Links 25/11/2008: More Mobile Devices Running GNU/Linux

Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks

While testing for this three-way OS comparison was completed on a single workstation system, with that AMD hardware, the strongest performance was exhibited with Ubuntu 8.10. The Intrepid Ibex wasn't the winner in all tests, but in a majority it was and in some of the tests it even garnered a sizeable lead.
Nexenta, Can you say SolaBuntu (part1)
Musical Geek Friday #15: Kill -9

Interview with Jokosher maintainer Laszlo Pandy
In A Tighter Economy, Why Not Open Source In All Government Offices?
Attention Schools: Beware of Infinite Campus
Letter to the Editor: Free Software Means 'Freedom'

As the founder of the free software movement and author of the GNU General Public License, I am writing to correct a misleading characterisation of free software presented in William Venema's article about open source. National Law Journal, Oct. 20.

I do not wish to defend open source, which I have never supported. I disagree with its choice of basic values, which exclude freedom and social solidarity, the values with which the free software movement is most concerned. (When the open source camp split off from the free software movement in 1998, its purpose was none other than to downplay this ethical level.) Rather, I wish to set the record straight about free software.
No more Microsoft Internet Explorer for the 2010 soccer world cup
Killer open source monitoring tools
Is open source killing developers’ ability to cash in?
GIMP
- GIMP 2.6.3 Released
  
  GIMP 2.6.3 is another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.
- Disabled Boy Creates Art With Gimp
Drupal
- Drupal on cover of Information Week
- Belgium.be using Drupal
India
- 2nd International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture
- On the right to decode and encode and copyleft politics

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