Archive for December, 2007

Do Websites Kill People?
Gawker – OK. I finally read the damn thing. I think there could be a very illuminating article about Gawker that might be written by someone else, but there is way too much bias and not enough insight. Correct me if I’m wrong, but as I see it, Blumencrantz

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Tilting at Windmills
BusinessWeek – Here’s Robertson’s blog on it. 5-0 is based on Debian Linux, one of a handful of Linux versions that are readily available for free. Linspire has added to the basic package with an easier-to-use interface, etc. He says CompUSA and Best Buy now plan to

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Elive 1.0.2 Is Here
Softpedia – The Elive team proudly presents a new version of their popular Debian-based operating system, Elive 1.0.2. This is a development release and the big change is the switch to the greatly anticipated new version of Enlightenment 17 (e17). All users have

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OpenOffice.org Goes Online with SAAS Version
eWeek – Ulteo, the software, began life as a Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. Duval and his partners then decided to transform the project into a Web-based office suite that incorporates elements of both SAAS and a thin-client offering. In an

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Company-Name Police Part II
eWeek – If I put out a new Debian-based Linux distribution and call it “Easy Linux,” that might be misleading, but is VeriSign really the authority to call me on it? Edelman also points out that VeriSign’s policy for revoking certificates for, as it terms it

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