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Linux and Open Source News for 7th March 2008

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Source: elive

A new development release of Elive is out and ready for testing: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of development version 1.6." What's new? "New improved boot system in live mode; Icedove 2.0; much better disk and partition recognition; CDs can eject without being unmounted .



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Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "Will developers wish to tie themselves to the whims of Steve Jobs, the same way they did 25 years ago to Bill Gates--and pay a toll for the privilege of doing so to boot? Or will they spend their time working to support more open platforms, such as Android ?"


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Source: Linux Today

Open Source Initiative: "You said a standard's process is a crucial aspect of the standard's product, and a process that is not open cannot be trusted to produce a product that can be considered open "


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Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: "It's not just watching the parents and listening to what they say. It's picking up on our values, too "


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DesktopLinux: "Anyone who has thought that, as nice as the Linux-powered One Laptop Per Child computers are for the target market of third-world children, they'd also make a lot of sense for U.S. kids too, is in good company "


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ZDNet Australia: " Australia and New Zealand's representatives are keeping their cards close to their chests on which way they will vote "


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451 CAOS Theory: "I just noticed an article from last month's Red Hat Magazine that states: 'It is never correct to abbreviate 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' as 'RHEL' '"


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ZDNet: "Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability--and more patents to protect that IP "


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LinuxWorld: "Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft "


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Sun Mink: "You may recall that a team from Sun devoted a great deal of time to the process of drafting the GPLv3 "


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LinuxDevices: "The Finnish mobile-phone giant will add Silverlight support to Symbian S60 smartphones, Series 40 devices, and Linux-based Nokia Internet tablets, it said "


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Linux.com: "Linux is sometimes belittled for having inferior applications, but that's simply not the case. Take DVD rippers, for example--a plethora of them work on Linux machines. With so many to choose from, which is the best ?"


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BetaNews: "During the CeBIT computer show in Hannover, Germany, Nero announced plans to launch Nero Linux 3.5, which now promises to run on Linux subnotebooks with smaller screen resolutions.


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bMighty: " [T]he process of finding the right open-source app to meet your business needs can be a royal pain in the butt--unless, that is, you know where to begin your open-source software hunt "


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LinuxPlanet: "Last week we learned how to configure soundcards for playback with ALSA.."



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Source: ONLamp.com

Microsoft announced its Document Interoperability Initiative and the release of version 1.1 of the translator between ODF and Open XML for Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet) and Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation) applications. Press release: Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative The odd thing is that nothing


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The Apple SDK bears a considerable resemblance to the open source
SDK, but naturally has some differences. It's
quite possible Apple will undo some of the changes and bring their
toolkit closer to the open one. Regardless of
which SDK you plan on using, you will find Jonathan Zdziarski 's
iPhone Open Application Development
valuable, in conjunction with manuals to uncover the differences in the Apple SDK.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

While there are several different ways for a user to specify metadata
conditions, this article discusses one that has special advantages: faceted
navigation. Follow the faceted navigation system described in this article, a technology demonstrator based on IBM Omnifind Discovery Edition
that exploits the XML capabilities of IBM DB2, to explore the advantages of faceted
navigation, and see how to
get the maximum benefit from metadata creation.



Updated: Sat Mar 8 23:55:01 2008


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