1189833722 | Open source apathy damages UK prospects | The UK's position as the open source laggard of Europe is preventing the growth of UK software industry and skills, according Alfresco, an open source enterprise content management company. | http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2E0D402A-DE18-4C9F-868E-194BF15F8A58 | ||
1189833802 | Software patents not GPL3 to kill open source? | Anyway, I think Stallman's ideas, though at times inflammatory, are definitely worth a few minutes, perhaps while you put those finishing touches on your "Mouse Pad for Lefties" patent submission. | http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/09/software_patent.html?source=rss | ||
1189833872 | Root-locked Linux for the masses | At the heart of the Trusted Computing Project is a £200 black box, about the size of those funny little Mac boxes, running a root-locked Ubuntu distribution. The user pays an annual fee of £50 for secure support from a proper Linux geek. | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/14/linux_box/ | ||
1189834009 | Could AMD move open desktop Linux market? | AMD?s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best news desktop Linux has had in a long time. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427 | ||
1189834097 | SCO Thrown Out of Court (That's Just on Top of Bankruptcy!) | When it rains, it pours, they say. First, SCO files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and now on the same day Judge Dale Kimball has denied SCO's Motion for Reconsideration or Clarification of the August 10, 2007 Order. | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914204749110 | ||
1189834199 | OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 Quietly Released | The official release of OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 is scheduled for Monday, September 17, but it is available already. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA2MA | ||
1189834276 | If Linux server adoption is slowing, then my name is Steve Ballmer | Linux adoption in the enterprise is slowing down? Not so fast says one analyst firm, which took a closer look at a report that showed Linux adoption slowing from the significant growth rates of the past few years. | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/13/if-linux-server-adoption-is-slowing-then-my-name-is-steve-ballmer/ | ||
1189834384 | Microsoft's plans for XP | In yet another conspiracist theory, I explain how Microsoft plans to phase out XP and force upgrades to Vista. | http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/92724/index.html | ||
1189834503 | How Microsoft Blogging PR Works | Employees are certainly a group over which Microsoft can exact some control and that can spin information to the company's advantage. Many of the employee blogs are PR. They are Microsoft spin. | http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/how_microsoft_blogging_pr_works.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 | ||
1189858170 | NGOs save with open source | Its announcement comes on the eve of international Open Source Day, which Sangonet describes as ?a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues of free and open source software (FOSS)?. | http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2007/0709141036.asp?S=Open%20Source&A=LIN&O=FPTOP | ||
1189858281 | HP user group looks for Linux desktop from vendor | Illgen said he is running Linux on a desktop PC with a Pentium 4 processor and 512MB of memory, and the system is "doing everything I need to do and then some." | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=12&articleId=9036682&intsrc=hm_topic | ||
1189858359 | A letter to the Wall Street Journal - Open Source | As an executive with a growing open source company, I wanted to respond to a statement you made in your Wall Street Journal Personal Technology column. | http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/BobZurek?entry=a_letter_to_the_wall | ||
1189858456 | Inna Kuznetsova, Global Executive for Linux, IBM | Sitting at the helm of IBM's strategy pulpit on Linux is Inna Kuznetsova, who recently took over the role from long-time IBM Linux executive Scott Handy. | http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3699706 | ||
1189858541 | Caldera RIP Version 7.22 Debuts | Caldera Graphics has launched version 7.22 of its wide-format RIP solution. Now installable on Kubuntu 7.04 (an easier-to-use, more stable, and universally adopted Linux system, Caldera reports), the RIP's new features include... | http://www.bigpicture.net/index.php?openchan=yes&channelnum=5&content=4228&displaynow=yes | ||
1189947569 | More food and football with Mark Shuttleworth (with Video) | On the last question (How did you build community where others failed?), Mark was very humble. He suggested the following reasons for Ubuntu's community support... | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9779167-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1189987318 | FOSS is better 'alternative' to pirated software--advocate | While government continues to battle pirated software use in the country, local open source advocates will, for one day, show that there is freely available open source software that Filipinos can now use. | http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=88894 | ||
1189987375 | Forum: Revisiting our national IP opportunity | Last week I noticed that a commentor on the New Zealand Open Source Society took issue with the suggestion “GrAnt05s” (sometimes I could hate the internet) argues that while my idea may have some immediate appeal “it is likely to have some serious unintended consequences”. | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/E999B03CF115905ACC257356000AEFD3 | ||
1189987446 | Kanotix 2007 Thorhammer RC6 Screenshots | Kanotix 2007 Thorhammer RC6 has been released, which signifies re-basing Kanotix against Debian Etch as opposed to Debian Sid. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=840&num=1 | ||
1189987522 | KOffice 2 on Windows and KDE 4 themes | Of course everyone is waiting for Oxygen and the great things the developers will produce, but in the end one of the great things of KDE is that you can modify it so much. And in this regard it is a very good sign that themes for KDE 4 appear: it shows that KDE 4 is real and already created the first bits of an ecosystem | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/koffice-2-on-windows-and-kde-4-themes/ | ||
1189988150 | Media Moguls Exposed - Full Archives of Leaked E-mails | Enjoy and share. | http://antitrust.slated.org/media-defender/index.html | ||
1189990444 | Why Novell Harms GNU/Linux | Novell?s deal has an impact on a variety of other things, including the European Commission?s antitrust ruling. Novell is also engaged in supporting technology that helps Microsoft stifle the adoption of Linux. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/16/novell-harms-linux/ | ||
1190022505 | Russia blindly voted for Microsoft office standard | CNews found out the Russian Technical Committee Information Technology, which was to study OpenXML, did not cope with the task in time and handed down no expert opinion. | http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F09%2F12%2F265876 | ||
1190084611 | FOSSFA calls for use of open hardware | "No government should allow its freedom of choice to be restricted by the chance of prior hardware purchases. The fact of the matter is that government is a major purchaser of hardware and it can use that power to enforce openness among manufacturers and their products," he said | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1725 | ||
1190084673 | Ubuntu Finland delivered Ubuntu to Finnish parliament representatives | Ubuntu Finland has sent Ubuntu CDs and information about Ubuntu, Linux and free (as in freedom) software to each parliament representative of Finland in the beginning of September. | http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/Wiki/Press_release-Ubuntu_CDs_for_Finnish_parliament_representatives | ||
1190084784 | Tamil Nadu's software exports grow 46 pc with GNU/Linux | Karunanidhi also unveiled version 2.0 of the Bharat Operating System, which is based on the Linux platform. The Tamil Nadu government uses the Linux platform for official use, having chosen not to buy Microsoft Windows. | http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/Tamil_Nadus_software_exports_grow_46_pc/articleshow/2377822.cms | ||
1190106488 | Holland's Decision on open source in December | If the outcome is positive, 10,000 municipality employees will change to open source software. | http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source.htm | ||
1190106583 | World Bank to support establishment of Technology Park with Linux | ...there is the need for an alternative system such as the Linux whose application and operations would be free of charge. The Director of Busy-Internet, a private ICT facility, Ms Estelle Akofio-Sowah, said although government was doing well in embracing the ICT process wholly, government needed to be more aggressive. | http://www.kessbenfm.com/biz_read.php?nid=1052 | ||
1190106680 | Reasons to Switch to Ubuntu from Microsoft Windows | There are many valid reasons to switch from Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu Linux. Both the general computer user and corporations can benefit from the switch to Ubuntu. Do not worry if you have never heard of Ubuntu, I will| briefly introduce you to the best free Linux distribution available. | http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/377485/reasons_to_switch_to_ubuntu_from_microsoft.html | ||
1190106728 | Bidding on Linux | And this auction, like all the others her father and his fellow auctioneers have held for the past four years, will run on Linux. | http://technology.inc.com/managing/articles/200006/19382.html | ||
1190156530 | Broadcom Joins the LiMo Foundation as a Leading Semiconductor Provider for | Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that it has joined the LiMo Foundation as one of its first semiconductor suppliers. | http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?tick=VOD&newsid=6113695 | ||
1190156729 | Why Windows Users Are Insane | Yes, a few evolutionary throwbacks will build and maintain Free and Open Source Software, but they're a dying breed. I see it now: we Linux users are relics from a bygone time when you OWNED the computer you paid for and were allowed to use it. | http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=why_windows_users_are_insane&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 | ||
1190156841 | Lack of license fee draws UK firms to open source | Almost half (48%) of UK financial services and public sector organizations already use open source software, according to research by business intelligence firm Actuate. | http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=988E0D14-C37E-49AF-951C-F0E1D26468FA | ||
1190156947 | Wind River and Celunite Partner to Deliver Advanced Platform for Linux | By integrating the Celunite mobile Linux platform, mobile applications suite and development tools with Wind River's Linux kernel and development tools, the companies will significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for the entire mobile phone industry - chipset manufacturers, OEMs, integrators and operators. | http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/09/18/businesswire20070917006606r1.html?partner=moreover%20partner#6615473455407348943 | ||
1190157037 | Open Mobile Alliance to Support Mobile Linux Handsets | The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum says has established a formal liaison and framework for cooperation between the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and LiPS. | http://www.cellular-news.com/story/26100.php | ||
1190157129 | Naval Surface Warfare Center Selects SGI Altix for Modeling of Warhead Imp | Running on industry standard SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell(R), the new system also features 28TB of RAID storage in two SGI InfiniteStorage 220 direct attached systems for data consolidation. | http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/92819/index.html | ||
1190157201 | Movial Announces Linux Support for Mobile Internet Devices | Movial today announced Linux support for Intel-based Mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The company already supports these devices with converged IP communications capabilities, such as video telephony, presence, instant messaging and video sharing, through its software platform, Communicator. | http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070918005584&newsLang=en | ||
1190157405 | Linux - You Can Do It! | If you haven't tested the Linux waters yet, now's the time. In this starter guide—and in step-by-step instructions—we'll help you every inch of the way And you don't have to give up using Windows. | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2177657,00.asp | ||
1190157668 | Moonlight a Second-class Citizen in a WindowSilverLight Wide Web | Yet again, Novell is giving Microsoft the pleasure of saying that their technologies (e.g. Silverlight, OOXML) are widely supported (never mind the disturbing notion of ?licensed?) and include Linux | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/18/mono-moonlight-silverlight/ | ||
1190176101 | Netherlands Picks ODF!! | From Dutch: "On behalf of the Dutch government, Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for all governmental organisations." [Wikipedia lists many more countries] | http://minez.nl/content.jsp?objectid=153176&rid=home | ||
1190192624 | Solutions Providers High Five Fast Growth Vendors | Hart sees the Linux open source momentum continuing with wider possible adoption of Linux on the desktop. "It has already taken place on the backend," he said. "As a professional services company we are hopeful Linux and open source on the desktop is going to be a growth opportunity like identity management." | http://www.crn.com/it-channel/201807249 | ||
1190192947 | KDE Windows Developers Meet in Berlin | The hackers goal is to integrate all tools into a complete solution to build and distribute KDE on Windows, thus obsoleting the fairly complex build description on KDE TechBase. | http://dot.kde.org/1190143020/ | ||
1190193079 | Linux, Java entertain in flight | Aonix says its embedded Java stack was selected for a Linux-based in-flight entertainment system for corporate jets. Expected to ship in "tens of thousands" of planes starting in 2009, the system is based on a port of the PERC Ultra JVM to ARM's new EABI (embedded application binary interface). | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5396911719.html | ||
1190193219 | A Free Software Week quandary | "A lot of significantly sized companies have been using more open source software," Gould said. "A lot of the concerns they had, like quality, security and support, have been mostly addressed." | http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=726d481b-298a-49ec-bcce-c3a8465e6927 | ||
1190235839 | Novell’s Microsoft Deal — The “Advantage” That Wasn’t | Novell’s attraction stayed relatively flat whereas Red Hat demand was up sharply. Novell’s bragging about patents and interoperability as a competitive advantage no longer sits right. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/17/linux-novell-advantage/ | ||
1190237323 | Virtual computing goes mainstream for all | The ability to ?play? virtual machines and treat them like appliances that can be easily turned on and off has also become quite popular, allowing users to easily download, for example, a simplified version of Linux with enough power to run the Firefox browser, letting users surf sites... | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14527/1103/ | ||
1190237448 | PCLinuxOS - the new "Number One" distribution (DistroWatch) | PCLinuxOS As many of you noticed, PCLinuxOS has overtaken Ubuntu in our Page Hit Ranking statistics and is currently occupying the top spot on the default 6-month view for the first time. | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070917#editorial | ||
1190237529 | Taming the GIMP with KDE window-specific settings | There are many window-specific settings that you can change in KDE to tailor the GIMP, or any application. By modifying various settings, you can get GIMP to behave the way you want and better suit your work style. Experiment with the various settings until you get the perfect combination. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119214 | ||
1190321007 | Danish school kid's verdict on the OLPC laptop: It's cool! | "I think we could make good use of it in my class," said Karl Emil as he tries to grab the XO from us in order to take it to school the following day. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=541246057&rid=-50 | ||
1190321113 | Can Ubuntu Linux Really Run My Small Business? | Chris Dawson, founder of Box Populi in Portland thinks it is. "Linux is not perfect, but it works better than anything else that's out there. It's far superior." | http://biz.yahoo.com/allbiz/070919/4353657_id.html?.v=1 | ||
1190321235 | Serverwide Performance Benchmarking | Based on my benchmark numbers I think there are a few statements that can be labeled "conclusions": Tuning your database performance parameters is the best way to improve overall system throughput on a shared database and webserver... | http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/server-wide-performance-benchmarking.php | ||
1190321555 | Linux Kernel: Additional CFS Benchmarks | Rob briefly summarized, "the only analysis I'll offer is that both sd and cfs are improvements, and I'm glad that there is a lot of work being done in this area of linux development. Much respect to Con Kolivas, Ingo Molnar, and Roman Zippel, as well all the others who have contributed." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Additional_CFS_Benchmarks | ||
1190321761 | (Mis-)Reporting Microsoft and the EU | What utter PR-induced rubbish. What is at question is NOT whether Microsoft is simply in a market leading position, or how they were shipping innovative features, but rather whether they abused a market dominant position with anti-competitive practices. | http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/09/mis-reporting-m.html | ||
1190321835 | Sabayon, the Gentle Gentoo | Gentoo, formerly known as Enoch Linux is one of the pioneers among the Linux distributions. It is well-known and loved for its speed (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin), and hated for its unfriendliness with Linux newbies. Thus, many flavours of Gentoo have been created including this highly capable one named Sabayon. | http://junauza.blogspot.com/2007/09/sabayon-gentle-gentoo.html | ||
1190321928 | KateOS - Getting Better with Age | All in all, I saw some wonderful improvements with the inclusion of the new graphical installer and katepkg. I like the new look. There were some handy gui tools to configure your system. The included software was sufficient and the repositories were amply populated, well other than the wpa thing. | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/20198 | ||
1190322096 | On Behalf of BusyBox Developers, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation | The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL)... | http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,182497.shtml | ||
1190322576 | Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open stan | The stated rationale for this legislation is that “open standards will contribute to an increased number of bidders for government contracts and will increase opportunities for Russian software developers... [and] the problem of interoperability will be addressed as will the ability to access information into the future.” | http://www.itrportal.com/absolutenm/templates/article-docsoft.aspx?articleid=4410&zoneid=57 | ||
1190364046 | Printing Trends in Linux | Print this article out a year or two from now and look back at it to consider how much the printing infrastructure has improved. | http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/20/printing-trends-in-linux.html | ||
1190364141 | Remember when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? | It's EASY to make money with Open Source. You simply provide great technology, superior service, innovative documentation, good prices, honest sales and insanely great follow-up. The companies that get this are tomorrow's open source success stories. How many can you name? | http://weblog.infoworld.com/ittroubleshooter/archives/2007/09/remember_when_m.html | ||
1190364237 | Microsoft Gets Rejected by the Open Source Initiative | But the two primary criticisms of the MPL are valid, Tiemann said. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2185919,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 | ||
1190364321 | IBM open source strategy becomes clearer | So OpenOffice now has two suites, based on the same format, just as Apache has multiple projects. You can get the software free from IBM, you can buy IBM support, you can get it through OpenOffice, you can add to it as part of the community. It?s your choice. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1449 | ||
1190364389 | MadWifi developers move to ath5k | We, the MadWifi team, announce our decision to move away from the binary-only HAL and change the focus of our future development towards ath5k [1], a completely free (as in freedom) driver which will eventually become an integral part of the Linux kernel. | http://lwn.net/Articles/250718/ | ||
1190364463 | Linux Benchmarks: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + 8800GTS 640MB | The performance regression fix is very apparent! | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=851&num=1 | ||
1190401699 | Linux-Windows Interoperability is Set Free | Novell’s so-called competitive advantage is short-lived, however, because the ruling is Europe is bound to force Microsoft to give up its secrets, i.e. the protocols it ‘extended’ in order to stifle interoperability. Red Hat isn’t taking a passive stance either. It has already called for action. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/21/linux-windows-interoperability-free/ | ||
1190402124 | MontaVista Software Joins LiMo Foundation | MontaVista Software, Inc. has said that the company has joined the nonprofit LiMo Foundation to help LiMo’s mission of increasing the adoption of Linux operating system software in cell phones and other mobile devices. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/12170/montavista-software-joins-limo-foundation | ||
1190402240 | QNX Publishes Source Code for Multi-Core Support | On the heels of a dramatic shift to its software licensing and development models, QNX Software Systems has said that it has included source code for its symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities in the core QNX Neutrino realtime operating system (RTOS) source code repository. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/embedded/12182/qnx-publishes-source-code-multi-core-support | ||
1190402402 | Bank deploys GNU/Linux on Thousands of Desktops | The Linux desktop rollout will replace the Legacy OS/2 operating system, as well as approximately 4 000 Windows 2000 installations. | http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/1401.html | ||
1190402494 | A bid farewell to Singapore's open source advocate | In June that year, he helped the R&D institute--alongside partner Singapore/MIT Alliance--establish a Linux competency center in a bid to help companies set up clusters for engineering and product design work on the open source platform. | http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/btw/0,39056810,63000611,00.htm | ||
1190402576 | Review: Ark Linux H2O 2007.1 | Overall Ark is a pretty decent OS for the new user. It's got some rather bothersome show stopping bugs that need to be worked out before I can recommend it to new users, but like any little lump of coal, at some point in time it's going to turn into a little gem. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=304 | ||
1190402696 | Linux Rage Looks Likely | So there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth, that Linux Rage is coming to a computer near you soon enough after all. Probably... | http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1693.html | ||
1190434936 | Medvedev ? Reiman: 720 mln. for open source school software | The open source software developers were presented by the general directors of the companies ALTLinux - Alexey Smirnov, Linux Ink ? Leonid Soms, Infra-resource ? Nikolai Garbuz, Linux-Online executive director Timofei Korolev | http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F09%2F21%2F267224 | ||
1190435011 | OpenOffice.Org 3.0 feature list | OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2007) is taking place this week. Among the first information available is a talk about the future of OOorg. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/openofficeorg-30-feature-list/ | ||
1190435073 | Some New Anti-Linux FUD Is Born | Has Information Week declared a jihad against Linux or something? | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070921112733615 | ||
1190435203 | Largo Loves GNU/Linux | Largo system administrator Dave Richards and his coworkers are excited about bringing the 3-D Compiz-Fusion desktop to Largo. They currently have about 30 users testing it, and other city employees who have seen the demo desktops are begging to have it available on their accounts, too, so a citywide rollout is only a matter of time. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119109 | ||
1190435348 | Windows on the cheap with Open Source | To be fair, it's easier than you might think, especially these days, when Linux distros are mostly quicker and easier to install than Windows and come out straight off the bat with everything you'll need preloaded, but it's still a big, wrenching transition. | http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42541 | ||
1190435463 | De Facto Linux Winners (Hype Beats Independent Thinking?) | The business desktop world is still too uncertain for me to call, but it looks like Ubuntu is winning in the home Linux operating system market. This distribution continues to win awards and accolades for its features and has a devout following even though it's been in existence for a shorter period of time than most of its contemporaries. | http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=237 | ||
1190435540 | Aptana IDE Goes Dual License: APL & GPL | To that end, we have decided to add an additional license to the Aptana IDE: the GPL. This “dual license” model for the Aptana IDE means that it is now available under an OSI compliant open source license, the GPL, or under a permissive, non-GPL’d | http://www.aptana.com/blog/?p=184 | ||
1190483236 | Would You Use Proprietary Software Ported to GNU/Linux? | Justas Ingelevicius wrote in about an Autodesk international user group poll about non-Windows ports. | http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/09/would_you_use_proprietary_soft_1.html | ||
