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OStatic Weekend Reader.....

In case you missed these:

TrueCrypt on-the-fly encryption: Better software for the paranoid.....

Ever heard of R? It's an open source language for statistical analysis, and it packs a serious punch.....

Want to put Linux on your Windows PC or Mac? Try these easy virtualization options.....

Dia: A strong open source answer to Microsoft's Visio.....

iMacros: A visual tour to one of the most powerful Firefox extensions.....



Should More Employers Subsidize Open Source Development?

In a post today, Matt Asay considers whether governments could effectively subsidize open source development. I agree with his point that enterprises may come to recognize that their failure to replenish open source communities with either cash or code may come to harm the code commons from which they derive increasing amounts of value. We've also had several people say in OStatic interviews, including Sam Ramji--Microsoft's open source chief--that open source needs better monetization models. In our latest interview,ﾠ with FreeNAS' founder, he says that one of the best things for open source would be for our employers to give us time to work on our open source projects. Perhaps more employers should go beyond that.


Why Switch to Linux?

In an interesting post on Lifehacker, the editors ask the readers Why did you switch to Linux? The question drew quite a lot of interesting responses, including some very offbeat reasons for why people made the switch. If you're under the impression that people switch solely for rebellious or fight the man reasons, here are some of the more interesting responses and trends that they point to.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Novell's third-quarter loss widens, but Linux booms by 30 percent.....

Google Code reverses its open source license ban. Mozilla's and Eclipse's Public Licenses get the nod.....

Four Twitter clients for Linux.....

What open sourcers can learn from the French....



Intel Acquires Mobile OSS Firm OpenedHand--Advances Moblin

Intel is pushing forward with its Moblin mobile Internet and Linux project, focused on mobile and automotive Internet devices based on Atom processors. Its latest move is acquiring OpenedHand, which provides software development and consulting services, in addition to maintaining several ongoing projects focused on mobile and embedded Linux. OpenedHand's team maintains and contributes development efforts to the Matchbox window manager (on Nokia's devices), the Pimlico suite of PIM applications, Poky (an embedded Linux distro), and more. In essence, Intel gets a distributed set of open source applications and Moblin development resources in picking up OpenedHand.


Three Ways That Open Source Could Benefit from Business 101

This post from Matt Asay on whether open source needs consolidation asks an interesting question, and some of the comments that came in on it were interesting. This comment caught my eye: No. Open source does not need consolidation. Open source needs product managers. Product managers, of course, drive improvements in commercial and proprietary software products, and listen carefully to what businesses need. At the end of our recent interview with Sun Microsystems' Ken Drachnik, regarding Sun's GlassFish app server, he also called for business synergy to advance open source projects. Here are threeﾠ ways that open source projects can benefit from a bit of Business 101.


12 Resources for Free Open Source Tutorials and Tools

Since its inception, we've tried to make collections of tips, pointers to free tutorials, and advice on the best applications a regular part of the editorial content here at OStatic. These have included screenshot-driven guided tours to how to use top tier OSS applications, pointers to free tutorials on everything from AJAX to OpenOffice, and guidance on finding free open source webinars on topics such as MySQL and Ubuntu. We're in the process of putting up a dedicated repository for all of these, but in the meantime, here are 12 of our most popular educational roundup posts.


Upgrading Your Linux Box? Read Up on SELinux, and Improve Security

I just spent several days helping to upgrade an organization's servers from Red Hat Enterprise 3 to the latest version, Red Hat Enterprise 5.2. One of the most important, and impressive, issues we dealt with during this upgrade was SELinux, or security-enhanced Linux. SELinux offers a great deal of functionality, and helps to protect Linux boxes from a variety of threats. It forces system administrators to learn a new vocabulary, as well as permissions, logfiles, and programs with which they were previously unfamiliar. Fortunately, there are many good tutorials for SELinux on the Web.



Netbooks Continue to Proliferate--Who's Winning?

As netbooks proliferate--based on both Linux and Windows--reviews are flowing in for many of the hottest models. Lenovo's IdeaPad S10, which, questionably, runs Windows and not Linux at this point, has been taken through its paces at Laptop Magazine (see the video). As a long-time user of ThinkPad notebooks, I'm not surprised to hear that they love the keyboard. Meanwhile, reviews are lukewarm for Sylvania's G Netbook Meso, featuring the Ubuntu Netbook Remix operating system. How do these compare to the Asus and Acer netbooks?


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Novell as Microsoft's client state.....

Battling expensive textbooks with open source texts.....

Would Linux help Adobe pummel Microsoft?.....

Django on Jython: It's here.....

9 Linux myths debunked.....



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