1154010543

IBM, strongest proponents of open source policy

"Worldwide, more than 225 IBM government customers have embraced Linux. There are now more than 12,000 IBM Linux customer engagements worldwide."

http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=17181

1154010775

Open-source investigations concept launched

A new concept for investigative journalism has been launched by British media academic and commentator Jay Rosen. On his blog PressThink, Rosen suggests an online site called NewAssignment.Net,  that raises donations to pay for projects that mainstream media won't or can't touch, and assembles the teams to undertake the work.

http://www.journalism.co.za/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4292&CAMSSID=5679d1deaa6398e41f2ba0d762bda1b8

1154011506

Windows’ House of Cards

Much of the blame, in my opinion, should lie at the feet of the Microsoft philosophy of bundling everything into the OS; without tools being small and specialised, a complex series of dependencies is created. The operating system becomes a house of cards, and the tiniest shifting in a single element can cause its functioning to come crashing down.

http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=65

1154011795

Testdriving Freespire Beta2 (Build 0.0.76)

The folks from Linspire/Freespire released their latest beta for public testing on July 25. Freespire is the open source version of the commercial proprietary Linspire distribution.

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/8531

1154035120

Reviewer Prefers Distributions Other than Ubuntu Linux 6.06

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 is a step below Fedora Core in terms of usability, quality, and ease of use, but it's far below any modern commercial desktop GNU/Linux distribution like Xandros Desktop 4.0, SUSE Linux 10.1, or even Mandriva 2006 PowerPack Edition.

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/44/1/

1154035302

Linux-based Scpl phones to replace Motorola Razr line

Motorola will abandon the proprietary "P2K" OS used in the Razr and other currently or soon-to-be shipping models, such as the Rizr, Krazr, and RazrMaxx. Additionally, the world's number-two handset vendor will transition future feature-phones to Linux, starting with a Scpl ("scalpel") model due in October, according to a PC Magazine article.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2701809386.html

1154039436

Microsoft sees iPod killer effort as a long haul

Microsoft plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to catch up to Apple Computer in the music business, but expects the effort to take several years, a top company executive said Thursday.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6099299.html

1154039689

One Digger Rejects Netscape, So Far

Jason Calacanis and company definitely ran into a roadblock with one Digg user, who promptly posted their emails to his blog.

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/marketinginsider/wpn-50-20060727OneDiggerRejectsNetscapeSoFar.html

1154040102

Does open source usage free your budget up for the best talent?

For example, what would you rather have?  A support contract for your IT with a Fortune 500 company? Or, in lieu of that, the very best in-house talent to run your open source-based IT? Most companies can't afford the luxuries of both.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=3391

1154041201

Linux in-memory database goes 64-bit

ExtremeDB-64 is available now for platforms that include Linux64 (x64), HP-UX (Itanium), Solaris (Sparc), and Windows Server 2003 64-bit (x64).

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2490185476.html

1154041614

Ubuntu and BEA Workshop Studio

The Out of the Box experience was amazing. It looks great. This is in part due to the graphics and polish of the system, and also to GNOME, of which I am an unabashed fan.

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/253050.htm

1154041814

Open-Source Web Conferencing Gets Serious: DimDim Is Coming

I expect to see more and more of these tools to come to the market inthe coming weeks and months, as collaboration tools enter themselvestheir 2.0 phase: cross-platform, nothing to install/fullyweb-based, fully-featured, and easy to use.

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/07/27/opensource_web_conferencing_gets_serious.htm

1154041971

Nectec gives Linux SIS a big push

Nectec director Thaweesak Koanantakool said the centre hoped it would encourage local businesses to use open-source software as a new alternative and help them reduce the cost of system implementation.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/07/28/byteline/byteline_30009773.php

1154071686

Tim Lee Berners on Slicing and dicing web data with Tabulator

It works by exploring the web of relationship between things, loading more data from the web as you go. Then, if you find a pattern of information you are interested in, it will search for all occurrences of that pattern and display them in tables, maps, calendars, and so on.

http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/153

1154075249

Ballmer: Windows releases must come more quickly

Microsoft has not said when Vista's successor, code-named Vienna, might ship or what features it will contain.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6099511.html

1154075577

McAfee profit dips amid stock option probe

McAfee shares fell 13 percent to $20.85 in after-hours trading from a close of $24.02 on the New York Stock Exchange. (That's the company that blames Linux for Windows viruses)

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6099443.html

1154076350

Microsoft fails to ease Vista fears

Windows Vista, already five years in the making, has been postponed by Microsoft several times. Quality assurance delays have put off the consumer version of Windows until early 2007 -- after the crucial holiday shopping season.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060728/tc_nm/microsoft_tech_dc

1154076836

Commercial real-time Linux rev'd

FSMLabs has updated its real-time Linux overlay and toolsuite, adding real-time networking improvements, A/D drivers, an Eclipse-based IDE, and support for 2.6.16 kernels on x86, among other improvements.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5538037435.html

1154077053

McAfee cries wolf on open source

Open source methods are not the problem. Rather, as the shared body of knowledge around malware techniques has evolved, it is no longer sufficient for companies such as McAfee to act as gatekeepers of that knowledge for the security community. Share the code. Expose the threats. Make the solutions known. What we need is more openness, not less.

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1014217923;fp;4;fpid;4

1154077297

Intel cuts some processor prices by more than half

Users should see the price reductions translate into substantially lower prices for powerful desktop PCs in coming months. The microprocessor is the most expensive component inside a PC, and both Intel and AMD have cut prices on some of their most powerful chips.

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=612983846&rid=-50

1154077586

Beijing Co-Create Claims 50,000 Linux Desktops

Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Co Ltd claims that it is in line to migrate 50,000 Asian business and government desktops from Windows to Co-Create Linux as clients migrate to Linux rather than Windows Vista.

http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=7363757F%2DF338%2D455F%2DA048%2DAFC63DBA0B03

1154077749

Third Screen Media Chooses Levanta For Management Of Linux Environment

Linux system uptime and performance are mission-critical to Third Screen Media's service delivery. By storing server templates in the Intrepid M image repository -- building a new Linux server with the desired configuration is a simple mouseclick away.

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/253288.htm

1154078419

It Takes Two to Samba (Linux)

Being enabled through Samba, this makes it easy for a user to share a folder on a Linux machine with other Linux clients, Windows clients and of course Macs. The dialog is simple, and looks like this...

http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/it-takes-two-to-samba/

1154078584

Beginner's Guide to (Linux) Motherboard Selection

Now a days, installing Linux has become child's play. Almost all the devices are detected out of the box and if at all you need to open up the case, it will be for upgrading or to troubleshoot any hardware problems.

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/07/beginners-guide-to-motherboard.html

1154097203

Tremendous Reception to SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 From Novell

Ten Days After Its Official Launch, Over 165,000 Downloads of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Products

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060728/sff019.html?.v=60

1154097501

Another Dell laptop catches fire

Next thing he knew, fire extinguishers were going off and the place was filled with smoke as another Dell burst into flames. "The battery burned its way straight through the laptop creating the beautiful hole with which is so beautifully depicted in the picture," he says.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33321

1154097952

Ballmer to Wall St: we always back a winner

Ballmer: "We tried to incubate too many new things and integrate them simultaneously rather than let them bake. There was too much complexity. We worked down that path for a while and said it wouldn't work. We re-booted where we were."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/ballmer_multicore_investments/

1154098330

Ultra-secure Linux evolves for the enterprise

Linux and open-source developers are working to make Linux security tools developed by the National Security Agency more accessible and usable by regular system administrators and application developers.

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/135220/

1154098628

South Korean Haansoft joins Linux group OSDL

South Korean Linux developer Haansoft Inc. has joined Open SourceDevelopment Labs Inc. (OSDL), a nonprofit industry group that promotesuse of the Linux operating system in enterprises, and will participatein OSDL's Carrier-Grade Linux working group, the group saidThursday.

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/Software/111711/

1154098720

Big-business technologists keep talking up Linux

Several IT executives reinforced the idea that Linux now has the technical brawn and industry support to hold up the most demanding business applications in such environments as finance, airline reservations and stock trading.

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/Software/112564/

1154098927

Banking on Linux in the Middle East

Looking back, Asadi says the Linux investment has been a great enabler to meet its needs. 'The biggest benefit for us beyond merely migrating to Linux. We now have a very fast and stable application, unlike our previous old application and systems...'

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/115717/

1154099271

Survey: Attitudes Shifting on Linux, Windows Server Systems

Results of the Research and Markets survey, which did not specify any particular Linux distribution or Windows server version used among its 137 respondents, indicated that Linux was "somewhat better" in terms of security, reliability, flexibility, scalability and total cost of ownership (TCO).

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/9KMRyHUGy3qU2T/Survey-Attitudes-Shifting-on-Linux-Windows-Server-Systems.xhtml

1154099433

With Linux, enough is sometimes too much

You'll be hearing more about Ubuntu in future columns. For now, though, I hope the major enterprise Linux players are paying attention to Ubuntu and other more streamlined distributions. In an ideal world, there would be distributions custom-tailored for different categories of workers -- sales forces, accountants, and even graphics professionals.

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/109171/

1154100469

MySQL Used By Majority Of "AlwaysOn 100" Innovators

It is no coincidence that the majority of these "Hot 100" start-ups areusing the MySQL open source database to power their IT infrastructure,Web sites and products.

http://sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=26506&hilite=

1154100932

More affordable PCs hit Singapore market (or How Expensive is Windows?)

The SGD 399 made-in-Singapore PCs runs on the Pentium 4 platform with a Linux OS, but for an extra SGD 200, you get the same PC running Windows XP.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/technologynews/view/221732/1/.html

1154101176

Microsoft, the British Rail of Software

"...Unlike when a train arrives at a British station, all may not be forgiven with a sign of progress; when Vista turns up, patience may have finally run its course."

http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=66

1154116639

Open Source Firm Alfresco Unveils ODF Virtual File System

Alfresco Software, provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced full Open Document Format (ODF) support through its ODF Virtual File System.

http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/253303.htm

1154154222

Glitch continues to plague Washington Mutual

An attempt by Washington Mutual to upgrade the bank's Web site has turned into a technology and public-relations nightmare. Site moved to Windows < http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.wamu.com >

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6099998.html

1154154587

Developers cry foul over Windows kernel security

"Nobody knows if Microsoft has done this intentionally, but we can't avoid the suspicion that this move may have been designed to force users to rely on Microsoft and only Microsoft for Windows security"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/ms_kernel_security_controversy/

1154155034

Free open-source storage software attracts users

Tens of thousands of users are deploying open-source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term protection through the availability of source code.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=19&articleId=9002075

1154155870

NVIDIA with Linux Wins Two 'Best of Show' Awards at Developer Conference

The demonstration from NVIDIA was designed to illustrate the experience consumers can expect from the next generation of multimedia enabled handheld devices. It consisted of high performance 3D applications including Siege from Denied Reality and Quake3 from id Software running on a Linux operating system....

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060728231233703

1154156762

Linux, Love It Or Hate It

Frank Ohlhorst's recent column, "A Linux OS For All," asked readers what needed to be done for Linux to gain more traction. And, boy, did they have a lot to say about Linux: the key players, where the open-source platform is now and where it should be headed.

http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article.jhtml?articleId=191600067&cid=ChannelWebNews

1154184897

Digital rights fuel open-source debate

"We (Linux/Open Source) are winning, and we will win, but we have morework to do," Moglen said to a standing ovation from OSCON attendees.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1154141727159251.xml&coll=7

1154185159

India plans free software for all

India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/114859/

1154185555

Technalign Releases Frontier ASPEN Powered By MEPIS Linux

Technalign has announced it is releasing a low-cost system for those individuals and companies that still have older hardware. The product has been named Frontier ASPEN powered by MEPIS Linux.

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/253620.htm

1154185767

The Perils of the $100 Laptop

The result is apparently a perfectly serviceable little machine running Fedora Core with a specialised interface called Sugar. Already, the governments of China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand have expressed an interest. However, there are some hidden dangers within this project...

http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=67

1154236376

Parts of French 'iPod Law' Struck Down

The French Constitutional Council has declared major aspects of the so-called iPod law unconstitutional, undermining some controversial aspects of the legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/business/28cnd-music.html?ex=1311739200&en=a4590cf789d399fb&ei=5088

1154236918

Exploding laptops are part of the game

Dell has been taking a beating lately, almost to the point of becoming an internet legend. Got a Dell? Got asbestos underwear? You get the idea. The problem is, that this is not just Dell's fault, and in fact, for the most part, I think they are not to blame, they are getting a bad rap.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33337

1154237637

New Arium Debug Solution Cuts Handheld Linux Development Time

"The Linux operating system continues to expand across a wide spectrum of applications and markets. As a result, Freescale's community of customers is growing and demanding robust, quality development tools for both host and target sides..."

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060729144828170

1154238061

Death of the command line

It's hard for me to imagine using an OS without a strong command line. Even Microsoft has recognized the for that with their Monad Shell (though they are at least temporarily removing that from Vista). Linux of course has its Bash shell, Mac OS X has Terminal (which now defaults to Bash) - everybody knows you need a shell.

http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/command_line_death.html

1154238477

KDE Tip for SLED10

In KDE on SLED10, when you mouse over the screen resolution applet?s icon, you can use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the screen brightness.

http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2006/07/29/kde-tip-for-sled10/

1154248182

 The rise of the cyber-children

Teacher Mike Ryde says: "We have children as young as 18 months on the courses..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5223192.stm

1154249219

Promoting Open Source Software: Baby Steps

Finally, we come -- ironically -- full circle. Our productivity suites are open source. Our operating systems are open source. Our database server is open source. I believe that it is only at this point that the suits give up Exchange and become willing to switch to an open source groupware product.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/27/1435245&from=rss

1154269763

Whose hardware is it anyway?

If I purchase hardware, it is my hardware and is no longer owned by the manufacturer. If my hardware checks a cryptographic signature on a binary file to verify its origins, it should be my signature signed with my key since I am the owner of the hardware.

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/2567

1154310837

KDE is All About the Apps

"This time we report on the Linux equivalent of Cubase - Rosengarden,the great Basket, KPhotoAlbum and the next version of KDevelop."

http://dot.kde.org/1154267202/

1154332902

Analysis: Is The World Ready For Open Source Networking?

Vyatta, Sourcefire, Groundwork, and the Asterisk IP PBX represent theopen source push for networks. They're gaining traction, but it couldtake years to make significant headway.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191600128&subSection=All+Stories

1154333038

Altiris Opens API - Trinket Goes Open Source

Now LordJeb Software has posted the Trinket project on SourceForge.net, turning the application into an open-source project under a BSD-style license. Developers can add code and new ideas to the project by simply downloading Trinket code from SourceForge.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2006/07/altiris_opens_a.html

1154333184

BitRock InstallBuilder 3.8 Released - Includes Support for Linux on IBM z S

BitRock InstallBuilder now includes support for Linux on IBM z Series. InstallBuilder simplifies the installation process of multiplatform software, helping developers improve the packaging, distribution and deployment of their products.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb417848.htm

1154334185

Dreamlinux 2.0 Reviewed

Next is one I recently came across while browsing a forum: Dreamlinux. This is a Brazilian distribution based on Debian and Morphix...

http://wolphination.com/linux/2006/07/25/next-dreamlinux-20/

1154343593

Social network sites face US ban

Children in the US could be banned from using social networking sites in schools and libraries by a new law.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5230506.stm

1154343757

EU-too early to say if Microsoft faces further fine

 "It's too early at this stage to give any indication of whether there will be another payment, another penalty, and if there is to be another penalty how much it would be," Commission spokesman Michael Mann told a news briefing.

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060731:MTFH12588_2006-07-31_10-22-28_BRU004837&type=comktNews&rpc=44

1154346905

Apple recalls thousands of batteries

"Apple has issued a world-wide recall of batteries sold with its 15-inch MacBook Pro computer systems"

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33371

1154347071

Linux continues to make strides

With all this in mind, where is Linux headed? The guess here is that it will continue to increase market share, particularly for systems coming from Asia. As designers become more comfortable with the technology and the tools become more productive, there's no telling where it can go.

http://www.commsdesign.com/news/insights/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191600051

1154356578

New threat from 'suicide' virus

The latest threat to intellectual property comes in the shape of malicious software (malware) that is capable of infecting a computer, hiding itself until the user accesses specific files or Web sites--in order to steal files or passwords--and then deleting any trace of itself.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6100172.html

1154357139

Oracle's Ellison feeds talk of Linux plans--again

He added that he believes that Oracle has the legal rights to distribute and support Red Hat Linux, as the CentOS project is already trying to do.

http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6100210.html?part=rss&tag=6100210&subj=news

1154357546

Nvidia: We are freakin' worried sick (humour)

"Of course we are! We are currently assessing how much capital we need to raise in order to acquire Intel."

