Links 04/12/2008: GNU/Linux in China, ODF in Germany

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-12-04 13:00:42 UTC
Modified: 2008-12-04 13:00:42 UTC

GNU/Linux

Using Linux to Overcome Comcast's Policy of FUD
Dell customer awarded Windows refund

Devir was not interested in the Windows Vista system on his Dell laptop, opting for Linux – an open source system – instead.
Unix and Linux Troubleshooting E-Book
You're Never Too Old For Linux!
Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
How Windows Users are Changing Linux and What We Should Do About It
Metastasis
Tux on a Groom's Cake
Opengear Extends Console Server Product Line to Include Comprehensive Power and Environmental Management
China
- Chinese ordered to stop using pirate software
  
  Officials push for Linux OS
  
  A CITY IN CHINA has required Internet café operators to replace pirated software with legitimate versions – the officials primarily pushing Linux.
- Chinese city requires Net cafes to use legitimate software
- The world's worst way to market Linux
Kernel
- Linux 2.6.28-rc7
- Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
  
  In Nexuiz, World of Padman, and Unreal Tournament 2004 to represent gaming on the Linux operating system, the results were virtually identical. To the Linux gamer, switching to EXT4 or XFS will not really mean much in the way of improved frame-rates. If though you deal with compressing files often, of the four file-systems tested, the best appears to be EXT4 or XFS. When it came to multimedia encoding, we cannot call a decisive winner. In our GnuPG encryption test, EXT3 was the fastest followed by XFS. However, in the Bork encryption test, EXT4 was the fastest followed by EXT3. EXT3 does still appear to have some advantages.
Graphics
Desktop Environments
- GNOME 2.25.2 released !
- Hands-on: KDE 4.2 beta 1 brings impressive improvements
Compatibility
- Yet another reason to use Linux instead of (Windows) Vista
- Yes, Linux can run Crysis!
Video
- Mingle brings group video chat to Linux
- mplayer, real support
Sub-notebooks
Phones
Distributions
- DSL - Damn Small Linux 4.4.10 review
  
  As part of a survival toolkit, Damn Small Linux could be something of a saviour. Earlier this year, this writer used a previous release of the distribution to excise a couple of gigabytes of files from an otherwise-locked-down Vista installation, and while it didn't save the machine concerned from complete reinstall, it did rescue an awful lot of data. It did it with no fuss, utter simplicity and earned a lot of appreciation as a result.
- Gentoo, build it like Lego.
- Excelixis 1.0: A new workbench
- Red Hat + Clones
  - Scania Expands Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform for Virtualization Capabilities
  - Red Hat and SpringSource square up on Tomcat
  - Red Hat: Moving beyond 'rip and replace'
  - Oracle contributes Linux code for detecting 'silent data corruption'
  - Differences between Ubuntu and Redhat Linux
  - Fedora
    - Ubuntu or Fedora?
      
      In most cases, choosing between Fedora and Ubuntu comes down to personal preference, although Ubuntu's support and package management make it a contender for the best Linux distribution.
    - A Visual Desktop Tour of 10 Fedora Releases
      
      Fedora is without doubt one of the most prolific Linux distributions around. In the span of only 5 years, the Fedora Project has already unleashed 10 major versions of Fedora.
    - Video: Fedora 10
      
      Fedora 10 is out, and to celebrate that milestone, Fedora Project leader Paul Frields sat down with Red Hat community guru Greg DeKoenigsberg to talk about where Fedora’s been over the past five years and where it’s going. Along the way they discuss KVM improvements, the debut of new Fedora artwork, and the future of codec support. Watch the video, then head on over to fedoraproject.org to fire it up!
- Debian
- Ubuntu + Derivatives
  - Review: Crunchbang Linux
    
    All Windows Media, Quicktime *.mov, *.mp4, and Flash *.swf, *.flv files played without problem. I did note that Totem video frame transitions seemed a little lower quality than the TinyXS's mPlayer video, but the embedded Totem *.wmv videos loaded faster and with fewer hiccups than with the mPlayer plugin.
  - The Install
  - Reason To Stay With Ubuntu 8.04
  - Three Reasons Why All Linux Users Should Support Ubuntu, Even If They Don’t Use It

F/OSS

10 Myths of Free & Open Source Software
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is ready
Adoption
Firefox
- 10 essential Firefox add-ons
- about:mozilla - Add-on-Con, tree logistics, updating add-ons, Mozilla Manifesto, Bugzilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, and more…
Songbird
Strategy
Literature
Data Warehouses
- Disruptor: The Rise of the Open Source Data Warehouse
- Test Center review: Open source data aces
Education
- Unlock the Web with Open Source
- Lessons from Open Source - SmartCause.org in Public Beta
OpenOffice.org
- German Federal Government to Support ODF
  
  State Secretary Dr. Hans Bernhard Beus, Federal Government for Information Technology and chairman of the IT Council, described the decision as "a major step to increase competition among software vendors to promote the IT security and strengthen the interoperability to improve because open document formats will be fully and regularly published."
- OpenOffice's UI will be getting a refurb

Leftovers

Comments

stevetheFLY

2008-12-04 13:19:43

I guess you obmitted the news that AbiWord has a new option to save to O-OXML format because it doesn't fit your preconceptions. Have AbiWord developers joined the forces of evil, too, all of a sudden? lol

http://abisource.com/release-notes/2.6.5.phtml

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landofblind

2008-12-04 22:07:12

You do a good job of bringing to our attention this issues with the COPYRIGHT and CENSORSHIP fascists.

You should do more of that. Give it more space and importance. And less of the anti-Microsoft rhetoric.

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Roy Schestowitz

2008-12-04 22:13:45

Nice nymshift there. Got a proxy in Portugal, eet?

Links 04/12/2008: GNU/Linux in China, ODF in Germany

GNU/Linux

China

Kernel

Graphics

3-D

Desktop Environments

Compatibility

Video

Sub-notebooks

Phones

Distributions

Red Hat + Clones

Fedora

Debian

Ubuntu + Derivatives

F/OSS

Adoption

Firefox

Songbird

Strategy

Literature

Data Warehouses

Education

OpenOffice.org

Leftovers

DRM

Internet

Copyrights

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