05.21.08
Links 21/05/2008: Netflix Chooses Linux for Boxes, Microsoft Puzzlement Over Yahoo!
GNU/Linux
- The Linux desktop is ready already
- Zenoss Releases Point-and-Click Installers for all Major Linux Platforms
- Netflix Player runs Linux
Movie distributor Netflix is offering a $100 set-top box aimed at enabling subscribers to stream movies on demand, using a broadband Internet connection. The player runs an embedded Linux OS and is supplied by Roku, a California-based company known for its Linux-based PVRs (personal video recorders).
- Upgraded VPN software available in Linux micro-server
- First Day of Python for my Vietnamese Students
- Flipping the Linux switch: Switching, literally, with Ulteo Virtual Desktop
- Ubuntu 8.04 on an ASUS EEEPC 900
- PelicanHPC GNU Linux [v1.5.1 released]
- Absolute Linux 12.1 Released – Powered by Slackware 12.1
- Compiz Fusion Community News for May 20, 2008: Moustrails, Ghost, Desktopclick and too many improvements!
Firefox
- Mozilla Launches Firefox 3.0 RC1, and It’s Great
- Five Extensions You Won’t Need with Firefox 3
- Firefox developers tinker with new security protections (finally)
- about:mozilla – New contest, Support Firefox day, Firefox 3, AMO, LiMo, Shredder, and more
- Galeon: It’s like Firefox for Spartans
F/OSS
- Free/Open-source Statistical Software
- Ten Android Challenge winners featured
- Autoconf: The Unsung Hero of Source Code Compatibility
- Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
- 2008 LinuxWorld Hosts Open Source Community Days
- A wolf in designer clothing
- Open Source at the European Congress of Telepathology and Virtual Microscopy
- Is Open Source Threatening the Status Quo?
- Codie awards go to Red Hat, Adobe, Salesforce.com
Privacy
- Mozilla considers tracking Firefox browsing habits
- 5 Ways Your Gadgets Will Betray Your Privacy
- UK gov’t plans huge database of e-mails and phone calls
- British Balk at Government Getting a Discussion Database
The UK is up in arms this week — complete with torches and pitchforks — over the latest plan by the increasingly unpopular government’s plan to build a database to hold copies of every email sent in the UK along with recordings of every phone call in the country.
- Facebook CEO Wants to Talk to Google
- Information Assurance: National Security’s New Front Line
Microsoft
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sells 3M shares
- Microsoft makes $2.3M grant to Goodwill [PC training]
- Software piracy group tries a lighter approach to mission
- Microsoft’s Google Search Killer Strategy is a Rewards Program?
- Microsoft’s Unique Position In Online Advertising: We’re Desperate
- Readers Respond to Microsoft XP SP3 Difficulties
Microsoft/Yahoo
- Why Microsoft Is Desperate for Yahoo
- Google in urgent talks over Microsoft-Yahoo! deal
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Desperation Sets In
- Microsoft Wants the Milk Without Buying the Cow
- What Microsoft Really Needs From Yahoo!
- Instead of Yahoo, Microsoft spotlights aQuantive
- Microsoft Holders Moody After Yahoo! Reprise
- Petrobras beats Microsoft in market value
- What will Microsoft do next?
- Microsoft not bidding to buy Yahoo: CEO Ballmer
Alex H. said,
May 21, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Wait for your distribution-patched Firefox 3 – the SQLite fsync() “bug” is horrible if you encounter it.
Otherwise it’s an excellent browser, though, and Weave looks superb.
Yuhong Bao said,
May 21, 2008 at 3:54 pm
In the end, I’d say that eliminating software patents would be more effective than, for example, trying to back out the MS-Novell deal, because even before the deal, MS could in theory use patents to kill Linux. This deal just increase the incentive to do so.
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 21, 2008 at 5:59 pm
There are several angles. We look at more than just one of them. The Novell deal marked the point where Microsoft’s threats from 2005 or thereabout (Ballmer saying it’s an “obligation to the shareholders”) began to materialise.