05.17.08

Links 17/05/2008: More GNU/Linux-based Devices and Deployments Worldwide

Posted in News Roundup at 2:29 am by Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

• Debian adding low-power NAS devices
• Kernel hacker and Red Hat driver maintainer Jon Masters (video)
• LTSP 5 - Making Thin Clients Phat
• Linux Desktop Ready for Corporate Users
• Your Money is Linux-Powered
• Laptop Loan Program in the Works
• Developers favour XP [and Linux] over Vista
• Rwanda: Kinyarwanda Computing, is It Real Or Fiction?
• Fedora 9 makes Linux easy
• Linux device monitors networks
• Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System

GNU/Linux Laptops

• Asus’ little Eee 900 laptop is a big improvement over its predecessor
• My Asus Eee PC’s Linux Journey
• Sugar Labs will make OLPC interface available for Eee PC, others
• Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC’s Sugar UI

Microsoft Harms Linux

• Can Microsoft be beaten in the cloud?
• OLPC and Windows

Microsoft Harms Own Image

• Microsoft Pulls Windows Home Server Backup Feature
• HP begs AMD PC owners to put XP SP3 on ice
• HP Confirms XP SP3 Endless Reboot Snafu, Promises Patch

Web Fights

• W3C ‘clarifies’ HTML 5 v XHTML
• Yahoo-Google ad deal ’still on track’
• Google Moves to Friend More Web Site Operators
• Yahoo tries to conceal lawsuit documents

Leftovers

• Web frameworks: a free software oriented study
• Nothing New Under the Sun. Or Red Hat, or FSF, or OSI, or…
• [Microsoft-oriented] NHS IT ‘at least four years late’
• AMD cries foul over Intel’s ‘river of cash’ flowing to Dell

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05.16.08

Links 16/05/2008: Fedora 9 Still in the Headlines, GTK+Qt Intersection

Posted in News Roundup at 8:23 am by Roy Schestowitz

Red Hat

• In-Memory Database Heightens Linux-based Telco Billing/Credit System’s Speed, Reliability
• The Big Board Goes Linux
• Video: Fedora Project leader on Fedora 9
• OpenJDK in Fedora 9
• Fedora 9 Screenshots

Trolltech

• Introducing QGtkStyle
• Cross-platform tools vendor announces awards, earnings

The *Ubuntus

• How did Ubuntu end up so popular?
• Twenty Four Hours with Mint 5.0 Beta
• Tanczos wants a new window on the world
• Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks
• Discussing free software syncronicity
• Ubuntu’s Pipe Dream : True Free Software Syncronicity
• Distro Review: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS
• LTS: The Long Term (Ubuntu) Solution

Mobile and Embedded Linux

• Linux Burrows Into Cellphones
• Microsoft Boasts About Future Smartphone Market Share, Is Clearly Crazy
• Microsoft Windows Mobile to face strong LiMo challenge
• Tiny boards gain Linux cross-tools support
• Dual-core ARM SoC clocks to 1.2GHz
• Linux-based remote access equipment adds monitoring

GNU/Linux

• How I dumped Windows for Linux - Day 2
• You Can Hack An OS But You Can’t Hack People - part 7: Left Standing at the Altar
• New born BioPuppy Linux for Bioinformatics
• Planet exgentoo is live!
• Kenya: How Software War Will Hurt Consumers
• Give Me 3 Synths, Part 2
• Five of the Best Linux Audio Players

F/OSS

• Community-Powered Open Source Awards Just Got More Open
• Stuart Cohen: Meet the Man Behind the Collaborative Software Initiative
• The open-source industry is worth $60 billion
• Laura Thomson on coding, the workplace, and FOSS
• Partnership Expands Open Source Curriculum Offerings
• OEM Deal Extends Reach Of Hyperic Open-Source Management Tool
• Misys Open Source Solutions Launches Open Carbon World Portal

Sun Solaris

• What’s wrong at OpenSolaris
• OpenSolaris 2008.05, and other places the sun don’t shine

Proxy Battle

• Yahoo Tells Icahn That Its Own Board Knows Best
• Icahn Confident Microsoft Still Wants Yahoo, Say Proxy Advisor
• Icahn says he will fight Yahoo on Microsoft

Microsoft

• After ‘treasure Hunt,’ Hacker Releases IE Attack Code
• SQL injection attack in ‘third wave,’ says IBM
• Nevis Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Live OneCare
• Windows and Apple Mac Users Warned of Microsoft Security Holes Which Could Lead to Hacker Attack
• Thanks, Microsoft Word, for all the (muscle) memories
• Microsoft Claims Vista UAC Is ‘Misunderstood’
• Windows XP SP3 Problems Continue
• X-Box flops, Microsoft winds up ops in several cities
• Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sells shares

Leftovers

• Study: Comcast, Cox blocking BitTorrent throughout US
• End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip
• Asus’ Atom-powered Eee PC spied on web
• Eee PC School: Add a Keyboard Backlight For Under $15
• Wind mAnálisis MSI Notebook

