GNU/Linux

• Intel won't touch Vista [Linux experimentation revealed]
  
  

  So that leaves two other choices, Linux and Mac. Linux is a distinct possibility, they already have an in-house distro that causes employees look nervously around the room when you talk about it. Although it is not a desktop variant, there is no reason that they could not roll one given two years.

  
  
  
• HP open sources Advanced File System
• HP to users: No need to worry about future of systems
• The Berlin Packaging API: the Solution?
• Linux-based cameraphone shifts modes
  
  

  Motorola and Kodak announced a cameraphone that combines Motorola's "ModeShift" interface with Kodak imaging technology. Available in China next month, and later this year elsewhere, Motorola's MotoZine ZN5 mashes up a 5-megapixel camera with a multimedia smartphone.

  
  
  
• [Bruce Perens] Linux Kernel Developers Call for Open Source Drivers - Weakly
  
  

  And after that, there's the fact that Linus "I hate politics so much that I refuse to deal with it" Torvalds hasn't signed the statement.
  
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  I just wish that the kernel developers could lead with less equivocation.

  
  
  
• Only the Right Answer Unlocks Encrypted E-Mail
  
  

  The result, LockedEnvelope, was built on the site with Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Linux.

  
  
  
• ASUS backs down on anti-Linux pricing
• Red Hat Drives Desktop Cost Savings for Europcar
• HD surveillance camera design runs homespun Linux
• LGP Introduces Linux Game Copy Protection

F/OSS

• [Linux-oriented] Parascale Picks Up $11M for Cloud Storage
• Neocleus Raises Over $11M in Series B Financing
• Firefox 3.0 boosts Mozilla's market share
• Open source tour of Europe: Croatia
• Talend releases open-source data-profiling application
  
  

  Talend Open Profiler is available for free download under a GPL license at the company's Web site. Support is available under fee-based contracts.

  
  
  

Other

• Google reputation hits top spot
  
  

  Google has finally managed to push Microsoft from its top spot.
  
  The Vole [Microsoft] actually fell to tenth place in the annual Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient poll, but overall, the tech sector did outstandingly well this year.

  
  
  
• Microsoft's Golden Age: Going, Going ... Gone?
• Microsoft fights gaming Trojan menace
• Has Anyone Received the BSA's $1M Software Piracy Reward?
• Dell Extends Windows XP Sales 'By Popular Demand'
  
  

  Without continued access to XP, vendors like Asus would be forced to offer only Linux on their systems. It's a situation Microsoft is trying to avoid as sales of low-cost PCs rise in emerging markets like India and China.

  
  
  
• Broadcom Cofounder Pleads Guilty to Lying to SEC

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