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IT Management Linux News for Jan 24, 2008
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Eben Moglen on Open Source's Future (Jan 24, 2008, 22:00)
LinuxWorld: "What do you see as the biggest
danger to open-source software today? On the one hand, there's
still a locus of resistance..."
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Fewer in Asia Seek Linux Support (Jan 24, 2008, 21:15)
ZDNet Asia: "A smaller proportion of Linux
users in Asia sign up for enterprise support services, but that is
'okay' by Novell global strategic partners' chief technologist
Marcin Kurc..."
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Report: Schools Will Increase Spending on Open Source (Jan 24, 2008, 17:30)
LinuxWorld: "Educational institutions will
increase spending on open-source software and services over the
next few years, but that doesn't mean proprietary software will be
left in the dark, according to a new report covering 14
countries..."
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HP Launches Open Source Governance Initiative (Jan 24, 2008, 14:30)
internetnews.com: "In a set of new initiatives
HP is now taking its experience and its open source license
governance tools and open sourcing them in an effort to raise
awareness and build a broader community for open source
governance..."
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Federal Employment Office Switches to Linux (Jan 24, 2008, 13:45)
Heise Online: "Shortly after switching all of
its 13,000 public internet information workstations from Windows NT
to Linux, the Federal Employment Office issued an interim
report..."
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KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support (Jan 24, 2008, 13:00)
Ars Technica: "The open-source KDE desktop
environment is making the jump across platforms with broad support
for Windows and Mac OS X. The core KDE desktop programs, the
KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player are actively being
ported."
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LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple (Jan 24, 2008, 12:00)
Linux DevCenter: "LILO (Linux Loader) and GRUB
(GRand Unified Bootloader) are both configured as a primary boot
loader (installed on the MBR) or secondary boot loader (installed
onto a bootable partition). Both work with supporting operating
systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Net BSD, and OpenBSD. They can work
with unsupported operating system, such as Microsoft Windows XP, in
the configuration file. Both allow users—root users—to
boot into single-user-mode."
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New Linux flash filesystem offers 4X speed (Jan 24, 2008, 10:30)
Device Guru: "Flash filesystem (FFS) specialist
Datalight Inc. will soon release a commercial Linux FFS claimed to
provide 400 percent the write performance and 500 percent the mount
speed of JFFS2."
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Dell releases new Ubuntu-powered laptop: XPS 1330n (Jan 24, 2008, 09:00)
Desktop Linux: "Linux laptop users suffering
from Apple MacBook Air envy now have a chic, hot laptop to call
their own: the Dell XPS 1330n with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.10."
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ATI Radeon HD 3400, 3600 Series (Jan 24, 2008, 07:30)
Phoronix: "AMD has today announced the ATI
Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series graphics processors, which are the
budget-minded siblings to the Radeon HD 3850 and 3870... Will the
DisplayPort interface on these graphics cards be supported under
Linux?"
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Manipulate del.icio.us bookmarks with PHP (Jan 24, 2008, 06:00)
DeveloperWorks: "The del.icio.us service lets
users collect and share bookmarks online. Manipulate these
bookmarks with PEAR's Services_Delicious package that interfaces
with the REST API of del.icio.us and build customized PHP
applications."
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ET: Quake Wars Threaded Renderer (Jan 24, 2008, 03:00)
Phoronix: "Accompanied by an updated Windows
release, last week id Software had released its Enemy Territory:
Quake Wars v1.4 update for Linux. We have previously shared most of
the details surrounding this major ET: Quake Wars update with the
same changes as the Windows build. One of the most interesting
features, however, is the new threaded renderer for improved
multi-core performance."
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Wine-doors 0.1.2 (Carménère) Released (Jan 24, 2008, 01:30)
Wine Review: "Wine-doors 0.1.2 has been
released, this release sees vastly improved exception handling
thanks to Andrew Stormont who joined the project after 0.1.1, along
with some new features tweaks and various other fixes. We're also
syncing the repos from SVN nightly, this means that we can release
apps faster between now and the finalisation of the new application
database which is currently being worked on by Sam Taylor."
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Dell Dials Open Source Phones (Jan 24, 2008, 00:30)
The VAR Guy: "Dell plans to promote Fonality (a
major Asterisk proponent) to small business customers seeking IP
telephony systems. It’s a landmark development, folks, that
benefits Dell in multiple markets (open source, VoIP, unified
communications, and managed services). Here’s why."
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