06.04.08
Links 04/06/2008: Migrations to GNU/Linux in Germany, Heaps of GNU/Linux Laptops at Computex
Desktop
- Three German KDE Deployments
The IT Service Center Berlin has announced the development of a desktop system for the public services in Germany’s capital (Google Translate to English). This is yet another public body making the switch to the Free Desktop system
- More Pleasant Surprises with Ubuntu
- Linux: You Get What You Paid For (When You Bought Windows)
- LINdependence 2008 – The way it is supposed to work.
If you want Linux to flourish, you better…they are the ones that are going to make this Linux thing happen. A decade of “word of mouth” has barely gotten us 5 percent market share world-wide. Is it growing? Probably, but with efforts like LIN08, it can grow a whole bunch faster.
- Upgrading to Slackware 12.1
- Computex 08: Play latest PC games on the move
StreamMyGame can stream to both Windows and Linux including Ubuntu, Fedora and Xandros. To see more you can watch the webcast of Intel’s keynote online.
Server
- Danish Broadband Supplier Uses JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform for Integration
- Red Hat trounces Microsoft in server operating system stakes
- Why CentOS will not become the next Microsoft
Mobiles/Laptops
- Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users
- Mobile devices driving Ubuntu – Shuttleworth
- Qualcomm debuts 3G Linux mini-notebook
- Dell’s “mini-Inspiron” Eee PC killer revealed
However, if what we’ve already heard holds up, then we’re looking at 8.9-inches dolled up in a sub-$500 price tag with a choice of both Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam, direct media playback buttons, and a “host of wireless access options.” Expect more next week as the Computex show kicks off.
- First Atom-based notebook runs Linux
- MSI Wind Notebook Launched Now: Linux with Intel Atom processor in summer
- Computex Taipei: Fear, Loathing and the Mini-Laptop War
- Windows XP given additional resuscitation
- Microsoft Extends XP Deadline for Low-Cost PCs
- Mobile Linux looks to the big time
- Azingo Demonstrates Mobile Linux Solution on TI’s OMAP Platform
- Linux distributor joins Moblin
Linpus Technologies announced it will join Intel’s “Moblin” Linux project, aimed at developing software for low-cost notebooks based on Intel Atom processors. The mature Linux distributor says its “Linux Lite” distribution runs 20 percent longer under batteries when using software developed by the Moblin project.
- Taiwan Firm Takes the ‘mini’ out of Mini-laptops
The Noahpad is offered with Windows XP or Linux, a 1GHz C7 processor from Via Technology, and a hard drive up to 120G bytes. It uses 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for connectivity and has two USB ports, an SD card reader and a VGA port. It weighs 1.8 pounds (0.8 Kg).
- Developers Reported Enthusiastic About Android Platform
- Jason Chen answers questions about Android
GNU/Linux (Other)
- Mindspeed(R) and Wind River Collaborate on Open Platform for Broadband Gateways
- Philippine open-source advocates aim for bigger community
OSS
- Wikia Search Invites Users to Stir the Pot
- Bika Lims 2.1 Inkosi open source release
- CGI announces Open Source software to support EPA’s National Environmental Information Exchange Network
- Open Source Perst Embedded Database Receives Major Upgrade
- Exclusive Q&A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation
- Compiere’s Open Source ERP and CRM Solution Meets Distribution Industry’s Demand for Flexibility, Lower Costs, Higher Margins
- Ingres Open Source Database Powers Search for Missing Children
- Open Source Ajax Gains Enterprise Momentum With dojo.E Contribution From Nexaweb
Facebook’s “Open Source” a Farce?
- Facebook adopts the CPAL poison pill
- CPAL? What’s That?
- Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?
Microsoft
- Report: Icahn Will Seek Yang’s Removal
- Yahoo! bitchslapped Ballmer’s $40 a share offer
- Microsoft’s CAPTCHA successfully broken
- Microsoft Vaguely Aware It Kinda Sucks Sometimes
HumHo said,
June 4, 2008 at 7:43 am
Unlike other consumer desktop and enterprise versions of Ubuntu Linux, Remix will not be available as a free download and it will only be offered to prospective netbook vendors, Carr said.
Lockiiinnnn
gggggg said,
June 4, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Oh yeah Lock-in. With fewer than 5000 different Linux distributions, this move by Canonical, will certainly stop everybody else, OpenSolaris, BSDs, Haiku, etc, from being used. They aren’t even compatible, you can’t move your data around, nothing! Poor Remix users…
HumHo said,
June 4, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I thought they promised to always keep the distro free…whatever happened to that !!!!
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 4, 2008 at 3:09 pm
See http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070614231022599