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Subject: [News] Linux Gets Board Support Package for Dual-core Processor
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:30:11 +0100
Linux 2.6 BSP supports TI OMAP5912 starter kit
,----[ Quote ]
| Mistral Software has released a Linux 2.6-based board support package
| (BSP) for TI's OMAP5912 starter kit (OSK). Dubbed the Accelerator Program
| 2.0, the BSP aims to support developers who are creating or upgrading
| embedded Linux applications that target TI's OMAP5912 dual-core
| processor.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4483249715.html
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Subject: [News] Cordless Skype/Philips Phone Runs Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:31:46 +0100
Skype debuts Linux-powered cordless phone
,----[ Quote ]
| Skype on Aug. 31 introduced a pair of cordless VoIP phones that work
| without being connected to a computer, via a DECT basestation that
| attaches directly to broadband and POTS lines. One of the two -- the
| Philips VOIP841 -- uses Linux as its embedded OS.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8449749058.html
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Subject: [News] Forbes on Linux and the GPL
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:41:12 +0100
The Problem With St. Ignucius
,----[ Quote ]
| No single product has done more to fuel the Cheap Revolution than Linux.
| This free operating system runs in Wall Street banks and Hollywood special
| effects shops, on supercomputers and smart phones, TiVo boxes and network
| routers. Talk about momentum. Red Hat is on track to do $400 million in
| sales this year. Novell has just produced a Linux desktop so sleek that I
| didn't want to return the demo machine they loaned me, and I just bought a
| copy for my office PC...
|
| [...]
|
| Basically, two camps within the Linux community are facing off: the
| pragmatists, like Torvalds and the corporations, versus the extremists, led
| by Stallman.
|
| [...]
|
| Perens says if Torvalds doesn't adopt GPLv3, extremists will create a new
| operating system using a different kernel.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/31/stallman-linux-opensource_cz_dl_0831stallman.html?boxes=custom
Yesterday I read about DRM in documents. That whole sustitution of
permissions with encryption is distrubing. Data is becoming binary blobs.
And that's /really/ bad.
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Subject: [News] Forbes Magazine Covers The Linux Revolution
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:48:22 +0100
Dated Sept. 18th, 2006.
The New Barbarians
,----[ Quote ]
| Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution,
| the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips
| and open-source (often free) software such as Linux. They are embracing
| simplicity, unlocking prodigious new power and cutting tech costs by up
| to 90%, threatening the Silicon Valley plutocracy: the proprietary gear,
| "closed" software, redundant backup systems and fat profit margins of
| incumbents like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, EMC and other
| blue-chip nameplates.
|
| [...]
|
| Engineers are fleeing BEA, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun to push the Cheap
| Revolution at no-name shops in obscure office parks in San Jose,
| San Mateo and Redwood City. David R. Dargo Jr., a programming hotshot
| at Oracle, retired in his 40s and was playing golf all day long when he
| was lured back to the Valley. He leads fellow Oracle alumni at Ingres,
| a database maker that aims to undercut Oracle with lower prices and
| better service. Paul Maritz, who ran development at Microsoft before
| quitting in 2000, has assembled a team that includes some former
| Microsoft engineers at his new firm, PI Corp., to outdo Windows.
|
| [...]
|
| Now newcomers are pushing lethal Linux into new markets: Motorola
| cell phones, Sony TVs and TiVo digital recorders; networking routers
| (Cisco and Nortel face new low-cost rivals; and data storage (EMC and
| Network Appliance are in the crosshairs). Every big software
| maker--including Microsoft, BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS Institute, Veritas
| and VMware--now faces rivals pushing open-source or Web-based
| alternatives. The sellers of these cut-rate packages willingly accept
| profit margins of less than 10%, one-third that of tech's Old Guard.
|
| "All these guys that sell proprietary hardware with proprietary
| operating systems and massive margins, they're all dead," declares Simon
| Lok, founder of Lok Technology in San Jose...
|
| [...]
|
| Coleman, however, points out that so far every new wave of computing has
| been dominated by newcomers, not by leaders of the previous generation.
| To survive, he says, companies must undergo a transplant of corporate
| DNA, and few survive the surgery. "Startups," he says, "always define
| the new era."
