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Daily links for 05/11/2011
Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu Linux cloud | ZDNet “OK, it’s not too surprising that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has switched to OpenStack for its Ubuntu cloud foundation technology. After all, Canonical started flirting with OpenStack back in … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/06/2011
Apple dumping Intel for ARM? Pros, cons and a lot of questions | ZDNet “The rumor of the day is that Apple is dumping Intel and its x86 architecture for ARM—at least on laptops.” tags: apple intel arm Back to … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/28/2011
Review: The best Linux book available | TechRepublic “A thick, heavy book with the equally weighty title A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming may be the single most important Linux book you ever buy.” tags: linux … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/27/2011
Groklaw – Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetive Scheme Against Android “Microsoft has a scheme, Barnes & Noble asserts, to dominate Android and make it undesirable to device manufacturers and customers by demanding “exorbitant … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/16/2011
Five Reasons not to “Upgrade” to Windows’ Internet Explorer 9 | ZDNet “After a couple of weeks on tinkering with the newly released Internet Explorer (IE) 9, and a host of other Web browsers, I have to say that while … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/22/2011
Navisurfer II brings Ubuntu to your car | Expert Reviews “Based on a Celeron M low-power processor running at 1.3GHz and with 250GB of storage for movies and music, the Navisurfer is an impressive device in its own right – … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/19/2011
How to Get the Most Out of Your Laptop with Linux | Linux.com “With just a little preparation, a bit of research, and work you can have Linux on your laptop working like a well-oiled machine. And once you have … Continue reading
Daily links for 01/05/2011
Google Wins One Against Microsoft – WSJ.com “Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/24/2010
W3C updates HTML5, makes math easy – Computerworld “The W3C has updated its MathML standard for rendering mathematical notation on Web pages to better portray basic math symbols, as well as render mathematic symbols in more languages.” tags: w3c html5 … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/21/2010
Alfresco drops LGPL’d Hibernate for iBatis – The H Open Source: News and Features “At the Alfresco Developer Conference, currently being held in Paris, The H took the opportunity to ask John Newton, CTO of Alfresco, why the change had … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/20/2010
Boosting Ubuntu’s Productivity: 20 Tips — Datamation.com “In this article, I’ll share twenty tips that have saved me countless hours of wasted time, while making my life with Ubuntu easier in general. Some among you may have different variations of … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/11/2010
The five factors powering the Android revolution | ZDNet “Google Android has been riding a wave of staggering growth in 2010, going from barely a blip on the market share radar to the fastest growing mobile platform on the planet, … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/08/2010
Mercury Releases OpenSAL – Open Source Version of Scientific Algorithm Library – MarketWatch “Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. , a trusted ISR subsystems provider, announced the availability of OpenSAL, an open source version of its award-winning Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL) for … Continue reading
Daily links for 10/04/2010
The New Type of Programmer: DevOp | ITworld “One theme that came up repeatedly in my research for an article about what’s different about programming for cloud computing is that developers should expect to learn more about cloud computing platforms, … Continue reading
Daily links for 09/26/2010
Ubuntu introduces new facial recognition interface technology | NewsDen “Today, our computers are generally accessed by input devices like mouse or keyboard or we have to touch it to access. But, that doesn’t mean that the PC needs an input … Continue reading
Daily links for 09/21/2010
Oracle rips Red Hat and ‘sort of’ launches a new Linux – Computerworld Blogs “Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux–what a name!–is based on the stable 2.6.32 mainline Linux kernel. For some reason, a few idiots seem to think … Continue reading
Daily links for 09/09/2010
Statement by Apple on App Store Review Guidelines “We are continually trying to make the App Store even better. We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. Based on their input, today we are … Continue reading
Daily links for 09/07/2010
Mark Bohannon to Lead Red Hat Governmental Affairs and Public Policy | Business Wire “Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Mark Bohannon will join the company as Vice President of … Continue reading
Daily links for 09/02/2010
How to Install Apps With Ubuntu Software Center – PCWorld Business Center “The latest release of Ubuntu 10.04, code-named Lucid Lynx, has a somewhat revamped user interface. One of the most significant changes is the Software Center, which provides a … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/21/2010
Ubuntu quietly breaks off Sparc affair • The Register “Maverick Meerkat is set to become the last version of Ubuntu that’ll run on Oracle’s Sparc, ending a four-year relationship. Also getting canned is Ubuntu running on Hewlett-Packard’s Itanic 64-bit challenger.” … Continue reading
Daily links for 08/03/2010
Poll: Does the type of open source license matter to you? | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com “When you are evaluating an open source development tool, how important is the kind of license it uses to you? Let us know … Continue reading
Daily links for 07/27/2010
Ubuntu’s two big advantages over Windows and Mac | ZDNet “I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop … Continue reading
Daily links for 07/22/2010
Ubuntu Linux brings IBM DB2 to the cloud – Computerworld Blogs “Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has always had many user and developer fans. Enterprise business fans? Not so much. Canonical hopes to change that with today’s, July 21, launch … Continue reading
Daily links for 07/21/2010
