There are more bankruptcy filings in the SCO bankruptcy, including two that sent me on a deep search for what they mean. Tennessee's Department of Revenue has filed two Withdrawals of Claims, for claims 110 and 111.
Read more »Microsoft Polices Coverage of Vista 7 by ‘Kicking Out’ Disobedient Journalist
Microsoft blacklists a journalist for being unkind to its product
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Australians Demand Linux Netbooks
Roughly 30 percent of Netbook sales in Melbourne — Australia’s second-largest city — involve customers requesting Linux rather than Windows, according to Geek Central, a fast-growing solution provider that serves the region.
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Torvalds: Real quality means taking it personally
The Linux Foundation (LF) has posted a ten-minute video interview with kernel coordinator Linus Torvalds. Held during the Linux Foundation's recent Linux Kernel Summit, the interview reveals the Linux founder speaking out on issues ranging from kernel/userland interactions to why Linux has so many interfaces.
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Is It Worth Sacrificing $300 Million to Go Open Source?
By making its Symbian OS smart phone software open-source, Symbian is essentially forgoing $300 million in annual revenue, but if it doesn’t it could risk losing chunks of the smart phone pie it now dominates. What’s a vendor to do?
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guile bar mitzvah
"Friends, neighbors, &c: ahem! May I present a new compiler! ... Check out and build the vm branch of the Guile repository: [...] The pleasant thing about all this is that it's a small group of people, and that one individual working hard and working smart can make an enormous difference. So come along and play out those compiler optimization fantasies that you've been keeping secret!"
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Could a Linux Gaming Console Ever Work?
A few days ago, Kristin covered Envizions Computer Entertainment's announcement that it will deliver its EVO Linux-based gaming console on November 18th.
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Shuttleworth: Canonical may need 3-5 more years of funding
Canonical, the commercial backer of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, is not yet turning a profit, but founder Mark Shuttleworth said Monday during a teleconference that he is prepared to bankroll the company for three to five more years.
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Netbooks: The Linux Trojan Horse
For better or worse, Linux has always had a reputation as being the geeks' OS - endlessly flexible if you're on one side of the divide, endlessly complicated on the other.
With netbooks, this isn't the case.
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Sardinia chooses open-source software
The regional government of Sardinia, an Italian island usually thought of as socially and economically backward, has approved a bill designed to promote the use of open-source software throughout the region, a regional government official said Monday.
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My opinion of Mono
As it seems like everyone has to voice her opinion on Mono, I'll do as well. First of all, I don't like C# as a programming language. And I think that Anders Hejlsberg is wrong on many things.
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The Philosophy and Features of Ubuntu 8.10
Last week, I had the pleasure of getting some unique insight into the Ubuntu 8.10 release ("Intrepid Ibex") from Canonical's marketing manager, Gerry Carr.
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Desktop data management needs re-think, says Shuttleworth
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says that the PC desktop is facing a new revolution in the way that information is managed and that he hopes that free software will lead the way.
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Mark Shuttleworth and the Grand Linux Vision
Mark Shuttleworth and Matt Zimmerman of Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, hosted a telephone press conference this morning. The official occasion is the upcoming release of Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex.
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How to install KDE 4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
KDE has reached version 4.1.2. The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It contains a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a device integration framework called Solid and a new style guide and default icon set called Oxygen.
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