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The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today. With a rich and deep agenda built around the concept of emerging business models and the best strategies for incorporating the strategies for open source software into growing your business, OSBC makes the argument that every enterprise is, or should be, a data-driven business today.  As the IT industry's only forum for discussing how to reap profits from using open source software, OSBC brings together a vibrant group of the industry's top practitioners, venture capitalists, lawyers and thought leaders for two days of in-depth presentations and lively discussions and panels. By being the leading conference for educating top tier executives on the value of the open source market place, OSBC provides the latest in cutting-edge open source thinking. OSBC offers the change to connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open source Big Data technologies, teaching attendees the strategies to making your business more effectively data-driven.

Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding, Dan Behman Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR 2005 ISBN/ASIN: 013147751X ISBN-13: 9780131477513 Number of pages: 456 Description: The biggest factor in a company's decision to go with Linux is overcoming the support issues. This book should be an essential part of every company's Linux adoption plan to keep the total cost of ownership down and improve the ROI of their Linux strategy. It is also a book that advanced Linux professionals running their own Linux systems will be able to use to troubleshoot. This book gives the staff the basics they need to diagnose most problems that they will face and will go into the nitty-gritty on the toughest problems.    Download or read it online here: Download link    (4.4MB, PDF)

the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC's without Windows

GNUDroid is a project meant to create an Android implementation using Free Software components borrowed from GNU Classpath and OpenJDK. This will be the IcedRobot Micro Edition.

"We made the change, quite honestly, because we are absolutely making a set of steps that make it more difficult for competitors that wish to provide support services on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens tells The Register, before naming those competitors. "Today, there are two competitors that I'm aware of that go to our customers directly, offering to support RHEL directly for them...Oracle and Novell."

Several readers have pointed out this interview with Maximilian Attems, posted by Raphaël Hertzog. Therein, Maximilian states that, while the cross-distribution cooperation on the 2.6.32 kernel has been a great thing, Red Hat is making things harder by shipping its RHEL 6 kernel source as one big tarball, without breaking out the patches. Your editor has downloaded the 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6 source package and verified that this is the case.