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05.15.08

Links 16/05/2008: Red Hat Upgrade, Microsoft May Be Behind Yahoo Proxy War

Posted in News Roundup at 10:09 pm by Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

• Piper Jaffray Reiterates Buy Rating on Red Hat (RHT) Following Call
• Nine Steps to Optimal GNU/Linux Desktop Setup
• Business PCs are going nowhere fast
• Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps?
• Linux and the tax office: never the twain shall meet
• Worst Hardware For Your Linux Desktop
• Little thin client runs Linux
• Dreamy Dreamlinux

FOSS

• Exceptional Linux programs for Kids
• Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla’s E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1
• Building a glossier front end for MythTV

Microsoft/Yahoo/Google

• Xbox 360 Sales Hit 10 Million and Beats Wii, PS3 - But Not Fairly
• Icahn Threatens Yahoo Board Fight After Failed Bid
• Google surpasses Yahoo by a hair

Copyrights Police

• Developing world buoys up software pirates
• RIAA ordered to shell out $100k for P2P witch hunt

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Links 15/05/2008: New GNU/Linux Distribution Releases

Posted in News Roundup at 9:28 am by Roy Schestowitz

Releases

• Acid Test For Windows: Fedora Sulphur Is Here
• Ark Linux 2008.1 released
• [Clonezilla-release] Clonezilla live 1.0.9-10 (stable) released
• LinMin Helps IT Reduce Energy and Labor Costs with “Fire and Forget” Provisioning

Eee PC

• Asus multi-touch mouse gives you room to zoom
• Eee PC: the perfect computer for a conference?

Ubuntu GNU/Linux

• Ubuntu Hardware Compatibility List. Know It, Love It
• The matrix on your Hardy Desktop
• Ubuntu Stealing Linux Thunder?
• STFUbuntu - The HOT New Linux Distro

UK and FOSS

• Open source largest software industry: Alfresco CEO
• Alfresco’s Latest ECM: Prying Open a Sector?
• Red Hat defends UK’s open source record

Licensing

• Tenable aims to be “tenable”
• Why open source developers can be more productive, and other tales from a Google open house

Leftovers

• How to Turn Your PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC (and Win Our Mod)
• Review of the New OpenOffice 3 beta
• Botnet sics zombie soldiers on gimpy websites
• Intel ordered to dish documents on deleted antitrust lawsuit e-mails
• Sun Adds AMD Chips to Its Quad-Core Server Offering

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Links 15/05/2008: GNU/Linux on Over 12,000,000 ASUS Motherboards Per Year, Verizon Elects Linux

Posted in News Roundup at 1:58 am by Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux+Hardware

• Asus making more motherboards with embedded Linux
• IBM launches Cell blades [with GNU/Linux] for HPC
• Playstation3 helps Sony triple annual profit
• Access to open spaces

Linux Devices/Mobiles

• Verizon Wireless, seven others join Linux phone org
• Update: Verizon, Mozilla join mobile Linux group
• Linux rides pillion on Mumbai city buses

FOSS

• Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Pt. 1
• The gradual extinction of enterprise software dinosaurs
• Three Potential Open Source IPOs
• OpenForum berates UK record on open source
• Open source software player sets up in Dublin
• CyberNotes: Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Impress Your Friends
• Firefox 3 is coming - is it everything we hoped for?
• NPR station WBUR Boston adds support for free audio standard

Eee PC

• The computer for the people, by the people
• Enabling Advanced Desktop Mode on the Eee PC 900

Distributions

• Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?
• Linux offers one alternative to Microsoft’s Windows
• Kubuntu KDE4 Remix: An Ubuntu User’s View
• The Many Faces Of Linux

Fedora 9

• Fedora Core 9 Live Preview
• Why should you go For Fedora 9
• Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4
• Fedora Linux 9 Is Here
• Screenshots Fedora 9
• Fedora 9 Screenshots

Leftovers

• Why Mac OS isn’t the best OS around
• EDB Implements Red Hat Solutions for the Reliability of In-House Mainframe Computing
• Bdale Garbee: A fascinating ‘open source celebrity’ (video)
• Wikipedia’s Five-Year Growth Figure Almost 8,000 Percent
• Google Inching Toward 70%

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05.14.08

Links 14/05/2008: GNU/Linux for Brazil’s ATMs, Wall Street Also

Posted in News Roundup at 12:37 pm by Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

• Brazilian banks look to Linux for ATMs
• NYSE Euronext banks on Red Hat
• Asus Eee PC 900 is a ripper not a rip-off: review
• Microsoft worried over Linux ULPCs
• Mainframes playing catch up: Open source advantages surpass traditional programming
• First Look at Sulphur, Fedora 9 - Encryption support, ext4 filesystem, kernel 2.6.25 and more!
• Red Hat includes new USB capabilities in Fedora
• Linux - easier to run by the release
• Purdue IT Staff Builds [Linux] Supercomputer In A Half Day
• IBM set to test the fastest computer in the world
• Beyond Linux From Scratch 6.3 RC1 Launched
• Announcement for GNOME SlackBuild GNOME 2.22.1 Desktop for Slackware 12.1
• PlayOnLinux 2.7.2 released
• First Beta Release of Linux Mint 5.0 Is Here - Codename Elyssa

