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Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Beyond the Hype and into the Dilemma Datamation: "Who did the first review of Ubuntu 8.04... is debatable, but something of the same consensus seems to have hit tech journalists, with the majority proclaiming that the release shows that GNU/Linux has finally producer a challenger to Windows..." (May 5, 2008)
Linux Today Features
Windows-Based EeePC Cheaper than Linux One APC Magazine: "Is ASUS in bed with Microsoft? The new XP-based EeePC 900 will actually be cheaper than the Linux-based version..." (May 7, 2008)
Please Welcome Digistan (May 17, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (191 reads)
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(feedback) ConsortiumInfo: "On Wednesday, I introduced The Hague Declaration to those that visit this blog, promising to write again shortly to introduce the new organization that created the Declaration..."
Nothing New Under the Sun. Or Red Hat, or FSF, or OSI, or... (May 16, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (680 reads)
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(feedback) Editor's Note: "In this, I completely agree with Aslett: there's a lot of friction between the community and the vendors who are working with Linux and open source software. Where I diverge from his opinion is that this is anything new..."
Novell Readies Silverlight Clone for Linux (May 16, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1289 reads)
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(feedback) internetnews.com: "A year after the introduction of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-platform, cross-browser media plug-in and streaming technology, Novell has released a Linux version for testing..."
A Tale of Four Kernels (May 16, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (1540 reads)
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(feedback) Spinellis: "We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization..."
Microsoft, OLPC Officially Team Up (May 16, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (1325 reads)
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(feedback) Beyond Binary: "The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties..."
Become A System Rescue Guru With Linux, Part 1 (May 16, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1980 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "With a SystemRescueCD or USB stick you can perform heroic rescues on any Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, and probably a number of lesser-known platforms as well..."
Drupal and Amazon EC2 Quick Start (May 16, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1112 reads)
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(feedback) Tag 1 Consulting: "With all the excitement surrounding cloud computing, and specifically Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Beta service, I decided it was time to give it a try myself..."
Praise for the Humble gedit (May 16, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (1603 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "I’ve been a fan of lightweight text editors for more than 10 years now. I started out on Emacs, drifted over to Vi(m) for a long stretch and then somehow settled into Textmate for the last couple of years..."
Google, IBM, Red Hat, Sun and the Digistan Connection (May 16, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1549 reads)
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(feedback) Seeking Alpha: "Another anti-Microsoft front group has emerged in favor of 'free and open standards,' hyping what it calls the Hague Declaration and making some absurd connection to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights..."
Trouble in Paradise? (May 15, 2008, 23:15 UTC) (1301 reads)
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(feedback) 451 CAOS Theory: "Maybe it’s a coincidence but this week has seen evidence of tension between commercial open source vendors and elements of the open source user community..."
Frequent Open Source Miles (May 15, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (849 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet: "Matt Asay’s piece on 'open source free-riders' got my goat this morning because we’re on opposite sides of the market..."
Should You Use Free Software at Work? (May 15, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (2846 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "'But it’s free!' I stood in the cube of an engineer on my team as he made his case about a free software tool that would supposedly solve a recurring problem we were having with our network..."
NPR Station WBUR Boston Adds Support for Free Audio Standard (May 15, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1041 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Foundation: "The Free Software Foundation has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio news station WBUR Boston has begun worldwide webcasting in the free audio format Ogg Vorbis..."
Linux: Who Got it Right, Who Got It Very Wrong? (May 15, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (3837 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet Australia: "Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade..."
Kubuntu KDE4 Remix: An Ubuntu User's View (May 15, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (3212 reads)
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(feedback) polimath: "Playing with KDE 4 is something I've wanted to do the past few months but avoided for fear of breaking things when I had too much going on to spend a full day getting them working again..."
Fedora 9--An OS That Even the Linux Challenged Can Love (May 15, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2333 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "Fedora is a community-driven distribution sponsored by Red Hat and, while Fedora may be best known as a popular server OS, most of the changes in Fedora 9 are aimed at making the system friendlier for desktop users..."
The Perfect Server--Fedora 9 (May 15, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (2112 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 9 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters..."
Linux--Easier to Run by the Release (May 15, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1944 reads)
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(feedback) 451 CAOS Theory: "We've seen recently how fast Linux is moving and how many changes and updates are quickly and constantly being made..."
Cash, Code, or Free-Riding in Open Source Communities? (May 15, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (901 reads)
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(feedback) The Open Road: "Open source is a bit the same. There are some who pay for the 'full-price rooms/seats,' while others pay by sticking with a project for a long time, devoting either small amounts of cash or code..."
Linux Users: Why Did You Switch? (May 15, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (2644 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "As a Linux Journal editor, I'd love to claim that in my college years I realized the oppression stemming from proprietary operating systems..."
HP, EDS, and Open Source (May 15, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1272 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "HP seems to have a liking for big deals--remember when they spent $25 billion for Compaq? Now they're laying out almost $14 billion to acquire global services company EDS..."
The Consequences of Being an Open Source Company (May 14, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (1174 reads)
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(feedback) Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem: "Fact is that different types of open source products might require different approaches Alfresco to my knowledge has little to no contributing community, Linux distributions tend to have a big one, if not just in the form of the different open source projects they pacakge..."
Operating System Coexistence (May 14, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (1744 reads)
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(feedback) Darker Nemesis: "So many people can get caught up in the operating system war that they may forget that multiple operating systems can coexist side by side..."
Three Potential Open Source IPOs (May 14, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1095 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy isn't suggesting that open source companies will launch initial public offerings anytime soon..."
When the Fall is All That's Left (May 14, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (1574 reads)
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(feedback) DiveIntoMark: "I refer, of course, to the Acid 3 test cooked up by the inimitable Ian Hickson and his motley crew of meddling minions..."
Open-Source IT "For the Long Run" (May 14, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (1013 reads)
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(feedback) The Open Road: "The culture here is about freedom and the ability to impact things ourselves. We're adopting more and more open source because we want to be in control of our own destiny..."
ASUS Eee PC 900 (Linux Version) [Review] (May 14, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (4850 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "While it's physically identical to the Eee PC 900 (Windows XP version), this Linux version of the Eee PC 900 has a larger internal storage capacity and is therefore more expensive..."
Life Without Open Source? (May 14, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1263 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page..."
aTunes Tries to Be the Best of Two Worlds (May 14, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1762 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Are you looking for a free and open source music player that you can use no matter which operating system you boot or switch to during the day...?"
Could Investor Short-Termism Undermine Open Source? (May 14, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (900 reads)
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(feedback) 451 CAOS Theory: "When we write about investors on this blog we are normally referring to angel and VC investors and the funding they provide to open source start-ups..."
The GNU GPL is Contagious. So What? (May 13, 2008, 23:15 UTC) (1769 reads)
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(feedback) Milking the GNU: "In an otherwise great post about the GPL and its goals, Bradley Kuhn writes something that strikes me as a typical example of open-source political correctness that ultimately tarnishes the credibility of the community..."
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