1190483324 | Delhi VAR Evolves Training Capsule for Linux Usage | He said Linux is the 'perfect match' for India's requirement and hastened to add that having developed the products and services, the challenge now is to take it to growing number of users and growing the incoming revenue. | http://www.channeltimes.com/India/News/Delhi_VAR_Evolves_Training_Capsule_for_Linux_Usage/551-83436-741.html | ||
1190483576 | Man wins damages from Acer over Windows refund | Initially, Acer had offered only €30 if the man returned elements of the install at his own expense . | http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42546 | ||
1190507137 | Will Microsoft Betray a ?Partner? Like Novell? Ask Cisco. | Openness replaced by interoperability. Does that ring the Novell/Microsoft bell? Same tactics, two separate companies. Extrapolating from the above, ?a Novell/Microsoft oligopoly stalls implementation, stifles innovation, and makes Linux less secure. In this way, Novell and Microsoft are standing in the way of progress.? | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/22/novell-cisco-similarity/ | ||
1190509945 | Mastering metrics: Ontario's five-year strategy plan | Developing efficient and transparent procurement standards in general is an emerging issue for government, says Dowler. In particular, the plan will focus on developing standards around procurement of open source software. | http://www.intergovworld.com/article/236a7e7e0a01040801b278f15ceda8c0/pg1.htm | ||
1190510015 | Should We Listen to Walt Mossberg? | I will say, that despite my respect for Mossberg, a lot of his complaints are the typical, vague oft-repeated observations based on an imperfect understanding about what Linux is and how a Linux | http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/mossberg.html | ||
1190510083 | SCO goes bankrupt, Blackboard take note | Due to SCO?s unsuccessful battle, this type of software protection racket will forever be associated with companies in their death throes. | http://blog.epic.co.uk/?p=94 | ||
1190510158 | OpenOffice.org Free Software Proves a Success at WalMart | On July 18th 2007, Everex launched its first 'Back to School' PC with OpenOffice.org 2.02 into WalMart stores throughout the United States. The response was fantastic. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/12215/openoffice-org-free-software-proves-success-walmart | ||
1190510230 | Open Source Meets Managed Services | As you may know, The VAR Guy is a bit of an open source fanatic ? regularly reading up about the Ubuntu Linux operating system at AllAboutUbuntu.com. If fact, he hears some rumblings that Untangle expects to leverage Ubuntu in the next few months. | http://techiqmag.com/2007/09/20/open-source-meets-managed-services/ | ||
1190560860 | Educating GNU/Linux users | More ? if you know more than somebody, as Ubuntu?s developers obviously do, you have an obligation to give them the opportunity. To do otherwise is to dismiss the average person as willfully ignorant. Possibly, I?m naive, but I?m not quite ready to regard others that way. | http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/educating-gnulinux-users/ | ||
1190560928 | JeOS - its marketing not a new concept | The concept of JeOS is nothing new. The neat and effective buzz word JeOS (pronounced "juice") was coined by VMware product manager Srinivas Krishnamurti on his blog back on July 9th. | http://bleedingedgeopensource.blogspot.com/2007/09/concept-of-jeos-is-nothing-new.html | ||
1190560995 | Mach Boot: The live CD that supposedly boots in 10 seconds | Mach Boot won't replace Knoppix, and it won't replace Puppy, DSL or NimbleX either. But it's a tool all its own, one that could be very useful with a little more development time. | http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/09/the_live_cd_that_supposedly_bo.html | ||
1190561071 | The Applets of KDE - Part 2 | Welcome to part 2 of our series on the Applets of KDE. So let's continue to look at what's available in KDE. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=305 | ||
1190561181 | Fedora reaching out to new niches | Another ambitious project is the Fedora Art Studio. This spin not only collects the tools into one package, it also pulls in content likely to be useful to artists, desktop publishers, animators, and other creative folks. | http://lwn.net/Articles/249251/ | ||
1190561272 | Asus' Linux & Menlow Based UMPC Leaked | Leaked shots have finally appeared late in the week of Asus' heavily anticipated Linux based 'ultra mobile PC': the R3. | http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-devices/news/2007/09/23/Asus-Linux-Menlow-Based-UMPC-Leaked/p1 | ||
1190561327 | Embracing Unix and Linux Desktops | Unix and Linux clients can do quite well on a Windows network. | http://mcpmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=345 | ||
1190579448 | Novell’s Identity Crisis Makes Linux an Expensive Second-class Windows | If you want Linux to stay Linux (as in “Linux is not Windows”), then do not choose Novell. Playing catch-up with Microsoft is the worst possible strategy. Paying Microsoft for Linux is a sin. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/23/novells-identity-crisis-makes-linux-an-expensive-second-class-windows/ | ||
1190590865 | Housing slump yields Microsoft loss on CFO's home | A Microsoft spokesman would not disclose details of the transaction, but said a bulk of that relocation expense was for a loss on the home's sale. | http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKN2142978520070921?rpc=44 | ||
1190590950 | Protest SF Mayor's praise of Sequoia voting machines | A new voting system based on open source software would be much better, fully transparent, and far less expensive. The could open the bid for such a system at any time. Even though no such system is currently certified, that work could be included in the bid. | http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_patricia_070923_protest_sf_mayor_s_p.htm | ||
1190591116 | Sabayon Linux 3.4 x86/x86-64 miniEdition [Stable Release] | Distribution updates 3.4: Improved OpenGL configuration reliability, NVIDIA Drivers updated to 100.14.19 Compiz Fusion stability fixes (will be soon enabled by default on the supported hardware), Boot time 15% faster. | http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=10483 | ||
1190640239 | Replies to Nonsense about Open Source | I see the aggregation model as a supermarket style business. When I shop at at supermarket, I expect that they will take a (small) cut from everything I buy, in return to dealing with many suppliers, bringing all the items I want to all to one place for me and providing a car park and shopping trolleys. | http://blog.interface21.com/main/2007/09/20/replies-to-nonsense-about-open-source/ | ||
1190640318 | Proprietary software and the fall of Rome | It is hard to lose to proprietary software vendors if an open-source project or company is even remotely credible, because we have cost, quality, model, and distribution on our side. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9783201-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1190640390 | KateOS 3.6 LiveCD Screenshots | Not only was this week marked by the Intel Developer Forum, but the final version of KateOS 3.6 was also released earlier in the week. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=855&num=1 | ||
1190640484 | SCO's Finances May Come Crashing Down | In August, Darl McBride, The SCO Group Inc.’s president and CEO, declared it “one of the more exciting times” ever for the software vendor. But by last week, the excitement had taken on a whole new dimension. | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=303613&intsrc=news_ts_head | ||
1190640649 | The OOXML Odyssey: Even Microsoft Employees Hate It | What does it say about Microsoft and its current OOXML push that our readers -- essentially, the home field for Microsoft in this contest -- are so clearly opposed to the Redmond-sponsored technology? | http://reddevnews.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=1238 | ||
1190640753 | Tiny Linux Kernel Redux | Andrew Morton suggested that patches should be sent to him to be merged into his -mm tree, aiming for inclusion in the mainline kernel, "seriously, putting this stuff into some private patch collection should be a complete last resort..." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Tiny_Linux_Redux | ||
1190675873 | Fedora 8 with NetworkManager 0.7 and KDE 4 development/runtime environment | The Fedora development branch got a set of new packages: NetworkManager was updated to a development snapshot of version 0.7, and KDE 4 base packages found their way into the repository. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/fedora-8-with-networkmanager-07-and-kde-4-developmentruntime-environment/ | ||
1190676008 | Security and bug fix infrastructures in distributions | In the world of open source operating systems, what exactly is it that differentiates the "big boys" from the "also runs"? Why is one distribution considered "major" or "mainstream", while another keeps being looked at as just somebody's "hobby project", irrespective of how many satisfied users it has? | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070924#news | ||
1190676130 | Linux startup moves desktop Windows to the data center | In the Solid ICE client interface, users can browse a selection of virtual machines and start the ones with the applications they need. Client systems may be Linux or Microsoft Windows PCs, thin clients, or, for customers who want to convert old PCs to lightweight systems | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-linux-virtualization.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1190676212 | From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual | Nationwide runs its Web servers in a zLinux environment on IBM zSeries mainframes, supporting 650 guest operating systems (VMs) today, with space for another 650 before additional hardware frames would be needed. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070924/tc_infoworld/91977 | ||
1190676323 | Pamela Jones gets gong | Groklaw mistress becomes Knowledge Master | http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42577 | ||
1190676393 | Little Linux Device Delivers Widgets Wirelessly | It's a mini computer running Linux with enough flash memory and RAM (random access memory) to run the small, simple applications called "widgets." | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59473.html | ||
1190714601 | Linux Sets Sail For Uncharted Waters | We have had our share and then some of publicity and news on the internet, and recently even Fox News has realized the importance and potential impact Linux will have on the computing world. | http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/325-Linux-Sets-Sail-For-Uncharted-Waters.html | ||
1190714620 | MEPIS AntiX on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb | In all, I think AntiX, and probably Mepis by extension, is worth trying out. If you like Fluxbox, I’d definitely suggest it. And since it did a fantastic job setting itself up on a very peculiar machine, it wins extra points with me. | http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/mepis-antix-on-450mhz-k6-2-256mb/ | ||
1190714697 | E-tailer cuts licensing costs with Linux server | An online retailer has saved more than ?56,000 in software licensing costs after moving its IT platform from Microsoft Windows to Linux. | http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/24/226987/e-tailer-cuts-licensing-costs-with-linux-server.htm | ||
1190714767 | Microsoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia | Croatian laws keep its national body’s votes secret, so the only way for the Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board membe illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course, unlikely to happen. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1 | ||
1190714864 | 2.6.23-rc8, "Getting Close" | "Ok, I think I'm getting close to releasing a real 2.6.23," began Linus Torvalds in his release announcement for the eighth release candidate of the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel. "Things seem to have calmed down, and I think Thomas Gleixner may have found the suspend/resume regression that has dogged us for a while, so I'm feeling happy about things." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/2.6.23-rc8_Getting_Close | ||
1190714966 | [Linux Mint] "Celena" is out! | This is Linux Mint 3.1, codename Celena, based on Cassandra and compatible with Ubuntu Feisty and its repositories. | http://linuxmint.com/celena.html | ||
1190715069 | The INQ guide to the baleful side of Microsoft PR bunnies | Burson M might have tried to advise against it, saying if the news gets out it will make Microsoft look sleazier than it already looks. | http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42582 | ||
1190715174 | PRISM Coalition lobbies against open access | Forces are mashaling to oppose the open access movement, the open source-inspired movement to make academic research publicly available online. The American Association of Publishers (AAP) recently announced the creation of the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM)... | http://www.linux.com/feature/119413 | ||
1190715252 | HPC Linux Software Vendor Clustercorp Taps Tech Data, Dell | The Round Rock,Tex.-based hardware vendor will purchase Clustercorp's HPC Linux-based software platform from Clearwater, Fla.-based Tech Data according to Clustercorp executives. The software and service products which include Clustercorp's Rocks + cluster computing operating system... | http://www.crn.com/software/202100107 | ||
1190715413 | ASUS R3 next-gen UMPC launched; ditches Windows for Linux [with Video] | ASUS R3 next-gen UMPC launched; ditches Windows for Linux | http://www.slashgear.com/asus-r3-next-gen-umpc-launched-ditches-windows-for-linux-247583.php | ||
1190715507 | Power.org spins dual-core PPC Linux dev kit | Power.org has announced a new Linux development kit and reference implementation for a dual-processor PowerPC chip. The announcement was made at the first-ever Power.org Developer's Conference in Austin, Texas, where planned updates to several PowerPC standards were announced... | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7904953344.html | ||
1190715573 | Virtual instrumentation tool adds uClinux on DSPs, MCUs | The two LabView 8.5 add-on updates bring support for uClinux on ADI's Blackfin DSPs (digital signal processors), and on TI's ColdFire MCUs (microcontroller units). | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2039697259.html | ||
1190715675 | Green Linux: Looking for Algae--the Next Voyage | The Linux Foundation has developed a new initiative to work on power management. This is good news. Linux can become (along with the choice for supercomputing, embedded systems and server farms) the "green operating system". | http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000309 | ||
1190740885 | UK patent office ponders fast-tracking patents and trade marks | "I'm not sure how attractive that will be because the applications still have to go through the three-month advertisement period and other steps," he said. "It's good to have an option for a faster system, but this is not a radical plan by any means." | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/ukipo_fast-tracking_consultation/ | ||
1190741042 | Linux crashes the mobile party | Very few people lie awake at night fretting over their choice of mobile operating system. In fact, very few people even know what operating system their handset uses. | http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39289595,00.htm?r=3 | ||
1190741110 | Wozniak hates Open Source | In an interview with eWeek, Woz said that there are always people who want things to be free and the open-source movement starts with those sort of people. | http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/09/25/wozniak-hates-open-sauce | ||
1190741187 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform | Other improvements to the operating system include the addition of around 200 new policies for SELinux, which will make it much easier for administrators to use the security subsystem to protect Linux servers from hackers. | http://www.pcauthority.com.au/review.aspx?CIaRID=5135 | ||
1190741577 | When open phones meet closed minds | The second aspect of this change is the availability of open phones. Not only are the phones open, but their operating systems are open too, running Linux. One of the world's first open-source mobile phones, First International Computer's (FIC) Neo1973, is due to be launched in autumn 2007... | http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,1000002985,39289506,00.htm?r=3 | ||
1190741681 | How to Quit Windows and cope with Windows Withdrawal Syndrome | Now that you have decided to quit Windows for good and to switch over to a Desktop Linux Distribution, following these basic steps will help you a lot. Initially, a basic knowledge about GNU/Linux is important. What is it really and how does it differ from Windows? | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=307 | ||
1190793001 | Qumranet reveals reason for all that KVM work | Given how much time and money it had sunk into KVM the Linux-based, open-source virtualization project, it's not a surprise that that stealth-mode start-up Qumranet was working on virtualization. But until Monday, the company refused to say just exactly how. | http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9783918-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 | ||
1190793072 | Sun Solaris Express Developer 9/07 | The quarterly release of Solaris Express Developer Edition is now available for download. Among the new features in Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 is a new Solaris installer, a GUI utility for DTrace with Sun Studio 12, and many updated packages. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=859&num=1 | ||
1190793219 | Linux phone specialist nets $14.5M investment | The Series A round reportedly will enable Purple Labs to expand into a "one-stop" hardware/software Linux device design center. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9554238577.html | ||
1190813611 | Microsoft won't commit to the open document standard it's pushing so hard | Now that's cynical. After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent standard -- a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember -- Microsoft won't agree to follow it. | http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3685&pagtype=all | ||
1190813720 | How worried should Microsoft be about open source? | Many governments are actively pushing people toward Linux, for political reasons. It's not just code ownership. Ubuntu actually leads Microsoft in localization, having built teams in many languages ? India alone has hundreds of languages. Not all are official, on either a federal or state level. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1466 | ||
1190813884 | Monolithic OS upgrades are so over | But if I can find all the drivers I need for Ubuntu then I may well make a permanent switch as all other issues aside I do find the regular, bite-sized upgrades of Linux so much more palatable. And I suspect that increasingly businesses will warm to this taste too. | http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006022o-2000331758b,00.htm | ||
1190814131 | Autodesk geography tool goes open source | The software will be released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public License), as with previous Autodesk open-source moves. | http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9784878-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 | ||
1190814314 | The inevitability of free software | Is software a product or a utility? Free software proponents say it's as critical to economic progress as fresh drinking water. | http://innovations.ziffdavis.com/2007/09/the_inevitability_of_free_soft.html | ||
1190817587 | Red Hat Does Well, But Why Does It Suddently Need Licensing? | Any detailed list of patents? Of course not. It?s a partnership in the clouds. Nothing has ever been shown or proven. Nothing was tested in court. Shades of SCO. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/26/red-hat-licensing/ | ||
1190853890 | New Loki Linux Games Repository Emerges | The folks over at Tux Games have opened up a repository containing a collection of old software titles ported by Loki Games. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA3Mw | ||
1190853984 | SI consolidates IBM mainframe, Unix, Linux and Windows on single box | Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI) has announced its line of plug-compatible mainframe computers, which can run z/OS as well as HP-UX, Windows and Linux simultaneously and on the same system. | http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1274056,00.html | ||
1190854056 | Enterprise Unix Roundup: RIP Unix? | I think, however, Weiss missed the point that Unix and Linux development are not necessarily mutually exclusive. This is especially true as flavors such as Sun's Solaris get more Linux-like functionality and wrappers are added. Compatibility problems are becoming increasingly moot as time goes on. | http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3701836 | ||
1190854145 | Five Ways GNU/Linux Is Better Than Windows Vista | A user or sysadmin posts about problems with a brand new Vista PC on a support forum. Within minutes, a "helpful" soul suggests a fix: "Install Linux!" | http://www.crn.com/software/202101693 | ||
1190854220 | The $0 Linux Laptop lives ... barely | So now I have experience with the Gateway and the older $15 Laptop, a Compaq Armada 7770DMT. | http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/09/the_0_laptop_lives_barely.html | ||
1190854291 | GIMP 2.4.0 Comes Closer To Release | GIMP 2.4.0 is coming soon and as a sign of that, the third release candidate for GIMP 2.4.0 is now available. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA3NQ | ||
1190854352 | SELinux vs. OpenBSD's Default Security | Darrin Chandler suggested, "security should not be grafted on, it should be integrated into the main development process. I'm sure the patch maintainers are doing their best, but this doesn't change the fundamental flaw in the process. It's not a flaw of their making, it's inherent in the situation..." | http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/SELinux_vs_OpenBSDs_Default_Security | ||
1190896039 | CPU module runs Linux on dual PPC cores | The PRISM200 (packaged reconfigurable integrated system-on-module) runs Linux, and targets low-powered military, medical, industrial, automotive, and networking applications. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7421639853.html | ||
1190896148 | A free market for free software | There are many benefits to this approach. OEMs and operating-system writers will be motivated to keep their images up-to-date with security patches and features, minimising their own infrastructure expenses, and it would be an interesting new channel to the users. | http://news.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002982,39289612,00.htm?r=5 | ||
1190896399 | Nouveau Companion 27 | Well, the time since our last TiNDC has seen AMD releasing their specs to the Open Source community [AMD's Open-Source Strategy Explained]. We are glad that our pals over at Radeon are that lucky, hopefully NVidia will see the light someday too. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=861&num=1 | ||
1190896649 | Open source vs. proprietary software bugs: which get squashed fastest? | The open-source development process is much, much faster at fixing bugs than the proprietary-software development process. Days faster, in fact. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9786034-16.html | ||
1190896725 | Microsoft's in the hen house | Think about this. If someone comes up to a major Linux site and sees it smeared with Microsoft ads saying how bad Linux is, do you think they'll give Linux a second thought? Not at all. If they do though, the chances are about 5% at best. Honestly, that's sad. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=306 | ||
1190896816 | Open source to help quell ICT trade deficit: Waugh | Waugh Partners is conducting a census on the proliferation of open source to gauge the level of adoption among local enterprises and to help businesses become more aware of its relevance. | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1308378583 | ||
1190923354 | Novell?s Linux Business Does NOT Climb Since its Deal with Microsoft | Don?t judge the health of a 25-year marriage based on the honeymoon | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/27/novell-spin/ | ||
1190939736 | Community interview: Novell answers 10 questions about Linux, GPLv3, ODF, | It is known that the Novell-Microsoft agreement has caused an enormous wave of unpopularity against Novell, no matter how much the company tries to tranquilize their users. If it is demonstrated that this unpopularity is negatively affecting the growth of the distribution, do you intend to cancel the agreement? (Patola) | http://br-linux.org/linux/novell-community-interview | ||
1190939830 | Kroes: Why Microsoft Was Wrong [PDF] | What I will do is continue to look hard at the actions of monopolists. I will use my practical business experience to help me understand the dynamics of markets. | http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/kroes/antitrust_eu_us.pdf | ||
1190939989 | Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source | Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making documents not created in the Word interface with Microsoft Office should be able to sympathise. | http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289664,00.htm?r=3 | ||
1190940057 | 3 challenges raised to Microsoft Office | OpenOffice and Symphony are compatible with the OpenDocument format (ODf), an industry standard that allows programs from different developers to read each other's documents and preserve typefaces, paragraphs, indents, tabs, bullets, numbering and so forth. | http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-bz.pl.himowitz27sep27,0,6859703.column?coll=bal_sports_college_basketball_mens_xpromo | ||
1190940135 | MMC Flash Memory Card Support | Regarding the new Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) stack he noted, "gone are the days of having to rely on proprietary stacks for SDIO support in Linux. So no more spotty support for hosts and possible GPL problems..." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/MMC_Flash_Memory_Card_Support | ||
1190940200 | New payment service now works with Linux | The problem with this, for the Linux user, is that the software is developed to support windows based operating systems. | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1755 | ||
1191032367 | Details Needed On Novell's Allegedly Soaring Linux Sales | But so far, at least, this growth doesn't appear to be reflected in Novell's financial results. | http://techdirt.com/articles/20070927/154725.shtml | ||
1191032531 | Open Source Publishing | This issue looks at creating documents with Scribus, collaborative document editing with OpenOffice, creating graphics for publication with the GIMP and creating newsletters with OpenOffice. | http://www.emea.o3magazine.com/pastissues/issue9/ | ||
