12.04.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Links 04/12/2008: GNU/Linux in China, ODF in Germany
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
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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
- Chinese ordered to stop using pirate software
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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.
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Graphics
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Desktop Environments
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Compatibility
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Video
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Sub-notebooks
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Phones
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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
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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
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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!
- Ubuntu or Fedora?
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Debian
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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
- Review: Crunchbang Linux
- DSL – Damn Small Linux 4.4.10 review
F/OSS
- 10 Myths of Free & Open Source Software
- OpenSolaris 2008.11 is ready
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Adoption
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Firefox
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Songbird
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Strategy
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Literature
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Data Warehouses
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Education
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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
- German Federal Government to Support ODF
Leftovers
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DRM
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Internet
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Copyrights
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stevetheFLY said,
December 4, 2008 at 8:19 am
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 said,
December 4, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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 said,
December 4, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Nice nymshift there. Got a proxy in Portugal, eet?