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OLPC: one virile Windows laptop per child
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Friday, 16 May 2008
The news that Windows XP will be made available on the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop is now official. When the project began, a move such as this would have been dismissed out of hand by any of those involved. What has changed to make the OLPC just another seller of Windows laptops?
 
Linux and the tax office: never the twain shall meet
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Friday, 16 May 2008
Why would a government body offer trial software for small and other businesses which use the GNU/Linux operating system, take it offline when the interest in it grows and keep quiet about it thereafter?
 
Remote hole affects Debian, Ubuntu
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008
The Debian GNU/Linux project has announced details of a  security problem in the OpenSSL package distributed by the project. It can be exploited remotely.
 
Open source survey: many questions remain
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Used in the right context, statistics can often illuminate and point the way. On the other hand, these days, given the degree of spin around, they are more often used to confuse and blur an issue.
 
Senior Debian developer quits core teams
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Friday, 09 May 2008
A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources.
 
Outsider to lobby for OLPC Down Under
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008
It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project.
 
Adobe: fresh AIR or stale air?
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008
Members of the FOSS community may not consider Microsoft their best friend but they have to be grateful to the company for one thing - by trying to cut into others' marketshare, Microsoft often drives other proprietary software vendors into the Linux fold.
 
GPL: man gets feet in mouth
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Friday, 02 May 2008
The fact that the General Public Licence, better known as the GPL, is oft misunderstood, even by those who could be expected to know better, came home to me with a vengeance yesterday.
 
Debian leader launches review of teams
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Thursday, 01 May 2008
The new Debian GNU/Linux project leader, Steve McIntyre, has launched a review of all teams that work within the project to produce the distribution.
 
Open sore on Planet GNOME
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008
There is an air of disquiet again on Planet GNOME - and once again the reason behind it is the way the site is administered.
 
Hardy Heron? Hardly
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Friday, 25 April 2008
If there appears to be more interest in the release of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) than the average distribution, I think I should take some of the blame.
 
OLPC: one excuse per child
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Thursday, 24 April 2008
Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child project, is in the news again, this time trying to rationalise the appearance of Windows XP on the laptop manufactured by the project.
 
Whither the Linux Foundation?
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008
We live in the age of the spinmeister, the age when language is used more as a means to confuse than to educate, an age when obfuscation is preferred to clarification.
 
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