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Το ευρωπαικο κοινοβουλιο θα περασει στο ελευθερο λογισμικό

για να γινει αυτο χρειαζονται 393 υπογραφες (το μισο απο το κοινοβούλιο +1) μεχρι της 25 Σεπτεμβριου 2008

 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

 

WRITTEN DECLARATION

pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure

by Jean Louis Cottigny, Pierre Pribetich, Michel Rocard,

Bronisław Geremek and Daniel Cohn-Bendit

on the use of open source software

 

http://www.april.org/files/groupes/institutions/migration-europarl/EN.pdf?q=groupes/institutions/migration-europarl/EN.pdf

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Windows has ruled the desktop for more than a decade, actually it is about 15 years. It was 1992 that Microsoft released Windows 3.11, and that very much was the turning point, while 3.11 looked just like its predecessor, under the hood it contained something very unique. For the first time it was cheap and easy to network computers. Businesses flocked to Windows, the ability to network resources was a huge time and money saver. Several computers could now share an expensive resource like a printer, better still, the networked computers could share that most valuable of assets, data.

It was with Windows 3.11 and the subsequent release of Windows 95 that signaled the demise of Novel. Novel had ruled the networking world but came at a steep price, a price that did not work for many smaller organizations, plus it required a good deal of technical ability to maintain it.

 

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Developers are choosing commercial, rather than non-commercial, distributions of Linux when it comes to building high-performance or mission-critical systems, according to new research.

Evans Data Corporation questioned 400 open source developers last month and found that non-commercial Linux distributions are still favoured for web development and embedded systems.

But the research also showed that commercial flavours are strongly preferred for higher-end systems, mission-critical large enterprise development and data centre development.

"The open source nature of Linux, and the availability of Linux source code, appeal to developers doing complex leading-edge and mission-critical work," said John Andrews, president of Evans Data Corp.

"But they also like the additional support they get with commercial products. And since improper configuration is the largest perceived security threat to a Linux system, configuration and management tools that come with commercial distros are important in these situations."

The survey found that Ubuntu is the most popular distribution (24 per cent of respondents), followed by Red Hat Linux (21 per cent) and Red Hat Enterprise (19 per cent).

VMware emerged as the most popular virtual machine technology. Over a third of developers are using it, something that the company is looking to capitalise on with its new product announcements.

Apache/BSD-style or GPL2 are by far the most popular open source licensing models, according to the survey. GPL3 and LGPL were well down developers' lists.

 

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2226144/developers-choose-commercial

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CodeWeavers, best known for making its CrossOver programs that use WINE to run many popular Windows applications on Linux and Mac OS, has just released a proof-of-concept version of Chrome that runs on Linux and Mac systems.

 

The free CrossOver version of Chrome, CrossOver Chrome, is based on Google's open-source Chromium code. It's not, however, an actual port of Chrome to Linux or Mac OS X. Instead, using their expertise in bringing Windows applications to other operating systems, the CrossOver developers have ported the Windows version of Chrome to Linux and Mac.

 

http://blogs.computerworld.com/i_want_a_real_linux_and_mac_version_of_chrome

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A Google software engineer said that itʼs a safe bet that Chrome will hit the Mac platform before Linux. Google launched Chrome, its entry to the browser war, earlier this month only on Windows.

 

googleguy.pngWhen asked if Chrome (all posts) will hit new platforms soon, Ojan Vafai (right), a Google software engineer who is working on the browser, said a “large percentage” of developers are working on the Mac and Linux rollouts. “We really donʼt know when [Chrome will launch for Mac and Linux] weʼve been working on it for a few months now. I would guess–and this is a total guess–that the Mac one would be first. Itʼs just a market share issue.”

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10087

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"OK, OK, We get it." No EULA (End User License Agreement) for Firefox on Linux," isn't what Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker said in her recent blog posting, but she might as well have.

 

Ubuntu Linux users made it really, really clear that they didn't want to see anything that even looked like a Firefox EULA in their favorite desktop Linux. While some Ubuntu users screamed for Firefox to be kicked out of the distribution, cooler heads, like Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth urged calm and started working with Mozilla to find a solution that would work for everyone. Baker, in turn, rapidly backed off the idea calling the original EULA a 'giant error.'

 

http://blogs.computerworld.com/mozilla_revises_linux_firefox_agreement

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Nokia has revealed that the next version of its Maemo internet-tablet operating system will support 3G cellular connectivity.

 

Maemo is the platform used in the Finnish manufacturer's internet-tablet series, the latest iteration of which was the the N810. On Wednesday, Nokia's open-source chief Dr Ari Jaaksi told the audience at an Open Source In Mobile (OSIM) event in Berlin that Maemo 5 would include support for high-speed packet access (HSPA), a standard sometimes described as 'super-3G'.

 

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39489789,00.htm

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The surprisingly humble debate kicked off with Dr Richard Ford, a Linux advocate and professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, on the back foot as his opponent Jeffrey Jones, security strategy director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing, unveiled a concerning statistic: Redhat WorkStation 4 Operating System had 268 vulnerabilities fixed during the full last calendar year compared to Vista which had 45 fixed.

