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Infrastructure Linux News for Aug 09, 2006:
Free Software Magazine: Your Data or Your Life
(2006-08-09 00:00:10) "Or, at least he would be if he'd renewed the tech support contract on his medical records software. He didn't, though, and now his information--and your daughter's--is locked away in a proprietary database he can't access..."
OSWeekly: Should I Really Care About Linux?
(2006-08-09 01:30:24) "When ZDTV (later renamed TechTV, then G4TechTV and finally G4) first broadcasted its signal across the airwaves, I was intrigued by the ongoing enthusiasm that was expressed for a little operating system called Linux..."
NewsForge: Open Source Videos Capture a New Way to do Tech Support
(2006-08-09 06:00:38) "An enterprising young computer scientist in Belgium has come up with a new twist on the old help desk..."
LinuxDevices: Commodity PC Morphs into Mobile Linux Robot
(2006-08-09 07:30:23) "WhiteBox Robotics says its 914 PC-Bot 'does everything a PC does,' with the added capability of mobility..."
Tectonic: Easing Kids Into Free Software
(2006-08-09 10:30:32) "By current standards I was already old when I had my own computer for the first time. It was 1997 and I had already been out of school for six years..."
PR: Linspire Releases Freespire 1.0 Desktop Linux OS
(2006-08-09 12:45:58) "...[A] free, Debian-based desktop Linux operating system that optionally combines open source software with legally-licensed proprietary drivers, codecs and applications..." Press release within.
ComputerWeekly: Firefox 2.0 Beta Delayed
(2006-08-09 14:15:00) "The open source Mozilla Foundation has delayed the release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 by a week because of bugs yet to be ironed out in the browser software..."
DesktopLinux: Migration Tool Adds "Full" MS Office-to-OO.o Support
(2006-08-09 15:00:35) "Desktop migration specialist Versora on Aug. 8 released an updated version (v2.0) of its Progression Desktop Windows to Linux desktop migration software..."
jonobacon@home: Goodbye OpenAdvantage, Hello Canonical
(2006-08-09 15:45:38) "On September 4th I start as the Ubuntu Community Manager, and I am raring to go..."
Linux Journal: Google: The Godfather of Open Source?
(2006-08-09 18:00:30) "It's well known that Google runs its vast array of servers using a custom version of GNU/Linux. But this is only one aspect of its support for free software..."
Inside Open Source: Software Choice = Political Freedom
(2006-08-09 22:30:46) "A few days ago I made a blog posting in which I said that I've switched my office computer to Windows..."
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