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Announcing Fedora 13 “Goddard” Alpha

Amit Caleechurn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:48:31 +0000

?The Fedora 13 “Goddard” Alpha release is available! What’s next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now at: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a == What is the Alpha release? == The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by [...]

RedHat/GuruLabs Linux Training

Amit Caleechurn — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:19:01 +0000

LCA Limited has announced (01/03/2010) a partnership with Guru Labs and RedHat to offer Linux training on a regular basis in Mauritius. RCHT/RHCE (RH033,RH133 & RH253) will be offered as from next month. Red Hat certifications are indisputably regarded as the best in Linux, and perhaps, according to some, in all of IT. Red Hat [...]

Time to name and shame the anti-open source extremists

Amit Caleechurn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:36:48 +0000

Since I began writing this blog in 2005 I have watched open source move from a fringe idea to something embraced by the IT mainstream. But there are still extremists out there who want to destroy open source. Some of their names may surprise you. What they have done is retreat into a group where they seek [...]

Microsoft offers browser choices to Europeans

Amit Caleechurn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:05:04 +0000

Microsoft is to ask millions of users across Europe if they want to use a web browser other than its own. Windows users will be offered the choice as part of a deal Microsoft struck with the European Commission. The agreement resolves a long-running case in which the software giant was accused of abusing its [...]

Why I love Fedora / Linux

Amit Caleechurn — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:59:29 +0000

ave you ever had one of those moments where something that happened has made you realize how much you love this whole Fedora thing (I’m going with Fedora here because that happens to be the place/distro where I witnessed this, I’m sure the same can be found in other distros). Now the story: Last night around [...]

BBC activates iPlayer Flash verification – Locking out open source

Amit Caleechurn — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:35:15 +0000

The BBC have activated a protection mechanism on the Flash based streaming system used by iPlayer, stopping open source media players from legally playing BBC content according to a report on The Register. The protection mechanism, known as SWF Verification, sends a “ping” message to the player software after one or two minutes of a [...]

Microsoft Plays Catch-up — Sub-$70 Linux Virtual Desktop

Amit Caleechurn — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:56:30 +0000

CALGARY, AB – February 23, 2010 — Userful Corporation, the world leader in multiseat Linux desktop virtualization, today announced that 30,000 schools worldwide have chosen Userful virtual desktops to reduce computing costs and improve computer-to-student ratios. Microsoft recently announced it’s own multi-seat solution, Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, seven years after Userful pioneered the technology [...]

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube

Amit Caleechurn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:44:59 +0000

With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec. Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site [...]

Fedora Splits and Goes Faster

Amit Caleechurn — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:34:47 +0000

The bleeding edge of Red Hat’s Fedora Linux community has long been the branch of Fedora code known as Rawhide. New contributions land in Rawhide first, marking the tip of new Linux development for Fedora, though activity there slows down during Fedora release cycles. As a result of a new move taken by Fedora developers this [...]

Please Say Fedora :-)

Amit Caleechurn — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:14:58 +0000

Last evening I went over to a family friend’s house to help her with an ongoing problem with her Internet connection. She has AT&T DSL, and every night around 5pm or so, the connection pretty much drops. Getting to a web page is hit or miss, like one in every 10 attempts it will load [...]