Google’s Android operating system gave Linux-on-mobile sales a healthy boost in the fourth quarter of 2008. In its latest report on the state of smartphones, IT analysts Gartner said that Linux-based mobile sales increased from 2.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 3.2 million units at the end of 2008.
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Google introduces phone services
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Google has strengthened its mobile services with the debut of a service called Voice that could be a challenge to Skype and other phone firms.
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EU: Open Source Initiative approves European Union Public licence
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The Open Source Initiative (OSI), one of the principal advocacy organisations on open source software, has unanimously approved the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) version 1.1 as an open source licence, on 4 March.
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MoviX2 Creates a Bootable, Self-Playing Video
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MoviX2 puts a tiny Linux system on a disc or thumb drive that boots up and plays almost any video file you burn it with, making a handy tool for demonstrations or less-than-capable computers.
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A New Software Manifesto for India
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A new voice is rising from the great democracy of India, and that voice is proclaiming that the only responsible choice for public sector software is software that is first and foremost available to the public-to read and understand, to modify and improve, and to share and redistribute.
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Open Source Use On The Rise, But Management Policies Lag
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The good news is the deployment of open source is growing. The bad news is that policies managing those projects are an afterthought.
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Adobe: 'Open' But Not Always Open Source
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Adobe says it sees openness as a way to grow interest. But not every one of its products is ready for open source.
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Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn
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Reducing costs and stronger interoperability with Windows were listed as the two top issues in a new survey of IT managers.
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Ubuntu Newbie Guide: Install Themes / Emerald [part 6]
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You see cool themes on almost all screenshot of Ubuntu all over the internet but don't know how to do it. No worries, it can be done in no time. [...] But for the windows layouts, there's a much cooler way to handle this: using Emerald.
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Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 6: 2 New Wallpapers and a New Boot Splash
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After the new themes introduced yesterday, Canonical decided to update the boot splash screen (USplash) theme with a very nice one. As you can see in the image below, the logo is the same as it was in Ubuntu 8.10, but it's smaller and the loading bar was replaced with a thinner and nicer one (see the images below for more details).
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LF Video of the Day: GNU/Linux Metamorphosis
Novell Happy About KDE Bindings for Mono and .NET
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Microsoft Takes it Personally in Portugal, Dumps on India
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Microsoft frowns upon FOSS advocate in Portugal and signs MOU/contract to undermine FOSS in India
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On Configuring The Linux Kernel For Debugging
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In this blog let’s look at something simple, yet apparently, not used nearly enough. Let’s look at configuring the Linux kernel with various options for debugging.
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Unreleased ATI Catalyst Driver Appears In Ubuntu
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Last year when Ubuntu 8.10 was released it had shipped with an unpublished ATI Catalyst driver since the proprietary ATI drivers available to the public were not compatible with X Server 1.5. Now with Ubuntu 9.04 we have run into a similar situation.
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