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Welcome Editorial
Jul 24, 2012Since they print my picture with this column, I have little hope of concealing my age, so I’ll just come out and say that I remember Ronald Reagan’s first year in office in 1981 – in fact, I was already a young adult at that time and was living in Reagan’s home state of California, working my first professional job after college. Reagan became known as “the great communicator” for the hypnotic optimism with which he could render his own point of view. In a speech somewhere around that time, the new president made a comment that was something like “We have come a long way since before we knew we had a problem with racism.”
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Jun 21, 2012
Partnership
• Red Hat and Dell combine for hard/software IT solutions
• Fedora 17 released
• News Bites
Welcome Editorial
May 29, 2012A little over a year ago, I wrote a column about a Nokia memo that appeared a little over a year ago. The famous “Burning Platform” memo made the case for Nokia bailing out of the open source MeeGo project as a last-ditch effort to save the company.
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May 29, 2012Some clever marketing people have started issuing USB drives loaded with their promotional information in lieu of the usual pamphlets and swag.
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May 29, 2012
Cloud News
• CloudStack moves toApache
• Red Hat Data Grid 6 beta released
• News Bites
Kubuntu Sponsored
• Blue Systems sponsors Kubuntu
• IBM PowerLinux Solutions
• Spyrus Pocket Drive
Ubuntu News
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for desktop launched
• Ubuntu 12.10 flies with Quantal Quetzal
• Coverity 6.0 released
Tech Tools
May 29, 2012Red Hat Announces OpenShift Origin
OpenMAMA 2.1 Now Available
Tizen Association Releases Larkspur
Yocto Project 1.2 Released
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Apr 24, 2012
LF Grows
• The Linux Foundation welcomes four new members
• Gnome 3.4 released
• News Bites
New Releases
• Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2
• Vector Linux 7.0 Light
• Linux 3.3
• XBMC 11.0
Canonical’s MAAS
• Metal-as-a-service provisioning tool
• Knoppix 7.0 with kernel 3.2.4
• SUSE milestones
Tech Tools
• MythTV 0.25 out
• Android emulator improved
• Qt 5 Alpha source only release
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