08.28.08
Links 28/08/2008: Distribution Developer Bought Out by Hardware Monopolist
Laptops
GNU/Linux
- How Windows Vista is turning people to Linux
Sure, we have to be balanced and fair; Microsoft can’t take all the credit. There have been remarkable advances in the world of open source software that have reached the public eye.
- Migration to Fedora
- SofTech Announces Linux Support with Latest CADRA Release
- Complete Kickstart: How to Save Time Installing Linux
- Really Big Things
- Brazil’s love of Linux
- Really free Linux takes hold
- Intel acquires Linux distro developer
- Running gOS 3 Beta from USB stick
Ubuntu
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do in Ubuntu
- Second Ubuntu Developer Week!
- Ubuntu Developer Week II: This Time Its Personal
- Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 and BarCamp Manila 1 - Huge success!
- Ubuntu Server Edition: Gaining Momentum?
- Why Ubuntu Is A Moneysaver for SME Businesses
Desktop Environments
- Akademy Redux: Release Team Members Propose New Development Process
- 10 ‘Really Cool’ Icon Sets for Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop
- Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part I: KStars
Programs
- Four Twitter clients for Linux
- An Overview of Twitter Clients for Linux
- LyX 1.6 is ready for release
- Bazaar 1.6 released!
- Firebug Group Releases 1.2
Databases
- Open source is next wave: Embarcadero
- OpenSQL Camp Offers Informal Meeting for Database Developers
- Continuent Launches Tungsten Database Scale-out Stack
F/OSS
- Decathlon to translate multimedia tools
- Xen.org Delivers Version 3.3 of the Xen Hypervisor
- Suncorp opts for open source cost cuts
Suncorp will turn to open source software next year to drive down technology costs and improve efficiency in what is a proving to be a difficult financial climate for the insurance industry.
- Firefox Summit Reflections
- Opening minds to open source
Programs licensed as open-source - like Apache, which retrieves and loads Internet pages - are maintained by an online community. Anyone can write new programming code to update or improve the software.
- Axiom® Stack Releases Under an Open Source License and Launches New Browser-Based Debugger
- IIJ Releases Sender Authentication Mail Filtering Software as Open Source
- Computing from the bottom up
- Open Source TWiki.org Project Now Powered by Sun Microsystems
- Open source: What you should learn from the French
- Astaro: Tapping the Channel for Security Revenue
- Successful Open Source Security Is Knowing What to Secure
- QualiPSo Worldwide Conference Highlights Strengths and Challenges of Open Source Software, the State of Play in the Market, and Future Trends
- What would an “interoperable” or “open source” DRM system look like?
Music
- Open source for the future. Art, music, and sustainablity at Monome
- iTunes Store back online in China after Tibet song leaves front page
- Piracy as a core business strategy
- UK Band Admits It’s ‘Utterly Dependent’ On Piracy
Leftovers
- Computer viruses in space!!
Maybe they should run Mac or Linux. Then they would have nothing to worry about at all, right?
- Malware infects space station laptops
- Lawyer Falls Prey to Pricey Internet Scam
- Hackers resort to ’sick’ kidnap spam
- Tibet: ‘Beijing 10′ return to USA; new Tibet docu ‘Leaving Fear Behind.’
- Application Security Matters: Deploying Enterprise Software Securely
- McKinnon loses European appeal
- Ordnance Survey: Right Out of Order
- Steve Jobs’s Obituary, As Run By Bloomberg
- Target offers $6 million settlement
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
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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.
Hun said,
August 29, 2008 at 12:06 am
Looking at the deal itself, Jennings opines, “I think Cisco fell out of love with Microsoft a while back. Something to do with VoIP support in Exchange and how Cisco thought it was Microsoft’s partner but it turned out that Microsoft was competing with them. Nothing familiar there at all….”
http://www.linux.com/feature/146451
It looks like no one is afraid of the big bully anymore
Roy Schestowitz said,
August 29, 2008 at 2:02 am
This is most likely true. See this post.
ziggyfish said,
August 29, 2008 at 4:56 am
In a way “Intel acquires Linux distro developer” is good for the Linux community, it means that a big company is looking at Linux as an opportunity to support Linux, as a consumer OS. Which is very good news. Also it’s a sign that big companies are looking to help Linux. Intel contributes 4.1% of total contributions.
http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/04/08/red-hat-leads-open-source-contributions-to-kernel/
David Gerard said,
August 29, 2008 at 1:19 pm
“They don’t call it the Jesus Phone for nothing.”