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	Linus Torvalds becomes an American citizen Buzzblog: Having brought his open-source work and family to the United States from Finland some time ago, Linus Torvalds has marked an important personal milestone by attaining U.S. citizenship. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Intel Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem Learn how Intel's work across the industry ecosystem is making it a trusted advisor to the Open Source community Click to continue In this Issue Google Code wants to become a bigger source forge Does the Linux desktop matter? Damn Vulnerable Linux: most exploitable OS ever Linux desktop market share: Small no matter how you measure Recent court ruling shows GPL has teeth Oracle Gobbles Up Open Source Even Bill and Ted Had To Grow Up, So Does Open Source Adobe Flash Zero Day Puts Android Smartphones at Risk Open source IQ test Froyo drinks Eclair's Android milkshake Linux Wi-Fi Gets Easier with New Broadcom Driver Fact or Fiction? Top 8 Linux Myths Debunked Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news WEBCAST: Red Hat Modernize Your Infrastructure In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. Register Now! Google Code wants to become a bigger source forge Julie Bort: Google announced it would leave the license discrimination to the folks that do it best, the Open Source Initiative. It will now accept into its forge projects covered by any OSI license. Read More Does the Linux desktop matter? Joe Brockmeier: Last week, I touched on the problems counting the number of Linux desktops, but the real question is does it really matter? Read More Damn Vulnerable Linux: most exploitable OS ever Alan Shimel: Damned Vulnerable Linux may very well be the most exploitable operating system ever -- and that's exactly what its developers want it to be. Read More Linux desktop market share: Small no matter how you measure Joe Brockmeier: It doesn't give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Read More DOWNLOAD: Aerohive Free Wi-Fi Planning Tool with New Auto Placement Feature With Aerohive's FREE web-based planning tool, you can plan a Wi-Fi deployment in no time! Upload your floor plan, draw the perimeter and walls using different wall types, and place any of a variety of different Aerohive APs either yourself or with our new auto placement feature to ensure the coverage level you specify. Learn more! Recent court ruling shows GPL has teeth Phil Odence: Think about the teeth of a saw. Very useful, but requiring understanding and care. It's surprising how misunderstood the license is, especially given its popularity. Read More Oracle Gobbles Up Open Source I have been thinking about the different ways that Oracle and Microsoft have chosen to compete against the open source community and its many projects. Oracle's strategy; just buy them up. Read More Even Bill and Ted Had To Grow Up, So Does Open Source Alan Shimel: Matthew Aslett over on the 451 Chaos Theory blog responded to my post about Open Source 4.0 not ushering in a golden new age of open source. Read More Adobe Flash Zero Day Puts Android Smartphones at Risk Adobe revealed a critical zero day flaw in Adobe Flash--the second in less than a week. The vulnerability extends even to Adobe Flash on the Android mobile OS. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router Looking for routers that offer the scalability to extend your reach with cost-effective, feature-rich platforms that consolidate and deliver the business, residential and mobile services your customers demand? For a limited time, introductory kits are available for the newest additions to the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR portfolio. Read Now Open source IQ test How much do you really know about the technicalities and history of the open source and free software movements? Read More Froyo drinks Eclair's Android milkshake Jon Brodkin: Ah, how fast time flies in the brave new world of Google's Android. Only a few weeks ago, a lucky few of us rejoiced as we started playing with "Froyo," the much-hyped version 2.2 of the Android mobile phone operating system, which replaced 2.1, code-named "Éclair." Read More Linux Wi-Fi Gets Easier with New Broadcom Driver Wireless chip maker Broadcom on Thursday announced good news for Linux users in the form of a fully open wireless driver that's compatible with the operating system. Read More Fact or Fiction? Top 8 Linux Myths Debunked If the idea of using Linux in your business is one that makes you nervous, chances are you've fallen prey to one or more of the many myths out there that are frequently disseminated by competing vendors such as Microsoft. Read More Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for more news Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More
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