1191032610 | Brazil's minister of culture calls for free digital society | He called for loosening intellectual property regulations to give more people the freedom to use and republish digital forms of content as a way of encouraging personal expression, culture and political participation. | http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9786370-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog | ||
1191032679 | An alternative to Windows and Mac | For many casual computer users, Linux is an obscure term, although it has existed for as long as Windows. It was born out of a graduate thesis of a software engineer from Finland, Linus Torvalds. For many years, it wasn't what some call user-friendly, but today Linux can't be overlooked as a viable operating system. | http://media.sundial.csun.edu/media/storage/paper862/news/2007/09/27/Opinion/An.Alternative.To.Windows.And.Mac-2996928.shtml | ||
1191032802 | New Torvalds Interview | Let’s start by clearing this up: Lie-nux or Lynne-ux? Well it is Lynne-ux, because I was working on Minix, it sounds similar. | http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.14769 | ||
1191032908 | Linux4afrika: An Interview with the Founder | It all began during a routine FreiOSS training program conducted by Hans-Peter Merkel, and has now grown to become one of the very popular initiatives to foster Open Source at an international level, specifically for the third world. | http://www.packtpub.com/article/Linuxforafrika-An-Interview-with-the-Founder | ||
1191032991 | Getting more comfortable with Zenwalk ... and a touchy touchpad | So all in all, I'm enjoying the $0 Laptop and Zenwalk. And my touchpad training. | http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/09/getting_more_comfortable_with.html | ||
1191033056 | "Real-time" Linux supports popular PowerPC SoC | MontaVista has ported its newest "real-time" capable embedded Linux operating system to a PowerPC SoC (system-on-chip) targeting secure networking and pervasive computing applications. MontaVista's Linux Professional Edition 5.0 is claimed to offer the "first real-time Linux" for AMCC's 440EPx SoC. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7721841717.html | ||
1191033186 | Linux powers programmable automation controller | Taiwan-based embedded networking device vendor Artila Electronics has announced a new programmable automation controller targeting facility management, remote device monitoring, building automation, and machine control. The iPAC-5010 is powered by a 180MHz ARM9 core, and comes with Linux and a GNU toolchain. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4955698667.html | ||
1191033262 | Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election Results | Every candidate gave a nomination statement before the voting (with the three persons not present: James Morris, Christoph Hellwig and David Woodhouse having their statements read to the meeting). We did single polling per position and had two rounds for a tie on the last candidate. | http://lwn.net/Articles/251874/ | ||
1191033370 | Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released | The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded from the developer website. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/96667/from/rss09 | ||
1191033528 | Open source geeks asked to 'stand up and be counted' | It was Canberra-based coder Dr Andrew Tridgell, for example, that kicked off the Samba open source project which, for the better part of a decade, has allowed file and print interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows clients and vice versa. | http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Open-source-geeks-asked-to-stand-up-and-be-counted-/0,130061733,339282435,00.htm | ||
1191038581 | SCO Says Goodnight | Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard | http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070928/scox8-k.html | ||
1191121068 | Adobe's Photoshop CS2 under Linux with Latest WINE | For those using Adobe's Photoshop CS2 under Linux through WINE emulation, the latest release of WINE adds a variety of fixes to improve the Photoshop Linux experience. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA3OQ | ||
1191121135 | Rob Enderle (Microsoft/SCO Shill) Smears Groklaw | "On the second page, Enderle mentions that he received death threats from people who had heard about his articles. We received notes of concern that the wording of the paragraph in question could imply that the death threats were a direct result of reading Groklaw." | http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34109/121/ | ||
1191121233 | UK CIOs Want 'naked PCs' | Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT director panel have now backed that call for naked PCs.. | http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-167353.html | ||
1191121287 | BT Joins Linux Phone Standards Forum | The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, adding to the growing momentum of standards-based mobile Linux, announced today that BT PLC [LSE: BT Group] has joined the consortium and will participate in the group's specification and standardization activities | http://www.embedded-computing.com/news/db/?8517 | ||
1191121357 | Showstoppers list for KDE?s 4.0 Beta 3 release | Sebastian K?gler announced the new release date together with the Beta 3 Release Goals some days ago. The idea is to have a central place to collect information about the potentially troublesome areas within the KDE 4.0 development and also to discuss and draw attention to existing issues. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/showstoppers-list-for-kdes-40-beta-3-release/ | ||
1191121425 | Customized spins of Fedora Linux | When Fedora 7 was released, one of the big features that we talked about was the idea of customized spins of the distribution. Now that Fedora 8 is on the way, it?s useful to look and see how we have done, and what sort of custom spins have been created. | http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/28/customized-spins-of-fedora/ | ||
1191121516 | Skype dev plans: GUI-less Skype for Linux and more | To end users, probably the most interesting development is a planned functionality that will allow Skype for Linux users to bypass the current login dialog (user ID and password). Skype says this capability will make Skype easier to use without a GUI. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2472 | ||
1191121588 | Compact touchpanel SBC runs Linux | The Medallion TPC-35 targets low-cost HMI (human-machine interface) applications, comes with Linux 2.6 pre-installed, | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4642269161.html | ||
1191121662 | Tiny Linux SBC gains add-on WiFi radio | The ADNP/9200 comes preinstalled with Linux, drivers, a TCP/IP stack, and various servers, according to the company. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4086843701.html | ||
1191121774 | The "Paradox of Choice" in the F/OSS World | I rolled my eyes. Today I realized why that?s a silly argument (sorry, Jim? but you don?t use Notepad.exe for text editing). | http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/09/the_paradox_of_choice_in_the_f.html | ||
1191121859 | Open source test successful [in Holland] | 28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised by the Ministry of the Interior. | http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source_success.htm | ||
1191121979 | Bill Gates sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete, Winblad say | Winblad carefully avoided commenting on BillG’s reluctance to embrace open standards but hinted that the company’s position will likely not change for some time to come. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1479 | ||
1191122154 | NSA writes more potent malware than hacker | A project aimed at developing defences against malware that attacks unpatched vulnerabilities involved tests on samples developed by the NSA. | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/28/nsa_hacker_malware_defense_project/ | ||
1191122384 | Linux-based Archos 605 WiFi sticks it to the Apple Ipod Touch | The ARCHOS 605 Wifi is the latest shipping PMP (personal media player) from said company. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/27/archos-605-wifi | ||
1191122485 | QNAP Announces Linux-Based NAS with PHP, MySQL, and DLNA Media Streaming | Their computing power has also been enhanced increasingly. We believe it is going to be a new trend that more and more users will use embedded systems to host their web server, and this will replace part of the usage of PC servers." Many outstanding applications are available in the open source communities of Linux. | http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/4332/qnap_announces_linux-based | ||
1191122548 | Review: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (beta) | Let's take a look at the newly released Gutsy Gibbon Beta to see quite how big a splash the Gibbon is going to make. | http://www.seopher.com/articles/review_ubuntu_7_10_gutsy_gibbon_beta_ | ||
1191122654 | Fedora Unity Releases Updated Fedora Linux 7 Re-Spins | Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. These updates might otherwise comprise more than 700MiB of downloads for a default install. This is a community project, for and by the community. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/12404/fedora-unity-releases-updated-fedora-linux-7-re-spins | ||
1191128104 | The British Library Still in Pocket of Convicted Monopoly Abuser | Digitised publications will be accessible in two ways -initially through Microsoft's Live Search Books and then via the Library's website. | http://www.s5h.net/linux_news/6/c/666197_The-British-Library-Taxpayers-Money-and-Assets-Still-in-Pocket-of-Convicted-Monopoly-Abuser.html | ||
1191130471 | “Show Us The Code” — The Letter That’s No More | It was made public before the initiative’s leader was pressured to take the site offline. Yes, the site no longer exists because Microsoft — through its proxy and shill, Dan Lyons — got involved. All that’s left are broken links and an isolated blog somewhere else. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/30/show-us-code-letter/ | ||
1191143906 | Is Novell’s Patrolling Open Source Blogs? | It was previously mentioned that Novell bends the arms of bloggers (also here, among other incidents). This is unacceptable. If a blogger has criticism directed at Novell, it needs to be addressed not behind the scenes and not in unpleasant ways. Arm-bending tactics do not work; neither does viral marketing or grassroots support. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/30/novell-patrol/ | ||
1191203220 | The Novell-Microsoft Wheeler Dealers Speak | But the main takeaway, as they might put it, for me is that this is an anti-Red Hat deal, and Novell is thrilled about that. Justin Steinman reveals that to market their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server against Red Hat they ask, "Do you want the Linux that works with Windows? | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070930081040440 | ||
1191203286 | Cuba's Move Toward Freedom, as in Software | In May 2005, the head of the Office for Computerizing Cuban Society, Roberto del Puerto, announced that the government was preparing for its central administration offices to switch to the free GNU/Linux system, which uses the Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds of Finland in 1991. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59545.html | ||
1191203366 | SerNet asks Microsoft to disclose protocol definitions | "It is of course crucial that Samba can be developed continuously under the GPL in version 3," says Johannes Loxen, author of the letter on behalf of SerNet, "Microsoft's programs MCPP and WSPP are not feasible regarding Samba." | http://www.sernet.com/News!/PM-20071001.html | ||
1191203445 | Gadget retailer IWOOT goes open source | The deployment is part of the online gadget retailer's strategy to reduce IT costs by migrating its infrastructure to open source-based technology components, having moved its website and other front-end IT systems to Red Hat last year. | http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/news/126380/gadget-retailer-iwoot-goes-open-source.html | ||
1191203586 | First Impressions: Symphony, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon | Whether Symphony succeeds or not, it represents a big commitment to the OO.o project on IBM's part, and that could pay off handsomely for OpenOffice users in the future. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137663-page,1-c,linux/article.html | ||
1191203661 | A Test Drive with Celena - a.k.a. Linux Mint 3.1 | The final version of Linux Mint 3.1 (codename Celena) burst onto the Linux scene two days ago. It’s based on Cassandra and is compatible with Ubuntu Feisty and its repositories. | http://news.softpedia.com/news/A-Test-Drive-With-Celena-66791.shtml | ||
1191203736 | Why ?open source? misses the point of software freedom | The philosophy of the younger open source movement is an inadequate response to the older free software movement; the ethics the open source movement never discuss keep coming up (any discussion of digital management restrictions (DRM)... | http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2007/09/27/why-open-source-misses-the-point-of-software-freedom/ | ||
1191203858 | SELinux — is it really too complex? | What I discovered is that part of SELinux’s current dilemma is more easily fixable than the other, because it has nothing to do with technological chops and everything to do with public perception. | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/26/selinux-is-it-really-too-complex/ | ||
1191203987 | Winblad: Open Source VC Funding Is Not Drying Up | In spite of a recent slowdown in venture investment, open source remains high on the list of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1474 | ||
1191204059 | Thin clients and open source the winners in green IT trend | By 2010, the environment will dominate management issues | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;818170849 | ||
1191204211 | 'Open Source' software goes to SouthCot | “We felt the need to organize this kind of activity to prop up the interest of young students, like us, about FOSS, Linux and other open systems,” said Muyco, a junior student of KNCHS. | http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3253&Itemid=141 | ||
1191204217 | Pass the source, please | The demise of big vendor SCO says a lot about how software will be sold. | http://www.theage.com.au/news/businessinnovations/pass-the-source-please/2007/09/24/1190486458345.html | ||
1191204327 | Open Source App Challenges Microsoft Project | Projity releases a desktop version of the project management tool originally offered as a service. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137867-c,opensource/article.html | ||
1191204386 | EnterpriseDB Releases New PostgreSQL Distro | Though PostgreSQL has been around for more than 10 years, Rodner said that open source developers have generally supported it on their own without much, if any, help from external support organizations. | http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3702106 | ||
1191204437 | Linux users no longer have an excuse to pirate MP3s | Despite Charlie's - and Amazon.com's - warnings about the process being for U.S. customers only, I loaded my SeaMonkey browser and decided to check how far I could get. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/linux-users-longer-excuse | ||
1191204582 | ION: Open Source Comes to GPS | Open source as a concept for software development has been around for some years. As the nonprofit Open Source Initiative puts it, open source is a "development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. | http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/Latest+News/ION-Open-Source-Comes-to-GPS/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/460902?contextCategoryId=1385 | ||
1191204645 | Olswang keeps finger on tech pulse with dedicated open source division | Olswang has launched a new unit dedicated to advising on open source technology, as the law firm aims to cash in on the software?s increased use in the UK. | http://www.legalweek.com/Articles/1055465/Olswang+keeps+finger+on+tech+pulse+with+dedicated+open+source.html | ||
1191204737 | Digium, Grandstream create high-performance, open source VOIP solution for | Digium's Asterisk Business Edition Platform provides traditional and advanced telecommunications applications based on open source software. Together, the Grandstream and Digium IP telephony solution creates a very cost-effective, auto-configurable IP telephony solution for the worldwide SME market. | http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2007/0709260810.asp?A=BRO&S=Broadband&O=FPIN | ||
1191211650 | Will Exclusionary Linux Deals and ?Binary Bridges? Remain a Necessary Evil? | Mind the fact that Linux is not even mentioned. It?s all about Microsoft products and Novell products. Therein lies the controversy. The companies work in unison and in isolation. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/30/novell-binary-bridges/ | ||
1191222925 | [Picture] Novell’s Relationship with GNU/Linux | "I could probably make some money selling my mother’s blood, if I had no conscience..." | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/01/novell-and-linux/ | ||
1191239609 | Podcast of MTLC meeting about the Microsoft/Novell deal | A few of the highlights that I recall: This was done because customers told Microsoft that they expect Microsoft to reach out and have a bridge to Open Source Software (at 9:50), the Mono project's Silverlight Linux port called Moonlight is "endorsed" by Microsoft... | http://danbricklin.com/log/2007_07_17.htm | ||
1191239680 | Speaking of Linux and the spirit of open source | Novell doesn't need to urinate in the pool from which it hopes to build its future, but that is precisely what it is doing. It can and should do better. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9788233-16.html | ||
1191240000 | KDE Commit Digest Issue 78 | Beginnings of a list view, and an applet browser integrated into Plasma. Optimisations in Konqueror. More work, including image practice support in Parley. | http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-09-30/ | ||
1191287499 | Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based Advantage | Remember that Microsoft has no commitment for Mono. It can pull the carpet from underneath Mono’s feet at any time, so again, as a Mono-reliant customer, you’re left at Microsoft’s mercy. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/01/novell-mono-patent/ | ||
1191291940 | "Celena Light Edition" Released | The purpose of the Light Edition is to bring a version of Linux Mint which doesn't contain: proprietary software, patented technologies, support for restricted formats.. | http://linuxmint.com/celena-light.html | ||
1191292031 | First look at PC-BSD 1.4 | So, all in all pros minus cons, PC-BSD is an amazing project. It allows many to experience the benefits of BSD clones who otherwise might not be able to. On the desktop it would be a wonderful alternative for the experienced and inexperienced alike. | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071001#review | ||
1191292121 | New Partnership Extends Linux Foundation’s Work with Japanese Developers | Agreement Signed with Japanese Government Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) to help increase participation of Japanese developers in Linux and open source | http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/09/30/new-partnership-extends-linux-foundations-work-with-japanese-developers/ | ||
1191292270 | Users split over naked PCs | On the business side, several reader comments point to the fact many companies do not use pre-installed operating systems but rather choose to install a "standard image" on each machine. By starting from a naked PC, businesses would at least save time (due to not having to delete the existing installation), if not cash too, they said. | http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289744,00.htm?r=2 | ||
1191292372 | Windows/Linux and Energy | The bank uses Linux, AIX and Solaris, which he says are more efficient. "If we can put something on Unix we prefer to do that," he says. | http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/6283 | ||
1191292445 | Tip of the Trade: SELinux | You don't need to be a super-guru to set up a workable SELinux policy, just an ordinary, diligent server administrator unafraid to read a bit of documentation. | http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3702626 | ||
1191292536 | Microsoft, The European Union, and the United States: A Statement by the A | The AAI comments on the European Court of First Instance's upholding of the EC's Microsoft decision, taking the USDOJ to task for poor diplomacy and mistaken policy in its criticism of the EC. | http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/miceu3.ashx | ||
1191292645 | Red Hat Solutions Deliver Increased Flexibility and Performance for Teleco | Latin American-Based Sixbell Nekotec Solutions Finds Success after Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071001/20071001005091.html?.v=1 | ||
1191292715 | Interesting take on mobile Linux | At first the conversation centered on what LiPS is doing to help device manufacturers and carriers develop and support Linux-based devices. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=246 | ||
1191292826 | Drained by Courtroom Losses, SCO Tries to Survive | Following the judge's ruling in favor of Novell, SCO is "facing a court battle where almost every single one of their [legal] pillars has been pulled out from under them," Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst at Kusnetzky Group in Osprey, Fla., said. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59581.html | ||
1191292911 | Build 'em Right, Build 'em Strong, Build 'em Linux | This past week alone, we were able to build 6 complete computers and set them in homes of kids who need them. This past week, there are six kids who can be taken off the "alternative assignments list" at school because they don't have to raise their hands when asked: "Who doesn't have a computer at home?" | http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/328-Build-em-Right,-Build-em-Strong,-Build-em-Linux.html | ||
1191293024 | Slashdot Turns 10, Throws a Party | Slashdot was created in September of 1997 by Michigan-born Rob Malda while he was in college. "I combined my love of Linux and Technology with my abilities as a webmaster to produce a site that exploded in popularity," Malda writes on his personal Website. | http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005573.html | ||
1191332770 | Combo PMP/Linux boot device gains online storage | One of the oldest Linux distributors, TurboLinux has traditionally focused on enterprise desktop and server markets in Japan and India. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9174640712.html | ||
1191332842 | Open Source Gaming Review: Assault Cube 0.92 | And at Maximum, the picture is, in my humble opinion, as good as, if notbetter in some ways, than many proprietary offerings. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=311 | ||
1191333216 | RISC OS look and feel on Linux | A first attempt at a Live CD has been uploaded here (169MB download, a bzipped iso), the space has been kindly donated by Ned Abell. | http://stoppers.drobe.co.uk/ | ||
1191333281 | Firefox big, Linux growing on Tectonic | 1 - Windows 62.12% (62.98 in August); 2 - Linux 33.10% (31.71% in August); 3 - Macintosh 3.59% (3.89% in August) | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1767 | ||
1191333373 | Blog Stats Show Firefox and Linux Growth | Top 3 Operating Systems Used to Access the Site: Windows, 69.56% (down from 71.31%); Linux, 20.10% (up from 18.51%); Mac, 9.61% (up from 9.27%). | http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1860 | ||
1191333486 | Are Novell sales pitches reality? | Groklaw has unleashed a blogstorm against Novell, based on a sales pitch being used to push clients toward Novell?s SUSE Linux and away from Red Hat. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1484 | ||
1191333698 | Free software drivers: the unmatrix | One thing that isn’t quite dusty though, is the state of free software drivers! I will sum up the different evolutions (some would even say, revolutions) that have occurred over this summer (June-September 2007). | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/summer_of_changes_in_3d_drivers | ||
1191333795 | SFLC: Setting Legal Precedent Not the Goal of GPL Case | Software Freedom Law Center co-founder Dan Ravicher says the Center’s copyright infringement case against Monsoon Multimedia on behalf of the creators of BusyBox is not about setting legal precedent for the use and interpretation of the GNU General Public License. | http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=241 | ||
1191333896 | Open Source Software: Do You Have Time to Exploit It? | The prevailing wisdom regarding open source communities is that they foster innovation in software. Members of the open source community not only share development code, they compete in a meritocracy for bragging rights on key features, patches, and contributions that they deliver at breakneck speed. | http://www.bmighty.com/hardware_software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202103742 | ||
1191333975 | Pluggable Security in Linux | While James had no complaints about Smack itself, he expressed concerns regarding the pluggable nature of LSM, which is used by Smack, cautioning, "if LSM remains, security will never be a first class citizen of the kernel," adding, "on a broader scale, we'll miss the potential of Linux | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Pluggable_Security | ||
1191334045 | FOSS: The major players in Linux and free- and open-source software | As free and open source software receives greater attention and recognition, several companies and packages are emerging as clear leaders and important influencers as well as visionaries that are sure to make a mark in the very near future. Here are my picks for who?s making a mark today and tomorrow on the FOSS world. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14686/1054/ | ||
1191336814 | FUD: "Linux Still Doesn't Make it On Desktop" | A response to that FUD piece ("Linux Still Doesn't Make it On Desktop") from Microsoft Shill, Michael Gartenberg [former Microsoft Evangelist] | http://slated.org/linux_still_doesnt_make_it_on_desktop_is_pure_fud | ||
1191373382 | Mexico's Largest Mortgage Lender Chooses Microsoft Linux for Key Business | Providing services to more than 12 million people and 830,000 employers, INFONAVIT has deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise as the basis for its new payment collection system. | http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071002/aqtu070.html?.v=28 | ||
1191373575 | Appro Wins Huge Deal With Three National Laboratories for 438 TeraFlop PC | Tri-Laboratory Linux Capacity Cluster (TLCC07) program joins effort for next generation Linux clusters featuring easily replicated four-socket system scalability | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTU066A02102007-1.htm | ||
