10.31.08

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Links 31/10/2008: Ubuntu 8.10 Released, Strong Week for GNU/Linux Overall

Posted in News Roundup at 4:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

Linux to Ship on More Desktops than Windows

For those that decry the constant prediction of the “year of the Linux desktop” I am happy to say that next year Linux may actually ship on more desktops than Windows or the Mac. That is right, I said next year. What is driving this? Two words: fast boot.
Quick Bits: Linux and Android Get a Boost
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Intel and Taiwan Inc. Invest in Open Source Research Center
Linux Continues to Define the Future of Computing While Microsoft Follows

We aren’t even half way through the week yet and Microsoft is either getting battered or following technical trends already blazed by Linux. In contrast, Linux is having a great week.
Linux Is Less Annoying Than Windows 7

I read an article on Yahoo Tech yesterday that I have to share with you. The title is “Microsoft says next Windows won’t be as annoying”. It’s funny that Microsoft realizes, and admits, that Windows Vista is a tremendous blunder. They don’t say it as strongly as I just did but they should. Like Windows Me, Vista is a terrible mistake.
Linux BSP ships for Geode-based SBCs
ALSA 1.0.18 Final Now Available, Lots of Changes
Graphical Remote Control Desktops for Linux
Avant Window Navigator
ACCESS NetFront Browser Widgets Empower SOFTBANK MOBILE
Xfce 4.4.3 released

Just because we’re gearing up to release 4.6.0, it doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten the 4.4 branch. A bunch of bug fixes had accumulated since 4.4.2, so we have a new release for you.
Video: Spotlight on PackageKit
Distributions
- The road to Sabayon 4
- Available Now: Damn Small Linux 4.4.7
- Damn Small Linux 4.4.7
- Review of Puppy Linux
- Linux from the Amazonas
  
  Given the fact that this is a young distro, plus the tested version was only the Release Candidate, I foresee a great future ahead. Dreamlinux is going to be a superb operating system, it just has to rough some of those beginners’ edges.
- Ubuntu
Kernel Space

F/OSS

Digium Reinvents AsteriskNOW
GIMP 2.6.2 Released
Why Voting Technology Must be Open Source
T-DOSE 2008 Review
The GNU Affero General Public License and ‘DRM’
Open source technology casts new perspective on China’s development
Funambol Expands Globally to Meet Worldwide Demand for Open Source Push Email & Mobile Sync
Google, Partners Plan Open Source Blitz In Australia
Drupal wins 2008 Best PHP Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing
Open Source Heads Off to School
Open Enterprise Interview: Dirk Morris, Untangle
Qt/Nokia
- Video: Interview with New Qt Chief at Qt Developer Days 2008
- Nokia talks Qt strategy, tactics
Counterfeiting
- Piracy – The Enemy of Free Software
- China’s Evermore Office suite takes off
  
  Evermore attributes the increased consumer interest in its office productivity offering to a backlash against Microsoft’s aggressive “black screen” anti-piracy feature that the company launched on October 21st.
- Should Proprietary Software Companies Be More Concerned About Open Source Or Piracy?
- Artist Thrilled That His Work Was ‘Stolen’ By Fashion Designer

Leftover

Opera Sings an Ode to Browsers Everywhere

Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t let the company release it because it competes with Apple’s own Safari browser.

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