08.26.08
Links 26/08/2008: KDE 3.5.10, Fedora 10 Schedule Released
GNU/Linux
- Frag ‘em in your own backyard with Sauerbraten
- United Technologies – Hamilton Sundstrand Selects Concurrent
- Desperate demand for the Elonex [Ubuntu Linux] webbook
The many larger laptops with Vista installed were left untouched. Sad eh? Even thieves don’t want Vista.
- Democrats can’t run Linux
- Integrating Linux into the SME
I have employees who have been using Mepis Linux for four years. These systems have remained rock-solid, and we do periodic updates through the Internet.
- How to Use Linux in 5 Simple Steps
Step 1: Learn more about Linux.
A good way to start would be to read this brief but informative Wikipedia article on Linux. You will know a few Linux terminologies that will surely be useful later on. - Distro flood ahead
- 10 fundamental differences between Linux and Windows
I have been around the Linux community for more than 10 years now. From the very beginning, I have known that there are basic differences between Linux and Windows that will always set them apart. This is not, in the least, to say one is better than the other.
- Review: antiX Mepis 7.5 ‘Toussaint Louverture’
So, would I recommend antiX 7.5, given the improvements that have been made since my last review?
KDE
- KDE 3.5.10 Release Announcement
- KOffice Summer of Code Ends
This year’s Google Summer of Code is drawing inexorably to its close: the first indication that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is indeed upon us.
- Amarok, the music player that does it all
If you’re a big music lover, Amarok is definitely a program you should consider. It’s so terrific that I even had one friend who hates all things KDE admit that he used Amarok. So if you like doing everything you can with your media player, give Amarok a whirl.
Fedora
Firefox
- TraceMonkey, the JavaScript accelerator for Firefox
- Mozilla Firefox browser gets security boost
- Extend Firefox 3 Winners announced
F/OSS
- World’s first open source stompbox arrives
- Open Source Unified Communications: More than Digium
- Opentape Sticks It to RIAA with Open Source Muxtape
- Open source event targets developers
- OGC Announces Participation in FOSS4G Conference
- Government of Kerala decides to use Koha
- OS Hot Trends: Collaboration, SaaS and Overseas Expansion
- Essentia Joins Open Solutions Alliance, Provides Platform for Collaboration Among Member Communities
- Dries Buytaert, 29
- Thunderbird: Way Beyond E-Mail
- Free software programs for back to school
- Open-Source Radeon Driver Improvements
- Sonatype helps make Maven repository tool a pleasure to use
Leftovers
- Bill C-61 grants new “copyright” related rights to non-copyright related rights-holders?
- Google to ‘Suggest’ search results
- Steve Jobs thinks he is disabled
- Get a whiff of Asus’ scented laptops
- Next-generation Computer Antivirus System Developed
- Trend Micro session token insufficiently random
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Vikram Dendi, Product Manager for RealNetworks 01 (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.
p.cole said,
August 27, 2008 at 7:07 am
Once again the politicians, this time the Dems, talk about change, But when you need proprietary software to view videos on the DNC’s website, that is, you must install Sliverlight. That means they don’t support Linux, even if they say they’re video streaming through Linux boxes.
The support is for M$, crApple desktops. They’re trying to get into your pocket, no matter what it takes, since installing M$, Apple OS’s lead to spending more money to try to get a decent working desktop through adding non Free Open Source Software.
So there really is no change. Monopoly owns the politicos, the media, the ANALysts. It’s only how they spin it.