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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0918/102_print.html
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Subject: [News] Linux Tablet Reaches Its Third Generation
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:51:28 +0100
Smaller, faster, lighter Linux webpad ships shortly
,----[ Quote ]
| Hanbit Electronics and Pepper Computer will ship a third generation
| Linux-powered webpad "on or before September 30th," Pepper confirmed Aug.
| 31. Compared to its predecessors, the Pepper Pad 3 boasts speedier web
| browsing, faster and more comprehensive multimedia support, smaller
| size, reduced weight, and numerous hardware enhancements, according to
| the company.
|
| [...]
|
| Comparison of compact Internet-enabled tablets
| Nokia 770 Pepper Pad 3 Samsung Q1
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7390032119.html
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Subject: [News] Archos Video Player Uses Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:55:15 +0100
http://www.archos.com/products/video/index.html?country=us&lang=en
Also covered in:
Archos Linux-based portable audio/video player available online
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8811342597.html
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Subject: [News] The Impact of Virtualisation on Linux Adoption and Assessment
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:03:17 +0100
VMWare's Virtual Appliance Showroom
,----[ Quote ]
| Perhaps the easiest way to evaluate Linux and other open source
| applications is by running them on top of Microsoft Windows. Virtually.
|
| [...]
|
| Krishnamurti said that with open source applications, the license makes
| them free. ISVs tend to tweak them, and so they just naturally gravitate
| toward a Linux strategy.
|
| [...]
|
| On the Linux and open source side of things though, the availability of
| free software from Linux appliance vendor rPath has helped the creation
| of the virtual machines.
|
| Users of rPath Builder can freely build VMware images of open source
| applications that will play on the VMware player.
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http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3629496
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Subject: [News] Windows Makes Web Surfing and E-mail a Risk, Employees Unaware
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:06:44 +0100
Majority Ignorant of Email risks
,----[ Quote ]
| A survey into the habits of 142 UK office workers conducted by Finjan,
| has uncovered that although they know the security risk to their employers
| caused by clicking on web-links or opening attachments from unknown
| sources, they simply can't help themselves.
|
| Of those questioned, 93 per cent said that they knew that links,
| attachments, pop boxes and web pages could have spyware or other forms
| of malicious code embedded within them.
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http://networkblog.itproportal.com/?p=164
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Subject: [News] BSA Helps Linux, Follows the 'WGA Model'
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:35:12 +0100
Fine unlicensed software users, says BSA
,----[ Quote ]
| Software industry lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has
| called for government to mandate stiff penalties for companies using
| unlicensed software.
|
| The organisation says it wants a "harder enforcement stick" to
| ensure compliance.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/30/fine_software_pirates_says_bsa/
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Subject: [News] Microsoft Continues to Pump Up Stock, Attempts to Keep Employees
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:44:41 +0100
Microsoft gives 37 mln shares in stock bonuses
,----[ Quote ]
| No. 1 software maker Microsoft Corp. on Thursday awarded restricted
| stock worth $951 million, based on its current share price, as
| performance bonuses to some 900 executives and managers.
|
| The shares were given to reward work over the past three years as part of
| a program Microsoft's board adopted in 2003, when the software giant
| topped awarding stock options to employees.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060831:MTFH33080_2006-08-31_21-40-53_N31379086&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/o7va3
How long can it buy the stock from the hands of investors that depart? It's
could be like Enron. The value will dissolve abruptly one day.
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Subject: [News] Forbes Covers Desktop Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:49:10 +0100
Desktop Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft is helping the cause. Running a Windows desktop PC has
| become increasingly annoying for users who must cope with spyware, adware,
| viruses, security patches, upgrades, crashes, reboots.
|
| [...]
|
| Visit the home of a Silicon Valley software programmer and you'll find
| two things: Macs and Linux boxes.
|
| To these guys, Windows has become the operating system equivalent of the
| America Online Internet service--a mass-market product that only appeals
| to people who don't know any better.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/31/linux-opensource-vista_cz_dl_0831sled.html?partner=yahootix
There are many mistakes and myths in this article. You'll see them if you
read it.
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Subject: [News] Windows Attacks on the Rise
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:54:21 +0100
Uptick in Windows attacks reported
,----[ Quote ]
| Several security experts are warning of increased cyberattacks targeting
| Windows PCs, but Microsoft says all is calm on the attack front.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6111583.html
Microsoft also denies that the failure rate of the XBox 360 is 30-50% and
argues, based on their software, that only 2% of /their/ (yes, they own all
of Windows) PC's have malware. Other firm put it at the 90% mark.
There is _a lot_ of disinformation going on.
