Criticism is mounting over the termination of a large-scale Linux project in Birmingham, England.
Birmingham City Council pulled the plug on its 535,000 pounds open-source pilot after its analysis concluded that it was cheaper to upgrade to a Microsoft-based platform than proceed with open source.
I have noticed that many people try to imitate Mac OSX Tiger's look with their current operating system. No matter is it Windows or Linux. I'm one of those people and this is my atteption to make Ubuntu Linux look like OSX Tiger. I use Ubuntu simply because it is the best distribution of the best operating system. Ubuntu uses Gnome as it's desktop environment. For this reason the guide is for only for Gnome users. It you are using some other distribution, this guide is still valid in most cases. This guide tries to be as spesific as possible, so that even newbies can follow it easily!
In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer today declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property.
If employees at Backcountry.com want a Windows desktop they'd better have a good excuse, because the standard issue is Linux. While some might think the backcountry-gear outfitter has been out in the woods a bit too long, the reality is that Linux desktops are starting to show maturity, starting to improve their looks and starting to find a niche behind corporate walls.
We?ve seen many gadgets utilising open source applications, but we haven?t seen them truly embrace open source as a platform for their product. Now that?s all going to change with FIC entering the smartphone market with their new FIC-GTA001. FIC is focusing on common usability at this moment such as MP3 support, GPS systems and GSM, however all those basic features and functionalities can be added to and extended with the involvement of the open source community. FIC will provide the SDK for developers to hack new features into the phone.
Canonical announced today the release of Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft. Released every six months to reflect the release cycle of the GNOME desktop environment, the increasingly popular distribution provides a relatively cohesive desktop Linux experience with reliable free updates and recent versions of commonly used open source applications. The latest version features GNOME 2.16, XOrg 7.1 with built-in support for accelerated indirect GLX (AIGLX), and the 2.6.17 kernel.
Security researchers have published an exploit that highlights a long-standing security bug in Nvidia graphic drivers for Linux. Nvidia Driver For Linux v8774 and v8762 are subject to a buffer overflow bug that creates a means for hackers to inject hostile code as root. The bug might be exploited locally or remotely, providing malicious hackers are able to trick users into visiting a maliciously-constructed website.
Munich has started to migrate to Linux on the desktop -- a year later than planned.
The local government in the German city has transferred 100 staff members in the Lord Mayor's department to a Debian configuration, and it intends to migrate 80 percent of the city's PCs by mid-2009.
It has not been an easy transition for the government, which first announced its intention to move to Linux in 2003 and which had scheduled the first launch to occur in 2005.
Live Linux CDs are popping up all over the place. Mainstream distributions like SimplyMEPIS let you try before you install, as does Ubuntu and Linspire. There are also specialized distributions like Knoppix and Dynebolic.
One Gentoo Linux-based distribution, called Sectoo, might also warrant a "live" look.
Anthony Rousseau, a native of France, created Sectoo so that penetration testers and consulting companies would have a toolbox designed to help them during their work.
Linspire, the innovative Linux house founded by Internet entrepreneur Michael Robertson, has jettisoned the US$20 annual subscription fee it was charging for its basic Click 'N Run open-source software download service. Users can now download any of the 20,000 titles offered by the service free of charge.
The Click 'N Run (CNR) service has been the company's main source of income, but according to the firm's, Linspire is doing well selling its higher-end products and services.
