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First open source Java code promised for October

Following up on an earlier promise, Sun will be publish the first parts of Open Source Java in October. More code will follow soon after, with the process being completed by 2007. The first bits to open will be Java C and the Hotspot VM, which isn't surprising

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HP offers Debian Linux support

Hewlett-Packard is throwing its support behind Debian, and is the first tier one hardware maker to align itself with the noncommercial community-based Linux offering. From the article: "We've had a number of customers continuing to ask us to have broader support for Debian," and HP decided

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Open Source: Architecture or Goodwill?

Sparked by a debate between Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Asay about whether companies like Yahoo! and Google are good Open Source citizens, Tim O'Reilly has posted an interesting Radar piece about the future of Open Source in a world that is increasingly web-based. From the post by Tim:

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Jono is the new Ubuntu Community Manager

A quick congratulations to Jono, who will be the new Ubuntu Community Manager. I had a good number of beers with Jono at the last SCALE and he's a good guy who's well deserving of the position. He should have his work cut out for him

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Andrew Morton Moves To Google

In a move I somehow missed a couple days ago, Andrew Morton is now employed by Google, where he'll continue to maintain the 2.6 Linux kernel. From the article: The reason for this odd statement is explained by who was funding Morton's employment to begin

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Niall Kennedy is Leaving Microsoft

That didn't take long. Niall Kennedy, who was seen as an ad hoc blogger evangelist replacement for Scoble at Microsoft, is already leaving. From his post: The stock plummeted on the announcement Microsoft did not have its costs under control. Microsoft's market cap lost close to

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Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd

After taking a bit of heat for appearing to have closed the XNU source, Apple just announce that XNU and more are being released as Open Source. The projects will be hosted at Mac OS Forge, which will be replacing the OpenDarwin servers and may serve as a home for

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Jeremy Zawodny and Ubuntu Linux on his Thinkpad T43p

Jeremy Zawodny just tried Ubuntu 6.06 on a recently purchased Thinkpad T43p. His thoughts? WOW! A quote: Given all that, I'm shocked and amazed. It works. It just works. I think this is a very good sign that desktop Linux is well on its way. It'

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Couple Quick Followups

I had a could quick followups to previous stories, so I'll lump them together in this post. * On the topic of Ubuntu still being a fairly new offering in the server market, it looks like they now have a Ubuntu Billboard up in California. It's right

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Lenovo to Load Linux on ThinkPad Laptop

In a topic that I've covered quite a bit over the years, Lenovo will be announcing a ThinkPad with Linux preloaded at the upcoming LinuxWorld. As I've mentioned many times, OEM support on a large scale is critical to those who'd like to see

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Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu

In this Free Software Magazine article, Tony Mobily gives the reasons why he thinks Red Hat will go under. The main reasons he gives are their departure from the desktop market and Ubuntu. While I also wasn't a fan of the way Red Hat did what they did,

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The LQ Bookmarks site is moving

About a year ago, we released LQ Bookmarks, a site for Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source. The site has seen decent adoption, but not to the level I'd have liked. I think one thing holding the site back was the lack of

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Ellison Talks Up Red Hat Linux

It seems the rumors that Oracle may offer Red Hat support are intensifying. One thing that seems to be slightly misunderstood by the MSM is that Oracle can't simply redistribute RHEL. What they could do is offer a RHEL-compatible version of Linux, as CentOS does, that is completely

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Ballmer Analyzes Microsoft's 'One Big' Vista Mistake

This <a href="http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml;jsessionid=ZEQ0I0LMYJC1MQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleId=191600739"CRN article covers a recent meeting Steve Ballmer had with industry financial analysts. From the article we get such Ballmer quotes as: We made an upfront decision that was, I'll

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Second Discussion Draft of GPLv3 Released

The second discussion draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 was released on 2006 July 27, along with the first discussion draft of the GNU Lesser General Public License. While the DRM clause has been updated and clarified, Linus still doesn't likeit. From the CNET article:

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Google announces hosting for open source projects

The Google service I mentioned previously has been officially announced. Google Code Project Hosting is a place for Open Source project that fall under an approved license to host their code. While it shares some features with SourceForge, it's a much more minimalist approach (although they do add

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IE7 to be Pushed to Users Via Windows Update

If you're an ecommerce site, you'd better start testing your site in IE7. Why? It looks like they are going to push it out via automatic update, right before the holidays. From the article: IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "

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Re-thinking the Windows Refund

Just came across this LXer article and I think there's a fairly large oversight in there. From the article: Consider Microsoft Windows in a similar light. It has the lion's share of the desktop market. It has a huge selection of applications that people can choose

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Yes, Virginia, there will be a Flash Player 9 for Linux

Somehow I missed this, but there has been confirmation from Adobe/Macromedia that they will be releasing Flash Player 9 for Linux. While this is likely not of interest for the 100% OSS-at-all-costs group, I think it's encouraging. As much as I loathe flash ads, many interesting things

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What can we Learn from Microsoft

Steven Vaughan-Nichols lists his top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft. This list is: 1. MSDN 2. Common Interface 3. Common Format 4. Marketing 5. OEM Support While I don't 100% agree with every ascertation he makes, he brings up some very valid points. I think Marketing

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A New Google Service

I was already disappointed that I wasn't able to attend OSCON this year (it's an absolutely fantastic event). Then I saw this. At a talk on Thursday, Greg Stein will be releasing details about a new Google Service for the Open Source community. Let the speculation

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Ottawa Linux Symposium

Another conference that I meant to go to that has slipped by (yes, that means I am missing OSCON as I type this). Newsforge has posted a very thorough wrapup, which includes the closing keynote by Greg KH. To summarize: Linux supports more devices than anyone else. Linux progresses by

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AMD to Acquire ATI

Some rumors do turn out to be true. AMD has announced that it will acquire ATI for nearly $5.4 billion in cash and stock. In trading, ATYT is up almost 20%, while AMD is down almost 5%. The repercussions of this should be fairly large. I keep reading that

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Microsoft and XenSource

Microsoft recently issued a press release entitled "Microsoft and XenSource to Develop Interoperability for Windows Server “Longhorn” Virtualization". From the press release: Microsoft Corp. and XenSource Inc. today announced they will cooperate on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen™-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft

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Microsoft outlines principles of competition

In what may become a continuing trend, Microsoft pledged today to follow a dozen principles of competition as it builds and sells its Windows desktop operating system software, the ubiquitous product that has been the subject of nearly a decade of antitrust battles. From the article: "As creators of