Linuxlookup Weekly Wrap-up for Sept 9 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Mandriva Linux 2008 RC1 released
- Microsoft hits jackpot ahead of…
Ohio LinuxFest 2007 Schedule Announced
Ohio Linux Fest will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2007 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The Ohio LinuxFest is a free, grassroots conference for the Linux and Free/Open Source…
AMD Details Strategic Open Source Graphics Driver Development
AMD announced a major strategic initiative to support the Open Source development community for ATI Radeon graphics processors. The week of September 10th, AMD plans to provide an open source…
Bruce Perens: Innovation Goes Public
Bruce Perens is here for the second keynote of the evening. I spoke to Bruce on IT Conversations last March when he was last in Utah to protest the Novell/Microsoft deal. Bruce is not only…
Microsoft licensing denounced by open-source proponents
Five years after being pegged a monopolist, Microsoft is coming under scrutiny for efforts to license its proprietary technology in accordance with antitrust legal demands from U.S. and European…
BBC iPlayer - UK Government respond to online petition
The UK Government have released a response to the online petition to prevent the BBC making the iPlayer Windows only. The government state that the "BBC Trust made it a condition of approval for…
NetApp sues Sun over 7 patents
Network Appliance, the Sunnyvale maker of computer storage systems, is suing Sun Microsystems for allegedly infringing on seven patents and releasing them under an open-source license.
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French Ministry for Education Adopts Red Hat
Red Hat announced that the French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This decision was made in line with the…
KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released
The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously the…
Beating Sandvine with Linux iptables
"If you are tired of Sandvine screwing with your BitTorrent and a user of GNU/Linux, then this is for you. I will tell you how to take your bandwidth back."
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