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27 September 2007
---Tech
Data To Offer Red Hat Training For Linux
Tech Data has teamed up with
enterprise Linux software vendor Red Hat to offer Red Hat
training and certification through its TD Education program.
5 September 2007
---Taking
the good stuff when trading Windows for Linux
So you're switching from Windows
to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who've
taken the plunge, it's likely you're making the move to take
advantage of Linux's stability and reliance on open standards.
Now all you have to do is prepare carefully for your move.
28 August 2007
---Warning
to check open-source licensing
Business users of open source
software should review their open-source licensing agreements,
audit their use, and create formal policies for managing source
code, especially mixed-source code.
27 August 2007
---WORLDBEAT
- Singapore Airlines puts a Linux PC in every seat
Flying in economy class doesn't
have to be a miserable experience.
August 26 2007
---Why
I Went Linux
I'm not a writer, but do things
– like all those others out there e.g. run / work /
play / have a life / use a computer / have a PDA. I don't
hate, was frustrated, and took the Linux plunge because of
what I mentioned. I took the personal initiative.
25 August 2007
---What
Happened in Germany
Heise is reporting now that
there is an uproar over how the OOXML vote was handled in
Germany.
24 August 2007
---Sun
Stock Ticker Catches Up with Reality
Sun's changing of its stock
symbol from SUNW to JAVA isn't just symbolic; it represents
the company's complete change in focus during the last few
years.
23 August 2007
---Microsoft's
Open Source Trashware
I recently took a look at
Microsoft's most active open-source projects and—there's
no polite way to say this—they are all junk.
22 August 2007
---Unicon
Systems Wins the “Best of Show” Product Excellence
Award
LinuxWorld 2007, impressed
by the System-on-Display component.
21 August 2007
---Happy
Birthday Debian!
The universal operating system!
18 August 2007
---Linux
Gets A Lift
LinuxWorld action: Lenovo/SUSE
deal, power management, startups.
17 August 2007
---Oracle
Has Chosen Linux for Its 11g Release
Because if Linux grows, Oracle
grows.
16 August 2007
---Malaysian
Government Adopts the Open Document Format
Another one steps in that direction.
15 August 2007
---Microsoft
Brings Its Email Protocols to Linux
A little more than two months
since Xandros jumped on board of Microsoft's Windows-Linux
interoperability and intellectual property assurance wagon,
the two companies revealed in a joint announcement that they
are expanding their collaboration.
15 August 2007
---Novell
doesn't want to be the next SCO
Now that it has scored a major
win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group, Novell
has no interest in becoming like the company it's just defeated
and won't mount any copyright-infringement claims over Unix,
a spokesman said Tuesday.
14 August 2007
---LinuxWorld
and virtualization: Xen vs. KVM, Microsoft's Xen-friendly
drivers
Here's my take on the hits
and misses, along with my analysis of the session highlights.
I'll conclude with a few words on what is for many people
the real LinuxWorld, the exhibition hall.
13 August 2007
---SpikeSource
CEO: Linux all grown up
The recently concluded LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo looked like any other big tech industry
conference as the logos of HP, Intel, Dell, IBM and other
big names filled the exhibit hall at San Francisco's Moscone
Center. That's a change from LinuxWorld shows of a decade
ago, when open source was a renegade, even subversive, concept.
10 August 2007
---Novell
renames its free Linux OS 'openSUSE'
The rebranding will differentiate
it from SUSE Linux Enterprise.
9 August 2007
---LINUXWORLD
SF - Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay
Motorola Inc. is betting big
on Linux for its mobile phones, planning to install the OS
on 60 percent of its handsets within two years.
8 August 2007
---Microsoft
Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
Microsoft will not allow Windows
Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top of Linux, Sam
Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab,
said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug.
7.
7 August 2007
---Indian
agency to deploy Linux in schools
The Electronics Corporation
of Tamil Nadu is deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise across 30,000
desktops and 1,880 servers in schools in southern India.
6 August 2007
---Lenovo
and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs
Open source software has made
further inroads into Microsoft's heartland this week as both
Lenovo and Dell announced Linux-based PCs.
5 August 2007
---Mobile
Linux group gets wider support
A nonprofit organization formed
by six of the biggest names in the cell phone business to
promote the use of Linux of handsets has gotten wider industry
support.
4 August 2007
---- Red
Hat Global Desktop delayed
Red Hat confirmed on Aug. 3
that it would be delaying the release of the newest member
of its desktop Linux family, Red Hat Global Desktop, because
the company is seeking to provide certain multimedia codecs.
4 August 2007
---Portrait
of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe
In the race to be the first
"iPhone killer," the most unlikely but perhaps most
intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with
the peculiar name OpenMoko.
2 August 2007
---Hack
and crack proof SSH on Linux
It’s inevitable: if your
computer is Internet-connected you will have people coming
a-knockin’. Fortunately Linux users are more savvy than
to think any keep-alive ping or other piece of Internet flotsam
is a hack attempt. Even so, it’s simply a matter of
time before your router’s lights flash heavily and /var/log/auth.log
(/var/log/secure on RedHat) fills with chilling messages.
2 August 2007
---Acer
installing Linux on some notebooks, but not Ubuntu
Acer did not install the Ubuntu
Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale
in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version
of the open-source operating system on some notebooks, local
dealers said.
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