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2008-07-29 10:49:32 - FabulaTech has opened the gates to Linux to make use of the products a success. USB over Network Server and USB for Remote Desktop for Linux available now.

 

 

USB over Network Server for Linux allows to share and access USB devices over local network or the Internet with Linux OS. One can access the shared devices both from computers with Linux OS and from computers with Windows OS.

 

http://www.pr-inside.com/usb-over-network-server-and-usb-r726986.htm

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Wal-Mart has ended its experiment with selling Linux-based computers in its stores, suggesting that "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for."

 

 

 

Oh, really?

 

 

 

My experience (albeit limited - I can't stand Wal-Mart) with

Wal-Mart is generally that cost is king for its customers, and that

volume is king for Wal-Mart. I can understand Wal-Mart dropping Linux

for the latter reason (though early reports suggest that the machine repeatedly sold out), but I'm surprised that its customers wouldn't have glommed onto dirt-cheap PCs with all the functionality of a Windows PC.

 

 

 

But maybe the decision was much more personal. There is a strong executive tie between Microsoft and Wal-Mart.

 

 

... Read more

 

 

http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/modules/blogs/Blog-Detail.asp?BlogID=2253

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I was drawn to a JavaLobby post entitled JavaFX's Killer Feature, because I have long wondered what, exactly JavaFX's killer feature could possibly be. Well, brace yourself: JavaFX will succeed where others fail because it runs on Linux, whereas Adobe is notorious for letting its Linux Flash port (upon which Air runs) lag behind.

 

http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/945

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You may have last seen gOS, the free, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, touted here as a way to revive an old PC with a webapp focus. Now there's three flavors of gOS available, including a "Space" release that was designed with a Mac-like slickness to its interface, and a lot of MySpace functionality thrown in, on top of all the other Google, Facebook, and other link-ups. "Space" ups the hardware demands from the standard gOS (to about the modern Ubuntu requirements); if you're running older stock or just like the original interface, it's still offered as "gOS Rocket E," or the GNOME-based "gOS Rocket G" for Ubuntu fans. Live CDs/DVDs are offered for each flavour, so it's free to take a look. Photo by thinbegin.

 

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/07/28/gos_space_adds_maclike_looks_to_a_free_linux_desktop-2.html

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Your Office Suite

 

Better interoperability

 

Go-oo has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft Works files. Compared with up-stream OO.o, it has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros - then Go-oo offers the best macro fidelity too. If you expect your spreadsheets to calculate compatibly, or you get embedded Visio diagrams in your documents, you'll want Go-oo.

 

 

Better functionality

 

Go-oo's user interface is more familiar, with lots of small pieces of polish. We have built-in (working) multimedia integration on Linux, a beautiful solver component, and your Chinese should look sane. We also integrate with your system better by default: eg. enabling native file-selectors on Linux.

 

 

A Faster application

 

From first-time startup, where we sort I/O to reduce seek cost, to a highly optimised second start application and a systray quick-starter on Linux we are faster. We use less memory than up-stream, we link faster, use better system allocators, and don't waste so much time & memory in the registry. Go-oo performance is hard to beat.

 

 

Faster code integration

 

Contributing code to go-oo is simple, and fast, following the traditional hackers' process of peer code review: just mail patches to the mailing list, or when we get used to your code - commit your patch immediately to HEAD ooo-build: no CWS, no hours of tagging, paperwork, no specification, no hassle. Of course - if your patch sucks - expect to hear how it can be improved.

 

 

Freer licensing

 

For the code to live, grow and improve, to encourage participation and compete with the other office suite - we need sensible licensing: ie. weak copy-left. While in general we think LGPLv3 is a great & sufficient license for our code, others eg. Sun & IBM appear reluctant to include LGPL code into their products, and prefer other licenses such as the CDDL (a weak copy-left derived from Mozilla's MPL). Luckily dual licensing under the LGPLv3 / CDDL can help here - and we recommend this for the majority of our code.

We believe that copyright assignment to a single corporate entity opens the door for substantial abuse of the best-interests of the codebase and developer community. As such, we prefer either eclectic ownership (cf. Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, Linux), or an independent, meritocratic foundation (cf. Eclipse, Apache) to own the rights. Having said that we recognise and applaud Sun's technical contribution to OpenOffice and recommend that small patches & fixes to existing Sun code should be assigned to them under the SCA, and up-streamed.

