Ubuntu Wants a Bigger Piece of Desktops, Servers
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| The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes
| continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the
| server and garnering additional corporate support.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2098141,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Google revamps Summer of Code for 2007
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| Google's Summer of Code (SOC) will be back again this year, and this
| time, Google plans to take advantage of lessons learned to improve
| the program for everyone involved.
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/22/160212&from=rss
Related:
Google goes its own way
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| He says using open source gives Google a competitive advantage,
| since its engineers can customise the software as they see fit,
| for example by creating the Goobuntu flavour of the Ubuntu Linux
| distribution. This makes their applications run more
| efficiently.
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| "Good friendly distributions with good friendly community members"
| is the way to convince consumers to choose Linux over Windows for
| their desktops," he says. "It's legitimate for people to be
| suspicious of free things. I think it scares people away
| sometimes."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3949278a28.html
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