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33356

1154357826

Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta 1 version "Thor"

Available in four differents flavours (KDE or GNOME, i586 or x86_64), you can get a glimpse of the next Mandriva Linux 2007 edition.

http://www.hartware.de/press_5071.html

1154357997

Wind River updates embedded Linux suite

Wind River has updated its commercial embedded Linux distribution, alongwith three vertical-market "Platforms" based on it.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2640810809.html

1154358203

MS SQL: Plays Badly With Others

My company’s website is in the midst of a transition; my predecessor, rather stupidly, decided that the company was going to go with Microsoft technologies and this has to be rectified as quickly as possible.

http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=69

1154397224

French anti-iTunes law is 'unconstitutional'

The controversial French law which would have forced Apple to make music from its iTunes online shop playable on any device has been rejected by the French Constitutional Council. The whole law may have to be rewritten.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/31/itunes_law_rejected/

1154397604

Cell-based coprocessor card runs Linux

Mercury Computer is sampling a PCI-Express add-in card powered by a Cell processor running Yellow Dog Linux.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6832279023.html

1154397732

Leading Linux phone partners form "Adcore-Tech"

Adcore-Tech handsets will almost certainly run Linux, given that NEC and Panasonic are among the top makers of Linux-based mobile handsets, and recently joined a Linux mobile phone industry group devoted to Linux collaboration.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8847845234.html

1154398091

Autodesk Launches Maya 8

The 64-bit version of Maya 8 will be supported on Windows and Linux. The 32-bit version will be supported on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060731180358654

1154398520

Slim line HTPCs for both OSs, ultra small, 14dba PSUs, ATI, NVIDIA, VIA

All systems come with a pre-configured Fedora 5 Installation CD with Video drivers and LIRC support.

http://www.lixsystems.com/lix/index.htm

1154398907

Advanced, customized searching with Opera and Firefox

When it comes to searching, there are many options for users who wish to enhance their browsing and research.

http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/21/1525214&from=rss

1154399380

Defense Department Marches Towards Open Source

In a new initiative to spur more use of open source software (OSS) within the US Defense Department, the department's Office of Advanced Systems and Concepts (AS&C) has begun teaming up with Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and AMD...

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6289/1/

1154399543

Developers ramp open source

Embedded developers are increasingly turning to open-source tools for building reliable and flexible systems and software. Open-source code can provide both raw material for building system software and applications, and development tools for creating that software.

http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800427741_499485_4390b76020060801_no.HTM

1154399951

Quake 4 1.3 released! (Linux version included)

This update includes a host of new and community requested features such as: more agile player movement, weapon balance adjustments, a single ambient light option, improved rendering and cpu peformance and much more.

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1738

1154400063

Borrowing a PC? Put Linux on it, via a USB drive

If you're a Linux desktop user and are forced to use someone's Windows machine, the experience may be more on par with borrowing a toothbrush.To guard against this potential unpleasantness, it's time you looked into putting a bootable Linux desktop image on a portable USB key chain drive.

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/linux/2006/0731linux1.html

1154400408

PCs for the Poor - As Good As Their Hype?

Negroponte named companies that had agreed to collaborate on what would become the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project... the laptop would use a processor from Advanced Micro Devices and an operating system based on Linux, whose code is freely available for anyone to modify and distribute.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200607311448.html

1154416399

DRM is the open source divide

TiVo, which runs the Linux kernel but supports DRMs, is what Torvalds has in mind here. Without DRM, content makers won't let their stuff run with open source, so the wets believe, let it go.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=729

1154416593

Open Source Lures Cost-Conscious CIO's

"Go to venture capital sites and see the lists of companies they are funding. Visit SourceForge.net. Find the nerds in your company."

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1206652,00.html

1154417079

MEPIS grundgingly complies with the GPL

MEPIS LLC, the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distributor, has finally released its distribution source code under the GPL. Warren Woodford, the Morgantown, WV-based company's CEO, is not one bit pleased with being forced to do so.

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9113053102.html

1154436212

Linus Torvalds Curses in DRM Debate, Gets Comment Deleted

"I am sorry, Linus, but I had to remove your comment because you violated our comments policy by swearing so much. "

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20060727140038810&title=Sorry%2C+Linus&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=465804#c466084

1154440518

Operating Systems Need to Disappear

."..But the fact that Linux is not yet ubiquitous is simply another reason why the Zimbra approach to a communications client is such an ideal way to make operating systems disappear. It is a prime example of how a browser really can make an operating system irrelevant."

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000070

1154440594

Review: VMware's worthy new option for virtual servers

Licensing caveats aside, I really like VMware Server. It's a solid product, easy to use and administer, and the performance is top-notch. If you need a way to run multiple hosts on a single server, I'd put VMware Server at the top of the list.

http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/07/19/180208.shtml

1154440674

How to assess open source storage software

Thousands of users are deploying open source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term protection through the availability of source code.

http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=2713&pagtype=all

1154440749

IBM Answers Montecito With Faster Unix Server Range

The upgrades affect the System p line -- formerly known as the "pSeries" and perhaps still best known by the older "RS/6000" naming convention -- that runs IBM's AIX version of Unix, as well as Red Hat Latest News about Red Hat and Suse Linux distributions.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52127.html

1154440892

Voxeo Launches Open Source Telephony Application Initiative

Under this initiative, Voxeo will sponsor development of new open source telephony applications, distribute select applications with its VoIP and IVR offerings, and increase overall awareness of the benefits of open source telephony applications to its customers, partners, and the over 21,000 registered members of its Evolution developer program.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb419060.htm

1154441107

Free software without the strings

But sometimes the extra work is worth it when you find a piece of free software that does the same job as a program that costs more than $50, by following a few extra steps. Open source software, written with the idea of sharing the source code with others, is often like this.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/15168406.htm?source=rss&channel=thestate_business

1154450710

Open source can be recycled

But with open source, you have the capacity (if you can do it yourself or find someone else who will do it) to lift what you like about an old program and stitch it together with a new one. Code isn't lost. It's reused.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?m=200608

1154450967

NVIDIA Releases New NVSG Scene Graph Software Development Kit

NVIDIA has released the latest version of its NVIDIA Scene Graph Software Development Kit (NVSG SDK)... NVSG operates on top of the OpenGL application programming interfaces (API) in either 32-or 64-bit Linux or Microsoft Windows operating system environments.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060801081126562

1154451131

Put your laptop to sleep

The Dapper Drake release of Ubuntu Linux includes the new gnome-power-manager package, which enables ACPI sleep much like the system-tray power applet in Windows. Finally, sleep "just works" in Linux.

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/26/1641234&from=rss

1154451403

KnowledgeTree(TM) Open Source Document Management Software now in Version 3

With less restrictive Open Source license... "The KnowledgeTree Open Source code maynow be more readily combined with works licensed under different terms,allowing more extensive use by 3rd-party developers and systemsintegrators," says Chalef.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060801/uktu014.html?.v=70

1154486283

Forbes: Mozilla Gains On Microsoft

Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser continues to burn a path into Microsoft’s house--the PC.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/01/mozilla-firefox-microsoft_cx_rr_0801mozilla.html?partner=yahootix

1154486503

Red Hat Gets Blessing from Analyst

"We had been skeptical that the company would be able to win with a free software product/paid support model, but the company's 6-fold growth in free cash flow since 2003 has made us believers," wrote McPeake. The analyst added that he is looking for 40 percent growth in customers who pay for support of the free software in coming years.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060801/software_analyst_note.html?.v=1

1154486721

Research Alert-Prudential starts Microsoft, Oracle

The brokerage said pricing pressure in the core and a difficult application market would prove "big headwinds" for the business software maker. In the same note, the brokerage said it started coverage on Microsoft Corp., with "overweight" rating and a price target of $34.

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060801:MTFH52913_2006-08-01_18-10-58_BNG86118&type=comktNews&rpc=44

1154487206

Microsoft reshuffles executives

The changes come amid worries about delays in getting Vista out the door. The next version of Windows is now slated for release in early 2007.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6100954.html

1154487563

Microsoft Sues Over Intellectual Property

Microsoft filed a patent infringement claim against peripherals maker Belkin on Tuesday...

http://news.com.com/2110-1041_3-6101024.html?part=rss&tag=6101024&subj=news

1154487928

Red Hat's affair with XenSource is back on

Xen isn't quite ready for prime-time, but Red Hat is pretty darn sure it will be by December when RHEL 5.0 ships. You can, however, get SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen today.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/01/redhat_yes_xen/

1154488209

Samsung ships another Linux phone

A new Linux-based phone is shipping to subscribers of China Mobile's "Go-Tone" GSM/GPRS service. The Samsung SGH-i858 features a large, 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320) color touchscreen, along with a slide-out hardware keypad. It runs version 2.5 of Mizi's "Prizm" Linux phone stack.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4539563903.html

1154488425

Microsoft Re-stacks The Deck When Comparing Win32 and Linux Vulnerabilities

I expect more from Microsoft, because I must. Everything on the disk came from Redmond.In the end, it will always be impossible to squarely compare Windows with Linux. Each fulfills different needs and expectations.

http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/01/how-microsoft-stacks-the-deck-when-comparing-windows-and-linux-vulnerabilities/

1154488666

Ellison (Oracle CEO) Talks Up Red Hat Linux

Oracle's chief hints at possible redistribution of Red Hat Linux by the database giant.

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17795&hed=Ellison+Talks+Up+Red+Hat+Linux&sector=Industries&subsector=Computing

1154488922

Future of Eclipse Open Source?

The Eclipse Foundation's recent Callisto release includes BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools), a project some consider the future direction of all Eclipse open source Latest News about open source endeavors.

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/52138.html

1154489204

Open Source Success (for a Campus)

Engage deeply with the community surrounding open source technology... Remember, any IT environment can take advantage of open source... Understand how change happens at your institution.

http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=18954

1154489499

Layout Editor Redraws One Trillion Transistor Chip in Real Time

Last week at the 2006 DAC, Micro Magic demonstrated that its MAX layout editor is capable of redisplaying in real time an integrated circuit (IC) design with over one trillion transistors... The software operates only on the Linux platform.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/2006080119535726

1154489846

Graphics core vendor rev's SDK for content creators

The PowerVR Insider SDK 1.9 offers broad hardware, 3D API, and OS support, including support for embedded Linux.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2372244700.html

1154490157

EnterpriseDB Closes $20 Million Financing

EnterpriseDB, which combines the advantages of open source software with the ability to run applications written for Oracle, is disrupting the $13 billion enterprise database market," said Power. "We see striking parallels here to Linux, an open source offering that runs applications written for Unix...

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060801175203576

1154490328

Lockheed Martin Selects Linux Powered SGI Altix 4700 Server for Training

Driven by a blade-based design built on SGI's award-winningscalable global-shared-memory system architecture, the SGI 4700host computing platform is powered by 16 Intel Itanium 2 processors and four graphics pipes running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060801182221958

1154490703

Collax Gears Up for North American Linux Launch

Today, Collax has 33 employees and has over 8,000 commercial installations in Europe of its Collax Business Server. The company estimates it has twice as many freebie installations, which seeds the market for future paying customers.

http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb080106-story01.html

1154491320

The Zen of Open Source (Open Source Economy)

"one of the big myths about open source software is that being free is its chief value. The myth, of course, is in the meaning people ascribe to 'free' In this context, 'free' is not about the price--it is about the liberty."

http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/254837.htm

1154491505

Security and Monoculture

Forrest experimented with a version of theopen-source operating system Linux. She altered the system to forceprograms to assign data to memory locations at random. Then she subjectedthe computer to several well-known attacks that used the buffer-overflowtechnique. None could get through. Instead, they targeted the wrong areaof memory.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/security_and_mo.html

1154510788

All journalism will be Indian journalism one day

Satyam's media and entertainment VP Kevin English argues that pulling together information is a "mechanical process" that may be outsourced and could prove very attractive to news aggregators like Yahoo and Google.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33419

1154511288

When Will Businesses Move to Vista? Jupiter Says No Time Soon

According to newly published Jupiter Research data, about 50 percent of companies either won't deploy Windows Vista at all or will wait at least 13 months.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1997484,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

1154511609

Realplayer, Google Toolbar and Firefox Get Bundle Deal

RealNetworks, Google and Mozilla Corp. have announced a new multi-year agreement under which Real would offer the popular Google Toolbar and the Mozilla Firefox® Web browser with RealPlayer, one of the most frequently downloaded applications around the world.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060801231217789

1154511885

Win4Lin Pro Now Available For Linspire (Linux Runs Windows Programs)

Users have become increasingly frustrated with the costs, the restrictions and the lack of security in their Windows environments. Until recently, users have had to endure the shortcomings of Windows as there seemed to be no viable alternatives.

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060801210516869

1154512100

Open Source Firm Black Duck Expands Reseller Network In Australia And NZ

...protexIP is in demand by enterprises, due diligence teams and otherswho are looking to take full advantage of the benefits of usingcomponent-based development and open source software.

http://in.sys-con.com/read/255061.htm

1154512278

Thunderbird 2.0 preview

I addition to the front-page attractions, Thunderbird provides several improvements to the existing features. The new mail notification area has undergone extensive revision -- this is the pop-up transient window that appears when Thunderbird finds new mail on the server during a routine background mail-check...

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/01/2059228

1154512785

IBM Marches with Penguins

IDC has forecast the market for new and redeployed PCs running Linux to grow to $10 billion and 17 million units by 2008, with an installed base of more than 42.6 million units... Some large banks don't plan to move to Windows Vista and are exploring the pros and cons of Linux.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060802/tc_cmp/190500754

1154513518

MS non-committal on Vista

"Explain why I'm paying 20 times for a stock that is growing at 10 witha whole lot of investments that are not really going anywhere," GregPalmer, head of equity trading at Pacific Crest Securities said....

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19938818%5E15465%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15316,00.html

1154514153

Spam e-mail is costing companies

To the list of unpleasant Monday happenings - answer the alarm clock,face morning traffic, trudge into the office - you can add one morechore.Delete the weekend spam from your e-mail.(The vast majority of spam comes from compromised Windows machines.)

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/aug/01/brent_batten_spam_email_costing_companies/?local_news

1154534612

Closing the digital divide with solar Wi-Fi

 The first seed money has arrived, enough to produce and test prototype nodes. It came from the One Laptop Per Child initiative (OLPC), which aims to construct a $100 laptop to be distributed to children in developing countries. OLPC showed immediate interest in the Wi-Fi initiative, Pomerleau said.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6101071.html

1154534785

Intel faces tough fight to regain market share

Industry Doyen Nathan Brookwood thinks Intel faces an uphill fight toregain market share lost to AMD.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33432

1154534871

Intel G965 is pretty awful

 It seems the last and more common stepping, C1, is a mess, with image corruption problems on top of the previously mentioned speed problems.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33433

1154535062

Intel plugs Centrino Vulnerablities

Public exploits of this vulnerability on either of the other two are yet to emerge, so let's not panic just yet. The other two flaws covered a privilege escalation vulnerability involving device drivers and information disclosure bug involving Intel PROSet management software.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/intel_wireless_vulns/

1154535469

Care2x version 2.2 released

Care2x is an open source web-based hospital information system (HIS). The development of Care2x started back in 2002 by Elpidio Latorilla. The software is released under the GNU General Public License.

http://www.linuxmednews.com/1154523412

1154535818

 Companies beginning to look at Linux in new light

The focus is now on more than just the financial commitment and evaluation is based on genuine understanding, appreciation of the measurable benefits and business value that Linux can deliver.

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/techforum/2006/0608010820.asp?S=Software&A=SFT&O=FPIC

1154579108

Survey: Vista Sales May Start Slowly

A survey by JupiterResearch of 207 businesses, including 73 of them with 10,000 or more employees, found that 62% will wait longer than 12 months after Vista is available to deploy it. Strikingly, one-third of those surveyed had never heard of Vista or had no deployment plans, says Jupiter analyst Joe Wilcox.

