10.30.08
Links 30/10/2008: More Adopters of Android, Asia and EU Push for Free Software
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GNU/Linux
- OLPC Nepal Now
- Give your old PowerPC Mac a new lease of life with Ubuntu Linux
- Opening the Gaming Gadget
- Console servers ship with open-source UPS tools
- Using Your Linux Computer As A Media Center (Part 1)
- Some Linux backup utilities
- Ontario LinuxFest 2008
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Embedded/Devices
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Phones (Android)
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Cloud
- Cloud Computing Dispels the Fog of FUD
- Linux and Gmail Drove Microsoft to Windows Azure: IBM already there
We have said in previous articles that Microsoft and other brands cannot keep selling software for profit when there are alternatives for free thanks to open source in some cases.
- Photoshop Express Is An Awesome Cloud App
- Yahoo’s Zimbra Connects the Campus to the Cloud
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Sub-notebooks
- Clutter is Good for Intel’s Moblin Linux
- Acer Aspire One, Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows XP ULCPC edition
With Ubuntu Linux, I do not have to put up with Evil. A quick trip into system / preferences / keyboard, and CapLock is just another ctrl key. Bye bye evil.
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KDE
- Gwenview, Nepomuk and rating
- KDE4 apps: digiKam
- KDE4 - Making computers fun again.
The cool part was last night when one of them (who is not very technically minded at all) turned to me and said, “Dad, guess what? I figured out widgets. They are SO cool!”. It’s the first time I recall her excited about something she could do on the computer. Dad thinks that is “SO cool”.
Kubuntu Intrepid - Teenager Ready
- Camp KDE 2009: Akademy’s Satellite Campus
- Extenders: now 400% more pretty.
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People
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Ubuntu
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Red Hat
- Red Hat releases beta of Enterprise Linux 5.3
Red Hat has released the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 to download via the Red Hat Network. The beta shows that the upcoming third collection of updates for RHEL5 will again add numerous bug fixes as well including some extended functionality to the corporate focused Linux.
- Booz Allen Leverages Red Hat Solutions to Deliver Flexible and Scalable SOA Deployments
- Sabre Holdings: Red Hat Thrives in Place of Unix
When Sabre actually benchmarked Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on Intel against Solaris on SPARC, it found quite a difference — to say the least. The Linux/Intel combination was three times faster than the Sun Unix solution, and when both licensing and hardware costs were taken into account it worked out about 90 percent cheaper, according to Wiseman.
- Red Hat releases beta of Enterprise Linux 5.3
F/OSS
- OpenSolaris gets ZFS snapshot visualization feature
- Surviving the global economic crisis: Plone Open Source community collaborates to fight back
- Jerry Maguire on the future of the free software industry
- Execs weigh open source, virtualization
- Open Source Software for High Reliability Applications: Is it safe?
- Sun releases a major Java runtime and SDK update - Java SE 6 Update 10
- GroundWork adds network monitoring tools to systems management suite
- Jitterbit Teams With Infowelders for salesforce.com Data Integration
- about:mozilla - 2010 Goals, Camino, Firefox UI, localizations, Ubiquity, security metrics, and more…
- The Bizarre Cathedral - 28
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Hardware
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Asia
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Europe
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America
Leftovers
- The Web Thrived In Spite Of The DMCA, Not Because Of It
- Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors
- UK’s £12.7 billion NHS scheme in trouble
- Schneier sticks it to surveillance
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.