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LUP024 Linux and Open Source News for October 18, 2009

 

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Next Firefox can detect computer orientation, Genentech’s (And Apple Board Member) Arthur Levinson Leaves Google Board, FreeBSD Gets Grand Central Dispatch Port, Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition, Sneak peek: Family Guy meets Windows 7, Ubuntu to store copies of all users’ address books, Acer Announces Aspire One AOD250 with Android, FSF vs. Windows 7: Round Two, Red Hat virtual conference announced, UMTS software for Ubuntu, Welcome to PCLinuxOS magazine!, Firefox 3.6 reaches beta stage, Canonical pushes out Ubuntu 9.10 server, Happy 9th Birthday OpenOffice.org!, EFF attacks VoIP patent, ,Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD, Sneaky Microsoft plug-in puts Firefox users at risk, Street View: We can trike wherever you like, Acer debuts Liquid Android smartphone, T-Mobile halts sales of Sidekick, T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free, Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users, Motorola Preps 8 Android OPhones, Schmidt: “Android Adoption Is About To Explode”, Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough, Verizon starts anti “iDevice” campaign, vows Palm Pre.

LINKS
I am Linux in a Box
Bumper: Tom Merritt from Buzz Out Loud

NEWS
Next Firefox can detect computer orientation
Genentech’s (And Apple Board Member) Arthur Levinson Leaves Google Board
FreeBSD Gets Grand Central Dispatch Port
Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition
Sneak peek: Family Guy meets Windows 7
Ubuntu to store copies of all users’ address books
Acer Announces Aspire One AOD250 with Android
FSF vs. Windows 7: Round Two
Red Hat virtual conference announced
UMTS software for Ubuntu
Welcome to PCLinuxOS magazine!
Firefox 3.6 reaches beta stage
Canonical pushes out Ubuntu 9.10 server
Happy 9th Birthday OpenOffice.org! – GullFOSS
EFF attacks VoIP patent
Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD
Sneaky Microsoft plug-in puts Firefox users at risk
Street View: We can trike wherever you like

LINUX MOBILE NEWS
Acer debuts Liquid Android smartphone, new netbook
T-Mobile halts sales of Sidekick
T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free
Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users
Motorola Preps 8 Android OPhones
Schmidt: “Android Adoption Is About To Explode”
Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough
Verizon starts anti “iDevice” campaign, vows Palm Pre

RELEASES
openSUSE 11.2 on its way to become final – Release candidate available!
Dreamlinux 4.0 Alpha
Mozilla releases SeaMonkey 2.0 RC1
Kamoso 1.0: Webcam Tool for KDE 4
Open Source Linux Developers Get Boost with Beta Release of LINA 1.0 Software
Caos Linux 1.0.25
Banshee 1.5.1 Supports Palm and Samsung Galaxy Devices
Fedora 12 Beta To Come Next Week
Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha 1
Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0
Micro Kernel Mona 0.3.0 Released
MythTV 0.22 Release Candidate Available
LinuxConsole 1.0.2009 Is Out – Now available as CD, DVD, Multimedia editions
Puppy Linux 4.3.1

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LUP023 Linux and Open Source News for October 11, 2009

 

