06.18.08
Links 18/06/2008: Dual-boot as Standard, Wine 1.0 is Served
GNU/Linux
- A Skinny PC, Fat with Features [and GNU/Linux]
Also cool: The Envy has two operating systems. The slow-starting Windows Vista provides a full suite of applications. But for quick access to basic programs such as a music player, you can boot up Linux in about five seconds.
- JBoss Joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2
- Asus Eee PC 901 Linux Edition
- SGI Pushes Into Data Warehousing with Linux Supers and Oracle
- Is Linux the most secure OS?
Furthermore, determining a “most secure” OS is not as straightforward as it might at first sound. One of the most common criteria used by people who don’t really understand security, and by those who do understand it but want to manipulate those who don’t with misdirection and massaged statistics, is vulnerability discovery rates.
Windows Executables on GNU/Linux
Devices
- The Linux promise
When you think “iPhone”, you may just soon find yourself thinking “lock-in” with every feature, as a customer of Apple’s phone, services, and partners. Fortunately, hope springs eternal. Increasingly, all other handset manufacturers are coming together and embracing Linux as their platform.
- Google exec: Tight creative loop critical for Web products
- Empower Technologies Announces Significant Purchase Orders for High-Performance Single Board Computer
- IronKey Announces Linux Support
Firefox Under Self-inflicted DDOS Attack
- Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers
- Mozilla: 1.6 million downloads and counting
- Problems delay Firefox 3 launch
F/OSS
- Open source tour of Europe: Czech Republic
- JasperSoft Debuts Web 2.0-Savvy Open Source BI
- AtMail Open provides scalable, customizable webmail
- gPodder’s no plodder when it comes to podcasts
- Songbird 0.6 – The Bird Got Wings
Goodbye, Associated Press
- The Cost of Excerpting the AP
- Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)
Secrurity
- Recovering from the Encryption Virus
- Ransomware
- Botnets as a Business
- NHS chief explains NPfIT delays
Leftovers (Internet Darkness)
- SproutCore is Apple’s Flash, Silverlight killer
Apple’s quietly deploying a new Web technology that could help it combat Silverlight and Flash: SproutCore.
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SproutCore is based on open JavaScript standards, which makes it widely compatible with browsers and platforms.
- Whatever Happened to Greek Civilisation?
