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Get Down and Dirty with Linux
(Oct 11, 2007, 00:00 UTC) (15 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC Advisor: "Let me start with a controversial statement: installing new software is almost always easier on Linux than on Windows..."

"Is a Cursory Look at the CentOS LIVE CD Worth Every Penny?"
(Oct 10, 2007, 23:15 UTC) (106 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Linux Log: "The comment may be a bit snotty, but it serves as a good lesson for other blogs or media outlets that are trying to review Linux distros and post their results into the ether of the Internet..."

And Ballmer Blathers On
(Oct 10, 2007, 22:30 UTC) (473 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Blue-GNU: "I'm beginning to wonder if this latest Ballmer claim is really news, or if it belongs on Fark.com..."

Thunderbird Still Has Potential to Fly Despite Developers Leaving the Nest
(Oct 10, 2007, 22:00 UTC) (277 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars Technica: "Although the goal behind the creation of MailCo is to give the Thunderbird project unprecedented room for growth, the only two full-time contributors have decided to leave the nest..."

MS Admits: Linux Biggest Threat to Winblows
(Oct 10, 2007, 21:30 UTC) (939 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Join the Revolution: "Here we have it! Finally Microsoft admits that Linux is the biggest threat to its Windows operating system! Well, almost... just not that directly..."

Six Things That Windows Does Right that Linux Still Doesn't
(Oct 10, 2007, 21:00 UTC) (1425 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Warped Visions: "As a follow-up to last year's top 10 list of things Linux does well, I figured I should talk about what Windows does right..."

Adobe: The Good, The Bad, and the Both--The Q&A;
(Oct 10, 2007, 20:30 UTC) (652 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
RedMonk: "'When I see a group like my friend's turn their back on a platform they have been working on for five years in favor of Adobe's technology--then I am guessing that Adobe might be on to something...'"

Brainstorming Ideas for the GIMP's Next Interface
(Oct 10, 2007, 20:00 UTC) (593 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "The GIMP image editor is preparing for the start of a new development cycle, and you can have your say in the way the next version looks by submitting a mock-up to the GIMP UI Brainstorm blog..."

Pentaho Makes Open Source BI Semantic
(Oct 10, 2007, 19:30 UTC) (258 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "The business intelligence software market is all about enabling business users to make sense of their data. But sometimes the data's complexity can make it a daunting task..."

Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition
(Oct 10, 2007, 19:00 UTC) (464 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
BusinessWeek: "Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace..."

Linux Users Find It Difficult to Use Eclipse
(Oct 10, 2007, 18:30 UTC) (1631 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
SDA India: "Users seem to be gearing up to give up using Eclipse for Linux development because it's too 'flakey...'"

SplashTop To Splash Onto Notebooks, Desktops
(Oct 10, 2007, 18:00 UTC) (965 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "...[W]e have learned some new details about this instant-on Linux desktop environment..."

Meanwhile, Back in Minnesota: Your Chance to Help
(Oct 10, 2007, 17:30 UTC) (501 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ConsortiumInfo: "The action in multiple countries leading up to the closing of the ISO/IEC JTC1 vote on OOXML has all but erased the memory of a similar multi-state contest involving ODF and OOXML that played out earlier this year..."

Red Hat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence
(Oct 10, 2007, 17:00 UTC) (1037 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
eWeek: "Red Hat is assuring its customers that they can continue to deploy its Linux operating system with confidence and without fear of legal retribution from Microsoft..."

Microsoft Launching Legal Threats... Against Its Customers
(Oct 10, 2007, 16:30 UTC) (1986 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Road: "Somewhere along the way, however, Microsoft decided that good products were not good enough to goose sales, and so it turned to threatening legal action against open source..."

GCC 4.2.2 Released
(Oct 10, 2007, 16:00 UTC) (1275 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
KernelTrap: "He adds, 'the compilers in this release are covered by GNU General Public License version 3,' making GCC 4.2.2 the first released under the GPLv3..."

Linux 2.6.23 Kernel Benchmarks
(Oct 10, 2007, 15:30 UTC) (1961 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "The Linux 2.6.23 kernel has been released today and we have some preliminary benchmarks of the 2.6.23 kernel as we compare it to the past Linux 2.6.22 kernel..."

Linux to Remain a Leading Embedded OS, Says Analyst
(Oct 10, 2007, 15:00 UTC) (450 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "A 'significant portion' of development teams continue to use Linux as their primary embedded OS, a recent VDC survey finds..."

MP Attacks Government Over Microsoft Policy
(Oct 10, 2007, 14:30 UTC) (1356 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet UK: "A Liberal Democrat MP has launched a stinging attack on the government's IT strategy, saying that it has given Microsoft too much control..."

Linspire 6.0 Desktop Linux Operating System Released
(Oct 10, 2007, 14:00 UTC) (792 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linspire: "The first commercial release from Linspire, Inc. in over two years, Linspire 6.0 continues its traditional focus on ease-of-use and bundles proprietary software where there are no viable open source alternatives..."

