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IT Management Linux News for Jul 30, 2009
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Venezuela to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops (2009-07-30 23:34:42)
Venezuala Analysis: "This week the Venezuelan
Education Ministry began its program, dubbed Project Canaima, to
provide primary schools with mini laptops, and incorporate the
technology into the education system."
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Canonical to offer Ubuntu desktop support (2009-07-30 22:34:42)
Cyber Cynic: "Well, in either case, you're
going to want to check out Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent
company, latest desktop support offerings: Starter, Advanced and
Professional."
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Microsoft says Intel, HP 'Actively' Working with Linux (2009-07-30 21:34:42)
Channelweb: "Microsoft went out of its way to
write an additional line in its annual report detail what it
perceives as a risk to its business: "Partners such as
Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been actively working with
alternative Linux-based operating systems,""
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Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio (2009-07-30 20:34:42)
ars Technica: "Novell has launched a new
service called SUSE Studio that makes it easy to build software
appliances. Ars gives it a spin and find it's an excellent tool for
building virtual appliances."
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When Three Tribes Go To War (2009-07-30 20:04:42)
Gartner Blogs: "In their eyes a patent is not
simply a government-granted exclusive right designed to encourage
innovation. Oh no! It’s a rentable asset to be bought and
sold on an open market."
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Beyond the hype: Where open source actually saves you money (2009-07-30 19:34:42)
The Open Road: "But is that always the case?
And, if so, what are the necessary preconditions for saving
money?"
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Open-Xchange Server 6.10 breaks the silos of isolated social networks (2009-07-30 18:17:42)
Open-Xchange press release: "Social OX is
designed to bring the contact information stored in e-mail and
social networks closer together, allowing the user to control
everything from a single platform."
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Virt Manager 0.8 sports new cloning, management wizards (2009-07-30 16:04:42)
TechWorld AU: "Virtual Machine Manager
(virt-manager) has reached release 0.8 which includes a new
graphical wizards for cloning disk images adding devices to
existing VMs, and a new system tray icon."
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Dell: New Ubuntu Desktop PC Coming Soon (2009-07-30 15:04:42)
The VAR Guy: "Tick... tick... tick. Fast
forward to the present — it's been 20 days since the
ComputerWorld report — and still no sign of the new Dell
Inspiron desktop running Ubuntu."
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MicroHoo: Good or Bad for Open Source? (2009-07-30 14:34:42)
Open Enterprise: "I would also expect to see
more Microsoft technologies rolled out across Yahoo sites –
in particular, Silverlight. That's definitely bad news for open
source, since it is patent-encumbered and very closely tied to
Microsoft's other products."
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Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo – The Bahoo Bonanza (2009-07-30 13:04:42)
Tech Czar: "Its sad to see one of the earliest
Internet companies lose the integral piece that made them famous,
but it was even harder to see Yahoo turn into "altavista". Yahoo
has been in a state of flux, with the only constant being their
decreased market share."
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The Gap moves from Windows to Red Hat Linux (2009-07-30 07:34:42)
Software, Interrupted: "Red Hat recently posted
an interesting case study on how retail giant The Gap moved from a
Unix and Windows based e-commerce infrastructure to one based on
Red Hat Linux with support for Microsoft's Active Directory via
LikeWise..."
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Ubuntu and Alfresco: A Sign of Things to Come (2009-07-30 06:04:42)
WorksWithU: "Alfresco Software Inc, the leader
in open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced
that Alfresco Community Edition 3.2 is available as an
easy-to-install package from the Ubuntu software repositories."
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