windows: Linux accounts for about 19 per cent of the smart-phone market versus around five per cent for Windows, according to various figures. Linux is expected to outsell Windows by 2013. Symbian, of course, remains the market leader.
- Why does Apple Always Seem to Get a Break???
Linux. This is the only platform that is not a prison. You are really free with Linux. People are congregating at will, building creative new structures. Yeah – maybe it isn’t as pretty as the luxury hotel prison that is Apple, but at least we are free. In the end it isn’t prison walls that win in technology. CompuServe and AOL were beaten by the internet. Centrally controlled mainframes were killed by the PC. Over time the best technology comes from innovation in unexpected places and while we are occasionally wooed by the pretty sounds of “You’ve Got Mail” or the stunning design of a new iPhone; we have all seen this movie before and know how it ends.
F/OSS
- How world-changing are the culture and politics of free software?
- Free software, freely available
Open source software costs nothing to own, and now costs nothing to obtain thanks to a group of entrepreneurs determined to get around the problem of expensive bandwidth in South Africa.
- Business tools: Open source moves into the mainstream
- An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops
- Open source microblogging
- Cloud Computing and Open Source
Firefox
Leftovers
- Copyright Conundrums Converge on Gordon Brown
If reports are correct, the company liked Anthony’s theme “NetWorker” so much, they used it to create the PM’s site — allegedly, removing any credit for Anthony, but leaving behind a spate of clues — and then pocketed a reported £100,000 for it.
- Analyst says AMD gaining ground vs. Intel, Nvidia
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Con Hennessy, CTO of OpenApp.biz (2004)
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
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.