Canonical bundles Linux, IBM database for the cloud | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld “Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C database running on the … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/21/2010
Ubuntu v iTunes: the music playoff for Applephobes • Channel Register “So which Linux music app is the best? Well, that’s up to you. There is no such thing as the best piece of software, just the one that’s most … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/14/2010
Can Fedora be the new Ubuntu? | Linux and Open Source | TechRepublic.com “But with the release of Fedora 13 Fedora has done something that, in many peoples’ eyes, is much more important…they have released an amazingly rock-solid operating system. … Continue reading
Daily links for 06/02/2010
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed : Introduction “Lucid has also shown itself to not only be a worthy successor to the previous LTS release, 8.04 Hardy Heron, but also an overall improvement to our previous favorite Linux … Continue reading
Life with Linux: Notes on installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS
Last night and this morning I installed the latest Ubuntu Linux desktop, version 10.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. LTS stands for “long term support,” though I usually update to new versions when they come out every six months. This was on … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/03/2010
How-to Become a Linux Gamer | Linux Journal “The Linux Gamers project is very unique in that the entire project is encapsulated within the confines of a live distribution (aka distro). Version 0.95, its most recent offering, of the project … Continue reading
Daily links for 05/01/2010
AppShopper.com » Blog Archive » Number Crunching: Calculator Apps for iPad “As we mentioned in last week’s article on iPad weather apps, the iPad does not come with all of the same apps as the iPhone out of the box. … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/14/2010
How to switch your small or home office to Linux | News | TechRadar UK “With Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many people are testing the feasibility of switching small … Continue reading
Daily links for 04/07/2010
How Apple’s iPad Succeeded Where Microsoft Failed | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com “In the meantime, Apple has ignited a rocket with an unknown payload. One thing is for sure: in the coming months and years, we’re sure to see … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/30/2010
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11′s renewal plans – The H Open Source: News and Features “Other important features in Service Pack 1 are kernel resource management and support for up to 4096 CPUs and 16TB of RAM in a system. Xen … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/26/2010
Undergrads flock to computer science programs “The total number of undergraduate majors in computer science increased 5.5% in 2008-2009, the second consecutive year that the number of computer science majors has increased, according to the annual Taulbee Survey by the … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/23/2010
Novell revives annual BrainShare conference, dispels rumors | Deseret News “Although BrainShare was not held in 2009 because of the rocky economy, BrainShare 20TEN, as it’s being called, has drawn roughly 4,000 attendees for four days of hands-on training, networking … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/11/2010
Microsoft offers a Sophie’s Choice | Open Source | ZDNet.com “You get one choice. You buy Microsoft and you’re locked into Microsoft. You can’t go back. In Microsoft’s world its formats and open source are the two children, and you … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/06/2010
IT PRO | Q&A: Mark Kingdon on Second Life for business “At the CeBIT conference in Hanover this week, Kingdon told IT PRO that more business functions would move to worlds like Second Life, for meetings, simulations and more – … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/05/2010
Apple iPad coming April 3: Will anyone wait for Wi-Fi and 3G version? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com “Apple’s iPad will be available April 3 in the U.S. for the Wi-Fi model with Wi-Fi and 3G versions coming later … Continue reading
Daily links for 03/04/2010
Slashdot Interviews Story | Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical “A couple of weeks ago you posed some questions for Matt Asay, who recently moved into the COO role at Canonical. Click below to read his answers.” … Continue reading
Daily links for 02/20/2010
Stanford mathematician: In reality, simulation is key to math education “A massively multiplayer online game requiring players to employ mathematical concepts could revolutionize the teaching of mathematics at the middle school level, according to Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin. That’s the … Continue reading
Virtual Life with Linux: Standalone OpenSim on Ubuntu 9.10
As a complement to my Life with Linux blog series, I’m introducing another series which explores what I can do in virtual worlds and immersive Internet environments on Linux. Last night I decided to play with OpenSim, aka OpenSimulator, which … Continue reading
Press Release: “ZSL Unveils ‘PowerCube’ DaaS in the U.S., Africa and India”
I’m a little tardy in noting this, but this last week at Lotusphere, IBM partner ZSL issued the following press release, which begins: Lotusphere, Florida (PRWEB) January 19, 2010 ZSL, a leading ISV & Global Software Solutions and Services provider, … Continue reading
Press Release: “IBM Client for Smart Work Available Through Business Partners in India”
Here’s a another press release from today involving IBM, Symphony, Lotus Live, Ubuntu Linux, and Virtual Bridges. We’re continuing the rollout of the partner-led IBM Client for Smart Work: IBM Client for Smart Work Available Through Business Partners in India … Continue reading
Press Release: “Canonical Offers Dedicated Support Program for Lotus Symphony …”
Canonical announced the following today via a press release: Canonical Offers Dedicated Support Program for Lotus Symphony, the Core Component of IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu Canonical today announced a dedicated support program for Lotus Symphony, the no-charge … Continue reading
Lotusphere photos: Ubuntu’s Peter Woodward and Tux
Here’s the next round of photos from Lotusphere 2010. Here’s Peter Woodward of Canonical/Ubuntu and me. Light could have been better, but you take what you can get in a meeting room. Next is our friendly penguin friend sporting an … Continue reading
