12.29.08
Links 29/12/2008: oVirt Preview; OpenOffice.org 3.0 Past 25,000,000 Downloads
GNU/Linux
- What’s On Tap at Google for 2009?
So we get to wonder: why won’t the Linux-based Android OS attract as many consumers as the Ubuntu-EEE operating system on ASUS does? Rogers added that Google will lead the deals for the release of computer OEMs for Chrome. In addition, he said that Chrome will experience some little problems with a “significant chunk of the browser market.”
- Obligatory Year-End Positive Linux Predictions
- Splashtop: boot into Linux in just five seconds
I have a quad-core CPU, super-fast hard disks and heaps of RAM – Linux is already pretty darn nippy if you ask me!
Perhaps. But, let’s face it: if it takes more than 30 seconds to get from pressing the power button to you reading your email, that’s 30 seconds you could have spent chatting to the pretty lady in the cubicle next to you, reading the latest XKCD comic or – most importantly of all – basking in the glow of the most recent issue of Linux Format magazine.
- XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID
- RedHat’s new oVirt virtualization host looks promising.
I just stumbled upon some screenshots of RedHat’s oVirt project. I hadn’t heard of it before, but now I can’t wait to see the finished product. oVirt is a new frontend for KVM which provides libvirt service and hosts virtual machines and a web-based virtual machine management console.
- Why You Might Be Using Linux in 2009
- [KDE] passing between years
The ability to balance the business with the community, the ambition with the empathy, the determination with the acceptance and the hope with the realism is what, personally, strikes me as amazing and vital to our little community of people.
I wait with excitement in my soul to just how far we will be able to take KDE in 2009. All I know is: world, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
- My Tribe – An enjoyable resource management game for Linux
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Distributions
F/OSS
- The Definitive Guide to Open Source Hardware – 2008
- Fast and ‘free’ beats steady and paid on MySQL
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Passes 25 Million Downloads
John McCreesh noted that OpenOffice.org 3.0 reached its 25 millionth download on Christmas Day, December 25. (See the bouncer statistics for the latest number, which is already well above 25 million, though it’s just a few days later.)
- The Internet is the tree, open source the fruit
- The War for Open Source
- An exclusive interview with Martin Nordholts
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