With a headline like that, I get the most buzzword-conscious award for the day. But I can't help myself; I'm currently sitting in the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, listening to publisher Tim O'Reilly give the opening remarks to the small audience of about 150.
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Sabayon Linux v3.4 debuts with ext4 support
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Just days after announcing the first version of Sabayon tuned to business needs including servers, the Italy-based project team has released version 3.4 of its desktop-oriented distribution, claiming "four months of hard and deep development."
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Ubuntu Live needs a more commercial focus
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Ubuntu gets buzz like mad. Ubuntu is the next wave in Linux. Ubuntu is led by Mark Shuttleworth, a world-famous, charismatic person who buzzes around the world in his private jet, bringing the GNU/Linux gospel to the masses. And Ubuntu has now held its first Ubuntu Live conference, which was a decent first effort but nowhere near as polished as Red Hat's annual get-togethers.
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The LXer Interview: Dave Wreski of EnGarde Secure Linux
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An interview with Dave Wreski CEO of Guardian Digital, makers of EnGarde Secure Linux. I ask him how EnGarde came about, what makes EnGarde different and the effect if any, of the GPLv3 on the software in EnGarde. He answers all these questions and more, in The LXer Interview of Dave Wreski.
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Poetry in kernel documentation
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Rusty Russell posted on LKML some patches to add documentation for his actual kernel work known as lguest. In one of his patches Rusty wrote:”Indeed, no code changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into 2.6.23 because it’s fun. And (as often complained) there’s not enough poetry in the kernel.”
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Launchpad PPA Service: Software Development the Ubuntu Way
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During the Ubuntu Live Conference in Portland, Ore., Canonical announced the beta release of its Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other contributions to free software.
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Who Are the Desktop Linux Users?
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Our OpenSUSE.org crew did some very enlightening research about who the Linux Desktop user is, and here’s what they found.
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Meet the OLPC's XO
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One Laptop Per Child's XO (commonly referred to as the $100 laptop) is designed to change the world by bringing computing resources to children in the developing world. But the many innovations in the XO may also end up changing the world of technology.
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Linux Foundation names Markus Rex as CTO
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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit group dedicated to accelerating Linux's growth, announced on July 24 that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will serve as the Foundation's new chief technology officer.
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"Pretty much anything [Mac] has, Linux can do better." Hogwash. Can we kill the zealotry?
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Torvalds said, “I don’t use either [Windows or Mac OS X]. OS X is kind of pointless (pretty much anything it has, Linux can do better) and Windows offers stuff that I don’t much care about (mainly games — and I’ve got games machines for those).” Before I comment on this any more than I have, let me just say that I have been a near-exclusive Linux desktop user since 2001.
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50 Things You Need to Know About Ubuntu
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Yes, The VAR Guy is attending UbuntuLIVE in Portland, Oregon. He’s already noticed several Ubuntu Linux trends that could potentially benefit solutions providers and their customers. So, it’s the perfect opportunity for a big countdown: 50 things you need to know about Ubuntu.
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Printer Setup on Ubuntu: Not the Friendliest
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All in all, setting up a printer was a little more geeky than what I encountered during my initial OS setup. With a more friendly (for the open sourcers out there, I’m sure you could trade out the modifier “dumb” here) interface and help documentation, the process could have been cut to 15 or so minutes, I’d guess, but there were still some legitimate hassles.
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Linux gains ground in China
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Linux has been riding on a wave in China, topping the growth of all operating systems in the first quarter of 2007, says an industry analyst.
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The envelope, please . . .
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"The overtime that some computer publications and industry pundits have been clocking to propagate FUD around GNU/Linux has grown geometrically over the last several weeks... With this in mind, below are the initial nominees for The Elmers, named after the patriarch of the FUD family."
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Linux Foundation names new CTO
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The Linux Foundation today announced Markus Rex will become its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and lead its Linux Standard Base (LSB) initiative and other standardization and technical initiatives for the foundation.
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