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Ten Linux and Open Source milestones in 2008
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| * In what has to be the longest development time that I know of Wine
| finally reached its 1.0 release. Wine allows you to run windows programs
| under Linux.
|
| * The Amazon internet jungle giant has given the nod to developers and
| released service level agreements for Linux users of its Elastic Compute
| Cloud.
|
| * The coffee lovers of us do like a good cup of Java (I have a hot one
| right next to me now, tantalising me with its smell.) Now you can have
| your Java free of proprietary restraints. The free and open Java
| development kit, started by sun and continued on by Redhat has reached
| its milestone by passing the Java test compatibility kit.
|
| [...]
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/ten-linux-and-open-source-milestones-in-2008-28776
Related:
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.
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| 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
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