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techsoftware/10301301.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&amp;cm_cat=FREE&amp;cm_ite=NA

1154579544

Symantec highlights Windows Vista user vulnerabilities

Symantec has shed more light on potential vulnerabilities in Windows Vista that could circumvent new security measures and leave users vulnerable to attack.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/symantec_windows_vista_security/

1154580463

Extreme-temp XScale PC/104 SBC does crypto, runs Linux

Arcom is shipping an extended-temperature PC/104 SBC (single-board computer) available with a Linux dev kit.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4942415046.html

1154581888

Linux memorabilia sought for 15th anniversary display

The Computer History Museum is inviting LinuxWorld attendees to bring Linux-related memorabilia, for display in a booth celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the kernel.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5442801937.html

1154582026

GEMS aims to make large-scale Gentoo Linux management easier

Users interested in deploying the increasingly popular GentooLinux distribution should also get familiar with an open sourceproject called GEMS - Gentoo Enterprise Management System.

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/linux/2006/0731linux2.html

1154582611

Free AOL: Too little, too late?

Analysts debate whether giving away e-mail, other services will help the struggling Internet company.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/02/news/companies/aol_reaction/index.htm?section=cnn_tech

1154582781

Apple defends iTunes-iPod compatibility

The company argued that it is reasonable to "prevent users from downloading music acquired from Apple Music Store to other digital players" because users can still burn any purchased iTune onto a CD and then freely play it as they deem suitable, provided that they respect copyright laws.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060802/ap_on_hi_te/europe_apple_itunes

1154582965

Microsoft tempts embedded Linux developers with "free apps"

Microsoft's Windows Embedded team will host a "free app" giveaway duringLinuxWorld. The "apps" -- in this case appetizers -- include embeddedturkey clubs ("it's the bacon that's embedded," Microsoft says) andboneless "penguin" wings ("hot and tasty, but with no supportinfrastructure"), plus free beer and wine.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2347855073.html

1154583631

Linspire Linux founder Robertson seeks publicity from Tour de France winner

The founder of MP3.com (arguably Robertson's most successful project, now owned by CNET) is well-known for his bold PR style, including an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (do you think he read it?) in which Robertson extolled the benefits of per-user licensing versus Microsoft's per-machine scheme...

http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1447241&from=rss

1154609018

First Ubuntu Billboard spotted  

"The above billboard was spotted near the Ralston exit in Redwood"

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/first-ubuntu-billboard-spotted/

1154609341

HP may fork the GPL

Attempts to update the GPL have hit another glitch -- HP prefers the old version

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39280371,00.htm

1154609393

GNOME 2.14.3 Released!

The latest stable release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.14.3! This is thefinal release in a series of point releases for the 2.14 branch.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2006-August/msg00001.html

1154609583

IVT Unveils Open-Source Based PBX Software For SMBs

Based upon the popular open source project, Asterisk (Linux-based), Evolution provides telecom capabilities previously not available to smaller companies.

http://in.sys-con.com/read/255754.htm

1154610069

Open Source VIPs

Larry Augustin;Miguel de Icaza;John/Jane Doe;Matthias Ettrich;Bill Hilf (FUDMeister);The new man: Novell's Ron Hovsepian;I am not a lawyer: Groklaw's Pamela Jones;Judge Dale Kimball;Neelie Kroes;Marten Mickos;

http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=34CB00FF-0D6F-481C-8036-36413053EA98

1154618622

PDA sales in freefall

Shipments of handheld mobile devices in Western Europe have taken a record tumble this quarter. Manufacturers who were hoping sales of converged devices (i.e. smartphones) would help offset the decline, are also in for a disapointing time, according to analyst house IDC.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/03/pda_sluggish/

1154620090

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/DA4E46B24E23B45CCC2571B9001B3A18?OpenDocument

1154620440

Marx and Linux

There is one particular breed of wacko that appears to be on the rise, however. This variant of fruit loop thinks Linux is a foreign plot, created by Communists in an attempt to destroy America?s software industry.

http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=72

1154664765

Dozen Windows, Office updates coming next week

Specific details on the types of issues that the bulletins address were not available, but at least one update for each product is considered critical and some will require a restart, Microsoft said in a notice posted on its Web site.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6102073.html

1154665058

MSN Spaces struggles on launch

According to the official Spaces blog, the first 12 hours after the launch were beset by poor performance problems, including issues related to e-mail publishing, statistics pages not working and emoticons from previous Spaces versions not working.

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6102129.html?part=rss&tag=6102129&subj=news

1154665432

Microsoft predicts 10-year road to online riches

Craig Mundie has said Microsoft is not slow in tackling new markets and that its bets will pay out in around a decade's time.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/03/microsoft_mundie_investment/

1154665725

Open Source Software in British Education

A positive picture of the use of OSS emerges in both HEs and FEs. Although there are considerable differences between the two types of institutions, in general OSS is used more often than in 2003 and institutions have higher levels of skills and experience of OSS compared to 2003.

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/studies/survey2006/

1154666192

Free Medical Records Management software that really works

Portland, Oregon-based technology company OpenSourcery is rapidly gaining substantial recognition for its quality open source development work. On August 15, 2006 OpenSourcery will unveil its eleMental Clinic 3.4, a free medical records management system, to an international audience at Linux World.

http://www.linuxmednews.com/1154588946

1154666737

Forget about open source at Apple

Meanwhile, the real open source developers are out there in their countless thousands -- experimenting, collaborating, and slowly but surely toiling away to perfect their code.

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1480540357;fp;4;fpid;4

1154666975

Sold! On Open Source

Building an open source-based infrastructure has helped Bonhams compete with the auction industry superpowers

http://cio.idg.com.au/index.php/id;352783946;fp;16;fpid;0

1154667204

SI Journalism unveiled at influential open source conference  

Next generation concepts in open-source technologies usher in a whole new style of journalism

http://www.republic-news.org/archive/144-repub/144_dan_crawford_new_technology.htm

1154667594

Zawodny On Open Source Citizenship

I think that if you've spent any time looking at Yahoo or Google's involvement, you'd notice that we've been increasingly doing more and more to help the open source world.

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20060803ZawodnyOnOpenSourceCitizenship.html

1154667793

Tiny XScale module gains long-life Linux BSP

Pengutronix is shipping an embedded Linux implementation for a tiny Intel PXA270-based processor module targeting industrial applications.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2592889988.html

1154668125

TimeSys adds uClibc toolchains, docs

TimeSys announced that its online service for embedded Linux developers now offers the latest release of uClibc on five architectures, and that it has added new documentation on alternative C libraries, and on building reduced-footprint, flash-based Linux filesystems.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6797451209.html

1154668188

New website hosts open-source mobile app projects

A community-maintained website has sprung up around mobile-oriented open source software projects. The "Linux-To-Go" website currently hosts OpenEmbedded, Angstrom, GPE, Gomunicator, and several other high-profile open-source software projects

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7936485960.html

1154668272

Implementing an embedded Linux web app framework

This article describes a way to build embedded Linux web applications that follow the "Model, View, Controller" (MVC) software architecture popular nowadays among enterprise web applicati

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5550934609.html

1154668590

BLACK HAT - Blog readers vulnerable to embedded malware

JavaScript is a scripting programming language that has become popular as a way of providing rich interactivity to Web sites. But it can also be employed by hackers to take over users' computers, sniff for vulnerabilities and more.

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1722518896&rid=-50

1154669421

Finding the Open Source Tipping Point

When open source developers gather on a panel to discuss whether "all software will go open source," you can expect the sentiment to tip that way, only with lots of arguments.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6291/1/

1154685890

The Ad-Supported Operating System

The question of privacy will become enormously more important asadvertisers want increasing amount of targeting information aboutusers in order to make their advertisements more effective.

http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=738

1154686461

 Environment Ministry seeks open source solution

As part of a swathe of changes it's making to its web presence the Ministry for the Environment has gone to tender for an open source content management system.

http://m-net.net.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=506&Itemid=373

1154698450

Google funds Sri Lanka’s open source development

Popular Internet search engine Google has given the Lanka Software Foundation 25,000 dollars to drive open source software projects locally.

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?newsID=526160689&no_view=1&SEARCH_TERM=5

1154914971

Linux Technology Leadership and the Forking Issue

An argument for Linux variants - The concerns about commercial vendors selling products that "fork the Linux kernel" are not just overblown

http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/256603.htm

1155012460

Dual-head with Compiz/XGL - Video

The cutting edge of GNU/Linux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSn-jBA3CE

1155447721

Windows Might Become a ?US Government Thingy?

Last Friday, however, marked a turning point ? a remarkable an exception. The US Government served as the spokesman of Microsoft Corp. Granted, the Department of Homeland Security encouraged people to receive some ?binary blobs? from our friends at Redmond.

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/08/13/windows-us-government/

1155534694

Microsoft and the US Know Where You Are and What You Do

Since a bookmark-type submission got knocked off the front page of Digg very quickly, it is clear that too people read what they did not want to believe and reported this as "lame". In defence of my points, I will address two issues here.

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/08/14/microsoft-us-spy/

1155875447

Antidepressants offer no cure

Do antidepressants "cure" depression? No says Joanna Moncrieff, a psychiatrist at University College London - no more then insuline "cures" diabetes or alcohol "cures" social anxiety.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/08/14/antidepressants-no-cure.html

1156430023

Netscape Widget WordPress Plugin

Netscape has a little known but very handy JavaScript widget for publishers to put in their content. The widget checks if your content has been submitted to Netscape. If it hasn't been submitted, a submit button is placed on your page as shown below:

http://neothoughts.com/2006/08/24/netscape-widget-wordpress-plugin/

1156583102

Linux (Fedora Core 5) Desktop of the Future... Available Today!

Guest starring VNC, VMWare running XP, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, MPlayer showing episode 6x15 of The X-Files ("Monday"), and a funky GDM theme (available on gnome-look.org).

http://slated.org/xgl_on_fc5

1158487946

Proof that O/S 'Market Share' Figures are Meaningless (Video)

Where do all of these Linux machines come from? It's installed base that truly counts.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=V8tSRJ8e3b0

1159931579

Ping Your Blog Automatically, Using This Perl Script

The following Perl program pings your blog to several online update services. This can be scripted to run routinely (e.g. cron job).

http://johnbokma.com/perl/ping-blog-via-xml-rpc.html

1160016834

Google Search Cloud (for Webmasters)

The following Perl program parses an Apache HTTP server access_log in extended format and collects all referers [sic] which might be generated by a search action on Google. The query your visitors used are extracted and grouped per web page and status code. Then the program generates a valid HTML 4.01 strict webpage that shows those queries as a c

http://johnbokma.com/perl/google-search-cloud.html

1160167559

Mac-style Menu Bar for GTK and Java/Swing applications!

Applications that work: Azuerus, Eclipse, Epiphany, Evince, Gaim, GMPC, Listen, Nautilus, Terminal, Thunar, VMware, ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868

1161467860

Portland lets desktop Linux roll for VARs

My pharmacist got a Linux box this week. He didn't choose to run Linux. His Value Added Reseller (VAR) did. The new system connects with the same online resources as the old one, it has nifty black flat screen monitors, and the printer output looks better to patients.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=820

1161996163

The BBC Snubs Mac and Linux Users

According to a press release from Sonos, the blokes over at the Beeb have decided to jump ship for relying on Realplayer for web content, and have switched over entirely to the Windows-friendly WMA format.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35282

1163019655

Flash developer chat on 64bit Flash, open source Player and XUL/MXM

"we just open sourced the virtual machine in Flash here, which is the biggest open source step so far at Adobe ? I am sure we will learn a lot from this and then will see what might make sense next"

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/index.php?p=168

1163375677

Gnome Dock With Physics Engine (Linux screencast)

Akamaru is a simple, but fun, physics engine prototype. It is amazing to use, and easy to install. One more reason to forget Windows Vista, embrace Open Source, and use Ubuntu or Fedora (among other non-Micro$u$e distros).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2qoF72PFic&NR

1163502987

Microsoft's Attempt To Silence a Zune Critic Backfires

"And given that Engadget's latest screenshot of Zune installation errors are reinforcing Microsoft's reputation for buggy software, Drew seems to have been appropriately leary of being able to say only good things about the Zune experience." Apple will never resort to media control which defends the iPod.

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061113/20488_id.html?.v=1

1163763905

MSN Still Going Nowhere Fast

It is worth noting that Microsoft still hasn't made any headway in the search-and-portal game and, in fact, is falling farther and farther behind. As a result, it is not surprising that Steve Ballmer is now warning media companies that Google is the Evil Empire -- because no other competitive tactic has worked.

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061116/20767_id.html?.v=1

1163952066

Microsoft Lied to Novell. See a Patten Here?

"Novell filed an 8-K recently in which it said that you (Microsoft) have  agreed not to do a similar deal with another Linux vendor to encourage the adoption of Linux and Windows virtualization solutions through a subscription certificate program."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2060750,00.asp

1164018937

Can Novell?s Protection Racket Swing a Timebomb?

One wonders if a ?bomb? was planted in the code (deliberately by Microsoft while not deliberately by Novell), which sets a legal minefield that has percolated onto other distributions by now. If so, can patches be identified, retracted, or altogether rejected? Can anybody trust Novell at this stage?

http://boycottnovell.com/?p=21

1164215534

FreeSUSE - A Fork of SUSE to Come?

Domain Name: FREESUSE.COM; Registrar: BELGIUMDOMAINS, LLC; Updated Date: 01-Nov-2006; Creation Date: 01-Nov-2006... A fork to freedom? Some existing SUSE would hope so.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/22/suse-ubuntu/

1164294865

Analysing the Rationale for the Microsoft/Novell Deal

Mark Antony Kent weigh in on Novell's deal with Microsoft. It's an insightful take that's truly worth a read.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/23/novell-mark-kent/

1164739728

Linux Community, Please Stop Fighting EACH OTHER

Don?t think for a second that Microsoft isn?t howling over the Linux community?s apparent fragmentation over this deal, with the OpenSUSE and Ubuntu camps now publicly trading barbs (and both are right)...

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/28/consequences-intended-and-otherwise/

1164917232

History?s Lesson: Microsoft May Use Novell to Kill OpenOffice, ODF

This one is a chocker! A look back at Corel suggests that history will quite possibly repeat itself, maybe even 'punishing' GNU/Linux users.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/30/corel-linux-odf/

1165262249

ComputerWorld Documents Microsoft's Lobbying in Massachusetts

The longer and more intriguing article focuses in part on Microsoft's lobbying efforts in Massachusetts, while the shorter one reports more narrowly on Massachusetts' decision in the summer of 2005 not to approve Microsoft's XML formats as an open standards.

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061204084504239

1165759860

Making Firefox 1.5 Extensions Work in Firefox 2.0

When Mozilla Firefox is updated it happens that extensions suddenly no longer work with this updated version of the browser. Often changing the value of em:maxVersion in the install.rdf file inside the xpi file is enough to make the extension install and work without any problems.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/11/03/updating-an-extension.html

1165862879

Novell: Embrace Microsoft, or Join With Us (In our Embrace with Microsoft)

Novell sounds alot like Microsoft these days, complete with Anti-Linux FUD. Listen to these words from Novell and be shocked.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/11/embrace-microsoft-or-join-with-us-in-our-embrace-with-microsoft/

1166007982

Microsoft Watch Moves to Red Hat GNU/Linux

Could it get more ironic than this?

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.microsoft-watch.com

1166531642

UK Government criticised for stifling open source in schools

....the Department for Education and Skills favours the use of proprietary technologies from the likes of Microsoft. This is despite extensive research by the government's education ICT quango, BECTA, showing that schools could save millions by switching to Open Source software.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36464

1166711846

You can only draw if you have sufficient rights

A vector drawing program that requires Administrator rights to even make a simple drawing, would you call that Xtreme? Well Xara LTD seems to have no problem at all releasing such software, and even call it "Xtreme Pro".

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/12/11/xara-xtreme-pro-crippled.html

1167162999

Microsoft is Our Big Brother

The company has begun combining personal data from the 263 million users of  its free Hotmail email service with information gained from monitoring  their searches, the paper said.

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-12-26T110332Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-281442-1.xml

1167300391

Google To Bust Digg's Block?

The buzz among the technophile blogosphere is that Google could easily and effectively put "a hurtin'" on Digg by tweaking Google Reader. An algorithm and, perhaps, buying out a social news site might be all that is needed.

