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Ubuntu Works On Green Server, Bad Times At Nokia, Good News On the Patent Front

Friday FOSS Week in Review Gawd, but it’s been a long time since our last FOSS Week In Review. Many might be wondering where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing. Well, it’s a long story. I intend to...

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Windows vs. Android: Does Desktop Linux Win?

Every tech writer on the Internet seems to want to be the one to crack the code and figure out what Microsoft plans to do with Surface. I thought I was one of them until I spent three days trying to...

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The ‘Walled Garden’ Approach Won’t Work For Microsoft

Welcome to MicroApple. It’s beginning to look as if Microsoft intends to get traction for Surface and other tablets running Windows by building a walled garden, creating more of the vendor lock-in...

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Ubuntu Phone OS – What Are Its Chances?

By now, probably everyone interested in FOSS has heard that Canonical is going to be coming out with Ubuntu Phone OS, a version of Ubuntu specifically designed for the smartphone market. This OS will...

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Are You Ready For iBuntu?

I’ve said for years that if the folks at Canonical want to get serious traction with Ubuntu and truly compete with the likes of Microsoft and Apple, they need to come out with their own line of...

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Linux & Windows 8: So Far the Penguin Is Ahead

There’s no real way to compare how the various desktop Linux distros are doing against Windows 8, Microsoft’s newly crowned flagship product, since Linux isn’t offered preinstalled in any meaningful...

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Linux Won the Desktop Wars a Long Time Ago

Linux has won the desktop wars and Tux now represents the dominant desktop operating system. We’ve been in this position for a while now. The reason many of us haven’t recognized it is because this...

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Microsoft Cranks Up FUD Machine

If I were Yogi Berra, I might say something like, “When times get desperate, the desperate get desperater.” We’re hearing reports that Microsoft is having trouble pushing copies of the whiz-bang...

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Back to the Future With Apple’s Rumored Smart Watch

For the last couple of decades we’ve watched as our technology has caught up with the world of Star Trek much faster than Gene Roddenberry could ever have imagined back in the 1960s, when Kirk, Spock...

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What’s Good For Canonical Is Best For Ubuntu

Mark Shuttleworth can’t leave well enough alone. First it was Unity. Then it was Wayland. Now it’s Mir. Inquiring minds want to know: what does he think he’s trying to do? It’s simple, really. He’s not...

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1,000 Firefox Phones In the Wild!

I found out early this afternoon, when Carlos DarthRivan commented on a link on our Facebook page. The link was to an article on the anticipated release of the first phones running the Firefox OS. They...

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Ubuntu Wins Our “Tablet OS” Poll

If the unscientific poll we conducted on tablet operating systems is any indication, it appears as if Canonical can depend on a community of early adopters if and when a tablet is released with Ubuntu...

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You Want Ubuntu On Your Phone Says Poll

The votes have been counted and most of you want Ubuntu on your smartphones, according to our unscientific poll. This doesn’t come as a surprise, since an earlier poll showed a preference for Ubuntu on...

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FOSS Talks UEFI, Shuttleworth On M$ & More…

Friday FOSS Week in Review Google drops open Talk for closed Hangouts There’s been a lot of back-and-forth going on now that Google has announced intentions to replace Talk, the open standards...

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Microsoft Nemesis Dies, SCO Lives & More…

Friday FOSS Week in Review We may be paranoid but they are out to get us In week three (or is it week four?) of the Spy vs. Spy scandal, the Obama folks keep saying things like “what’s the big deal?”...

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IRS Targets Open Source, Android Outprices iPhone & More…

FOSS Week in Review–Part 1 We’re making up for lost time. We took last week off to celebrate the Fourth (any excuse for a party), so this week you get more bang for your buck. To paraphrase the...

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Linus Torvalds Shoutback, ‘The H’ Closes & More…

FOSS Week in Review Here we go with yet another “better late then never” edition of our Week in Review… Jolla smartphones to utilize Wayland You might remember Jolla, the Finnish company started by a...

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Eolas Doesn’t Own Internet, Ubuntu Hacked & More…

FOSS Week in Review Ubuntu Edge–computing on the go-go Probably the biggest news in all of tech this week, not just the FOSS world, came with Canonical’s announcement on Monday of the Ubuntu Edge. In...

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MIT Reviews Aaron Swartz, Google’s 100 Million Takedowns & More…

FOSS Week in Review USPTO shoots down Apple patent There seems to be more than enough tit-for-tat to go around in the ongoing patent battle between Apple and Samsung. If we wanted to be snarky, we’d...

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No Early Death For Microsoft Surface or Windows RT

More and more it seems as if CBS scripted shows are looking like infomercials for Microsoft’s Surface RT. Evidently this has been the buzz in some media sectors since last November, but I don’t watch...

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