If this week's Linux World were to be summed up under a single theme, it would be penguins gone virtual.
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Linux is Unix - Paul Murphy
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Two weeks ago frequent contributors p_msac and bportlock challenged me to see Linux as not Unix and to discuss the consequences of that difference.
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LinuxWorld Draws Both Open-Source Devotees and Curious Tire-Kickers
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Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo drew a broad cross section of users, from cautious onlookers trying to gauge how Linux and other open-source software could fit into their organizations to converts hoping to expand their use of such technologies.
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Community vs. Corporate Linux: The Coming Divide
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There is in fact a coming divide that will hit the Linux community like a freight train. The battle lines have already been drawn, and companies that support Linux, such as Canonical, will eventually find themselves fiercely pitted against companies like Linspire, who only a short time ago, entered into an agreement of cooperation.
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Mozilla to Host 24-hour Worldwide Community Event
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"Mozilla has said that it is organizing and hosting a 24-hour global Web conference called Mozilla 24. "Mozilla 24" is a worldwide, 24-hour open discussion that connects community members, academics and Web visionaries from Asia, America and Europe, in person and over the broadband video WIDE network.
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MySQL Changes Draw Ire
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"MySQL's new pricing policy for developers has sparked a debate about its commitment to open source."
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The Microsoft / Novell / FSF / GPLv3 tale about the bridge between the meadows
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I've been trying to catch on and to understand what this thread's all about (It started with R. Hovespian from Novell explaining why they needed a deal with MS). I thought, maybe I could try to summarize it all to understand - and maybe explain to others - what's happening here, so I made up a tale of the whole situation
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Rescued by Linux
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One of the nice things about Linux is one thing that Microsoft Windows can never be — a tool to rescue an old or ailing computer.
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The birth of a cow
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A you-tube video of the birth of a cow, shot by a kid on their new OLPC laptop...
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Linus explains why open source works
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Linus Torvalds is often described as an open source champion, interested in licensing only insofar as it affects his ability to share code and improve software more quickly. However, his real position is more complicated -- and to some, perhaps surprising.
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Changes at MySQL draw fire from community
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MySQL AB has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community.
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Emacs Wiki Founder Sought to Remove Bottleneck
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When Alex Schroeder wanted to provide a useful resource for Emacs users, he chose to remove the document maintainer bottleneck by deploying a wiki. Blue GNU interviewed Alex to find out how the project has grown.
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Running Windows viruses with Wine
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It just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can "catch the virus bug" too -- sort of.
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Linux Vs. Mac: Linux Users Respond
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Linux users had some interesting opinions about our recent article comparing Mac OS X with Linux, and didn't leave Windows out of the discussion.
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Mozilla promises major changes for FireFox 3.0
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Mozilla Corp.'s next update to Firefox will sport several new safer surfing features, the company's chief of security said Wednesday, but users won't see the most important changes.
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