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20061227GoogleToBustDiggsBlock.html

1167476867

Review of Project Looking Glass on Ubuntu

A decent review with plenty of screenshots. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ4Nza34ak

http://arun-prabha.com/wdpress/?p=551#comment-3419

1167546427

Interview with Jeremy Allison About Novell, Microsoft, and Beyond

Shane and I contacted Jeremy Allison, who has answered many of the questions which we thought our readers would like to see answered.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/31/jeremy-allison-interview/

1167650539

Some Interesting Financial Moves by Novell ('Funny Money' and Executives)

...information of a Novell 8-K filing outlining a $350,000 bonus to Novell VP and General Counsel Joseph LaSala for his exceptional contributions. Now, we know what Ron Hovsepian stood to gain from the deal personally... He received 778,470 shares of stock awarded 12/20/06.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/31/some-interesting-financial-moves-by-novell/

1167817661

Novell and Proprietary Audio/Video Codecs

Real Player’s battle with Microsoft led to a settlement and Novell seemed to hit the high note amidst these developments. The gist of it all was that proprietary formats such as WMA and WMV would be supported by SuSE Linux. Would this not encourage more of the use of these formats?

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/03/real-player-novell/

1167983421

Microsoft-Novell Acquisition of XenSource Confirmed by Ray Ozzie

Novell may have just moved closer to betraying the community, again. As David Mohring told BoyCottNovell yesterday: 'Also consider that if Microsoft purchased XenSource directly then VMWare and the other virtualization vendors would rightly scream ?Antitrust?...'

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/05/microvell-acquisition-of-xensource-confirmed-by-ray-ozzie/

1168077458

Small WordPress 2.0.6 Bug Leads to FeedBurner Disconnects

If you are upgrading/have upgraded to WordPress 2.0.6, be sure to read this. "After upgrading to WordPress 2.0.6 or WordPress 2.1 Beta, your FeedBurner feed will, at times, give you an “invalid xml” error, and “FeedMedic” will show you something like this..."

http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/317

1168164785

Open Letter: Is the BBC Publishing on Behalf of Microsoft Now?

I wish to complain about the article entitled "A quick tour around Windows Vista", which was published on the BBC website, and to voice a general concern regarding your relationship with Microsoft - a company subject to antitrust investigations in the EU, and previously in the US.

http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias

1168635386

European Commission throws money at Open Source software quality control

As a founder of the Open Source Consortium, Taylor also has an interest in increasing the level of professionalism in the open source community. He explains that one of the major criticisms of open source is that it is "cobbled together by a bunch of acne-ridden teens" He argues that having a way of demonstrating "provable quality" will really help

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/quality_control/

1169040081

Open Source Consortium sends British technology agency back to school

The OSC claims that, despite overwhelming evidence that open source software saves schools money and enhances learning, Becta is taking no practical steps to help schools adopt open source... "This is the perfect opportunity for Becta to reject accusations that it is in bed with big suppliers by offering serious support to Linux and open source..."

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2172733/open-source-consortium-sends

1169381650

HowToLinux.Us, An Elitist- and Troll-free Linux Web Site, Take off Ground

The main goal of this website, "howtolinux.us" is to be a friendly, helpful source of information for the ever growing Linux community.

http://www.howtolinux.us/

1170103378

Cool New Beryl Feature: Ring Window Switcher - Video and Screenshots

The latest svn release of Beryl sports a cool new ring window switcher.

http://justanothertechblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/cool-new-beryl-feature-ring-window.html

1170494851

175,000 French students to get open-source software on USB key

French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707

1170627960

More Pro-Microsoft Bias from the BBC

Taxpayers' money is being spent on promoting Microsoft's products. The BBC has ongoing collaborations with Microsoft.

http://slated.org/more_bbc_microsoft_bias

1170853388

The 'Microsoftification' of Schools -- Enough is Enough!

Microsoft plans innovative new school in Knowsley says Bill Gates.Tailored to meet local community needs, the Innovative Schools will be  rolled out in 12 locations around the world including United Kingdom,  Ireland, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Qatar, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Hong Kong.

http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7607

1171002744

Walmart Rejects Mozilla Firefox - Says "Unsupported Browser"

"As you can see, if you go to their video downloading page here, it now properly detects your browser. Yay, progress! Sadly, if you are not using the spyware vector called IE, well, it locks you out."

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37514

1171040055

Microsoft: We Like DRM   --Forbes

Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things are, says media exec Robbie Bach.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix

1171287864

Novell = Corel 2.0

Novell could be the next Corel. Don?t believe this ambitious statement? Then have a look.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/02/12/novell-corel-look-back/

1171733321

Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'

During a forecast update meeting for financial analysts and shareholders on  February 15, Ballmer reiterated that, to him, the deal is more about  Microsoft exerting intellectual property (IP) pressure on Novell than anything else.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=265

1171807383

 Where's PJ? Chapter Two

Maureen O'Gara's latest Client-Server News contains a bombshell. In a story headlined 'Pam on the Lam' (sic), O'Gara cites an unnamed OSDL board member saying that the group sent IBM money to Groklaw. [Roy: O'Gara is known as an anti-PJ, anti-GPL, pro-SCO journalist who lost her job]

http://www.crn.com/sections/custom/custom.jhtml?articleId=197006945

1171864287

Novell Linux: Desktop Effects (Compiz/Beryl+AiGLX/XGL) Updates

A couple notables: the community just approved a new logo for the project, shown at right. They also have a gallery of plugins with really nice screenshots.

http://reverendted.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/desktop-effects-updates/

1172373107

Free & open software training for state students in India

Soon state schools will have teachers who have the necessary training to teach the various facets of free and open source software to secondary and higher secondary students. [...] Computer education teachers from 400 schools are participating in the programme.

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=155890

1172658639

UK government ignores open-source potential

John Pugh MP argues that a bias against open-source within Whitehall has lead to schools and universities becoming too focused on proprietary technology.

http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2184306/uk-government-ignores-open

1172707455

Stop making excuses, Dell, and start paying attention. WE WANT LINUX!!!

"Oh I'll be sure to, but I'm not holding my breath. Microsoft has you far too firmly under their thumb for me to seriously expect any positive changes at Dell."

http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/64277/Stop_making_excuses_and_start_paying_attention_WE_WANT_LINUX

1172744498

 Bill Gates Has Dumped $3,639,031,883 of Microsoft Shares

Co-founder of Microsoft lets go off stock, as well as retires.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/440bd19aa6c1d407/4a7c01dd3d11a431#4a7c01dd3d11a431

1172885879

Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground?

"Manufacturers end up paying just as much in total for a smaller number of copies of Windows than it would if it shipped every machine with Windows," Golden exclaimed.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56043.html

1172886121

Antitrust: Microsoft's OEM Manager: "Compaq truely (sic) pisses me off."

"Are you suggesting we should put them in our box?"

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2455.pdf

1173077559

Leaked Antitrust Memos: Microsoft Uses Mac Users as Guinea Pigs

Microsoft: "Because Mac Office is so much less critical to our business than windows, we have the flexibility to test out new things in the product and in its marketing before we try them on Windows."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_6060.pdf

1173172741

More GNU/Linux Deployments in Britain's Second-Largest City

Birmingham City Council is supporting the National Open Centre, an organisation that was launched this week to promote discussions and policy on deploying open-source software.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286157,00.htm

1173175303

Microsoft's Dirty Tricks Return to Life: Steve Ballmer's OS/2 FUD

"The demos of OS/2 were excellent, crashing the system had the intended effect -- to FUD OS/2 2.0."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_0860.pdf

1173221388

Antitrust Memo: Microsoft offered money to companies for destroying rivalry

"In signing the Corporate Account version of the Exchange form, company agrees to: Deliver/Destroy the appropriate number of Lotus 123 System Disks; Confirm they are not participating in Corporate Development/Golden Disk programs."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00045.pdf

1173229783

Dell Talks About Prebundling Linux, AGAIN

Dell is considering offering the Linux operating system as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows on its personal computers, a Dell spokesman said on Tuesday.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/06/technology/dell_linux.reut/index.htm

1173250247

Microsoft Anti-competition Exhibits: Don't Let Big Manufacturers off Hook

"Revenue for our divisions is not the main issue. If we start letting the big manufacturers off the per system hook, our 100% goal for DOS penetration depends on our sucess with a larger number of smaller accounts, and that threatens dominance."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00023.pdf

1173250621

Leaked Microsoft Memo: the "Kill Lotus Plan" (PDF)

The purpose of this memo is to revisit the rationale for my proposal of super aggressive pricing action as integral part of the "Kill Lotus Plan"... This is a win win scenario: We win if Lotus agrees to be "green mailed"; and, we win if our hostile takeover is successful.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00043.pdf

1173320842

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memos: Microsoft Deliberately Corrupts Documentation

'A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified developers have referred to much of Microsoft's formal documentation as "undocumentation"' [PDF WARNING]

http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf

1173321862

HP considering factory-loaded Linux desktops and notebooks

Management at HP has commented on the situation, saying they are considering offering standard systems with a preloaded distro of Linux, which would be an industry first for desktops and notebooks

http://www.techspot.com/news/24571-hp-considering-factoryloaded-linux-desktops-and-notebooks.html

1173338498

Leaked Blast from the Past: Microsoft's OEM Manager and his IBM "Hit Team"

"I am willing to do whatever it takes to kick them [IBM] out, but strongly believe we need a WW hit team to attack IBM as a large account..." [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2058.pdf

1173428604

Leaked Antitrust Memos: Microsoft Wanted to Make OS/2 the O/S of Choice

Steve Ballmer: "I think we need to think very carefully about how much we want Windows to compete with OS/2 in the OEM channel and for ISV's attention. The strains that show in our strategy now are temporary, and should not allow us to lose sight of the goal of making OS/2 the next generation operating system as quickly as possible" [PDF]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00031.pdf

1173690299

The big switch to Linux! Cold Turkey!

I've done it. Windows has gone bye bye! Edubuntu is the new love of my IT life.... It's beautiful. I love it. By the way: the whole installation (not including importing stuff and such) took about 20 minutes. Ever installed Windows yourself?

http://dailydog.be/archives/737

1173794128

MS Anti-trust -- Allchin: "We need to slaughter Novell  they get stronger"

The words of Jim Allchin, Manager in charge of Windows.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00948.pdf

1173800320

Blast from the Past: MS Used Style Guide to Gain Advantage Over Rivals[PDF]

"This memo lists and briefly describes items in the draft Microsoft Style Guide for Windows that are biased towards Microsoft applications... taken together give Microsoft an advantage because most of their applications already conform" [newly-leaked Comes vs. Microsoft Antitrust Exhibit]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00956.pdf

1173828188

Leaked Antitrust Memo Reveals Microsoft Systematically Mimics Apple Macs

[Microsoft:] "For all this we should be analysing the Mac system as it evolves and improves  and innovating what makes sense."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02002.pdf

1173834143

Open Source Consortium Slams BBC Over Microsoft Lockin

The OSC is asking for 'a re-examination of the effects' of the BBC's iPlayer using Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 technology and is calling for alternatives to be offered, adding that if the BBC can only afford to use one technology then it should choose one that is available for all operating system platforms, including OS X, Linux and Solaris.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38183

1173844652

Jim Allchin, Microsoft: You should make sure DR-DOS has problems in future

"drdos has problems running windows today. And I assume will have more problems in the future... You should make sure it has problems in the future :)" [PDF warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00978.pdf

1173938600

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: How Microsoft Created a 'Chokehold' on OEMs

E-mail from Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Manager. The volume license agreement, basically means that the OEMs get penalised for selling anything other than Windows. The document suggests the DOJ declared this type of thing "illegal".

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02129.pdf

1173938648

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: How Microsoft Snatched Office Market Share

[PDF warning] Also see: http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5673.pdf "I have decided that we should not publish these extensions... We can't compete with Lotus andWordperfect/Novell without this..."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02117.pdf

1174025938

[Antitrust] Mosaic to Microsoft: "You guys are going to f*ck us eventually"

Thomas Reardon: 'the big theme of the call, as in a million other encounters i've had is "yea, you guys are going to fuck us eventually. how do you respond to that? can we point to an example of how we've helped another comapny's business by working on a jda or other bundling agreement?' [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02132.pdf

1174103004

More Leaked Antitrust Memos: How Microsoft Forces Everyone to Buy Windows

Microsoft: 'The press will have a field day no doubt. "Greedy MS is doing another Coupon Gig!"... we don't care if the OEM's whine about being charged for product the end users may never use. This essentially is sell through insurance - They don't have to buy it. I pity those that don't' [PDF warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02196.pdf

1174226190

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: IBM on Microsoft's Dirty Tricks

Microsoft as attempting to imbed more and more function and "hooks" into the layers between the hardware and operating systems, operating systems and applications, and between applications and user interfaces. By controlling these interfaces and limiting access to their APIs they can be first to market with key applications and functions.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02282.pdf

1174287032

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Microsoft Contract Forced Dell to Add IE (PDF)

"3. INTERNET EXPLORER: Unless specifically requested to the contrary by the end user of the Customer System and provided proper translation is available, COMPANY will ship MS Internet Explorer 2.0, and the most current subsequent higher version Product Releases and Version Releases thereof, preinstalled on all new Customer Systems..."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02346.pdf

1174308368

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memos Revealed How Microsoft Abused Netscape

Troy Chevalier (SMTP:troy:netscape.com): 'There's no sample code on the DDK, there's nothing on the MSDN CDs, and  you guys haven't answered a single question we have asked.'

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02400_A.pdf

1174343288

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Did Microsoft's Allchin Want to "Piss on Java"

"...we really need VB to step up to the JAVA challenge before we piss on it.... If we had that then we would have a good story until VB be improved." [PDF]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02412.pdf

1174426936

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Microsoft's Secret OEM Contract with Dell

Find out why offering non-Windows O/Ses penalises the Company. [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02663.pdf

1174449121

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates' Corel and Netscape 'Attack Groups'

Bill Gates: "With Netscape and Corel working together its nice that we organized ourselves so the group attacking Netscape and the group attacking Corel are under common leadership!" [PDF]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02629.pdf

1174517709

Dell Introduces Low-cost Offer of Linux PCs in China!

"The company does not say what version of Linux is on the PC. A Dell spokesperson could not be reached for comment."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/21/HNdelllowcostpcchina_1.html

1174540264

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Compaq Breaks Contract by Supporting Other O/S

"The above royalties require that COMPAQ distribute the Products preinstalled on ALL (my emphasis) customer systems"

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02679.pdf

1174635758

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Microsoft Decides to "Clone Netscape"

"Here is final copy of the memo we sent to BillG for think week about what we should do to get 30% browser share. Pls do not distribute broadly... 2. Clone and Supernet Netscape. PSD needs to get serious about cloning Netscape. We must have a plan to clone all the features they have today..."

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5071.pdf

1174724829

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: MS Pressing Apple to Stop OEM-ing ClarisWorks

MS: "I have been slowly pressing Apple to stop OEM-ing ClarisWorks. In Japan, it’s OEM-ed with all their laptops. I am meeting with the head of Apple Japan next month, and was going to bring this up, as well as talking to Steve about this." [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02832.pdf

1174758160

Leaked Antitrust Memos: Microsoft's Strategy for Combatting Threats (PDF)

Including "Creating a grass roots movement  [astroturfing]" and "We must continue to build competitive immunity [chokehold on OEMs]"

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02816.pdf

1174879243

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Microsoft on Stealing ClarisWorks and Apple UI

Microsoft: "ClarisWorks - Our biggest competitor. We should remove all reasons anybody might have for sticking with this product rather than upgrade to Office. What features do we need to steal?"

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02842.pdf

1174900897

The Man Who Brings Ubuntu GNU/Linux to African Classrooms

SchoolTool began development in 2000 and is funded by Mark Shuttleworth, of the South African-based Shuttleworth Foundation, creator of the free Ubuntu operating system.

http://www.pbn.com/stories/24545.html

1174970805

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates Admits COM/OLE Blocks P/L

Bill Gates: "Internet studio has taken an approach of putting onto HTML pages the most ugly Microsoft garbage ever seen since COM/OLE programming in C++ was declared a success in order to block language invocation." [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02563.pdf

1175088848

Microsoft Were "Very Anxious to Continue the [2007 Iowa Antitrust] Trial"

Rich Wallis, Microsoft general counsel: "Most of those allegations had been out there... And those e-mails were old. We were very anxious to continue the trial so we could tell our story"... Neither Conlin nor Wallis would comment on whether the site [with the gory exhibits] was being taken down as part of the settlement deal.

http://www.computerpartner.nl/article.php?news=int&id=4756

1175233815

Wisdom of Crowds Is Dead

The problem with the human condition is that it involves humans. Bringing that condition online, fostering it with the Wisdom of Crowds philosophy, is slowly but surely proving what philosophers have said since humans first learned to write: the anonymous mob is powerful and passionate, but no more rational than an angry swarm of bees.