1191373650 | Fingerprint reader SDK targets Linux devices | A biometric device vendor specializing in fingerprint readers has ported its software development kit to Linux for the first time. DigitalPersona says its "One Touch for Linux" SDK will enable developers to create fingerprint-enabled C/C++ applications that run on PCs, embedded computers, and POS (point-of-sale/service) terminals. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6952348742.html | ||
1191373747 | Open source entrepreneur turns his hobby into an Inc. 500 enterprise | iFAX founder Darren Nickerson says one of the keys to iFAX's success has been its commitment to the open source community behind HylaFAX. "Our success is tied to the openness of the software." | http://www.linux.com/feature/119405 | ||
1191373836 | Linux-based Exchange replacement on tap | PostPath also improved performance within the server to support the new mobile capabilities. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1216015163&rid=-50 | ||
1191373890 | OpenMoko Linux phone demo's open virtualization | The OKL4 microkernel is reportedly running on FIC's OpenMoko Neo1973 phone, allowing two instances of Linux to share the phone's ARM-based processor. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8294545513.html | ||
1191373966 | Linux means community also | Linux is revolutionary not just in it's use of a free License or easily customized applications. It has revived the sense of being part of something. Of belonging to something you feel good about. Isn't Linux great? | http://linuxgeeksunited.blogspot.com/2007/09/linux-means-community-also.html | ||
1191385532 | ODF/OOXML: Losing Your Job for Opposing a Monopoly Abuser? | Suspicious layoff in Finland, which may indicate that the Microsoft Money Machine(R) is once again pulling strings and getting people fired for not sympathising with monopoly abuse (c/f the corruption that is OOXML). We have definitely seen this before, so there is precedence. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/02/lassi-nirhamo-fired/ | ||
1191413246 | PC-BSD and Ubuntu on the $0 Laptop | Sure Zenwalk was doing all right on the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450, 1.3 GHz Celeron, 256 MB RAM). | http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/09/pcbsd_and_ubuntu_on_the_0_lapt.html | ||
1191413310 | Joe Sixpack goes BSD! | PC-BSD is an extremely user friendly and secure BSD, based on the rock solid FreeBSD 6.2 stable core, with a easy to use package management system, a friendly installation GUI and great hardware recognition. It is easy enough for average users and interesting enough for advanced users. It' s a easy pathway to the world of BSD *a must have*! | http://osgeex.blogspot.com/2007/09/joe-sixpack-goes-bsd.html | ||
1191413404 | An Open Letter to Palm -- Pull an OpenMoko | Set your software free. Yes, it's time to release the Palm OS into the open-source world and let other people start developing for you. | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2191342,00.asp | ||
1191413518 | The Ultimate Linux Distro Guide Part 34 - Xebian GNU/Linux | Installing and configuring Xebian will require not only performing various tasks to allow Linux to run on the box, but also use of the Linux command line - the process is not recommended for people who are new to Linux. | http://www.micromart.co.uk/features/article/default.aspx?id=22681 | ||
1191413688 | Dreamhost Driven by Linux-Enhanced Economics | To illustrate the importance of Linux and FOSS in creating opportunities for poor but ambitious geeks, I looked for a suitable Linux-based business to profile, and chose Dreamhost. | http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3702756 | ||
1191413745 | Why HP Still Believes In Unix | A decade ago, Intel was shipping the Pentium II processor and Linux was a fringe operating system used by a few Internet fanatics. No one at the time would ever have thought the two in combination would be a match for Sun's SPARC/Solaris combination, HP's PA-RISC/HP-UX, IBM's POWER/AIX or SGI's MIPS/IRIX. | http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3703006 | ||
1191413852 | Kernel space: A tiny Linux for the embedded world | An announcement of the revival of linux-tiny, a set of patches aimed at reducing the footprint of the kernel, mainly for the embedded world, has led to a number of linux-kernel threads. The conversations range from the proper place for linux-tiny to reside to the removal of the enormous number of printk() strings in the kernel. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/100307-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1191413929 | PCLinuxOS Magazine October 2007 Released | As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing. | http://www.pclosmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=28 | ||
1191446560 | Stay Away from OpenSUSE 10.3 | Do not use OpenSUSE or even download OpenSUSE. Many SUSE developers have already left the building. Meanwhile, Novell is hiring .NET developers.Let Novell find its own route and stick with the root of Linux. Linux is doing great, even without patent deals. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/02/opensuse-103-release/ | ||
1191459253 | GNOME 2.22 Schedule Available | Among the proposed desktop modules for GNOME 2.22 include Vinagre, Gimme, mouse-tweaks, and empathy. You can find additional details on GNOME 2.22 in this Phoronix news posting. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA4OQ | ||
1191459328 | Everything I need to know about SOA I learned from Linux | There are five important principles SOA architects can learn from Linux and the OSS community... | http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/27533 | ||
1191499836 | Pluggable Schedulers vs. Pluggable Security | Linus stated: "Really - not only is the whole 'desktop scheduler' argument totally bogus to begin with... quite frankly, when you say that it's the 'same issue' as with security models, you're simply FULL OF SH*T." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Pluggable_Schedulers_vs_Pluggable_Security | ||
1191499944 | Can Linux save the UMPC from extinction? | Maybe because nobody knows what the UMPC actually is. Is it the Microsoft/Intel defined, Windows Tablet PC powered device with a touchscreen of less than 7" in size? | http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1718.html | ||
1191500019 | Don’t invent, evolve | The inventor’s trial-and-error approach can be automated by software that mimics natural selection | http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9896323 | ||
1191500083 | Linux 2.6.24 Networking Improvements | Kernel Trap is out with a new article that talks about recent activity on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA5MQ | ||
1191500161 | Hardware Compatibility Ratings | The project's website goes on to explain, "components are rated according to their Linux compatibility. You'll see on the site some numbers like 4.5 x 2 for rated components. This means that the mean note for the component is 4.5 and that 2 persons have noted this component." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Hardware_Compatibility_Ratings | ||
1191500233 | More Linux in Government | The operating system provides open APIs, Linux ABI compatibility, full POSIX conformance and an advanced set of networking features for uncompromised performance. | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0310610.htm | ||
1191500751 | Linux Done Right (personals edition): Linux shop seeks Linux vendor | Anyway, outside of European universities and some HPC instances, 100% Linux shops are a rare breed in this heterogeneous operating system mishmash of a world we live in today. But that still hasn?t stopped Contegix. | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/02/linux-done-right-personals-edition-linux-shop-seeks-linux-vendor/ | ||
1191500806 | Linux loyalty runs high among embedded software developers, says VDC | Looking ahead, 87% percent of Linux users plan to use Linux in their next project. In both cases, use of free distributions outnumbered use of paid distributions by a sizable margin. | http://software.tekrati.com/research/9436/ | ||
1191500885 | Digium is doing things right | Digium is the company behind Asterisk, the popular open source PBX. | http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/10/digium-is-doing-things-right.html | ||
1191501050 | Alfresco takes the open road to success | Things are no better today. "We're doing just over 50% of our business" - already running at around $10m a year - "in the US, just under 50% outside of the US," Powell says. | http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/04/guardianweeklytechnologysection.opensource | ||
1191501224 | Government Open Source Conference to Feature Open Document Debate | "Open Standards and Interoperability" is the theme for this year's GOSCON event. Document accessibility, interoperability and longevity are core components of government service. | http://www.govtech.com/gt/150738?topic=117688 | ||
1191530358 | Mulesource CEO: I Would Prefer Less Linux Adoption to Anyone Choosing Suse | Justin Steinman still doesn?t get it and Dave Rosenberg (MuleSource CEO) says the following: Pathetic attempt to be relevant - It is so disappointing and pathetic that this is the path that Novell has taken. At this point I would prefer less Linux adoption to anyone choosing Suse. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/04/quote-suse-adoption/ | ||
1191555272 | WA councils go virtual with Linux, Xen | As a "big supporter" of open source and a Linux user personally, Eaton looked at the open source Xen hypervisor and waited about 12 months to deploy XenEnterprise 3.0 which supported Windows guests. | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1971464960;fp;2;fpid;1 | ||
1191555321 | Open source IP PBX: Growing like gangbusters | As the industry learns more about this technology and recognises the benefits that VoIP brings to a dynamic contact centre and the enterprise, adoption rates will continue to grow like wildfire. | http://www.computingsa.co.za/article.aspx?id=576535 | ||
1191555400 | Open-source software would help improve the government's poor record on IT | But allowing open-source to compete with the big proprietary players might inject into Whitehall a much-needed level of "under-the-bonnet" awareness. Then, at least, we could learn from our mistakes. | http://www.newstatesman.com/200710040041 | ||
1191555504 | Atmel and TimeSys Announce Free Linux Board Support Package | Atmel Corporation and TimeSys announced a free Linux Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel?s ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. | http://www.ecnasiamag.com/article-16346-atmelandtimesysannouncefreelinuxboardsupportpackage-Asia.html | ||
1191555640 | Puppy 3.00 runs on the $0 Laptop | It's nice to put in a CD, boot in a couple of minutes and have the Puppy environment I love right there for me. Abiword, Geany, Seamonkey, Pidgin, ROX-Filer, MtPaint. Every one works great and loads quickly. | http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/10/puppy_300_runs_on_the_0_laptop.html | ||
1191555784 | The Penguin Grows Horns: Installing FreeBSD | First impressions: FreeBSD is hard to install. Damn hard. I am the veteran of some 50 to 100 operating system installs in my lifetime, and I blew FreeBSD five amazing times and had to start over. [Help this man, please] | http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=the_penguin_grows_horns_installing_freeb&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 | ||
1191578033 | Linux phishing botnet statistics can be deceptive | There are some problems with such assumptions based on that statement, however: 1. Each phishing site does not necessarily imply an individual machine... 2. A phishing site does not imply the box was rootkitted... 3. Phishing botnets that targeted Washington Mutual are by no means the sum total of phishing sites... | http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=296 | ||
1191578125 | BankIslami Moves to Linux | "With aggressive IT plans we needed the infrastructure that should meet the ever changing technology and should be reliable in all the aspects, therefore, choosing Linux for our IT infrastructure was the unanimous choice", BankIslami CEO Hasan A Bilgrami remarked. | http://thepost.com.pk/CorpNewsT.aspx?dtlid=121729&catid=8 | ||
1191578292 | Red Hat growth: A tale of 2,000 applications | Red Hat's Linux business continues to boom, even when we don't give it the credit that it deserves. What is the underlying reason for that growth? Applications. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9791171-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1191578370 | Business chambers urged to go for FOSS | A United Nation's-funded organization advocating the development and use of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the country is tapping business groups in Mindanao to help promote it across the island. | http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3299&Itemid=54 | ||
1191578432 | Heroes of Linux and FOSS: Ken Starks, AKA Helios | This seems like a good time for a Ken Starks retrospective. This is the man who, despite some rather gnarly health problems churns out blog entries and interesting Linux projects by the truckload. | http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/93551/index.html | ||
1191578570 | Linux-friendly hypervisor targets multicore ARM | The diagram below illustrates a use case where Linux runs in SMP mode atop a virtualized multicore system on which unneeded cores can be powered down to conserve energy. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5504828094.html | ||
1191615033 | Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90r2 has been released | An updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90 codename Barry has been released. Barry r2 merges all published updates from Parsix and Debian testing repositories as of Oct 3, 2007. | http://www.parsix.org/html/News-article-sid-61.html | ||
1191615139 | Appro Signs Weapons Lab Supercomputer Deal | The $26 million agreement under the new TLCC (Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Cluster) program calls for Appro to provide eight rack-mounted clusters with aggregate peak performance of 437 teraflops and 96.8 aggregate terabytes of memory. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2192303,00.asp | ||
1191615269 | Novell files to lift SCO's bankruptcy stay | Novell wants the money SCO owes it, and sooner rather than later. As Groklaw succinctly summarized it: "If the New York Daily News was coming up with a headline for this filing, it'd probably be something like this: Novell to SCO: Drop Dead. First Pay Up." | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/04/novell-files-lift-sco | ||
1191615471 | UK culture holding back open source | Britain is one of the least open source friendly nations, however, bucking the trend in other EU states. | http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200550/british-culture-holding-back | ||
1191615536 | Microsoft's risky, misleading ad campaign | Campbell's so slick, I wouldn't be surprised to see him out hitting the campaign trail for Microsoft's OOXML efforts. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9791652-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1191615622 | Brand Clients Must Decide Whether To Open Source | Open source is the way to go, according to qualitative research presented by Pat Spenner, CEB Research Director. | http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=68694 | ||
1191615704 | The Worldwide Search for a Standard Document Format | Microsoft's OOXML continues to fail this test. For example, the comments from the British Standards Institute pointed out that "there was no other proven implementation of OOXML apart from Office 2007." | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59663.html | ||
1191629063 | Microsoft/Novell/Linspire Deals: Shoot First, Then Try to Make Peace | Destroying something and then trying to calm down the storm is a bad strategy. But that’s just what Novell, Linspire, and Xandros have done. Don’t forget that they by all know they have sinned. but they were paid. They just want to buy back your affinity using the money they have earned from the betrayal. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/05/shoot-first-then-questions/ | ||
1191647094 | PC-BSD Day 30: The verdict | Does PC-BSD have the potential to be a serious contender for the open source desktop? I answered that question with a yes, because the potential is there. The solid FreeBSD roots, the very strong and very accessible information, the friendly and mature community and the PBI system provide the foundations for that potential. | http://opensourcelearning.info/blog/?p=523 | ||
1191647174 | Linux for Grandma | Why not Windows Vista or XP? Vista is too new, too raw, too much of a resource hog, and in general just too much of a problem. While XP is much better, it still brings with it all the problems and headaches of a Windows system -- spyware, viruses and malware in general. | http://technocrat.net/d/2007/10/5/28250 | ||
1191647259 | Freedomware Introduced | Freedomware is not intended as a term to replace Free Software or Open Source Software aka FOSS, FLOSS. These terms have their niche and place in society. They are well established and we are all better for it. | http://thetuxproject.com/freedomware_defined | ||
1191699592 | New Version of a ?Microsoft?s Linux-based Mail Server? | Scalix has just released a new Linux-based product, but remind yourselves that this product brings revenue to Microsoft. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/06/scalix-hijack/ | ||
1191700074 | RandR 1.3 and other future X.Org development | A month ago the X Developer Summit took place. Now notes about most of the talks are available and show where X development heads to. Among the information are a feature list for RandR 1.3, for the Intel driver and for X.Org 7.4/7.5. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/randr-13-and-other-future-xorg-development/ | ||
1191700222 | Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected? | But it?s not just business. It is personal. This is something Microsoft, and those who work with Microsoft, have never understood about the open source movement. They treat it like bad men treat good women, and that?s just wrong. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1505 | ||
1191715326 | Leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates et al are Anti-Cross Platform [PDF] | "Why are we doing so many things cross-platform?... I consider this cross-platform issue a disease within Microsoft... We should be asking for specific innovations to restrict to Windows..." | http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2658.pdf | ||
1191741430 | Proof That Microsoft is Above the Law -- American Antitrust Institute | That remedy was never imposed?new leaders took over at the Department of Justice and the parties entered into a conduct settlement. Unfortunately, Europe has repeated the U.S. history, with similar results. | http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/First_on_EU_Microsoft.ashx | ||
1191750424 | Webkit vs. Mozilla: Should Firefox jump on the Webkit bandwagon? | As the Mozilla folks start making plans to plan for the Mozilla 2 codebase, Matt Gertner over at the AllPeers blog has a radical suggestion: Dump the Gecko rendering engine and embrace WebKit. | http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4144 | ||
1191750496 | Sharp, Emblaze and ACCESS creating next-gen Linux smartphone? | Very little other information has been released, but industry experts, suggest that it will be a new generation of smartphone running the ACCESS Linux platform designed for smartphones. | http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/10582/11606/Emblaze-Sharp-Access-Linux-smartphone.phtml | ||
1191750591 | Linux is right for your parents | My earlier claim that Linux can cost 20% as much as a Macintosh, assumes not only getting the operating system for free, but also running it on an old computer. The ability to run on a wide variety of hardware is big advantage of Linux compared to Macs. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9792477-33.html | ||
1191750665 | Ubuntu Linux Feisty Fawn: What can be freer than free? | I’ve downloaded them and got these programs running in a breeze. I have enhanced my system by downloading Kopete, an IM client where you can sign in with multiple IM accounts. It also has the archiving facility organized per user and per date. | http://www.mb.com.ph/TECH20071007104834.html | ||
1191750764 | Releases : Zenwalk 4.8 is ready | The Zenwalk Team is happy to announce the Zenwalk 4.8 release. After several release-candidates, it seems that we are ready for a very stable release. Overall, testers have found Zenwalk 4.8 the fastest version ever. | http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=62 | ||
1191750834 | OpenOffice.org: The parrot sketch is not included | To sum up: the decision whether the “Kohei solver” or any other of the components Novell holds back will be contributed to OOo or not is a decision of Novell, not of anybody else. Alleging something different is at least a misapprehension. | http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/the_parrot_sketch_is_not | ||
1191792980 | 2007.08-2 ISOs released | Hi Arch community, Arch Linux 2007.08-2, "Don't Panic" has been released. This is the first release to use our new repo layout. There are two ISOs, ftp and core. | http://www.archlinux.org/news/352/ | ||
1191793086 | InfiniBand 2.6.24 Merge Plans | In addition to listing all patches intended for 2.6.24, Roland also listed two issues that would most likely wait for 2.6.25... | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/InfiniBand_2.6.24_Merge_Plans | ||
1191810064 | Rebuttal to So-called ‘OpenDocument Format Civil War’ | Come to realise that Microsoft is throwing its money all over the place to protect OOXML, which it claims is all about its financial interests. We are talking about tens of $billions here. it’s not about the consumer’s needs, but about Microsoft’s revenue. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/07/odf-rebuttal-racketeering/ | ||
1191816255 | GNU/Linux Vs Windows: Myths and Realities | GNU/Linux distributions like SuperGamer and the linuX-gamers Live DVD have solved this issue by providing some of the latest 3D, Arcade and other type games. Other major Linux distributions e.g. Sabayon Linux offer a huge collection of games for home users. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=313 | ||
1191816404 | OpenOffice.org Tipping Point? | Novell's OpenOffice fork a competitive issue, not a community one. | http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/sca_r_office | ||
1191816670 | Advantages of open source: Revisited | Low Cost; Security; Continuity; Flexibility | http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/10/advantages-of-open-source-revisited.html | ||
1191880414 | Scott McNealy's five reasons that free, open source software is good --Sun | # Free means low barrier to entry; # Open source as a research and development multiplier; # Security; # Partnering and proliferation of our technology; # Low barriers to exit. | http://blogs.sun.com/jimlaurent/entry/scott_mcnealy_s_five_reasons | ||
1191880663 | If I Were in Charge of an Abusive Monopoly | "If I were in charge of Microsoft, I would open source a mid-tier product. Just one to start with, but I would use a real open license, like GPL or BSD or APL, etc. I would build a community infrastruture around it and let my employees watch and finally realize that open source, when properly done, is a good thing." | http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-05-024-26-OP-BZ | ||
1191880780 | Open source as a shareholder issue | Oracle’s board opposes the proposal - which might upset some open source purists - and has outlined its belief that such a report is unnecessary. In its proxy statement the company points out that it already makes available details of its open source projects. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/08/open-source-as-a-shareholder-issue/ | ||
1191880920 | BT powers with GNU/Linux up to save money | It came up with a plan to replace 13 Windows and Unix servers with just two Dell 2850s running Linux and VMware server virtualisation technology. | http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22552048-24169,00.html | ||
1191881008 | Novell Delivers Open Enterprise Server 2 with Proven Networking Services o | Novell Open Enterprise Server combines proven workgroup services from Novell with SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server, completing the Open Enterprise Server shift to providing workgroup services entirely on Linux. | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM04508102007-1.htm | ||
1191904580 | Biometrics Goes Linux | DigitalPersona, the biometrics authentication folk, has moved its One Touch SDK to Linux so developers can create fingerprint-enabled Linux applications. | http://xml.sys-con.com/read/440314_p.htm | ||
1191904639 | Holonyx To Provide Linux Support To VARs and SIs | Holonyx, a business development technology company, has unveiled its Partner Program, which will provide Linux and open source software support to value added resellers and system integrators. | http://www.inc.com/news/briefs/200710/1008holonyx.html | ||
1191904726 | Linux runs xPON/FTTx gateway SoCs | The single-core CN5010 and dual-core CN5020 will sample in Q4, while Linux development kits and simulators are on demo at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin this week. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2678352983.html | ||
1191904882 | Sun and a Solaris revival: Talking with Ian Murdock ('Grandpa of Ubuntu') | [Ian:] Things are going very well. It's a bit overwhelming at times. I've been a startup guy for most of my career, so there's a certain amount of culture shock involved in working within a 33,000-strong company, and understanding how to navigate the machinery and history of the place. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9793008-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1191921097 | Open source CMSes prove well worth the price | We look at five free offerings boasting solid Web publishing features that challenge their commercial competitors | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;421589662;fp;4;fpid;1968336438 | ||
1191921176 | Linux fights back with user experience | But, now Linux is edging closer to Windows in the area of user experience and in many cases, a properly setup system can blow away any desktop OS user experience by linking highly solid functionality (that meets user goals) with AMAZING user experience. | http://www.adampellegrini.com/2007/10/linux-fights-back-with-user-experience.html | ||
1191921258 | Linux Kernel: Supporting More Partitions | Alan Cox explained, "this was proposed ages ago. Al Viro vetoed sparse minors and it has been stuck this way ever since. If you have > 15 partitions use device mapper for it. I'd prefer it fixed but it's arguable that device mapper is the right way to punt all our partitioning to userspace". | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Supporting_bMore_Partitions | ||
