10.01.08
Links 01/10/2008: New Ubuntu Theme, Fedora 10 Beta
GNU/Linux
- German Pension Fund Moves to Linux on the Mainframe Using Clerity’s UniKix Software
- How Brazil has put an ‘e’ in vote [on Linux machines]
- Adding a new hard disk to Linux, and why the Linux filesystem trounces Windows’ butt
- Simply Mepis 8 is Looking Good
You should give Linux a try. If you are currently using MS Windows, you should download the .iso image, burn it to a CD, stick it in your optical drive and reboot the computer. You won’t have to install right away, unless you want. This way you can look at Linux and see what it’s all about. There’s more information here. Give it a shot and you’ll probably like what you see.
- Fedora 10 Cambridge Beta
- Linux for Older PCs : From Ubuntu to Vector Linux
- Altera and SLS Offer Commercially Supported Pre-Packaged uCLinux for Nios II Embedded Processor
- Top 5 Least Popular Linux Distributions That Could
I love almost every vital part of Pardus. The system installer, the package manager, and the control center among others are all wonderfully crafted. I can tell that the developers took their time to really buff up this distro. I’m sorry to say though that Pardus is still pretty much underrated, because many distros are far more popular but are not as good as Pardus. I would highly recommend Pardus to just about anyone who is still searching for a fully featured, easy-to-use, and quality Linux distro.
- Agilingua, LLC Announces New ATOM Spoken Dialogue SDK With Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Framework
- Opengear Console Manager Brings Out-of-Band Ease to Voxel dot Net
- Pandora targeting Wiz in open-source gaming handheld war
- Sensational and regrettable: Zemlin on NYT Solaris claims
A few days back, the New York Times online ran what was, for many, a sensational headline about Sun’s Solaris: “Is Sun’s Solaris on its deathbed?” While the piece was not written by its own staff, the fact that what many still consider to be a newspaper with some credibility ran with such a story did evoke plenty of reaction.
Finance
- Financial Crisis Offers Opportunity for Linux, Open Source
- Keep tabs on your finances with HomeBank
- GnuCash 2.2.7 released
Army
- Congress: Open-source for U.S. military
- Concurrent RedHawk Linux Powers Real-Time Data Acquisition for Japanese Defense
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid’s Theme
Ubuntu users were promised a radical new desktop theme with Ubuntu 8.04 and then that ended up getting postponed to the upcoming 8.10 release (a.k.a. the Intrepid Ibex). There was a new brown theme that had appeared early on in Intrepid but many users were dissatisfied with this work and Canonical ended up reverting the theme to that of Ubuntu 8.04 and earlier. Though with the Intrepid artwork final deadline passing last week, what does the desktop look like in the Ubuntu 8.10 Beta release due out this week? Here are some screenshots.
- Gmail+Weather+Beauty right on your Ubuntu desktop
- Three Little Things To Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Beautiful and Productive
Virtual Worlds/Open Source
- realXtend Open Source Virtual Reality Platform Accelerates With Growing Ecosystem
- The university of tomorrow could be in a virtual world.
VoIP
- Glintech integrates Asterisk, Jabber for open source UC platform
- Open source office phones get Skype
- Digium(R) and Telrex Announce Partnership and Interoperability Certification
- AstriCon 2008 – Future Asterisk Delivery and Support
Kernel Space
Interviews
- Interview: aria2, for Flexible Downloads
- Q&A with Stuart Cohen, CEO of Collaborative Software Initiative
- RWW Interviews David Tosh of Elgg, The Open Source Social Networking Platform
Phones
- Smartphones are opening – but just a crack
- Open Kernel Labs Embedded Hypervisor Enriches First Android Phone
- Visa to develop applications for Android, Nokia phones
F/OSS
- Three Free, Open-Source Wonders for Web Workers
- Video tour: Bluefish editor
- Opportunities for Open Source in India
- Open source software ‘the way to go’
- OrangeHRM Releases Version 2.4 of the Open-Source HR Management System
- Future of Firebird
- Community Live – Google Open Source Jam
- WebKit browser engine aces Acid3 test, stakes claim to No. 1
- Opening Hardware
- ICT winners, losers and also-rans
- Ghana: Expert Appeals for ‘Open Source’ Software Usage
- Opening new doors with Open Source
- Open source business benefits ‘outweigh’ potential problems
- OSU Open Source Lab Announces Advisory Council
- Sun launches open source OpenSSO Enterprise
Health
- Does HIMSS hate open source?
- Are open source EMRs a threat to HIMSS?
- Will Open Source Breathe New Life Into Health Care Cost Savings?
FSF
- How To Avoid Becoming a Defendant in a BusyBox or Any GPL-Related Lawsuit
- Updates from the Free Software Foundation Europe
Leftovers
- XP Software Solutions Launches Online Collaboration, Project Management and Document Versioning Application on the Etelos Marketplace
- ATMAIL ANNOUNCES AVAILABLITY OF ATMAIL OPEN VIA FREE BSD PORTS
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