Ubuntu Mobile On My Desktop!
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| Wow! I followed the instructions on this page, and what do ‘ya know? I’ve
| got Ubuntu Mobile on my desktop!
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http://jonreagan.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/ubuntu-mobile-on-my-desktop/
Ubuntu Founder Would Invest in Efforts To Outflank Mac, Windows
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| Shuttleworth also shot down a question about whether Canonical be aiming
| toward an initial public offering for investors: "no need for an IPO," he
| said.
|
| Looking ahead, not to Ubuntu's future but to Shuttleworth's, one questioner
| during the session didn't exactly try to finesse one question, asking:
|
| "Can we be confident that Ubuntu will continue as a successful legacy in the
| (hopefully never) situation that you were to fall under a bus?"
|
| Said Shuttleworth, who once survived a trip into outer space, "I hope my
| demise would not be messy . . . in practice or in law."
|
| He said he has made continuity arrangements for Canonical in his will.
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http://www.crn.com/software/207404129
Recent:
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
|
| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
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