Ted Ritzer: LinuxNo2MSThreat-Microsoft's Worst Dreams(Untitled)- November 30, 2005 Overhaul for Firefox web browser. A big marketing push is planned for the latest version of Firefox, the main rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. BBC News Technology UK Editionhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/29.html#a3910 (Untitled)- November 24, 2005 eHub. A current list of new web applications and services with a focus on social software, web 2.0, Ajax, ruby on rails, tagging, folksonomy, and next generation web. NewsIsFree: Recent Additionshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/24.html#a3904 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Vienna's open source desktop migration takes off. Thousands of city employees have started using OpenOffice.org and hundreds are running Linux, less than two months after the 'soft' migration started. Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3899 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Linux Desktop Making Major Gains via Intel. Today on LXer.com, two of my collaborators joined me in writing a story about Intel's Government Assisted PC Program in rural China. Word of the program came from a source we believe came from inside Intel. Basically, the story is a leak. ... As we researched and vetted the article, I came to realize that the company could single handedly replace Microsoft as the largest supplier of Desktop software globally. Their initiaitves in developing nations...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3896 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 Still in the First Coming of Library Feeds. The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds“Dave Winer recently pointed to a post by Adam Green, which explored similar territory. Adam thinks 2006 will be the year the Web explodes:"The explosion I am talking about is the shifting of a website's content from internal to external. Instead of a website being a ‘place’ where data ‘is’ and other sites ‘point’ to, a website will be a source of data that is in many..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3892 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 Novell scores desktop Linux wins. Novell has signed an agreement to deliver 1,600 Linux powered desktop computers to high schools in the state of Indiana. Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3891 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3 Screenshot Tour. DistroWatch reports - Third alpha release of SUSE Linux 10.1 has been announced and is ready for download. The most important changes include the following: "Update to KDE 3.5 RC1; update of GCC to the current 4.1 development version; removal of linuxthreads support; NetworkManager will be the new way of managing changing network interfaces, Kinternet is now in maintenance mode; update to Linux kernel 2.6.14.2... Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3889 (Untitled)- November 22, 2005 Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source. Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that the city of Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software. From the article: "Earlier this year, volunteers among the city's 46,000 staff were invited to download and install open-source software to their desktops,...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/21.html#a3883 |