11.25.08
Links 25/11/2008: More Mobile Devices Running GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux
- Linux Community to Redmond – Do The Right Thing.
- A primer on switching from Windows to Linux
What’s involved in a switch from Windows to Linux? An editor and a couple of readers posed that question after last week’s column. Given the proliferation of cheap Linux-based “netbooks” it is worth a systematic look.
- Linux Foundation Workgroup Tackles Federal Mandate for Next-Generation Internet Protocol
- One More Reason for Linux Lovers to Give Thanks
- I’ve Got A Penguin in My Briefs
- TuxMobil Surpasses 8,000 Linux Installation Guides Available
- From the SuperComputing ’08 Floor, Part 3 of 4
- From the SuperComputing ’08 Floor, Part 4 of 4
- 10 Amazing Linux Desktop Themes
- Software as a subversive activity: The making of a Linux geek
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Mobile
- ClarionMiND MID on sale in the US for $649.99
- Intel Joins Giga-byte, Chunghwa to Launch Linux MID
Intel joined Taiwanese mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch Giga-byte Technology’s Atom-powered M528 mobile Internet device on Monday in Taipei.
Chunghwa will begin offering the small, handheld device to consumers in December for NT$12,900 (US$386) with a 2-year service package, the companies said. The devices will cost NT$19,500 without a service plan.
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Sub-notebooks
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KDE4
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Distributions
- Advanced Linux Distributions You Should Try
- Review: Zenwalk 5.2
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New GNU/Linux Releases
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Red Hat
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Ubuntu
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Mandriva
UNIX
- 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
F/OSS
- 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?
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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
- GIMP 2.6.3 Released
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Drupal
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India
Copyleft
- Open source proponents are for strong copyright protection
- Why iiNet will probably lose the piracy lawsuit
- Membership without obligations
- Free Culture and Copyleft: A social movements perspective
- Copyleft The Great Giveaway
- Digital Tipping Point
- GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote
- LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search
- Save The Internet!
- Who is Gandi and why should I care about them?