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Friday FOSS Week in Review
Goodbye to Fuduntu, hello to FuSE
We already knew, of course, that Fuduntu was history, that the beloved distro was to be no more, evidently due to the fact that it was becoming nearly impossible to support GNOME 2 in any sort of meaningful way. We also knew there’d been talk among the developers at Fuduntu of continuing with a new distro. Well, now it’s a done deal and most of the developers of Fuduntu [...]
Continue reading Spy vs. Spy; Wikipedia Sports New DB & More…
Novell is back in the news.
Not the downsized “new and improved” Novell owned by Attachmate, though they have briefly been a part of this story. We’re talking about the old, basically inept Novell–the company that once practically owned enterprise networking back in the day when Bill Gates was shortsighted enough to believe that the future of computing was in stand alone and unconnected boxes. You know, the Novell that was second cousin, by way of Raymond Noorda and the [...]
Continue reading “Old” Novell Board Faces Shareholder Lawsuit
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 MeeGo:
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Continue reading MeeGo & SUSE: What’s Up With That?
Friday FOSS Week in Review
With the Black Hat Conference going on in Las Vegas, and with Congress messing around where they shouldn’t, this has been a busy week in the FOSS world. Some of the news is good; some of the news is not so good. I’ll start with a rant…
Proposed Data Retention Bill Would Chill Free Speech
The House will soon be considering a bill that will require ISP’s to maintain logs of their customers Internet use [...]
Continue reading Congress Considers Stepping on Rights, Windows Mobile Share Nil & Whose DNA Is It Anyway?
Friday FOSS Week in Review
Cool beans, it’s Friday! Time to get out of the office and enjoy! Trouble is, here at FOSS Force the temps and humidity are so high there won’t be anything to do but stay inside and hug the air conditioning. Anyway, this week’s Friday review is mostly good news for a change, and that’s good news, no?
And the Winner Is …Finnix!
On Monday, Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the new 3.0 Linux [...]
Continue reading Finnix Finishes First, MS Wants to Own Cloud, Google Beefs Portfolio & More…
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