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Infrastructure Linux News for Sep 26, 2007
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Opinion: Mobile Linux is Not About Free Software (2007-09-26 21:30:46)
LinuxDevices: "Linux is by far the software
most commonly associated with (and often mis-identified with) open
source and free software, where free refers to liberty, not
costs..."
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Howto: Derail the Linux Juggernaut (2007-09-26 20:30:31)
Motho ke motho ka botho: "Simply remind the
average Linux user that they have a choice on any issue, and a
frenzy of infighting erupts. Watch..."
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Why OLPC Mesh Wireless Networking Won't Work (2007-09-26 19:30:35)
ZDNet: "One of the touted features of the $200
OLPC laptop is the peer-to-peer mesh topology networking
feature..."
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Ubuntu Disappoints, Breaks Promises With Rapid Growth (2007-09-26 17:30:39)
OSWeekly: "It's been a wild ride, but I have
definitely not regretted my choice to make Ubuntu a major part of
my life..."
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MontaVista Readies New Linux Mobile Phone OS (2007-09-26 17:00:50)
LinuxDevices: "MontaVista will ship a
'fifth-generation' Linux-based operating system for mobile phones
in mid-November..."
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Is Linux Now the Server Market Leader? (2007-09-26 16:00:35)
CertCities: "What made me pull the textbooks
were the ads that Microsoft has been running lately comparing
Windows Server 2003 to Linux..."
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Autodesk Geography Tool Goes Open Source (2007-09-26 15:30:08)
Underexposed: "Autodesk on Tuesday announced it
will release as open-source software a tool that can convert
geographic coordinate data from one format to another..."
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Microsoft's Secretive Standards Orgs in Former Yugoslavia (2007-09-26 15:00:13)
LinuxWorld: "After the International
Organization for Standardization voted to reject Microsoft's Office
Open XML document format as a standard, the detailed results from
ISO member countries give us a lot of material to analyze..."
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WSU Computer Nerds Hope to Auction Selves to Sorority Girls (2007-09-26 14:30:56)
AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "'You can buy a
nerd and he'll fix your computer, help you with stats homework, or
if you're really adventurous, take you to dinner!' Ben Ford,
president of the Linux Users Group, said on its Web site
recently..."
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Red Hat Delays Desktop Linux... Again! (2007-09-26 14:00:32)
Reuters/IT Pro: "Originally delayed until this
month, the Linux operating system company has today confirmed that
the new desktop version of its OS will now be held-up until October
at least..."
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Linux DDR3 Synthetic Benchmarks (2007-09-26 07:30:30)
Phoronix: "We have several DDR3 related
articles in the works, but in this article we will be looking just
at the DDR3 system memory performance in the RAMspeed synthetic
benchmark under Linux..."
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Manage Your MySQL Database with Rails' Migrations (2007-09-26 04:30:49)
Developer.com: "Over the past ten years, I've
created and managed perhaps hundreds of MySQL databases, and in the
process have used all manner of tools for facilitating the
process..."
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Looking for Algae--The Next Voyage (2007-09-26 03:45:15)
Linux Journal: "The Brazilian winter was almost
over, and while the mild winters in Florianopolis allowed me to
work on the Agape, the coming of spring meant that it was time to
set sail for new adventures..."
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Why I Haven't Reviewed Puppy Linux (2007-09-26 03:00:14)
LinuxDevCenter: "Every time I write a review I
get comments and e-mails asking me to review Puppy Linux. Puppy has
lots of people who really seem to love and zealously support the
distro..."
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Chandler Project--Personal Information Dashboard (2007-09-26 02:15:55)
Mark Hinkle: "There's been a lot of talk
recently about the new Eudora adoption into the Mozilla project .
But there is another PIM and email project that is interesting,
it's the Chandler Project..."
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Ubuntu Desktop Not Used in Business (2007-09-26 01:30:47)
Tim Anderson's ITWriting: "I got a telling
response from Canonical when I approached its Public Relations team
looking for case studies of businesses that had switched from
Windows..."
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Who Pays the DRM Man? (2007-09-26 01:00:14)
The Beez' Speaks...: "Even playing this
documentary adds to the problem it is trying to solve, because the
hardware burns 25 to 30 percent more energy than it actually needs
to. Why? DRM..."
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Heavenly Hardware Support (2007-09-26 00:30:26)
Community: Printer, camera, scanner--all
detected and configured in less than 2 minutes. PCLinuxOS has
knocked my socks off!
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Microsoft's in the Hen House (2007-09-26 00:00:44)
Raiden's Realm: "One of the biggest things that
bothers me about Linux today is how it continues to fail at gaining
any decent ground against Microsoft..."
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