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Canonical founder sets pragmatic tone for API standards The customer is always right, so says the old adage. And when the customer is a commercially successful Linux distribution vendor that’s participating in your open source project, that customer may be even more right. That’s the situation between OpenStack and Canonical, after Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth posted a public entreaty for … Read More

The Business Software Alliance, that concerned body in the US which bangs the drum for victims of crime — Microsoft, Adobe et al — has produced another fine survey setting out the sheer scale of global anarchy in the software industry. Full story

A new version of MailArchiva Enterprise Edition v2.6.34 is released. To upgrade to this version, please download it from http://www.mailarchiva.com and run the setup over your existing copy. Please stop the server before running the setup and do not uninstall the previous version.

Well, done at last! After some time gathering opinions from readers and quite some more time testing each one of the contenders, I have finished my comparison of the best of the best in KDE distros.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/king-of-kdistros

Samsung interested in Meego, report says Samsung Electronics may be considering a purchase of the increasingly defunct smartphone operating system Meego as its own proprietary platform. That’s according to a report today from Mobiledia, which cites industry sources. A Samsung representative declined to comment to CNET. The platform chatter highlights the increasing dilemma that Android handset manufacturers face now that … Read More

For everyone at Linux Format magazine and most of its readers, computers and Linux are a passion. Linux is perfect: its open source nature and excellent shell make it the ultimate hobbyist’s operating system. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of top-class applications available as well: market leading packages for professional and consumer level media creation, tools for developers, systems administrators … Read More

a conversation with Jeremy Allison of Samba On a recent visit back to the UK, lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison met up with Richard Hillesley. Here, Richard Allison’s description of the history of his involvement with open source, Linux and Samba. Jeremy Allison is a steelworker’s son from Sheffield in South Yorkshire and a Samba developer who has lived in … Read More

Just like the rumor stated, Toshiba used IFA 2011 to announce its latest Android tablet and it’s just as tiny as it looked. The AT200 packs a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 CPU, up to 64GB of memory, and most of the ports that made the Toshiba Thrive popular: micro-USB, microSD, and micro-HDMI. Toshiba claims that the battery is good for … Read More

There are strong signs that Red Hat is approaching the next wave of its considerably successful business story. As CEO Jim Whitehurst has noted, virtualization is emerging as a big concern for the company going forward, as it increasingly squares off with VMware in that space. And recently, although his position is arguable, he contended that both the PC and … Read More

Having made an earlier defection from KDE to Gnome, Linus Torvalds has now rejected both in favor of Xfce. It’s only natural that the actions of the creator of the Linux kernel would attract extra scrutiny, and I think that his decision is reflective of a wider disenchantment amongst long-term Linux users. So is this post a sky-is-falling complain-fest? Not … Read More

Everybody loves introducing operating systems to where they don’t belong. Case in point? The countless Android iPhones, Android TouchPad and even the Android HTC HD2. Well, now we’ve got one more device to add to the list: an iPad running Linux. Some developers have managed to get the open source operating system running on Apple’s A4-equippsde iOS devices, which means … Read More

Summary: Guess who Red Hat, the Linux giant, thinks its biggest enemy will be by 2016? Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its … Read More

s part of the 20th anniversary of Linux, the Linux Foundation put together its first ever Linux Hall of Fame exhibit. They showcased it at LinuxCon, held in Vancouver last week. The exhibit features signed items from the who’s-who of the Linux world like Linus Torvalds. The Linux Foundation’s Jennifer Cloer walked me through some of her favorite items. These … Read More