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/03/29/wisdom-of-crowds-is-dead

1175426597

Shelley the Republican Web Site Cracked

Probably deliberate (mind the date)

http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/

1175442948

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Apple's "Microsoft Behaving Badly" Discussion

'Peter Biddle from Microsoft spoke at the same SPA DVD conference yesterday that I did. He actually included in his presentation a slide that read as follows (I will try to phrase it as exactly as I can): "Move all of your Quickttime content to DirectShow as soon as possible, and don’t look back" And we have it on tape' [PDF]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02854_A.pdf

1175482446

Leaked Microsoft Memo: "Looming Crisis: Windows Software Quality"

No, it's not April Fools. It's a real memo from the antitrust case in Iowa... "Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but would only run on five percent of the roads."

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02872.pdf

1175496256

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: How Microsoft Broke Novell's Groupwise

John Gailey [of Novell]: "However, the MAPI system has been moved to a different location on the Win98 CD, causing the GroupWise 5.2 install to fail in its attemt to install MAPI... this is anti-competitive, Aaarghh!!!" [PDF warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02922.pdf

1175499998

Top Diggers List Removed at Request of Digg's Legal Team

Fair enough. :-) Watch the Cached version while it lasts. Here is the message that replaces the list [ http://www.efinke.com/digg/topusers.html ]: "The Top Diggers List has been removed at the request of Digg's legal team."

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http%3A//www.efinke.com/digg/topusers.html

1175500928

Getting Started with Linux Mint

Although the desktop environment in modern day Linux is intuitive and more or less easy to navigate through, for someone coming from Windows XP, we must keep in mind that the two OSs are different at the 'roots', even though at the surface they may seem similar.

http://linuxgazette.net/137/lazar.html

1175564542

Antitrust Exhibit - MS: "We should not participate in standards groups"

MS: "We want to own these standards, so we should not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to  the industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's  benefit. We are large enough that this can work." [Compressed PDF]

http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip

1176092194

Comparison Between Debian GNU/Linux (Etch) and Windows Vista

Project Life-cycle: Debian - 1.75 years (Etch), Vista  - 5.50 years; Supported Architectures: Debian - Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, i386, ia64, PA-RISC, MIPS, ARM, IBM S/390, AMD64 and Intel EM64T. (Older custom versions for the Motorola MC68K series)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/37aecd52d8255dbc

1176265288

Leaked Antitrust Memos: Novell Says Microsoft Refused to Fix Bugs

Novell: "It should be noted that these bugs, for the most part, are not problems  with our software (the Win95 bugs are problems we addressed with Microsoft which they refused to fix)."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02350.pdf

1176265545

Leaked Antitrust Memos: Microsoft's WIndows-exclusive Guidelines to Novell

Microsoft: "Company [Novell] will adhere to the following user interface guidelines: If the user interface is HTML based, Internet Explorer 4.0 must be set as  the default browser... If the application is written in Java, the Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java will be the default VM, and AFC will be used for UI elements." [PDF]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02839.pdf

1176437082

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Microsoft Says Novell Raises Its Ugly Head

"We should make sure the Unix focus includes Linux...  Elevating it all the way to one of the@key 5 or 6@ will be essential to have everyone in the companyunderstand we are not done with Novell. We don't want to repeat FY98at a time Novell is rasing its ugly head again." [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03036.pdf

1176437450

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux

Bill Gates: "Maybe we can define the APIs so that they work weel with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this." [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf

1176448734

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Microsoft on Giving Up Microsoft Office Lockin

Bill Gates: "Why would the Office group be giving out the Office 2000 formats to competitors? To me this seems crazy." [Highly relevant amid the OpenDocument/'Open' XML debate]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03078.pdf

1176562313

New Antitrust Exhibit on Microsoft Proprietary Formats and Lockins [PDF]

Microsoft: "Our new policy (for Office2000) is that there are restrictions on use (can't build converers, can't be a competitor to any of the apps, etc)."

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03104.pdf

1176720024

Ubuntu's GNU/Linux 'feisty' spin on virtualization

First is paravirt-ops, a layer that lets Linux get along better with the dominant virtualization software today, VMware. Second is KVM, which lets Linux run other operating systems as guests."Both have landed very nicely in this release," said Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth. "That was a surprise to me."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6176175.html

1176876319

Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates Targets Free Office Suite Using 'Patent Game'

Gates: "At some point we will have to consider the patents they violate. I am unclear of what their business strategy is with the free version.  It is a good product developed by a surprisingly lean team of people." [They now attempt the same game against GNU/Linux]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04023.pdf

1176886072

New Antitrust Exhibit: Microsoft Puts 'Chokehold' on Entire System Models

'Pricing is "per-system" only. Prices herein are for Microsoft application products shipped in combination with an OEM's defined PC systems on a per-system basis. A Per-system agreement is a license in which all units of a particular OEM model name and/or number are licensed and a royalty is due for the MS product...'

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04032_B.pdf

1176947833

New Comes vs Iowa Exhibit Reveals How Microsoft Passes OEM Legal Sniff Test

[From Microsoft:] "To close the loop on the legal issue with volume pricing, we can offer a lower price for a larger volume only to the extent we can prove that the higher volume can be fulfilled at the lower cost... So, say, a 10% discount for taking 100,000 units of product X likely will not pass the legal sniff test..." [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04044.pdf

1177026408

New Antitrust Exhibit: Microsoft on Pitching FUD to the Press

Microsoft: "Here's the pitch we used yesterday with the press. This seemed to work well... CUSTOMERS HAVE CLEARLY DECIDED..." [Just as they decide that Windows is better, based on "Get the Facts"]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04115_T.pdf

1177037495

New Antitrust Exhibit: Example of Microsoft Retaliation Against OEMs

Brad Silverberg, Microsoft: "so as long as they continue such attacks on us, i cannot give them win95 beta, they are NOT just another oem." [Think about OEMs that stock GNU/Linux]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04115_Y.pdf

1177058105

Retaliations, Extortions, and Protection Rackets Hurting GNU/Linux

It would be unsurprising if Samsung came under pressure by Microsoft. There is little or no reason to suspect that Samsung approached Microsoft and sought coverage for its use of Linux.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/04/20/samsung-protection/

1177129601

New Antitrust Memo Shows Microsoft's 'Quality' Control

"12. VFAT mounts on Bernoulli drives, Cache is not flushed befire a disk is changed not is the drive detected as being changed allowing for possible data corruption... Status: OK to ship... 14. "Blue screens" - we haven't even attempted to fix some of these - just punted - Status: OK to ship..."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04141.pdf

1177163639

New Antitrust Exhibit: Bill Gates in Denial of Anti-competitive Advantage

"Microsoft applications division was in the possession of pre release  copies of Windows 3.10 well in advance of any non-Microsoft Windows ISVs  thus giving Microsoft Applications Division a substantial competitive  advantage over any non-Microsoft Windows ISV." [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04385.pdf

1177213064

New Antitrust Exhibit: Microsoft 'Hidden', Undocumented APIs

'Please note that when I use the term "new APIs." I am also referring to previously "hidden" functions which will now be documentated. They are new insofar as they will be added to the documenation although they already exist.' [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04600.pdf

1177224910

New Antitrust Exhibit: Microsoft's Plan to Shut Out Novell

"[Brad Silverberg, Microsoft:] the way to shut out novell in the base is to either ship a full client or make it so there is no network connectivity." [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04293.pdf

1177308544

New Video on Antitrust Laws and the Nasty Effects of Monopolies

Includes some of the violators in the 20th century. Highly recommended!

http://www.youtube.com/v/tInGmeFKplo

1177309567

New Comes vs MS Antitrust Exhibit: Bill Gates on Apple and IBM

Gates: " Windows is still not as nice as the mac and it would be easy to be a lot better. Win 3 goes a long way but we cant get IBMed on this one... IBM never knew our plan and if they did they shouldnt like it..."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00135.pdf

1177310081

New Antitrust Exhibit Reveals Gates' Great Fear of Web-based Applications

Gates: "I admit I find it hard to focus lost of resources on trials and things when the Inetarnet is taking away our power every day and will have eroded it irretrievably by the time broadband is pervasive on the course  we are on right now."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5704.pdf

1177325772

New Antitrust Exhibit: Gates Letter to IBM Attempts Lotus Interception

Bill Gates to IBM: "I am concerned about press reports of IBM's plans to market 1-2-3/G. We took part in the OfficeVision announcment with the assurance that Excel would receive equal billing... I am unhappy at the way this ended up positioning Lotus' role in Office..." [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00119.pdf

1177374771

(Antitrust) Bill Gates: "F*CK HP if they won't sign a Windows license"

'Got a call from Gary Perez (our OEM HP Acct Mgr) this morning. They are telling HP that they will NOT be part of this launch and that BillG has said "fxxk HP (all divisions) if they won't sign a Windows license."' [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05099.pdf

1177459906

New Antitrust Exhibit: Example of Microsoft 'Knifing the Baby' (GeoView)

Microsoft: "We need data on this product ASAP, it is about to scoop Works on a major deal... in going throught the mass merch channel this fall if we do not kill it have we gotten a copy of it and done any evaluation ?" [PDF Warning]

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05138.pdf

1177466331

Microsoft: "In order to tell a strong story we need to explore where dr dos

Microsoft: "In order to tell a strong story we need to explore where dr dos is vulnerable." [PDF Warning]

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05103.pdf

1177473887

Review of Linux Mint Bianca KDE Edition - Ubuntu derivative

With all the hype surrounding Ubuntu at the moment I think it's important not to overlook the other recent releases. One of these is Linux Mint Bianca: KDE Edition.

http://www.seopher.com/articles/review_of_linux_mint_bianca_kde_edition__ubuntu_derivative

1177552566

Antitrust: Microsoft Debates Whether to "Kill" or Not to Kill

GregLO, Microsoft: "One could say that there is no reason that various OEM limulators or 386MAX should not work with us. On the other hand, maybe we want to kill them."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05055.pdf

1177652135

New Antitrust Exhibit: Microsoft on Keeping Its Formats Closed

"So, this means that we would have a closed architecture that will prevent other ISVs from developing resource editing tools that might improve upon ours... If there is a problem with changing formats, then let's work out a strategy where we can continue to change formats..."

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05035.pdf

1177708542

Many edu domains host viagra and cialis spam

One with a serious security issue that's being abused at this very moment and many edu domains are now hosting pages with advertisments for cials, viagra, tramadol, levitra, ringtones, etc.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2007/04/27/edu-domains-host-spam.html

1177813668

State by state, Microsoft responds to creeping Open Source threat

Characteristically, as lawmakers like Homan have learned, Microsoft's hardly taking a passive position... 'Microsoft sees what's coming. Things like Word and Excel sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.'

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/state-state-microsoft-responds-assault/story.aspx?guid=%7BC0D943C4%2D4ADC%2D471C%2D8F87%2D9181A4EC3E7B%7D&siteid=yhoof

1178062967

Toshiba Follows Dell's Footsteps, Considers GNU/Linux Preinstalls

Toshiba's Italian channel sales and marketing operation reportedly is considering offering pre-loaded Linux in its Tecra, Satellite, Portege, and Qosmio notebook lines, according to a story published online last week in the Il Sole newspaper.

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9644921792.html

1178240758

Over 10 Major Companies to Market GNU/Linux in Japan

Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on Thursday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202938.html

1178246121

Microsoft's Record Quarter: SHAREHOLDERS Paid for Most of the Upside

"Said another way, Microsoft achieved record breaking earnings during the Vista launch quarter by taking money out of its assets, not through amazing sales of Vista and Office."

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070503/34354_id.html?.v=1

1178363544

Britian's Conservative Party Says It Will Adopt Free/Libre Open Source S/W

Mark Thompson, a Cambridge University IT lecturer and businessman who is drawing up Osborne's request to make Britain the "open source leader of Europe", said that procurement - including the notoriously secretive gateway process - might be opened up...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/04/tory_opensource/

1178525726

Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell, Adds the Same Ol' Patent FUD

To encourage more companies to choose Novell's open-source platform, Microsoft has promised not to file patent-rights lawsuits over any of its technology that's blended with Suse Linux.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070507/dell_microsoft_novell.html?.v=4

1178867288

More Pseudo-grassroots Support for OOXML, Novell Passively Accepts It

Novell pleases its new partner by introducing support for its non-standard technolgies, including Open Office XML (OOXML). This helps expensive de facto standards compete with free industry standards.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/11/ooxml-grassroot/

1179065338

Science and Art Foundation's wonderful work in Bam

The classes started on 16th December 2006 and they began to learn about Sharif Linux.  This is an open source operating system, which enables Persian speakers to use the net effectively, as all the menus and help are in Persian. [Even Iran Uses GNU/Linux]

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1099.html

1179066051

Students may get recycled GNU/Linux computers in Northwest School District

All of the hard drives have been reformatted so it contains no district information. Each computer will also include a free set of software which will include a word processing application, a photo manipulation application and a few games along with a Linux operating system.

http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/news/EEZlAlVkEpEFmkSpXI.php

1179098933

Georgia is rolling out Kubuntu GNU/Linux in all their schools

Georgia is rolling out Kubuntu in all their schools. This is being done as part of a project to bring the internet to every schoolin Georgia.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2797

1179107985

Why software commoditisation is a myth (The Reason Microsoft Attacks Linux

“Software prices will eventually fall to zero. The open-source software movement has already started that commoditisation.”

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/4449DA38809F08CCCC2572D8000F3BC2

1179110499

What IP Did Novell License from Microsoft?

Secrecy is unacceptable in an open development model and community, and Novell’s (in)actions threaten to stall or even destroy the advance of Free Software. It is of vital importance to the community - and especially any projects accepting Novell code and patches - for Novell to publicly and unequivocally state the details of their agreement...

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/13/lets-speculate-what-ip-did-novell-license/

1179223172

Vietnam Promotes Use of Vubuntu GNU/Linux

The laboratory provides some open source application software, including the Linux operating system with Vietnamese version Vubuntu, file management software, network service management software, electronic library software and integrated e-solutions for small- and medium- sized enterprises.

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02BUS140507

1179293653

Did Microsoft Try to Get Sun to Sue Linux [Users]?

Today, Pamela Jones (of Groklaw) has a little insight. Based on Jonathan Schwarz?s blog, she suspects that Microsoft may have tried to encourage Sun to sue Linux (the infamous ?proxy manoeuvre?). Here is what Jonathan says?

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/16/sun-microsoft-speculation/

1179551277

Why Novell Loves Microsoft’s Latest Attack on Open Source Software

Novell has a reason to gleefully stick by the sidelines while Microsoft spreads FUD and intimidates everyone. It is almost clear whose side Novell is on, but it will never admit this.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/19/novell-loves-fud/

1179635353

?Be Very Afraid Tour? Did More Good Than Harm to Linux

According to one poll, which involved thousands of votes, Microsoft has tactlessly alienated too many of its own customers... Are we seeing India?s BoycottMicrosoft in the making?

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/19/fud-helped-linux/

1179712987

Bexley School District NEVER Fired Curtis Mason Over Linux Recommendation

"The audit, performed by Louis Haskell of Dublin-based Haskell Technologies, is a review of the management of the IT department, not technical issues, with a focus on what changes are needed to transition the district's computer systems from a Windows environment to a Linux environment."

http://www.thisweeknews.com/?story=sites/twn/content/pool/exclusives/052007-News-bex-audit.html

1179978666

Philippine GNU/Linux Provider To Offer Sub-$100 PC

The company plans to use its MiniPup GNU/  Linux distribution for low-cost computers in the sub-$100 price range.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007422998

1180139365

Big Success for Linux Company Whose Biggest Client is Microsoft

[Aruba Networks:] "Strength was driven by faster-than-expected deployments, as well as large companies starting to expand deployments from headquarters to remote locations," wrote Luke, noting that Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Air Force are two of the company's bigger clients.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070525/aruba_networks_out_of_the_gate.html?.v=1

1180245472

They say I need Windows Vista or better, so I got Linux.

