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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.


Interview: FreeNAS for No-Cost Network Attached Storage

Few recent trends in storage have had as much momentum as Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device can make a network more efficient and secure by supplying file-based data storage services to networked devices, or it can be used for applications such as streaming media. FreeNAS is free, lightweight, open source network-attached storage server software, based on FreeBSD. You can find a good tutorial on how to set up a free NAS server with it here. We recently caught up with Olivier Cochard-Labbe, FreeNAS founder, and Volker Theile, project administrator.


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....



Netbooks: No Threat to Notebooks?

We've covered the sales momentum that Linux-based netbooks--low-priced subnotebooks featuring lots of open source software--are experiencing before. However, even though millions of these devices are selling this year, Wistron chairman Simon Lin says that the position of traditional notebooks will not be affected by the rising role of netbooks over the next two years, even as many netbooks are showing up running Windows. Our sister blog JKOnTheRun begs to differ. Check out their thoughts on the numbers, what consumers are asking for, and whether profit margins tell the whole story.


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.


Xen.org Delivers Version 3.3 of the Xen Hypervisor

Xen.org, which is behind the open source Xen virtualization project, is out with its new Xen 3.3 engine. You can download it now, and grab a PDF datasheet as well. Xen 3.3 is faster and more scalable than previous versions, and has better graphics capabilities. It targets more types of chipsets--from supercomputing to handheld chipsets. Yes that's right, handhelds. The new Xen is smaller than ever. What else is under the hood?


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.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Perspectives, a Firefox extension from Carnegie Mellon, offers robust privacy features.....

Are there too many cooks in the kitchen, working on too many open source projects? Would consolidation help?.....

Open source gaming goes commercial with Wiz handheld.....

Postpath is an open source e-mail and collaboration server offering interoperability with Microsoft Exchange.....

Take a gander at Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client.....



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