11.17.08
Links 17/11/2008: Many Distribution Releases, SourceForge Sued
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GNU/Linux
- What’s Next For Linux? Unifying The OS Amid Steady Change
- Open-Source-Based Simulation Software SCALE-RT
- 16 interviews with Linux Kernel hackers
- System z at the Heart of the New Region Calabria Information System
- Compiz Fusion Community News for November 15, 2008: Can I haz plugins?
Wow, lots of news this edition, not exactly big news like last week, but we certainly have been bombarded with a whole bunch of new development code.
- Linux Foundation November Newsletter
- Red Hat, Inc.’s Matthew Szulik Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Overall National Winner
- 2-day Trip for Linux in China
- High-Tech Masquerades Perversion as Science
- X Server 1.6 Gets A Release Schedule
- openDesktop.org Launches Job Board
- screenshots.debian.net
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Sub-notebooks
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New Releases
- Selamat datang di BlankOn 4.0, Meuligoe!
- CRUX PPC 2.4 Released!
- Sabayon Linux 3.5.1: Released
- ComFusion 2.0 ” The Easy way of Linux…”
- Clonezilla Live
- Damn Small 4.4.9
- Ultimate Edition 2.0 has been released…
- Guadalinex V5, lista!
- Ophcrack LiveCD 2.1.0
- Latest release is Absolute 12.1.13
- Elive 1.9.15 development released
- SystemRescueCd 1.1.1
- Big Linux 4.2
F/OSS
- New GNU releases October 2008
- Asian-African countries committed to using open source software
- Helicos Launches Open Access Web Site With Microbial Genome Data
- TV-B-GONE goes open source
- Open Source Business Cluster launched in New South Wales
- Can Apache Maven Make It by Going Commercial?
- Surprise: CTOs Want To Pay For Open Source
- GPLv3/AGPLv3 Adoption: If It Happened Too Fast, I’d Be Worried
- Geek Ranch Accounting Solution
- Open Source and Software as a Service Make a Powerful Combination – eZ Publish SaaS Coming Soon
- Getting a handle on open source
- Open source LED-based handheld could play one psychedelic game of Pong
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Sun
Corruption/Censorship/MAFIAA
- P2P policy to require RIAA proof [at Duke]
- Legal Hacks [Comic]
- Council of Ministers move to delete vital safeguards from EU Telecoms Package
- Share This: The Internet is a Right
- Update on restriction of internet freedom in Brazil
- French Recording Industry Sues SourceForge For Hosting Open Source P2P
- Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism
- Can One Lawsuit Kill Behavioral Ads?
Leftovers
- Is It A Free Speech Violation To Deny Press Credentials To Bloggers?
Well, here’s a case that may interest various bloggers who like to get press credentials to various events. Three “alternative” journalists in New York City are suing the NY Police Department for denying them press credentials, because they work for online or nontraditional publications.
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Victor Stone talks about music, Free Software, Creative Commons and life at Microsoft 03 (2004)
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Linux said,
November 17, 2008 at 10:45 am
BAD PR for Novell !! This is a PR disaster.
http://nfm2008.atps.in/
The event organizers have removed the Novell from list of Sponsors overnight !!
Go Go boycottnovell.com
Roy Schestowitz said,
November 17, 2008 at 10:50 am
Can you confirm this?
I look at the cached homepage from “15 Nov 2008 11:07:16 GMT” and I cannot find Novell there, either.
Roy Schestowitz said,
November 17, 2008 at 10:52 am
Actually, there is not a single occurrence of the word “Novell” in this site, according to Google.
pR@tz said,
November 18, 2008 at 11:43 am
Novell was never there in that page (either the tactics of the organizers to prevent the free software activists from protesting or they had forgotten). I am pretty much sure about this, that Novell wasn’t listed in the sponsors site, if it were, then we (or they), (Anivar, Hiran, Syam, V K Adarsh and other free software activists) would have protested even before the conference.
Linux said,
November 19, 2008 at 3:49 am
There is no way to confirm that they were listed. Most probably they were not.