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The openSUSE development team has announced the second alpha release of openSUSE 11.0: "Only three weeks after Alpha 1, we are glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback on. Changes since .

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Datamation: "Every now and then, someone suggests that Debian GNU/Linux should be more commercial "

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The Digital Home: "Even though Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux, lately he has been quite outspoken about where he thinks his operating system is going and what its competitors are doing wrong "

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Edtior's Note: Interoperability is on my mind again this tax season. A big change on the cross-platform horizon may change the interop game forever.

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InfoWorld: "Cobra, a .Net-based programming language, is being readied for open source release as an all-in-one solution to address multiple needs in software development "

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eWeek: "The company is conducting field trials to ensure the OS can work well with the low-priced PC "

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Wired: "Will the most secure OS please stand up? Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Linux are set to go head-to-head in a 'ethical' hacking contest to determine which system is more secure "

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Roundup: The European Union has launched an investigation into the tactics Microsoft has used to get its OpenXML format recognized as a standard. News, analysis within.

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internetnews.com: "With Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign joining its board, the notion of an online universal identifier doesn't look like a pipe dream any more "

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eWeek: "The commoditization of equity trades is giving Web 2.0 open-source investment platforms a chance to win converts "

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openSUSE: "Only three weeks after Alpha1, we're glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 "

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Perens.com: "And that brings me to our first mistake: for a time, there was a conflict between Open Source and Free Software evangelism "

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LinuxWorld: "Event search firm Zvents is releasing a massively parallel database server, based on a published Google design, as an open source project "

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LinuxPlanet: "Two weeks ago we learned why Gimp, even though it is a superior cross-platform image-editing application, is not a 'Photoshop Killer.' I'm not fond of lurid headlines, but if I were to nominate a 'Photoshop Killer' I pick Krita "

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SCALE: "The project started as OpenBeos. The change to Haiku was in 2004 "

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Linux.com: "To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes to tell us CNET is currently running a story asking 'Is Linus Torvalds even speaking for Linux anymore?' It examines both Torvalds' recent public statements on other operating systems and his current approach towards Linux. The author wonders if his utopian view of how an operating system should be viewed and used is just too alien from what the majority of users are really looking for. "if it were up to Torvalds, beauty and intuition would take a backseat to functionality. But when you look at distributions like Ubuntu or OpenSuse, it looks like no one is paying attention. 'An OS should never have been something that people (in general) really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should give a flying [expletive] about it except the technical people.' Sure, that statement makes some sense, but in the grand scheme of things, it's the design and usability factor that makes the operating system much easier to use. And while both Mac OS X and Windows have their issues, for the average person, it makes more sense to use those than Linux."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Bruce Perens writes "Saturday is the 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source, the initiative to promote Free Software to business. Obviously, it's been incredibly successful. I've submitted a State of Open Source message discussing the anniversary of Open Source, its successes, and the challenges it will face in the upcoming decade."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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An anonymous reader tips a column up at freesoftwaremagazine.com in which the writer discovers that the latest UI enhancements that Hotmail has recently introduced don't work with Firefox 2.0 under Linux. The writer concludes that the webmail interface has been artificially limited by basic user-agent sniffing. The solution is simple enough — spoofing the User Agent that Firefox reports.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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javipas notes a Wired piece summarizing a two-part interview with Linus Torvalds that's up at linux-foundation.org (part 1, part 2). In the second part the creator of the Linux kernel gives his view on the limited success of Linux on the desktop. "I have never, ever cared about really anything but the Linux desktop The desktop is also the thing where people get really upset if something changes, so it's really hard to enter the desktop market because people are used to whatever they used before, mostly Windows better is worse if it's different."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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I watch what people like Brian Aker and Brad Fitzpatrick do very carefully. As developers go, they're among the best at making little problems go away so as not to distract them from developing, releasing, and maintaining software. Brian wrote

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Perens
celebrates
the ten-year anniversary of the publication of the Open Source Definition. In addition to summarizing its increasing acceptance, he cites continued challenges, focusing on patent issues.

Source: Linux DevCenter

In a weblog on CNet, Don Reisinger asks Is Linus Torvalds even speaking for Linux anymore? The question reminds me of a famous retort by Charles Babbage. I'm sure you can find it, and it's immaterial. What Mr. Reisinger said