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Read more »Ubuntu Netbook Strategy Faces Four Questions
Canonical has finally “branded” its Internet-centric device strategy for Ubuntu. The company says “Ubuntu Netbook Remix” devices will emerge as affordable, power-efficient, small screen devices driven by Intel’s Atom processor. But which PC companies and device makers will back Ubuntu on netbooks? Here are some thoughts, plus four key questions facing Canonical’s netbook strategy.
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X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke
X Server 1.4.1 was originally scheduled to be released on the first of November as a bug-fix release for X Server 1.4.0, which was released in conjunction with X.Org 7.3. However, a delay had pushed the planned X Server 1.4.1 release to November 11. When that date had come X Server 1.4.1 was far from being ready.
Read more »Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
The pragmatic and ethically-rooted world of free software might seem about as far away as possible from the highly abstract and, at times, morally dubious world of high finance. But as Richard Stallman has frequently pointed out, free software is by no means antithetical to making money: it's just a question of how you make money.
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Switch to Evolution
I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for years now and found it the best email client available. Well, at least from the ones I knew. And Incredimail isn’t such a good competitor. ;)
But I did miss something. Some things just didn’t go really smooth and I wanted to integrate it more with GNOME.
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Red Hat Pays Intellectual Monopoly Money
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Novell a Member of Microsoft’s Virtualisation Validation Club
Microsoft's Virtualization Validation program is used to push Novell at the expense of rivals like Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu.
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Advocating OpenDocument Format While OOXML is Under Fire
OOXML comes under new pressures which may ease encouragement of ODF adoption.
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Neelie Kroes Dismisses Novell-type Intraoperability with Microsoft
Trade secrets are not accepted as means of attaining interoperability.
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Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server
This article provides information about the true people and companies behind the X server for the last nine years. All commits are analyzed regarding the amount of contribution and the person/company behind it.
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Novell’s ‘Linux’ is Not Free Software
Novell is building fences around the source code of its GNU/Linux distribution.
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The Choice Between Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Linux
Lenovo only offers Novell's (and Microsoft's) SUSE now, having dropped the FreeDOS option and bumped up the price.
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Chiron FS lets you set up RAID-1 over the network
The Linux kernel includes support for performing RAID-1 in software. RAID-1 maintains the same filesystem on two or more disks, so that you can lose all but the last disk and still retain all of your data. This seems wonderful until you consider that an error in RAM, a power supply failure, or another hardware component in the machine can still potentially corrupt your precious data.
Read more »Canonical OEM Strategy Deserves Applause
According to Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company has been approached “by a number of OEM’s who want to sell netbooks (small, low-cost laptops with an emphasis on the web) based on Ubuntu.” That’s impressive. Here’s some more analysis on of the news.
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Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops
Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP.
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