2008 marks the tenth anniversary of Mandriva - the company and the distribution. The Mandriva community celebrated in style over the last weekend in May, with a party in the Eiffel Tower in Paris attended by many staff, former staff, community members and partners. There was also an - indoor - picnic, and the now-traditional DDR party.
Read more »Celebrating 10 years of Mandriva
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A Technological Singularity: What are the Implications for Free Software?
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I was at another meeting of the Editorial board of the Skibbereen Eagle yesterday. Hopefully you read the outcome of the last one. Some clever clogs suggested that it might be a spiffing wheeze to write something about the possible implications of the much mooted singularity (is that a proper noun, with a capital S?) and what it might mean for the future of both free and proprietary software.
Read more »May Lisp meeting recaps, June Lisp meeting schedule
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"There were a lot of Lisp meetings in May. I don't know about as many for June, so if you're having a meeting and I forgot to mention it or put it on the calendar, please email me..."
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SELF News May 2008 :: Sharing knowledge about Free Software
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"...Contents:
1. SELF Open Documentary Contest Update
2. SELF Testers needed
3. Pre-conference workshop - July 14, 2008
4. SELF Sprint Sessions during FKFT - July 16-17, 2008
5. Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference Programme Update
6. Agenda
7. About
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The free-knowledge fundamentalist
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"Jimmy Wales changed the world with Wikipedia, the hugely popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. What will he do next? ..."
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Firefox 3 / Mozilla 10th Anniversary Parties
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The Mozilla project has a long and distinguished history of holding global distributed parties to celebrate major events in the project's life, including at the South Pole. I'm pleased to say that we are doing this again - mozillaparty.com is now open for business
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Talking to the Open-Source Pros
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If you’d like to pick [the] brains [of the biggest names in open source], not to mention those of other open source professionals, get yourself over to the CIO Executives Online forum before the end of the week.
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How Linux saved my life
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Have you ever been in a situation where you realised the frailty of your own existence? It happened to me. I sat thinking this is the end of the line but how little did I realise that I had a saviour alongside me in the form of the free open source operating system called Linux.
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The most popular Linux desktop? The numbers might surprise you
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What Linux desktop is most popular? Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, or another distro? Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes that he thinks it’s Xandros. Yes, that’s an unexpected result, but he has a point — Xandros is the distro shipped on the Eee PC, and by SJVN’s count, they’ve pumped out about 1.1 million Eee PCs and are still going strong.
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Mini-notebook runs "Windows friendly" Linux
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3K Computer is shipping a $300 ultra-mini PC notebook that runs "Genuine CE" Linux distribution from a 4GB SSD (solid-state disk). 3K's RazorBook 400-Mini-Notebook uses a 32-bit RISC-based processor from Chinese processor start-up Ingenic.
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Linux file system ‘firestorm’ fizzles
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I was intrigued when a colleague sent me a link to an article by Henry Newman referring to a “firestorm” touched off by some remarks he recently made in another article he wrote. The first article addressed the scalability of standalone Linux file systems vs. standalone symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) file systems such as IBM’s GPFS or Sun’s ZFS.
Read more »CPAL is not an Open Source poison pill for Facebook
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A pair of my colleagues forwarded me a pitch today titled, " Disappointing: Facebook Does Open Source like Microsoft." It's an 'interesting' email pitch -- it's a pity I wasn't contacted directly. Essentially what the pitch (which came from Bob Bickel Founder, Ringside Networks by way of PR firm techmarket) alleges is that the CPAL is a poison pill for open source code.
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Because I am unique, so is my Linux.
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Yet for operating systems there has been very little in the way of customization options.Then Linux came along and gave those who were straining at the boundaries a choice to truly express their individuality. Now we can do more with our computing experience than just change a wallpaper or theme.
Read more »Novell joins Microsoft in Anti-Linux FUD
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The Novell “partnership” with Microsoft has been a hot topic in Linux circles since it was announced a few years ago. Recently, Novell and Microsoft introduced a joint-marketing site to promote their collaboration.
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Why CentOS will not become the next Microsoft
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The subject may sound weird to you, but all the arguments that free CentOS from becoming the next Microsoft can be used to to counter the pundits that position Red Hat as being the next Microsoft. (You may think this statement is so nineties, but a recent opinion piece that got onto Slashdot prompted similar comments)
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