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Submission + - Citigroup to buy Red Hat (reuters.com)

Submitted by DigDuality
DigDuality writes: Citigroup said Red Hat Inc, which posted strong quarterly results on Wednesday, is a potential takeover target as the Linux software maker's strategy attracts the attention of larger technology firms.Citigroup and RBC Capital raised their price targets on Red Hat, which also forecast full-year results in line with market estimates."We believe Red Hat is a tempting acquisition target," Citigroup analyst Brent Thill wrote in a note to clients.
Music

Submission + - ISPs may back out of RIAA Deal If Press is Bad (zdnet.com)

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DigDuality
DigDuality writes: "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the lobbying group representing the four largest recording companies, said last month that it had enlisted the help of ISPs as part of a new antipiracy campaign. The RIAA has declined to identify which ISPs or how many. The good news? The half dozen companies (in particular AT&T and Comcast) are "skittish" about negative press and could still back out, said the sources. But as it stands, AT&T and Comcast are among the companies that have indicated they wish to participate in what the RIAA calls a "graduated response program." Bad press may never look so good."
GNOME

Submission + - Gnome Has a Screen Real Estate Problem (tuxtraining.com)

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DigDuality
DigDuality writes: "Ever compare screen space between Gnome and Windows? Or even OS X for that matter. It seems Gnome in almost all areas, Window Manager bars, buttons, font sizes, window borders, panel bars as well as in other areas just eats up a ton of space. If you happen to be the owner of a wide screen you are even more out of luck as Gnome continues to build applications vertically (large buttons, tabs, etc.). This could pose huge usability and productivity losses for new comers and have them running back to their originating OS. Ubuntu's brainstrom is littered with complaints concerning how screen space is simply not properly utilized in default installs (1, 2, 3, 4), though the complaint is with Gnome, not Ubuntu specifically. There are tweaks the end user can do for now, but this is a larger issue that Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gnome themselves will have sooner or later if they ever wish to truly grab a larger user base."
Linuxcare

Submission + - SPAM: 15 Tips to Improve your Linux Experience 1

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Hungry Hacker
Hungry Hacker writes: "The beauty of Linux is in users ability to do large amount of customization to have a unique user experience. So today we will look in to some tips for a "better" Linux experience. The term "better" here is relative, because what works for me might seem a distraction for some or plain annoying to others; some of this "tips" might appeal to beginners, while advanced users might find it too easy. Hopefully some of these tips will be helpful to some of you."
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Red Hat Software

Submission + - Jefferies downgrades Red Hat due to virtualization (barrons.com)

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AlexGr
AlexGr writes: "By Eric Savitz (Barron's): Red Hat shares are lower this morning after Jefferies & Co.'s Katherine Egbert cut her rating on the stock to Hold from Buy, trimming her price target ot $19 from $23. Her primary issue with the stock: the impact server virtualization has on Linux demand. "In ongoing attempts to reduce the cost of maintaining their compute infrastructures, many companies have looked in recent years to the cost savings offered migrating legacy Unix systems to lower cost Linux servers," she explains. "However, there is now a greater opportunity to reduce costs via virtualization, as technology from VMware allows Unix and Unix apps to be run in a virtualized container on existing hardware, even alongside Windows. This direct-to-virtualization solution negates the need for new Lintel hardware to support legacy systems. New servers are also increasingly shipped with Windows + VMware, further robbing Linux of market share at the OEM level." http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/12/10/red-hat-jefferies-downgrades-hurt-by-virtualization/"
Patents

Submission + - Show Us the Code made to be silent

Submitted by
DigDuality
DigDuality writes: "Show Us the Code, previously featured on Slashdot had an era of silence. May came, the time period alotted for Ballmer's bluff to be called but the site gave no update. Being abandoned since March 23rd the site now explains its silence. After an interview with Dan Lyons got canceled and my place of employment falsely accusing me of representing them to further my own political goals I decided it was best to be able to pay my bills and shut my mouth.

Though, one is glad to see Linus echoing the same sentiments of this site publicly now. Maybe someone already used to the limelight can better cancel out the FUD machine."
Patents

Submission + - Microsoft Gives Xandros Linux Users Patent Protect

Submitted by DigDuality
DigDuality writes: Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a set of broad collaboration agreements with Linux provider Xandros that include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros customers.

Will the response to Xandros be similar to that of Novell? We can only hope.

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