Linspire releases Freespire 2.0 Linux —
Aug. 08, 2007 —
 Linspire, developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux distributions, and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, announced on August 8 the immediate availability of the controversial Freespire 2.0 distribution -- the Linux distribution that embraces proprietary software. ...
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Linux desktop revolution —
Aug. 07, 2007 —
 Opinion -- Dell and Ubuntu fired the first shots. Together, they delivered the first mainstream consumer Linux desktops and laptops. Then, on Aug. 6, Novell and Lenovo blew open the business laptop market ...
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Novell Wins Linux Desktop Pre-Load Dell Deal —
Aug. 07, 2007 —
SAN FRANCISCO -- In his LinuxWorld keynote speech August 7th, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler announced that Dell would be offering Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) in China as a pre-load on Dell systems. ...
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OpenSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 released —
Aug. 07, 2007 —
 SAN FRANCISCO -- The OpenSUSE project celebrated its second birthday on Aug. 7 by making the first beta of OpenSUSE 10.3 available at the LinuxWorld trade show here. OpenSUSE 10.3 is a bleeding-edge Linux operating system based on Linux kernel 2.6.22.1 ...
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Dell brings Ubuntu Linux desktops to Europe —
Aug. 07, 2007 —
SAN FRANCISCO -- On Aug. 7 at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Dell and Canonical announced that Dell would start selling Ubuntu-powered consumer PCs in Europe on Aug. 8. ...
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Wyse adds SUSE Linux to its thin clients —
Aug. 06, 2007 —
Wyse has announced plans to support Novell's thin-client Linux OS in "next-generation" products. Wyse says the deal will offer greater flexibility to its customers, especially those wishing to standardize on SUSE Linux throughout the enterprise. Read this article by Henry Kingman on LinuxDevices.com, here. ...
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Shuttleworth: Microsoft fracturing the open-source community —
Aug. 06, 2007 —
Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK. ...
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Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony resigns —
Aug. 05, 2007 —
 In an interview today with Linux-Watch, controversial Linux leader Kevin Carmony confirmed rumors that he had resigned as CEO of desktop Linux vendor Linspire on July 31. Read the article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Linux-Watch, here....
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Red Hat Global Desktop delayed —
Aug. 03, 2007 —
 Red Hat confirmed on Aug. 3 that it would be delaying the release of the newest member of its desktop Linux family, Red Hat Global Desktop, because the company is seeking to provide certain multimedia codecs. ...
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Mass. surrenders to Microsoft's Open XML push —
Aug. 02, 2007 —
The only thing that's surprising today, Aug. 2, is that the Chicago Cubs are leading, albeit by mere percentage points, the National League Central. In Massachusetts, however, the Red Sox continue to lead the American League East and the state government has rolled over for Microsoft's so-called standard: Open XML. ...
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Open-source browser targets Linux desktops, gadgets —
Aug. 02, 2007 —
A newly released open-source browser targets Linux desktops and Linux-powered gadgets. The "Origyn Web Browser" (OWB) is based on the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, the same technology that powers Apple's Safari. Read an introduction to OWB at LinuxDevices.com, here....
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Mass. gives Open XML the official green light —
Aug. 01, 2007 —
The commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially thrown its weight behind Microsoft's Office Open XML format along with the OASIS Open Document Format. Read this article by Peter Galli on eWEEK.com, here....
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Developers free to work on open-source Atheros Wi-Fi —
Aug. 01, 2007 —
While Linux desktop users have long been able to use Wi-Fi cards based on Atheros chip sets, they haven't been able to do so without using proprietary Atheros code. Now, the Software Freedom Law Center has given the green light to developers ...
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MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian —
Jul. 30, 2007 —
 SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from Debian for the next version of SimplyMEPIS, version 6.0.
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How Microsoft bought China —
Jul. 29, 2007 —
 Opinion -- Some people seem to have a short circuit in their minds when they try to explain why Windows has such an enormous desktop market share. Some of them have the delusion that Windows is technically better than the competition. It never was. ...
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Sample sections available for new GIMP book —
Jul. 27, 2007 —
 Those wanting to perform serious graphics tasks on their Linux desktops may benefit from a new book by Michael J. Hammel's, coming soon from No Starch Press. The Artist's Guide To GIMP Effects is a four-color tome said to "harness all of the GIMP's powerful features." ...
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Marcus Rex joins Linux Foundation as CTO —
Jul. 27, 2007 —
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit group dedicated to accelerating Linux's growth, announced on July 24 that it had tapped long-time Linux executive Marcus Rex to serve as CTO. Rex "will help drive new standardization and technical initiatives around Linux and promote Linux adoption more broadly," ...
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openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 6 available —
Jul. 25, 2007 —
The openSUSE team on July 20 released version 10.3 Alpha 6. In addition to extensive upgrades, this is the first alpha containing the new refactored libzypp software management library, with some "rough edges," says the team. Targets include x86, x86-64 and PowerPC. ...
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Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 CD ISOs emerge —
Jul. 25, 2007 —
 The Ubuntu development team on July 24 released the third alpha of Ubuntu 7.10 (aka "Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3"). The release is in the form of a live CD build whose ISO images "are known to be reasonably free of show-stopper... bugs," the team's announcement said. ...
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Canadian Linux conference set for October —
Jul. 25, 2007 —
A grass roots one-day Linux and open source conference will be held at the Toronto Congress Centre on Saturday, Oct. 13 beginning at 8:30 AM. The organizers of "Ontario Linux Fest 2007" are seeking to ramp up sponsors, speakers, attendees, and volunteers. ...
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Launchpad PPA Service: Software Development the Ubuntu Way —
Jul. 24, 2007 —
During the Ubuntu Live Conference in Portland, Ore., Canonical announced the beta release of its Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other contributions to free software. ...
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