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IBM, Virtual Bridges and Canonical Offer Ubuntu-based Virtual Desktop
Today IBM announced that it has teamed with Canonical and Virtual Bridges to offer a Linux-based virtual desktop computing environment. With this product, IBM hopes to emphasize and increase adoption of its Lotus collaboration software, as well as promote the use of Linux (Canonical's Ubuntu) by way of Virtual Bridges' VERDE desktop virtualization platform.
SugarCRM Veteran Now Building Pentaho's Partner Program
One of the top executives at SugarCRM has moved on to join Pentaho, where he's now building the open source BI company's partner program. Here's the scoop, from The VAR Guy.
IBM pushes "Microsoft alternative" desktop
IBM announced the availability of a "Microsoft alternative" virtual desktop that uses virtualization technology from Virtual Bridges and incorporates Canonical's Ubuntu Linux and IBM's Lotus applications. Based on Virtual Bridges's Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment (VERDE), the desktop environment is far more affordable than running Microsoft desktops, claims IBM.
Does Google Have a Secret OS?
An analytics site finds traffic from Google.com obfuscates the operating system being used.
Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Looking for Artistic Ninjas
Ubuntu has once again opened up a call for submissions to anyone interested in being a part of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. If you're a musician, artist, photographer, or all-around creative genius and would like to enter your work in the current competition, you've got until February 9, 2009 to submit something to the judges.
Ubuntu: Try KDE 4.2 Now!
The fourth iteration of the K Desktop Environment saw its first release in January of this year; while it generated a lot of hype in the community, its release disappointed many folks whom were expecting to be able to jump headlong into a brand new, next-generation....
PC/OS: Insert CD, use desktop
PC/OS aims to be an easy-to-use Linux distribution right out of the box. Being Ubuntu-based, it has a head start on being user-friendly, but PC/OS goes above and beyond Ubuntu's measures to ensure ease of use by having common third-party non-GPL software included in the install.
OpenOffice's UI will be getting a refurb
In a long-term project, the OpenOffice team wants to thoroughly rework the free office software's user interface. This was already widely expected to happen with version 3.0, which no longer looks contemporary in many users' eyes. In addition, the office suite's menus have become so cluttered and badly structured that users find it impossible to locate certain functions – a problem Microsoft addressed with the ribbon feature in Office 2007. Ribbons have replaced the classic menus of Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint in the latest Office, and will come to Paint and Wordpad in Windows 7.
Sun sneaks JavaFX Mobile into desktop FX
Sun Microsystems, it is generally felt, lost the desktop to Microsoft a long time ago. Aware of this, Sun in recent years evangelized mobile as Java's habitat - mobile is, after all, where Microsoft's at its weakest. It's with great ceremony, then, that Sun's marking the fact it comprehensively missed that JavaFX Mobile deadline by returning to the desktop with the scheduled launch today of JavaFX Desktop 1.0 - now just JavaFX 1.0. Linux, meanwhile, is the new Java for mobile it seems. Linux looks set to grow in the mobile space, with ABI Research last year predicting there'd be more than 127 million devices using Linux by 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007.
Will open source still love you when I’m 64?
Bouncing along the bottom of a recession is not where most people think of doing long term planning. But open source doesn’t think first about money, so the Open World Forum has taken a long, hard look into the deep future of the year 2020. (I will be 64 when that year opens, hence the headline.)
Debian Takes AGPL Software into Main
The FTP team at the Debian project have decided that the Affero GPL version 3 licensing (AGPLv3) is consistent enough with the guidelines of the Linux distro that software with the licensing can go into Debian's main archive.
How Windows Users are Changing Linux and What We Should Do About It
There is no doubt that people are leaving Windows, many going to the Mac and some are turning to Linux. This is partly due in part to dissatisfaction with Vista. The reason isn’t important. What is happening to the Linux community is. We see that Windows users are having an impact on the Linux community that we may not have anticipated. Windows users aren’t used to choice. For them the array of choices that Linux presents is confusing.
Do you watch the DVDs and Blu-rays you buy?
What are the chances you'll actually watch a DVD/Blu-ray more than once or twice?
Sun releases OpenSolaris 2008.11 - Looks Like Linux but it's Not
From the "it's not Linux, but it's got the same apps" files: Sun has rolled opensolaris 2008.11, loaded with open source applications that are well known to Linux distribution users
Show Image Properties (Meta Data) from CLI Linux
If you use GUI then you can right-click on the pictures and see properties. But can you see the image properties (or metadata) from command line interface? Yes! you can do that using identify command. Here is how.
today's leftovers
- How KDE 4 is blocking Qt 4.5
- FFmpeg Picks Up Support For New Formats
- Fedora 11 release schedule set
- Epic Troll
- Linux Basement Episode 32 - Python Extravaganza
- Fedora Classroom: KDE4 for KDE3 users
- PCLinuxOS on the Dell Inspiron 1526
- Want Your Friend to Switch?
- RandR 1.2 Coming To NVIDIA's Binary Driver
- gOS Cloud instant-on OS shown on video
- Learn and Use a Good, Free OS: Linux - PCLinuxOS
- Password stealing malware masquerades as Firefox add-on
- Linux comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
- Linux Comparison: openSUSE
- The FLOSS License Drafter's Responsibility to the Community
- Sanyo using Drupal
- Linus Torvalds: Debugging hell
- Super Mario Firefox!
- Actuate's Open Source Survey Says...
- Moving to Linux — slowly
- Fancy Up Your KDE or GNOME With Eye Candy
- The reality of being Root
- Is China an open source friend or foe?
- More Linux File Systems

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