06.16.08
Links 16/06/2008: GNU/Linux Releases, BECTA Under Heavy Fire
GNU/Linux
- 3 Ways to Try Out Linux, For a Windows User
- Software installation woes on Linux
- Crystal Ball Sunday #5: Operating System Interoperability
- Mid-year mini-laptops under scrutiny
- Off Topic: I got an Asus EEE 701
- iContact’s co-founders, Red Hat’s Szulik take home E&Y entrepreneur awards
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 95
- Lucas Nussbaum: Ubuntu information on the Debian Package Tracking System and the Developer Packages Overview
- Mirror, mirror for my updates
- The Bizarre Cathedral – 9
- The Coming of the Nerdettes and Linux’s Big Chance
Ultimately, “Linux has to keep on doing what it’s been doing, continue to improve on an excellent base, attract commercial development for products consumers can’t live without, and cultivate followers outside the geek community,” yagu concluded.
- Windows, Linux, thoughts
- PC/OS – the BeOS of the Linux world
PC/OS is a recent new entry into the Linux distribution world. Based on Ubuntu, it uses Xfce as its default desktop and offers a variety of user-friendly enhancements, such as out-of-the-box support for popular multimedia codecs. It also includes a collection of software development tools.
- ClarkConnect: Open source gateway options for the remote office
New GNU/Linux Releases
Devices
- Wind River readies virtualization stack
Wind River will enter the virtualization software market, focusing on networking, consumer electronics, and industrial automation, it said. The company will in August begin beta-testing a hypervisor and tools aimed at letting customers flexibly deploy Linux, VxWorks, and other RTOSes symmetrically or asymmetrically on one or multiple physical processor cores.
- MontaVista Provides First No-Cost Evaluation of Commercial Linux for Freescale QorIQ™ P4080 Multicore Processor
- Netflix Player from Roku Uses Linux Tech
Trolltech announced today that the new Netflix player from Roku utilizes its Qt for Embedded Linux. Qt for Embedded Linux was formerly known as Qtopia Core. The application is designed to allow manufacturers to build devices for one specific purpose.
BECTA Fiasco Revisited
- Open Source UK attacks schools quango
- Row erupts over schools open-source project
- The Groklaw effect hits Becta. And yes, I am coining a new term
F/OSS
- Free software heroes: from Stallman to Google, a list of inspiring individuals who made
- [info-GNUnet] GNUnet 0.8.0 released
- Plug in for electrifying week of celebrations
- Newport News, Virginia Goes Open Source
Web Browsers
- Short Review: Epiphany Browser 2.22.1.1
- Top 4 Browsers for Linux Reviewed
- Firefox 3 inflames the browser wars, but why should we care?
- IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla
- [Parody:] Microsoft Abandons Internet Explorer 8 Development for Firefox 3
As the Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 3 and tries to set a record for most downloads in a day, they will be receiving help from an unlikely source: Microsoft.
- Firefox extensions to bring back the dead
- Firefox 3 won’t have ‘private browsing’
- Google to Nix Browser Sync Firefox Extension
- Mozilla prepares for Firefox 3 release and plans for 3.1
- Eclipse projects squeeze into record Summer fun pack
Windows
- Vista’s big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
- Ya need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah buddy. I got ya servicepack3 right here!
Hey Microsoft! Pull that dog off the rack and send it back to be re-worked! SP3 as far as I’m concerned is trash.
If you can’t get a Service Pack to work right for a software product that is supposedly at least 7 years old, how are we to believe that you can do it right with Vista? Why should we trust you?