This is a blog of me talking about my switch to Linux from Windows XP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1xvSpDMr2w

1180328550

MrBabyMan About to Knock DigitalGopher Off #1 Spot at Digg.com

The gap now stands at just 2 popular stories. Will MrBabyMan make the top today?

http://www.efinke.com/digg/topusers.html#

1180445766

HELIOS Offers Free Simplified GNU/Linux Distribution for Sony PLAYSTATION 3

HELIOS' simplified Yellow Dog GNU/Linux v5.0 utilizes the IBM 64-bit 3.2 GHz Cell processor to provide a powerful state of the art GNU/Linux server for Sony PLAYSTATION 3.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/linux/ps3/prweb529090.htm

1180516025

Return of the Munchkins: Yet another Microsoft Shill Exposed

Notice how so many of these Shills are always Johnny-on-the-spot with their poison-post comments to these Blogs. I think this proves that not only do Microsoft hire people specifically to anonymously Shill, but indeed they seem to have an entire research team working 24/7, scouring the Internet for any negative Microsoft press, and drowning it out.

http://slated.org/the_munchkins_are_back

1180931796

The Market for [GNU/Linux] Servers in Europe Is Hot

Across the EMEA region, Linux is still being adopted at an  increasing rate, with sales of Linux-based servers rising by  42 percent in the first quarter...

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh060407-story03.html

1180941195

Novell Helps Microsoft Hijack the World Wide Web

Novell has taught us that the ‘Trojan horse’ which strives to enter as many cities as possible is not just the prelude to patent FUD. It is also a mechanism for promoting Microsoft’s agenda. Can Novell ever decline? Well, it has truly become too Microsoft-dependent.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/04/web-hijack-novell/

1180964064

No GPLv3 For Xandros?

So, I suppose Windows users can breathe easier knowing that Xandros and MS have agreed on IP assurance, Xandros were beating the patent war drum for some time? But, seriously, Xandros? I created a domain name, www.boycottxandros.com, but I think it would actually give them some notability.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/04/no-gplv3-for-xandros/

1181029527

Sign Bruce Perens' Xandros Petition and Let Them Know How You Feel

"They took the money that Microsoft offered. That's really all the news there is here - that Microsoft found another foundering commercial Linux distribution willing to sign up to the patent covenant and give it publicity. The technical aspects are irrelevant, as they indeed are in the Novell deal."

http://techp.org/p/4

1181281622

Lobbying for Lockin, Courtesy of a Monopoly Abuser and Its New Partners

As you may know by now, part of the Novell deal and Xandros deal puts these two companies in a position where they must support Microsoft?s lockin (OOXML) to protect their cash cow.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/08/opendocument-interception/

1181366407

SueMe GNU/Linux  Launched [Not a Joke]

Okay, firstly if you haven't realized by now, please note that SueMe is a mostly symbolic effort aimed at defying Microsoft's FUD campaign. I say mostly because SueMe is, indeed, a functional Live CD environment but is not recommended (nor intended) to be used as a complete desktop replacement.

http://suemelinux.com/

1181366967

Sudev Barar on open-source software

Nuchem is a company in Delhi that develops and sells water/effluent treatment technologies, chemicals and laminated panels. Sudev Barar, its owner, has adopted a Linux-based open-source computing environment.

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/interview1.asp?foldername=20070615&filename=news&sec_id=14&sid=29

1181366993

Ingres prepares JasperSoft-based BI appliance

The new appliance will include the range of JasperSoft's open source software, including reporting, analysis, and ETL functionality, built on Ingres's database functionality and an embedded Linux kernel.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=173A725D-19CA-4DC8-B846-E729DE87D60E

1181367313

Open source desktop is ready to take over

It's not about being anti-Apple. I respect the user experience of Mac OS X, and I wish Steve Jobs would licence the operating system to other hardware manufacturers, who could then offer choices that meet other needs.

http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/opin/6FA759488A755BA2CC2572F3007FF425

1181553851

Ubuntu Linux Founder: Ubuntu has been getting attention for its desktop O/S

"Here in the U.S., Ubuntu has been getting attention for its desktop operating system..."

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=linux_and_unix&articleId=293960&taxonomyId=122&intsrc=kc_feat

1181553914

Open spec aims to unify Linux phone stacks

After nineteen months of work, the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS)  Forum has started publishing its first open, royalty-free  specification, aimed at reducing fragmentation among Linux  implementations for mobile phones.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2327129491.html

1181554270

Alan Cox Thinks Microsoft-Novell deal a bad idea, waits for GPLv3

Personally I think it's [Microsoft-Novell deal] a bad idea and that Novell are going to  get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed  to keep the software free, if it fails to do this then it needs  fixing, so GPLv3 hopefully will fix this flaw.

http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/rozhovory/alan-cox?page=1

1181826535

WEEE directive threatens Microsoft OEM sales

There's a possibility Microsoft may well dump the OEM scheme and that  could prompt small firms that don't want to be WEEEing to install Linux or even pirate OSes.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40305

1181826625

Sun supper offer appeals to Torvalds

In the latest word in a peculiarly public interchange, Linux leader  Linus Torvalds appears inclined to take up Sun Microsystems Chief  Executive Jonathan Schwartz on his offer for dinner.

http://news.com.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?categoryId=9702239

1181826802

Canalys expands analysis of mobile Linux

"Most of the Linux handset volume to date has been in Asia, but we are now starting to see more activity in North America and EMEA..."

http://analystnews.tekrati.com/firmnews/?id=8961

1181838218

No Longer Vaporware: SueMe GNU/Linux

There is a barely functional alpha version of the CD available now, and the sources and such are FTP-ing up to the site now, all in the download folder.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/14/no-longer-vaporware-sueme-linux/

1182011056

Goodbye Vista, Hello Ubuntu

First thing I noticed?  The install was done in about 20 minutes after answering the standard questions that you would expect during an install (time zone, keyboard layout, etc.)

http://www.rodtempleton.net/2007/06/15/goodbye-vista-hello-ubuntu/

1182011232

What the world needs now is Google Linux

Following Microsoft's inking of agreements with Linux hawkers,  offering to shield them from lawsuits over the 235 patents it  reckons versions of Linux infringe, a gathering of open sorcerers  is assembling at Google HQ to debate what is to be done.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40365

1182011406

What Does MS Want? -- Brains for Sale?

Of course, in Microsoft's plan, it would be the end of competition  against Microsoft by the GPL or by anybody in any real way, because  one misstep, and Microsoft reserves the right to sue your pants off.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070614231022599

1182154895

More Media Manipulation ??? Shills Promote Document Format Lockin

That???s the guy whom Microsoft paid to edit Wikipedia in Microsoft???s favour.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/18/more-lockin-trickery/

1182155766

Why Microsoft and Linux companies are tying the knot

Red Hat's wonderful Truth Happens video ends with the famous Mohandas  Gandhi quote, "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then  they fight you. Then you win." It's exactly right. To me, the Linux/Microsoft deals not only make sense, they show that  we are in the last stage. Linux is winning, and Microsoft is  acknowledging it.

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6099316851.html

1182155823

Ubuntu says no, but will the Mandriva management follow suit?

On the Mandriva Cooker mailinglist there was the following request  based on my earlier article that made the case that Mandriva and  TurboLinux might be next to partner with Microsoft.

http://opensourcelearning.info/blog/?p=362

1182155853

Mark Shuttleworth: A rags to space tale

Mark Shuttleworth went from poor uni student to multi millionaire  after the sale of Thawte

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1019005232&rid=-219

1182306457

ISO and Office Open XML (OOXML): What REALLY Happened There?

?Letters from the dead? strategy is back from the graveyard [...] It turns out that, as one site puts it, Microsoft puppets were spamming ANSI.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/

1182441290

Yahoo is 'Book Burning' Linux/BSD/Open Source

But what does that say about Yahoo's ability to deliver accurate search results? Are they going to start censoring the entire Web, removing any negative references to Microsoft or Windows, and any positive references to Linux or Open Source?

http://slated.org/yahoo_censoring_open_source

1182699491

Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth: Prepare for the Shared Software Tidal Wave

"I was poor. I was desperate. I wanted to be on this bandwagon of this  Internet thing, and I wanted to find a business that wouldn't require large  amounts of bandwidth or large amounts of capital. The key was Linux. It was  Linux that let me connect to the Net so I could start soaking up this  knowledge," said Mark Shuttleworth.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57946.html

1182770554

Linux becomes mature and achieves excellence (up 41%)

According to statistics from the China Open Source Software Promotion  Union, Linux's sales in the Chinese market reached 218 million Yuan in 2006, up 41 percent, and higher than the international average.

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/25/eng20070625_387493.html#9566721867012069773

1182833916

Review: Pardus Linux 2007 Kurulan RC2

I've thoroughly enjoyed  playing with this "Kurulan" RC2 release and actually find it as capable as   some of the much bigger players that I tend to toy with. It may not have the  biggest English community of all the distros but I hope that situation  changes because this is actually an excellent release.

http://www.seopher.com/articles/review_pardus_linux_2007_kurulan_rc2

1182834017

Linux helps raise funds for a million soccer balls

"We recently used the Linux desktop multiplier to deploy 2 205 Linux desktops in 105 South African schools," said Hodgson, who described  the multiplier strategy as a "more affordable and  environmentally-friendly desktop alternative for South African schools".

http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1611

1182834091

Legal Wrangling In The World of Linux

The foundation also said that "Novell is not prohibited from distributing this software because the  patent protection can be turned against Microsoft to the community's  benefit."

http://www.crn.com/software/199904414

1182834145

Greens don't accept Berlin 'nein' to open source

In 2002, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and IBM Deutschland  signed a deal that allows public sector groups to receive discounts on  IBM computers preinstalled with the open source Linux operating system.

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062507-greens-dont-accept-berlin-nein.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

1182916243

EPSON Starts Selling GNU/Linux Desktop and Notebook PCs

DELL did it, now it's EPSON's turn to propose computers running Linux as OS, their offer is made of the Endeavor LX7800. [Note: yesterday, H-P said that it wishes to offer Linux PCs shortly. Dell said it's happy with Linux sales and expanded its offerings. Toshiba might follow suit.]

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-14220-TurboLinux+computers+now+sold+by+EPSON.html

1182944061

PCWorld's Look at Fedora 7

Fedora is solid, and the people who use it and hack on it love it, and I  don't think these people are crazy in the slightest.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133307-c,linux/article.html

1182944216

KDE 4 goes on show at aKademy

This opening event will feature the "KDE 4 pillars" traKk where developers will present the KDE 4 emerging teKhnologies.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1810063936

1182947677

Mark Shuttleworth Interview Coming, Request for Questions from Our Readers

We would like to ask our readers for input and collect some of our readers? questions. Our intent is to focus on exclusionary deals and the integrity of Free software although any ?lighter? question would be very suitable as well.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/27/mark-shuttleworth-questions/

1182991857

Google Desktop goes Linux

Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop... Google Desktop for Linux was written natively...

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6193579.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

1183024149

History Lesson: Red Hat Spoke MS IP FUD in the Past

An update to that license, version 3, is about to be implemented. It will forbid companies from distributing Linux software if they enter into patent agreements like the ones that Microsoft signed with Novell.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/06/28/red_hat_ceo_says_he_talked_patents_with_microsoft/

1183102112

Professor Moglen Explains Why Free Software is Important

Later today, GPL v3 will be released. Even if you already know about Free software, watching this is recommended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxzK9xtSXM

1183363866

Testing Linux Kernel 2.6.22-rc7 Released

[Linus:] The patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it.

http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2331

1183363989

Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Just Made Up The Number

I really cannot speak for Microsoft. I suspect they are noticing that they have a hard time competing on technical merit or price and are trying to muddy the waters.

http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=20044

1183364031

When HASN'T Linux been at war?

Microsoft wants Linux dead. Write it down. My opinion of anybody who purports to be pro-Linux while selling out to Linux's sworn enemy was already pretty low. News of Novell, Xandross, and now Linspire...

http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=when_hasn_t_linux_been_at_war&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

1183456646

Research: Developers  Escape Windows, Come to GNU/Linux!

Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls 12 percent, Evans Data says

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html

1183529644

Is YOUR Standards Body in Microsoft's Pocket?

While big executives usually prefer to turn a blind eye or deny this, there is a lot of ?monkey business? going on. Political manipulation and string-pulling are becoming too difficult to ignore, even if the consequences get a little nasty or inconvenient to people with 6-figure salaries [...] O-O-X-M-L: It has ?corruption? written all over it.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/04/standard-body-connections/

1183533983

FlightLinux blasts off again

Patrick Stakem wants everyone to know that the newest iteration of FlightLinux is not just for NASA rocket scientists. The special hardened distribution that earlier this century orbited the Earth on an unmanned satellite is set to move into active duty again, this time as a civilian project.

http://www.linux.com/feature/115329

1183695335

Microsoft in State of Denial Amid GPLv3 Effect

Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070705/tc_zd/210987

1183777957

[VIDEO] Totally Awesome CompizFusion Plugin: Cube Atlantis

What the plugin does is basically render a few fish, sharks, whales, and dolphins in your desktop cube! It is quite fun to watch :D

http://justanothertechblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/awesome-compizfusion-plugin-cube.html

1183952071

Dell adds nerdy sense of humour to Linux promotion

The in-jokes are not going to get too many people rolling in the aisles, but a link from the Direct2Dell blog to this YouTube news report shows more humour than most people might expect.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2007/07/08/dell_adds_nerdy_sense_of_humour_to_linux_promotion.html#

1183975794

Ubuntu Receives Readers' Choice Award for 'Best Linux Distribution'

The Enterprise Open Source Readers' Choice Awards program is community-driven, and participating products are nominated and chosen by the readers of Enterprise Open Source Magazine and the open source community at large.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/7/emw537863.htm

1184018651

Comes vs Microsoft Petition Shows How Microsoft Blocked Linux Sales [PDF]

'OEMs are forced to forfeit all discounts otherwise earned if they ship any "naked machines" to consumers. This heightened restriction, which (on information and belief) continues to the present, prohibits PC users and PC retailers from buying and installing lower priced or better quality operating systems of their choice.'

http://edge-op.org/iowa/iowaconsumercase.org/assets/attachments/Petition.pdf

1184035189

Acer Launches GNU/Linux Laptops in India

Windows fanatics or those used to the MS operating system, however may be disappointed as it runs on a Linux operating system

http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/07acer.htm

1184216349

Can Novell Not Accept Criticism?

Making subtle statements which accuse me of defamation makes it seem like muting attempts. Shades of SCO? [...] To Novell’s staff that has criticisms, please propose a correction and please be specific. Calling something “defamatory” without and arguments to back this is akin to Microsoft’s IP accusations against Linux.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/11/not-shutting-up/

1184296582

Japan Chooses Truly Open Document Fomat (ODF)

The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open sta

http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674

1184414300

InfoWorld is Anti-Linux (Proof Provided, Avoid the Web Site)

PJ: "What is going on at InformationWeek? Let me guess. Nah. You are sophisticated enough to figure it out. But I think it's clear there is afoot an attempt to create the impression of some schism in the FOSS world." [Enough is enough, there are many more examples]

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070713192403106

1184418408

GIMP Power! How to Make Pebbles with Free Software

While Gimp is NOT a 3D ray-tracer, it does have some plug-ins that perform simple 3D functions. We're going to exploit the "Map Object" plug-in for all it's worth, here. Then we'll look at a more common method.

http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=gimp_tutorial_pebbles&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

1184501629

Antitrust: What's Behind "Get the Facts"-type Advertising? [PDF]

Working behind the scenes to orchestrate "independent" praise of our [Microsoft] technology is a key evangelism function. "Independent" analysts' reports should be issued, praising your technology and damning the competitors (or ignoring them). "Independent consultants should write articles, give conference presentations..."

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf

1184571500

OOXML (AKA "Monopoly Enabler') Fails to Gain Approval in US

On Friday July 13th, INCITS V1 met via teleconference for 3 hours but failed to reach a 2/3 consensus necessary to recommend an "Approval, with comments" position on Microsoft "Office Open XML" (OOXML) document specification.

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html

1184633121

Corruption in the ISO - Microsoft Voting for Itself (Sabotaging ODF), Again

Portugal?s ISO says no room for IBM & Sun in the room ! ?

