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● Links 30/10/2008: More Adopters of Android, Asia and EU Push for Free Software

Posted in News Roundup at 4:42 am by Dr. Roy SchestowitzGNU/LinuxOLPC Nepal NowGive your old PowerPC Mac a new lease of life with Ubuntu LinuxOpening the Gaming GadgetConsole servers ship with open-source UPS toolsUsing Your Linux Computer As A Media Center (Part 1)Some Linux backup utilitiesOntario LinuxFest 2008Embedded/DevicesFPGA dev kit supports dual PowerPCsTimesys Announces Embedded Linux for the Freescale i.MX31 PDKEspian harnesses laptop-like performance of OMAP3530 applications processor from Texas Instruments for its latest Linux-based embedded test and debug instrumentIndustrial Linux gains ADA 2005 toolsPhones (Android)Asus Readying Googlephone for 2009Eee PC maker readies Android phone for 2009Google’s Android Army Gathers More SoldiersAndroid phones hit eBay AustraliaG1 Price Drop: Wal-Mart to Sell Android For LessCloudCloud Computing Dispels the Fog of FUDLinux and Gmail Drove Microsoft to Windows Azure: IBM already thereWe have said in previous articles that Microsoft and other brands cannot keep selling software for profit when there are alternatives for free thanks to open source in some cases.Photoshop Express Is An Awesome Cloud AppYahoo’s Zimbra Connects the Campus to the CloudSub-notebooksClutter is Good for Intel’s Moblin LinuxAcer Aspire One, Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows XP ULCPC editionWith Ubuntu Linux, I do not have to put up with Evil. A quick trip into system / preferences / keyboard, and CapLock is just another ctrl key. Bye bye evil.KDEGwenview, Nepomuk and ratingKDE4 apps: digiKamKDE4 – Making computers fun again.The cool part was last night when one of them (who is not very technically minded at all) turned to me and said, “Dad, guess what? I figured out widgets. They are SO cool!”. It’s the first time I recall her excited about something she could do on the computer. Dad thinks that is “SO cool”. Kubuntu Intrepid – Teenager ReadyCamp KDE 2009: Akademy’s Satellite CampusExtenders: now 400% more pretty.PeopleFaces behind Popular Linux DistrosInterview With Adam Oslen – Exaile Player DeveloperUbuntuDay 2 of Me and Ubuntu.Ubuntu Server Or Desktop? Some Tips For Making The Right PickRed HatRed Hat releases beta of Enterprise Linux 5.3Red Hat has released the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 to download via the Red Hat Network. The beta shows that the upcoming third collection of updates for RHEL5 will again add numerous bug fixes as well including some extended functionality to the corporate focused Linux.Booz Allen Leverages Red Hat Solutions to Deliver Flexible and Scalable SOA DeploymentsSabre Holdings: Red Hat Thrives in Place of UnixWhen Sabre actually benchmarked Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on Intel against Solaris on SPARC, it found quite a difference — to say the least. The Linux/Intel combination was three times faster than the Sun Unix solution, and when both licensing and hardware costs were taken into account it worked out about 90 percent cheaper, according to Wiseman.F/OSSOpenSolaris gets ZFS snapshot visualization featureSurviving the global economic crisis: Plone Open Source community collaborates to fight backJerry Maguire on the future of the free software industryExecs weigh open source, virtualizationOpen Source Software for High Reliability Applications: Is it safe?Sun releases a major Java runtime and SDK update – Java SE 6 Update 10GroundWork adds network monitoring tools to systems management suiteJitterbit Teams With Infowelders for salesforce.com Data Integrationabout:mozilla – 2010 Goals, Camino, Firefox UI, localizations, Ubiquity, security metrics, and more…The Bizarre Cathedral – 28HardwareOpen Source Gameboy made with Arduino processorOpen Source GamePack Lets You Bake a Game Boy From ScratchAsiaOpen Source Makes New Inroads in Asia and SardiniaAlliance vows to promote wider use of open source tech in AsiaEuropeEC to publish open source procurement guidelinesEU: Updated guide on Open Source for SMEsEU companies excluding open source vendorsCommission tailors GNU/Linux server specialised in blogsAmericaSoftware libre conquista América Latina!LeftoversThe Web Thrived In Spite Of The DMCA, Not Because Of ItGoogle settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authorsUK’s £12.7 billion NHS scheme in troubleSchneier sticks it to surveillanceDigital Tipping Point: Clip of the DayDigital Tipping Point: Dan Gillmor, creator of the phrase, “Distributed Journalism” 05 (2005)Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating. Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink  Send this to a friend

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