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The Linux Foundation has produced a cool new promotional video that explains Linux in terms that everyone, not just geeks, can understand. This is definitely something to show to your casual computer user friends who think that Linux is just a generic, not-quite-as-good version of…you know, that so-called operating system made somewhere near Starbuck’s headquarters…
Friday FOSS Week in Review Here we go, Friday FOSS Week in Review, Special Tuesday Edition. I’ve got to find a way to schedule my time better so I can stay on deadline. This coming Friday’s going to be difficult, as I have a dentist appointment and FWIR can’t really be written in advance, so expect [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review Another typical week in the FOSS world. Mainly, the proprietary guys have been busy bad-mouthing the competition, while the FOSS folks have been busy finding solutions. ESR Defends RMS on Jobs This week I ran across a blog by Eric Raymond that was posted on October 8, in which Raymond defends the now [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review It would seem to be another slow week in the FOSS news world. As always however, there were a few tidbits, and the passing of a computer pioneer who’s work has effected everyone who’s ever sat in front of a monitor and keyboard. U.S. Predator and Reaper Drones Hit by Virus…or Not We [...] I’m wondering why Attachmate is interested in MeeGo. Okay, I might be getting ahead of myself here. Actually, I don’t know that Attachmate is interested in MeeGo. All I know for sure is that yesterday Jos Poortvliet, the openSUSE community manager, wrote an article for LinuxUser in which he offered openSUSE as a new home for [...]
Richard Stallman at the University of Pittsburgh 2010 (courtesy Wikipedia) When it comes to software freedom, Richard Stallman is a bomb throwing anarchist. That’s a good thing. The FOSS community needs a few bomb throwers in its arsenal. His job is to keep the bad guys, those who constantly attempt to usurp our principles for their [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review It was already a slow week when the news came on Wednesday of Steve Jobs’ demise. Since then, most tech sites have been reporting on not much else. As always, however, there were a few things to note… Privacy Issues with Kindle Fire’s Silk Browser Almost as soon as Amazon unveiled their new [...] Secure boot is the sort of security solution Microsoft loves. Back in the days when Windows was even less secure than it is now, one of their security solutions was to have software vetted and signed. Although this might have helped enterprise customers a bit, it did little to make the home user more secure, [...] Friday FOSS Week in Review The biggest news this week has centered around fears that Linux may become uninstallable on Wintel machines from the big OEM’s. But there’s been more. Some fun stuff. Some silly stuff. Some stuff that might eventually develop into something important… Secure Boot Has Penguinistas Buzzing Last week on FWIR I mentioned there was [...] Since Oracle obtained MySQL in the Sun takeover, many FOSS folks have been wary of Oracle’s plans for the open source database, a wariness that wasn’t eased by Oracle’s handling of the OpenOffice/LibreOffice split. When a couple of weeks ago we learned that Oracle has added three commercial extensions to MySQL, many figured that was [...] |
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