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Linux Prospects, Post-Windows 7

With the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system slated for tomorrow, several Linux releases and announcements are arriving. Paula Rooney at ZDNet suggests that the Linux flurry may represent wave-making in reaction to the release of the much discussed new version of Windows. Does Windows 7 threaten to stifle Linux, and what are the prospects for Linux as Windows 7 rolls out?


As IBM and Canonical Eye Africa, OLPC's Missteps Come to Mind

This week brought the news that IBM and Canonical have partnered on a suite of very inexpensive desktop applications aimed at netbooks for businesses in Africa. The suite of software runs on Canonical's Ubuntu Linux operating system, and, as CNet's Lance Whitney notes, offers open-standards-based e-mail, word processing, a spreadsheet application, communication tools, and social-networking features. There will also be features allowing users to collaborate in the cloud.

If you look at the pricing model for this offering in conjunction with the low prices of netbooks, this sounds like a very viable way to offer users good functionality while avoiding the much greater expense of Windows-based systems equipped with proprietary applications. In fact, as I've been reading the details of the plan, I wonder why the folks behind the beleagured One Laptop for Child initiative didn't see this coming.



New Arrivals: KDE 4.3, a Firefox Update, Chrome News, and More

This week marked the release of a number of significant open source applications, platforms and tools. Just today, a new version 4.3 of the KDE desktop environment arrived, and it's getting good marks from early testers. Meanwhile, there were significant announcements surrounding the Google Chrome browser, Firefox, Canonical's tool set, and Phoronix's widely used test suite. Here are more details, and download destinations.


Open Source for America Has Lofty Goals, Heavy Hitters

The new Open Source for America initiative is starting to get some buzz, with Red Hat, Jaspersoft, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth, The Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin, and other companies and individuals announcing their participation. Andy Updegrove, who will serve on the project's Board of Advisors, has a good post up explaining project goals. It's aimed at encouraging the use of open source software at the U.S. Federal level, and already has a lot of support.


Community Leadership Summit: Days Away in San Jose

As Kristin covered in April, the upcoming OSCON conference will be immediately preceded by an unconference called the Community Leadership Summit, to take place July 18th and 19th in San Jose, California. The event is free for anyone to attend, although if you're planning to attend you should pre-register. There are some scheduled presentations, panel discussions, and social gatherings planned, but much of the event will consist of free-form discussion on what it takes to build a thriving, productive community around an open source project. More details are emerging on the participants, and it looks like a solid event.


Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Android and Linux Netbook Prospects

While some reports out of the CompuTex show going on in Taiwan this week point to major netbook manufacturers shifting toward favoring Windows exclusively, there are encouraging signs for Linux-based netbooks cropping up too. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is reporting that Canonical will be demonstrating a Moblin version of the UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix), and will develop a UNR based on the full release of Moblin 2. There are already some netbooks shipping with UNR loaded. Meanwhile, Android (which is Linux-based) is making headway on netbooks, and could run on netbooks with various flavors of CPUs.


Brouhaha Raises Important Questions About FOSS Trademarking

OpenSUSE Community Manager Joe Brockmeier has a very interesting post up about trademarks, in which he argues that they are vitally important to protecting branding related to open source projects. His post is a reaction to this one from Linux book author Keir Thomas, author of Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, which we covered here. Thomas recounts getting comments from Canonical about how his use of Ubuntu trademarks may have included taking too many liberties. Thomas finds rules like Canonical's, surrounding trademarks, to be too restrictive. I see good points made on both side of this argument, and it's an important one.


How Will Novell and Canonical Answer the Open Source Channel Alliance?

As Kristin noted earlier, this week, Red Hat and IT services distribution provider SYNNEX announced the formation of the Open Source Channel Alliance. The alliance is squarely aimed at taking federated and logically connected collections of top open source applications and platforms straight to resellers. I think Matt Asay gets it right when he refers to the move as pulling a Microsoft, in terms of aiming to leverage the sales channel. I suspect that all of the commercial open source players involved with the alliance will be well served by the arrangement, and, as The Var Guy notes, the alliance begs the question of how Novell and Canonical are going to react.?



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Does Microsoft change prices at OEMs to block GNU/Linux sales? An allegedly leaked memo appears to show so.

Should an open source license ever be patent-agnostic? That's the question posed by a new license under review.

Where did Sun go wrong? One of Silicon Valley's biggest innovators faces a tough road alone after walking away from a deal with IBM.

Canonical vs. Microsoft: A netbook cat fight. Canonical is dismissing Microsoft's netbook market share claims.

The netbook newbie's guide to Linux. Wrestling with Linpus on a netbook.



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Can open source save the mobile market? Despite the hype, the iPhone, Android, Blackberry e-mail and all the rest, data still represents less than 5% of the market.

Canonical survey shows Ubuntu Server as mission-critical enterprise platform. Ubuntu is being used in most common workloads, such as on Web, file, database and mail servers.

FlyCast hits the Android. T-Mobile G1 Android phone owners have no shortage of streaming audio apps to try, and the announcement that FlyCast comes to the G1 adds one more.

E-tailer dumps Windows for Red Hat. UK-based online lingerie retailer figleaves.com has turned away from Microsoft and to virtualisation and open source.

Linux Defenders organizes to fight patent trolls. The organization is moving forward, and we reported on it here.



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