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Weekly Link Blast: w/e 3 Nov 06

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Don’t write off Novell: Landmark deal sees Microsoft and Novell working together on cross-platform technologies. Quote: “Top executives from Microsoft and Novell convened in San Francisco today to proclaim a landmark deal that sees the companies improve interoperability between Windows and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) on virtualization, Microsoft’s Active Directory and Novell’s eDirectory, and Microsoft Office and OpenOffice XML formats on the desktop.” Rather predictably, the FSF is already up in arms.

Firefox 2 continues rough ride: Another nasty bug is discovered; many are refusing to upgrade and are sticking with the 1.5x release. Still, looks like Internet Explorer 7 isn’t faring much better.

IronPython for ASP.NET: Other dynamic languages can now be easily utilized too.

Google gets Creative: Google gives $30,000 to Creative Commons, continues its role as the AntiMicrosoft.

IBM targets .NET devs: Quote: “The company has announced Lotus Expeditor, an Eclipse-based environment for building what IBM has called a “universal” client spanning current Lotus products and the planned “Hanover” release of its Domino email and collaboration server.”

OpenBSD 4.0 released and reviewed: Millions of changes but primarily related to hardware support. Changelog .

Deluge: GTK-based BitTorrent client for those bored of Azureus. Check out the screenshots.

amaroK gets music store: New version of KDE music player/manager is first open source program to tie-in with music store, in this case Magnatune.

Shuttleworth calls for packaging revolution: Ubuntu man wants single common software installation format across distributions, and even across all open source operating systems, including the BSDs.

Edgy Eft fails to impress: Recently released Ubuntu 6.10 not going down well. After all the success, has Ubuntu made its first slip-up? Also see this less critical review; quote: “Edgy is a worthwhile upgrade, if you’re looking to run a desktop with the most recent versions of your favorite programs and don’t require the long-term support offered by Dapper, but it’s not as adventurous as one might have hoped.”

GNewSense—Linux for a GNU generation: FSF attacks those on its own side in the war against proprietary software by releasing its own version of Ubuntu, but with “the addition of freedom” (ie the removal of useful proprietary bits and pieces that means Ubuntu will function correctly for many of us).

Dell going pro-Linux? Quote: “We recognize the chicken-and-egg problem though: it has to work before many people will want to buy it; and it won’t work unless effort is put into it before people start buying it. So we’re cracking the egg, not quite making omelettes.”

Mandrive 2007 review: Quote: “With its latest version, Mandriva returns attention to its software development and re-establishes itself as a leading desktop distribution that can give Ubuntu serious competition.”