1191921323 | ROX-Filer: A Lightweight File Manager that Simply Rocks | ROX is one of the genuinely interesting file managers available for the major platforms - GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows (under Cygwin). As can be inferred from the manager?s website, ROX-Filer is a project aimed to move the best features of RISC OS onto Linux and Unix platforms. | http://polishlinux.org/apps/window-managers/rox-filer-a-lightweight-file-manager-that-simply-rocks/ | ||
1191921392 | Sun Announces Niagara 2 Servers | Sun is also introducing Sun Management Center 4.0, an update to its network monitoring and management software for SPARC and x64 systems running Solaris and Linux. It features a common interface called ILOM, or Integrated Lights Out Management, to performance automated checks on performance, function and security. | http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3704036 | ||
1191921454 | KDE's Windows weapon: KOffice 2.0 | While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite, KOffice, for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1596080362&rid=-50 | ||
1191921544 | KDE Commit Digest Issue 79 | Image support in Parley, and support for formulas in the note feature of the Step physics simulation package. blinKen changes capitalisation to Blinken for the KDE 4.0 release. | http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-10-07/ | ||
1191921643 | Open Source conference in Argentina draws a crowd | Sponsored by international heavyweights as Red Hat and Intel alongside local outsourcing firms Globant and Tecso, the sixth yearly edition of the Linux and Open Source conference -once again perfectly organised by the Buenos Aires Linux Users Group, CaFeLUG was held at Argentina's capital. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/open-source-conference | ||
1191921761 | First look at Puppy Linux 3.00 | ...all the applications and the system as a whole offered good performance and stable operation. It could be a wonderful start, especially for anyone wishing to be a little different, someone needing to save space and resources, or those requiring a portable solution. | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071008#review | ||
1191921819 | Massive scale installation and management tools for Debian GNU / Linux (pa | You have 5,000 or 50,000 machines to install and manage across the country, at a thousand distant locations into your enterprise. Such massive GNU / Linux installation and management for corporations needs suitable tools or become a nightmare. | http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/massive_installation_management_tools_p_1 | ||
1191922147 | Open Source accelerates growth says successful startup | In 2006 ESR Technology lowered its annual IT costs by 78% after migrating from Netware to Debian Linux. With the help of Sirius Corporation, the Open Source services group, ESR Technology aims to repeat the success of this first project during their expansion into Dubai. | http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=34256&hilite= | ||
1191922348 | An evolutionary change to the Debian source package format | I look at this as very much of an evolutionary change, not a revolutionary change, to the debian source format. Most packages will continue to use .diff.gz for a long while, but packages whose maintainers chafe under that format will have another one to choose from. | http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/an_evolutionary_change_to_the_Debian_source_package_format/ | ||
1192511944 | Red Hat Solutions Boost Performance and Reliability For Leading Energy Tra | SESCO's plans include a continued implementation of new Red Hat capabilities including virtualization and clustering in the future. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071015/20071015005247.html?.v=2 | ||
1192512018 | Government geeks send their bosses to open source | Although they may sometimes participate in wagers that result in mayors kissing pigs, different governments are not typically competing with governments in other areas. They are almost always open to more collaboration, and finding software and IT policy that works in government is more of a badge of honor than a proprietary trade secret. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/15/government-geeks-send-their-bosses-to-open-source/ | ||
1192561782 | The EC's New Microsoft Rules | Second, the case also liberalizes EU competition law in several important areas. Prior to Microsoft, compulsory licensing of intellectual property rights was seen by the European Court as a very narrow remedy in the EU, to be strictly and rarely applied. | http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc2007109_514747.htm?campaign_id=yhoo | ||
1192561975 | Get down and dirty with Linux | Let me start with a controversial statement: installing new software is almost always easier on Linux than on Windows. On most Linux systems, a package manager takes care of both the installation and removal of software. | http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10970 | ||
1192562117 | A Novell SUSE Linux shop surprised by Xen's polish | Last week, Novell Inc. announced that it would allow Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) to run as a paravirtualized Xen guest on top of SUSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES). Analysts lauded the move for the backward compatibility it provides to existing NetWare customers running or migrating to OES 2. | http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1277005,00.html | ||
1192562142 | Consultant: Microsoft responds to Open Source leadership | Open source consultant and developer Jeff Waugh believes the market is beginning to recognize Microsoft's behavior when it's on the back foot. This move, he says, is just another sign. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/101107-consultant-microsoft-responds-to-open.html | ||
1192562209 | Review: Mandriva Linux PowerPack 2008.0 | All those small bugs contribute to my overall impression of Mandriva 2008.0: a good, solid distribution, with an excellent installation routine, decent configuration tools, but with quite a few polish issues that they need to work on. | http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18757/Review-Mandriva-Linux-PowerPack-2008.0/ | ||
1192562283 | Opportunities for open source software in Vietnam | As Vietnam is tightening control of illegal software, local administrations and enterprises are seeking cheap alternatives and open source software has become the top choice. | http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2007/10/749003/ | ||
1192562396 | Linux on the IBM mainframe: When is it the right choice? | David Kreuter, president of Ontario-based VM Resources Ltd., which consulted on the project, said the only other hurdle was training some staff to learn Linux and z/VM. | http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1276356,00.html | ||
1192562450 | Why Sun should buy Access and ensure JavaFX wins | Here's why an ALP Linux + JavaFX combo offering from Sun would be a killer. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/12/free-advice-to-sun--buy-access | ||
1192563459 | A {Convicted Monopoly Abuser}^TM Gets "Cancer" | For now though it’s all eyes on Microsoft to see what the company will do next, and in many ways this will be more interesting than whether or not the OSI approved the licenses. For reasons that were never fully explained, Microsoft wanted open source licenses. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/16/osi-approves-microsoft-licenses/ | ||
1192570864 | How Mr. Gates Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Destructive Patents | It is hopefully made clear that even Microsoft acknowledges that it commits the very same sins that it once used to protest against. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/16/gates-on-linux-patents/ | ||
1192573379 | OpenDocument Foundation Strives to Get ODF Back on Track | Ending kickbacks and bringing what governments and users actually require and ask for | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/16/opendocument-foundation-cdf/ | ||
1192583320 | OOXML Payback Time as Global Standards Work in SC 34 "Grinds to a Halt" | But unfortunately, the damage has not stopped there: since the OOXML ballot closed on September 2, not a single ballot has received enough votes to count in this important committee. Why? Because the last minute arrivals to SC 34 are not bothering to vote. | http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071016092352827 | ||
1192583393 | Asianux Consortium Announces Mobile Linux Product | The Asianux consortium, where Miracle Linux Corp of Japan, Red Flag Software Co Ltd of China and Haansoft Inc of South Korea are jointly developing Linux products, announced Oct. 15, 2007 that it will start shipping its "Asianux Mobile Midinux Edition" mobile Linux product in January 2008. Expected applications are mobile devices... | http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071016/140705/ | ||
1192583474 | All Your Product Are Belong to Us | It's as if an alien mindset has taken over the American corporate culture. | http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/10/all_your_produc.html | ||
1192583527 | Red Hat to Host Third-Annual Government Users and Developers Conference | The adoption of open source technology continues to be one of government's hottest computing trends. This fast-paced, one-day conference is designed to keep Red Hat users, developers and IT professionals from the Department of Defense, civilian agencies | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071016/20071016005115.html?.v=1 | ||
1192583651 | OK and FST use Linux-based phone to accelerate mobile device innovation | Nine months after its official launch, Australian developers have already extended the capabilities of the world's first non-proprietary Linux powered mobile phone. | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1072849801;fp;2;fpid;1 | ||
1192583722 | VIA's Linux support - will it finally happen? | "Yeah, it runs linux, they've got a simplified interface set up for specific applications. I'll be posting more details about the software part of the MTube when I have some more time." | http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1158 | ||
1192583808 | Free Software for the Small Business | With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and 671,000 new companies getting started every year, purveyors of free business software have lots of potential customers to attract. Open source vendors provide a wide collection of free software. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59837.html | ||
1192583883 | Here's a 30-children-per-desktop solution (Ubuntu Linux-based) | Most recently, the country of Macedonia announced plans to serve all 420,000 of its K-12 students using a combination of PCs running Ubuntu Linux and NComputing's PC-sharing devices, which turn each computer into a mini-server that can be shared with up to 30 students in a single classroom. | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=12&articleId=9042679&intsrc=hm_topic | ||
1192583962 | Who Sponsors Kernel Development | According to Greg's email, organizations that contributed more than 100 changesets to the recently released 2.6.23 kernel included: Red Hat with 827 changesets (11.7%), IBM with 557 changesets (7.9%), the Linux Foundation with 528 changesets (7.5%)... | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Who_Sponsors_Kernel_Development | ||
1192619501 | Choice Is Absolutely Essential [Linux in the WSJ] | Mr. Torvalds and Wall Street Journal columnist Lee Gomes talked over email. Below is an edited version of their exchange. | http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119253872823060518.html?mod=todays_free_feature | ||
1192619563 | IBM Sets Up Linux Computer Support Center With Skybility Technology | Skybility Technology is a Shenzhen based professional IT company that specializes in Linux software development, technology services, system integration and value-added service distribution. It is also a leading Linux solutions and Linux services provider in China. | http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/10/17/5969-ibm-sets-up-linux-computer-support-center-with-skybility-technology/ | ||
1192634619 | Opera and Mozilla step up mobile browser pressure | Mike Schroepfer, VP of engineering at Mozilla, said: "Each Firefox install is an individual choice by a person to download something that didn't ship by default on their computer. Why not offer that option for mobile devices?" | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/opera_mozilla_mobile_browser/ | ||
1192634694 | Motorola, Sony Ericsson to share Symbian UI company | Motorola is better known for its Linux phones than its Symbian handsets. In fact, in 2003 Motorola sold its stake in Symbian, a decision that many in the industry interpreted as a move away from the operating system. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=424408080&rid=-50 | ||
1192634825 | Curl mounts Silverlight and AIR challenge | Curl, the rich programming language specialist back from obscurity, is turning to open source to gain a foothold in rich internet applications (RIA). | http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/10/curl_open_source/ | ||
1192653877 | A new lease of life for Linux | Linux has always had a reputation for being difficult to install and daunting to use. Most popular Windows and Macintosh programs cannot be used on it. But with Dell now selling two Linux-equipped desktop models, all that may change. | http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Oct172007/cyberspace2007101630920.asp | ||
1192653939 | Vietnam Council considers IT needed software | The council will then choose an open source operating system, browser, email programme, and other necessary products. | http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/10/749037/ | ||
1192654029 | Romanian public libraries to use Open Source | The library project is financed by the Romanian and the Italian government, both countries wanting to develop an integrated public library system. The project was finished earlier this year. | http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7225/469 | ||
1192654100 | Blue Skies for Open Source | Chief Technology Officer Dan Agronow doesn?t say whether his staff broke a bottle of bubbly over the new MySQL app server that replaced an Oracle system, but you can tell he?s happy. | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=305118&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_feat | ||
1192654187 | Blogger preaches Internet download freedoms | DRM has emerged as an attempt to make it more difficult to copy, Doctorow said. "I call it anti-copying technology," Doctorow said. But he added he does not think DRM works. The software industry basically has abandoned it, Doctorow said. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=455381478&rid=-50 | ||
1192654329 | Open Source for Everyone | If you're a newbie, the place to go for your Linux OS is Ubuntu. The 7.04 version is freely available for PCs and is easy to download and set up. More than that, it looks - and is - easy to operate. | http://www.kren.com/Global/story.asp?S=6724335 | ||
1192654472 | Linux in Third-World Countries | Computerbank's Kylie Davies was impressed with the prototype she saw at a recent Linux conference, which she says is an exciting tech step forward for the 99 per cent of children in developing countries who leave school without ever having touched a computer. | http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/fair-trade/2007/10/16/1192300772339.html | ||
1192654551 | Venture capitalist puts up tech bar for open source | TO show the province?s potential as an open source software market, a Filipino venture capitalist has set foot in Cebu to advocate open source software development. | http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2007/10/11/bus/venture.capitalist.puts.up.tech.bar.for.open.source.html | ||
1192691851 | Linspire is Going Nowhere Fast | Do not forget that Linspire used to spread Linux FUD along with Microsoft. Having probably received payoffs from the sellout and even criticised Ubuntu?s stance, Kevin Carmony dares to ask not only for forgiveness, but also for a place in Ubuntu. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/18/linspire-bad-review/ | ||
1192697699 | Microsoft discounting heavily to keep market share | As reported on the MoneyforJam blog, Microsoft is heavily discounting Windows to keep market share in the face of cheaper Linux offerings. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9798881-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1192697767 | Linux, Itanium 2-based Platforms and the Enterprise: Extending the Enterpr | Today, many enterprises are turning to Linux-based applications and suites designed to maximize their output and produce a satisfactory bottom line. | http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/monthly/art.php?3425 | ||
1192697826 | Open source CIFS server from Alfresco | Alfresco, producer of the eponymous content management system, has made its Java implementation of Microsoft's CIFS network protocol (the successor to SMB) available under the GPL. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97519/from/rss09 | ||
1192697929 | Microsoft needs to lay off the Linux FUD | Without any kind of substantive claims to back up these statements, this is pretty much the dictionary definition of FUD. Fear, uncertainty and doubt. The same kind of blathering that drove The SCO Group into the ground. | http://cbr.co.za/news.aspx?pklNewsId=26793&pklCategoryID=385 | ||
1192698202 | Open Source Software, OLPC, and the Importance of Being Green | I'm referring to the need for the OLPC XO laptop to be extremely efficient in its power consumption. The OLPC laptop is designed to be used in places where there is no reliable power grid, or, in many cases, no power grid at all. This has challenged the OLPC Project is be very creative in how power is generated, stored and conserved. | http://jmbuser.livejournal.com/6764.html | ||
1192698262 | Enterprise dual-mode phone router runs Linux | The Linux implementation was reportedly developed in-house. Agito's core applications were developed to be cross-platform, and "software integration into Linux was very seamless," according to Pejman Roshan, VP of marketing. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2234315999.html | ||
1192698339 | Eee PC posts hot sales on first day in Taipei | Asustek Computer Inc.'s low-cost laptop, Eee PC, nearly sold out on its first day on sale in Taipei. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/101707-eee-pc-posts-hot-sales.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1192698433 | KlikIt-Linux 0.1-7B (by Xandros and Linspire Defectors) | KlikIt Linux is based on Kubuntu 7.04, taking advantages of many of its best features, and then adds its own touches such as many multimedia options that are either built in or available with a couple of clicks from the desktop, making it fun to interact with just like the KlikIt community. | http://lwn.net/Articles/254874/ | ||
1192698498 | Sun tries to flex R&D muscle with homegrown package manager | What, after all, is the point of crafting something meant to compete with Linux if you're not going to make it easy to download and install. | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/18/sun_opensolaris_ips/ | ||
1192698555 | Portable Linux rave machine | If your old iPod is gathering dust, why not use pdPod to turn it into a drum machine or a synthesizer? | http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9799174-1.html | ||
1192698695 | GNOME 2.20.1 Due Out Today | Last month GNOME 2.20.0 was released and today is scheduled to be the release of GNOME 2.20.1, which is the first maintenance in the GNOME 2.20 series... | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjEzMQ | ||
1192708071 | Avoiding Blobs [in the Linux Kernel] | A recent attempt to push some V4L/DVB updates for inclusion in the 2.6.24 Linux kernel met with some resistance. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Avoiding_Blobs | ||
1192708130 | [Microsoft-funded] Survey says: Microsoft [Shill] ecosystem is biggest | The IDC study--which Microsoft has been commissioning in different forms for the past five years--also forecasts positive growth for the IT industry and workers, with developing countries leading the way. | http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9799264-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 | ||
1192708187 | Novell eyes Linux in Asia | In particular Novell is interested in the government sector in Asia, which features large scale deployments where a full-featured desktop may not be necessary. | http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62033493,00.htm | ||
1192716141 | The 'SMOKING GUN': Attacks on Linux Come from Microsoft Proxy | So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the players. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 | ||
1192734882 | The SourceForge Story | It was the fall of 1999 and there was a fever in the air. The dotcom frenzy was in full bonanza, it was gonzo, and it was going to last forever. | http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/12035_3705731_1 | ||
1192734963 | 2Wire buys Linux home networking firm | Kenati's Linux-based technology will enable San Jose, California-based 2Wire to deliver a range of home digital media applications and services to residential customers delivered via telecoms operators. | http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2C8B773F-A79F-4953-92F6-D07B70046499 | ||
1192735044 | Adobe: friend or enemy of open source, open standards? | So is Adobe the friend of open source and open standards? It’s not so simple. | http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/18/adobe_open-source_friend_or_foe/ | ||
1192735182 | Video: Motorola's new MOTOMAGX platform with 3rd-party apps | Motorola introduces the MOTOMAGX Linux mobile platform, supporting Java, Web 2.0 and Linux applications from 3rd-party developers - check out our video and photos. | http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/8457.html | ||
1192769422 | Other Reasons for Microsoft to Invade the Linux and Open Source Worlds | Proxy strategies are evasive and the FTC won’t spot them, either. Instead of producing software to rival threats, Microsoft wants to acquire the threats and then never have to compete against them. It was months ago that a Microsoft executive admitted that Microsoft does not usually develop software; it buys it instead. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/18/open-source-takeover-invade/ | ||
1192773158 | Microsoft Criminals Are Apparently Spamming the World Wide Web | Microsoft is _once again_ cheating. It's part of the mentality in Redmond... to pretend you have market share... to brainwash. | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/b4e1530a6866bf04/568cc961c7013bbf#568cc961c7013bbf | ||
1192780617 | Moving to Linux in a Business | When Patrick Piccininno stepped up to the counter of IHOP in 2003, it wasn't for a short stack?it was for Linux, with a side of cost savings. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201749,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 | ||
1192780711 | Your Linux Computer Can Support A Different Window Manager! | This may be obvious because many of you have probably seen screenshots of a Linux distribution. But some of you may face fear of having to use a distribution because the window manager makes everything look confusing. Well, you don't have to use the default window manager. | http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/10/your_linux_comp.html | ||
1192780841 | GNOME 2.20.1 released | This is the first update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown crashers, even for those modules which haven't released a new version (AKA gnome-terminal). | http://lwn.net/Articles/255059/ | ||
1192780948 | IP firm sued, settled with Novell on different patent in August | That’s right. In late August, the Newport Beach, Calif. –based Acacia Technology Licensing’ subsidiary Disc Link Corp. entered into a licensing agreement with Novell covering patents related to portable storage devices with links to the Internet. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1564 | ||
1192780993 | Interview with Google's Chris DiBona | Chris DiBona started using free software on his home PC when he was at college, and for the same reason that Linus wrote Linux: because he couldn't get on the machines in the computer lab. | http://lwn.net/Articles/253718/ | ||
1192781053 | Stallman trumpets free software | After Stallman’s speech, the resolution, “Digital Restrictions Management should be illegal,” passed by a vote of 33 to 20. | http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21889 | ||
1192781209 | Open HA middleware gains CGL pre-integration | The components sit atop a carrier-grade OS such as Carrier Grade Linux (CGL), and provide an API (application programming interface) that developers can use to manage hardware and software components. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7447673519.html | ||
1192781272 | Fedora - not that one - provides platform for interoperability | The project was recently awarded a $4.9M grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand the functionality of its software platform. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119608 | ||
1192801144 | Eric Raymond Has Left Linspire?s Board | The press did not report any of this, despite the fact that the press did make a lot of noise when Eric dumped Fedora for Ubuntu Linux. | http://boycottlinspire.com | ||
1192804342 | Open Source Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros | The OSS option actually had a small lead in the survey results, with 53 percent expressing a preference for open source versus 47 percent opting for commercial solutions. | http://campustechnology.com/articles/51999/ | ||
1192804425 | Asian warms to Open Source | According to Gartner, the global software market is growing at 13 per cent, but open source is progressively taking market share from proprietary packages and bespoke software and will reach 20 per cent by 2010. | http://cio-asia.com/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=6626&pubid=5&issueid=124 | ||
1192804473 | PS3 and Linux... Powerhouse of possibilities | Linux on the PS3 - If you?re a Linux user, the PS3 is probably the nicest-looking Linux box you can get your hands on. | http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/10/18/prodit/19179430&sec=prodit | ||
1192804589 | Woopsi for Nintendo: First Open Source Package Released | Woopsi offers a GUI library for Nintendo. The Open Source Library offers help in quickly creating user interfaces for homebrew software. The Woopsi is based on the AmigaOS windowing system. | http://www.topnews.in/woopsi-nintendo-first-open-source-package-released-23835 | ||
1192804688 | Food for distro-hoppers: Jazz Linux | You can get Jazz Linux as a 2817 MB DVD: Jazz_20070901.iso (MD5) | http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/10/19/08/16/35-food-for-distro-hoppers-jazz-lin | ||
