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6 Easy Ways to Secure Your Hotspot Sessions

Are you increasingly using public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are, you're in good company, as many more people use public Wi-Fi for work and play. Airports, coffee shops, hotel lobbies, conference centers and many more types of locations are Wi-Fi enabled. Many hotspot hotspot users, though, don't take the right steps to secure their sessions. In this post, you'll find six tips and applications--including both open source and freeware offerings--that you can use to lock down your sessions.


Does Microsoft Deliver Anti-Linux Rhetoric to Best Buy Workers?

If you walk into any Best Buy store and head over to the computers, you can't help but notice that Microsoft Windows is by far the most prominently displayed operating system. You can find Mac systems and the occasional Linux netbook, but Linux in particular gets short shrift at the stores. Although Microsoft has not responded on the issue, this post suggests that Microsoft itself is behind the ghettoized status that Linux has at Best Buy.


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Nokia leaks phone with full GNU/Linux distribution. Unlike Google's Linux platform, Nokia is not intentionally breaking compatibility with real distros.

Open source and healthcare reform: good news and bad. Could open source mess up a truly integrated digital infrastructure for healthcare?

How open source saved enterprise IT. Open source is becoming more like the market that it arose out of.

Open source equivalent applications for the average user. If you were weaned on proprietary Windows apps, what are the free, open source equivalents?



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Have Mac, will open source. If you're a Mac user, check out this list of top open source applications.

5 things Microsoft does not want you to know about Windows. What gets swept under the rug?

Linux Mint 7 (XFCE) review. It's easy to install, and you can use either KDE or GNOME. Here's more on what's under the hood.

Will mobile Linux distros hang separately? Will you be able to move software between Moblin, Android, LiMo and Maemo platforms?

Danish FreeBSD developer sues Lenovo over Microsoft tax. Poul-Henning Kamp is suing over Lenovo's refusal to refund the Windows Vista Business license, though he declined the EULA during installation.



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Easily run Windows apps on Linux with CrossOver Linux 8. It's built on top of the open source project Wine, and runs an implementation of the Windows API.

How friendly is the Movable Type fork? Melody is a fork of the popular blogging platform.

Beyond the iPhone: What open source means for mobile. Open source--not Apple--may well be doing the most to define the future of mobile communications.

Can open source police open source? LiberKey is a French company offering a host of open source applications in one download.

Quakk, an open source Windows Mobile Twitter client is released. This one uses Microsoft's Codeplex, instead of Google Code, for storage of source code.



ASUS Delivers a Sexy Netbook, But is it Ditching Linux?

In conjunction with the CompuTex tradeshow, ASUS has announced a new Seashell line of netbooks, with larger screens and a whole lot of battery life. The 1101HA (shown) has an 11.6-inch display with 1366 x 768 resolution. There is a 160GB hard drive, and the company offers 10GB of online Eee storage. The new netbook comes with 1GB of RAM, has a Z-series Intel Atom chip, and ASUS is claiming it gets a whopping 11 hours of battery life. That's hard to believe given the size of the display.

ASUS is making other announcements at CompuTex too. It's not clear, though, how committed the company remains to shipping Linux-based systems.



Linux Netbooks: What's the Secret Sauce for Sales?

As noted by Dana Blankenhorn in this post, Linux pundit Bill Weinberg is pondering whether Linux will survive as an OS for netbooks. Many of the early netbooks from Asus were Linux-based, and I saw Asus netbooks running Linux this past weekend at my local Target store, but there are still a lot of questions about whether there will be much of a forward-going market for Linux netbooks. Blankenhorn makes the point that the sales channel is a problem: I tried out some Linux laptops last year and, while there were some glitches they held promise. But when it came time for me to lay down cash, there was no Linux kit on the shelves. Is Microsoft's might in the retail channel too great for Linux netbooks to be successful in the long run?


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Microsoft search to be powered by open source. The company's new Kumo search technology is filled with open source.

What you should expect from Fedora 11. Here's a screenshot-driven tour of it, scheduled for release on May 26th.

Beyond Firefox: 10 other great Linux browsers. Have you tried Midori, Seamonkey, and Arora?

Novell throws support behind Moblin Linux for Intel Atom netbooks, devices. Eschewing its own SUSE Linux, Novell will back Intel's Moblin Linux for netbooks and smartphones.?



Why Isn't Open Source Even Considered at the U.S. State Government Level?

Earlier this month, Computerworld reported on the Texas state Senate banning Windows Vista from use in government agencies. Specifically, Senator Juan Hinojosa proposed the ban because of the many reports of problems with Vista. Microsoft officials reacted angrily, saying we're surprised that the Texas Senate Finance Committee adopted a rider which, in effect, singles out a specific corporation and product for unequal treatment. Hinojosa has proposed Windows XP and the upcoming Windows 7 as alternatives, but why wasn't moving to an open source solution even considered? That's the gist of an interesting letter sent to Hinojosa, and here are some of the good points it makes.


Two Instant Ways for Windows Users to Make Broader Use of Open Source Apps

There are a lot of Windows users out there who use high-profile open source applications such as Mozilla's Firefox browser, but fewer of them tend to reach for the many free, open source applications that they could easily be benefitting from. Especially among users with less familiarity with what to use, I think there is a perception that jumping into open source is difficult, or overly technical. In this post, I'll discuss two instant ways that Windows users at any level of experience can get and begin using very useful open source platforms and applications.


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