March 2010
Fake outrage for Sony's moves
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 10:00:31 PM Filed under
blog.flameeyes.eu: March 2010 is likely to become famous in the Free Software, Open Source movements’ histories as the month of the “corporate betrayals”.
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Google buys Microsoft
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 09:05:21 PM Filed under


blogs.pcworld.co.nz: Following a spate of recent acquisitions Google's CEO Eric Schmidt announced this morning that the Mountain View-based company had bought Microsoft Corporation.
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Mozilla State of the Internet Report
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 09:03:52 PM Filed under
- Introducing the Mozilla State of the Internet Report
- Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 security updates now available
- Mozilla spits out last version of Firefox 3.0
- Firefox developers block old CSS leak
- Firefox coders propose fast-graphics deadline
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SCO, Novell: Grokking Where Credit is Due
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 08:01:01 PM Filed under
itworld.com: The next thing that ruined SCO's plans? Groklaw.
Also: Groklaw: How One Person Can Do Big Deeds. Thanks PJ.
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Ubuntu Unravelled
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 08:00:03 PM Filed under
linuxuser.co.uk: I’m aware that nearly all people in the Linux ecosphere are familiar with what Ubuntu is. However, it is my impression that many people, including some Ubuntu users, do not know how the distribution is made.
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Linux on Netbooks Reloads With Ubuntu-based Jolicloud
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 07:01:42 PM Filed under

linuxplanet.com: Linux was a resounding failure on netbooks, so what makes this French start-up firm think it can succeed with a Linux derivative?
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Linux Mint 8 releases
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 07:00:35 PM Filed under
- Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE released
- Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce released
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Linux, Where Crapware Goes to Die
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 06:00:19 PM Filed under

linuxjournal.com: Remember this cute little purple ape? If you’re a Linux user, you might not. He was one of the earliest malware/spyware/crapware programs for the Microsoft Windows platform. Why were Linux users left out in the cold during the heyday of BonziBuddy?
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Thunar and Rox Filer: Mighty File Managers
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 04:19:55 PM Filed under
linuxinsider.com: Thunar and Rox Filer are different from the average file manager, and different from each other too. Both are powerful and flexible, offering features unavailable in other Linux file managers.
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coupla interviews:
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 31st of March 2010 04:17:57 PM Filed under
- Five questions about building community with Chris Blizzard of Mozilla
- Chris Johnston from the Ubuntu Beginners Team
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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