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OSCON Executive Briefing II
(live blogging, so forgive the grammar and lack of proof reading) Always Better Matt Asay (Alfresco) and Mike Olson (Oracle via SleepyCat) discuss the value of source code. Mike argues that zero cost...
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Lenovo X61
The new laptop arrived today, just in time for my trip to LinuxWorld. I had an Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn disc laying around from Ubuntu Live, so figured I’d just go with that. I’ve not had Linux...
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Lenovo X61 – Update
A quick update to this post. As of Tribe 5, both audio and wifi work flawlessly in the default configuration. With the manual installation of ThinkFinger for the biometric thumb scanner, absolutely...
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Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server II
As a quick follow up to this post, it seems that Dell is not seeing the same trend. From the article: Dell CEO: Linux server sales increasing Claims made by Microsoft that Linux violates its software...
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Some Novell Momentum
It looks like Novell might be quietly building up some momentum. First came news that Office Depot is consolidating onto the SLES platform: In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that...
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Gratis Ubuntu Live 2008 Conference Pass
Are you interested in attending the second Ubuntu Live conference? It’s my pleasure to inform you that LQ is able to give away one $895 full conference pass absolutely free of charge. I attended the...
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Ubuntu Live 2008 has been canceled
A heads up to those of you who were planning on attending Ubuntu Live 2008 in Portland this July. The event has officially been canceled. From the site: The Ubuntu Live conference, which was scheduled...
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End Runs Around Vista?
BusinessWeek recently ran an article that indicated that HP may be working on a version of Linux to ship on its hardware: The ecosystem that Microsoft (MSFT) has built up around its Windows operating...
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Panel: Measuring Community Contributions (Liveblog)
Panelists: Joe Brockmeier – OpenSUSE Jono Bacon – Ubuntu James Bottomley – Novell Dan Frye – IBM Karsten Wade – Fedora * Don’t always associated “contribution” with “code”. * People tend to contribute...
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LinuxCon: Let's Get Together: Coordinated Software Releases, The Linux...
Keynote – Mark Shuttleworth * Open Source has the power to “end up defining the experience that the average person has when they turn on their computer” * For every 1 Ubuntu alpha user there are about...
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