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Company that won $585M from Microsoft sues Apple, Google, Why the London Stock Exchange went for Linux, Lest CodePlex perplex, New Firefox security technology blocks Web attacks, Mozilla claims, Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid, Dutch police go open source, Hulu Goes Linux, Netgear offers an open source router that is an applications platform, Netgear trying to fool their users with “Open Source Router”, Sage Bionetworks, Biology’s Open Source Spark, Snags “Major” Donation from Quintiles, Schools start to move to OpenOffice, Firefox 3DOT6 Aims to Bring Fullscreen Open Source Video to the Web, The Open Source Initiative’s Corporate Status is Suspended, Cisco Teaches Routers to Act Like Servers, GPS Tracking: Open-Source GPS Tracking System, AP, News Corp bosses tell search engines to pay up, Dell: Ubuntu Desktop PC Is Back, Ubuntu Countdown, Shuttleworth and the Raging Inferno of the Great Sexism Debate, Fedora documentation team switching to CC-BY-SA license, Microsoft antitrust case: FSFE offers analysis to European Commission, FSFE – Browser bundeling – Open letter to Commissioner Kroes, Microsoft, EU reach accord on antitrust, Ballmer: Licensing Problematic, But Don’t Expect Any Changes, Microsoft Axes Works, Introduces Office 2010 Starter with Ads, Microsoft controlling Govt 2.0 funds, Snow Leopard bug threatens user data, reports claim, The Linux Foundation Video Site of LinuxCon 2009, T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data, Google and Verizon Say Two Android Phones, With Google Voice, To Come This Year, Behold II Joins Android’s Autumn Advance, Adobe Flash 10.1 Offers GPU Acceleration, Mobile Support, Android to grab No. 2 spot by 2012, says Gartner, Palm fixes WebOS developer program, encourages open source, Palm Pre says “Hola” to Spain on 14 October, Dell’s Android phone is coming to the U.S., FCC Looks to Add to Airwaves for Wireless, Samsung’s First U.S. Android Phone Debuts, Motorola no longer on LiMo Foundation board, Rumor: Barnes & Noble’s eReader Will Run Android, Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There’s No Excuse For This.

LINKS
The Going Linux Podcast
Tux Takes to the Air
Going Linux Episode Mentioning Us
Linux Outlaws Episode Mentioning Us
Helios Installation

NEWS
Company that won $585M from Microsoft sues Apple, Google
Why the London Stock Exchange went for Linux
Lest CodePlex perplex
New Firefox security technology blocks Web attacks, Mozilla claims
Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid
Dutch police go open source Hulu Goes Linux
Netgear offers an open source router that is an applications platform Netgear trying to fool their users with “Open Source Router”
Sage Bionetworks, Biology’s Open Source Spark, Snags “Major” Donation from Quintiles
Schools start to move to OpenOffice
Firefox 3DOT6 Aims to Bring Fullscreen Open Source Video to the Web
The Open Source Initiative’s Corporate Status is Suspended
Cisco Teaches Routers to Act Like Servers
GPS Tracking: Open-Source GPS Tracking System
AP, News Corp bosses tell search engines to pay up
Dell: Ubuntu Desktop PC Is Back
Ubuntu Countdown
Shuttleworth and the Raging Inferno of the Great Sexism Debate
Fedora documentation team switching to CC-BY-SA license
Microsoft antitrust case: FSFE offers analysis to European Commission
FSFE – Browser bundeling – Open letter to Commissioner Kroes
Microsoft, EU reach accord on antitrust – Network World
Ballmer: Licensing Problematic, But Don’t Expect Any Changes
Microsoft Axes Works, Introduces Office 2010 Starter with Ads
Microsoft controlling Govt 2.0 funds
Snow Leopard bug threatens user data, reports claim
The Linux Foundation Video Site of LinuxCon 2009

LINUX MOBILE NEWS
T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data
Google and Verizon Say Two Android Phones, With Google Voice, To Come This Year
Behold II Joins Android’s Autumn Advance
Adobe Flash 10.1 Offers GPU Acceleration, Mobile Support
Android to grab No. 2 spot by 2012, says Gartner
Palm fixes WebOS developer program, encourages open source
Palm Pre says “Hola” to Spain on 14 October
Dell’s Android phone is coming to the U.S.
FCC Looks to Add to Airwaves for Wireless
Samsung’s First U.S. Android Phone Debuts
Motorola no longer on LiMo Foundation board
Rumor: Barnes & Noble’s eReader Will Run Android
Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There’s No Excuse For This

