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Infrastructure Linux News for Apr 23, 2009
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Some new FUD about Linux and Oracle is floated (Oracle owns Linux) (Apr 23, 2009, 22:02)
Groklaw: "Ah, no rest for me, as the FUD keeps
on coming. Now there is a meme, echoed by none other than Rob
Enderle, that much of the code in Linux belongs to Sun, and hence
will soon be owned by Oracle, who will allegedly use that "power"
to take over Linux:"
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Most Extensive Real-World Vulnerability Research (Apr 23, 2009, 21:07)
Help Net Security: "Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of
Qualys, today unveiled Laws of Vulnerabilities 2.0 derived from the
industry’s largest vulnerability dataset."
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Easy Peasy V1.1 A Quick First Look (Apr 23, 2009, 20:46)
Cooking With Linux: "I had to send my netbook,
an Acer Aspire One, for repair after three months of use. The unit
originally came with Windows XP, but had 1Gb of memory and a 160Gb
hard drive, a configuration not available on Linux versions."
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SCO Motion for More Exclusivity Denied, the March MORs, and A Proposed Amicus in the Novell Appeal (Apr 23, 2009, 20:03)
Groklaw: "The judge in the SCO bankruptcy has
denied [PDF] SCO's motion to extend exclusivity. Surprise,
surprise. The only way to grant it was to rewrite bankruptcy law,
as I read it, so everyone else can file a reorganization plan now,
if they wish to. I notice they are not falling over each other to
do so yet. And SCO has finally filed its monthly operating reports
for March."
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Big Herd of Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Announcements (Apr 23, 2009, 19:33)
Today is the day, the official release of Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty
Jackalope. Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Server
edition are also released today. Here is an assortment of news and
release announcements.
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Free Desks and Chairs Anyone? (Apr 23, 2009, 19:03)
Serverwatch: "You see, you don't really own the
desk; you're simply purchasing a license to use the desk. Chairs
are sold separately and we have the corner on the market for chairs
that are 100 percent compatible with the desk. The chairs are also
very expensive."
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Fair Use, Turnitin, And... Why Google Never Should Have Caved On Book Scanning (Apr 23, 2009, 18:03)
Techdirt: "Last year, we wrote about a district
court decision that noted iParadigm's popular Turnitin plagiarism
checker service wasn't violating copyright by adding every
student's paper to its database, noting that this was fair
use."
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Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial (Apr 23, 2009, 17:33)
The Local: "A lawyer representing one of the
men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial
after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright
protection organisations as several of the main entertainment
industry representatives."
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Ulteo expands open source virtual desktop (Apr 23, 2009, 17:03)
Netstat -vat: "Ulteo is out with a new release
of its open virtual desktop (OVD) today that now enabled Windows as
well as Linux applications."
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The Future Of Computing Will Be Good Enough (Apr 23, 2009, 13:33)
PC World: "Put simply, nobody wanted to
upgrade. Everybody was happy with XP. Too happy, in fact, for
Microsoft's business model to survive."
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Ubuntu 9.04: Nothing Short of Amazing (Apr 23, 2009, 12:33)
IT News Today: "Is Ubuntu 9.04 worth the
download? The answer is clear: DEFINITELY."
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Webopedia Terms of the Day (Apr 23, 2009, 10:33)
Webopedia: Twittworking, Unified Computing
System
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WiFi sharing service gains new Linux routers (Apr 23, 2009, 09:03)
LinuxDevices: "Fon, which claims to offer the
world's largest WiFi sharing community, has updated its Linux-based
Fonera WiFi router with updated firmware and a new USB port. Like
the earlier Fonera routers, the Fonera 2.0 offers both private and
shareable WiFi signals, says the company."
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Intel Core i7 Virtualization On Linux (Apr 23, 2009, 07:33)
Phoronix: "One area we had not looked at in the
original article was the virtualization performance, but we are
back today with Intel Core i7 920 Linux benchmarks when testing out
the KVM hypervisor and Sun xVM VirtualBox. In this article we are
providing a quick look at Intel's Nehalem virtualization
performance on Linux."
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Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 2 (Apr 23, 2009, 06:03)
Linux Journal: "MuseScore-- In one sense,
MuseScore is the "odd man out" in this article. It does not employ
LilyPond in any way, but it does support MusicXML. That support
gives it an entry into the LilyPond environment by way of
LilyPond's musicxml2ly utility."
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Opinion: Microsoft still harming netbook markets (Apr 23, 2009, 04:33)
Geek.com: "While the hardware is more than
capable, the software is not. Seem odd? It is, but it's part of
Microsoft's doing as they are imposing limitations on what hardware
can run what operating system."
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Amazon and Wikipedia phactor Phorm out of the privacy equation (Apr 23, 2009, 01:33)
IT Wire: "Even if the UK Government is not
going to stop Phorm spying on Internet users on privacy grounds, it
looks like some of the biggest brands on the Web will."
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Reverting to older kernel under Ubuntu (Apr 23, 2009, 00:03)
Distrowatch Weekly News: "The recent release of
Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 RC as an *.img file, a format easily
transferable to any USB storage media, has quickly become my
preferred operating system on the Eee PC and it has now replaced
the original Xandros-built distribution on its internal solid state
drives (SSD)."
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