[dundee] Taylug Weekly Articles 7 - SOLAR

[gordon dunlop]

Hi All,
I bet you are all wondering what the acronym SOLAR stands for. Well I
made it up, I should have held a competition to see if anyone could
guess it with the 1st prize – A weekend with an OLPC. 2nd prize – An
Abertay Society Linux t-shirt. 3rd prize – A collection of Linux live
cd's. booby prize – A free copy of Vista.


S – Security.
This has been in the news all week, no point in repeating the article
that Jason posted, here is one about Linux viruses.
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1288808,00.html

If Vista is more secure than Linux and Mac OS why is Microsoft hiring
one of our security gurus.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=820


O – Open Source
HP has produced FOSS governance tools, here are a couple of articles about this.
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3723511
http://www.linux.com/feature/125544

A blog and video from Jonathan Schwartz, el Presidente of Sun, about
MySQL. Does he look like a geek?
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/in_a_vortex

This is about open source companies.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/tech-bottom-line/archives/2008/01/red_hat_open_so.html

A CRM company has dumped Windows for Lamp.
http://www.linux.com/feature/124920

An interview with Eben Moglen, I wouldn't want to argue with him.
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012208-eben-moglen-on-open-sources.html

An article about RMS in Kerala, India.
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2008/jan/23guest1.htm

This about open source and Education.
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/012408-report-schools-will-increase-spending.html?page=1


L - Linux
Continuing the Gentoo/Daniel Robbins drama.
http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/response.html

A video about the face of Fedora.
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/01/24/fudcon-video-new-face-of-fedora/

An article about Arch Linux.
http://planetoss.com/detail.php?id=7

IBM is giving Ubuntu support for Lotus.
http://www.betanews.com/article/IBM_adds_support_for_a_third_Linux_flavor_Ubuntu/1200949292

KDE 4 has gone cross platform.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080123-kde-goes-cross-platform-with-windows-mac-os-x-support.html

About the Linux community.
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9854570-17.html

Linux happenings in Germany
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218

A - Army
Talking about Ubuntu Ubertroopers during the week, the Army's new
system FCS (Future Combat Systems) will use Linux as its operating
system namely Red Hat & Wind River Systems (real-time embedded Linux).
The army is referring to this as "Windows on Steroids", so if a person
asks you what Linux is just say...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303695.html?sid=ST2008012303998


R – Redmond
Microsoft says it is embracing open-source, can pigs fly?
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3723696

A humerous article on Dr. Gates, that is his title according to an
article in the Evening telegraph, as he was awarded an honourary
Doctorate in Sweden.
http://humorix.org/articles/2008/01/satan/

That's all for this week folks, seemingly a video has been made for
the recent Richard Stallman visit to Kerala and will be posted on the
Internet at some point. If anyone comes across it in the future will
they post it on Taylug please.

Gordon