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Infrastructure Linux News for Jan 31, 2008
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25 Years Ago: Free, Easy, Software Begins (Jan 31, 2008, 22:00)
PC World: "He was already something of a
celebrity in the wider world of personal computing as the father of
'freeware,' a concept that he had popularized, starting in late
1982, with the release of his trailblazing communications program,
called PC-Talk..."
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Motorola Responds to Nokia's Trolltech Buy (Jan 31, 2008, 20:30)
LinuxDevices: "Motorola has responded to the
news earlier this week that rival Nokia plans to purchase
Trolltech, long-time supplier of the graphical development
framework used in Motorola's Linux phones..."
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Interview With Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon (Jan 31, 2008, 19:00)
Linux Journal: "Linux Journal recently
caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out
more about a recently announced partnership between Mandriva of
France and Turbolinux of Japan..."
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Linspire Offers Custom Linux Builds (Jan 31, 2008, 17:30)
vnunet: "Linspire, developer of the commercial
Linspire and Freespire flavours of community desktop operating
systems, is to offer a custom desktop Linux OS build service to
partners..."
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Google and Dell Tipped to Reveal iPhone Rival Plans (Jan 31, 2008, 16:45)
Marketing Week: "Speculation is mounting that
Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with
computer giant Dell..."
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Tracking the Man with the Gavel: Alex Brown on the BRM (Jan 31, 2008, 16:00)
ConsortiumInfo: "As many of you are aware, Alex
Brown will be the 'Convenor' of the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting
that will run from February 25 through 29 in Geneva,
Switzerland..."
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SCO's 10K: Now What? Caveat Emptor (Jan 31, 2008, 15:15)
Groklaw: "SCO has filed its 10K Annual Report
for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007. What a year it has
been. They are down to 115 employees as of that date. Probably less
now..."
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2008's Top Leaders in Open Source Business (Jan 31, 2008, 13:00)
LinuxWorld: "According to an IDC report, Open
Source Software Business Models 2007-2011 Forecast: A Preliminary
View, worldwide open source-related revenue reached $1.8 billion in
2006 and will grow to reach $5.8 billion by 2011..."
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Open Aerial Map Project is Collecting Free Data (Jan 31, 2008, 12:15)
Linux.com: "The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is
well on its way to producing a free, user-editable street-level
vector map of the world..."
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A Better ext4 Filesystem for Linux (Jan 31, 2008, 11:30)
LinuxWorld: "A new Linux filesystem gets rid of
the 256-petabyte limit, and adds a checksum feature for the
journal. But developers want you to know that it's not yet ready
for production systems..."
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SLAX on USB Drive (Jan 31, 2008, 10:45)
PolishLinux: "Such a stick is more than enough
for a light Linux distro leaving a lot of space for other
data..."
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Bordeaux WineTricks Manager 0.3 Released (Jan 31, 2008, 10:00)
Wine Review: "This is the third release (0.3)
of Bordeaux, this release has many fixes and improvements over the
0.2 release..."
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Over the Air Software Customization for Linux Mobile (Jan 31, 2008, 09:15)
DaniWeb: "A specialist mobile software
management company, Red Bend Software, has today announced what it
claims to be the first Linux based mobile phone complete with fully
over the air customizable software..."
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Core Driver Patches in the 2.6.25 Merge Window (Jan 31, 2008, 08:30)
KernelTrap: Prefacing a series of 196 patches,
Greg KH noted, 'due to the low level nature of these patches, and
because they touch so many different parts of the kernel, a number
of the subsystem maintainers have asked me to get them in first to
make merging other trees easier..."
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R500 XAA/EXA Benchmarks Of RadeonHD Driver (Jan 31, 2008, 07:00)
Phoronix: "The public release of AMD's 'tcore'
sample code is imminent, thereby steering the open-source
development efforts toward R600 2D acceleration and the basis of
the 3D support for the RadeonHD driver..."
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77 Useful Linux Commands and Utilities (Jan 31, 2008, 05:30)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Linux administrators
cannot live by the GUI alone. That's why we've compiled the most
essential Linux commands into this convenient guide..."
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The Essence of Choice (Jan 31, 2008, 04:00)
Raiden's Realm: "Over the years, I've had
people ask me many times, 'Why do you use this program or that
program? Why not use Microsoft instead like everyone else...?'"
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Nokia: $150M to the Trolltech Under the Bridge (Jan 31, 2008, 01:45)
tecosystems: "Surprisingly, Nokia's acquisition
of Trolltech has elicited the least inbound inquiry of all the
recent open source M&A activity..."
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Denying CDF: "There Be Dragons" (Jan 31, 2008, 00:15)
PlexNex: "The industry of denial of the
importance of the W3C's Compound Document Format is going to be a
Sisyphean ordeal for the blindered ODF & OOXML choruses..."
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