GNU/Linux

• Kicking Cuba's Free Software Switch Into a Higher Gear
  
  

  The purpose of the move is to "attain sovereignty and technological autonomy," as recommended by the Ibero-American Charter on Electronic Government, approved by the Ninth Ibero-American Conference of Ministers for Public Administration and State Reform, held in Chile in June 2007.

  
  
  
• Moscow regional government to migrate to Open Source desktop
  
  

  The Moscow regional administration will test usefulness of an Open Source desktop by migrating several hundreds of desktop PCs to Mandriva GNU/Linux and by installing OpenOffice on a thousand others.

  
  
  
• TinyMe instilled new life to my HP Deskpro, Thanks to PCLinuxOS Team
  
  

  This is fast stable version of TinyMe, a PCLinuxOS-based mini-distribution designed with approx. 200 MB that packs kernel 2.6.18.8, xorg-server 1.3 and a good selection of applications that you most frequently use in your daily computing. Besides, if you want more Synaptic is just a click away.

  
  
  
• $200 computers
• Edinburgh Bed and Breakfast Garfield Guest House: Transition to the GNU/Linux Ubuntu Operating System
• Lessons learned from Ubuntu
  
  

  While wandering the Ubuntu site (www.ubuntu.com) to take a look at the new Hardy Heron / 8.04 LTS version, I went all philosophical and tried to think of any lessons that the Puppy Community could learn from that of Ubuntu. Now please note this is not a dig at the Puppy Community, we are one of the best out there, I'm just taking a step back and pondering to myself.

  
  
  

F/OSS

• Voting 2.0, Part 1: The Trouble With Closed Systems
  
  

  "The biggest problem is the lack of transparency in voting technology," Felten, who is professor of computer science and public affairs and director of the center for information technology policy at Princeton, told LinuxInsider.

  
  
  
• Why Open Source Java will Win SaaS Platform Wars
• OpenOffice.org - OpenOffice 2.4 review
• Bringing Aim to Awn! (Finally)
• Google's Firefox Add-Ons for the Organizationally Challenged

Microsoft

• In search of: Startups that could upend Google and Microsoft
• Vista selling well!?
  
  

  Whatever drugs Steve Ballmer is on they must be very, very good.
  
  [...]
  
  Here are the cold hard facts. Microsoft reported on March 25th that its Windows sales had dropped 24% in the last quarter. For the same quarter, IDC said PC sales were up 15%. Now, I'm no financial wizard, but I do know a thing or two. Microsoft's Windows sales, to the best of my knowledge, have just suffered their hardest fall ever at the same time that PC sales were significantly up. This isn't just bad, this is absolutely horrible.
  
  Back in March, Microsoft CFO Charles Liddell actually had the chutzpah to say that the drop in Windows sales wasn't due to lackluster Vista sales. Instead, the problem was due to 'unlicensed' PC sales and the higher growth of emerging markets. If you can follow that logic and come up with the same conclusion he did, do let me know, because it makes no sense to me.
  
  If PCs are selling without Windows licenses attached to them that tells me that 1) Vista isn't selling and 2) desktop Linux is selling.