06.24.08
Links 24/06/2008: UNIX FIlesystem Elects GPL, Intel Snubs Microsoft’s Main Product
GNU/Linux
- Intel won’t touch Vista [Linux experimentation revealed]
So that leaves two other choices, Linux and Mac. Linux is a distinct possibility, they already have an in-house distro that causes employees look nervously around the room when you talk about it. Although it is not a desktop variant, there is no reason that they could not roll one given two years.
- HP open sources Advanced File System
- HP to users: No need to worry about future of systems
- The Berlin Packaging API: the Solution?
- Linux-based cameraphone shifts modes
Motorola and Kodak announced a cameraphone that combines Motorola’s “ModeShift” interface with Kodak imaging technology. Available in China next month, and later this year elsewhere, Motorola’s MotoZine ZN5 mashes up a 5-megapixel camera with a multimedia smartphone.
- [Bruce Perens] Linux Kernel Developers Call for Open Source Drivers – Weakly
And after that, there’s the fact that Linus “I hate politics so much that I refuse to deal with it” Torvalds hasn’t signed the statement.
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I just wish that the kernel developers could lead with less equivocation.
- Only the Right Answer Unlocks Encrypted E-Mail
The result, LockedEnvelope, was built on the site with Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Linux.
- ASUS backs down on anti-Linux pricing
- Red Hat Drives Desktop Cost Savings for Europcar
- HD surveillance camera design runs homespun Linux
- LGP Introduces Linux Game Copy Protection
F/OSS
- [Linux-oriented] Parascale Picks Up $11M for Cloud Storage
- Neocleus Raises Over $11M in Series B Financing
- Firefox 3.0 boosts Mozilla’s market share
- Open source tour of Europe: Croatia
- Talend releases open-source data-profiling application
Talend Open Profiler is available for free download under a GPL license at the company’s Web site. Support is available under fee-based contracts.
Other
- Google reputation hits top spot
Google has finally managed to push Microsoft from its top spot.
The Vole [Microsoft] actually fell to tenth place in the annual Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient poll, but overall, the tech sector did outstandingly well this year.
- Microsoft’s Golden Age: Going, Going … Gone?
- Microsoft fights gaming Trojan menace
- Has Anyone Received the BSA’s $1M Software Piracy Reward?
- Dell Extends Windows XP Sales ‘By Popular Demand’
Without continued access to XP, vendors like Asus would be forced to offer only Linux on their systems. It’s a situation Microsoft is trying to avoid as sales of low-cost PCs rise in emerging markets like India and China.
- Broadcom Cofounder Pleads Guilty to Lying to SEC
aeshna23 said,
June 24, 2008 at 10:47 am
I noticed that a rather large webstore is selling the Linux Eee PC for the same price as the XP one, but with the Linux Eee you a 20GB hard drive, but only 12GB for the XP. At least you get something for the cheaper operation system.