Emery Fletcher wonders if Microsoft has not emulated the IBM of old a bit too well, becoming a slow, bloated engine of intimidation, rather than a lean mean innovator.
LinuxCon 2009 represented the Linux Foundation's first big-tent technical conference. Did it deliver on its promise to innovate, or will OSCON remain at the top of the open source conference heap?
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "The forthcoming version of Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx, has just gone beta and it's going to be the most important Ubuntu release in years. "
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "Katie McCarley has announced the release of Element 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers"
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "I work on a project on which I regularly want to grep the directory tree for a particular word but without including the cvs/ and doc/ directories. Happily, grep has an exclude-dir option to do just this:"
IBM was ranked the most trusted company for privacy among IT companies, fending off the likes of HP and eBay for the coveted top spot. But Facebook wasn't as fortunate.
<b>ars Technica:</b> "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: "Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make..."
<b>FOSS Patents:</b> "After a landmark court ruling, the German perspective on the validity of software patents is now closer than ever to that of the US."
<b>Electropages:</b> "Availability of uCLinux for the APS3 family of processors has been announced by Cortus. This version of Linux is ideally suited to low-power, high-performance, embedded systems."