07.24.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Links 24/07/2008: Red Hat’s Extended Support, Fedora Portables Coming
GNU/Linux
- SecuTech adds Mac, Linux support to UniKey security
- Industrial PCs support real-time Linux extensions
- Return of the InstallFest…It’s Starting Here
So far, I have come away with several interesting realizations, the more important of which are these: That people are more ready and willing to distance themselves from Microsoft than I had originally anticipated, and translating that into getting them to use Free/Open Source Software will have a huge effect on the digital landscape in this area and elsewhere — and let me emphasize the elsewhere because if it can happen here, it can happen elsewhere.
So who’s ready to make history in their community?
Oh, and if you have Microsoft stock, I’d sell. Fast.
- Debian Linux installer for NAS devices goes beta
- Vista Adoption going no-where, IT considering Linux and Mac instead
- Jim Zemlin at OSCON: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation
- Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
Desktop Environments
- Interview with Helio Chissini de Castro – Mandriva
Helio: First of all, cost is a significant factor. Governments in South America place a very high value on cost savings. Second, it’s good for the image of the government.
- Lighten up your desktop.
- GNOME 2.23.5 Released!
Here’s the first release after GUADEC. Istanbul. It was a great place. And some people actually had time to visit the beautiful city. Or to take a turkish bath. Sounds like a cool program, doesn’t it? Of course, it was not only about this — there were tons of interesting discussions, lots of sessions around various topics, etc.
- Gnome conference – breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul
Red Hat/Fedora
- Red Hat/Fedora
Red Hat on Wednesday said it is extending the first phase of its product lifecycle support for Enterprise Linux, when the most technical support resources are made available, from three years to four.
- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Improved Through Enhanced Product Life Cycle
- Re-jigged Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu
- Intel says Linux-based Moblin update coming soon
Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open-source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in the US on Wednesday.
- SELinux and Fedora
- Fedora launches OLPC group
- Developers Make a Good Call With Fedora Talk
While the rest of the world is knee-deep in webinars, Skype-based teleconferences, and other “Web 2.0″-ish forms of real time communication, most of the Linux community still relies on IRC, wikis, and opt-in email lists to get things done. At FUDCon last month, the Fedora community announced a new way of helping members and developers communicate with each other: Fedora Talk
- Linus Torvalds uses Fedora 9
F/OSS
- Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
If you’ve ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn’t use those products anymore. He’s given up Microsoft for open source — and he’s not going back.
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If that happened, Gunderloy reasoned, it could become impossible for a developer to write any code that didn’t tread on some vendor’s patent somewhere. “It was the sweeping land grab by Microsoft that pissed me off.”
Add to that Microsoft’s infamous May 2007 claim that Linux and other open source software infringed on 235 Microsoft patents, and Gunderloy had seen enough. He broke with Microsoft and started looking around for new languages to learn.
- Vendors Boost Open-Source Tools Support
- Software piracy hurts the open-source community too
- O’Reilly study uncovers multiple reasons for open source’s impressive rise
- Open Source Leadership Lessons
- JasperSoft Fires Up New OSS Forge
- Open Enterprise Interview: Doug Moran, Vice President of Community, Pentaho
- cyn.in: Open Source as Promo
- What happens when open source turns out to be better? Much better?
- Open source database study has obvious results
Cloud Computing/Google
- OSCON, Pt. 2.3: Jim Zemlin’s Outlook Is Cloudy (In A Good Way)
- Message to Microsoft: Google’s gunning for ya–again
- Google Launches Online-Publishing Service, a Potential Wikipedia Rival
- Google, Microsoft Said To Be Preparing Bids For Digg
Leftover
- UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users
According to the BBC this week’s deal takes the form of a Memorandum of Understanding between the ISPs and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR). Under it, ISPs are reported to have committed to achieving a significant reduction in illegal filesharing, and to educate their customers on copyright. They need only follow the shining examples of the RIAA and the BPI and lo, it will be done.
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David Gerard said,
July 24, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Speaking from inside Wikipedia … Knol being in a battle with Wikipedia is entirely a media phantom, a “let’s you and him fight.” Our current comment when asked is to be very pleased their default license is Free Content (CC-BY 3.0). And we are indeed very pleased. More free content, everyone wins.