Why Microsoft Can't Afford To Let Novell Die
March 9, 2010
eWeek Europe: “Make no mistake - The hedge fund offer for Novell could effectively mean the end of the company. And Microsoft could suffer the worst, says Peter Judge.”
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Oh Linux, how shall I count thy installs?
March 9, 2010
Toolbox for IT: “Everybody loves statistics. Statistics can be used to say just about everything when they are boiled down to a nice colourful pie chart. I have also heard it said that 76.3% of people believe that you put a percentage sign behind any random number they will believe it to be true.”
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Swiftfox: a fast Firefox alternative for Linux users only
March 8, 2010
The Linux Critic: “Well, today, I’m here to report that this situation might well have changed, due to something called Swiftfox.”
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Ok, Be Afraid if Someone's Got a Voltmeter Hooked to Your CPU
March 8, 2010
Bradley M. Kuhn: “Boy, do I hate it when a FLOSS project is given a hard time unfairly. I was this morning greeted with news from many places that OpenSSL, one of the most common FLOSS software libraries used for cryptography, was somehow severely vulnerable.”
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The OSI Categorically Rejects IIPA's special pleadings against Open Source
March 8, 2010
Michael Tiemann’s blog: “And yet according to a 2003 UNCTAD report, “there has been no Moore’s Law for software,” and indeed it is because of software that computer systems have become more expensive, more complex, and less reliable.”
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PC-BSD 8.0 vs. Kubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks
March 7, 2010
Phoronix: “…we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against Kubuntu 9.10 x86_64.”
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Newegg Ships Counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 CPUs
March 7, 2010
HardwareCanucks: “In an almost surreal tale of events, USA electronics retailer Newegg has discovered a reported 300 counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 CPU’s in its inventory, some of which were inadvertently shipped out to buyers!”
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The OSI Categorically Rejects IIPA's special pleadings against Open Source
March 7, 2010
Michael Tiemann’s blog: “And yet according to a 2003 UNCTAD report, “there has been no Moore’s Law for software,” and indeed it is because of software that computer systems have become more expensive, more complex, and less reliable.”
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Taking Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix out for a Spin
March 7, 2010
IT News Today: “I’ve actually been using UNR for a couple of months now. When I first started playing with it, I didn’t even own a Netbook, so instead I tried it out on a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop. About a month later, I was gifted a Dell Mini 10 netbook, which afforded me the opportunity to try UNR in it’s intended environment.”
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5 open source and free software books that are worth your time
March 6, 2010
Ghabuntu: “Aside from the book Open Source Licensing and Intellectual Property, there are other freely available books that will enrich your knowledge and understanding of the concept of Free Software and Open Source. The following are 5 of such books that are worth your time.”
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