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Zimbra Nearing 50 Million Paid Users, Launching Partner Program

Zimbra, the open source email provider owned by Yahoo, plans to launch a formalized partner program in the next few weeks or so. More than 700 partners already sell or host Zimbra’s software, which is marching toward 50 million paid customers, The VAR Guy hears. But that’s no all. Here’s where Zimbra is heading next in the channel.

Game review - Eschalon: Book I

  • LinuxForums.org; By Razvan T. Coloja (Posted by Cypress on Apr 28, 2009 4:57 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
The first thing that strikes you about Eschalon is the music. It's soothing, calm, makes you feel comfortable while playing. And play you will. Alot. This is not the kind of game you can finish in a week then move on to another turn-based game. You'll give up your social life, you'll start arguing with your girlfriend about going to sleep late and in a few more day you'll be calculating everything in turns. I swear to God I was seeing tiles on the street by the third week.

System76 Launches Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook

  • WorksWithU; By Joe Panettieri (Posted by thevarguy2 on Apr 28, 2009 4:00 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Less than one week after Canonical debuted Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix edition, System76 is playing an encure by launching an Ubuntu 9.04 netbook. The move had been rumored for several weeks. And it’s certainly the first of many Ubuntu netbooks that will hit the market. Here’s the scoop.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 26-Apr-2009


LXer Feature: 27-Apr-2009

The biggest story of the week was by far the purchase of Sun, not by IBM but Oracle, which has many FOSS proponents worried about the Open Source projects that Sun is an integral part of. I agree with SJVN's take on it and it explains why Oracle had "Dr DBA" himself appear on stage at the MySQL annual conference only days later.

Windows 7's virtual 'XP mode' could mean support nightmares

Michael Silver, an analyst at Gartner Inc., echoed Cherry's take on what motivated Microsoft to offer XPM. "It shows the extent to [which] Microsoft wants to get people who use XP onto Windows 7," he said.

But Silver sees some big downsides. "You'll have to support two versions of Windows," he said. "Each needs to be secured, antivirused, firewalled and patched. Businesses don't want to support two instances of Windows on each machine. If a company has 10,000 PCs, that's 20,000 instances of Windows."

The other big problem Silver foresees with XPM is that it may cause some companies to neglect the real task: making sure the software they run is compatible with Windows 7. "This is a great Band-Aid, but companies need to heal their applications," Silver said. "They'll be doing themselves a disservice if, because of XPM, they're not making sure that all their apps support Windows 7."

Asterisk: Who's Answering the Call for Training

  • The VAR Guy; By Len Sandy (Posted by thevarguy2 on Apr 28, 2009 1:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Asterisk industry seems to be answering a loud, global call for open source IP PBX training. While Digium has started planning for the annual AstriCon conference, solutions providers and training centers are striving to educate the masses about the open source IP PBX. Here's how Asterisk training is evolving.

Let the IT Land Grab Begin

With Oracle ready to annex Sun Microsystems, there may finally exist a true, full and global counterweight to IBM's hegemony. Who else loses? Microsoft, SAP and Cisco -- and maybe even Amazon. If HP plays along and aligns with Sun and Oracle, together they could create a full-service IT powerhouse.

Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - File systems: New and revamped file systems

The patches adopted in Linux 2.6.30 introduce many significant changes affecting data security and Ext3 and Ext4 performance. Support for the EXOFS and NILFS2 file systems is new, as is the cache for the AFS and NFS network file systems. There are also a few fixes for the almost forgotten ReiserFS file system.

How not to play with "Open" license.

  • LXer; By Lito Steel (Posted by litosteel on Apr 27, 2009 10:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Maybe it is just in my mind, but some new Linux Distributors cannot redact good license terms for their works. Even some of them have written license too narrow (in excess from my point of view) that they look like the one of an infamous Proprietary OS...

"Googlephone" Isn't a Model, It's a Class

Last fall, T-Mobile became the first wireless provider to offer a handset based on Google's Android platform: the T-Mobile G1. And the world rejoiced. Now, some six months after that debut, Samsung has jumped in the game with its own Android offering.

