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Tag Archives: Linux
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Open Source Oracle gives open source a patent pass Computer Business Review Oracle has vowed not to assert its patents against open source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel and the MySQL and PosgreSQL databases by entering into … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Open Source Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So ComputerworldUK / Glyn Moody This confirms what many of us have been warning about for some time: that Microsoft’s new-found eagerness to “engage” with open source has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2009
Open Source Red Hat Revenues Up 18 Percent in Q3 eWeek / Darryl K. Taft Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent. For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, December 20, 2009
Open Source WordPress 2.9, Now with Built-in Image Editor and Delete Undo Softpedia / Lucian Parfeni The latest version of the world most popular self-hosted blogging platform, WordPress 2.9, is now out and available for everyone to download and install. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Saturday, December 12, 2009
Open Source Linux Foundation Announces “Get One, Give One” Holiday Membership Program The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that for every new individual member who joins the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 11, 2009
Cloud IBM: LotusLive paying subscribers go from 0 to 18 million in a year ZDNet / Larry Dignan That LotusLive tally at the beginning of the year was nil so the growth is stunning. I double checked with IBM to … Continue reading
Webcast: “Smart Business Development and Test with IBM and Linux in the Cloud”
On Thursday, December 17, IBM will present a webcast entitled “Smart Business Development and Test with IBM and Linux in the Cloud.” From the description: More than just a presentation, this webcast will take you from the theory of cloud … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Politics / Government Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Politics / Government
Tagged Chrome, Google, Linux, Mozilla, Thunderbird
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Event and conference listing for Linux and open source in 2010
I’ve started putting together a listing of open source and Linux events that will take place in 2010 around the world. The list is small right now, but if you add a comment here or send me a message via … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 4, 2009
Open Source 10 Linux features Windows should have by default ZDNet / Larry Dignan In my next two 10 Things articles, I am going to take pieces of each operating system and place them in the other. In this first … Continue reading
Life with Linux: Google Earth
As I continue to work and play with Linux on the desktop, I try new things, keep a few, and toss out even more. Here’s a keeper. I started using this on Windows (ancient history), then on the Mac, and … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Open Source Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model The New York Times / Ashlee Vance The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 29, 2009
Cloud Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 20, 2009
Open Source Good Karma: An In Depth Review Of Ubuntu 9.10 Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look … Continue reading
Fedora 12 released
The onrush of cool new Linux distributions continues with the availability of Fedora 12. From the press release: The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Open Source What’s New in openSUSE 11.2 Linux Magazine / Joe Brockmeier openSUSE 11.2 is finally out after 11 months of development. The openSUSE Project released openSUSE 11.2 with a bevy of updates and improvements over last year’s 11.1 release, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Open Source Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it’s not a Linux killer ComputerWorld / Preston Gralla I’ve frequently written that Windows 7 will kill Linux on netbooks. But given that most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Open Source Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL? ZDNet / Mary-Jo Foley Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in … Continue reading
Operating systems: upgrade or reinstall? guilt or pleasure?
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
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Daily Links for Monday, November 9, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu: the complete beginner’s guide Times Online / Jonathan Richards Ubuntu, if you’re not familiar with it, is one of many varieties of a broader, open-source OS called Linux. It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more … Continue reading
Working with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala: initial impressions
I’ve been playing with the latest Ubuntu desktop release, 9.10 Karmic Koala, since the first beta and I’ve now been using it full time for business work for three days. Here are my impressions and comments: For some reason, the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 3, 2009 – Red Hat Edition
Open Source Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds Reuters Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 1, 2009
Software Microsoft to indirectly fund L.A.’s switch to Google Apps Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Nick Eaton Talk about irony. Of the $7.2 million the Los Angeles city government will be spending to switch its e-mail system to Google Apps, $1.5 million … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Software Product Quality Novell / Jeff Jaffe It is useful to review our comprehensive approach to quality. Quality is not a single process. It is baked into everything we do: before and during development; after products are shipped in the … Continue reading
Novell’s John Dragoon on “Battle Of The OS Titans” in Forbes
Novell’s CMO John Dragoon has a very nice article over in Forbes called “Battle Of The OS Titans” that emphasizes many important points about the changing desktop operating system scene. He says, in part: Gone are the days when the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Open Source The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Although a growing number of smartphone makers are embracing Linux and open source software, the dream of a fully open phone remains … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Cloud Amazon Offers MySQL Cloud Service, Cuts Server Fees InformationWeek / John Foley In a preemptive strike at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services offers a relational database in the cloud, high-memory configurations, and cuts hourly fees for its Windows and Linux … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, October 23, 2009 – Early Edition
Software Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents BusinessWeek / Jack Ewing and Arik Hesseldahl The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Linux, Nokia, Patents, Ubuntu
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New early releases of Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE Linux are available
It’s been a veritable candy store of new Linux prereleases these last few days, with early versions of three of the most popular distros becoming available. Check out: Ubuntu “Karmic Koala” 9.10 Release Candidate Fedora 12 Beta openSUSE 11.2 Release … Continue reading
IBM/Lotus, Canonical/Ubuntu, and your Linux desktop
Today IBM and Canonical announced the next phase of their program to deliver Lotus desktop- and cloud-based software to users running on Ubuntu Linux. Here are a few links that sum up the announcement: IBM and Canonical Launch Linux- and … Continue reading
