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Linux Foundation announces new membership perks

Great news, Linux users! The Linux Foundation is rolling out new individual membership benefits, including employee purchase pricing on Dell, Lenovo and HP devices. This translates to up to 40% off of store prices. Plus, you can get an @linux.com email address, and the peace of mind knowing that some portion of your membership dues will be going to directly support the continued work of Linus Torvalds!

The Linux Foundation Announces New, Exclusive Perks for Individual Members

Members support the organization that promotes and protects Linux while getting new employee purchase pricing from major PC makers

SAN FRANCISCO, October 13, 2009 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced new, exclusive benefits for individual members, including employee purchase pricing from Dell, HP and Lenovo, and the opportunity to secure a Linux.com email address for life.

Beginning today, Linux Foundation individual members can get up to 40 percent off of Lenovo devices and standard employee purchase pricing from Dell and HP. Dell also offers a best price guarantee to Linux Foundation members. These benefits can translate into hundreds or thousands of dollars for those who purchase their devices as part of this program.

Existing members that would like to ensure their Linux.com email address is permanent and not dependent on Linux Foundation membership renewal can elect to secure it with a one-time $150 fee. New members who want the same benefit will pay a total of $249 for the first year’s membership and the lifetime benefit. Linux.com email addresses allow members to publicly represent their support for Linux and to demonstrate their community participation.

Students can also now become members with a student-class membership for $25 annually. Students find value in Linux Foundation events and online resources and help to drive the adoption of Linux among up-and-coming developers and IT managers. The Linux Foundation wants to encourage participation in the Linux community among this important group of future developers.

“Our individual members are the heartbeat of the Linux Foundation and we will continue to find ways to extend special benefits to them,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “Perks like the employee purchase discounts from Dell, HP and Lenovo and lifetime Linux.com email addresses are unique things we can offer to sustain support for Linux.”

By becoming a member of the Linux Foundation, developers and users are helping the organization that employs Linus Torvalds and supporting programs that promote and protect Linux. Individual membership helps connect developers, IT administrators, and business executives with unique information, tools and events that help to advance their careers and stay current with the Linux platform.

The annual membership fee for individuals is $99, which pays for itself quickly with just one of the discounts offered exclusively to Linux Foundation members.

Other discounts and benefits available to individual members include:

§      30% discount on the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon and Japan Linux Symposium events;

§      20% discount on registration fees for Linux Foundation training courses;

§      35% off O’Reilly books and e-Books;

§      35% off No Starch Press Publications;

§      15% off subscriptions to Linux Journal;

§      $10 off every $40 order on ThinkGeek.com;

§      a free Linux Foundation t-shirt for proclaiming support for Linux; and

§      a weekly “Linux Briefing Book” in the form of an exclusive email with highlighted news and analysis to keep users well informed.

To join the Linux Foundation and to see a full list of benefits and discounts, please visit our membership page: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual

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About the Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit the Linux Foundation website.

Motorola quietly takes one step away from LiMo, looks to Android for consolation

Man, remember LiMo? Amazingly, there are some 40 handsets on the market today based on the platform, but precisely none of them are boasting a profile as high as any one of the Android smartphones also on store shelves. As Motorola scrambles to re-make itself and prove that its CLIQ is a force to be reckoned with in the burgeoning Android phone sector, the company has also decided to remove itself as a “founding member” of the LiMo Foundation. The company recently noted that the outfit was sliding down to “associate member,” stating that “at this time it feels that the Android platform gives it a richer, more consistent foundation with strong support for the ecosystem and developer community.” That’s a pretty damning statement to our ears, but we won’t go so far as to call the breakup between Moto and LiMo official; we’re guessing “it’s complicated” would be entirely more appropriate here.

[Via phonescoop]

Filed under: Cellphones, Software

Motorola quietly takes one step away from LiMo, looks to Android for consolation originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fun With Linux Commands [Image Cache]

Ah, so this is the reason why people don’t consider Linux user friendly. [Geeks Are Sexy]

Australian power grid attacked by virus, Linux saves the day

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of an institutional virus outbreak — even the crew of the International Space Station had a neat little scare not too long ago — and now various outlets in Australia are reporting that Integral Energy, which supplies energy to homes and businesses in New South Wales and Queensland, has suffered a particularly nasty visit by the W32.Virut.CF virus. When all was said and done, the company had to repair all 1000 of the facility’s desktops. Furthermore, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the company’s anti-virus software hadn’t been updated since at least February. Between the lack of anti-virus updates and the fact that segregation between the company’s main network and the grid was “typically none at all” this story has all the makings of a disaster. Luckily, the grid itself runs on Sun Solaris — and when control systems became infected, how did they fix the mess? That’s right: by replacing them with Linux machines. A word to the wise: they do make anti-virus auto-updates for a reason.

[Via The PC Report]

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Australian power grid attacked by virus, Linux saves the day originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Overheard at Phone Conference: “Nokia Will Never Release an Android Handset” [Overheard]

At the Swedish Finnish phonemaker’s booth, I overheard a Nokia rep say that Nokia “will never release an Android handset.” He added, “You can quote me on that,” which is good, because I am!

Nokia’s aging Symbian S60 OS isn’t maturing so well, as seen on their N97 handset, and though they’ve made some positive strides with Maemo, it sounds like they might be limiting themselves to those two OSes—at least until the market forces them elsewhere. On the other hand, the “No Android” statement was pretty obvious.

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