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Posted in News Roundup at 6:20 am by Dr. Roy SchestowitzGNU/LinuxLinux Community to Redmond – Do The Right Thing.A primer on switching from Windows to LinuxWhat’s involved in a switch from Windows to Linux? An editor and a couple of readers posed that question after last week’s column. Given the proliferation of cheap Linux-based “netbooks” it is worth a systematic look.Linux Foundation Workgroup Tackles Federal Mandate for Next-Generation Internet ProtocolOne More Reason for Linux Lovers to Give ThanksI’ve Got A Penguin in My BriefsTuxMobil Surpasses 8,000 Linux Installation Guides AvailableFrom the SuperComputing ’08 Floor, Part 3 of 4From the SuperComputing ’08 Floor, Part 4 of 410 Amazing Linux Desktop ThemesSoftware as a subversive activity: The making of a Linux geekMobileClarionMiND MID on sale in the US for $649.99Intel Joins Giga-byte, Chunghwa to Launch Linux MIDIntel joined Taiwanese mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch Giga-byte Technology’s Atom-powered M528 mobile Internet device on Monday in Taipei.Chunghwa will begin offering the small, handheld device to consumers in December for NT$12,900 (US$386) with a 2-year service package, the companies said. The devices will cost NT$19,500 without a service plan.Sub-notebooksLinux has moved away from geekdom.Linux Has Been Tick BoxedMy Eee DesktopThe Netbook Newbie’s Guide to LinuxNetbooks + Ubuntu: On fence about form factor; OS solidUbuntu on the Aspire OneAsus Eee, Ubuntu’dKDE4Video Cast Episode 2, Nov 22nd!IMHO, My Idea of a Bit More Customized Help for End UsersPowerdevil: Looks GoodDistributionsAdvanced Linux Distributions You Should TryReview: Zenwalk 5.2New GNU/Linux ReleasesGreenie 4IGParted 0.3.9-12SME Server 7.4Clonezilla 1.2.1-18PC/OSAUSTRUMI 1.8.0Red HatRed Hat offers Linux-wary Unix shops long-term support in JapanExtended Linux support from Red HatFedoraDefending the flame of Linux freedomThe best laid plans, No. 73.Fedora 10: the GNU/Linux Desktop Steps ForwardMind Maps: The Fedora ProjectUbuntuGet to the root of UbuntuIs Ubuntu for you?Laptops for less: How I saved big on a computer the Ubuntu wayUbuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” – What to expectUbuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 118My new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex InstallationMandrivaWorldwide Mandriva 2009 Install FestMandriva UNIXUbuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD BenchmarksWhile testing for this three-way OS comparison was completed on a single workstation system, with that AMD hardware, the strongest performance was exhibited with Ubuntu 8.10. The Intrepid Ibex wasn’t the winner in all tests, but in a majority it was and in some of the tests it even garnered a sizeable lead.Nexenta, Can you say SolaBuntu (part1)Musical Geek Friday #15: Kill -9F/OSSInterview with Jokosher maintainer Laszlo PandyIn A Tighter Economy, Why Not Open Source In All Government Offices?Attention Schools: Beware of Infinite CampusLetter to the Editor: Free Software Means ‘Freedom’As the founder of the free software movement and author of the GNU General Public License, I am writing to correct a misleading characterisation of free software presented in William Venema’s article about open source. National Law Journal, Oct. 20.I do not wish to defend open source, which I have never supported. I disagree with its choice of basic values, which exclude freedom and social solidarity, the values with which the free software movement is most concerned. (When the open source camp split off from the free software movement in 1998, its purpose was none other than to downplay this ethical level.) Rather, I wish to set the record straight about free software.No more Microsoft Internet Explorer for the 2010 soccer world cupKiller open source monitoring toolsIs open source killing developers’ ability to cash in?GIMPGIMP 2.6.3 ReleasedGIMP 2.6.3 is another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series.Disabled Boy Creates Art With GimpDrupalDrupal on cover of Information WeekBelgium.be using DrupalIndia2nd International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and CultureOn the right to decode and encode and copyleft politicsCopyleftOpen source proponents are for strong copyright protectionWhy iiNet will probably lose the piracy lawsuitMembership without obligationsFree Culture and Copyleft: A social movements perspectiveCopyleft The Great GiveawayDigital Tipping PointGRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit KeynoteLIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image SearchSave The Internet!Who is Gandi and why should I care about them?LeftoversHow Google Plans to Take Over TVMicrosoft makes a phone with Nvidia 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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