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Is the Symbian Foundation DOA?

When Nokia announced that it was launching the Symbian Foundation to great fanfare, it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, they have seemingly ceded that position to Android. Instead of recognizing the threat from Android and making strategic changes to counter, they instead criticized Google's closed-door development of Android before releasing a line of code themselves. When criticizing competitors, it helps to have your own house in order first.

?In October, the Symbian Foundation released the Symbian kernel sources to the world, and the rest of the world (read: developers) collectively responded, Great. Where's my Android phone? I've often lauded Google for its ability to fuse the marketing, PR and developer benefits of open source projects into one seemless operation. It would seem that Symbian could stand to learn a few things. The question is, is it too late?



Android: Linux--Only Different

This week, much of the talk in the smartphone arena surrounds the new Android-based Droid phone, which is the result of a partnership between Verizon, Motorola and Google. Lost in the buzz over the phone--for many people at least--is that the Droid, like all Android phones, is Linux-based. Early reports show that there were approximately 100,000 Droids sold on its opening weekend, which is nothing to shake a stick at. Meanwhile, there will be approximately 20 Android phones by the end of this year, and the operating system is spreading out beyond phones as well. So just how Linux-based is Android, and is its Linux heritage a good thing?


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Why Google released Closure tools. The release of Closure Tools by Google under an open source license is about putting muscle behind Javascript.

Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it. An ex-Microsoft employee says Windows is doomed, and FOSS will rule.

Vint Cerf plugs Android into the Interplanetary Net. He has added a software stack to the open source Android code.

Q&A: Ubuntu 9.10 security. What are the most notable security features introduced with Ubuntu 9.10, and how can you work with them?

Barnes & Noble, aided by Android, aims to disrupt the Kindle. The Nook has two capabilities that could expand the market for e-book readers beyond Amazon's.



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?


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Unix at 40: Hanging on despite strong Linux, Windows challenges. The middle-aged OS is not expected to die any time soon, just slowly fade away.

The Android-Cyanogen kerfuffle. The opening shot was a cease-and-desist letter issued by Google against a developer producing a modified Android ROM with proprietary Google applications.

10 years of Linux accomplishments. Here are the major milestones that it has reached.

50 open source apps for small biz/home office. Datamation surveys the landscape of free offerings, and turns up some gems.

Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix is looking great. Check out these screenshots from the latest build, which show a markedly improved interface.



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Users nervous about Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Concerns also linger over the fate of other Sun technologies such as Solaris and Java.

Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds. He discusses Eucalyptus' first commercial product--an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware.

Alpha 680 Android netbook review. One of the first Android netbooks has some rough edges, but shows promise.

Mozilla prepares for SeaMonkey 2.0 release. THe second beta of its Internet app suite arrives, final version coming next month.

Linux webserver botnet pushes malware. A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet.



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Is Oracle getting ready to kill OpenSolaris? What does a Linux company, which Oracle is, want to do with its newly purchased Sun operating system?

Google releases open source NX server. Amid the fanfare of the Chrome OS announcement, Google quietly released an open source NX server, dubbed Neatx, for remote desktop display.

HP releases $500 Linux netbook onto Aussie market. This week sees the Australian launch of the Mini 110, which HP is offering with both Ubuntu and Windows XP.

Free operating systems that aren't Linux. There are other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin.

Chrome, Android have different jobs, Google says. Android has features unique to running mobile devices, and one doesn't replace the other, a Google mobile executive says.



Moblin Arrives in Beta 2.0 Version, Works With Netbooks

Moblin, the open source mobile platform launched by Intel and now overseen by The Linux Foundation, is out in a beta version 2.0. The platform has been gaining a lot of momentum, with Acer announcing that it will put it on a broad range of laptops, netbooks and PCs, Moblin mediaphone devices in the works, in-car infotainment systems based on it, and more. According to a blog post from Moblin.org, the beta version is aimed at netbooks and nettops for developer testing.


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New version of EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server now available. It has deeper Oracle compatibility, and is simpler to migrate to.

Develop web sites quickly with Bluefish. It's a very easy code editor.

Who should use alpha-status Chrome on Linux? Many people are already using it on a daily basis.

Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks. Will they wrest the PC industry from Wintel's grip?

Is Vyatta now part of Microsoft keiretsu? Citrix funding the open source networking player begs the question.



App Store Standards, and the Open Source Opportunity

Savio Rodrigues has an interesting post up called Yes, we need an open App Store standard, in which he cites some of the many advantages that could come of shared standards. Online App Stores, of course, have become all the rage, especially with the success of Apple's App Store. Android Market, too, already has over 3,000 applications, many of them great, and free. With Apple, Sun, Nokia and others so focused on the downloadable mobile apps phenomenon, isn't Rodrigues right? I'd say he is correct. However, I'd also say that open source players are the only ones who stand a chance of making this idea work.


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