RELEASES
Gentoo Linux 10.0 Released
Sabayon Linux 5.0 Released
LliureX 9.09
Dragora GNU/Linux 1.1
Tiny Core Linux 2.4 released
Monitorix 1.4.0 Speaks Plaintext
Notecase Pro Version 2.8.5 Released
FileZilla Version 3.2.8 Released
Clonezilla Live 1.2.2-31 Released
q4wine 0.113 has been released
KDE 4.3.2 Available
Bazaar 2.0.0 released
Google announces GWT 2.0 Milestone 1
GNU Project Debugger 7.0
Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r0-TEST-3 Has Been Released
EDE 2.0 Beta Released
333-clearos-51-beta-launches
Yoper Linux 2009 Beta 1
K3b 2.0 Alpha 2: Review and Screenshots
Mandriva Linux 2010 RC2

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LUP022 Linux and Open Source News for October 4, 2009

 

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Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability, Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Software Cannot Be Patented, ICANN gains independence from the U.S., Microsoft gets big patent verdict overturned, Another Microsoft Research Operating System: Helios, Microsoft Security Essentials Released, Dell Nestles ARM and Intel Processors Together, Mac OS X mistakes and malfeatures, Red Hat to collide with Microsoft, IBM takes on Microsoft, Court smacks Autodesk, affirms right to sell used software, Novell forces customers to pay for maintenance, Apple pushes unwanted enterprise tool to Windows users, OpenStreetMap adds 26 new translations, First External USB 3.0 Hard Drive from Freecom, New Trojan gives criminals full-service bank theft, The OpenBlockS 600 is a Linux server that fits in your palm, FSF announces new bounty program, offering “GNU Bucks” for finding nonfree works in free distributions, Google Bites Bing back, Recovers All Usage Losses Since Spring, ALRC going for open source CMS website, SCO Files Its Response to Novell’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc, Amazon Pays Out for ‘1984′ Fiasco, Former Microsoft Open-source Chief Joins Cloud Startup, Two Linux smartphones set for October release in U.S., Open Android Alliance formed, Palm Releases webOS 1.2, No iTunes Sync, Palm again hacks Apple’s iTunes for Pre owners, iPhone May Face EU-Wide Recall, MIPS Technologies Joins Open Handset Alliance.

LINKS
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Bumper: Jason Van Oden of Mastering New Media

NEWS
Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability
Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Software Cannot Be Patented
ICANN gains independence from the U.S.
Microsoft gets big patent verdict overturned
Another Microsoft Research Operating System: Helios
Microsoft Security Essentials Released
Dell Nestles ARM and Intel Processors Together
Mac OS X mistakes and malfeatures
Red Hat to collide with Microsoft
IBM takes on Microsoft
Court smacks Autodesk, affirms right to sell used software
Novell forces customers to pay for maintenance
Apple pushes unwanted enterprise tool to Windows users
OpenStreetMap adds 26 new translations
First External USB 3.0 Hard Drive from Freecom
New Trojan gives criminals full-service bank theft
The OpenBlockS 600 is a Linux server that fits in your palm
FSF announces new bounty program, offering “GNU Bucks” for finding nonfree works in free distributions
Google Bites Bing back, Recovers All Usage Losses Since Spring
ALRC going for open source CMS website
SCO Files Its Response to Novell’s Petition for Rehearing En Banc
Amazon Pays Out for ‘1984′ Fiasco
Former Microsoft Open-source Chief Joins Cloud Startup

LINUX MOBILE NEWS
Two Linux smartphones set for October release in U.S.
Open Android Alliance formed
Palm Releases webOS 1.2, No iTunes Sync
Palm again hacks Apple’s iTunes for Pre owners
iPhone May Face EU-Wide Recall
MIPS Technologies Joins Open Handset Alliance

RELEASES
Ubuntu 9.10 Beta Released
9.10 Technical Overview
Linux 2.6.32-rc1 Released
NVIDIA Publicly Releases Its OpenCL Linux Drivers
Calculate Linux 9.9 Released
Chakra Alpha 3 Released
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 released
Python 2.6.3 released
X.org Server 1.7.0 released
Amarok 2.2 “Sunjammer” released
OpenSSH 5.3 is now available
Lightweight Arora web browser turns 0.10.0
Astaro Security Gateway 7.5 Released
Plamo Linux 4.7 Released
Sabayon Linux 5.0 Released
GoblinX 3.0 “G:Standard” Released
gzip-1.3.13 released
Perl 5.11.0 Released

