06.25.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Links 25/06/2008: Openmoko Distribution Expands
GNU/Linux
- Interview with Jean-Philippe Guillemin, Zenwalk’s creator
- Interview with Christer Edwards, Ubuntu Utah Founder
- I Did It – Ubuntu Linux on my Laptop
- Ubuntu “Hardy Heron” — Observations After Upgrading
- A Date with Elyssa
- coLinux gets its second wind
- Arch Linux 2008.06: Overlord
- Can we give every school child in the UK a Linux notebook and still save money?
The simple answer is ‘yes’ we could do it now and we will save the taxpayer millions of pounds.
- Reasons for the Linux Plumbers Conference
- Linux “plumbers” convene
- Tresys VM Fortress
- Zero Ballistics Beta for Linux available
- BBC iPlayer 2.0 = iPlayer 1.0?
- Linux Graphics, a Tale of Three Drivers
Obviously, if the Linux desktop suddenly took off tomorrow Intel would be perfectly poised to capitalise on its successful open source strategy, slap a “Designed for Linux” sticker on all its desktops and laptops and wait for the profits to come rolling in.
- Debian Project News – June 23rd, 2008
Mobile
- Open source, Google Android, iPhone 3G, profit for firms happiness for devs/consumers
- Openmoko Signs Five Distributors for Freerunner Open Source Mobile Phone
- Mobile Alliances May Pressure Microsoft’s Wireless OS
- Nokia N800 for Geeks
- Nokia Launches a Full Scale War for the Mobile OS
F/OSS
- Open source tour of Europe: The Netherlands
- Open source vs. piracy
- Open source should be supported, promoted–CICT chairman
- Alfresco CEO John Powell on the Value of Free
- Sourcefire: Don’t Snort at open-source security
- Digium(R) Ships 4 Millionth Port to Support Exploding Demand for Asterisk(R) Phone Systems
- SpringSource Announces $15 Million Series B Round of Financing
- rPath Continues Momentum with Addition of $10M in Funding and Key Client Wins
- Opening new doors with Open Source
- DokuWiki: An elegant and lightweight wiki engine
- Industry’s Leading GNU-based Toolchain Available Now, Optimized for MIPS(R) Cores
- Eclipse will be watching you very closely
Creative Commons
- Ubuntu community head tests music economics with open content
- Creative Collaboration: The Open Source Filmmaking Experiment
- Recording Industry Decries AM-FM Broadcasting as ‘A Form of Piracy’
Security
- What? Give Up My Precious Windows?
- Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
- Trojans infect 2.6 million systems, looking for gamer credentials
- Microsoft Reissues Critical Security Fix for Bluetooth Stack in Windows XP
- Whatever happened to Microsoft’s DRM plan?
Microsoft
- Can Windows Vista read minds (or anti-Vista blog posts)?
- Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
- Is Microsoft about to backtrack on “Vista for all”
- Is Vista Still a Flop With IT?
- Is Microsoft Abandoning Search Advertising For TV?
Leftovers
- Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near
- What does it mean to be an Open Source author? A story from the inside
- Progress Software acquires Iona–good luck
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twitter said,
June 25, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Great Roundup. I really liked the UK Linux Laptop news from Computer World and Bill Gates’s temper tantrum over XP. The first made me smile, the other laugh out loud.
You should note that Vista is still a giant flop. A recent study shows that GNU/Linux is getting more commercial developer attention than Vista. A more recent study shows long term corporate plans are down from last year’s 2/3rds to about 1/4th of those surveyed. The second study will surely damp developer interest further. Microsoft may be able to push Vista onto hapless users who HAVE to buy a new PC but even they are resisting that kind of expense as the overall economy takes a nosedive.