The only conclusion I can draw is that the audience that Ubuntu attracts are not your usual "computer-savvy" user who has no problem reinstalling something, switching distros or even forking a distribution. They obviously seem to want something that just works, which is not the product Mark Shuttleworth supplies.
Read more »Mark Shuttleworth's business concept is flawed
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VMware Helps Promote Vista 7 and Harm Red Hat
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Mr. Maritz and his partners/colleagues from Microsoft (former Microsoft executives who run VMware now) help Ballnux and Vista 7 at the expense of GNU/Linux, so Microsoft gets paid either way (or twice, in the case of virtualisation)
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Novell Turns MeeGo Into Another Ballnux
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Novell is pushing Mono into new places and projects, including MeeGo which is now talking about OpenSUSE Build Service as well
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FFmpeg 0.6 released
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Free software multimedia software, codenamed "Works with HTML5" as the special focus on this release were a lot of improvements that are relevant for HTML5 video. The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster and the Vorbis decoder has seen important updates.
Read more »EU agency publishes tool to check trade mark names and meaning
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The prototype of a tool to check whether the name of a trade mark application has a meaning in any of the EU's official languages, is published as open source by the EU's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the agency that is responsible for registering trade marks and designs.
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Parrot 2.5.0 "Cheops" Released
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Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons.
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PGXN project announcement
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GXN, the PostgreSQL Extension Network, is modelled on CPAN, the Perl community's archive of ``all things Perl''.
Read more »BeRTOS 2.5.0 is available
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BeRTOS is a real time open source operating system supplied with drivers and libraries designed for the rapid development of embedded software. Perfect for building commercial applications with no license costs nor royalties, BeRTOS allows you to cut the economic investment for your products.
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Transmission 2.00 released
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Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is free software, community-driven, easy, powerful use, that has low memory footprint and cross-platform. It has following features: encryption, web interface, peer exchange ability, magnet links support, distributed hash table technology support, UPnP and NAT-PMP port-forwarding, webseed, and many more.
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Build your own super computer using Ubuntu 10.04.
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I show step-by-step how you can setup your own using Ubuntu 10.04 super-computer. A student should be able to setup and play with a computer cluster system at home without spend days reading through Linux systems-administrators books and manuals.
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OpenSVC has is now available for FreeBSD
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OpenSVC is a GPLv2 project automating the low-level operations needed to bring up system resources (virtual machine container, IP, disk groups, filesystem mounts, application launchers) on a node and to replicate data to secondary nodes (in local or remote sites). OpenSVC can be coupled to a tiers heartbeat daemon to form a full failover clustering stack.
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Minix 3.1.7 is here
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MINIX 3 is a free software operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is loosely based somewhat on previous versions of MINIX, but is fundamentally different in many key ways.
Read more »Translation of Novell’s Statement Regarding the SCO Case
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Novell's spin is dissected following the end of the copyright/UNIX case
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The Linux 2.6.35-rc3 Kernel Update Is Small
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Last week when releasing the Linux 2.6.35-rc2 kernel, Linus was upset with the number of late merges and other commits that were receiving pull requests in the Linux 2.6.35 kernel development cycle when the work should instead be now about bug and regression fixes.
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HP buys Phoenix's HyperSpace quick-start Linux
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Some netbooks, notebooks and desktop PCs are shipped with compact operating systems designed to boot particularly quickly. Among those offering such systems are BIOS and firmware specialist Phoenix Technologies.
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