10.01.08
Links 01/10/2008: Map of GNU/Linux in Spain, GNOME Mobile, OOo Benchmarks
GNU/Linux
- Viva España Libre!
- Omega 10 Desktop Linux
The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and Fedora Xfce media spins, Rahul Sundaram, had announced the release of Omega 10 Beta this past weekend. Omega is a desktop/mobile Linux distribution that is based upon Fedora but includes packages from the Livna RPM repository. The Omega 10 Beta release is roughly equivalent to the Fedora 10 Beta to be released tomorrow, but integrates multimedia support not found in Fedora along with delivering other added functionality.
- Live DVD for Linux Games
- Vector Linux SOHO Is Free Again
- 31-year-old Texas native develops solar-powered wireless router for ASSET India, a non-profit organization focused on educating marginalized children in India in technology
– The solution runs on a Linux-based system and is powered totally by a battery that is charged through solar panels. It was built with hardware that is able to withstand daily outdoor use and can be controlled remotely, allowing network operators to activate the switches with pre-paid cell phones.
- C-DAC launches BOSS version in Indian languages
- BOSS: Virus free Operating system
- Aonix Enhances Ada Real-Time Tools for LynxOS RTOS
- First Atom-based Linux MID ships for $700
- Red Hat Gets Serious about Virtualization
Devices/Embedded
Applications
- Nathive: A Free Linux Image Editor
- Nokia launches Linux-based Qt Extended mobile platform
- The Fastest OpenOffice.org Edition
Desktop Environments
- GNOME Mobile hits the road
- GNOME 2.24 Released Featuring the GNOME Mobile Platform
- GNOME 2.24 Gains Empathy IM
- What You Should Expect from GNOME 2.26
- Upcoming GNOME events
- OpenExpo Winterthur
- A dozen cool plasmoids for your KDE desktop
Mobile
- Mobile mesh networking software to debut on Linux
- Could Android Grease Motorola’s Wheels?
- Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.
- Handango To Offer Android Applications; Expects 100 By Launch
- PocketFinder to Enable Trackers, Service for Android Phones
- Android Gets a Hand
- Funambol Synchronizes with Google Android
- Google’s Android - The Promise
- Android vs. iPhone: No Contest for Developers
- Hockenberry: App Store Policies ‘Killing Our Enthusiasm’
Audio
Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation plans new, more open open-source conference next year
- CeBIT Open Source: Linux Magazine and Linux Foundation Announce Call for Projects
- LinuxCon: Linux Foundation Conference Set for September 2009
Gadgets
Low-cost PCs and GNU/Linux
- Build It: A Sub-$250 Desktop PC
- How to save $400 or more on new computer software
- Weekend Project: VIA ARTiGO Pico-ITX Kit with Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Mobile: Canonical create Ubuntu mini-me
- Mandriva moves onto mini-notes
Ubuntu
- Canonical wants to know what you want from Ubuntu Server
- Ubuntu Server: Canonical’s Third Way to the Enterprise
- Latest Ubuntu magazine now out
- gOS 3: Is it better than Ubuntu?
- Ubuntu 8.04
- Never Installed a Firewall on Ubuntu? Try Firestarter
F/OSS
- Acquia Delivers Commercially Supported Drupal
- Midgard 8.09.0RC “Ragnaroek” released
- Open-source Cleversafe earns a WSJ Technology Innovation Award
- SugarCRM’s Chris Harrick on the Malleability of Open Source
- Upcoming European Open Source Conferences: links 30-09-2008
- Business Models For Open Source Software Commercialization
- Actuate’s Open Source Survey Reveals European OSS Fans
- About Mapping Open Source into Your Business Model
- Open Source Software a Booster Shot for Health Care?
- [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE to make legal consolidation tool available in 10 languages
Finance
- Will the Financial Crisis Boost Open Source?
- 21 of the Best Free Linux Financial Software
- Five programs you can afford in a financial meltdown
DRM
- Finally, Nero will let you make your PC into a real TiVo
- And Walmart Makes Three: Another Music Service Plans to Shut Down DRM Support
- So how do you REALLY feel about DRM? [poll]
- Norway To Apple: iTunes For Everyone
- Apple threatens iTunes Store closure
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Charles Kalil, IT Manager for the City of Garden Grove 01 (2004)
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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.