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Mobilecrunch: "LiMo is Linux-based. Android is-Linux based. But they're far from the same "

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ZDNet: "The traditional media business model was fairly straightforward. You invested in a budget, you sold ads against it, and over, say five years, you built the business by selling more than you spent "

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Conary News: "rPath is pleased to announce that rPath Linux 2 is now available and recommended for general use as an appliance platform "

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Linux Magazine: "Disruptive technologies meet staid businesses. Stuart Cohen is bringing the open source development model together with big business, and finding it to be a perfect fit "

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internetnews.com: "John Newton, the chairman and CTO at open source document management firm Alfresco, is no stranger to Enterprise Content Management "

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The Open Road: "One of the things that we open sourcerors need to figure out--or which the market needs to figure out--is the convenience of purchasing proprietary software "

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Nic Doye writes "Dag Wieers responds to Mark Shuttleworth's recent request to ask major Enterprise Linux distributions to synchronise releases, claiming that it 'is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space.' He's confessing to playing Devil's Advocate here, but it is an interesting view from someone with a large amount of experience in the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS space."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Corrado writes "There is a big discussion going on over removing a bit of non-preemptable code from the Linux kernel. 'As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptable BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptable code again. "This commit returned the BKL code to the 2.6.7 state of affairs in essence," began Ingo Molnar. He noted that this had a very negative effect on the real time kernel efforts, adding that Linux creator Linus Torvalds indicated the only acceptable way forward was to completely remove the BKL.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.