Microsoft Woes

• What is blocking Vista users from recording NBC shows?
• Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista
• Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sinking quickly in face of opposition from PS3 and Wii
• Microsoft chair Bill Gates sells 1M shares

Google-Yahoo-Microsoft

• Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
• ‘The biggest threat is internal’
• What Microsoft will do next
• Icahn wades into Yahoo-Microsoft battle

Free Software

• JavaFX as Rich Internet Application Platform
• Open Source Software and the CIO
• Asterisk Going Carrier-Grade?
• Digium® Authorized Reseller Program Soars with Integration of Switchvox Resellers
• Libraries: Eliminate DRM!
• [FSF] Free Software Supporter - Issue 3, May 2008

Open Source

• An alternative to Dual Licensing
• “Good enough” ethics and “good enough” open source
• Fusis Group joins Open Source Consortium

Embedded Linux

• Wind River joins open source high-availability group
• Embedded Linux Conference videos available

Google and Linux

• The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects I’m Excited About
• MIT students show power of open cell phone systems [Flash Nuisance Alert]
• Google Android winners shun publicity

Blogs and Rambles

• Totem Movie Player can play YouTube Videos
• 5 types of people who should be using Ubuntu
• Give Linux a chance
• Flipping the Linux switch: My OS is okay, your OS is okay
• [Until Now Windows-only] Easy CGI Offers Dedicated VPS Plans for Linux

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Links 14/05/2008: More Support for Mobile Linux, Fedora 9 Officially Released

Posted in News Roundup at 2:31 am by Roy Schestowitz

Mobile

• SK Telecom Joins LiMo Foundation to Speed up Linux Platform Development
• Verizon Wireless Rumored To Support Linux Mobile Phones Going Forward

Red Hat

• Report: Red Hat, SAS among top tech companies
• Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
• Red Hat lives on the edge with Fedora 9
• Tip of the hat: Fedora 9 officially released
• New Fedora 9 makes waves by emphasizing contributors

Games

• The final chapter in the Penumbra story released for Linux and Mac
• Linux gains action RPG

Security and Crime

• After Attacks, Microsoft Fixes Jet Database Flaw
• Hackers going after restaurants, supermarkets
• CSC Settles Government Kickbacks Case

GNU/Linux Misc.

• Russians Say Nyet To Windows, But Da To Linux
• Lightweight browser ported to Linux-friendly DSP

FOSS

• OpenOffice.org obeys Moore’s Law?
• Digium CEO Discusses Open-Source Balancing Act
• Alfresco Updates its OSS Enterprise Content Manager

Leftovers

• Why is Microsoft underpowering One Laptop Per Child?
• A reminder of why Microsoft wanted Yahoo
• Sony BMG releases more DRM-free music

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05.13.08

Links 13/05/2008: Military Fighting Botnets with Botnets

Posted in News Roundup at 11:17 am by Roy Schestowitz

Security

• USAF Colonel goes on the offensive with botnet destroyer plan
• Hackers create their own social network
• The best desktop OS is…
• Hackers hijack a half-million sites in latest attack

Microsoft Pains

• Microsoft loses another ad executive
• PC gamers shun Vista, sticking with XP
• XP Update Ushers In Fresh Round of Bugaboos

Web Pressures Microsoft

• Google extends online-video lead
• Google helps the web to go social
• MySpace joins the ’semantic’ web

GNU/Linux Misc.

• Linux PCs still available at Wal-Mart: Just not the one down the road
• Shuttle KPC K-4500 [Linux PC Reviews]
• Ubuntu and Windows compared SIDE BY SIDE , literally
• Best Computing Solutions: Windows vs. Linux - Part I
• Linux Mint 5.0 is coming May 12, 2008
• Video Editing on Linux :: It can be a real joy!
• Embedded Linux has more friends than you may know

GNU/Linux Laptops

• Asus targets niche market for new Eee PC
• First look at Asus Eee PC 900
• Asus Eee PC 900 set to square off against HP Mini-Note PC

Java

• JavaFX, Java On Linux & Oracle JSF
• Sun to Clarify JavaFX Open-source Plan Later This Year
• Java in 2008

FOSS

• Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?
• A mixed quarter
• Cost savings prompt more companies to consider investing in open source software

KDE

• the hands of many
• Are we breathing in the same rhythm?
• Movies about KDE 4.1 Alpha
• New screencasts

Fedora 9 and 10

• Fedora 9: Linux Desktop Alive and Well at Red Hat
• Fedora 9 - Why it’s so awesome
• Fedora 9
• [Feodra] Rawhide moving on to Fedora 10

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