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LUP020 Linux and Open Source News for September 27, 2009

 

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FCC Chairman Lays Out Net Neutrality Plans, FCC’s Net Neutrality Plan Draws Fast Fire, AT&T calls Google a hypocrite on Net neutrality, Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org, Microsoft launches new pre-Windows 7 anti-Linux offensive, Linus Torvalds: ‘Linux is bloated’, EFI-X Violates LGPL, Uses Community Code without Attribution, Red Hat results reveal open source growth, Study Shows Open-source Code Quality Improving, Shuttleworth: Linux developers should “shut the f**k up”, KDE’s Project Silk, Canonical and Partners Launch Cloud- and Linux-based Netbook Software in Africa, Ubuntu 9.10 boot optimizations: 5 second startup with an SSD, Ubuntu Community Council Elections 2009, Deals: Ellison: Oracle Hearts MySQL, A GPL Court Victory In France, HP launches Linux-fiddling support group, Linux Buffs Get Eyeful at LinuxCon Tech Showcase, Yahoo! to shed open source Exchange rival?, USB-IF Sides with Apple, Slaps Palm, Courier: First details of Microsoft’s secret tablet, Zend, Microsoft and IBM co-operate to develop a Simple Cloud API for PHP applications, Microsoft bashes Google’s Chrome-in-IE plan, Microsoft WebsiteSpark tries to hit open source, mostly misses, Microsoft says turn off Windows feature to protect Windows, Microsoft Releases Code for ‘Multikernel’ Research OS ‘Barrelfish’, Ubuntu 9.10 beta approaching, UK, Ireland, Germany to Get Palm Pre, Report: No Palm Pre for Verizon Wireless, Analysts refute latest Verizon-Palm Pre rumor, Android tools now on Sprint’s developer site, Samsung Releases Open Source-based Phone For British Mobile Carrier, Microsoft, Intel Team to Put Silverlight on Moblin Linux, Canonical, Dell and Intel have worked together to deliver this brand-new operating system, New Linux Moblin netbooks to be announced at IDF.

LINKS

Free and Open Source Software Events
Richard Stallman, Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor”
Full Circle Magazine Issue 29

NEWS
FCC Chairman Lays Out Net Neutrality Plans
FCC’s Net Neutrality Plan Draws Fast Fire
AT&T calls Google a hypocrite on Net neutrality
Linux via the internet with boot.kernel.org
Microsoft launches new pre-Windows 7 anti-Linux offensive
Linus Torvalds: ‘Linux is bloated’
EFI-X Violates LGPL, Uses Community Code without Attribution
Red Hat results reveal open source growth
Study Shows Open-source Code Quality Improving
Shuttleworth: Linux developers should “shut the f**k up”
KDE’s Project Silk
Canonical and Partners Launch Cloud- and Linux-based Netbook Software in Africa
Ubuntu 9.10 boot optimizations: 5 second startup with an SSD
Ubuntu Community Council Elections 2009
Deals: Ellison: Oracle Hearts MySQL
A GPL Court Victory In France
HP launches Linux-fiddling support group
Linux Buffs Get Eyeful at LinuxCon Tech Showcase
Yahoo! to shed open source Exchange rival?
USB-IF Sides with Apple, Slaps Palm
Courier: First details of Microsoft’s secret tablet
Zend, Microsoft and IBM co-operate to develop a Simple Cloud API for PHP applications
Microsoft bashes Google’s Chrome-in-IE plan
Microsoft WebsiteSpark tries to hit open source, mostly misses
Microsoft says turn off Windows feature to protect Windows
Microsoft Releases Code for ‘Multikernel’ Research OS ‘Barrelfish’
Ubuntu 9.10 beta approaching

