Information Week’s detailed comparison of Ubuntu and Windows Vista made quite bit of noise today, hitting front pages of Digg and Slashdot. The article was written by a Windows power user. For those who want to hear the other side of the story, Ubuntu News posted a lenghty reply. Saying Windows’ “add/remove programs” is equal to apt-get goodness simply cannot go unnoticed.

Source: Ubuntu vs. Vista – Two Points of View

SourceLabs released on Wednesday the Open Source Management System to help control the legal, security and operational risks associated with open source software. The OSMS is a platform to centralize and manage open source software code. The new platform will help organizations maximize the benefits of open source programming while mitigating the risks. It will enable large enterprises to improve compliance, promote the prudent usage of open source and obtain better operational efficiencies from open source technologies.

Source: New SourceLabs App Aims to Make Open Source Safe

Software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects are facing an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations worldwide are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago. “One of the things I’ve seen over the last three years is a decline in the number folks who describe themselves as computer programmers and a rise in the number of people who identify themselves as software engineers for application development or software engineers for systems development,” said analyst Jeffrey Hammond.

Source: As the Software World Turns, Part 1: Engineers In, Programmers Out

PARODY: Debain is the only group of software developers who still believe that Richard Stallman invented programming. Everyone else now correctly credits Bill Gates for doing so. Debain developers hold themselves separate from the rest of the Linux…

Source: Debain WrEtch: review of an UnAmerican Linux system

Trademarks have recently become something of an issue in open-source circles. Debian, for example, recently took exception to Mozilla’s Firefox trademark rules and called its version of the popular browser “IceWeasel.” So, Ubuntu has decided to address possible trademark issues by creating its own trademark policy.

What now ubuntugopher? Baldy

 

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Source: Ubuntu lays down the trademark law

In just a few short days our choices in desktop operating systems seem to have tripled. Not only has Dell agreed to distribute Linux on certain desktop models, but it’s also given XP a new lease on life. Responding to user requests on its Ideastorm site, Dell has agreed to offer consumers the option to get XP and not Vista on select Dimension desktops and Inspiron notebooks — at least until Microsoft sends XP off to the OS boneyard in January 2008. Even Michael Dell is running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on one of his home notebooks.

Source: Is Microsoft’s monopoly kaput?

Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional BitTorrent client for Firefox that works cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and has a very cool additional feature – the ability to stream files as they are downloading.

This is no Azureus (my BitTorrent client of choice), but it does the job and saves time by allowing you to manage torrents directly from the browser. I tested it on a few (non-copyright infringing, of course) files and it worked great on the standard BitTorrent functionality. Streaming just didn’t work, although with the way the BitTorrent protocol breaks files into pieces and reconstructs them in a non linear way means you may have to wait until the file is mostly complete to even begin streaming. I’ll try it again once the files are nearly complete.

A good early review is here.

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Source: Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 – Firefox BitTorrent Add-on

Pagestream is a proprietary desktop publishing program for Linux, Windows, Macintosh, and Amiga. First developed for the Atari more than two decades ago, it is produced by a small company, but has attracted a loyal and active group of users. Pagestream’s strengths include an easy-to-use interface and a strong awareness of typography, but in the version 5.0.3.4 beta for GNU/Linux, users also have to contend with limited font support and apparently disabled table support.

I added this for you Jim here is your linux ready publishing program,Baldy

 

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Source: Pagestream delivers easy, powerful DTP

Wireless networking on Linux is entering a new era. An era of bliss and ease; where users and network administrators have abundant time for relaxing lie-abouts on sunny warm hills because their wireless systems are humming along contentedly, instead of being vexing and unreliable.

(Oh please, I hope that this writer is correct,Baldy)

Source: Tutorial: Better Wi-Fi on the Linux Horizon

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server (version 1.0.2) on a Debian Etch system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free). In this article we use Debian Etch (4.0) as the host operating system.

Source: How To Install VMware Server On Debian 4.0 (Etch)