Stormy Peters lands on Gnome Foundation | The Register
"The Gnome Foundation yesterday announced that it has hired former Hewlett-Packard industry analyst Stormy Peters as its new executive director. ... Peters previously headed up HP’s open source strategy, policy and biz practices before becoming director of community and partner programs at OpenLogic."
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Linspire sinks under Xandros waves | Open Source | ZDNet.com
"One outlet described the deal as Linspire founder Michael Robertson deserting a sinking ship, but others will claim that it was sunk last June when it agreed to join Microsoft’s “IP Protection Racket.”"
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Microsoft pushes India toward Linux
"One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited) apparently decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users."
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Q&A: Google's open-source balancing act | Underexposed - CNET News.com
"Google consumes a lot of open-source software for its own highly profitable business. But as he oversees the search powerhouse's open-source work, DiBona has to ensure that the company reciprocates. It can't be all take and no give."
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New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux -- Linux -- InformationWeek
"The conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007, and the open source operating system is now powering the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems."
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Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared -- Linux Distros -- InformationWeek
"We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature."
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Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows
"Canonical has marshaled the best of what the open-source world has to offer in Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux-based operating system that's capable of mounting a serious challenge to Microsoft Windows on mainstream desktops and notebooks."
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Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
"This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows)."
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Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04 | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
"Overall, the OS is better and faster, has new features and applications, but without any unnecessary brain-bending remix of the UI. I like the fact that I can refresh an Ubuntu install and pick up where I left off without having to re-learn the basics."
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Ubuntu Linux Virtual World
"This site is created to offer a platform for the Ubuntu Linux group in Second Life. The purpose of this group is to contact with Ubuntu Linux users in Second Life and to promote Ubuntu Linux in this virtual world."
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Hardy Heron reflects Ubuntu Linux ambitions | Underexposed - CNET News.com
"Hardy Heron, also called version 8.04 for its April 2008 launch date, is Canonical's proof-in-the-pudding moment that will show whether the company can grow beyond its subsidized roots into a self-sustaining business. Ubuntu has a strong following among Linux enthusiasts, but it's Red Hat and Novell that still dominate the commercial Linux market."
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Red Hat publishes Fedora 9 preview | Tech News on ZDNet
"Red Hat has published a "preview release" of Fedora 9, the next version of its freely available Linux distribution, which will be the last public release before the final edition next month."
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Linux replacements for your favorite Windows apps - LinuxWorld
"Linux offers equivalents to many Windows applications that are often as good as--or even better than--the programs you're used to. In some cases the apps are also available in Windows and Mac OS versions, allowing dual-booters to stay with the same set of free programs regardless of the operating system in use."
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Putting Windows On A Diet ... To Compete With Linux - Open Source Blog - InformationWeek
XP, not Vista. Remember Vista?
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Microsoft & Linux: At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell? @ ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE
"Arguably another indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo!. Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn't it be simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of Novell?"
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Linux Contributor List Grows Longer; Many Paid -- Linux -- InformationWeek
"Red Hat remains the top contributor to Linux, with 11.2% of code contributions, but close on its heels is Novell (NSDQ: NOVL) with 8.9% and IBM at 8.7%. Other companies high on the contributor list include Intel (NSDQ: INTC) at 4.1%; the Linux Foundation through the developers it employs, 3.5%; SGI at 2%; MIPS Technologies at 1.6%; Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL), 1.3%; MontaVista, a telecommunications distribution of Linux, 1.2%; Luntronix, 1%; and a group of companies all at .9%: HP (NYSE: HPQ), NetApp, SWsoft, Renesas Technology, Freescale, and Astaro."
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School districts serve up lessons in Linux - LinuxWorld
"Windows may boast the lion's share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various flavors of Linux across their desktops and server back-ends."
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Adobe AIRs out Linux, Joins Foundation
"Adobe Systems is making two strongly pro-Linux moves by releasing an alpha version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime for Linux and announcing its membership in the Linux Foundation."
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An Interview with Virgin America’s head of In-Flight Entertainment
"Linux is very stable and agile. We were able to pare down the embedded seat-back side to only the libraries we need, license a container app and then write the code needed to tie everything together."
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Red Hat posts strong fiscal year '08 earnings - LinuxWorld
"Linux operating system and open source middleware vendor Red Hat Thursday reported more than 30% growth in its total revenue and its critical subscription revenue for its fiscal year 2008."
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