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Subject: [News] Wintel (sic) to Sack 10,000 Employees
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:55:41 +0100
Intel expected to cut thousands of jobs
,----[ Quote ]
| Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is expected to announce a massive
| layoff as soon as Tuesday that could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs,
| CNET News.com has learned.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6111478.html
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Subject: [News] Linux - Go All the Way Before Judging It
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:19:22 +0100
The Value of Play
,----[ Quote ]
| I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but this simply isn?t going to
| work. Working with Linux does require having a sense of the value of
| play, and being willing to engage in it, even if that involves risk.
|
| My advice to anyone who is as nervous about moving from the Live CD state
| to an "installed" state is this; back up your critical files onto a USB
| key or writeable CD and go for it. Yes, there is an overhead if not all
| of your devices are instantly detected by Linux; to be perfectly honest,
| Linux is better at this than Windows. I have never been in a situation
| when I?ve installed Windows and not had to have a packet full of CDs
| with device drivers on them.
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http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=99
I heard similar arguments in the context of VMWare. The other issue is an
assessment based on first reactions and incompatibility with 'Windows
habits', as bad as they may be.
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Subject: [News] Social Activism to Stop DRM, Unethical Software
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:23:15 +0100
FSF reaches out to social activists
,----[ Quote ]
| 2006 may be remembered as the year that the Free Software Foundation
| (FSF) reached out to the community. The FSF has already undertaken an
| unprecedented year-long consultation process about the revisions to the
| GNU General Public License, and the Defective By Design campaign against
| digital rights management technologies. Now, the FSF is planning a third
| campaign to deliver its message about ethical software to social
| activists outside the technical communities. "We think that social groups
| taking on policies about free software can act as a huge lever within
| schools, trade unions, local governments, and churches," says Peter
| Brown, executive director of the FSF.
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http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/158231&from=rss
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Subject: [News] 80% of Computer Users Ready for GNU/Linux?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:26:15 +0100
Anybody But Microsoft
Diving into OpenOffice and Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| You can switch from Microsoft because of philosophical reasons, or you
| can switch for financial or security reasons. Realize some users must
| keep Windows and Microsoft Office, but you can switch 80% of your users
| to Linux and Open Source alternatives easier today than ever before.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sbt/2006/0828smbtech1.html
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Subject: [News] Linux Chosen by Vendors Not Only in Technical Sector
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:30:27 +0100
BI Vendors Get Smart Around Linux, Open Source
,----[ Quote ]
| As Linux steps beyond the limits of technical applications, business
| intelligence (BI) is one area that's leading the way. In a rash of recent
| I announcements at LinuxWorld and elsewhere, many vendors are developing
| new business models, while consciously giving customers a choice between
| Linux and other operating systems--and in some cases, between commercial
| and open source implementations, too.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6305/1/
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Subject: [News] On Compliance to Proprietary Formats
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:36:43 +0100
Three Feet from Gold: Why ESR is Wrong to Advocate Compromise
,----[ Quote ]
| But if multimedia codecs are the problem, then we have, in my opinion,
| the solution. We have the free codecs Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. Instead
| of spending money buying technology from Apple and others, which ESR
| admits we'll have to do, we should invest it in improving the Ogg codecs.
| Instead time and energy trying to convince them why they should work with
| us, we should spend it convincing the American commercial networks and the
| European state owned radio and television corporations why they should
| offer Ogg Vorbis along with the other formats. Then we would have a
| player that wouldn't get us sued, which seems to be the principal
| motivation behind ESR's willingness to compromise.
|
| And a bad compromise it would be. To sign on to proprietary codecs
| means signing on to Digital Rights Management. Have we gone so far to
| now cave in to the MPAA and the RIAA? And with the Linux desktop at
| its highest level of usability, to do this know would be truly stopping
| three feet from gold.
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http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/three_feet.html
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Subject: [News] No Choice in Vista, Music Mandatory
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:31:36 +0100
Vista start-up music compulsory
,----[ Quote ]
| The almighty Microsoft has decided that guitarist Robert Fripp?s work on
| the opening tune for Vista is so good, it will be compulsory and won't
| be able to be switched off.
|
| Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video Excellence
| team told punters that Windows Vista should present a "common, and
| beautiful, face to the world." In other words, Microsoft has spent
| shedloads on its corporate image and you are darn well going to
| appreciate it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34094
...Speaking of controlling and arrogantly making decisions on behalf of the
user. This includes WGA and Internet Explorer 7, which are 'high priority'
updates.
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Subject: [News] Microsoft Flushes Live Search (Or "Windows Live is Dead")
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:35:33 +0100
Windows Live Search Vanishes
,----[ Quote ]
| A visit to search.live.com only returns a "Service unavailable message,"
| and the link to Search Only from Live.com delivers a very
| pedestrian-looking search form. Search results look about the same as
| those on MSN Search.
