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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BBC claims angry iPlayer plugin mob 'conflated' open source term
March 6, 2010
The Register: “The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation’s quiet switcheroo last week.”
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N. Korea develops operating system with Windows-like GUI, Linux guts
March 6, 2010
IT World: “The North Korean government appears to have developed its own graphical Linux-based “Red Star” operating system, though its people still prefer that symbol of Yankee high-tech imperialism, Microsoft Windows.”
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Using Nmap to Fix a Problem
March 6, 2010
Systhread: “Ever had an ipv4 network address that is supposed to migrate over via a high availability mechanism simply not work, or even stranger if there were several addresses some do and some do not?”
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You know what's working on my laptop with Intel 830m video? Fedora 12, that's what
March 6, 2010
Click: “At the recommendation of reader David Gurvich, as well as the enthusiastic endorsement of “Linux Outlaws” co-host Fabian A. Scherschel and Larry “the Free Software Guy” Cafiero, I burned my first Fedora disc in some time and am testing Fedora 12 in the live environment.”
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Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft
March 5, 2010
Boycott Novell: “Summary: A detailed analysis of the pseudo-firm (Elliott) that wants to buy Novell and how the bid came about”
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