GNU/Linux

• Linux opens London's Oyster
  
  

  Open-source software helped London's Oyster card system move past a proprietary roadblock, an open-source conference in London was told last week.

  
  
  
• Fedora 9 tools demystify installation and upgrades
  
  

  The Fedora project has always offered installation options. The best known of these options are the Fedora spins -- roll-your-own install images that emphasize a particular desktop or purpose, such as providing the distribution's complete repository on DVD.

  
  
  
• Review: Everex gPCmini with gOS Linux
• Ubuntu landed on Berlin metro system
  
  

  The guys from “Berliner Fenster”, a company responsible for the content of the television system installed inside underground vehicles (more than 3.700 displays) were so kind (thank you!) providing us with a spot for our release party this Saturday for free.

  
  
  
• Linux start-up Sugar Labs in informal talks with four laptop makers [Watch photo]
• no more desktop icons in [KDE] 4.1
• Linux Foundation Opens Korean Office
• A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
  
  

  Few details are available yet, but Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview with the Guardian that a version of Ubuntu customized for the netbook market would be released in early June.

  
  
  
• Linux phone design house opens Korean office
  
  

  A French company that designs mobile phones based on Linux and the LiMo Platform has announced the opening of a sales office in Seoul, Korea. The new Purple Labs office will be run by Grant Jang, reporting to Gordon Tsang (pictured), the company's SVP for Asia.

  
  
  
• Sub-$4k MicroTCA system comes with Carrier Grade Linux
  
  

  It comes with a trial installation of NexusWare, PT's own Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 distribution.

  
  
  
• Linux-friendly MicroTCA and ATCA systems to demo
• Puppy Linux 4.0 on a Dell Inspiron 1150 Review
  
  

  In conclusion, if you are looking for something different I would give Puppy a try. This version is all built from source to maximize speed. Every program on my machine seems to open instaneously. Even with Compiz functionality turned off in Gnome, my Ubuntu install is no where near as fast.

  
  
  
• Asus Eee PC 900 Laptop
• Linux after one year
• Ubuntu Linux Boot CD - don’t leave home without it
  
  

  Come presentation time his Powerpoint slides didn’t display properly. After each click he had to wait up to 30 seconds for the next slide to appear. Very disconcerting to him and his audience. He tried putting the setting back to the way they were, but to no avail.
  
  If he had a Ubuntu boot CD with him, he could have recovered this situation in about 2 minutes. All he had to do was insert the boot CD in the CD drive, ensure that his notebook’s BIOS was set to boot from CD, then go for it.

  
  
  
• Ubuntu, women, men, children, and the digital divide.
• DSP dev board supports uClinux
  
  

  Analog Devices (ADI) is shipping a new development board based on its Blackfin digital signal processor (DSP). The ADSP-BF548 EZ-KIT Lite board incorporates a 600MHz ADSP-BF548 Blackfin processor, and ships with a GNU toolchain said to support uClinux development.

  
  
  
• 30 days without Windows, and with Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"
• Windows-Linux Integration
• Marketing Linux in libraries
• 50 Reasons Why I Love Linux
  
  

  1. I can extract something with one command without opening a separate program.
  
  2. I can print a document without opening it.
  
  3. I can update all applications with two magical words, apt-get upgrade.
  
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F/OSS

• Flock draws $15 million for social browsing
• Digium Lines Up 250 Channel Partners for Asterisk
• Open source gets an "A" grade at UniversityReaders
• Firefox 3 — The “End Game”
• Two Hidden Features New in Firefox 3
• about:addons - AMO changes, Future of add-ons, Bundling components & more
• Bazaar becomes a GNU project
• IBMers answer call for IBM-free Eclipse

Google

• Google seizes search share in April
  
  

  ...Microsoft dropped 0.3 to 9.1 percent...

  
  
  
• Google co-founder pushes for Yahoo ad deal
• Google opens up a little on its search algorithms [Mind FUD from Microsoft Mouthpiece Enderle]
• Google carves an Android path through open-source world

Microsoft

• FAQ: What Microsoft's block of 'American Gladiators' teaches us
• MS bashes Gay(wood) Xbox Live gamer
• Windows, IIS at risk from 'token kidnapping'