2007 in Review, 2008 on the Drawing Board
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| 2007 has been a stunning year for Open Source - the machine continues to get
| sleeker, smoother, and is rampaging on in its mission to kick arse and take
| names. Irrespective of competition, distributions, companies and brands, I
| think 2007 has been an excellent year for the core ideal and ethos of Open
| Source and Free Software. We have seen growth, acceptance, successes and a
| continuation of form that sees our world blur into the wider world, while
| retaining our core principles and ideals.
|
| It has also been a great year for Ubuntu. This is my first full year working
| at Canonical, and it has been a joy to not only see the growth in the
| community but a growth in the business impact of Ubuntu and the technology
| continue to grow, mature and refine. I am really pleased to see more and more
| OEMs shipping with Ubuntu, and I have been chuffed to bits to see the
| community evolve, and our processes scale when the crunch is on. We still
| have lots of work to do, but we are getting there, and boy do we have a great
| community to help us all get there together. There has not been a day pass by
| when I haven’t felt privileged to work with such an inspiring group of
| contributors.
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http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1090
7 reasons why you should use Ubuntu?
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| I have been using Ubuntu for 4 days now. It makes me addicted to it.
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http://www.cypherhackz.net/archives/2007/12/29/7-reasons-why-you-should-use-ubuntu/
Quote for the day:
"Microsoft never asked me if it was OK to send in this number, and they never
said it was being sent. They are apparently building a database that relates
Ethernet adapter addresses to personal information."
--Robert M. Smith
Related:
Top Five Open Source Stories Of 2007
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| It's been a landmark year for open source, and in so many different ways that
| even a casual survey of the year's events will range far and wide. Here's a
| quick rundown of what to me were the top five open source events of the
| year -- not an exhaustive list, of course, but the things that best reflected
| how important and widely entrenched open source software (especially Linux)
| has become.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/12/top_five_openso.html
Editors' retrospective -- Linux Devices in 2007
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| * Mobile Internet tablets took off, fueled by Nokia's N800 and N810
| models, as well as Intel's Mobile Internet Device (MID) project...
|
| * The mobile browser wars began in earnest, with commercial vendors like
| Opera, Access, and OpenWave taking a backseat to open source browser
| projects...
|
| * As the "post-PC" world shifts attention from desktops and laptops to
| new form factors such as mobile Internet tablets...
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6459789746.html
2007 Roundup: Open source comes of age
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| Two major open source projects finally came to fruition in 2007, bringing
| with them major headlines.
|
| The One Laptop Per Child project finally rolled its first machines off the
| production line, and the latest version of the GNU General Public Licence
| arrived after 18 months of hard draft.
|
| The OLPC had a rocky year, after orders placed with Nigeria in 2006 were
| cancelled at the last minute. The country ditched the OLPC XO laptops in
| favour of Intel's Classmate PCs.
|
| OLPC was started in 2005 to create a laptop that cost only $100 to
| manufacture, although the cost has almost doubled since then.
|
| The Linux-based machines started a trend among manufacturers and retailers.
| Asus created a competing notebook called the Eee PC, which sold for $350 in
| the US.
|
| Wal-Mart offered a similar idea to US consumers by selling $200 Ubuntu Linux
| PCs which sold out in less than two weeks.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2206244/roundup-gpl-olpc-hit-open
Five desktop Linux highlights of 2007
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| That's a lot of disgruntled users, and some of them are now looking to Linux
| and Mac OS X for a replacement. So, I'll end this year's survey of the best
| of the Linux desktop with a salute to the worst of Microsoft's desktop. If it
| weren't for Vista, far fewer people would be giving Linux a chance. Thanks,
| Bill and Steve, we couldn't have done it without you.
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http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS3337890078.html
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