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openSUSE and the distribution of proprietary software

LWN.net  Mon, 09/29/2008 - 03:30

OpenSUSE (like SuSE Linux before it) has traditionally taken a position which is relatively friendly toward proprietary software.

It was only in 2006 that Novell announced its intention to stop shipping non-GPL kernel modules, but it never made any such promises with regard to user space.

Now, however, the project is considering a proposal to reorganize its handling of proprietary software.

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Advent & Ubuntu, A Perfect Partnership?

Ubuntu-News.net  Thu, 09/04/2008 - 11:45

No. Sadly not perfect, but it is a close call. I recently purchased an Advent 4211 from PC World, this had not been my original intention as the MSI Wind was what first turned me onto the world of UMPC/Netbooks.


 

Stephen Fry says Happy Birthday to GNU

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 04:57

Twenty five years ago this month, a man called Richard Stallman announced to the world his intention to create a complete operating system from the ground up.

He called it, GNU, which stands for GNU’s Not Unix.


 

Ubuntu linux Criticism FAQ

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 08/27/2008 - 09:39

The page is targeted at critics of desktop Linux (and Ubuntu in particular). The intention is not to say "We're right and you're wrong." Questions, generally, are arranged into categories of issues that a user might encounter before , during , and after installing Ubuntu.


 

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS vs. Windows XP SP3: Application Performance Benc...

Ubuntu-News.net  Sun, 08/24/2008 - 13:30

I decided to test again, especially after I read in the news that Microsoft has made clear its intention to take on Linux in the low-end computers market.

Microsoft will exclusively rely on Windows XP for that purpose, cutting down its price by more than a half, and building on the extreme popularity of the 7-years-old operating system


 

Game Theory Versus Practice

Topix - Linux  Tue, 07/15/2008 - 02:00

More companies are using game theory to aid decision-making. How well does it work in the real world? Alan Rappeport CFO Magazine July 15, 2008 When Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Yahoo last ...


 

Why software sucks

Topix - Unix  Thu, 06/19/2008 - 11:43

No one makes bad software on purpose. No benevolent programmer has ever sat down, planning out weeks of work, with the intention of frustrating people and making them cry.


 

Kicking Cuba's Free Software Switch Into a Higher Gear

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 05/25/2008 - 16:26

Cuba's widespread adoption of free software has been slow going. Although the country announced its intention to switch over to open source software three years ago, so far only its customs service has adopted GNU/Linux on all of its computers.


 

Economiajoven.net begins the development of ecoknomix

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 04/28/2008 - 05:38

www.economiajoven.net inaugurates a group of Google called ecoknomix (http://groups.google.es/group/ecoknomix) with the intention of adapting and improving the Linux distributions existing by the creation of packages and metapackages with specially useful programs for economists (econometrics, algebra, accounting)...