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In this new podcast, Network World’s Jeff Caruso speaks with LinuxWorld.com Site Editor Don Marti about what this week’s LinuxWorld conference was like, and relates the top headlines coming out of the show. (10:59)
LinuxWorld reporter’s notebook: A call to arms for the open source community, 08/16/06
The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo kicked off Tuesday with a keynote by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig who told a packed audience that the open source community’s work doesn’t end with an operating system and applications.
Linuxworld: Lenovo debuts Linux ThinkPads, 08/15/06
Lenovo Tuesday announced the availability of the ThinkPad T60p, its first laptop computer preloaded with the Linux operating system.
NEC Announces Fault-Tolerant Linux Server, 08/15/06
NEC’s new server supports advanced high availability features with a stock kernel.
Linuxworld: Phone enables Linux application tests, 08/15/06
Trolltech plans to begin offering developers a Linux-based phone that can be used to test how mobile applications work on a live cellular network, the creator of software development tools said on Tuesday.
Zmanda, Cleversafe debut open storage, 08/15/06
Two storage companies, Zmanda and Cleversafe, launched software and open source projects this week at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
Linuxworld: Ingres, rPath talk up software appliance, 08/15/06
Ingres Tuesday intends to provide more details about its upcoming software appliance, a tight coupling of its open source database with rPath’s Linux distribution that is designed to simplify system maintenance.
Linux’s Legal World After SCO, 08/14/06
As part of the celebration of the relaunch of LinuxWorld, Groklaw founder Pamela Jones offers a summary of where things stand legally in the Linux world, post-SCO. Are we better able to withstand the next legal threat?
LinuxWorld Community, 08/18/06
Don Marti ran into both Lawrence Lessig and Eben Moglen at LinuxWorld, and naturally asked each about license compatibility—getting the legal language right to let open source and open content projects share code and content.
