GNU/Linux

• Red Hat net up slightly, rev climbs 32 pct
• Open source phone goes mass-market
  
  

  Openmoko has begun shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India, says the company. The Neo Freerunner features an open hardware design, and a Linux-based operating system that users are free to modify.

  
  
  
• Freedomware conquers the mobile world
• [Release] Linux 2.6.26-rc8
  
  

  It hasn't been a week, I know, and this is a pretty small set of changes since -rc7, but I'm going to be mostly incommunicado for the next week or so, so I just released what will hopefully be the last -rc.

  
  
  
• Stop the Blob?
• Windows Price Ruling Not Enough, Says French Consumer Group
  
  

  A French electronics retailer must display separately the price of computers and of the software bundled with them, a Paris court ruled Tuesday. It stopped short of ordering the retailer to sell computers without bundled operating system software, however.
  
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  The ruling will give little comfort to those wanting to buy a PC on which to run Linux: they will still have to pay for Windows, although they will at least know exactly how much they had to pay for it.

  
  
  
• The new wave of Linux Lite – lean, mean and green
  
  

  Linux is coming to an ultraportable near you! Sure, the oft-touted “year of the Linux desktop” is seen in the same light as such notable phrases like “the cheque’s in the mail”, “I’ll respect you in the morning” and “Duke Nukem Forever is being released” but there’s no denying the smash-hit success Linux is enjoying in the budget price ultraportable market. These are the Linux desktops that will catch on and here’s why.

  
  
  
• My Newfound Love for Xfce!

Devices

• Ubuntu MID makes Linux upwardly mobile
• Hauppauge HD-PVR for Linux
• Tri-band SDIO WiFi card runs Linux
• Review: Roku’s rockin IP-radio

F/OSS

• Launchpad: Ubuntu backer seeks open-source collaboration
• The low-down on Open Source Law

Leftovers

• France to Tax Internet, Mobile Sales to Fund Ad-Free Public TV
• Spam DDoS assault cuts off south Pacific state
  
  

  It could take days to full restore service, the general manager of the Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) told Radio New Zealand International. Systems at the monopoly carrier were taken offline by a flood of email traffic from compromised PCs.