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Source: Linux Today The Beez' Speaks: "The main reason I switched to Linux in 2000 was the availability of a viable desktop, in my case KDE 1.1. The Linux world was very different back then and I was even forced to install proprietary tools in order to have all the functionality I needed "
Source: Linux Today aseigo: "Havoc Pennington wrote recently in his blog about reinvigorating GNOME development and reflects upon the idea of delivering yet another 'desktop system' to the market "
Source: Linux Today Editor's Note: If people are insistent on equating price with value, then maybe the notion of a price tag for Linux should be considered.
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "So, more and more people today are installing GNU/Linux (specifically, Ubuntu) on their laptops: it doesn't matter if you can't play many games on it, it's much much faster, it doesn't get attacked by viruses and Trojans every other minute, it's free, and well, it's a good idea to install it even just to have a look at it "
Source: Linux Today dot.KDE: "Importantly, for the first time, KOffice is released simultaneously for the three main platforms: Unix/X11, Windows and Mac OSX. KOffice is the only office suite that is available for all three platforms using a single codebase "
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Linux's first-ever official 'embedded maintainers' have invited device developers to get involved in the kernel development process "
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Fifteen years in the making, everyone's favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release "
Source: Linux Today LinuxWorld: "But it is the first time that all the pieces have come together: a lawsuit against an open source vendor followed by a settlement in which the troll grants a broad open source patent license "
Source: Linux Today Washington Post:"A small, light laptop makes an excellent second computer--unless it costs more than your first "
Source: Linux Today ZDNet Australia: "Government CIOs that dismiss open source software because of support issues, which is the case for the Australian Tax Office, Defence and Centrelink, simply do not understand the concept, according to Sun Microsystems "
Source: Linux Today Engadget: "We got a nice helping of slides dropped on our virtual doorstep this evening, fleshing out Dell's upcoming netbook--which they seem to be calling the 'Dell E '"
Source: Linux Today The Inquirer: "The open source community was bitterly disappointed today after the UK appointed an unknown consultancy to run an historic programme of advocacy in schools "
Source: Linux Today LKML.org: "I'd like to say that the diffs are shrinking and things are calming down,
but I'd be lying. Another week, another -rc, and I another 350 commits.
Yes, the diff is smaller than the one from rc4 to rc5 (despite having more commits), so we're on the right trajectory, but I was hoping for less churn at this stage.
Source: Linux Today Business Week: " "Why do we need closed vehicles? We do," he said. "Some of these things harm the industry but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too.""
Source: Linux Today Network World: "But even as the Wall Street crowd increasingly puts its money on Linux — market watcher TABB Group estimates that Linux adoption among the 14 biggest investment firms this year will reach more than 72% of the installed operating server base vs. 60% in 2006 — it's clear concerns linger about the licensing model. That model requires users return changes to the open source community under certain circumstances, a touchy subject for companies that are battling to accelerate their business processes."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "Several governments and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here begs to be answered: why did it happen? The City of Vienna made several crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most prominent ones"
Source: Linux Today KDE.News: "To celebrate the release of KDE 4, the KDE French contributors and the Toulibre LUG organised a two-day event on January 25th and 26th 2008 in Toulouse, France. On the 25th, K&eactute;vin Ottens made a general presentation of KDE 4, and on the 26th there was a day of technical conferences featuring speakers such as David Faure, Laurent Montel, Alexis M&eactute;nard, K&eactute;vin Ottens, Aur&eactute;lien Gâteau and Anne-Marie Mahfouf. The videos of all these talks, in French, are now available for download."
Source: Linux Today IT News: "If Red Hat had taken the case to court and disputed the patents' validity, the company could have had the patent struck down thus preventing future litigation against open source projects that use similar technology, they argue."
Source: Linux Today Echoes: "Amarok (audio player)
In my opinion, the best audio player ever. Excellent collection management and dozens of other features, like Last.fm song submission, scripts, cover manager, Wikipedia integration, lyrics fetching, Magnatune music store, statistics, scores and many more. I just can't wait for 2.0 to be released!"
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