 

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Meanwhile, Ford also argued Linux was much faster at getting out patches.

 

“When a vulnerability comes out, within about 10 minutes somebodyʼs posted a patch or workaround in the code. You can have a community approved patch where youʼre not sitting there like prey,” he said.

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OEM Partnership Offers Industry Standard Thin Client-Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise

 

SAN JOSE, Calif. and WALTHAM, Mass. – 09/16/2008 -

 

Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, and Novell today announced the joint delivery of Wyse Enhanced SUSE® Linux Enterprise, the next-generation of Linux* operating system designed for thin computing environments and available only on Wyse desktop and mobile thin client devices. Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise is a powerful combination of Wyse's extensive experience in thin computing and the ease of use, flexibility and security of SUSE Linux Enterprise. Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise will be available pre-loaded on the Wyse thin client devices in Q4 2008.

 

http://www.wyse.com/about/news/pr/2008/0916_Linux.asp

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Χρονια πολλά σε όλους !!

 

 

http://www.techvideonews.com/view_news_link.php?nlid=117964&p=1

 

@Firewalker: είναι ενα ωραιο videaki που υπο μουσικη υποκρουση παρουσιαζει στιγμιοτυπα απο τον κοσμο του λινουξ, διανομες, screenshots κλπ

[firewalker]

@Firewalker: είναι ενα ωραιο videaki που υπο μουσικη υποκρουση παρουσιαζει στιγμιοτυπα απο τον κοσμο του λινουξ, διανομες, screenshots κλπ

 

Ευχαριστώ!

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No surprise, but Red Hat remains the top corporate Linux kernel contributor, as reported by SDTimes. As I've reported before, Red Hat is the top Linux contributor by a wide margin, with IBM, the next biggest corporate contributor, coming in nearly seven percentage points behind Red Hat.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Novell employee and prominent Linux kernel developer, recently called out Red Hat's contributions (good) but has taken far too much time to criticize Canonical, creator of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, and its apparent dearth of contributions (not-so-good).

Mark Shuttleworth defends Canonical's contributions to Linux, and I tend to side with him on this. He writes:

We focus most of our effort on integration. Our competitors turn that into "Canonical doesn't contribute" but it's more accurate to say we measure our contribution in the effectiveness with which we get the latest stable work of upstream, with security maintenance, to the widest possible audience for testing and love. To my mind, that's a huge contribution.

Canonical contributes significantly to the ease of use of (desktop) Linux, and recently upgraded its efforts. These are important contributions.

Regardless, as I wrote back in 2006 when Oracle tried to undermine Red Hat by offering a competing Linux distribution without matching its ambition with Linux kernel contributions, those who contribute most profit most, at least when selling a Linux distribution. In open source, it matters a great deal that you not only offer source code, but also that you're the source of the code.

Those who contribute have the closest thing to "control" that true open-source communities provide. This is a key source of pricing power.

 

 

 

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10046449-16.html

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Netbook version of Mandriva thinks small

 

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8074825002.html?kc=rss

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At the GigaOM:Mobilize conference in San Francisco, Symbian has stated that Linux is unfit for use on mobile phones.

 

Vice president of Symbianʼs North American operations, Jerry Panagrossi, said: “Thereʼs been a lot of misleading information over the years…about the fitness of Linux for the mobile space. There has been wonderful work, fantastic work in the Linux community in the workstation and PC space, but when you drag that over into the mobile space, there is an entirely different domain with a different set of challenges that handset managers must overcome.”

 

As Symbian seeps into Nokia and open source its own mobile OS Panagrossi believes that by adopting Linux mobile manufacturers are taking the industry in the wrong direction.

 

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2008/09/20/linux-unfit-for-mobile-says-symbian/

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As some of you know, Google released a new browser recently, something called Chrome. The idea is/was to fix everything that is wrong with browsers and make the Web browsers a tool to run applications. As opposed to just viewing Web pages. I'm being a bit silly here, but Chrome is built to be more like an operating system than a plain old browser. There's more but it's all only for Windows users since a Linux version doesn't yet exist. Wait . . . What? Check out this screenhost (click it for a full screen view).

 

Does that browser look unusual? If you run Windows as well as Linux, does it look familiar? Take a look at the drop down menu over on the far right if you need more of a hint. Yes, you are right. That's Google Chrome running on Linux, with a little help from the folk at CodeWeavers Inc. Renamed CrossOver Chromium, it borrows its name from the Google open source project behind Chrome itself. If you want to check out Chromium on Linux, head on over to yon friendly URL.

CodeWeavers is the company that produces the CrossOver suite, a package that allows you to run many popular Windows applications under Linux, without the need for a Windows license.

CodeWeavers makes packages available for DEB based distributions like Debian and Ubuntu as well as RPM based distributions like Mandriva, RedHat, and SUSE. An shell-based installer is also available to cover other distributions that might not fall into these two camps.

The Original Cooking with LinuxDownload it, run it, then come back and discuss it here. Are you impressed with Chromium? Do you really think it has the power to change how we view/use Web browsers?

 

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/google-chrome-linux