Microsoft Scrambling to Explain Ballmer Comment on Red Hat Linux
(Oct 10, 2007, 13:30 UTC) (3684 reads) (9 talkbacks) (feedback)
BetaNews: "But one spokesperson acknowledged late this afternoon that multiple sources have yet to come to an agreement over what the company should say..."

Linux 2.6.23 [Released]
(Oct 10, 2007, 12:45 UTC) (1132 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LKML.org: "Yeah, it got delayed, not because of any huge issues, but because of various bugfixes trickling in and causing me to reset my 'release clock' all the time..."

Talking FOSS at the UN
(Oct 10, 2007, 12:00 UTC) (458 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "When Nathan Eckenrode goes to the United Nations in New York City next week to help demonstrate the technology behind open source software, he doesn't really expect to discover the answer to world peace..."

Open Source Conference in Argentina Draws a Crowd
(Oct 10, 2007, 10:30 UTC) (551 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Inquirer: "But times are changing and as the CaFeCONF conference showed, the penguin OS is not only alive and kicking, but also has a huge following down under..."

Hacking openSUSE 10.3
(Oct 10, 2007, 09:00 UTC) (1745 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Software in Review: "Novell's openSUSE 10.3 is an exciting desktop operating environment that includes or supports nearly every program you need for work and play..."

Supporting More Partitions
(Oct 10, 2007, 07:30 UTC) (1111 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
KernelTrap: "'15 partitions (at least for sd_mod devices) are too few,' Jan Engelhardt suggested along with a patch to try and make the mounting of an unlimited number of partitions possible..."

ROX-Filer: A Lightweight File Manager that Simply Rocks
(Oct 10, 2007, 06:00 UTC) (1613 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
PolishLinux: "ROX is one of the genuinely interesting file managers available for the major platforms..."

Linux: Monitor Hard Disks Temperature with hddtemp
(Oct 10, 2007, 04:30 UTC) (1549 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
nixCraft: "There is a nice utility to monitor hard drive temperature. Most modern x86 computer hard disk comes with S.M.A.R.T..."

Memo from Freesoftwareburg: How to Effectively Address the Free Software Community
(Oct 10, 2007, 03:00 UTC) (517 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Rudd-O: "Today, it's no longer fashionable to decry free software types as it was just a few years ago--the cool kids are all 'leveraging' and reaching out to free software communities..."

An In-Depth Look at Puppy Linux
(Oct 10, 2007, 01:30 UTC) (1166 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
DesktopLinux: "With hundreds of Linux distributions available, how do you determine which one is right for you...?"

Ubuntu 7.10 Should Make Dell Happy
(Oct 10, 2007, 00:00 UTC) (4253 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Source Advocate: "After a large download and subsequent reboot, this computer came up in much better shape than it was in 7.04..."

Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called 'OpenDocument Format Civil War'
(Oct 9, 2007, 23:15 UTC) (1151 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Boycott Novell: "There is so much to be said to not only complement but also correct Rob's assessment, but here we shall only refer to the parts which are associated with Novell..."

OLPC is the PC You Can't Ever Criticize
(Oct 9, 2007, 22:30 UTC) (1658 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: "As Nicholas Negroponte said a year and a half ago in a presentation on the OLPC: 'people really don't want to criticize this because it is a humanitarian effort, it is a non-profit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid actually...'"

The Future of Hardware is Open Source
(Oct 9, 2007, 21:45 UTC) (1115 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Raiden's Realm: "What if we lived in a world where all hardware was open source, including CPU's, memory, motherboards, and all peripherals...?"

Thank You Michael, But No, Thank You...
(Oct 9, 2007, 21:00 UTC) (2041 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Groklaw: "First, OpenOffice.org *is* released under the LGPL. Second, and perhaps more interestingly, Novell did not deny that it was forking, aside from Michael Meeks trying to nuance and to minimize this claim..."

SECURITY: Bastille: Classic Linux and Unix Security
(Oct 9, 2007, 20:30 UTC) (947 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "The glamorous new kids in the Linux security parade are SELinux, AppArmor, and all manner of virtualization technologies..."

Making Sure Linux Doesn't Get Lost in Translation
(Oct 9, 2007, 20:00 UTC) (594 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxInsider: "The worldwide open source community shares a common overall goal: better software through collaboration and peer review..."

Some openSUSE 10.3 Misconceptions
(Oct 9, 2007, 19:30 UTC) (2439 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
KDE Developer's Journals: "There are some misconceptions floating around about openSUSE 10.3. Unfortunately uninformed people are still allowed to blog so let me pick up some I read..."

Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS
(Oct 9, 2007, 19:00 UTC) (1200 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxWorld: "Canonical Ltd., the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell Inc. to make Ubuntu available preinstalled on servers..."

Zend Brings Microsoft Into The PHP Fold
(Oct 9, 2007, 18:30 UTC) (864 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "PHP vendor Zend is set to kick off its annual ZendCon conference today with a number of announcements that will make the open source development language more attractive to Microsoft Windows platform users..."

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