Lately I’ve been working on an updated version of the comparison between Skype and Wengophone I wrote on June 2006 for Free Software Magazine. While I was working on it, I spotted a number of rather worrying signs:
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Mandriva 2008.1 Alpha 1 Screenshots
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Kicking off the 2008.1 development cycle in earnest, the first alpha is here. This alpha features X.Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 (in /contrib), GNOME 2.21, kernel 2.6.24, OpenOffice.org 2.3, new NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers, PulseAudio by default and more. Despite being a first alpha, it is also in a fairly stable and reliable state. Check out the Mandriva 2008.1 Alpha 1 screenshots by The Coding Studio.
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System That Stole Christmas
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Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage: ``Be careful about what you wish for."
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Of the people, by the people, for the people...
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Yesterday afternoon, Red Hat, Inc. announced that James Whitehurst would be taking over for Matthew Szulik as chief executive. This is important open source news because Red Hat is by far the largest company practicing open source as its primary business. (Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat executive.)
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What Microsoft (And Linux) Can Learn from Firefox
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There are two things that I know with absolute certainty to be true; that Elvis is dead and that Linux poses no immediate threat to Microsoft’s business model.
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As Go Document Formats, So Goes Video
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Back in March of 2006, I interviewed Alan Cote, the Supervisor of Public Records in the Public Records Division of the Massachusetts Secretary's office. Alan had testified back in October of 2005 in the hearing where Peter Quinn had been called on the carpet by Senator Marc Pacheco, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight.
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Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!?
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According to www.y2k38.info, all 32 bit Unix and Linux systems, in their current state, will come to a halt on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07. This is due to the fact that *nix systems keep track of time in a four byte integer corresponding to the number of seconds after January 1, 1970 12:00:00. The maximum value of a four byte integer is 2,146,483,547 which is equivalent of January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07.
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Working with Linux RPM's
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In this post, I wanted to hit on the basics of working with RPM's in Linux (RPM stands for the Redhat Package Management system - basically, they're the software packages that make up your system). In later posts we'll go into some neat tricks... But for now, we'll stick with the basics.
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GNOME, Google and the UNIX user interface
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Recently, after a flurry of annoying user interface issues, I’ve switched my RSS reader from Liferea to Google Reader. Interestingly, it turns out that Google Reader actually fits better with the traditional UNIX user interface concept, I’ve found.
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Where Linux Can Leap Ahead - Part 3
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In my opinion, large businesses are too tied to a big system based in Windows to switch to Linux, but creative professionals and small businesses have much less of a tie to any particular operating system and if there were applications that did what they need to Linux, they would switch.
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Serious Flash vulns menace at least 10,000 websites
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Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors.
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Wikia Will Search. But When?
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"Search Wikia *will* launch before 2008!!" via http://searchwikia.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/search-wikia-will-launch-bef...
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Samba team gains tech docs from EU Microsoft antitrust suit
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"The Samba team will soon get the fruits of the EU antitrust suit against Microsoft. Samba is software which allows an operating system to communicate with Microsoft Windows shared folders and printers over a network. The network protocols Microsoft uses are secret and had to be determined by Samba programmers by listening on the wire to see what Microsoft’s proprietary software would do given a particular input. Microsoft had to be forced to produce the documentation for various network protocols they use..."
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Freedom Summer of Code
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"...The kind birds from your trusty tech collective have hatched a new organization! We call it Riseup Labs. [...] Riseup Labs is actively developing social networking software that is geared specifically to the needs of network organizing and democratic collaboration. We are also planning to make riseup.net nearly impossible to shut down, provide new services, and greatly enhance your security and privacy..."
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First look to Mozilla Labs Weave
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"The door is open again and registration available for Weave, Mozilla Labs’ application for synchronizing Firefox metadata online. To register, visit Weave User Registration site..."
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