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Shuttleworth: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop."
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Giving Away Razors dept.:
A popular question in desktop circles is "Can anyone make money from the Linux desktop?" Canonical CEO and Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth's answer is "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop."
Yes, that's right. The man behind what's almost certainly the most popular Linux desktop doesn't think he, or anyone else, can make money from the Linux desktop. Furthermore, he never really has.
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Shuttleworth: Ubuntu developer Canonical may need 3-5 more years of funding
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Servers dept.:
Canonical Ltd., the commercial backer of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, is not yet turning a profit, but founder Mark Shuttleworth said during a teleconference today that he is prepared to bankroll the company for three to five more years.
"We continue to require investment, and I continue to be careful with my pennies in making those investments, but I consider this a good proposition," the billionaire technologist said. "Canonical is not cash-positive, but our offering is very attractive to those who want to pinch their pennies in the Linux space."
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Google Opens Up Android Codebase
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the R2D2 dept.:
Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we've poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project.
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Canonical Expanding Online Store to Drive Ubuntu Linux Deployments
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the New Ubuntu Category dept.:
Businesses donât buy operating systems. They buy applications. With that fact in mind, Canonical is gradually expanding its online store for Ubuntu Linux applications. Itâs a smart move â but solutions providers will need to keep their expectations for the store under control. Hereâs why.
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Review: Firefox 3.1 Beta Leaves IE in Ashes
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Faster Pussycat dept.:
...reviewers loaded Firefox 3.1 beta on a Vista desktop outfitted with 2 GB RAM and Pentium dual-core at 1.80 GHz. Take a look at these benchmark numbers from a side-by-side comparison of IE7 and Firefox 3.1 running on the same box:
-- 3D Java rendering test : IE: 2.85 seconds, Firefox: 0.857 seconds
-- SunSpider java benchmark tests: IE: 107159.4ms, Firefox: 3894.6ms
-- Acid 3 : IE: 12/100, Firefox: 89/100
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Fennec: Firefox For Your handheld
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Teeny Tiny dept.:
Mozilla has announced the availability of the first Mobile Firefox alpha release. The project, which is codenamed Fennec, aims to bring the desktop Firefox browsing experience to mobile devices like MIDs and phone handsets. This early alpha release delivers a compelling user interface and demonstrates the impressive scope of the browser's potential on diminutive devices, but suffers from performance limitations and instability that reflect the need for significant refinement before it's mature enough for mainstream adoption.
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Red Hat: Crisis to boost open source
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Up on the Downside dept.:
The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week.
Whitehurst, who stopped over down under as part of a tour of the Asia-Pacific region, said in an interview with ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet Australia that the crisis would cause companies to consolidate their technology infrastructure and reduce spending.
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LSB Beta Reveals New Tools, Features for Developers
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Shiney dept.:
In another step towards general release, the first beta of Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 was released today. LSB 4.0 will introduce a new application checker, a new shell script checker, and a new multi-version software development kit (SDK) that will enable developers to build applications to earlier LSB specifications without changing SDKs.
"This LSB 4.0 release is aimed at the practical needs of developers, both those looking for a standard platform and those who just want some practical advice on portability," said Jeff Licquia, Senior Engineer and technical lead for LSB 4.0 at the Linux Foundation.
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Firefox 3.1 beta 1 Available
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the For Devs Eyes Only (ok not really, but c'mon!) dept.:
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
* Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
* Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
* A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab youâre switching to
* Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
* Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.
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Linux Summit will preview new advanced file system
29 October, 2008 - 15:11From the Be still my heart dept.:
Although computers get bigger, run faster and accomplish more amazing feats all the time, they still store data in a 1970s-era file system. But that may be about to change.
Speaking at the Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit this week, Ted Ts'o, a Linux Foundation fellow, and Chris Mason, Oracle's director of kernel engineering, will provide a sneak peak of the file systems of the future at the New York City brainstorming session, whose purpose is to foster interaction between leading Linux developers and the most advanced users and, in turn, to accelerate development of the Linux platform.
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Microsoft and Novell Expand Relationship
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the SAMBA dept.:
Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. are announcing an incremental investment in their relationship to meet accelerating customer demand for their business model solution, which is designed to build a bridge between open source and proprietary software to deliver interoperability and intellectual property (IP) peace of mind for organizations operating mixed-source IT environments.
The investment focuses on enhanced programs from Novell to provide tools, support, training and resources for customers seeking an enterprise-class Linux* platform and specifically, the optimal interoperability solution between Microsoft Windows Server and SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server from Novell(R). It also includes Microsoft's commitment to purchase up to $100 million in certificates that those customers can redeem for expanded support from Novell that includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support and support for moving toward an enterprise-class Linux platform. The investments will take effect Nov. 1, 2008, and between now and then Microsoft and Novell will solicit customer input and identify aspects of the support programs that will be most useful to organizations running mixed-source environments.
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ISO, IEC reject appeals, approve OOXML spec
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the The New Battleground dept.:
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard.
The ISO and IEC technical boards approved the publication of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the official name for the OOXML specification, the ISO said Friday. The spec is expected to be published within the next few weeks after the standards bodies complete the final processing of the document, provided there are no further appeals against the decision.
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Troubles in Fedora Land - Don't Update!
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the Smells Like a Breach dept.:
The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance. We're still assessing the end-user impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems.
We'll share updates as we develop more information.
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Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the With Teeth dept.:
There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. This is a highly significant opinion that will greatly bolster the efforts of the open source community to control the use of open source software according to the terms set out in open source licenses.
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PHP 4.4.9, EOL PHP4
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the Good Night Sweet Prince dept.:
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.9. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last PHP 4.4 release.
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Linux Foundation launches killer development tool
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the Standards dept.:
Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he'll tell you that it's having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and ... you get the idea. The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make ISVs and other programmers start to love developing for Linux.
AppChecker, now in beta 3, is a downloadable open source Linux program. Once installed, the program shows you a Web page, the LSB Database Navigator. Here, you click on the Application Check link. This presents you with a Web form interface to fill out. In this form, you'll enter a name for your report and Name field, and in the Components field you'll enter the file path for your application. Next, enter the application's individual files, directories, installed RPM packages (prepended with pkg:),; RPM and .deb package files, and tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. To make this manageable, click on the Select Application Components button so you can enter each item in a separate field. Next, select the LSB Version and LSB Profile you want to test against.
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Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the On Message dept.:
Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks and web discussions.
'Snowl' enables users to prioritise messages by importance and have a search-based interface for message retrieval, according to Mozilla developer Myk Melez.
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Mozilla reveals the Firefox of the future?
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the I'm Old & Hate It. dept.:
Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora.
The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future.
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Red Hat chief: 'The clouds will all run Linux'
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the But, will they run RHEL? dept.:
The former Delta Air Lines chief operating officer, who took over the reins of the open-source software company from Matthew Szulik in January, sees cloud computing as a top priority.
The term 'cloud computing' refers to computing services available to anyone online, rather than custom datacentres isolated within corporate confines, but it also dovetails with the general idea of computing services running at massive scale on a more flexible infrastructure.
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Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License
22 August, 2008 - 19:49From the Choice is Bad? dept.:
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.
The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay.
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