Linux's gains are Microsoft's losses, and there were both aplenty in the past week, despite the best efforts of the Redmond crowd to tamp down enthusiasm for free OSes. Bloggers across the FLOSS world are speculating over what they see as a building storm headed straight for western Washington.
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Linux Is In Business and Business Is Good
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While it is not an easy thing to accurately gauge the number of people using or migrating to the Linux Desktop, it is almost impossible to nail down the number of businesses that pin the penguin to the profit margins.
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Latest ATI Linux Video Driver Introduces Full OpenGL 3.0 Support
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AMD has just announced a new and improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. ATI Catalyst 9.1 introduces final and stable support for the Ubuntu 8.10 Linux operating system, full OpenGL 3.0 support, Hybrid CrossFire support and Multiview support.
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Easy image resizing and rotating in Ubuntu
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Easy, quick and simple image resizing and rotating is important to many people. When using Windows, you're able to download and install the Image Resizer "PowerToy". You can then manipulate images directly from Windows Explorer. But how do you do the same task in Ubuntu?
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26 Open Source Security Apps with Commercial Support
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A little over a year ago, we took a look at 10 Commercial Open Source Security Vendors. As we set out to update that list, two facts jumped out: 1) the number of open source security apps with commercial support has grown substantially and 2) the line between open source and commercial applications continues to blur.
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Daily Snapshot .debs of Conkeror
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"Keeping track with packaging software which is under heavy development can be time-consuming. I noticed this while packaging Conkeror, because there was quite a demand for up-to-date packages, especially from upstream themself. So recently on the IRC channel #conkeror the idea of automatically built Debian packages came up.
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LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning
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Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools.
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WiMAX base stations to run Linux
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PureWave Networks is using Linux, a Freescale processor, and an off-the-shelf middleware package from Enea to create its next generation of WiMAX base stations. Due later this year, the base stations will aim to bridge the gap between macro and pico WiMAX stations, says the company.
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What’s this X-Zap thing about ?
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They wanna X zapping by default. A lot of discussion followed. Usability here, usability there (yawn).
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Acer to ship 10-inch Aspire One with Linux
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Despite earlier announcing that it would only ship a Windows XP version of its 10-inch Aspire One netbook, Acer now says it plans to release a Linux version as well.
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A Modest Idea: What If Microsoft Open Sourced Windows?
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"I came up with an idea this week: What if Microsoft made Windows open source? Before you accuse of me of link baiting..." Hardly a new idea so link-baiting... I think so. Anyway... bitten.
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IT Management Slideshow:
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The recession is helping to drive home the fact that open source is enterprise-ready in a lot of areas. Flexible pricing and mature products make the once-exotic software ready for prime time.
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Pandora open-source handheld console inching closer to debut
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The long-awaited Pandora open-source handheld has inched one step closer to completion, as the OpenPandora team has put on display the nearly finalized case design. We review what we know about Pandora to date, and what the project is hoping to accomplish.
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OLPC XO-2 to be open source hardware
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According to a report from the Guardian, the next version of the OLPC (XO-2) will be open source hardware. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is a non-profit organisation who's mission is to provide children across the world access to modern education by providing laptops that they can use for learning.
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Carphone Warehouse, netbooks and GNU/Linux: an inquest
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I was browsing around my local Carphone Warehouse shop last week. Unlike the last time I crossed their threshold (November) I noticed that their Ubuntu netbook display had vanished. There was only one netbook on display and it was advertised as running Windows XP. Their website also advertised the Asus EeePC with Windows XP too.
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