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● Links 11/08/2008: School Migration to GNU/Linux, Mobile Linux, and So Much More

Posted in News Roundup at 5:31 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzMobileTop-secret Android handset surfaces on YouTubeDefying Google’s pathologically closed approach to its open mobile platform, someone has posted video of a top-secret Android phone to YouTube.The video’s a bit blurry. And even if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t tell you much. But if you want a glimpse of the current Android SDK, this is the only way to get it. For more than five months, in a display of perverse cruelty, Google has hidden SDK updates from all but a select few mobile developers.HTC denies Android mobile delayLiMo mobile Linux takes on Google and NokiaMotorola Lures ISVs With Linux Phone ToolsGNU/LinuxWinn-Dixie turns IT, once a liability, into an assetIBM sees no alternative to LinuxThe kids are all right with LinuxApparently my son’s school spent the summer ripping out the old PC system and replacing it with a centralized Linux server and terminals.Now here’s the real shocking part.No one noticed. There’s not even a mention of it on the school Web site.Why Vista is not ready for Linux and Mac usersI’ve started my simulated migration from Linux to Vista already, starting my dog food challenge two days early, I will go over my findings so far, sometimes making the assumptions a new Windows user would, and mostly from the perspective of a Linux “switcher”, with a dose of sarcasm.Linux Outlaws 50 – The Big Five-OFabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch, despite being blocked in China, talk about masturbating monkeys, all kinds of Linux and F/OSS stories and keep a watchful eye on what Microsoft is up to.Meet LoLiTa – the Linux user’s group of French PolynesiaLinux rises to top dog in serversLAST week’s LinuxWorld talkfest in San Francisco, which brought together 10,000 vendors and users of the open source operating system, offered yet another indicator of its growing popularity across enterprise IT groups and among developers.Visions of a Microsoft-Free WorldIs free software taking over the world one town at a time? Residents of Felton, Calif., recently pledged to go proprietary-free for at least a week. Plans for similar events are reportedly under way in town in Oregon and New Mexico, as well as 100 towns in Italy.It wasn’t supposed to be this easyAt least, that’s what various people have told me. The it to which I refer was connecting my laptop to a wireless printer.[...]Still, I keep hearing stories about people having trouble with printing under Linux.Running Ubuntu on an Asus EEE 4GReleases and ReviewsB2D (GNU/Linux) 20080808 and GNUstep 1.9 have been released.The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of a much improved development version of Elive1.234 released[A Look at gOS]Review: Pardus Linux 2008Pardus is a rather interesting Linux distribution amongst a wide field of many competitors. It’s unique in that, while it’s designed for desktop usage, it is funded and developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. I don’t know the reasons behind this, but I suspect it was due to a need for a good quality Linux distribution for Turkish speaking people.Damn Small Linux 4.4.4 [Released]Verdict: An excellent operating systemKDEJOLIE to Bring Service-Oriented Computing to KDEFabrizio Montesi of italianaSoftware showed at Akademy how JOLIE brings new ways of interaction through the network to KDE. One of his examples is the ECOS media controller that organises control of your multimedia player (in our case that’s Amarok of course) through web interfaces, handheld devices and other applications. JOLIE takes care of synchronising and concerting all those different interfaces. Read on for more details.Akademy in BelgiumWe have had a great couple of days talks here at Akademy in Belgium. The energy in the KDE community is brilliantly high as we move from the long KDE 4 development period into having the world beating desktop.UbuntuCanonical To VARs: 11% of U.S. Businesses Use Ubuntu LinuxCanonical Preparing Virtual Ubuntu Server AppliancesCanonical Preparing Virtual Ubuntu Server Appliancesgetdeb.net announces PlaybuntuUbuntu Podcast Episode #4VMWareVMWare beware: Sun’s FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for LinuxWhen it comes to virtualising Linux, VMWare has always had the edge of Microsoft’s Virtual PC which has limited video display support. Although these were the best two, there have been other lesser-known options like XENSource. Here’s Sun’s VirtualBox and why it is truly kick-ass.Red Hat, Microsoft, attacking VMwareFirefoxMicrosoft Flops and Loses 7% of the Browser Market in Last 12 Months – Vista Still Only Used by Less Than 15% of all Users, per JancoMozilla’s Firefox Wins the “Who’s the Next Open Source Idol” Crown at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San FranciscoRichard StallmanRichard Stallman and how easily we have traded away our freedom to share.Richard Stallman lives and works by his principlesCopyright Depth PerceptionF/OSSOpen Source Software Gaining GroundDimDim 4.0 is here!DimDim 4.0 is here!Abuse of RightsSecret EU security draft risks uproar with call to pool policing and give US personal dataPhorm papers reveal BT’s backwards approach to wiretap lawDigital Tipping Point: Clip of the DaySterling Ball — businessman, guitarstring impressario, and Free Open Source Software advocateDigital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. 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