1192804735 | Open-Source Hardware | A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers. | http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19581/?nlid=604&a=f | ||
1192856844 | IBM Continues the Evolution of Its z/VSE Mainframe Operating System | "Many customers are beginning to put new Linux applications on the same IBM System z9 mainframe that also runs their production z/VSE applications..." | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0317343.htm | ||
1192856939 | GPLv3 larger than average increase | As of October 19th, 1pm PST, our database contained 898 GPL v3 projects, as compared to last weeks number on October 12th of 833 GPL v3 projects. This is a larger than average increase of 65 GPL v3 projects which puts us on the brink of 900 GPL v3 projects and closer to the important milestone of 1000 GPL v3 projects. | http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2007/10/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of.html | ||
1192856996 | GPLv3 adoption on track, experts say | In the end, for the FSF, the measure of the GPLv3's success will be, not how widely it used, but whether it can protect software freedom. "What does success mean?" Brown asks. "I think it's important not to set some arbitrary target about what success means. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119880 | ||
1192857073 | FSF to host online GPLv3 pow-wow | Linux developers also have questions about the new anti-patent collusion language in GPLv3 and what it means to joint patent partnerships such as the one between Microsoft and Novell. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7844722095.html | ||
1192857185 | The wide world of pre-installed Ubuntu | Thanks to Canonical's System Builder Program, pre-installed Ubuntu Linux PCs are available throughout the world and not just from Dell. | http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4371228443.html | ||
1192857378 | MontaVista expands in U.K. and Ireland | MontaVista, one of the leading vendors of embedded Linux OSes and tools, claims its software has been deployed in over 45 million devices. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3467824011.html | ||
1192876451 | Linux Will Be Worth $1 Billion In First 100 Days of 2009 | The kernel development process is adding 2,000 lines of code a day or roughly another 160,000 by the end of 2007. By the end of 2008, it will have added another 730,000. So the kernel will have close to 6.4 millions lines of code, using Wheeler's methodology, at the end of next year. | http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/linux_will_be_w.html | ||
1192876548 | Father of microloans sees end to poverty [in Open Source] | Computer programmer Tom Bostelmann had felt disconnected from philanthropy as a tech guy. Now he works as a consultant to the Grameen Technology Center, developing open-source banking systems software. | http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/335705_yunus17.html | ||
1192876608 | Mark Webbink On: Software Patents | This week Mark Webbink, former Red Hat General Counsel discusses software patents, their absurdity and the business climate and “judicial activism” that helped create them. | http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/19/mark-webbink-on-software-patents/ | ||
1192876677 | (Mis)understandings of the words “intellectual property” | Then there’s the Lone Cypress, a tree along California’s famous 17-Mile Drive. It’s probably the most infamous example of someone trying to exert ridiculous intellectual property rights. They must’ve made it sound like a good idea, though, because it seems that the idea of copyrighting trees is catching on. [Good video! Enjoy.] | http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/19/misunderstandings-of-the-words-%e2%80%9cintellectual-property%e2%80%9d/ | ||
1192876806 | Consumer-control industry and their security damnation | Security by obscurity has been proven ineffective and "opening up" to third party development while still dictating the conditions of this development is not even near "open". | http://www.libervis.com/article/consumer_control_industry_and_their_security_damnation | ||
1192876888 | Image acquisition development platform runs Linux | India-based embedded board specialist E-con Systems and U.K. distributor Direct Insight have collaborated on an image acquisition development platform based on Marvell PXA270 or PXA320 processors. The "Triton-Cam" is said to be available with Linux 2.6 support. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5594698156.html | ||
1192876968 | Text input software showcased on Access Linux Platform | Zi Corporation continues to sow its multimodal text input software throughout the Linux mobile phone community. At Access Day 2007 in Tokyo today it showed off the technology pre-integrated into the Access Linux Platform (ALP) mobile phone stack. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8811230982.html | ||
1192877028 | Product Review - The EmperorLinux Wasp CF-19 | The EmperorLinux CF-19 is not only rugged and preloaded with Linux. It also features a tablet working out of the box. The display can also be secured with a tough metal latch. | http://www2.linuxjournal.com/node/1000431 | ||
1192877103 | HealthVault: Failing the seven generations test | But this is still Microsoft we are talking about, which all things being equal, is especially bad. | http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/10/19/healthvault-failing-the-seven-generations-test/ | ||
1192877311 | A Gibbon (Ubuntu Linux) beats Leopard (Apple's Mac OS X) | Canonical has released the latest version of its Linux distribution, Ubuntu. It's easy to install and use. Why don't more people use it? | http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/19/a_gibbon_beats_leopard.html | ||
1192877511 | [Xmonad] ANNOUNCE: xmonad 0.4 (Tilting Windows in GNU/Linux or X) | The xmonad dev team is pleased to announce the 0.4 release of xmonad!.. xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. | http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2007-October/002906.html | ||
1192908034 | Open-source backup coming of age | Widely accepted open-source tools already include databases (MySQL), J2EE environments (JBoss), server virtualization (Xen), content management (Mambo), and security tools (GNU, Metasploit Framework). And the open-source storage segment already has a strong entrant in Amanda, which has a secure foothold in Linux environments. | http://www.infostor.com/display_article/305937/23/ARTCL/none/none/1/Open-source-backup-coming-of-age/ | ||
1192908159 | Nuxeo peddles open source ECM | Open source enterprise content management player Nuxeo has announced version 5.1 of its open source ECM platform with a focus on SOA, scalability, and support. | http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=BB6E3688-5EE8-4A1B-BEB8-62AF1BCF899D | ||
1192908313 | Open source VoIP being slowly accepted | Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) solution which use open source software are slowly being adopted by more firms, it has reportedly been claimed. | http://www.telappliant.com/news/18322607/Open+source+VoIP+being+slowly+accepted/0/ | ||
1192908449 | [Linux Gets] Shadow Directories | Jaroslav Sykora posted a series of five patches to handle the kernel portion of what he described as "shadow directories", providing an example which utilized FUSE to access the contents of a compressed file from the command line. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Shadow_Directories | ||
1192908542 | FSF opposes making TLS-authz an experimental standard | The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project oppose publication of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns as an experimental standard. The patent application disclosed by RedPhone Security has put any free software attempting to implement these extensions in a very difficult position. | http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/software-patents/draft-housley-tls-authz-extns.html | ||
1192938833 | SCO vs. Linux: Costly German lawyers | The never ending story surrounding SCO's litigation over alleged copyright infringements contained in Linux as well as the copyrights to Unix has taken yet another twist: The SCO Group, currently subject to proceedings under Chapter 11, is causing a stir as details in relation to their payment obligations emerge. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97693 | ||
1192942782 | Silverlight (and Moonlight/Mono, by Association) Becomes Part of the Antitr | Very few people have known about tomorrow’s lock-ins, but that’s because Microsoft keeps quiet about. Microsoft knows why keeping quiet is the better way. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/20/antitrust-silverlight/ | ||
1192943894 | Why the Gates Foundation is Not a Charity, But a Loophole | To Microsoft, most people are as stupid as Microsoft needs them to be, journalists are as greedy as Microsoft needs them to be, and politicians are as corrupt as Microsoft needs them to be. | http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/10/21/gates-foundation-loophole/ | ||
1192982671 | Another Indirect Link is Found Between Microsoft and Acacia | It turns out that BayStar was one of the investors in Acacia Research (patent troll that attacks Linux) | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/21/baystar-acacia/ | ||
1192988432 | Linux Security Modules Sans Modules | In a brief follow up to the earlier pluggable security discussion, Thomas Fricaccia reflected on the implications for the various security frameworks, "I noticed James Morris' proposal to eliminate the LSM in favor of ordaining SELinux as THE security framework forever and amen, followed by the definitive decision by Linus that LSM would remain." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Linux_Security_Modules_Sans_Modules | ||
1192988493 | Microsoft 'Patent Buddies' Should Be Very Afraid of Canonical With its Ubu | | Evidently Novell should be afraid – very afraid – because Canonical with its Ubuntu distribution, Dell's little playmate, the Linux Dell's pre-loading on a few of its PCs, clearly has designs on Novell's place in line behind Red Hat, the Linux leader. | http://www.sys-con.com/read/446538.htm | ||
1192988588 | ET: Quake Wars on GNU/Linux - NVIDIA Performance | For the benchmarks, we had recorded demos on the Valley, Refinery, and Slipgate. These maps had met our criteria for benchmarking and were able to stress various areas of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Valley is also the map, which is used by the Quake Wars Linux Demo. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=883&num=1 | ||
1192988654 | Free Software: Sometimes You Get More Than You Pay For | Even though I can't see you, I bet you're nodding your head vigorously. One of the joys of using the Web is stumbling across some program that makes your computing life easier but won't cost you a dime. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59870.html | ||
1192988702 | Linux extends African programme to Nigeria and Uganda | In Uganda the East African Centre for Open Source Software (EACOSS) will cater for Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the Great Lakes region. | http://www.corridornet.co.za/modules/articles/?Task=1&Irn=1518&CIrn=25 | ||
1193023328 | SUSE Replaced by Ubuntu for eSys Machines, Apparently | If there was ever danger of a damaging Linux monopoly, it was Novell. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/21/suse-ubuntu-esys-tesco/ | ||
1193025366 | The Role and Value of Truly Free Linux Distributions | As GNU/Linux becomes more popular, the motives behind its inceptions are often forgotten. Linux is a free operating system, but its broadening userbase perceives this freedom as pertaining to cost, not rights and liberty. | http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3706441 | ||
1193033297 | Interview: Linus Torvalds in the Hot Seat | "I?d rather just worry about the technology. The market will take care of itself." | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=303905&intsrc=hm_topic | ||
1193038586 | Linux Will Displace Unix When It Comes To New Apps | Last month, Gartner analyst George Weiss predicted applications will no longer be developed to run on Unix. | http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/last_month_gart.html | ||
1193038659 | Little Ubuntu chipping away at mighty Microsoft | Ubuntu is a version of Linux, the open-source OS that is chipping away at Microsoft's domination of the software market. | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10470772 | ||
1193038856 | Mobile Linux makes headway in handset industry | Mobile Linux momentum is growing with an increasing support for Linux as a cellular OS from a broad cross-section of the handset industry. | http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800484640_499495_NT_63065853.HTM?click_from=RSS | ||
1193038950 | HealthVault: Abusing vs Implementing Standards. | ...Microsoft is famous for incorrectly implementing standards and creating new incompatible dialects. | http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/10/21/healthvault-abusing-vs-implementing-standards/ | ||
1193039057 | Microsoft matters less every 6 months [Because of Linux] | Which leads me back to my headline. Edubuntu (and the various incarnations of Ubuntu) are very good right now. Microsoft may bring us ?Patch Tuesday,? but Canonical brings us a significantly upgraded operating system every 6 months. Many other major Linux developers follow a similar schedule. | http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1280 | ||
1193039160 | DigitalPersona releases Linux software development kit | The company has taken its fingerprint verification algorithm and adapted it to the Linux 2.6 environment for Linux-based embedded platforms and standalone systems deployed in retail, financial, healthcare, and time and attendance applications. | http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=22557 | ||
1193055306 | 3 Generations of Microsoft Anti-Linux Lawsuits, by Proxy | Let’s look at the evolution of legal actions against Linux. Interestingly, Microsoft is always involved, but later the company is surprised to find that Linux users do not trust it. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/22/lasuit-evolution-linux/ | ||
1193057167 | Inadvertently Proving the Opposite by Knocking Down a Strawman | I?m not sure who told Mr. Gomes that Ubuntu, for example, has never needed a security update. (If anyone actually did, I respectfully suggest that Mr. Gomes reconsider his use of that source.) | http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/10/a_very_nice_strawman_about_gnu.html | ||
1193071759 | CICT to computerize 320 public high schools [with GNU/Linux] | The PCs are loaded with several open-source tools including EdUbuntu (a version of Ubuntu designed for schools), OpenOffice, Apache, MySQL and Mozilla Firefox, among others. | http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=95414 | ||
1193071938 | Ubuntu has funny names | Confront these old-before-their-time people with a new operating system and it doesn't matter how much money it'll save or how much better than Windows XP or Vista it is, if it's called Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake, Feisty Faun or Gutsy Gibbon, they'll reject it out of hand. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/22/ubuntu-identity-crisis | ||
1193072054 | Review: Amarok Live CD 1.3 | Amarok is a fairly new, but well known music management and playback program designed to help you organize and listen to all of your music in a simple, yet powerful interface full of nearly every tool you will need. But few people outside of the Linux community know of this program. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=320 | ||
1193072210 | What the Nokia N810 means for maemo developers | With the professional support and the most Nokia centric services clearly in the Forum Nokia side, maemo.org may gain even more characteristics of a normal open source project. It depends a lot on you, on what you want maemo to be. | http://flors.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/what-the-nokia-n810-means-for-maemo-developers/ | ||
1193072326 | Linux Productivity Cubed? | Among other things, he expressed his hope that the various communities that provide and consume the functionality would seek ways to apply the new capabilities to the task of making the user more productive. | http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/10/17/productivity-cubed/ | ||
1193072435 | SNS Bank Selects JBoss Application Server for Transaction and Payments Pro | Since migrating to Application Server, SNS Bank has benefited from reduced license costs, increased stability and reliability and a reduction in hardware demands, compared with its previous system. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071022/20071022005106.html?.v=1 | ||
1193072553 | Collaboration: Best Reason for Government Open Source? | There seems to be a disconnect between what users want for their computing needs, and what vendors think they want. A glaring example of this was made apparent to me at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) earlier this week. | http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-19-028-26-OS-LL-PB | ||
1193072678 | Exact [Linux] Kernel Names | When asked how to best refer to kernels between official releases and release candidates, Linus Torvalds pointed to his automated git snapshots. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Exact_Kernel_Names | ||
1193117534 | Ubuntu: where to from here? | In business, as in many other things in life, it is relatively easy to plan for failure. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14966/1091/ | ||
1193117624 | Let's Make a Deal - The MS-EU Settlement | I'm guessing Microsoft lawyers are high fiving each other, having snatched an important victory from utter and total defeat. | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071022114731199 | ||
1193117708 | License change makes software more attractive for the community | By changing the software's license from the MPL to the GPL, "we are making it easier for the community to use our product," says Dimdim founder DD Ganguly. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119794 | ||
1193117799 | Virtualization: Everybody's Doing It, but Few Know How | "In the old days, you really just needed to understand the server," said Kirk Marty, a senior systems engineer at Jostens. "Now you have to understand not just the server, but also the command lines of the Linux operating system, networking, how switches work, storage and fiber connections." | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59931.html | ||
1193117864 | A look at Mandriva Linux 2008 | I get the impression this will be quite a worthy upgrade, but as for me I'm going to check back when the next release arrives. 8 "Smarties" out of 10. | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071022#review | ||
1193118027 | Linux SDK supports sub-$10 HD-video SoC | RidgeRun has introduced a Linux-based SDK (software development kit) for Texas Instruments's sub-$10 TMS320DM355 digital video SoC (system-on-chip). | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9221502408.html | ||
1193118171 | Firm picks Oracle 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the long haul | Cadec's chief architect, Heimir Sverrisson, knew it had to be deployed on Linux, not Microsoft Windows or a proprietary Unix flavor like Sun Microsystems' Solaris or IBM's AIX. | http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1277719,00.html | ||
1193136745 | Boycott Turbolinux | [New domain name not up yet] By all means, boycott Turbolinux. It is another company that plays nice with the neighborhood bully and even liaises with him. | http://boycottnovell.com/category/turbolinux/ | ||
1193153803 | MSBBC Corruption in Details | A gentleman called Erik Huggers who's responsible for the iPlayer project in the BBC, his immediately previous job was director at Microsoft for Europe, Middle East & Africa responsible for Windows Media. He presided over the division of Windows Media when it was the subject of the European Commission's antitrust case. | http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071021231933899 | ||
1193153878 | Microsoft concessions evoke big yawns at open source water cooler | So, unless Microsoft goes way beyond what it has agreed with the EU to do, only a subset of open source developers will have much interest. They?ll continue reverse engineering Microsoft protocols and doing the best they can." | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1582 | ||
1193153933 | Fedora 8 renews tradition of innovations | This release makes it obvious that the Fedora community prides itself on innovation. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119998 | ||
1193153987 | Ten uses for an old PC | As an added bonus Linux flies along, even on ancient Windows 98 PCs. It is virtually immune to viruses and its stability and reliability are legendary. | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/10/23/ecrboot22.xml | ||
1193154098 | An Open-Source BIOS For ATI GPUs? | Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth would also like to see everything down to the device's firmware being free software. The steps Oliver is taking at this point is to examine the AtomBIOS parser, which is open-source as part of the RadeonHD driver (a partial explanation of AtomBIOS). | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE0NQ | ||
1193162162 | ACCESS Connect Ecosystem Partner Program Continues to Garner Mobile Indust | In the short eight months since its creation, the program has rapidly grown to include 73 members. | http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=210605 | ||
1193162329 | Leading Italian Organizations Rely on Red Hat Solutions for Performance | Similarly, Iride Energia, part of Gruppo Iride, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standard operating system in its IT infrastructure with each of the company's 35 enterprise servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071023/20071023005042.html?.v=1 | ||
1193162563 | Low cost software for and by visually impaired | Chennai (PTI): A city-based visually impaired software professional has come out with an 'open source voice-enabled software' based on LINUX system, for the benefit of visually handicapped. | http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200710231725.htm | ||
1193162613 | Levanta Secures Funding as It Expands Into Linux Data Center Automation | Levanta, the leader in Linux data center automation, today announced that it has closed an $8 million funding round to help further accelerate its move into Linux data center automation. | http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071023005830&newsLang=en | ||
1193197463 | The Fourth ‘Patent Deal’ was with Europe… and the Sixth Deal That Won’t be | At the end of the day, the situation in Europe is a poor one. Microsoft made its agreement incompatible with the GNU GPL and included patent provisions. In the US, there won’t even be an (sixth) agreement because the government keeps offering Microsoft ‘protection’, which is mutual. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/23/fourth-patent-deal-europe/ | ||
1193212891 | SA eyes Apple, Red Hat to dodge vendor lock-in | The South Australian government is looking at a software overhaul that could see Apple or Red Hat taking over from Microsoft on the state's PCs. Analysts warn, however, skills costs could still lead to a software environment dominated by a single platform. | http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/SA-eyes-Apple-Red-Hat-to-dodge-vendor-lock-in/0,139023769,339283166,00.htm?feed=rss | ||
1193213078 | The Mandriva Club is now open to all Linux users for free | Mandriva, the leading European Linux editor, announces that its Club is open to all Linux users, free of charge. | http://www.hartware.de/press_7340.html | ||
1193213145 | LightZone for Linux | According to Kast, Linux users are dedicated, assisting with bug reports, translations and valuable feedback. "The Linux version gets us so much user connection and goodwill. A company can have a whole different kind of conversation with no-charge Linux users than it can have with supported Mac/Win users." | http://www.hubcanada.com/articles.php?aid=10778&cat=pc | ||
1193213211 | Finnix 90.0 Released | On October 23, 2005, Finnix 86.0 was released, marking the revival of Finnix. Now, two years and 9 releases later, Finnix 90.0 has been released for the x86/AMD64, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms. Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. | http://www.finnix.org/blog/2007/10/23/finnix-900-released/ | ||
1193213284 | Damn Small Linux 3.4.5 | DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution. | http://www.techzonez.com/comments.php?shownews=22415 | ||
1193213363 | NepaLinux receives APC FOSS award | The main contribution of the project is allowing non-English speakers to use GNU/Linux and to develop it. | http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/oct/oct23/news06.php | ||
1193213427 | ATCA conference deems virtualization "best of show" | VirtualLogix won its first "Best of Show" award at the recent AdvancedTCA Summit. Its Linux-based VLX for Network Infrastructure real-time virtualization software won in the "Best Software Product" category at last week's conference in Santa Clara, Calif., which showcased technology adhering to the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (Advance | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9005121858.html | ||
1193213599 | Oracle users go ga-ga for open source, including MySQL | It's great to be king (aka "Oracle"), but apparently the peasants are secretly in revolt. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9802484-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1193213652 | NVIDIA Releases Updated 2D "NV" Driver | NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has pushed out a new update for their open-source 2D "nv" driver. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE0OA | ||
1193213770 | EU and Microsoft gang up on the GPL | Like every actor that thinks it's conducting the orchestra, Microsoft is as much a puppet of circumstance as any one of us. | http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-24101/opinion:eu-and-microsoft-gang-up-on-the-gpl | ||
1193213831 | Opinion: behind the Acacia suit | It's a neat structure. Pump money into Acacia so it can attack Red Hat, and at the same time prove to the world how strong the Microsoft patent shield really is against those naughty, naughty trolls. | http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-24106/opinion:behind-the-acacia-suit | ||
1193213905 | [Screenshots] OpenSolaris Build 75 Ships GNOME 2.20, xVM | The xVM platform is supported on x86 and x64 systems and supports para-virtualized Solaris, Live Migration, and other features. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=886&num=1 | ||