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/16/iso-hoax/

1184734083

Microsoft Leaves Linspire Robbed, Naked

Well, well, well… That’s what ‘partners’ are for. Just shortly after Microsoft had betrayed Novell, Microsoft decided to move on to Linspire.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/17/linspire-betrayed-by-ms/

1184734500

OOXML does not buy its way in Italy

Particularly noteworthy is the fact that among those favouring the adoption of the standard without reservation a large majority is made of business partners of the proposing entity [Microsoft], a law firm retained by the latter, the official certified business partners association of the proposing entity.

http://www.piana.eu/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=1#0

1184813802

Ubuntu GNU/Linux Wins "Best Linux Distribution" Award

Winners were selected through reader-submitted nominations.

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/404017_p.htm

1184925730

Can Linspire Still Feed on Ubuntu (or Debian) Linux Codebase?

Linspire needs Ubuntu, which is the core on which it builds its products. If Linspire carries on adopting Ubuntu as its codebase or even falls back (some would say ?forward?) to Debian, any ?patent indemnification? will then be rendered moot.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/20/linspire-ubuntu-gplv3/

1185160372

"Novell, Linspire and Xandros were hired to do a job [kill GNU/Linux]"

Putting all the pieces together, Microsoft's plan is too obvious to ignore.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/22/gpl-linspire-finance/

1185163225

Shuttleworth: Ubuntu Is Enterprise-Friendly

So now that the desktop has been conquered, Shuttleworth says the next key  target is the enterprise market.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/shuttleworth-ub.html

1185163288

A la Mobile Promises Really Secure Linux Smartphone

Two-year-old a la mobile is promising to announce the world's most secure Linux operating systems platform for smartphones

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/405292_p.htm

1185163471

Ubuntu Must 'Play To Its Strengths" to Beat Microsoft

You can't out-Windows Windows, he says. Defining and playing to Ubuntu's strengths are what will make free software succeed on the desktop.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/ubuntu-must-pla.html

1185289429

Ubuntu Creator Reaches Out to Novell, Red Hat

Shuttleworth’s goal is to ensure Ubuntu, Red Hat, Novell and other major providers have a blockbuster lineup of new, coordinated offerings in 2010.

http://techiqmag.com/2007/07/22/ubuntu-creator-reaches-out-to-novell-red-hat/

1185289558

Now It's Spain and OOXML - More Standards Highjinks?

It seems there may have been more games played by Microsoft in the OOXML saga, or at the very least some confusion spread, and this time our story comes from Spain, where the government of Andalusia has now sent an official letter of protest [PDF, Spanish] to the president of the technical committee...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070723235113424

1185338973

Buying Support and Buying ISO Standards in Order to Hijack the Industry

XPS, XAML, OOXML, and bigger plans for Linux 'partners'

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/

1185339986

Russian government to finance Linux version for schools

Russian Ministry of Finance approved RUR 3 bln financing from state budget for software on school computers.

http://webplanet.ru/english/2007/07/24/russian_soft_en.html

1185358035

GNU/Linux Gains Over 30% in China

Linux has been riding on a wave in China, topping the growth of all operating systems in the first quarter of 2007, says an industry analyst.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/specialreports/0,39044853,62028679,00.htm

1185511721

Speculation grows over HP GNU/Linux

It is believed that the move has been spurred in part by Dell beginning to offer Unbuntu as an option on its consumer SKUs. According to Fudzilla, "despite HP's long association with Red Hat, it looks like it will do a deal with Ubuntu."

http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/28286/Speculation-grows-over-HP-Linux

1185511884

Linux: Historical Kernel Tree with Git

In a recent lkml thread, the idea of getting the entire Linux kernel history into a git repository was discussed. Linus Torvalds noted, "I actually tried to get something like this together back in the BK days and early in the SCO saga.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996

1185512040

Gigabyte GeForce 8600GT 256MB [GNU/Linux Review]

A few months back we looked at the Gigabyte GeForce 8500GT 256MB graphics card, which was a factory-overclocked $100 graphics card from Gigabyte that came topped with a passively cooled copper heatsink.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=789&num=1

1185512251

Startup Locks Down Mobile Linux

A Linux startup today will officially launch a new, secure version of its operating system for mobile phones.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=130033&WT.svl=news1_1

1185518095

Bill Hilf and Microsoft?s ?Terror Culture?

?Apparently, some people take pride in attacking Free software. With statements such as ?we would like to strike similar patent deals with all the Linux vendors, but we had to start somewhere? or even ?the Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn?t exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today,? Bill Hilf...

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/27/bill-hilf-ms-terror/

1185536923

Microsoft is Outmuscling OOXML Opposition in Spain

The Andalusian Government has reported recently the manipulation of Microsoft in the National Technical Committee 71 of AENOR.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/27/ooxmll-spain/

1185551439

IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML hkhfcmeeting

In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755

1185782445

French National Assembly receives first open source laptops

The laptops come loaded with a customized version of Ubuntu 7.04 and productivity applications that include Firefox 2.0, OpenOffice.org 2.1, Thunderbird 2.0, Lightning, VLC Media Player and Adobe Reader.

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/french-national-assembly-receives-first-open-source-laptops/

1185782671

Asia-Pacific to be the ‘Silicon Valley’ for Open Source

The Open Source movement is creating a new business organization paradigm, which will soon shift the center of software development from Silicon Valley  to the Asia-Pacific, including the Philippines, according to a balikbayan technopreneur...

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/july/30/yehey/techtimes/20070730tech1.html

1185783153

KDE Desktop zooming

Note that desktop zooming is different from resizing individual plasmoids to show more or less detail in them...

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/07/desktop-zooming.html

1185783810

OOXML ?Extension? Tricks Have Roots in the Past

Something in this strategy rang a bell, so dumpster-diving for some antitrust exhibits seemed like a fun idea. Evidence that this is a recurring strategy is presented below.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/30/extension-ooxml-ole/

1186028344

Mission: Choosing an Operating System

He also feels that some versions of Linux, notably Novell’s SUSE and Canonical’s Ubuntu (which is now available commercially on Dell PCs), are ready for corporate use. He plans on converting CareGroup’s 1,000-plus public Internet kiosks over to SUSE.

http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/08/01/mission-choosing-an-operating-system/?mod=yahoo_hs

1186028371

Vancouver law firm trades in MS for desktop Linux

He didn't have a preference when it came to Linux distributions so he tested a number of them. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) stood out for Giroux. It came with the GNOME desktop, which he regards as faster than most, Firefox, which is the company's preferred browser, and the Citrix client built-in.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=44529&cid=11

1186028445

Linux makes inroads into Microsoft's domain

The cost of the PCs is Rs 21,600 each (includes OS and a 19" TFT monitor). Linux, according to Umashakar, has helped ELCOT "reduce general hardware costs by nearly 25 per cent. In the case of high-end servers, the savings could be as much as 80 per cent."

http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/02linux.htm

1186028555

An open document standard for China

Another standard that Microsoft does not support, is the RFC 3987 specification, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses. Consequently, OOXML does not support the use of Chinese characters within a Web address.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,63000113,00.htm

1186028592

Accessibility Issues with Office Open XML

There are grave issues with respect to the accessibility of Office Open XML as a format and potential standard that should preclude its adoption at  present.

http://atrc.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&sectionid=14&task=view&hidemainmenu=1&id=371

1186048522

Massachusetts — Bullied, Battered, and Defeated

The outcome is now public and defeat has been heralded. Andy is disappointed and PJ is unsurprised (”Surprise, surprise. Not. So my first instinct was right after all. They didn’t care one bit what you or anyone said.“).

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/02/massachusetts-ooxml/

1186129259

Sock Puppets to Vote on Monopoly Enablement in Colombia?

Microsoft sets the deck of cards and ensures that (at least) 9 of out 14 chairs in the technical committee are also in its pocket.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/03/colombia-ooxml/

1186191288

Technical Sabotage [Against Open Standards] at Microsoft

I guess that without OpenOffice.org (or another ODF-friendly suite), our colleagues will no longer be able to read OpenDocument-formatted files. Thank you, Microsoft. You never fail to surprise and I truly hope that the ODF Alliance/TC will take you to court. Knowing how it works, a settlement is more likely than time in prison.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/03/technical-sabotage-odf/

1186201751

Microsoft’s ODF Sabotage is a Case of History Repeating Itself

The latest victim of this illegal tactic appears to be the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office. How convenient! Especially now that OOXML fails to gain traction (last updated a couple of days ago).

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/03/do-dos-odf-microsoft-sabotage/

1186202608

Zypries intensifies criticism of proposed online searches of PCs

More and more data privacy officials and advocates as well as lawyers are voicing doubts about the proposals to allow authorities to conduct surreptitious online searches of private PCs. The parties are raising objections of a fundamental nature and are warning against attempts to amend the Basic Law (Germany's Constitution).

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/93817/from/rss09

1186202694

Sony develops new Cell-based computer architecture

The same components are part of the Playstation 3 game console. However, according to Sony the elements that will form part of the new computer platform will be a lot more powerful. At the event in San Diego Sony intends to demonstrate the performance of the architecture...

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/93801/from/rss09

1186290273

The Anatomy of Invade-to-Subvert Strategies (Watch Out, OSI)

Microsoft plans to take this strategy much further. Having defeated Novell?s ability to work independently and limited its ability to flourish, Microsoft wishes to pull the same tactics again. It will be using the invade-to-subvert strategy against the Open Source world.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/04/invade-to-subvert-strategies/

1186361934

Poll shows majority favor Vi as their editor of choice

Two weeks back, this blog had run a poll which asked which was your favourite editor.

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/08/poll-shows-majority-favor-vi-as-their.html

1186361982

Ten Reasons To Dump Windows for GNU/Linux [III]

Linux console, in contrast with the Windows command shell, is an extremely powerful user tool, which allows one to perform virtually any operation  on  the system.

http://polishlinux.org/gnu/10-reasons-to-dump-windows-part-iii/

1186362137

Q&A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy

The one-line answer is that we are making Solaris into a distribution, too. And to the extent that you hear that Project Indiana aims to make Solaris more like Linux, that actually fundamentally misses the point.

http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html

1186362238

Runes of Avalon - an enjoyable game for Linux

Two weeks back I had the opportunity to try out another very interesting game called "Runes of Avalon". This game is the brain child of Roman Budzowski the  founder of Anawiki Games - a professional game developing firm based in  Poland.

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/08/runes-of-avalon-enjoyable-game-for.html

1186362315

PCLinuxOS - A little walk down history lane

In the summer of 2003 I became interested in livecd technology after looking  at knoppix and a fresh distribution from a fellow named Warren called Mepis. I was interested in helping Warren with Mepis at the time but I had no clue how to build Deb files...

http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=29104.msg223220#msg223220

1186492173

Sun rolls out new chip for larger audience

Technology company will launch a more powerful UltraSparc T2 chip, aiming at markets beyond servers.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/technology/sun_microsystems.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

1186492226

GPL3 to dominate LinuxWorld

Bui-Friday believes that many companies will move to the new licence but only at a timely juncture. “It’s very rare that a software project will go through the trouble and expense of cutting a new version just for a new licence. Typically, what we’ve heard is that the next version they cut they will go [with GPL3],” she said.

http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2195689/gpl3-dominate-linuxworld

1186492299

Linux Mobile Group Gains New Members; First Handsets Coming In 2008

Founded earlier this year, the LiMo alliance expects the first handsets using its platform will begin appearing on the market during the first half of 2008.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070807/tc_cmp/201203199

1186492338

Assessing the Size of the Free Software Movement

Did you know that there are at least 32 organizations in 3 continents and 10 countries? Did you know there are a number of GNU/Linux User Groups - as opposed to Linux User Groups? Whether it is hardware, GIS or music, there are a variety of organizations closely aligned with the Free Software Foundation/GNU Project in purpose and spirit.

http://blue-gnu.biz/node/69

1186545841

Microsoft is Using OSI Endorsement and Linux Deals to Promote Lock-ins

Remember that the whole thing is a just publicity stunt. It is a shame that OSI board members such as Matt Asay are too blind to see this, let alone react responsibly.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/07/embrace-to-confuse/

1186633991

Linux Infiniband rig clocks 1.3GB/s over NFS-RDMA

Mellanox says its open-source Linux NVS-RDMA implementation is compatible with the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 1.2, a validated version of the open-source OpenFabrics software stack.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3268629399.html

1186634039

Qt and Qtopia Core 4.3.1 Deliver Bug Fixes and Performance Optimizations

Trolltech today released Qt and Qtopia Core 4.3.1 to commercial customers and the open source community.

http://troll.no/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-08-07.3596046644

1186634121

Linux Foundation adds ace open-source attorneys to team

Updegrove is a partner and founder of Gesmer Updegrove in Boston, and is best known for blogging about open source and open standards on his Standards Blog on the Consortiuminfo.org Web site he created and manages. Updegrove has received particular notoriety for his criticism of Microsoft...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070808/tc_infoworld/90853

1186634223

Swiss Cheese and OOXM -- Corrupted by Microsoft

The present spin doctors of Microsoft and ECMA managed to convince Mr. Thomann to reject every serious technical and general concern we had regarding OOMXL by pointing to compatibility reasons. At the end we had a majority _against_ Microsoft but which (giving the unfair rules) results in a Swiss vote _for_ Microsoft.

http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-15521/swiss-cheese

1186634248

Red Hat exec leery of Novell Linux effort

A call by Novell's CEO for a standardized way to certify Linux applications  Wednesday was subsequently greeted with skepticism by a high-ranking official  at rival Linux distributor Red Hat.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/tcdaily/archives/2007/08/red_hat_exec_le.html

1186634398

Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay

Cell phones traditionally have used proprietary operating systems, fragmented  even among one manufacturer's products. Motorola and other vendors have also  opened up phone platforms through the Java and BREW software environments. Linux will help to further expand the community of developers for software...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070808/tc_infoworld/90862

1186634562

Oracle Previews Authentication Service for Linux

The new beta of Oracle Fusion Middleware tries to simplify managing and authenticating users in Linux environments.

http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Oracle+Previews+Authentication+Service+for+Linux/213029_1.aspx

1186656135

OOXML Watch: Funny Business Comes to Switzerland, ECMA Speaks, Apple Falter

We have seen it in Italy, we have seen it in Portugal, we have seen it in Spain, we have seen it in Denmark, we have seen it in Colombia, and we have seen it in the United States. Microsoft has no shame about abusing any system that is open to abuse or where abuse will go unnoticed.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/08/ooxml-funny-dealings-and-more/

1186722042

Has OOXML ?Funny Business? Already Reached Australia and India?

Let us turn our attention to Australia where there is already some suspicion (and consequent rebellion). It sounds like the same old story and the same old tactics.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/09/has-ooxml-funny-business-already-reached-australia-and-india/

1186838585

SCO Loses = Good. Novell Earns Anti-Linux Weapon = Good?

On numerous occasions, people speculated that, some time along the line, Microsoft might actually acquire Novell and use it as its Linux provider. The direction Novell is taking certainly favours .NET and makes its Linux desktop dependent on it.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/11/novell-owns-unix/

1186900772

Is Novell Building Microsoft Linux?

As we mentioned just days ago, Dan Lyons, who is close to Microsoft, published an article with the headline ?Microsoft Linux? when Novell and Microsoft entered their partnership. On many other occasions we said this too. It is not the first time that we mention ?Microsoft Linux?, either.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/12/microsoft-linux/

1186931061

F/OSS Business Models Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam

In Hanoi, the first F/OSS Business Models Forum was held at the Institute of Information Technology last July 30 and 31. The forum aims to encourage  software entrepreneurs to take a look at F/OSS as a business enabler that can be part of any business strategy for SMEs.

http://engage.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/foss-business-models-forum-in-hanoi-vietnam/

1186931367

Big business on free software

Besides with Linux, Ugandan businesses don't have to worry about the law and being treated as criminals. Linux brings back dignity to doing businesses digitally, unless businesses are willing to pay steep licensing fees for software. Thousands of businesses worldwide are migrating to Linux, and their numbers are increasing exponentially.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/sunday/business/bus08122.php

1186931411

Corporations Eye iMacs

According to Q2 results from IDC, in the overall U.S. computer market, which includes desktops and notebooks, Apple is now tied for third with competitor Gateway at 5.6 per cent of the total market share.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070811/tc_pcworld/135764

1186931567

Microsoft's Legacy Binary Formats & ISO

What if Microsoft surrenders the specifications of its legacy .doc, .xls, .ppt and other formats just in time to make a big impact on the voting process for OOXML at ISO (votes due in early Sept.)?

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/06/microsofts-lega.html

1186979257

"Every second apprentice fails on using computers"

My advice to Microsoft would rather be: put your OpenXML into the attic -  this is where it belongs - and get your act together and support  interoperability and the use of truly open formats like ODF (the Open Document Format), if you want to continue to make money.

