Some August Meeting Links

[On-topic]

Plone (content management system; GPL) and Wubi (unofficial
Windows-based installer for Ubuntu; GPL) were demo'd

http://plone.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(software)

http://wubi-installer.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu)

2007 Desktop Linux Market Survey
http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/survey/survey.cgi?view=archive&id=0813200712407
Highlights:

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Distros: *buntu ~30%, openSUSE ~20%, Debian ~12%, Gentoo ~7%, Fedora
~6%, Mandriva (+ ancestors) ~3%, all others <3% each
Windowing Environments: GNOME ~45%, KDE ~35%, Xfce ~8%, Fluxbox ~4%,
all others <2% each
Web Browsers: Firefox (+ Iceweasel) ~60%, Konqueror ~14%, Opera ~12%,
all others <5% each
E-mail programs: Thunderbird (aka Icedove) ~30%, Evolution 25%,
Web-based ~17%, KMail ~14%, all others <4% each.
Running windows apps in Linux: Wine ~32%, "I don't" 28%, VMWare ~19%,
VirtualBox ~6%, Cedega ~5%, all others <4%
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[of interest]
Apple Now Third Biggest Laptop Seller in the US
("17.6% of the laptop market; that's one of every six sold")
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/apple-now-third.html
[OT: M$ Sideshow]
M$ Patch Tuesday caused Skype outage Thursday
http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/08/what_happened_on_august_16.html
Weekend M$ WGA Problem incorrectly labels 12K innocent people as pirates
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070827-microsoft-12000-systems-affected-by-wga-outage.html
M$ OOXML Shenanigans in Sweden
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070829070630660
Illinois' Ministry of IT and Propaganda
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/CaseStudyDetails.mspx?recid=57
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117374336173334742-0t8WLwdFNFNhmcynmJ8dS7hIX1g_20070320.html?mod=blogs
The State of Illinois in recently consolidated its IT systems onto
Microsoft software -- and has no interest in using Linux, says Paul
Campbell, director of the state's Central Management Services
department. "We don't have time for science projects in state
government," he says.
"Tilt bits" and "the longest suicide note in history"
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
CK