Creating an invoicing system with OpenOffice.org

If you run a business, finding an efficient system for managing invoices is critical for sustaining a positive cash flow. Here’s how you can create an easy invoicing solution using OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc.

Tiny Core Linux 1.4 & 2.0 RC1 released

The Tiny Core developers have announced the release of version 1.4 of their minimal Linux distribution. Tiny Core is only about 10 MB in size and is based on the 2.6 Linux kernel. Version 1.4 now includes Tiny Core Virtual Disk (TCVD) support and an updated watcher, which now supports the no swap option.

Set up Secure Wireless With Zeroshell Linux (part 2)

Today Eric Geier shows us how Zeroshell makes it easy to set up your own wireless access point with the strongest authentication and encryption, and nice user-management features so you can easily maintain control of who has access to your wireless network.

Kaffeine 1.0 Pre-Release Preview - First KDE4 Port

  • Tux Arena; By Craciun Dan (Posted by Chris7mas on Apr 27, 2009 6:09 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
The first pre-release of Kaffeine 1.0 was released yesterday so I decided to give it a spin and see how it behaves. Since this is a pre-release, it is not intended for general use and currently lacks many features and functionality from Kaffeine 0.7. This is first KDE4 port of Kaffeine for KDE3, which was one of the most powerful players for KDE, including support for DVD menus, subtitles, video effects, and supporting a huge number of video and audio formats via the Xine engine.

Jaunty Jackalope: Are Alarm Bells Ringing in Redmond?

Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope has bounded onto desktops, and reaction in the Linux blogosphere is mostly thumbs up. There are some who wish the Ubuntu distros didn't come in such quick succession, however, arguing that there's not enough time to stabilize them and get into serious application development. Still, if it's all part of a hellbent for leather effort to compete with Microsoft, it may just be working.

Cassatt Near The End

Cassatt Corporation, my employer for the past 5 years, is out of cash. Now that we finally have solid Linux-based (but, sadly, not Open Source) software which powers internal clouds, we don't have the capital to continue. Anyone who wants disruptive technology for pennies on the dollar, now is you opportunity to jump in. Otherwise, it's the end of a neat, but bumpy, ride.

openSUSE 11.2 takes shape

The openSUSE developers have announced the release of Milestone 1 of the upcoming openSUSE 11.2. The release includes the latest 2.6.29 Linux kernel and version 2.4 of Mono, an open source alternative to Microsoft's .NET framework. Milestone 1 includes the KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26 and Xfce 4.6 desktop environments.

Sexy Web Design: Creating Interfaces that Work

  • A Million Chimpanzees; By James Pyles (Posted by tripwire45 on Apr 27, 2009 2:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Mozilla

There are just about a ton of web design books on the market. Better make that two tons. What makes this one so different that yet another book on the topic graces the shelves of our local bookstores...I mean, besides the fact that it's "sexy"? In terms of design (and a lot of other things), the term "sexy" doesn't quite mean a scantily clad curvy woman or buff man (although I suppose it could). It means a design that is highly attractive and appealing to the eye. Erotic imagery is used to sell everything from cars to sunglasses because it attracts attention. Anything that attracts (positive) attention to your web site design can be considered "sexy". Is this book "sexy"? Does it teach "sexy" design? Let's find out.

Linus on Linux: The Linus Torvalds Interview Part 2

  • Linux Magazine; By Don Marti (Posted by linuxmag on Apr 27, 2009 1:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: Linux
In part 2 of this interview, Linus talks about the process of managing kernel developer commits, selecting a revision control system and how he personally uses git.

Sugar on a Stick learning platform beta released

Sugar Labs, the maker of the software for the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, has announced the release of a first beta of Sugar on a Stick. Sugar on a Stick is a version of the free open source Sugar Learning Platform that can be installed to, and booted from, a USB flash drive on a conventional desktop, notebook or netbook computer. Walter Bender, Executive Director of Sugar Labs says "Sugar on a Stick lets you start a computer with Sugar and store a child’s data on the stick without touching the host computer’s hard disk,".

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