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Schools, patents and the future of Linux
Open source activists need to get Linux into schools if Windows' pre-eminance on the desktop is ever to be seriously challenged, a panel discussion at LinuxWorld conference in London last week concluded.
Petit MP3 player boots PCs into Linux
A French company that claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of portable DVD players has added a unique capability to its medallion-shaped portable MP3 players. New "Z2" models of Shinco's "Medaillon" (French spelling) line can be used as USB storage devices that boot PCs into embedded Linux.
Eclipse Gaining Traction
More than half of all developers are using Eclipse, with the bulk of those users developing Java applications—and the biggest reason why Eclipse is being adopted is because it’s an open-source platform, according to a recent study conducted by BZ Research.
Advice to Microsoft: Learn to love Linux
Management guru Clayton Christensen has a paradoxical answer for Microsoft to the challenge posed by open source: Invest in Linux applications for handheld devices.
Embedded Linux helps to swell Wind River
Wind River Systems Inc's turnaround under chairman and CEO, Ken Klein, looks set to continue thanks to improving market conditions, a new management structure, and its recent conversion to the Linux operating system.
The Pride of the (Open Source) Community
While it’s not universally admired, few would disagree that the phenomenon of community development around the open-source software model has taken hold in many organizations. While first seen by proprietary software companies as perhaps everything from fad to fascism to a force to be reckoned with, many have realized that it’s better to ride Goliath’s massive strength than to nip at its heels.
French govt program takes Mandrake Linux to Africa
Mandrakesoft has teamed up with the French ministry of foreign affairs on a program to provide a network of sixty public Internet access points throughout Africa, according to a statement from the French Linux maker.
Celebrating Eight Years of KDE
Almost unnoticed, our favorite Desktop Environment has turned eight. This posting by a young and daring student called Matthias Ettrich started it all. Since then, KDE has come a long way. It did not only evolve technically, but also has one of the greatest communities, where people are not only terribly productive but friends. Thanks to all contributors and happy birthday KDE!
AT&T mulls large Linux leap
AT&T has set up a lab to evaluate how Linux desktops would work as an everyday technology environment for the company. The telecom giant is doing this as a way to explore potential cost-cutting methods, the company said last week. AT&T is also investigating Macintosh OS X as a potential desktop operating system replacement. AT&T says it will make a decision based on its evaluations at the end of next year.
Stop worrying about IT offshoring - it's doing fine
According to the quarterly report [pdf link] we received today from Wipro, India's largest IT services and business process outsourcing contractor, revenue was up 47% -- and profits were up 67% -- over last year. Better yet, Wipro claims it has added 34 new clients in the last quarter, and "10 are Fortune 1000/Global 1000 customers."
'Swiss army knife' software tools not right for patching specific IT problems
Traditional patch management solutions are better at installing software than they are at patching and upgrading, according to a recent Yankee Group report that recommends comprehensive rather than piecemeal approaches to fixing vulnerabilities in applications.
System recovery with Knoppix
This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. You can do it all from Knoppix's excellent graphical utilities, or from the command line.
There Is No Money In Free Software. PERIOD!!
People just don't willingly contribute enough money for long term support of Free, Open Source Software, or any free community projects for that matter. The numbers don't lie. Most free software projects put a PayPal link on their websites so their supporters can make donations (non coercive payments). But somehow, their bank balances retain double goose egg balances, or close to it, in absolute perpetuity. These freeloading dead-beats must be pushed into paying. A commercial, "paid for" (coercive payment) model, is the only way that we can ever really sustain GNU/Linux projects and distributions. Wake up and smell the coffee!
Learning PostgreSQL at the Big Nerd Ranch
Small class size, great food and a beautiful setting make this not your ordinary training session.
Using Firefox's mozex extension call an external mail program
I recently moved from Mozilla to Firefox 1.0PR for Web browsing on my Fedora Core 1 Linux desktop system. On that platform, Firefox doesn't do anything with mailto: links by default; it just prints an error message if you click on one. However, a Firefox extension called mozex allows you to use any external mail program for mailto: links in Firefox.
Astaro Announces New Astaro Secure Client for Virtual Private Networks
Discontinues sales of older Astaro IPSec Client software
Review: UserLinux Beta 1: The Precursor to the Next Enterprise Linux Distro?
"UserLinux is a Linux distribution with very high aspirations. Founded and backed by Linux luminary Bruce Perens, part of the UserLinux mission is to repair the economic paradigm of enterprise Linux. The recently released UserLinux Beta 1 is perhaps a tangible small step on the path toward achieving its lofty ambitions..."
IBM preps new top-end Unix servers
IBM plans to announce two new top-end Unix servers Friday, sources familiar with its plans said, opening major new challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
Choosing and Implementing Linux
On October 18th at 2 p.m. EDT, eWEEK.com's Steven Vaughan-Nichols joins a panel of Linux experts for an eduational eSeminar that will help you make the right choice.
Paris city authority hedges bets on Linux move
The city of Paris intends to reduce its dependence on software suppliers with"de facto monopolies," but considers an immediate switch of its 17,000 desktops to open source software too costly, it said Wednesday.
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