10.14.08
Links 14/10/2008: GNU/Linux in Schools, Qantas Planes
GNU/Linux
- Linux takes a seat on Qantas’ new superjumbo
- Buntfu increases visibility for buyers and sellers of Linux PCs.
- The Bizarre Cathedral – 26
- Linux is not a ‘Bazaar’ and BSD is not a ‘Cathedral’
- ASUS iMac rival on pre-order, to hit $450 in US
- My Quick Ohio Linux Fest Recap
- Video and photos show Linux booting on the brazilian voting machines
Just 10 days ago, 130 million brazilian voters were turned into users of one of the largest Linux deployment worldwide: the 400,000 electoral sections in all of the 5,563 brazilian municipalities were running electronic voting machines, and the Linux kernel was running in all of them.
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Distributions
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Kernel Space
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Schools
- America’s Schools: Held Hostage by Microsoft
Schools in America are held hostage by Microsoft and are being choked one school at a time. We have allowed Microsoft and our State and Federal governments to force us into financing cycles that schools cannot afford.
- How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments
Imagine you are the minister of education of an impoverished country, with a limited budget to improve your schooling system. You realize the importance of computers in education, and also realize that failing to provide a proper IT infrastructure to your country’s youth would have a grave effect on your country for generations. You are not aware of such thing called “Open Source” what would happen? You would probably end up spending thousands on software to equip your school’s computers, and with the budget constraint, you will roll out only a fraction of the computers actually needed. This would put you in front of two options; either some schools get computers, or cramp 10 children in front of one computer.
- America’s Schools: Held Hostage by Microsoft
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Notebooks
- Buying A Netbook? Think Linux
Compare this to Ubuntu Linux, which ships on Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks, among others. Ubuntu issues a major update every six months, and it guarantees support for each of these releases for at least 18 months. And unlike the XP-Vista upgrade path, it’s safe to assume that an Ubuntu update won’t instantly turn a perfectly serviceable PC into an overpriced space heater.
- Intel CEO: Linux to dominate MIDs
However, the Linux netbook genre received a boost this week when Dell started running its first major advertisements about a Linux-based system. According to a story from The VAR Guy, Dell started running multi-page newspaper ads specifically hawking its first Linux netbook, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (pictured).
- Buying A Netbook? Think Linux
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Applications/Games
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Ubuntu
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Devices
F/OSS
- SourceForge turns to virtualization for hosted apps
- ICANN using Drupal
- Open sourcery
- World conference to encourage open source
- Growing open standards pressure on healthcare
- Open source identity: Horde lead developer Jan Schneider
- Squiz Intros Open Source Social Networking Platform Software
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GNU/Free Software
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Finance
- Credit crunch moves business to adopt open source
- Economics of open source remains an academic challenge
- Linux is the Klein Bottle of Economics
Code is cheap. But even in writing and speech, there is definitely a producer and a consumer. Those are the two sides of every known business model.
- Open source enables value-based business models
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Ruby
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Firefox
Leftovers
- In Defense of Piracy
- Bush Enacts PRO-IP Anti-piracy Law
- Hacker McKinnon’s mum squares up to US
- Microsoft: It’s a scary world out there without us
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