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http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20060901WindowsLiveSearchVanishes.html
Another miserable failure. I'm sure Microsoft will put a spin on that, just
as it defends the colossal losses on the XBox 360 and denies the 30-50%
failures rates
As I mentioned earlier, Microsoft claims that only 1 in 50 Windows PC's has
malware. Other studies estimate it's more like 8/9 out of 10. Money can earn
a timeslot for disinformation, as always.
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Subject: [News] Killer NIC Runs Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:41:52 +0100
Bigfoot's Killer Network Interface Card reviewed
,----[ Quote ]
| They've managed to take a commodity PC component and build $280 PCI
| card around it, complete with 64MB of DDR RAM and a 400MHz processor.
| Cries of extortion and vaporware have been leveled, but now that IGN have
| got their hands on the device, they seem to think it's worth the
| hyperbole. One thing they were careful to point out before firing it up is
| that the Killer NIC runs Linux, so that processor and RAM can be put to
| more use than just routing your frags -- a firewall or a bit of anti-virus
| software could reside right on the card to check over data before it
| even gets to your PC, and IGN figures a BitTorrent client would be
| possible, allowing for full-speed gaming while you use any remaining
| bandwidth for downloading that dev release of Leopard.
`----
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/bigfoots-killer-network-interface-card-reviewed/
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Subject: [News] Sending Perfectly-Capable PC's to the Dumpster
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:48:02 +0100
Old PCs a Growing IT Headache
,----[ Quote ]
| Many older systems will start looking a bit creaky next year. In early
| 2007, Microsoft's delivery of its next-generation operating system, Vista,
| will be in full force and many older PCs won't have the specs to run it
| effectively.
|
| "Vista's one of those events that cause a refresh cycle," said O'Grady.
| "We see the newer, 64-bit and dual-core systems ready for Vista and the
| degradation of older assets will follow."
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http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3629541
A culture of waste makes the vendors happy, at the expense of people's wallet
and the environment. Similar scenario in the fashion industry.
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Subject: [News] ITWeek Approves Ubuntu Linux as Valid Windows Altenative
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:55:34 +0100
Tested: Ubuntu Linux
,----[ Quote]
| The latest version of Ubuntu Linux is a user-friendly Windows
| desktop alternative
`----
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/software/2163350/tested-ubuntu-linux
Nothing but positive feedback.
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Subject: [News] Bergen Dismisses FUD, Carries on City-Wide Migration to GNU/Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:59:34 +0100
Bergen postpones desktop Linux migration
Open source council insists its Linux plans are on track
,----[ Quote ]
| Bergen City Council in Norway has hit back at reports that it has
| abandoned its flagship Linux migration project, branding them
| "exaggerated" and insisting it has completed plans to move many of
| its servers over to Linux.
`----
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2163379/bergen-postpones-desktop-linux
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Subject: [News] Philippines Moving to Free Open Source S/W in Education
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:04:19 +0100
CICT drafts educational open source strategy
,----[ Quote ]
| One of the components of FINE is the distribution of a Free and Open
| Source Software (FOSS) CD Kit that contains about a dozen open
| source alternatives to proprietary applications.
|
| These applications include OpenOffice (alternative to Microsoft
| Office), Scribus DTP (alternative to Microsoft Publisher), NVU Web
| Authoring, 3D modeling software Blender (alternative to the more
| expensive Maya), Firefox (alternative to proprietary Web browsers),
| among others.
|
| [...]
|
| Another is the eQuality program that provides open source training
| to students from state colleges and universities.
`----
http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=18508
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Subject: [News] "Open Source is Powerful, Frictionless, and Seductive"
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:07:11 +0100
Open Source Apps Broadening the Human Resources World
,----[ Quote ]
| Software is ultimately composed of congealed ideas, so ideas are very
| important in the minds of software developers. The key to market power in
| the software industry lies in the minds of developers. Fashion plays a
| role too; some ideas are fashionable and some are not. The idea, or
| philosophy, of open source is powerful, frictionless, and seductive.
|
| Linux and other open source Latest News about open source applications
| are finding increasing acceptance in the global marketplace by small
| and large companies alike. Statistics on the growth of a few open source
| programs -- like Apache (a Web server), Linux (an operating system),
| FreeBSD (an operating system), and PostgreSQL (a database server) --
| demonstrate this. This column considers why open source is growing so
| fast, and what it means to human resources professionals.
`----
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/52761.html
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Subject: [News] Sony Ericsson Dives Into OSS, Joins Eclipse Community
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:08:53 +0100
Sony Ericsson Joins Open Source Community
,----[ Quote ]
| Sony Ericsson announced that it is joining the Eclipse community as
| Add-in Provider Member. By becoming an Add-in Provider, Sony Ericsson aims
| to contribute to the Eclipse ecosystem through creating Eclipse plug-ins
| of benefit to the global mobile application developer community.