 

Freer politics

 

Go-oo is a developer run meritocracy. If you want to contribute something concrete: code, bug fixes, bug triage, significant translation, build-bot maintainance etc. then there is a place for you as a key part of the team. If instead, you want to market Go-oo, install it, talk about it - that's really excellent, but this is not our focus: there are no formal roles in development to reflect this valuable work.

 

http://go-oo.org/

 

Discover Go-OO!

Here you can see, at a glance, what Go-oo has to offer in addition to the features you expect in up-stream OpenOffice.org

 

http://go-oo.org/discover/

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FSF works with Los Alamos Computers to provide free computers

 

http://www.linux.com/feature/142384

http://laclinux.com/gnu/GNU_Linux_Computers

 

Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux

https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw

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Linux Makes Phones Even Cheaper

 

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-makes-phones-even-cheaper

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Pity the Poor Classmate PC'd Children of Portugal

 

http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/intel/classmate_pc_children_portugal.html

 

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Apple tries to shut down El Tunes - Viva La El Tunes!

 

http://vadi-blog.com/2008/07/30/apple-tries-to-shut-down-el-tunes-viva-la-el-tunes/

 

 

Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix

 

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/why-free-software-and-apples-iphone-dont-mix

 

 

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Δήμος Μούτσης ΕΝΕΧΥΡΟ

 

δήλωση:είμαι νόμιμος κάτοχος του παραπάνω έργου, απο τα ένθετα του περιοδικού Δίφωνου

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LinuxBIOS Brings Clones One Step Closer to Freedom

 

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3706881

 

 

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS)

 

http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

 

 

Open Firmware

 

http://www.openfirmware.org/

 

 

Open Firmware use on OLPC.

 

http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40laptop.org/msg01849.html

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DNS attack writer a victim of his own creation

 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/073008-dns-attack-writer-a-victim.html

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O'Reilly study finds multiple reasons for the popularity of open source

 

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/07/29/oreilly-study-finds-multiple-reasons-for-the-popularity-of-open-source

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Hold on to your hat

By Mark Ballard: Friday, 01 August 2008, 12:25 PM

 

 

Click here to find out more!

 

LINUX HAS MADE headway in Microsoft's UK heartland, the PC sales channel. The number of machines shipped with Linux preloaded on them has multiplied a whopping 28 times since Microsoft launched its Vista operating system in January 2007

 

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/01/linux-preloads-rocket-per-cent

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Windows still the one to beat but Linux influence continues to grow

John Fontana (Network World) 01/08/2008 12:01:24

 

Linux is beginning to find its legs as the foundation in many different technologies and in the process is fueling a feedback loop that is helping accelerate the operating system's popularity.

As more and more people contribute from areas such as mobile, data center power management, and real-time technologies, innovations are coming rapid fire and when folded into the Linux kernel provide benefits across a wide spectrum.

For example, power management features for the data center are being tapped to help extend battery life in Linux-based mobile devices.

 

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/255436/linuxworld_community_roots_bolster_linux_growth

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Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple.

News LinuxNews Linux Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its overall strategy, is more and more embracing open source with its own solutions mainly through its new found commitment to interoperability. Microsoft's relaxed approach to what used to be regarded as a fierce potential competitor was on display at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting 2008 the past week. The Redmond giant stopped nothing short of declaring an all out victory over Linux and open source In the industry-standard computing space, a number of years ago we faced the challenge of what was going to happen with Linux and the growth of open source. And fundamentally we made a decision that business customers make rational business decisions, and the reason they choose an open source product is because they can solve the problem better than they can with a Windows-based product. So when you put it in those sorts of terms, the way we compete against Linux is very simple: we build a better product and we have a great value proposition. Today our customers know Linux isn't free and the overall cost of the solution is in fact in most cases quite a bit higher than a Windows-based solution. And if we can offer a better solution at a great price, then customers choose Windows -- and they are. So we are growing strongly," stated Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business.

 

http://www.e-linux.it/news_detail.php?id=5969