Liberate Your iPod

by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at 11:11 pm · Comments
Categorized by Misc / Related Information

I agree with the use of OGG, but FLAC? Eh, it’s a little much for a portable player if you ask me.

I had the idea for an iPod liberation event several months ago. The idea is something similar to a GNU/Linux install-fest but for Digital Audio Players with RockBox and iPodLinux. Installers gain the ability to play Vorbis and FLAC (among many other things) and lose the ability to do DRM. I would never recommend buying an iPod but we need to face the fact that there are millions of these things now. A good reinstall with a free and open platform seems like a good start…. Source: copyrighteous

Could I Run a TV Station on Linux

by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at 11:06 pm · Comments
Categorized by Talk / Related Information

Generally not something that I would think to ask myself, but this person asks what I consider to be a facinating question: Can someone run a TV station on Linux?

“I217;m working with a low-power television station to update their playback system. Currently they’;re using tape and I̵7;ve been tasked to move them to computerized playback (MPEG-2, etc.) There are proprietary solutions (very expensive) and there are companies that bundle software with Windows and standard x86 hardware. Overall, they are generally unimpressive and won’t sell the software without bundling it with their own hardware….. Source: Slashdot

NH station relaunches as ‘My TV’

Red Hat hires ex-IBM channel exec

by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at 11:00 pm · Comments
Categorized by Linux / Related Information

In reality, this is not all that shocking as Red Hat frankly needs a little of the IBM magic. Red Hat is a good company, but this latest recruitment will only prove to serve them well.

Red Hat has hired Mark Enzweiler, a Lenovo executive who spent 25 years at IBM, to be its vice president of North American channel sales, the Linux seller said Wednesday. Channel sales are directed toward business partners that typically build products into broader or customized products of their own or sell them to a particular market such as small businesses.

He was vice president of global channel strategy and sales at Lenovo and held several posts at IBM, including vice president of North American channel sales and director of global sales. Enzweiler will report to Ed Boyajian, Red Hat’s vice president of strategic alliances. Source: CNET

Linux, PDAs and consumer goods drive IT growth

by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at 10:58 pm · Comments
Categorized by Linux / Related Information

Things are changing. And with the growth of Linux powered handheld devices and the fact that they are being built by the truckload overseas, I suspect that we are in for a real shift in the portable market very soon.

Internet-related investments in Linux servers, PDAs, digital storage and new portable consumer products will be the highest growth areas in the global IT market in the next year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The OECD’;s biennial IT Outlook report predicts the worldwide IT sector to grow at six per cent in 2006, with growth fairly evenly-balanced across the world’s industrialised nations.

The report said: R20;Overall the prospects for continuing balanced and sustained growth at a relatively high rate are good but a return to the unsustainable annual rates of 20 to 30 per cent growth of the late 1990s is unlikely.”̷0;. Source: Silicon.com

Linux growth ‘to outstrip Windows by a factor of 3′

In Which I Become Most Seriously Displeased With LenovoR30;

Novell goes for SCO’s throat

by Matt Hartley on October 3, 2006 at 11:11 pm · Comments
Categorized by Misc / Related Information

For once, I am really impressed with Novells corporate actions. Ripping on SCOs lifeline ought to help shut them up for a little while, anyway.

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