GNU/Linux

• Cisco Offers $100,000 Bounty to Linux Application Developers
• Reducing IT Costs with Linux
• Obvious Mistakes [Too Much Demand] Caused Europeana Site Failure
  
  

  Europeana is built on a Linux Debian open-source operating system. The programming language is Java, and it uses Apache Tomcat web applications software.

  
  
  
• Google claims MapReduce sets data-sorting record
• Updated Prey Demo For Linux Released
• Silex Technology Announces SDK Enabling USB Device Networking
• Linux shows staying power on Top500
  
  

  The latest list indicates growing Linux dominance. Linux is used in the top nine supercomputer systems in the world. When considered as the primary OS or part of a mixed-OS supersystem, Linux is now present in 469 of the supercomputer sites, 93.8% of the Top500 list.

  
  
  

• IBM

  • IBM supercomputers rated most energy efficient
    
    

    Whilst the list of vendors supplying supercomputing iron is fairly limited (IBM, Cray, SGI, HP, et al) the latest Supercomputing Green 500 List has found that the top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world are built on IBM high-performance computing technology. Indeed, Big Blue holds 39 of the top 50 positions on the list.

    
    
    
  • IBM's ex-Mr GNU/Linux Joins Obama Policy Group

• CD-ROM

  • Three applications for making disc labels
  • Testing the Linux Waters - Live CD vs Dual Boot

• Ubiquity

  • A future so bright Tux needs shades
    
    

    “Everyone uses Linux. It’s in the TV, it’s in your TiVo, it’s in all the settop boxes, it’s in your Sony camera. Make a trade on the NYSE and it’s there, search on Google and it’s Linux. Linux owns 85% of the supercomputer market. I’ve seen Linux in a milking machine.”
    
    If Linux were a corporate effort its CEO would be into champagne wishes and caviar dreams. As it is, however, Zemlin is just looking for steady growth next year.

    
    
    
  • Numbers, Downloads and Straws
    
    

    Don’t open up the champagne, folks; this is just the beginning….

    
    
    

• Sub-notebooks

  • The complete Christmas shopper's guide to Linux-based netbooks
  • One Guy, 3 Netbooks
  • (Not So) Stupid Linux Netbook Tricks

• Audio

  • Linux Music or The Ubuntu Shuffle
    
    

    I am pretty impressed with Ubuntu. I do use it for basic stuff but it has won me over completely.

    
    
    
  • Linux Outlaws 65 - Engage Crap Mode!

• Distributions

  • The Turkish Pardus Linux Distribution
    
    

    Pardus provides a very important public good to be used by the whole FLOSS community, in Turkey and abroad. The Pardus GNU/Linux operating system is being deployed and used in many government and other public services including the Turkish military and defense sector, in radio and telecommunication, health and education, as well as private vendors. The use of Pardus in all these sectors and institutions will save several millions of Euro in taxpayers' money.

    
    
    
  • Review: PC-BSD 7.0.1
    
    

    Today’s distro has been described as the Ubuntu of the BSD world. PC-BSD is an easy to use version of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the behemoth in the BSD world and would probably have a much larger desktop presence if the BSDs hadn’t run into copyright and other proprietary problems right around when most of the GNU toolset was complete and Linus was releasing the Linux kernel. At least, that’s what most people claim. However, given the animosity (although that’s almost too strong a word) between the Free Software Foundation and the supporters of the BSD license.

    
    
    

  • Red Hat

    • Analyst: Red Hat "deeply undervalued," Oracle Linux "has failed"
      
      

      Red Hat has been taking a beating in the stock market recently, but in a recent research note leading analyst Mark Murphy of Piper Jaffray thinks this represents an exceptional opportunity to buy into a "deeply undervalued" company. More interestingly, Murphy finds significant cause for Red Hat optimism based on Oracle's failed attempt to undermine Red Hat with its Unbreakable Linux product.

      
      
      
    • Can't Migrate Virtual Machines Across Different Chips? Red Hat Can

    • Fedora

      • Fedora 10 Cambridge Released [Screenshots]
      • The KMS, Plymouth Experience In Fedora 10
      • Fedora does FIPS
      • Fedora 10 proves infrastructure matter

  • Ubuntu

    • Xavier School Deploys 600 Ubuntu Linux Desktops
      
      

      Xavier is the latest K-12 school to move Ubuntu Linux to the head of the class. In fact, the school has deployed more than 600 Ubuntu desktops, according to Pierre Tagle, Xavier’s consulting IT director. During a recent email exchange with WorksWithU, Tagle described why the San Juan, Phillipines-based school has fallen for Ubuntu.

      
      
      
    • Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase II: This Time Its Personal

• Desktop Environments

  • GNOME

    • Redesign Gnome for a better looking desktop
      
      

      Gnome typically comes with a bar across the top of the screen with the clock, notification icons and menu items and a second at the base of the screen containing window lists, workplace switchers and, in the Ubuntu incarnation, a trash can/recycle bin.

      
      
      
    • The GNOME Journal

  • KDE

    • KDE 4.2 Beta 1 Desktop Released
    • KDE 4.2 Beta 1 Release Announcement
    • [Aaron Seigo:] free software supply chains
  
  
  
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  Devices

  • German traffic lights powered by Linux and real-time Java
    
    

    A Greman vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is converting its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java.

    
    
    
  • Atmel releases Linux v2.6.27 for ARM9 family
  • Migrating VxWorks RTOS to embedded Linux

F/OSS

• Germ Form Theory (2): what stage for peer production?
• Python Shows Continual Growth in Open Source Projects
• The Twelve Top Myths of Free/Open Source Software
• Breathing new life into those old Silicon Graphics machines
• Open source SOA provides some major advantages
• Getting Help with OpenOffice.org
• about:mozilla - Financials, logos, add-ons, Foundation report, 2010 goals, and more…
• Open Source EDC Software Surpasses 16,000 Downloads; Fueled by Professional Open Source Model
• Kaltura's Open Source Video Platform Powers Dori Media Group's Novebox.com, the World's First Social Network Dedicated to Telenovela

• Government

  • Homage to Catalonia
  • County praised for new, interactive Growth Management Web site

• Startup

  • A great time to start an open source company
  • MDeC grooming 15 open-source champions

• VoIP

  • Open source identity: Asterisk founder and Digium CEO Mark Spencer
  • snom Teams with Sangoma to Accelerate Delivery of Open Source VoIP

• Universities

  • USM looks at options in open source software
  • USM Collaborates With IOSN To Develop Open Source Software
  • Unicon Helps Colleges, Universities with Open Source Services Projects
  • rSmart Helps Universities Adopt Kuali Open Source ERP Solution
  • Satyam, IIIT-Hyderabad tie up for data mining, open source R&D

• Books

  • Book review: Using Moodle Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management by Jason Cole, Helen Foster
  • Book review: Linux System Programming by Robert Love

• Releases

  • Dimdim out of Beta on December 3rd
  • eGroupware Version 1.6 Available

• H-P Scared

  • HP’s Headache: GroundWork Open Source
  • HP tries to hide its pricing from customers and open-source competitors

• Business Intelligence

  • Open-Source Business Intelligence: Palo User Conference Continues to Grow
  • Jaspersoft: doing business intelligence on the cheap

Suppression

• Aussie government muffs plans for internet filtering
• Wikileaks Tells It as It is
• Whatever Happened to Amendment 138?
• The BBC Blows it Again

Apple

• Latest Greenpeace Rankings Still Put Apple Down
• EFF: Apple DisplayPort DRM Will Lead to More Piracy