Brazil

• Linux in the Stores
  
  

  Linux hardware is finally starting to make its debut in consumer stores. Here in Brazil, in the store Saraiva, I noticed two KDE 3-based laptops, both apparently built upon some version of Kubuntu; one wasn't that customized and had the normal bar and K menu at the bottom, and the other one was so customized at first I thought it was Vista with the taskbar put on the side!

  
  
  
• Review: GoblinX 2.7 Micro Edition
  
  

  GoblinX is a Slackware-based Linux distribution which comes in live CD format, and is developed and maintained in Brazil by Flavio de Oliveira, aka Grobsch.

  
  
  

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu At Best Buy?
• The “Ubuntu Equals Linux” Paradox
  
  

  Now, the reason that new users are using Linux is in part to the fact that Ubuntu users, or LoCo teams, are actively spreading Linux to new users. Notice that there are no other distributions that are spreading Linux like Ubuntu.

  
  
  

Devices

• FreeRunner Linux phone sells out, more on the way
  
  

  Less that one week after going on sale via its own e-commerce site, the 900MHz version of OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner Linux phone has sold out, but don't despair yet as more are on the way.

  
  
  
• Can T-Mobile get an Android onto US market in '08?
• ASUS Releases Eee PC 901, 1000, 1000H
• Shape of things to come

GNU/Linux

• Is it time for Open Source to grow up?
• Debian Project News - July 7th, 2008
  
  

  16 August 2008 will mark the 15th birthday of the Debian project since its first announcement by founder Ian Murdock on comp.os.linux.development on 16 August 1993. A coordination page for local Debian User Groups organizing and announcing birthday events is already available at the Debian Wiki.

  
  
  
• Pardus 2008 review
  
  

  Pardus 2008 is everything I could of asked for it looks good, plays all my multimedia, it’s super-fast/stable and it’s so easy even a Mac OS X user could easily adapt to it. Pardus has taken over my linux partition at the moment I consider it the best distribution available at this time; I won’t switch distribution anytime soon perhaps I may use Pclinuxos 2008 for reviewing purposes but it’ll be hard to top pardus 2008.

  
  
  
• Evolution, Linux, and Gentoo
  
  

  I'll start at the end by telling you that I'll finish this with a discussion of my “Distro of Choice”, Gentoo. But before we get there .....
  
  It royally annoys me when people say that Linux is too hard to learn! Admittedly, Linux is probably insurmountable for some people, in the same manner that learning Psychology would be insurmountable for me. Not everyone has an interest or talent in computers and their software. However, the statement that began this paragraph has been used to categorize computer users in general. I don't have a particularly strong computer background, but I do have an avid interest in them, so I figure that if I can do it, anyone with a modicum of talent and interest in computers can learn Linux if they want to.

  
  
  
• RHEL and SOA speed time to market, slash costs at D&B

DEs

• Using the Desktop…why?
• In A State Of Flux

F/OSS

• United Nations University urges legislators to support open source software
• Browser Security: IE vs. Safari vs. Firefox
  
  

  I firmly believe that Firefox gives you the most secure browser for the least effort.

  
  
  
• Wndchrm - an open source utility for biological image analysis
• B&R offers free openPOWERLINK Industrial Ethernet
• The 'Other' Open Source Web Server
• ApacheCon US 2008 to unite Open Source advocates, users and developers in New Orleans
• BitNami.org Hits 150,000 Downloads, Makes Open Source Apps Even Easier to Install
• Community to Gilliard: 'Consider Open Source'
  
  

  The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Government’s Digital Education Revolution Policy.
  
  In an open letter that was submitted last week to the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gilliard, members of the community expressed its support of the Government’s investment in Australian ICT capabilities, education and training.

  
  
  
• C&K Market adopts open source database
• Wonderland: A Tool for Online Collaboration

Leftovers

• Cybercriminals reinvent methods of malicious attacks
• Adware Company Refines Opt-out, Notification Technology
• Ballmer, dead parrots, and dead deals