Infrastructure Linux News for Dec 13, 2007:

The Greatest Linux Innovations Of 2007
(2007-12-13 00:15:46)
Phoronix: "The year is winding down and while we have a lot to look forward to next year, what were the greatest Linux innovations of this year..."

Radiohead, Open Source, and the Problem with Free
(2007-12-13 01:00:35)
The Open Road: "Give an IT buyer the option of getting something for nothing, and she will, nine times out of 10..."

CAOS Report Five: The SMB Market Opportunity
(2007-12-13 01:45:25)
451 CAOS Theory: "A few weeks ago, we released our fifth 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Report entitled 'The SMB Market Opportunity--How big are SMBs for open source?'..."

3 Things Elvis and OS/2 Have In Common
(2007-12-13 02:30:17)
TechIQ: "Name three things that Elvis and OS/2 have in common. Don't rush your answer. Think about it for a minute or two. OK, ready? Here's the answer...

Watching Linux Grow in the Islands of Andaman and Nicobar
(2007-12-13 04:00:54)
Red Hat Magazine: "In the last eight months, the islands of Andaman and Nicobar have witnessed tremendous development in the IT sector, especially in the case of open source and Linux..."

Linux Media Player Roundup--Part 7--Finale
(2007-12-13 05:30:17)
Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to the last part of our Linux media player roundup..."

Paldo Melds Source-Based and Binary in One Distro
(2007-12-13 07:00:32)
Linux.com: "Paldo Linux is a cross between a source-based and binary distribution. It installs as a binary system to provide a quick and easy desktop..."

Frugalware 0.7 Review
(2007-12-13 08:30:42)
Open Review: "Frugalware is a general-purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users, who are familiar with command-line operations..."

Mandriva Flash 2008: Bigger and Better
(2007-12-13 09:15:52)
Linux.com: "Mandriva is the only Linux maker that offers a version of its distribution packaged with and designed to run off a USB stick..."

First Kubuntu Impressions
(2007-12-13 10:00:43)
The Occasional Thoughts of Yaba: "The first step of my potential Kubuntu migration is an installation on a VMware to fiddle a little bit around with Kubuntu before passing the point of hard return, which is deleting my openSUSE installation..."

TuxMobil Now Offers 7,000 Linux Guides for the Laptop
(2007-12-13 10:45:25)
LinuxPR: "The TuxMobil project covers all aspects concerning Linux on laptops and notebooks..."

Bringing One SimCity Per Child to the OLPC
(2007-12-13 11:30:46)
LinuxWorld: "More recently, John Gilmore, an advisor to the One Laptop Per Child initiative, suggested the idea to Hopkins of bringing the game to the OLPC's XO laptop..."

Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set
(2007-12-13 14:30:46)
Xiph.Org: "Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance..."

Adobe to Open Source Messaging Protocols
(2007-12-13 15:15:17)
internetnews.com: "Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects..."

OpenOffice.org Goes Online with SAAS Version
(2007-12-13 16:00:05)
DesktopLinux: "Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection...?"

A Child's View of the $100 Laptop
(2007-12-13 16:45:19)
BBC: "Enter Rufus Cellan-Jones. He is nine, has far more experience of games consoles than computers, and has strong views on most matters..."

The World Series of Linux: Round 1
(2007-12-13 17:30:37)
CRN: "But the world of desktop Linux has become increasingly competitive, increasingly important to the IT industry, and increasingly available for anyone to try..."

Finer Points of OOXML Debate
(2007-12-13 20:30:01)
Roundup: The ISO meeting to vote on the standardization of OOXML is coming soon; ConsortiumInfo and Groklaw examine some of the finer points of what's ahead.

Text-to-Speech and Other KWord Tips
(2007-12-13 21:15:12)
LinuxPlanet: "Today we're going to learn some great shortcut for navigating long documents, some simple tricks for managing photo printing, and how to turn on KWord's text-to-speech engine and make it read to you..."

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