First alpha version of Samba 4 available
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| Although not all of them are new, the changes are promising. Licensed under
| GPLv3, Samba 4 now mimes an "Active Directory" domain controller in addition
| to including a LDAP server as a user database and a Kerberos Key Distribution
| Center (KDC) for authentication. The software allegedly also replaces Windows
| file systems and NT-ACLs better. The insides of the server can reportedly
| also be influenced by means of JavaScript.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/95604/from/rss09
Open source proponents denounce Microsoft licensing program
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| Five years after being pegged a monopolist, Microsoft is coming under
| scrutiny for efforts to license its proprietary technology in accordance with
| antitrust legal demands from U.S. and European regulators.
|
| [...]
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| “We read the license,” says Allison about MCPP. “It’s impossible to release
| open source implementations of the product. You have to keep it secret. This
| defeats the whole idea of open source.”
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/090607-open-source-denounce-microsoft-licensing.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Binary bridges. Thank you, Novell, Xandros, Linspire, and others. It seems like
Linspire's chairman has just found a new venture after what SJVN called "an
executive exodus" (at Linspire).
Ajax Startup Launches Web Desktop Linked To Gmail
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201804416
Related:
Samba 3 preview release behaves more like Windows
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| The changes also push Samba 3 along its path toward making Linux
| machines behave a bit more like Windows, said Samba release
| manager Jerry Carter.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1249044,00.html?track=sy184
FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba
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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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