Gotta love tech bloggers and so called 'journalists'. There is alot of buzz in tech media this week related to an AP report that claims that Wal-Mart is dropping the Everex Linux PC's.
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Wal-Mart shoves Linux PCs off store shelves, not web site
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Well, it seems they are not "completely" out.
"The fact that Wal-Mart is continuing to sell these machines online is also telling."
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Wal-Mart Ends Test of Linux in Stores
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It seems although all the equipments were sold, computers with Linux just "...wasn't what our customers were looking for" said Melissa O'Brien, a spokeswoman from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
This is really sad...
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Kerala State Electricity Board banishes proprietary software platform
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Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan inaugurated a new billing software,named ORUMA, based purely on Free Software developed by the KSEB(Kerala State Electricity Board) itself in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.The KSEB will save Rs.9.5 crore on licence fee and software upgrading because of the shift to free software, the release added.
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BBC iPlayer on GNU/Linux without Flash using only free software
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A bit of background to this. The BBC is funded by every single household with a TV in the UK (except old people).
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VCs regain interest in open source
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Venture capitalists (VC) first discovered open source during the dot-com bubble at the turn of the millennium. When the bubble burst, open source was connected closely enough with its general failure that all but a handful of VCs lost interest.
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Flash Fears of DRM
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Why Adobe needs to get their act together in better supporting Linux. With the possible inclusion of DRM in Flash, this might spell the end of Flash on Linux, and this certainly won't benefit either the Linux community or Adobe.
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Fear and Loathing in Open Source Marketing
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Drupal recently made a deal with the devils (venture capitalists) by virtue of the a $7 million investment in Acquia. Acquia owns the Drupal brand (or at least legally they do). Drupal lead (and Acquia co-founder) Dries Buytaert and the fine people at Acquia along with their backers are now at the crossroads faced by every vendor who sells free software… How do they supply a return on their investment without recommitting the sins of their proprietary software brethren or alienatingDrupal - Open Source CMS the community that so far has driven their success.
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Best Buy Sells Linux
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Best Buy has started selling the Asus Eee Laptop to consumers on their website. The Asus Eee Laptop comes pre-bundled with the Xandros Linux operating system.
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Risk report: Three years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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This report is an update to the risk report published in Red Hat Magazine in April 2007.
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The Buzz Word Today Is Change
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Change. That's the word on the tips of everyone's tongues this year. One change everyone should consider is making the switch from expensive, proprietary software to open source.
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Open source gains business credibility
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The use of open source is on the rise in the corporate IT environment as organisations look to cut the cost of developing and using software.
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Microsoft, interoperability, and mistrust
Everybody's talking about Microsoft - the hot topics are interoperability, exclusion, standards, and the doubts of Red Had and the European Union about their alleged about-turn.
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Google Spends Its Money on Wine
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“[Google] has sponsored developers from Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine,” according to a computerworld article. This could mean more users switching from Windows to Linux.
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Bank group takes Linux migration a step at a time
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Metropolitan Bank Group is a large conglomerate in Illinois, comprising 10 banks and $3 billion in assets. As Metropolitan acquired more banking interests, IT Director Tom Johnson needed to find a way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the face of the company's rapid growth. The solution was a migration from Windows to Linux.
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