Links 31/07/2008: Big Win for Ogg, Microsoft Vista Site Powered by GNU/Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-31 22:23:08 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-31 22:23:08 UTC
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- Lenovo to Enter Netbook [with GNU/Linux] Market by Late September
- The more things change
The latest Linux products, in contrast, are obviously better than their predecessors - it’s mostly with respect to installation procedures and oddball hardware support, but essentially every new distribution is genuinely preferable to what came before.
- Interview: Wind River's John Bruggeman
- MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its infrastructure to promote Windows Vista
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Title: The "Mojave Experiment"
- KDE 4.1 - Wow!
So I downloaded it to work alongside KDE 3.5 and wow, is it awesome! It's almost like an entirely different program, making my darling Ubuntu Gnome desktop look a little boring itself. I may even do a fresh install of Kubuntu in this partition with KDE 4, then upgrade to KDE 4.1. In any case, I'm sure I'll report back with more to say!
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Managing e-mail is made easy with the use of e-mail client, also known as e-mail reader. Some e-mail clients can also function as feed reader and can support plug-ins and themes.
When it comes to picking the right e-mail client, Linux users have tons of choices. I have here a list of 8 of the best free and open source e-mail clients that are available for Linux.
- Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1 has been released
An updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5 code name `Viola` is available now. Viola r1 is synchronized with Parsix and Debian testing repositories as of July 24, 2008. This version contains several bug fixes, updated kernel drivers, updated documentation and updated X.Org. Highlights: GNOME 2.22.3, GNU Iceweasel 3.0.1, Pidgin 2.4.3 and OpenOffice.org 2.4.1. Viola officially supports Compiz-Fusion, VirtualBox-OSE and GNU Flash Player.
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For those rare people who don’t know, Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution is basically Debian Sid (the unstable version) plus a few GUI apps and modifications. Debian is one of the most successful community-based distributions.
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- it's happening already
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- One manager probably broke an NDA or two when he spoke about it in social control media
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Comments
David Gerard
2008-07-31 23:22:16
(WMF does allow a little bit of Java into the system software. That's because so far Sun have been making good on everything they promised with freeing Java, so we think it unlikely they'll embarrass us at this stage.)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-01 04:31:32
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2008-08-01 06:00:33
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-01 06:13:14
David Gerard
2008-08-01 10:41:47
The main vector of attack for Apple would be to put up a metric buttload of H.264 or similar encumbered-format content themselves.