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/91076/index.html

1186979322

[OOXML:] e to the power of hype

Exponential growth is quite a claim. But what is the evidence? Microsoft provides this chart further down on the page, showing the growth in  their "community"...

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/e-to-power-of-hype.html

1186979412

Open Source Awards from Sun Microsystems

"Open Source is good for the economy. It is more robust and more secure, and service revenue tends to be local rather than be repatriated to the coffers of the software giants of the US."

http://www.theherald.co.uk/business/news/display.var.1612694.0.0.php

1186979457

Nokia pushes for GTK+ 3.0

During this years GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to sit down with Carlos Guerreiro, Nokias Manager for Open Source Software, to talk - amidst other things - about the not so different needs of personal computers and mobile devices, about the necessity for GTK+ 3.0 and the impact of the iPhone launch.

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2983710

1186985155

Dell's New Linux Advert

At Dell you have choices... Linuxworld 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ELn0IY88GA

1187004963

Enough is Enough. Novell is Becoming a Risk to Free/Libre Software.

It would be irresponsible to simply ignore the risks, knowing what we know at the moment. This needs to be stopped before it’s getting too late to revert and rollback some changes (or branch, or even fork). It appears as though the direction taken by Novell leads to a cheaper Windows which requires payments to be made to Microsoft.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/13/patent-risk-novell/

1187006417

Freespire On; Freespire Off

I've been waiting for months for the release of Freespire 2.0. Over the past two years I've downloaded and tried many distros but had been saving the "best for last."

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-08-13-001-26-RV-DB

1187006476

Linux dances with penguins' Happy Feet

Animal Logic's use of Linux is certainly not unusual among movie production studios, with the likes of DreamWorks, Disney, Weta Digital, and another local company Rising Sun Pictures

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;929606148

1187006574

State wrestles with saving electronic records

"History is being made now," she said. "There's a great deal lost with the changes in technology. I am concerned about the loss of permanent records that's happening every day."

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=126896&ac=PHnws

1187006644

Profs Building Open-Source Educational Gaming Engine

Washington State University Vancouver professor Scott Wallace and University of Puget Sound computer science professor Andrew Nierman were recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a gaming engine designed to make learning computer science more absorbing for students.

http://campustechnology.com/articles/49650/

1187006696

LinuxWorld Draws Both Open-Source Devotees and Curious Tire-Kickers

One roadblock to moving to open source quickly, he added, is that it?s still hard to find developers and other IT workers with the necessary skills.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=300699&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top

1187046286

Interview with Stephan Kulow, openSUSE Project Manager

Since 1997 I have been working on the KDE project, mainly hacking libraries and doing release coordination. The Linux community was still pretty small back then, so while doing KDE releases I had good contacts with quite a few Linux distributions.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070813#feature

1187046327

Linux ready to play with rivals

Dell'S chief technology officer sees a huge future in Linux virtualisation for the once-dominant PC manufacturer.

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,22237661-5013045,00.html?from=public_rss

1187046492

Red Hat Named #1 IT Vendor To Do Business With By Customers In Japan

The survey evaluated 44 nominated vendors chosen by respondents. The top three respective vendors include Red Hat Japan with 27.5 percent of responses, Apple Japan with 25.6 percent and Willcom with 23.0 percent.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070813/20070813005033.html?.v=1

1187046558

New Release of GT Software?s Ivory Adds Support for Linux and Unix

"...With this addition of Unix and Linux support, Ivory delivers an even more flexible and robust foundation to companies, enabling the most options for building and deploying mainframe SOA and Web Services.?

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070813005375&newsLang=en

1187046608

Free Paper Without Free Expression

As it turns out, the giveaway subway tabloid Metro doesn’t have a sense of humor about its being a giveaway subway tabloid. Daily Show segment producer Elliott Kalan was fired from his weekly gig as a humor columnist after his piece in the August 3 edition, titled “Newspapers: Information’s Horse & Buggy”...

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/35820/

1187055839

OpenDocument Format Wins in Malaysia!

The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm

1187063764

GPLv3: past the 5K mark, and going strong

Adoption and projects released under GPLv3 are as expected. The part that is often overlooked is the long standing impact of the "or later" clause, initially put into effect more than a decade ago as part of the language surrounding the GPLv2 License, or later, at the time and now, common among GPL licensed projects.

http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2007/08/gplv3-past-5k-mark-and-going-strong.html

1187090312

Academics debate Wikipedia's value

"Anyone can participate in the editing process of a new entry as well as an old entry; they will then debate, discuss and decide which one is the good source, it's a vibrant community process," he said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/08/14/2003374123

1187090440

Free as in free milk - Microsoft's business practices in developing countr

We have seen how two different corporations use free samples of their products to create a dependence in the most vulnerable areas of the world. Even when the similarities between both marketing strategies are evident,

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/free_as_in_free_milk

1187090545

Microsoft's Bach sold more stock before Xbox news

Microsoft Corp. executive Robbie Bach sold $3 million more in company stock during the period leading up to an announcement about a costly flaw in its Xbox video game console than previously reported, according to a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsofts-bach-sold-additional-stock/story.aspx?guid=%7BBECA3A50-EF33-4161-A111-A43BDC8B0462%7D&siteid=yhoof

1187090590

Intel and the Power of Having a Monopoly

Many of the richest people in the world became rich because they owned monopolistic companies (Bill Gates, Carlos Slim).

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070813/44295_id.html?.v=1

1187090629

Linux in my pocket

I changed the desktop wallpaper and screen saver, installed some software and tweaked Firefox (called Iceweasel, for some strange reason), then rebooted to see if the changes would stick. They did, so now I have a portable yet feature-rich Linux system in my pocket that I can boot on most PCs—even if they have Windows installed.

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_aug14_2007

1187142209

SCO on the brink of financial collapse

The company's share price had closed at $1.56 on Friday ahead of a court ruling that Novell, and not SCO, was the rightful owner of the copyrights for the Unix operating system. The price remained steady in early trading, however, valuing the company at about $9.5m.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=12A15472-0D2D-4B86-8121-992AEA422BBB

1187142253

Palm announced two new software providers for Foleo: LogMeIn & Wind River

By building the Foleo on an open Linux-based platform and publishing the tools developers need, Palm hopes to establish a vibrant developer community to create new applications that extend the mobile companion's built-in capabilities.

http://mytreo.net/archives/2007/08/palm-announced-two-new-software-providers-for-foleo-logmein-wind-river.html

1187142289

Swisscom decision points the way to the Red Hat ecosystem sale

acle, IBM, HP, or anyone else. You also won't get an end-to-end open-source offering, providing the customer with a pay-for-value model and reduced lock-in, that is supereasy to administer.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759486-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog

1187142458

The ODF vs. OOXML numbers. Hint, OOXML is doing poorly.

Ben Langhinrichs? has some interesting stats via Google on the relative number of ODF vs. OOXML documents on the web. His numbers show that there are 162,700 ODF documents vs. 1993 OOXML documents, and 26% of the OOXML documents are on microsoft.com.

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1794

1187142502

Trial download of Apple iWork ?08

Apple is allowing users to download a free trial version of iWork ?08 that works for 30 days. Evidently its support for OOXML is read-only, and not complete at that. This means, to be explicit, that you can read some OOXML documents but not write them out again.

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1796

1187142581

U.S. ITS project chooses Parvus Linux computers as in-car servers

The manufacturers involved in the consortium are using DuraCOR 1100 systems as Linux-based vehicle computer servers to test concept designs for a nationwide standards-based communications infrastructure that supports vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications.

http://www.autoindustry.co.uk/news/14-08-07_1

1187149059

Novell: We Won?t be SCO 2.0; BoycottNovell: Who is We?

Better the devil that we know than the one we do not know. What if the stance was changed through future acquisitions, executive shuffles (Darl McBride used to work at Novell), or even proxies? We are already hearing that SCO might be the target of takeovers (possibly hostile ones).

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/14/novell-deny-sco-2/

1187164206

Open source gathers steam in Malaysia

She added that OSS is now used in almost all verticals and in different software stacks as there is sufficient support from OSS vendors. Prianka noted that the main drivers for using open source is to provide better protection against security breaches and help organizations with their budget constraints.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030775,00.htm

1187164280

IBM readies Lotus Notes 8

IBM is preparing to ship a new version of its Lotus Notes and Domino applications on 17 August, according to a company website that was published on Tuesday.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2196638/ibm-readies-lotus-notes

1187164319

Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO

"We're not interested in suing people over Unix," Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry said. "We're not even in the Unix business anymore."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070814/tc_infoworld/91000

1187164428

Kernel space: Once upon atime

A new kernel patch would address Linux's number one I/O deficiency.

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/081407-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

1187164466

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 w/ MEPIS

The first beta of KDE 4.0 was released earlier this month and Warren Woodford of the MEPIS project has now built a version of SimplyMEPIS 7 that is based upon Debian Etch with the 32-bit and 64-bit KDE 4.0 Beta 1 packages.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=805&num=1

1187164520

Installing Fedora - a video tour

Ready to try Linux but want some hand-holding when you do? Here are three videos that walk you through the process of installing Fedora GNU/Linux.

http://www.linux.com/feature/117384

1187164576

Linux looking to conquer apps, data center, edge

Having secured mainstream acceptance, the Linux community now stands poised to take on its next challenge: complementing the operating system with the applications, data center technologies and edge devices desired by corporate customers.

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1158099494;fp;2;fpid;1

1187164624

Linux gains open source multimedia middleware

NMM's features also resemble many of the capabilities integrated into the latest version of LinuxMCE, a KDE-based, media-oriented Linux distribution.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4243110514.html

1187164745

MySQL defends paid tarball decision

MySQL has defended a decision to end free community access to the latest source code for its popular database in an attempt to snag paying customers.

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/14/mysql_tarball_community/

1187164904

Which Color of the [Linux] Color TV is More Important?

The FLOSS world is colorful and continuous, not dichotomous. (Well, let's not get into quantumn mechanics please.) Let's paint and not fight. Let's work in each of our own way to save the poor people in the dark empire of Microsoft  by showing them rainbow and painting nice colors into their computing lives!

http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/2007/08/14/Which-Color-of-the-Color-TV-is-More-Important

1187164955

How to use Quake-style terminals on GNU/Linux

We know all about how powerful the GNU/Linux terminal is. However, it?s a pain to have to fire up a terminal emulator like Konsole or gnome-terminal, wait for a few seconds for it load, and then have to keep Alt-Tabbing to it.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/how_to_use_quake-style_terminals_on_GNU_Linux

1187165024

'Long Tail' author claims theory could transform design

"The monolithic software model hasn't addressed this. That's what small companies and individuals are for: We're in the era of 'do-it-yourself'." Anderson also predicted that era of open-source hardware is fast approaching.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201500039

1187165079

LinuxWorld and virtualization: Xen vs. KVM, Microsoft's Xen-friendly drive

LinuxWorld exhibition Several people mentioned to me that LinuxWorld seemed  almost obsolete, in that Linux is now so well-accepted that there may not be a need for a conference that focuses on it.

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1267647,00.html

1187180992

Fedora Commons Awarded $4.9M Grant to Develop Open-Source Software

With this funding, Fedora Commons will foster an open community to support the development and deployment of open source software, which facilitates open collaboration and open access to scholarly,

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070814005279&newsLang=en

1187181069

Open source and virtualization: Perfect match?

Virtualization could be Linux’s ticket to the data center

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;250162142;fp;4;fpid;1968336438

1187181113

Open Source Society warns of Open XML patent threat

But Christie says alarm bells are going off in many parts of the world over Open XML. He says many aspects of the format remain proprietary and because of this the process behind its development has not been robust.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/3CA53767B17F2736CC257338001C62AD

1187181159

Zero-Day Browser Exploits, Part 1: Is Open Source Safer Than IE?

"Open source browsers are inherently safer. They are not as widely adopted, and they are faster in being patched," Roger Thompson, CTO of Exploit Prevention Labs, told LinuxInsider. "

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58796.html

1187181229

Gates discloses holdings in McDonald's

The filing revealed that the trust holds 740,000 shares of McDonald's, the world's biggest restaurant company, 5 million shares of Crown Castle, and 1.5 million shares of Progressive.

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN1446369320070814?rpc=44

1187230981

Op-ed: Linux Foundation's first commandment: respect Microsoft

There are, of course, companies like Novell which have signed pacts with Microsoft, pacts which endanger the growth of Linux in the marketplace. Is this the kind of strategy which Zemlin had in mind?

http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14014&Itemid=1091

1187231049

Enderle got it wrong (as usual)

When Rob Enderle questions SCO's litigators and lawyers — they were not experts, they were not paid enough, etc. —, he simply expose himself as being as morally corrupt as SCO is: he never questioned SCO's moral right to sue...

http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/08/15/09/05/44-enderle-got-it-wrong-as-usual-

1187231099

Open-source companies to be acquired by proprietary vendors?

I actually  believe that open source, not proprietary software, is the natural state of the industry, and that Tim's proprietary world is anomalous.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9760101-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog

1187231186

Newly Launched Virgin America Selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Virgin America's migration from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be completed by the end of 2007. The company already makes use of JBoss solutions for its core kiosks, plans to soon obtain support for the JBoss Application Stack and will eventually expand its JBoss rollout.

http://www.ebizq.net/news/8367.html?rss

1187231250

Can Large Commercial Web Sites Be Run on Free Linux?

When we saw what it would cost us to do  that with Red Hat, we decided to look at less expensive options, in  particular CentOS, which is a free binary clone of Red Hat compiled from the  publicly available Red Hat source code.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171157,00.asp

1187231289

Are Open-Source Databases Ready for Production Applications?

"Yes, more and more, depending on the application."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171185,00.asp

1187231328

Linux: Determining Maintainers

Much of the feedback was criticism of the large number of patches that flooded the inboxes of all subscribers to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Others suggested that the information would be better extracted from Git than from source files.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/14187

1187231369

OpenClinica Enterprise Selected to Power Clinical Trials by Australian CRO

OpenClinica Enterprise is being adopted to power clinical trials in Australia and New Zeland by Emphron Informatics, a data management and biostatistics contract research organization (CRO).

http://www.linuxmednews.com/1187186074

1187231416

Free IP Calls Offered

A small vendor of open-source voice-over-IP (VOIP) products based on the open-source Asterisk private branch exchange software has announced a product that allows small and midsize businesses to make free IP calls.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135903-c,webtelephonyconferencing/article.html

1187231475

Open source security OK, experts assure SMBs

Ignore the myths. Open source security technology is an affordable and robust option for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/15/226207/open-source-security-ok-experts-assure-smbs.htm

1187231515

Increasing Virtualization Insanity in Xen

For architects this means: don't looking to Xen for answers, base your new designs on KVM.

http://udrepper.livejournal.com/17577.html

1187231571

Another update on ODF vs. OOXML file counts

I guess a dedicated Microsoftie could spin this in a positive way (rah! rah! 100% growth in DOCX format in three months), but it is getting harder.

http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/archive/20070813-1201

1187231671

My first two weeks with the Zonbu

I?m happy with my Zonbu. I enjoy using it, and I think that over the next few months the company can continue to improve it so that it lives up to its full potential.

http://mrzonbu.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/my-first-two-weeks-with-the-zonbu/

1187258387

Microsoft’s Linux Hijack Continues. Latest Victims: Scalix, Xen

The mainstream press neglects to mention the following aspect/angle of the stories. The XenSource acquisition by Citrix already shows signs of Linux neglect and this will not only affect Novell. It will affect Red Hat and others as well. Based on the announcement, it appears likely that Microsoft has something to do with this move...

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/scalix-xen-hijack/

1187267245

Microsoft PR bunnies love Firefox - shocka

FLOSS in house!

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41705

1187267346

NZOSS: Patent threat looms large over OOXML

"If OOXML goes through as an ISO standard, the IT industry, government and business will encumbered with a 6000-page specification peppered with potential patent liabilities" said NZOSS President Don Christie.

http://nzoss.org.nz/node/179

1187267400

[Linux-based] Killer NIC arrives in Europe

As new distribution deals are inked all over the place, we learn that lads from Bigfoot Networks just signed several deals, covering Good ol' Bligthy, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41718

1187267552

Wind River is on the block: IBM is lead buyer

Wind River, a leader in real-time and embedded Linux is up for sale. Sources close to the deal say IBM is the buyer.

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/08/wind_river_is_o.php

1187267674