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News Linux News for Feb 13, 2008:
Can We Please Stop Fighting FUD with FUD?
(2008-02-13 01:00:01)
Free Software Magazine: "Recently I've noticed a surge in the amount of FUD going the other way--from the FOSS community towards Microsoft and other proprietary software companies..."
A Peek Into Tomorrow's Linux
(2008-02-13 02:30:24)
Mad Penguin: "This is something that had to come out eventually--has Xandros picked up where the SCO Group left off...?"
What to Use in Linux: Open Or Closed Software?
(2008-02-13 04:00:46)
OSWeekly: "This is a question that has struck a lot of new Linux users. Should they use closed source software when the open source alternatives are lacking...?"
Faxing in OpenOffice.org
(2008-02-13 05:30:51)
Linux Journal: "Faxes are the technology that won't die. Having become popular in the 1970s, they persist in modern business, despite being redundant and needlessly complicated..."
Index and Search with KDE's New Strigi
(2008-02-13 07:00:37)
Linux.com: "The Strigi project is the core of the index and search technology for KDE 4. Strigi is designed to be small and fast, and it can be installed and used with or without KDE 4..."
AMD Phenom 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance
(2008-02-13 08:30:48)
Phoronix: "Since publishing our Linux review of the AMD Phenom 9500 on the Spider platform a month ago, we have continued in our investigation of this first AMD desktop quad-core processor that has been very problematic with Ubuntu 7.10 Linux..."
Why YAST is Too VAST
(2008-02-13 10:00:01)
Raiden's Realm: "My test PC is running openSUSE 10.3 at the moment and I'm generally very impressed with it. It's too green, in the way that Ubuntu is too brown, but that's easily fixed..."
Fedora 8: Live CD Reviewed
(2008-02-13 11:30:00)
OSWeekly: "Overall, Fedora 8 is a really solid distro. But there were specific areas that a lot of other reviews completely missed..."
SAM Linux Desktop Shows Promise
(2008-02-13 13:00:47)
Linux.com: "SAM Linux Desktop, an Xfce-fronted distribution based on PCLinuxOS, aims to be a complete and modern desktop operating system..."
Firefox 3 Beta 3 Now Available for Download
(2008-02-13 13:45:00)
Mozilla Developer Center: "This is the eleventh developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3..."
Sun Lays its Open Source Virtualization Cards on the Table
(2008-02-13 14:30:02)
Computer Business Review: "News just in is that Sun is buying innotek, the open source virtualization player..."
Red Hat Aiming to Grow JBoss at Twice the Rate of RHEL
(2008-02-13 15:15:19)
The Open Road: "I saw that Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO, is gunning for $1 billion in revenue within the next three years..."
A Deluge of Facts KOs OOXML (Office Open XML)
(2008-02-13 16:00:57)
Fanatic Attack: "In the end, it will be Microsoft's own inflexibility that will be its undoing, and that undoing means knocking the OOXML out of approval for ISO status..."
Citrix Keeps Open Source Xen Promise
(2008-02-13 16:45:26)
internetnews.com: "Six months after acquiring open source virtualization vendor XenSource for $500 million, Citrix is living up to its Open Source promises..."
10 Years of Open Source and Counting
(2008-02-13 17:30:03)
Linux-Watch: "I find it hard to believe that it was 10 years ago that Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens deliberately coined the phrase 'open source...'"
Firefox 3 Beta 3: Kicking the Tires
(2008-02-13 18:15:09)
Roundup: With Beta 3 of Firefox 3 out today, it didn't take long for the early reviews to hit the wires...
A Look Back at 10 Years of OSI
(2008-02-13 19:00:34)
ONLamp: To celebrate the moment, "Federico Biancuzzi interviewed the two founders, Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf (a member of the first Board of Directors, the others were Ian Murdock, Russ Nelson, and Chip Salzenberg), and Michael Tiemann, the current President..."
From Counterculture Flag to Corporate Gold Star
(2008-02-13 19:45:39)
LinuxWorld: "In 2006, Massachusetts' then CIO, Peter Quinn, described the open source community as the 'sandal and ponytail set,' and claimed that image and appearance made open source a harder sell for use in his state government..."
BitRock: Application Installation in a Networked World
(2008-02-13 20:30:02)
tecosystems: "What I heard was something at once broader in scope and more compelling: a legitimate network enabled application installation, management and monitoring story..."
Richard Stallman Scared of Russia
(2008-02-13 21:15:33)
Webplanet.ru: "A part of the trouble appeared to be Stallman's rejection to get help from Victor Alksnis..."
Speaker Interviews [Round 1]
(2008-02-13 22:00:02)
FOSDEM: "One month to go until the event seems like a nice time to start reading up about the topics that will be covered at FOSDEM 2008..."
'I Am Ashamed to Use Proprietary Software'
(2008-02-13 22:45:22)
The Hindu: "Krishnakant Mane has tried to bring about awareness about the problems faced by people with disabilities using propriety software..."
Punct Contrapunct
(2008-02-13 23:30:08)
An Antic Disposition: "The degree of expanded debate achieved may be estimated by noting that Microsoft is sending this report to every JTC1 national body involved in the OOXML ballot..."
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