LXer Weekly Roundup for 17-May-2009

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 18, 2009 10:32 AM
LXer Linux News; By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.)


LXer Feature: 18-May-2009

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0 beta of its Prism software. Danijel Orsolic puts a new take on the semantics of whether Linux is an OS or not. Paul Rubens shows us how to optimize hard drives for maximum speed in Linux and Pogoplug, which is a little device that can connect to a USB 2.0 hard drive and an Ethernet connection, and then instantly makes the drive an Internet-accessible storage device promises to publish the source-code if the product fails.

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0 beta of its Prism software. Danijel Orsolic puts a new take on the semantics of whether Linux is an OS or not. Paul Rubens shows us how to optimize hard drives for maximum speed in Linux and Pogoplug, which is a little device that can connect to a USB 2.0 hard drive and an Ethernet connection, and then instantly makes the drive an Internet-accessible storage device promises to publish the source-code if the product fails.

In some Microsoft news it looks like the MLB website has benched SilverLight for good and in an article contributed to LXer by Iveen Duarte the author tells why "M$ not playing fair to OpenOffice". In some good news for Linux buyers Dell spins lower-cost netbook, Oracle buys virtualisation specialist Virtual Iron in their continued buying spree after gobbling up Sun.

Ken Hess started a debate among LXer readers as to whether Linux Certification is a requirement for landing a FOSS related job or not. In a LXer Feature, Thomas King states "It Will Never Be the Year of Desktop Linux" and starts quite the conversation and spawns other articles about it as well. Time gives us a list of The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade or so and Phoronix tests the latest Ubuntu offering and says its off to a great performance start and last but not least Alan Pope tells us why Asus is a fair weather friend

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