LINUX MOBILE NEWS
UK, Ireland, Germany to Get Palm Pre
Report: No Palm Pre for Verizon Wireless
Analysts refute latest Verizon-Palm Pre rumor
Android tools now on Sprint’s developer site
Samsung Releases Open Source-based Phone For British Mobile Carrier
Microsoft, Intel Team to Put Silverlight on Moblin Linux
Canonical, Dell and Intel have worked together to deliver this brand-new operating system
New Linux Moblin netbooks to be announced at IDF

RELEASES
Moblin 2.0 Released
Ultimate Edition 2.3 Gamers has been released
BeRTOS 2.2.0 Released
LynuxWorks 3.1 Released
Evolution 2.28.0 released
Empathy 2.28.0 Release
VLC 1.0.2 released
Version 1.0 of SystemTap test and debugging tool released
Network Security Toolkit 2.11.0 Released
Eclipse 3.6 M2 (Helios) — Available
Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3 Beta 4
Development Release: Gentoo Linux 10.0 Test
FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 Available
WineHQ – News
Theora 1.1 is released

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LUP017 Linux and Open Source News for September 13, 2009

 

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Linux Foundation to Microsoft: stop secretly attacking Linux, Pro-Linux group nabs Microsoft patents, Microsoft and Patent Trolls, Microsoft mis-educates Best Buy on Linux, New Microsoft-backed open source foundation faces questions, Free Software Foundation files objection to Google Book Search settlement, Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun, Novell Files for Rehearing En Banc!, Deep packet inspection engine goes open source, Will GIMP 2.8 come in a single window mode?, TomTom launches OpenLR open navigation project, VIA Technologies, Inc. Joins Linux Foundation, Facebook Releases Real-time Web Server Tech as Open Source, Firefox 4.0 Windows Theme Mockups, Debian switches to Upstart, Corporate Ubuntu Linux Users Now Have Premium Support Offerings at Their Fingertips, Ubuntu One is moving from ubuntuone.com to one.ubuntu.com, Apple Releases Grand Central Dispatch as Open Source, iTunes 9 Breaks Pre Sync, Again, More signs point to Samsung Linux phone, Nokia to skip operator tailoring for Linux phones, Nokia backtracks, will allow customized Linux phones, Linux News: Mobile: Motorola’s Cliq Joins Android Army, Linux News: Mobile: HTC Adds Tattoo to Android Lineup.

LINKS
Software Freedom Day at Rio Rancho Public Library
Linux Foundation to Microsoft: stop secretly attacking Linux
Pro-Linux group nabs Microsoft patents
Microsoft and Patent Trolls
Microsoft mis-educates Best Buy on Linux
New Microsoft-backed open source foundation faces questions
Free Software Foundation files objection to Google Book Search settlement
Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun
Novell Files for Rehearing En Banc!
Deep packet inspection engine goes open source
Will GIMP 2.8 come in a single window mode?
TomTom launches OpenLR open navigation project
VIA Technologies, Inc. Joins Linux Foundation
Facebook Releases Real-time Web Server Tech as Open Source
Firefox 4.0 Windows Theme Mockups
Debian switches to Upstart
Corporate Ubuntu Linux Users Now Have Premium Support Offerings at Their Fingertips
Ubuntu One is moving from ubuntuone.com to one.ubuntu.com
Apple Releases Grand Central Dispatch as Open Source
iTunes 9 Breaks Pre Sync, Again
More signs point to Samsung Linux phone
Nokia to skip operator tailoring for Linux phones
Nokia backtracks, will allow customized Linux phones
Linux News: Mobile: Motorola’s Cliq Joins Android Army
Linux News: Mobile: HTC Adds Tattoo to Android Lineup

RELEASES
Linux 2.6.31 Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Now Available
KDE 4.3.1 Release Announcement
Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala emerges in alpha 5
Easy Peasy 1.5 released
DesktopBSD 1.7 available
Zenwalk 6.2 has been released
Tiny Core Linux 2.3 Released
VirtualBox 3.0.6 released
Linux Lint 7 Xfce Released

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