1193222354 | Kernel space: Fair user scheduling for Linux | The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) was merged for the 2.6.23 kernel. One CFS feature which did not get in, though, was the group scheduling facility. Group scheduling makes the CFS fairness algorithm operate in a hierarchical fashion: processes are divided into groups, and, within each group, processes are scheduled fairly against one another. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/101207-kernel.html | ||
1193222421 | Getting Inventive With Software Patents | A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk to OIN's CEO, Jerry Rosenthal, who was with IBM for 37 years before setting up OIN. His comments about patent trolls – companies whose business is based purely around suing others for alleged patent infringement, rather than on making and selling things | http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1001964 | ||
1193222499 | On Education, Innovation, OLPC, And Open-Source | While I used the machine for only a few minutes, I came away very impressed by it, in part because of my recent thinking about the growing importance of open-source to education, and the shared sense of adventure and hope that I found at the conference. | http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/on-education-innovation-olpc-and-open-source/ | ||
1193222572 | Free Culture Manifesto | ...we can place the tools of creation and distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and learning into the hands of the common person ? and with a truly active, connected, informed citizenry, injustice and oppression will slowly but surely vanish from the earth. | http://ctkennedy.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/free-culture-manifesto/ | ||
1193239729 | LinuxBIOS Brings Clones One Step Closer to Freedom | Even if you don't care about the openness of your system BIOS, you might be concerned about its inflexibility and legacy baggage. | http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3706881 | ||
1193239911 | GIMP 2.4 preview | Fedora 8 test releases have a surprise for all users interested in graphics: a release candidate for the new GIMP 2.4, meaning the final version will get the stable GIMP 2.41. | http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/23/gimp-24-preview/ | ||
1193240070 | Ubuntu Linux @ IBM: Sometimes 330,000 employees makes life easier! | The company I work for is HUGE and has more business segments than I will ever know. Being a company this big means there is, more often than not, has its fare share of of bureaucracy and red tape. | http://thesalmonfarm.org/blog/2007/10/19/sometimes-330000-employees-makes-life-easier/ | ||
1193240180 | Tyler Tech: Open-source a software alternative | OpenOffice.org is, as the name would suggest, a full open-source suite of office programs. Every program a student ever needs is in here, from a writing program to a presentation creator similar to PowerPoint. | http://media.www.thetowerlight.com/media/storage/paper957/news/2007/10/22/Life/Tyler.Tech.OpenSource.A.Software.Alternative-3045983.shtml | ||
1193277870 | Turbolinux Might be the Next Linspire (It’s Not a Compliment) | The nice thing about Linux is that there is a lot of choice. The code is out there for everyone to use and reuse. Bad distributions, where "bad" refers also to their behaviour (or the behaviour of the parent company), will fade away while benevolent ones will survive and be made stronger by a large and supportive community. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/24/turbolinux-linspire/ | ||
1193288253 | Vistification - a temporoary drive to Linux? | Vista is gratuitously different from Windows XP. So different that it will take as much retraining (Vistification?) to get a user started on Vista, as it would to get them shifted to Linux. On Rupert's experience, probably more. | http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006251o-2000469549b,00.htm | ||
1193288342 | Linux mobile phone stack vendors align | MontaVista and Access have pledged to work together to produce a version of MontaVista's Linux-based mobile phone operating system optimized for Access's mobile phone software application and middleware stack. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4649082981.html | ||
1193288396 | Microsoft Makes the Hypercall [Against the GNU GPL] | Microsoft's decision to license the hypercall API is the right call, although some pundits and competitors might balk at the licen$ing scheme. | http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/microsoft_makes_the_hypercall.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 | ||
1193288459 | Linux: We've come a long way | And today Red Hat and others are actively certifying the rising hordes of data center Linux specialists. We've come a long, long way in a very short time. Though perhaps not this long. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9803594-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1193288540 | Document manager picks GPLv3 | Daniel Chalef, KnowledgeTree's chief operating officer, praised the GPLv3 as modern, well-structured and a significant achievement for the Free Software Foundation (FSF). | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1837 | ||
1193288625 | KDE and Distributions: ALT Linux Interview | ALT Linux was established in 2001 as a result of merger between IP Labs Linux Team and Linux RuNet, both involved in creation of GNU/Linux-based solutions since 1997. The primary focus of the company lies in the sphere of development of Free Software and GNU/Linux-based solutions. | http://dot.kde.org/1193222849/ | ||
1193288709 | Enterprise Web App Platform Maker UnCurls Code | "The decision to release all of the Curl source code above the RTE was made to encourage broad adoption of Curl as a viable enterprise RIA platform... | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59965.html | ||
1193288755 | NY investment management company offers to buy SCO for $36M | The SCO Group is seeking U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval to sell its Unix business to a New York investment management firm for $36 million, according to documents filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. | http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/241159/3/ | ||
1193288813 | Alan Cox on open-source development vs. proprietary development | 'When you release a free software project, you do things in a different order. Firstly, you get some code. Hopefully, it just about works. And you document it as "Needs fixing, needs this, needs that."' | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9803919-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1193323491 | Asian governments driving demand for open source | Asian governments are pivotal to Red Hat Inc.'s goal of earning 60 percent of its revenue from outside the US by the end of 2009, said Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman, chief executive officer, and president, in a conference call on Thursday. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/102507-asian-governments-driving-demand-for.html | ||
1193323621 | NCH Swift Sound Software Release BroadWave Streaming Audio Server for Linu | "We are very please to announce this release of BroadWave for Linux, because we see it as a start of something big for our company in the long term," said Stephanie Lee, marketing manager for the Australian company. | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb563844.htm | ||
1193323719 | The Oracle Unbreakable Linux incompatibility | It was exciting when a year ago at LinuxWorld Expo London we heard a rumour that Oracle was going to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was surprising to find out that this rumour was not entirely as well-intended and supportive as it sounded. | http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/the-oracle-unbreakable-linux-incompatibility | ||
1193323800 | I Was Wrong: Microsoft Won [in the Europe case] | I could feel it in my bones: the great victory of the EU over MS is a sham. Here's why. | http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-was-wrong-microsoft-won.html | ||
1193323920 | Korean software firm sues Microsoft | According to Korean newspaper Chosun, the US software mammoth has been accused of causing a loss in sales revenue estimated at W30bn (US$1=W918) because the firm's Windows operating system comes pre-loaded with a media player and instant messaging. | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/korean_digito_sues_microsoft/ | ||
1193324010 | Region's open-source experts to support first of its kind conference in B | The DataShell IT Open Minds Conference and Exhibition, scheduled to take place on 13th November, will be a first of its kind for Bahrain, bringing together regional business decision-makers as well as IT executives and providing them with information and resources to implement Linux and other open-source solutions in business infrastructures. | http://www.ameinfo.com/135611.html | ||
1193324156 | Oracle flexes muscle for Xen, open source | As a result, Xen only works on the Linux kernel, not on Microsoft Windows, the source code of which is not open to outside developers. | http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45289-1.html | ||
1193324234 | Microsoft: the Rodney Dangerfield of open source | So why is Microsoft, whose CEO Steve Balmer once referred to the open source operating system Linux as a "cancer," now seeking approval of its two licenses as open source? I think the answer is two fold. | http://fscavo.blogspot.com/2007/10/microsoft-rodney-dangerfield-of-open.html | ||
1193324436 | A First Tussle With Linux's iPhone Killer: The OpenMoko Neo1973 | Using Linux as a starting point, the OpenMoko developers have built a system which, although not everyday-usable yet, can be successfully installed and run on a variety of ordinary smartphone hardware: Treos, Motorolas, JasJars and so forth. | http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2007/10/openmoko_firstlook | ||
1193324506 | EpiSurveyor: Saving Lives with Open Source | EpiSurveyor is free, open-source software used to collect data—primarily medical survey data right now, although there's no reason other types of data couldn't be gathered—in areas where medical data is often out-of-date or incomplete, when it's even collected at all. | http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/24/episurveyor-saving-l.html | ||
1193402927 | Microsoft could face €1.8 billion EC antitrust fine | It also appealed against the Commission's demands that it make the protocols available to open-source software developers. | http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=19483&pagtype=allchandate | ||
1193403032 | XML vs Open | The claim from Microsoft regarding OOXML being open because it is an XML format hits that very point I was making. This is just plain wrong and people need to understand why. | http://lehors.blogspot.com/2007/10/xml-vs-open.html | ||
1193403439 | DIY Halloween Project: Open-Source Robotic Snap-O-Lantern | According to Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, "This is an open-source project, one of the world's first 'gpl-o-lanterns'; source code is provided." | http://www.searchvoip.com.au/topics/article.asp?DocID=1279058 | ||
1193403519 | Govt migrates 23 entities to open source platforms - Venezuela | Venezuela's government has migrated a total of 23 public institutions to open source platforms, the government said on its website. | http://www.bnamericas.com/story.jsp?sector=1¬icia=411582&idioma=I | ||
1193403728 | Another Linux router maker guns for Cisco | Unlike Vyatta, ImageStream packages its Linux-based router operating system on hardware. The smallest box, the Envoy, starts at about $500 and features two on-board 10/100 Ethernet ports, two Mini PCI slots, one USB bus with two internal ports, flash storage. The folks there have no trouble gunning directly for Cisco. | http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21094 | ||
1193403800 | A Cisco-centric open source community | Have you poked around The Cisco-centric Open Source Community (COSI) yet? The site was among a hefty list of sources for free admin tools that Brad Reese blogged about in May. | http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21093 | ||
1193403874 | The myth of the thousand updates for Linux, debunked | “Look at the pace of the update releases!” Microsoft shills’ latest tune goes something like this: “but Linux is so much more insecure than Windows — just look, every day you see security updates released!”. | http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/10/22/the-myth-of-the-thousand-updates-for-linux-debunked/ | ||
1193403953 | Blender developer talks the future of open-source 3D | There were about 1.8 million downloads during 2006-2007. That only includes downloads directly from Blender.org and official Blender mirrors, so there are quite a few more downloads than that. | http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8932 | ||
1193404103 | Games shared from PC to PS3 over the Web? | "We will release a Linux version in Q4 2007 which will enable PC games to be played on the PlayStation 3 and many other devices including DVD players, set top boxes, networked media devices and mobile phones," he said. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15045/1063/ | ||
1193404218 | It's the GNU GPLv3 for CorraTech | CorraTech Kicks Off Open Source Integration Project, Takes an SOA Approach. CorraTech has started an open source project called OpenSuite under the new GPL 3 license dedicated to the integration of open source applications. | http://www.sys-con.com/read/446392_p.htm | ||
1193405167 | Home networking software as open source | A consortium of 15 partners, including Philips, France Telecom, Telefónica and Microsoft and research facilities in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Greece and Spain has developed an open and standardized middleware for networking the home in a simple fashion. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97881 | ||
1193405274 | Trolltech delivered 44 % revenue growth | For the first nine months of 2007, revenues amounted to NOK 160.7 million, an increase of 32.7 percent compared to the same period in 2006. The growth is primarily driven by the development tools for Qt and Qtopia. | http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-10-24.7075816054 | ||
1193405336 | Red Hat: open source consolidator | Red Hat has been involved with 16 of them, spending the best part of $1.3b (and that?s just the disclosed amount). | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/25/red-hat-open-source-consolidator/ | ||
1193405409 | Asia to fuel Red Hat revenues | Red Hat expects 60 percent of its revenue to come from outside the United States by 2009, its company CEO said today. | http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62033793,00.htm | ||
1193405535 | Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative | Craig Nielsen was one of eight speakers at the WA open source symposium earlier this month. He talks about where the industry stands and where it is rapidly heading. | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;925684539;pp;2;fp;2;fpid;4 | ||
1193405611 | Another Day Another Distro ? PCLinuxOS 2007 | So after my positive experience of Mandriva 2008 it was time to reluctantly pack my bags and move on. My destination this time was PCLinuxOS 2007 which is not a distribution I'd tried before. | http://adventuresinopensource.blogspot.com/2007/10/another-day-another-distro-part-4.html | ||
1193405689 | Gobuntu [Review] | First, the good news: it all seems to be working fine. S | http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2007/10/23/gobuntu | ||
1193405780 | Buy software? How passé. | That Super Bowl ad, Apple's dig at the IBM PC, suggested a big idea: that personal computers could liberate users from the tyranny of centralized mainframe computers, which controlled and limited what they could do. | http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1025/p01s01-ussc.html | ||
1193406082 | Support issues top OSS concerns | Worries about support issues is the number one barrier to the adoption of open-source software by organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, say senior executives from Sun Microsystems. | http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62033733,00.htm | ||
1193406281 | Open source development is parallel processing in action | About 20 years ago engineers around the world began demonstrating what is still the greatest computer innovation of my lifetime, parallel processing. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1589 | ||
1193406373 | Debian GNU/Minix | Finally someone has seen the light and started a project that I called for in a previous article. This melding of the Minix kernel with the GNU userland is called Preventa, and seems to poke fun at the name Nexenta, a similar project using the Solaris kernel | http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2007/0710241032.asp?S=Innovations&A=INV&O=FPTOP | ||
1193406500 | Better mentors.debian.net/REVU to improve our sponsorship workflow? | I recently sponsored several uploads, and was asked to sponsor even more uploads, and that got me thinking about our sponsorship workflow. It’s a clear bottleneck in Debian, and discourages many new contributors, which obviously sucks. | http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=258 | ||
1193457860 | Linux being launched at schools | Besides the operating system the package is to comprise some freely distributed programs, close to MS Office by their functionality, which are to be used on computers with the following characteristics: 233 MHz and 128MB DDR. | http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/10/25/272200 | ||
1193457950 | Mongolia Commits to $100 Linux Laptop | Commenting on the OLPC initiative, Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar said, "We are delighted to be working with One Laptop per Child to enable children's access to education throughout Mongolia...." | http://www.pr-inside.com/mongolia-commits-to-one-laptop-per-r265003.htm | ||
1193458026 | One Laptop Organization to World: Chill! | If you aren?t on a schedule, you can?t be late. | http://www.xconomy.com/2007/10/25/one-laptop-organization-to-world-chill/ | ||
1193458096 | FSF on Anti-Features | DRM and trusted/treacherous computing systems are, in many ways, an extreme example of anti-features. | http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures | ||
1193458156 | Microsoft loses ground to Linux in Kanpur | Over the last two months dealers in Kanpur market are observing a gradual shift from proprietary to open source adoption. Customers are now enquiring about Linux and its applications and are keener to try it out. | http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/reselleralert/107102606.asp | ||
1193458308 | Large Bank Tries Linux | He said Red Hat was currently working with a "large bank", whom he kept anonymous, to introduce Linux into its IT environment. | http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22646223-5013040,00.html | ||
1193495091 | Open source vs. commercial software | Microsoft fighting open source even as it 'embraces' it. | http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-open-source-commercial.html?ts0hb&story=wkend_50arguments | ||
1193495184 | Corporate open source advice | Faking it, or "level 0" participation, is doing PR blitz around open source but not actually using an open source license. "There isn't a lot of point to doing this unless you want to destroy trust," Fitzgerald says. | http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/1631 | ||
1193495250 | Open-source advocates ponder Medsphere's future | Scott Shreeve said he is still a believer in open-source software in the healthcare industry and what he and his brother and Medsphere tried to do. | http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071025/FREE/310240002/0/FRONTPAGE | ||
1193495434 | Hillman Group Unlocks Information for Large Data Migration Project With IB | The Hillman Group is running IBM Information Server on high density IBM BladeCenter Servers running on Linux. | http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/071026/0320644.html | ||
1193495525 | Journalists Troll GNU/Linux | That's not a justification of bad behavior, but it certainly puts such responses in another light. | http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-10-26-025-26-OP-CY | ||
1193495612 | Open-source advocate discusses the movement | More organizations can and should give Linux desktops a consideration for their low-demand applications like point-of-sale, customer support and data entry. We'll see that faster than most people are predicting. | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;394762533;fp;2;fpid;4 | ||
1193495673 | New Display Tool Coming In Fedora 9 | There's less than two weeks now until the release of Fedora 8, which has been codenamed Werewolf. However, it's not too early to start thinking about Fedora 9. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE1NQ | ||
1193495786 | ODF Alliance hails record growth in application support for ODF | In total, there are now more than two dozen ODF-supporting text, spreadsheet, and presentation applications announced in the past three months | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/26/odf-alliance-hails-record-growth-application-support-for-odf/ | ||
1193495942 | GNU GPLv3 is Up, Up, Up | Even though the holiday for this month is Halloween, it feels like Christmas, at least for the GPL v3. | http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2007/10/gpl-v3-watch-list-is-intended-to-give.html | ||
1193538150 | Xandrosoft Eee PC: When the price is as small as the wireless laptop | There's even a combined SD/MMC card slot that you can pop memory cards straight into from your camera ? Asus assures me that most peripherals, such as printers and iPods, will work fine, as long as you download the necessary Linux driver. | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/10/27/dlclaud27.xml | ||
1193538230 | The Wisdom of [Software] Crowds | ...incidentally, both Google and Amazon didn't write all this software themselves. Nor did they buy it. Instead, they used the "free" software created by programmers, then given to the world. The Linux operating system. The Apache web server. The SQL database system. And so on. | http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Stories/Sound-Off/Write-a-Column/Story~383544.aspx | ||
1193556403 | How Can the Press, the OSI, and the ISO be So Biased and Foolish? | Microsoft’s steps towards the open source community and Linux are a farce, but the company takes pride in them. Some journalists fall for this fairy tale, but some do not. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/28/osi-microsoft-fake/ | ||
1193575250 | A Letter to the Gnome Foundation | Quotes like, “Time to play with C#, ASP.NET and some nifty toys (you can make almost Windows feel like Linux now)” seem to be promoting themes advanced by bloggers at Gnome’s (and open standards’) main antagonist, Microsoft. | http://fanaticattack.com/2007/a-letter-to-the-gnome-foundation.html | ||
1193584116 | Italian Judge Tells HP To Refund Pre-Installed XP | The court ruled in favor of the user (Google translation from the Italian), who received back ?90 for XP and ?50 for Works. | http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1952257&from=rss | ||
1193584288 | Distributed Storage Subsystem Headed For -mm (Linux Testing) | Andrew Morton responded favorably to Evgeniy Polyakov's most recent release of his distributed storage subsystem, | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Distributed_Storage_Subsystem_Headed_For_-mm | ||
1193584423 | NetApp losing 'spew dot oh' blog war to Sun | Hitz seems to ignore how virulent and vocal the open source "community" can be. | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/28/hitz_schwartz_blogs/ | ||
1193625763 | Anti-symbiosis: ODF, OOXML, Mono, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org | OOXML and OpenOffice.org can be used as dividers as well ? the dividers that set apart different Linux distributions ? those that pay Microsoft and those that do not (or those that are permitted to interact with Windows and those that are forbidden access to protocols). | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/28/odf-ooxml-mono-gnome-openoffice/ | ||
1193630999 | Linux Losing to Windows? No. IDC is Shilling. Again. | It is damning proof of the fact that Microsoft hires analysts that should appear as ?independent? as possible and then have them attack the opposition while praising Microsoft. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/28/idc-linux-fud/ | ||
1193636995 | Sun to release storage-server product next year | Sun announced six months ago that it was moving to open source on all its storage. | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/60F3BFA4EA185887CC25737F00754A70 | ||
1193637193 | Shuttleworth at FOSSCamp: collaboration brings "brilliant flashes of innov | The goal of FOSSCamp, he says, is to get those involved with open source projects together to collaborate and share ideas. | http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/10/27/shuttleworth-at-fosscamp-collaboration-brings-brilliant-flashes-of-innovation | ||
1193652709 | Linux: Nouveau Companion 29 | In this edition of the Nouveau Companion, the developers of the open-source 2D/3D NVIDIA display driver talk about IRC color coding, NV04 performance improvements, texture fixes, EXA advancements, register combiners, and more. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=894&num=1 | ||
1193652804 | Linux: The Little Operating System That Really Can | In my opinion, anyone who contends that Linux isn’t ready for the ordinary desktop user hasn’t tried it and/or isn’t an ordinary desktop user. | http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/eldergeek/2007/10/28/linux-the-little-operating-system-that-really-can/ | ||
1193652936 | SourceForge heads from one-stop shop to Mega-market | Looking for an open source developer? SourceForge to launch new open source services marketplace | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;881770770 | ||
1193653077 | Thin clients and open source the green IT winners | Government CIOs must consider different areas of potential impact on IT spending and assess their readiness, in terms of the ability to communicate internally and externally what is being done and why," he says. | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/spec/D79F9D3CD1DCC450CC25737F007EE6B7 | ||
1193696314 | Microsoft?s Exclusionary Deal in the UK: BECTA | The press appears to be portraying BECTA as a victim at the moment, but that?s not the full story. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/29/becta-uk-microsoft-deal/ | ||
1193741907 | A look at Ubuntu and Kubuntu 7.10 | Ubuntu - 9 "Smarties" out of 10; Kubuntu - 8.5 "Smarties" out of 10. | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071029#review | ||
1193742006 | Setting the Record Straight on (Non)Voting in SC 34 OOXML Nastiness | Upgrades that voted to adopt OOXML and didn't vote later: 7 - (C?te d?Ivoire, Cyprus, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan, Turkey, Venezuela) | http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007102801103588 | ||
