08.27.08
Links 27/08/2008: More GNU/Linux Laptops from Dell, Momentum Seems High, Cisco Buys PostPath
GNU/Linux
- Is Linux’s Marketshare Closer to 20% Or More?
What I want to suggest is that the fact that you cannot prove what the marketshare is, combined with general perceptions that computers are Windows, combined with Microsoft and Apple’s PR all make it perfectly possible that Linux’s marketshare is, in fact, closer to 15% or 30%, making it possibly more than the Mac.
- This is the Year of the Linux Desktop Breakout
Declaring victory for the Linux desktop at the end of the day will based upon looking at market penetration of Linux based clients vs. Windows and other operating systems. I believe this is still the best measure but we may finally be able to declare this year the breakout of the Linux desktop.
- Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for emerging markets
- PostPath: Enterprise-strength open source alternative for Exchange
- Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire PostPath
- Beryl Offers Better Organization for Linux Users
There are many reasons to choose an operating system based on the Linux framework, but one of the best is the desktop organizer Beryl.
Mac and Windows OS users will know of some of the benefits of Beryl through their own user experiences. Both operating systems include shortcut keys that let users check out all of their currently open windows.
- One Less Windows User
After nearly five years, I needed to update my personal computer. My old Dell Inspiron has long since been rendered quaint by advances in processor speed and hard drive capacity. Rather than buy a new machine running Windows Vista or take the Mac plunge, I decided to walk the open source walk.
- A business built on open source, virtualization, and clouds
- Mesa 7.1 Released, X.Org 7.4 Coming!
- Nepomuk and KDE to introduce the semantic desktop
If you follow technology trends, you have probably heard of the semantic desktop — a data layer for annotating and sharing the information in your computer. But what you may not be aware of is that the semantic desktop is not a distant goal, but scheduled to arrive at the end of 2008. And, when it does, the idea will probably be implemented through the work done by the Nepomuk project, and, most likely, by KDE first.
- Be a Productive Linux User
Hardware
- MontaVista Linux First to Bring Telecom Standards Compliance for Linux on Cavium OCTEON Processors
- VueScan 8.4.82 Now Supports Over 1200 Scanners
Devices
- A real Space Oddity arrives at PC Pro
- Open-source gaming goes commercial with Wiz handheld
- Gampark’s GP2X Wiz handheld now available
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu on NBC
Jane Silber posted on the ubuntu-news-team list that Ubuntu could get plugged on US TV Wednesday during a discussion of new notebooks.
- Leaked screenshots of Xubuntu Intrepid
- Ubuntu’s Intrepid Ibex tracked down
- Interesting side project: Setting up an Edubuntu machine for a special friend
- Acer Aspire One under Hardy Heron
F/OSS
- OpenOffice.org deployed in Malaysian Schools
Just announced today (27 August 2008), The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) are working with the State Government of Terengganu to further increase the adoption of Open Source Software in government and schools. This is announced at the “Open Source Software Seminar for Accelerated Adpotion” held at Wisma Darul Iman, Terengganu.
- GPL Project Watch List for Week of 08/22
- Sirius seeks to convert open source doubters
- Burns Lake (B.C.) Public Library Goes Live with Evergreen
- SugarCRM Announces Sugar 5.1 General Availability
- Open Source CRM Comes of Age
- Talend Makes Splash with Open Source Data Quality Suite
Firefox/Web
- Why Firefox Will Be Ubiquitous
- Introducing Ubiquity
- about:mozilla - Major update, Labs meetup, MozCamps, Web tech blog, MDC, JavaScript, Firebug, Extend Firefox, and more…
- Firefox extension protects against man-in-the-middle attacks
- 10 Firefox add-ons for better browsing
- Top 10 Firefox add-ons
- Google adds geolocation to Gears offline plug-in
- Firefox 3.1 ‘three times faster’ than predecessor
Leftovers
- Don’t just buy the music, fans told - now you can invest in big names of the future
- Apple iPhone ad banned
- Apple tried open source defence in ad case
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Internet personality Christa Casebeer, aka Linuxchic on Alternageek.com
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.
Hun said,
August 28, 2008 at 12:24 am
http://excess.org/article/2008/07/dont-buy-anything-samsung/
Hun said,
August 28, 2008 at 1:30 am
Google is the taregt…
JagsLive sends in a Washington Post blog post reflecting on one privacy-enhancing feature of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8, the so-called “InPrivate Blocking” that has privacy advocates quietly cheering, and advertisers seriously worrying. Here is Microsoft’s description of the feature. From the Post: “The advertising industry is bracing for trouble from the next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, details of which were announced today, because it will offer a feature that blocks some ads and other content from third-parties that shows up on Web pages. A Microsoft spokesman said that the feature, to be known as ‘InPrivate Blocking,’ was never designed to be an ad blocker, though ‘there may be ads that get blocked.’ Instead, it was designed to stop tracking ‘pixels’ or pieces of code that could allow third-party sites to track users as they move around the Web.”
Roy Schestowitz said,
August 28, 2008 at 1:46 am
re: Samsung
Thanks. Good find. That’s in addition to their patent deal and Mono.
re: IE8
I was going to write about it later today.
gggggg said,
August 28, 2008 at 1:49 pm
A link to an article about a software that disappeared about 2 years ago? Why?
http://www.xbiz.com/news/web/98339
Beryl is dead!
gggggg said,
August 28, 2008 at 1:51 pm
VueScan is proprietary software!
You don’t pay any attention to what you post! It’s pathetic!