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Fluendo makes proprietary codecs available to Linux users

From the release: In response to the growing demand for proprietary multimedia codecs on the open-source Linux platform, multimedia software development company Fluendo has released GStreamer codec plugins that provide native support for a variety of proprietary media formats. Available from Fluendo's web shop, several of the plugins

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The economic impact of open source on Europe

Matt has some summary information on the report I mentioned here.  Here are a few snippets from his post: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and UNU-Merit put together this insightful report on the impact of FLOSS (an unfortunate acronym for free/libre open source software) on the European economy. It was financed

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Where does open source code come from?

From this article: The European Commission has published its final report on the Economic Impact of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) on innovation and competitiveness of the EU ICT sector. Weighing in at 287 pages it will take some time to digest, and contains enough data and statistics to

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SCALE 5X and LinuxWorld Summit - It's going to be a busy week

Well, I've just confirmed bookings for both SCALE 5X (where LQ is a sponsor) and LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit (where I'm on the speakers list).  Considering the events are only a couple days apart but 2,795 miles apart, it should be an interesting week.  I

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Down with HTML email

I may be in the vast minority here, but I see anything that decreases the viability of HTML mail as a good thing ;)  Then again, I mostly use pine (occasionally Thunderbird on the laptop and Chatter+ on the Treo).  The LQ Community Bulletin, which has well over 100,000 subscribers,

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Moved LQ to XCache

I just moved part of the LQ infrastructure (the main site) from APC to XCache.  I haven't necessarily been unhappy with APC, but I've seen a lot about XCache recently so I figured I'd check it out.  We have some other performance improvements planned

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MySQL refines its GPL licensing scheme under MySQL 5.0 and MySQL 5.1

According to this blog post from Kaj, MySQL VP of community relations, the company is changing the wording of the GPL license for both 5.0 and 5.1.  From the post: MySQL has today refined its licensing scheme from “GPLv2 or later” to “GPLv2 only“, in order to make

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LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit

Looks like I'll be on the "Ask the Experts" panel at the upcoming LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in NYC. Bring your toughest open source problem to our crack team of LinuxWorld.com contributors, open source developers, and IT security and administration professionals! From software selection, configuration,

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To binary or not to binary, that is the question

A new look at an issue I've covered before.  From the article: The Ubuntu developers are in the process of deciding whether to enable binary-only drivers by default in their installation process, under certain limited circumstances. This decision process has prompted the latest wave in a conversation that&

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Voting Has Opened for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards

With the new year right around the corner, voting for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open.  There are 21 categories this year.  Based on feedback we dropped a couple polls that had either consistently low turnout or landslide (90%+) victories and also added a couple new

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New Site Section - LQ Screenshots

Just in time for the new year, I'm proud to announce that we have added a new section to LQ.  LQ Screenshots offers a visual overview for a large number of Linux distributions.  This allows you to get a basic feel for a distro before trying it out.

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A New Year... A New Beginning

I usually keep this blog to Linux and Open Source related topics.  While somewhat related to that meme, this is also a personal announcement.  As many of you know, in addition to LQ and Open Source evangelism, I have a full time job.  In a move that has been a

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Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source

A quick (belated) follow up to a story I previously covered.  Sun has now officially released part of Java under the GPL.  phoneME, which has previously been called J2ME, is now available for download with a GPLv2 license.  The supported platforms are Linux/ARM, Linux/x86 and Windows/i386.  Many

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Red Hat CEO on Microsoft, Novell customers

The Red Hat stock continues to increase (RHT up almost 30% on the month), mostly as a result of beating Wall Street expectations last week.  During the earnings call with analysts, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik was asked about Microsoft's announcement of three joint customers with Novell this

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Novell Linux Certificates

One of the parts of the Novell/Microsoft deal that hasn't been getting much press is the 70,000 SLES certificates that Microsoft purchased for distribution.  I was a bit surprised to see that 16,000 of them have already been doled out.  Three major companies have even

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Novell: Hubert Mantel Returns, Jeremy Allison Resigns

Quite a bit going on at Novell over the last couple days.  We have Hubert Mantel returning and Jeremy Allison resigning.  For those that don't remember, Hubert is one of the Suse founders and had resigned from Novell a little over a year ago, saying: ""Too

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Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?

That's the question posed by this article.  To be honest, I don't think there ever was a "Desktop Linux Bubble" to burst.  The Linux "Desktop" continues to be an interesting thing to me.  What I mean by that is, there's

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Software installation on Linux

Ian Murdock has an interesting series of posts going on his blog about the current state of software installation on Linux.  A few snippets: After reading through the comments to part 1, let me first point out that our goal is to create a vibrant third party software ecosystem around

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Interviewed by Packt Publishing

Mayank Sharma has just posted an interview he did with me for Packt Publishing.  From the interview: When I first ran my Linux distribution almost a decade ago, there weren't many places I could turn to for help. Whatever mailing list you tuned into, everybody seemed to be

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10 who matter in Open Source

Here's a post about 10 people who matter in Open Source.  These lists are always quite subjective and open to debate, but I think this article is interesting not for the 10 people the author chose, but for the amount of back story and information contained about the

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MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux II

Brian from MySQL has responded to this.  From the linked post: This morning I am working on a bug with Monty Taylor for a customer who is having an issue with multi-cpu capabilities on Debian. Which makes me surprised to read: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/06/12/13/1515217.

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All Expenses Paid Press Junket from Microsoft... to Rob Limo

It looks like Microsoft decided to send Rob Limo on an all expenses paid press junket to Redmond.  As you may have guessed, many of his hard hitting questions weren't answered, but there are a couple interesting observations in there and he did get a free Zune for

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MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux

I'm seeing quite a bit of rumbling that "MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux".  Indeed they have, but not in the way people seem to be interpreting it.  It is true that you can no longer purchase a support contract for MySQL Enterprise for Debian-based

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It Takes a Monopoly

In a post entitled "For reasons that have little to do with the product, itself, Windows Vista simply can't lose", Robert X. Cringely points out why Vista will be a winner.  From the article: Windows Vista is finally here, a shadow of what it was once

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An Upgrade Infrastructure at LQ

LQ has taken another small step in its continued growth and maturity.  We now use a CDN, or Content Delivery Network.  The most well known CDN company around is probably Akamai, but there are many others.  If you're not sure what a CDN is, Wikipedia defines it as: