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Infrastructure Linux News for Jan 29, 2008
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Is MySQL's Fate the Future of Open Source? (Jan 29, 2008, 23:30)
Linux Journal: "It's not every day that the
entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source
world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that
it was buying MySQL..."
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Potential Impact of Nokia's Trolltech Acquisition (Jan 29, 2008, 20:30)
Roundup: Trolltech and Nokia in a Scandinavian
acquisition-fest. You just know people have something to say about
that.
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Software Patent Case Defendant Seeks Support of FOSS Community (Jan 29, 2008, 19:45)
Linux.com: "Barracuda Networks is actively
seeking the support of the free and open source software community
in its battle against a patent suit brought against it by Trend
Micro
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The Red Hat Community Architecture Team (Jan 29, 2008, 19:00)
LWN: "Inside of Red Hat, March 1 is always a
magical date, because that represents the beginning of a new budget
year..."
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HP Debuts Linux-Based Thin Client (Jan 29, 2008, 18:15)
LinuxDevices: "Hewlett-Packard unveiled its
first new thin clients since acquiring Neoware last fall. Among the
new products is a Debian- based 't5735' model featuring a CPU and
GPU (graphics processor unit) from AMD, which acquired GPU
specialist ATI recently..."
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SpringSource Has Acquired Covalent Technologies (Jan 29, 2008, 17:30)
451 CAOS Theory: "The rate of open source
M&A continues apace, this time involving two open source
software vendors. SpringSource has announced plans to acquire
Covalent Technologies for an undisclosed fee..."
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Nokia's Trolltech Grab Hurts Rivals (Jan 29, 2008, 15:15)
BusinessWeek: "The software acquisition
bolsters Nokia's perch in the mobile device arena, could further
dismantle Motorola, and puts pressure on Google..."
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'We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as IE7 Lags (Jan 29, 2008, 14:30)
Wired: "Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but
steady march against the worldwide dominance of Microsoft Internet
Explorer in 2007..."
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New Approach To ATI Linux Driver Installation (Jan 29, 2008, 11:30)
Phoronix: "With two new driver options that
will be formally introduced next month in Ubuntu's packaging
scripts for the Catalyst 8.02 Linux driver, the installation
process of the ATI fglrx driver on Ubuntu will become several steps
easier..."
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Tweaking Hidden Ubuntu Settings With Ubuntu Tweak (Jan 29, 2008, 07:00)
HowtoForge: "Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets
you change hidden Ubuntu settings..."
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ATI Linux & X-Plane: It Works (Jan 29, 2008, 05:30)
Phoronix: "X-Plane is marketed as the 'most
thorough, flexible, and realistic flight simulator available for
personal computers' and ships not only for Windows and Macintosh
platforms but also for Linux..."
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Arch: Pros Only, But Not Bad (Jan 29, 2008, 04:45)
The DistRogue: "Arch Linux is one of the few
distributions to be optimized for an i686 processor--in other
words, it's really fast without having to compile anything..."
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First Look at Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0, Ramon Edition (Jan 29, 2008, 04:00)
Linux Love: "Linux distributions keep on
updating, and upgrading and releasing new editions and basically
getting better, faster, stronger and more usable, otherwise they
will just be dead with no one to miss them..."
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Examining the XO Activities and Durability (Jan 29, 2008, 03:15)
Blue-GNU: "Having thrown around a few initial
impressions about the OLPC XOs, I thought I would take a more
in-depth look at the user interface and some of the activities kids
can engage in..."
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Review: gOS 2.0 Beta (Jan 29, 2008, 02:30)
Raiden's Realm: "Then there's America, where
Everex's range of PCs featuring the upstart Linux distribution
known as gOS have been selling out faster than they can make them.
But can cheap and cheerful also mean innovative and
interesting...?"
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Splunk 3.1: A Log-Monitoring Gem Shines Brighter (Jan 29, 2008, 01:45)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Many moons have
risen since we last gushed about Splunk, so what better way to
reinvigorate our personal buzz than to install the latest version
and write a how-to..."
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How Linux Users Should React in a Windows World (Jan 29, 2008, 01:00)
OSWeekly: "Many Linux users find themselves
working in Windows-based environments. More often that not, this is
not something that can be avoided, and to be honest, I cannot
actually say for certain that it should be..."
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