Linux Online - News from Jul 15, 2009

News from Jul 15, 2009

Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China, Jul 15, 2009

The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.

Growth Metrics for KDE Contributors, Jul 15, 2009

The total number of active developers working on KDE has been steadily growing.

Second edition of Mandriva Linux One 2009.1 released, Jul 15, 2009

The Mandriva developers have released a second edition of their Mandriva Linux One (MLO) 2009.1 LiveCD.

Embedded Linux boots in one second, Jul 15, 2009

MontaVista claims it will demonstrate a dashboard application fully operational in one second from cold boot.

Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS, Jul 15, 2009

To Bill Gates, Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux.

Apache and the future of open-source licensing, Jul 15, 2009

If most developers contribute to open-source projects because they want to, rather than because they're forced to, why do we have the GNU General Public License?

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