Gentoo 2008.0 Beta 2 [Screenshots]

http://gnuman.com/screenshots.html?gid=33

Far from neglected. People tend to forget how extensively Gentoo is used in
industry, embedded devices, appliances, servers, etc.

Recent:

PC factory test tool runs Linux

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| The appliance is based on an unspecified hardware platform from MBX running
| Gentoo Linux, the Apache web server, PHP scripting, and the open source
| Firebird SQL database.  
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7542896830.html

Related and recent:

New foundation trustees elected

First look: KDE 4.1 alpha 1 very promising

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| The open-source KDE desktop environment is built on top of Trolltech's Qt
| development toolkit. One of the most significant changes in KDE 4.1 is the
| adoption of Qt 4.4, a new version of the toolkit which includes important
| features such as a built-in WebKit-based HTML rendering widget and support
| for placing widgets on canvases. These features will bring some new
| capabilities to KDE's Plasma desktop shell.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080430-first-look-kde-4-1-alpha-1-very-promising...

Hardy Heron moves into the Black Tower

Yahoo bid options weighed

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| Microsoft also may be contemplating walking away from the deal entirely.
| Speaking to employees last week, Microsoft finance chief Chris Liddell said
| the options included going directly to Yahoo shareholders or "to walk away
| and go back to our original organic strategy" of competing with Google
| through its own homegrown technology, according to a transcript of his
| remarks filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/361295_msftyahoo01.html

Microsoft is in trouble either way: Dying strategy *and* debt or just a dying
strategy and endless EU fine for abuse.

Recent:

Yahoogle? Microspace? It makes Google look good

Open Source Java Technology Debuts In GNU/Linux Distributions

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| Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), Canonical Ltd. and Red Hat, Inc.
| (NYSE: RHT), today announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based
| (http://openjdk.java.net) implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long
| Term Support (LTS) Server and Desktop editions, furthering the promise of
| Sun's open source Java technology initiative.
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http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-04/sunflash.20080430.1.xml

ODF Development using Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc.

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| In case you're a developer and are looking for libraries simplifying ODF
| development with technologies like Perl, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc., you
| should check out this summary of ODF tools and libraries.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/odf_development_using_perl_python

NetBeans 6.1 development environment learns PHP

Firefox Goes Mobile

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| There's no doubt that it's getting easier to access the Web on a mobile
| device. Thanks to the iPhone and Apple's Web browser, Safari, millions of
| people feel as though they finally have the Internet in their pocket. But
| there's still a lot of work that needs to be done in order to allow for the
| kind of innovation on the mobile Web that is possible on the traditional Web,
| says Mitchell Baker, chairman of Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=telecom&id...=

More Internet surfers will be using mobile devices than 'desktops' some time in
the near future. By the way, all those Linux-based devices that browse the Web
_Do Not_ identify themselves as "Linux". Linux is owned by whoever adopts it.
It's an orphan.

Days ago:

Mozilla's Chairman Confirms Progress on a New Mobile Browser

Microsoft developing 'senior PC'

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| Microsoft UK is developing a "senior PC", which will have a simple interface
| and be aimed at older users.

UK music Mafia threatens kiddies

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| The campaign tries to convince kids that downloading even one song without
| paying for it will send Daddy's computer into virus hell, and goes on to
| point out that, as children are not legally responsible for their own
| actions, downloading that Bob the Builder live bootleg will almost certainly
| end up with mummy going to prison.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/30/uk-music-mafia-threatens

Recent:

The Shareaza Conspiracy In a Nutshell

,----[ Quote ]
| The hijacking of Shareaza.com is a complex story with many twists and turns.
| Here is the story of Shareaza from its open source GPL roots, to the hostile
| takeover and where the project...

Embedded Linux research report ships

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| EDC noted that some 40 percent of the survey's 500 respondents were targeting
| embedded Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| Also in the earlier reports, Andrews observed that the need for RTOS source
| code was "one of the reasons that proprietary RTOSes created in-house for a
| specific system have long been popular, and now it's a primary motivating
| factor in the adoption of Embedded Linux."
|
| The now completed survey results are said to include "expert analysis" from
| Ann Thryft, a 20-year industry veteran. The report includes chapters on
| platforms, processors, tools, languages, security, target devices, mobile
| development, and of course, Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7613839836.html

Cavium Networks is close to Linux too on the face of it:

Munchkins,

Congrats! At .06 percent desktop market share, we have
successfully held back the adoption of Linux. Even though
Vista is the ME of our time, we have proven that we can
successfully hold ground. As we know, usually after an ME we
have a success like in the case of XP. Windows 7 will be that
great OS, especially when integrated with MSN/Yahoo Live!

The linux numbers are worse than OS/2's ever were on the
desktop, and we must thank our selves for our efforts as
the last few years were rough with the borked Vista OS.

Thank our OEM team whom pounded the OEMs to not release OSS drivers.
Any OEM that tried too suddenly found their competitors flush
with cash. The lack of drivers released by OEMs means we were quite
successful! I think punishing nVidia by propping up ATI showed that
we meant business.

... when a certain other operating system is plagued with viruses,
worms, botnets, bloat, BSOD, etc etc.