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Lotus Notes 8.5 to fully support Ubuntu Linux 7.0

Larden — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:10:25 +0000

IBM believes Linux on the enterprise desktop finally ready for widespread adoption. To meet future demand it is preparing to deliver its next versions of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for the first time with full support for Ubuntu Linux 7.0.

The roll out will occur sometime in the second half of this year.
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IBM Turns To Linux In Desktop Campaign Against Microsoft

Larden — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:03:58 +0000

IBM has increased support for Linux with the introduction of versions of its Lotus Notes collaboration suite and Symphony productivity tools built to run on the open source OS — and it’s hoping the effort will help unseat Microsoft as the king of desktop software.

The company this week said it plans to ship what it calls its “Open Collaboration Client,” made up of Lotus Notes 8 and Symphony, for Canonical’s popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Lotus Notes 8 includes e-mail, calendaring, and contact management modules, while Symphony — available as a free download — features word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications build on the open source OpenOffice.org standard.
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About openSUSE Build Service

Larden — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:58:29 +0000

Say, you’re a software developer. Say, you want to write an easy-to-install program for any Linux distribution. I’d say, “You have a problem.” OpenSUSE, however, has improved upon its solution for this problem: the openSUSE Build Service, which now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.

The problem, in more detail, is that, despite such standardization efforts as the LSB (Linux Standard Base) and Portland Project, unless you expect users to compile their own programs from source-code, it’s not easy to create programs that will install and run on every popular Linux variation.
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Trolltech, Huawei join mobile Linux group

Larden — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:16:25 +0000

The LiMo Foundation has added some members to its ranks as competition among new mobile Linux platforms heats up. ADVERTISEMENT

LiMo plans to announce on Monday new members, including Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei, and Purple Labs. The group, including founders NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, and Motorola, now consists of 25 members.
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Linux loss, but revenue up 69%

Larden — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:14:57 +0000

Positives and negatives to hurt the appeal of obtainings Novell ‘ s. On the negative clamping screw the replacement value of structure of the company can transit also highly as 70 million to tend to infinity, 25$ to 35 million which originally has offered the company. Besides Novell has passed the cleanest deficit in a quarter the ending from 17.9 million to tend to infinity, or 5 cents for an operational life, counter to the income of the annual expiry of the term of statute of limitations of 21.2 million to tend to infinity, or 5 cents for an operational life.
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Linux event planned for China

Larden — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:59:03 +0000

The camber enlarging Linux to China, is ended by industrial event to happen there in February, to Organization Linux and Chinese Classification of Advertising OSS, the organisation called on Monday.
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Sun to dangle prize money over open-source efforts

Larden — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:18:51 +0000

Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will release details of a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company’s open-source efforts, according to a post by Sun’s open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his corporate blog.

“We will confirm the first nutrient exchange and to attend with the integration, interrupted to work out the approach which attends is better,” Phipps wrote.
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Linux Foundation appoints new Fellow

Larden — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:45:01 +0000

The Linux Foundation has appointed a new fellowship to Ted Ts’o for his contributions to the open source community.

Ts’ o Comes before mission of two years of IBM, and was for the main strategist of system of baseline in not to mercantile the Linux Foundation.

The company-manufacturer of television programs of systems worked on grain Linux with 1991 and was probablly first nuclear indicating device in polar America.
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Novell accused of reselling Red Hat code

Larden — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:54:26 +0000

A top Red Hat executive has accused arch-rival Novell of reselling a beta version of the company’s open source code.

The dispute concerns Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 (SLERT 10), which Novell released last week Over a yield administer in sellers Wall Street and other organisations which require performance in real time. The software in real time can carry operations within the warranted cycle, something required for the certain industry and to operate some aspects of an electronic instrumentation.
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When Bad Things Happen With Good Software

Larden — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:36:06 +0000

If you create a component part of the software opened by a radiant and open, what is it there was usage in which induct, into some direction, you discover personally unpleasant or reprobate, what you would act with it?

The problem, has been placed, though in little bit wonderful form, only recently. Recently the Motion Picture Association of America released that she names “University Toolkit”, on order editings Xubuntu which goes with a series of average instrumental cases of a network analysis, presumably to detect imitated by the copyright mains-operated activity. Bryan Krebs at The Washington Post has written a post on it and has been penetrating excited, that tools could provoke too easily thus many problems as it has decided presumably. David Taylor, the main informational technician on safety at University of Pennsylvania, looked at a kitten and has made some of the same outputs.
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