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IT Management Linux News for Jun 13, 2008
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Government CIOs 'Do Not Understand Open Source' (2008-06-13 15:45:28)
ZDNet Australia: "Government CIOs that dismiss
open source software because of support issues, which is the case
for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do
not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems..."
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Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business (2008-06-13 12:45:47)
Business Week: " "Why do we need closed
vehicles? We do," he said. "Some of these things harm the industry
but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional
issues but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we
plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to
play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round
too.""
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Wall Street becoming Linux stronghold (2008-06-13 12:00:47)
Network World: "But even as the Wall Street
crowd increasingly puts its money on Linux — market watcher
TABB Group estimates that Linux adoption among the 14 biggest
investment firms this year will reach more than 72% of the
installed operating server base vs. 60% in 2006 — it's clear
concerns linger about the licensing model. That model requires
users return changes to the open source community under certain
circumstances, a touchy subject for companies that are battling to
accelerate their business processes."
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Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why? (2008-06-13 11:00:47)
Free Software Magazine: "Several governments
and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free
software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and
commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those
plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be
answered: why did it happen? The City of Vienna made several
crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most prominent
ones"
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Red Hat settles Hibernate patent suits, makes open source community unhappy (2008-06-13 09:30:47)
IT News: "If Red Hat had taken the case to
court and disputed the patents' validity, the company could have
had the patent struck down thus preventing future litigation
against open source projects that use similar technology, they
argue."
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20 Essential KDE Applications - Review (2008-06-13 08:00:47)
Echoes: "Amarok (audio player)
In my opinion, the best audio player ever. Excellent collection
management and dozens of other features, like Last.fm song
submission, scripts, cover manager, Wikipedia integration, lyrics
fetching, Magnatune music store, statistics, scores and many more.
I just can't wait for 2.0 to be released!" Link
repaired.
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French KDE Day Conference Videos Available (2008-06-13 06:30:47)
KDE.News: "To celebrate the release of KDE 4,
the KDE French contributors and the Toulibre LUG organised a
two-day event on January 25th and 26th 2008 in Toulouse, France. On
the 25th, K&eactute;vin Ottens made a general presentation of
KDE 4, and on the 26th there was a day of technical conferences
featuring speakers such as David Faure, Laurent Montel, Alexis
M&eactute;nard, K&eactute;vin Ottens, Aur&eactute;lien
Gâteau and Anne-Marie Mahfouf. The videos of all these talks,
in French, are now available for download."
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Linux jukebox app achieves first stable release (2008-06-13 05:00:47)
DesktopLinux: "The Banshee Project has achieved
the first major, stable release of its eponymous music jukebox
application. Banshee 1.0 features faster searching, browsing, and
management functions, along with improved memory usage, faster
start-up, and a more responsive interface better supporting large
collections, project leaders say."
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Review: Linux Powered HP Media Vault Pro mv5150 (2008-06-13 03:30:47)
Raiden's Realm: "The HP Media Vault is a wonder
of feature rich, simple file sharing. Based on Linux, it is capable
of some pretty amazing feats despite it's simple, small design. It
ships in sizes ranging from 500mb upwards to 1.5tb and is very easy
to setup and use. But how simple is simple? A simple as sunshine on
a cloudless day. But don't take my word for it. Instead, let me
show you."
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What value in the Red Hat patent guarantee? (2008-06-13 02:00:47)
Linux and Open Source: "This whole game of
Linux patent claims has always reminded me of how some poker
players will throw a stack of chips on the table while holding a
pair of 3s and others will fold in the face of it."
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SLED 10 SP2 makes wireless 3G a snap (2008-06-13 00:30:47)
Techworld: "For enterprises wanting to roll out
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on notebooks, the lack of 3G, or
UMTS, wireless broadband card support was an annoying hole compared
to the available Windows support."
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