`----
http://in.sys-con.com/read/267068.htm
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Subject: [News] Vista's Marketing Mistakes
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:24:33 +0100
Vista Transition: Microsoft Should Take a Lesson from Apple
,----[ Quote ]
| Opinion: The looming choice for Windows users is either to stick with
| Windows XP (and older hardware) or take Windows Vista cold turkey.
| But Microsoft doesn't have to be so tough--Apple did it differently with
| the Mac OS X rollout.
|
| [...]
|
| Most small business users and of course, consumers, will be migrated by
| fiat. These are the very customers who have forgotten (or never
| understood, more like it) the terms of license for the OS on their
| machines.
|
| Worse, this group believes they will be able to pop in the install discs
| for XP on their new machine and everything will be as it was. Not.
`----
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2010942,00.asp
Even that $900 million advertising budget (braishwash) for Vista won't be
able to save it.
Nice Gentoo screenshot: http://securitydot.net/viewscreen/30.html
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Subject: [News] Federal Commission on Higher Education Manipulated by Microsoft
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:32:05 +0100
Changing the Report, After the Vote
,----[ Quote ]
| That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
| Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
| Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners Friday
| evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph in which
| the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open source software
| and open content projects in higher education. The paragraph read like
| this:
|
| "The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote
| the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities
| and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of
| educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and
| educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and
| serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives
| such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project,
| and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing universal
| access both to general knowledge and to higher education."
`----
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
There you go! Microsoft demands that the Fedral Government disregards Open
Source. Microsoft _is_ above the law.
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Subject: [News] Got Windows Problems? Spend More Money
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:44:56 +0100
Ways to unclog children's too-slow, spyware-stuffed IBM laptops
,----[ Quote ]
| Q. I am at my wits' end with my two sons' IBM laptop computers that are
| riddled with spyware and viruses to the extent that the computers are
| almost unusable.
|
| [...]
|
| I have purchased software that takes care of viruses and software that
| takes care of spyware, but it never seemed to work the way it should. I
| don't want to add more software to the mix and would rather have a disk
| that I can use on any computer that disinfects the entire machine. They
| have so much garbage on their computers that I feel adding an
| anti-virus/anti-spyware program will just complicate things.
`----
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/15414766.htm
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Subject: [News] Windows Users Unaware of What is Missed
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:47:51 +0100
Windows Switchers Should Like New Mac
,----[ Quote ]
| But many Windows users don't know what it's like to use a Mac.
|
| Big picture: You'll love it. But going to a Mac does come with its own
| unique set of challenges.
|
| Using a Mac is far less frustrating than using a Windows-based computer.
| Macs seem less prone to crashing and freezing up; in five years of using
| a Mac, it's never happened to me.
`----
http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-homemac0901.artsep01,0,602608.story?coll=hc-headlines-technology
Replace "Mac" with "Linux" and the article will still deliver truth.
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Subject: [News] React OS Reviewed, Run Under Linux
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:52:55 +0100
React OS: Windows done right
,----[ Quote ]
| Even in its rather early 0.3.0 release React OS is quite capable. It can
| run alot of well known applications such as OpenOffice.org and AbiWord,
| and even supports OpenGL allowing you to play some 3D games.
`----
http://www.nuxified.org/react_os_windows_done_right
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Subject: [News] Linux Conquers Phones Industry
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:57:23 +0100
Convergent Linux Platform: Tux for Your Phone
,----[ Quote ]
| A la Mobile is not the only company interested in providing a complete
| Linux based mobile solution; big shots such as Motorola, Panasonic,
| DoCoMo, NEC, Samsung, Vodafone and even PalmSource have declared their
| support. Motorola even has a few models based on Linux such as A780,
| E680 and E895. PalmSource has declared the development of a stack
| called Access Linux Platform (ALP) which we will discuss in another
| article. According to industry sources, A la Mobile is expected to
| ship phones based on its CLP sometime in September.
`----
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2315&Itemid=468
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Subject: [News] Another Red Hat Certificate Debuts, Addresses Demand for Linux Professionals
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:00:37 +0100
Red Hat Certified Architect Debuts in ASEAN
,----[ Quote ]
| "The proliferation of enterprise Linux adoption in this region over the
| last two years has driven a high demand for certified Linux professionals,"
| said Jamie Pride, Director of Asia Pacific Services for Red Hat. "With
| RHCA, IT professionals will acquire the skills necessary to plan, design
| and manage open source infrastructure in large complex environments
| consisting of many Linux systems across the enterprise."
`----
http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,564,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
| News Digester |
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