Hill Air Force Base Named First Red Hat Innovator of the Year
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| Hill's deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, codenamed Project
| Bonfire, reduced average nightly load time by nine hours,
| eliminated system crashes and provided for greater security
| and reliability, helping Hill win the Innovation in Government
| category of the Innovation Awards. Hill IT professionals built
| a new system from scratch with almost no disruption to the
| 18,000 end users on base.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070612/20070612005205.html?.v=1
Apple Underwhelms
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| He didn't convince the crowd. "This is almost no story," said Apple
| software developer Wolf Rentzsch. "I didn't even think they could
| offer us so little."
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/11/apple-developers-iphone-tech-cx_rr_0611applesoftware.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yo22lx
Guess what? No ZFS. Not quite.
Apple Clarifies Status of ZFS File System In Mac OS
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| ZFS "is only available a read-only option from the command line,"
| according to an Apple spokesperson.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=199903525
No iPhone SDK Means No Killer iPhone Apps
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| So no SDK == no access to iPhone's cool frameworks == no revolutionary
| apps, no real new concepts coming from third-parties, no eye candy
| available for anyone but Apple and no possibility for some really
| crazy games that will fully exploit the graphic and multi-touch
| power of the iPhone.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fast-and-furious/no-iphone-sdk-means-no-iphone-killer-apps-267899.php
Related:
Forget iPhone, hail OpenMoko, the true revolution
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| ...I would rather wait for OpenMoko to become available for purchase
| than shell out high bucks for iPhone. Just like with any Apple
| product, it is like an awesome looking golden cage. I always
| preferred freedom to control my own digital devices than to be
| mostly dependent on one vendor for everything.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/forget_iphone_hail_openmoko_the_true_revolution
Open Phones with Open Moko
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| While the hardware may be similar, the strategy is a complete
| reversal of Apple's closed platform and proprietary hardware.
| OpenMoko is an open Linux-based mobile application development
| platform that's designed to help operators and developers build
| innovative applications on top of a basic phone platform.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/open_phone/
Editorial: The No-SDK Cheat
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| Given the fact that other smartphone platforms are able to run both
| Web 2.0 apps, Widgets, J2ME and native apps, this can be a real blow
| to the iPhone's future.
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18073/Editorial-The-No-SDK-Cheat/
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