1193742089 | Distros Don?t Drive Development | Lots of press and people focus on Linux distributions when they check out what happens in Linux land. This and that distro come in new releases and they offer this and that brand new feature. This is also true of the many linux podcasts. They give credit to distros for new things that pop up. | http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2007/10/28/distros-dont-drive-development/ | ||
1193742184 | ServerPronto Survey Reveals Most Popular Operating Systems | Fedora 21% Debian 17% Red Hat 15% Windows 13% FreeBSD 9% CentOS 7% Gentoo 7% | http://usstock.jrj.com.cn/news/2007-10-29/000002849216.html | ||
1193742314 | OLPC developing new 'supercharger' | The XO batteries do not work on normal laptops, which can sap up to 40 watts of power depending on usage, Jepsen said. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=558184569&rid=-50 | ||
1193742370 | African ministers punt free, open source | The growing movement towards FOSS implementation within governments was noted at the meeting, as well as the fact that "a number of governments" had made decisions on the full use of FOSS to deliver services. | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1843 | ||
1193742467 | Open source: The most disruptive influence in IT today | The surge in Linux deployments can be attributed to two distinct factors, Analyst Bill McNee said at the time. “Part of the surge is not necessarily due to Linux itself, but instead is due to the fact that the entire open source applications stack that sits above Linux is now ready for prime time,” he said. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1162060202&rid=-50 | ||
1193742606 | A Call To Accountability | It's your money. You've paid dearly for our public school system and you have the right to know how many millions the schools are putting into the pockets of Bill Gates. Wouldn't that money be better used to educate our kids? | http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/347-A-Call-To-Accountability.html | ||
1193742726 | Get a fresh desktop distro: Linux Mint 4 | There is also a KDE edition, which replaces the Gnome desktop and usually comes with more software. A fourth version is the Xfce community edition, which uses the less resource-hungry Xfce desktop. | http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?from=rss_IOLTechHome&iSectionId=2883&iArticleId=4103944 | ||
1193742761 | iPod on the Outside, Linux on the Inside | iPod Linux runs on first, second and third generation devices. Versions for additional players are still under development, according to its developers. A functional installation routine is currently only available for Mac computers. Installing iPod Linux does not mean going without the familiar Apple firmware. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60037.html | ||
1193742830 | Miguel's delusions of grandeur | What is Miguel de Icaza's latest game? His obsession with tailgating everything that Microsoft develops - and trying to impress the company by producing Linux equivalents - now seems to be spreading to others as well. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15089/1091/ | ||
1193784645 | More on the Gates Fundation [sic] | Last week I provided some truths about the “Gates ‘Foundation’”. It is not what people are led to think it is. | http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/10/30/gates-fundation/ | ||
1193785713 | The Linux Community of Interest | Today, the proliferation of web sites has negated the rules I learned over ten years ago. ?Build it and they will come? is a deprecated notion. Many of my searches today are clouded by page after page of eBay auction ads. I find it difficult to find materials I need to do my work. | http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003694 | ||
1193785784 | Latest tricks won?t spoil open source treats | As for the open source skeptics who continue to doubt open source can make money or serve as a sustainable business model, they should remain scared. With that kind of thinking, whether at an ages-old proprietary vendor or SAAS startup, they are likely to be replaced soon. Open source is knocking on your door. Trick or treat. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/30/latest-tricks-wont-spoil-open-source-treats/ | ||
1193785853 | First GNOME 2.21 Release This Week | For those looking to live on the cutting-edge of GNOME innovations, the first development release towards GNOME 2.22 is due out this Wednesday (October 31). | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE1OA | ||
1193785934 | Ministry of Education from Brazil is buying 90,000 Debian GNU/Linux PCs!! | All computers will be installed at 9000 brazilian schools. | http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/mec_buying_90000_debian_computers | ||
1193786053 | Review: Fluxbuntu Linxu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb | In short, this is something that has been needed for a long time ? a cool and clean Ubuntu derivative that?s at once lightweight and comprehensive... Try it. You?ll like it. | http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/fluxbuntu-710-rc-on-450mhz-k6-2-256mb/ | ||
1193824620 | German Foreign Office comes out in favor of Open Document Format | In Munich where a Linux migration is in progress ODF, according to Florian Schiebl of the LiMux Project Office, helps reduce the flood of templates and macros in the municipal government and push through more uniform file management standards. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/98208 | ||
1193824753 | BBC and the iPlayer Scam | An interesting podcast with Ashley Highfield, Director Future Media & Technology....Clearly there?s a vast amount of money to be made by selling ?DRM? solutions to gullible old media companies. It is sad that the BBC, who don?t even have to protect their profits, do not have the collective brains to see through this scam. | http://www.links.org/?p=269 | ||
1193824884 | In need of software reform | Unless you purchase a copy of GNU/Linux from a retailer, they all believe that you are purchasing software to be run on Microsoft Windows (unless they are from the MacOSX shrine aisle). This is the biggest area in need of reform that I am aware of and something needs to change. | http://www.nuxified.org/blog/in_need_of_software_reform | ||
1193825024 | Student exposes NZ govt Web site shortcomings | Bradshaw concentrated on sight disabilities in his project, using a panel of testers who are blind, color-blind or have partial sight. He also used a pair of open-source automatic testing programs, Validator and OpenWolf. The match between the sets of trials was used as a check on the functioning of OpenWolf in particular. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1779913129&rid=-50 | ||
1193825088 | Another Linux Laptop Per Child: Notebooks for all | The operating system is a cut down version of Debian Linux, recompiled for the ARM architecture, complete with most of the office and communications software expected in a GNU/Linux system. The OS and applications are locked away in semi-permanent flash memory that under normal circumstances cannot be written to by the system. | http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/31Oct2007_data01.php | ||
1193825263 | Project Indiana Desktop Looks Like... | While Project Indiana is still a few hours away from the development preview release, the first screenshot of it has emerged on the OpenSolaris Project Page For Indiana. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE2Mg | ||
1193825369 | The great desktop switch: From Windows to Linux | Who has the time to get all geeky with Linux on the desktop? We do. And as you'll see in this complete guide, it's not as hard as you think. | http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=92758 | ||
1193825536 | Ubuntu 7.10: Linux Flirts With Mainstream | The operating system is called Linux, and you probably use it every day without even knowing it. It powers ATMs, cell phones, video game consoles and TiVos, and it also powers a huge number of Web sites and Internet servers. | http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60046.html | ||
1193825606 | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9054895019.html | Wind River already supported Cavium multiprocessors with the Linux Edition of its Platform for Network Equipment. Now, the long-time leading supplier of telecom operating systems has committed to bringing both generic and Cavium-specific multicore support to its venerable VxWorks RTOS. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9054895019.html | ||
1193838411 | UK government still watching open source | The UK government does not know how much open-source software it uses or what its value is, ministers have admitted. | http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=10498&pagtype=samechan | ||
1193900369 | Is the Monsoon settlement a missed opportunity? | ...for those looking for legal precedent, all may not be lost. ?Stay tuned, however, as this is likely not the last lawsuit we will see here in the U.S. to enforce the terms of the GPL,? notes Haislmaier. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/31/is-the-monsoon-settlement-a-missed-opportunity/ | ||
1193900768 | Overcoming THE FEAR [of Moving to BSD or GNU/Linux] | This being Halloween, it seems appropriate to talk about fear. Why don't more desktop users adapt to free computing? THE FEAR. | http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=overcoming_the_fear&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 | ||
1193900834 | [on de Icaza] Squandering one of the industry's best open source talents | You, personally, would convince more by going back to the innovation in GNOME that originally made you one of the most interesting developers on the planet. I want the old Miguel (and Nat - where has Nat Friedman been?) back, the one who demo'd Nat's Dashboard with Nat at OSCON. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9808317-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1193900942 | Chinese new report shows Linux growth | As to the development of operating systems, China has done a lot of R&D work on Chinese Linux, supporting open source codes and its applications. | http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,211895.shtml | ||
1193901146 | Machine learning fuels Sun music recommendation technology | Open source project aims to overhaul music search | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/103107-sun-music.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1193901249 | Companies unite to slam patent reform bill | More than 430 organizations and companies representing over 25 industries have written to Senate leaders criticizing pending legislation to reform the US patent system | http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1629799 | ||
1193901417 | GNOME 2.21.1 released! | This is the first release of the GNOME 2.21.x series. This opens the development cycle for what will become the stable GNOME 2.22.x release. More information about new development can be found here: http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap | http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2007-October/msg00061.html | ||
1193901541 | Software patent abolition campaign will launch next month | What could make the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proprietary software companies, and at least one venture capitalist into allies? The End Software Patents (ESP) coalition, a new organization poised to swing into action next month under the leadership of Ben Klemens. | http://www.linux.com/feature/120628 | ||
1193901633 | Telecom DSPs gain Linux virtualization | The company has ported its VLX-NI virtualization layer and Linux kernel for network infrastructure equipment to Texas Instruments DSPs used in base stations and other networking data-plane applications. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3172173373.html | ||
1193901739 | 'Project Indiana' OpenSolaris Preview Debuts | The software is the first milestone toward the delivery of a full OpenSolaris binary distribution in early 2008. | http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug110107-story03.html | ||
1193925884 | Linux data storage specialist receives additional EUR 4.2m | In its second round of funding, Toulouse-born Seanodes has received financial backing from its existing investors Elaia Partners and IRDI, as well as 123Venture and Galia Gestion. | http://www.privateequityeurope.com/public/showPage.html?page=344703&tempPageName=480109 | ||
1193925970 | Digital Archiving Systems rolls-out open source in Angola | DAS has provided at least 1 000 Open Source Software (OSS) client licenses to the office of the Angolan prime minister, the secretariat of ministries and to the Angolan government ministries of education, science & technology and external relations. | http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page1639?oid=168717&sn=Detail | ||
1193926035 | Software guru is hot on Linux, busting bureaucracy | Grady Booch is chief scientist at IBM's Rational Software unit and an IBM fellow who also holds the title "free radical." His software development approach and the Unified Modeling Language, which he helped create, have been used to build the software that runs pacemakers, avionics... | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1197499546;fp;2;fpid;4 | ||
1193926104 | Tech support: Some church officials keen about One Laptop Per Child | "There are 50 million students in the Catholic Church's school systems," which include children in some very poor parts of the world, he told Catholic News Service Oct. 29. | http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0706186.htm | ||
1193926166 | Red Hat VP Michael Chen: Building a Strategy for China | The soft-spoken Chen, 36, was recently promoted to Red Hat's vice president for corporate marketing. He returned to Raleigh, where he also received a master's degree from N.C. State University. Chen talked about the transition last week. An edited transcript follows. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60088.html | ||
1193926298 | Linux Mint 4.0 Beta on a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop | Well I can say that if you have a similiar config for a laptop that you will not be disappointed in Linux Mint 4.0 Beta | http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=8053 | ||
1193926414 | MicroTCA minions connect in Munich | ...both tend to be used with Linux, since Linux is also an open standard delivered off-the-shelf and targeted at telecom applications by multiple vendors, including Red Hat, MontaVista, Asianux, and Wind River, most of whom provide Carrier Grade Linux distributions. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7811319267.html | ||
1193969314 | An Open Letter to eWeek [on Linux BS] | Maybe I’m wrong here, but it seems like a John Dvorak maneuver split into two roles (and two people) with hopes of boosting traffic and ad revenue. Oh, and please get rid of those anti-Linux ads in eWeek, by the way, because they send mixed messages in Linux journalism. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/01/open-letter-eweek/ | ||
1193977554 | HP Backs Red Hat in Government Biz Bid | When it comes to big enterprise IT deployments in the U.S., there is no enterprise bigger than the federal government itself. Linux vendor Red Hat is hoping for a larger portion of the government's multi-billion dollar IT spending with its widest-ever array of security certifications, thanks to assistance from HP. | http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3708611 | ||
1193977643 | PCIe video capture card supports Linux apps | Adlink Technology has introduced a PCI Express video capture card aimed at surveillance and machine-vision applications. The PCIe-RTV24 is said to capture and display four channels of video at rates up to 30fps per channel, and is available with Linux support. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6921267826.html | ||
1193977751 | JACK Sync: A Primer For Linux Users | JACK's name is a recursive acronym for "JACK audio connection kit". The kit provides a system for freely connecting independent audio data I/O points, thus allowing the audio output from one JACK-savvy application to be sent to the audio input of any other JACK-aware client. | http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1004080 | ||
1193977852 | ODF Alliance Hails Record Growth in Application Support for ODF [PDF] | IBM's Lotus Symphony... includes an ODF-supporting word processor... Apple's Text Edit... Corel WordPerfect Office Beta allows users to open, view, and edit ODF... Adobe's Buzzword... Sun ODF Plug-in 1.1 for Microsoft Office.... OpenOffice.org version 2.3... | http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20071026.pdf | ||
1193978049 | Google Docs spreadsheets can kill Nokia's Mozilla browser | Unfortunately, you still need to re-flash the entire OS to get this version. There's an interesting post in this developers' blog about what to expect from next Nokia Tablet OS releases, code-named Chinook and its successor, code-named Diablo. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/31/google-docs-need-optimization-for-nokia-mozilla-browser | ||
1193978103 | LinuxConf: Getting the smalltalk on the road | No longer is it only the true geeks and nerds who gravitate to Australia's national Linux conference; as the years have gone by more and more people in the middle have migrated thither and lent their expertise to make the copnference what it is today. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15150/1091/ | ||
1193978241 | Linux Gazette - November 2007 (#144) Issue is Out | Virtualization made Easy, by Edgar Howell; 3D programming with Vpython, by Maxin B. John; Slow Receivers in a Distributed Data Management System, by Sudhir Menon; FlickOff: Escaping the Clutches of Web 2.0, by Ben Okopnik; Ecol, by Javier Malonda; The Linux Launderette... | http://linuxgazette.net/144/index.html | ||
1193989584 | Early Signs of Danger: Microsoft Already Fighting to Steal the Web | Novell is clearly becoming an integral part of the aggressor and oppressor, which is Microsoft. As such, both Novell and Microsoft will continue to have our eyes on them. Microsoft?s agenda seems inseparable from that of Novell at times. Both companies strive to achieve effective exclusion of the competition using proprietary and patent-encumbered | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/02/fight-steal-the-web/ | ||
1193995400 | Common Criteria Certification for JBoss and MetaMatrix Solutions | Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it is pursuing Common Criteria certification for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, reinforcing its commitment to information technology (IT) security for public-sector customers. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071101/20071101005414.html?.v=1 | ||
1193995483 | OLPC makes its entry into India - finally! | When the OLPC first made news, a prominent official in the HRD ministry of the Indian government had gone on record snubbing the OLPC project ($100 laptop), even making a preposterous claim that work was under way to create India's own $10 laptop. | http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/olpc-makes-its-entry-into-india-finally.html | ||
1193995561 | What The Google Phone Could Do For Linux | Even the best technology needs a sugar daddy. Seven years ago, Linux got just that when IBM said it would put $1 billion on the then-nascent open-source operating system, pushing the software into the corporate mainstream... | http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/11/01/google-linux-phone-technology-cx_bc_1101linphone.html | ||
1193995623 | Supercomputing with a stack of PlayStations | Khanna's system runs Yellow Dog Linux, chosen because there is a PS3-centric version. | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10473693 | ||
1193995695 | Linux at Home | Since I wrote the last column, I have been trying the newest version of Puppy Linux on a cast-off Toshiba Tecra laptop that has no hard drive (which would normally retain everything stored on the computer). It has been very rewarding. | http://graynews.maine.com/2007-11-02/linux_at_home.html | ||
1193995754 | When All Else Fails, Go to the DeLi! (Linux) | DeLi is a great way to re-use those old computers being stored in the attic. It can even be installed from floppy disks! So if you ever need Linux, or a new programming computer, think of using DeLi! | http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/11/when_all_else_f.html | ||
1193995829 | Guardian Digital announces introduction of completely redesigned SurfSecur | Guardian Digital, the world's premier open source Internet security company, reinforced their dedication to web security with completely redesigned and updated version of their popular Web and Content Filtering solution, SurfSecure. | http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/94920/index.html | ||
1193995965 | A survey of existing Linux patents [, OIN Aside] | The Linux world has been all atwitter since Acacia Technologies Group filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell alleging that their versions of Linux infringe on three patents. Just how big is the risk to Linux from patent lawsuits? One indication may come from a look at current US patent publications related to or mentioning Linux. | http://www.linux.com/feature/120117 | ||
1194009069 | South Africas Open Source Software Market Builds on the Government?s Adopt | While the South African open source software (OSS) market is still in its development stage, the recent decision by the South African Government to adopt a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) policy is a significant boost for the industry. | http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/press-release.pag?docid=110730017 | ||
1194009216 | Federal Government Votes for Open Source | The Federal Open Source Alliance, an organization devoted to open source education, today announced the results of its ?Federal Open Source Referendum? study, the first annual report designed to identify current open source adoption rates and trends in the Federal market. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071101/20071101005877.html?.v=1 | ||
1194009303 | Everex to launch Linux notebooks under US$300 next year | After introducing a US$198 Linux desktop this week, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under US$300 to users next year. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=664995934&rid=-50 | ||
1194009413 | Telling the Truth About Software Patents and Innovation | Would abolishing software patents, then, lessen innovation among large companies? Again, no. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle were founded before software could be patented. They couldn't afford to quit innovating simply because patent protection became unavailable. | http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071101145010612 | ||
1194009473 | Tech Companies Paid Lobbyist $300,000 [for Patent Reform] | http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/tech_companies_lobbying | http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071101/tech_companies_lobbying.html?.v=1 | ||
1194009666 | CGL group rev's leadership, charter, policies | Cauchy said that in addition to a change of leaders, the CGL working group has also changed its charter. And, another change: the mailing lists have been opened to the public. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4572135894.html | ||
1194009752 | Free Culture House | Last month, Jimmy Wales and I announced a new project for iCommons called the ?Free Culture House? project. Inspired by similar initiatives around the world, we have come to recognise the growing importance of physical spaces in building the kinds of communities that will spread the global commons. | http://www.icommons.org/articles/free-culture-house | ||
1194009897 | Global publisher moves business applications from Oracle to Open Source | Mark Taylor, CEO, Sirius said: "In our experience only 12% of current Oracle users are unable to reproduce the functionality they want in PostgreSQL. Everyone else will make massive cost savings, improve performance and keep the high-end features they rely on." | http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=34865&hilite= | ||
1194009974 | Environment Canada opens up to open source | Environment Canada is using an open source model for its Model of the Environment and Temperature of Roads (METRo) forecasting system, in an effort to help provide the community of meteorologists and road maintainers with accurate forecasting software. | http://www.intergovworld.com/article/f8f440a20a01040800b98117d721d2a0/pg1.htm | ||
1194010052 | Linux Powers Cray XT4 Supercomputer at NERSC | Beginning more than a year ago, we jointly defined design requirements then tested and validated a Linux operating environment for Franklin and ultimately Cray's entire XT product line that will be available to our vast community of users. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/13911/linux-powers-cray-xt4-supercomputer-nersc | ||
1194010106 | A second life for 'Second Life' with open source? | In the aftermath of the hype over the virtual world, a tiny group of developers presses on with building its Linux presence. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/103107-second-life.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1194010198 | Review: NimbleX 2007 | Overall though, aside from those couple of misgivings, I find NimbleX to be very enjoyable, easily usable, and highly recommendable for people with older machines, or those just looking for raw, unbridled speed and light weight operation. And all of this comes coupled with the grand power of KDE. | http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=328 | ||
1194046962 | Rumour: Novell To Lay Off 1100? | An article has just been withdrawn whose headline was: Rumor: Novell To Lay Off 1100?. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/02/novell-layoff-another-rumour/ | ||
1194065909 | IBM, Novell Move To Block SCO's Unix Sell Off | IBM and Novell on Thursday asked a bankruptcy court judge to block The SCO Group's sale of its Unix technology to a private equity firm, which the software vendor has proposed as part of its Chapter 11 reorganization effort. | http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202801648 | ||
1194066018 | Multimedia-centric Linux OS adds A/V goodies | The updated offering, codenamed "Kessem," features 3D OpenGL, a TV/video/file streaming server and client, Cinelerra, Rosegarden, Audacity, and an assortment of sound manipulating effect tools, synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers, the company said on its website. | http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4868362836.html | ||
1194066112 | Open source in BT | Yesterday we had an open source event in BT's auditorium called "Open source - open for business". If you'll excuse the rather corporate-sounding title, it was actually a really cool day. There were elements of preaching to the converted - a large proportion of the audience were already open source advocates... | http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-source-in-bt.html | ||
1194066179 | Key KOffice Developers Talk About KOffice 2 and Open Standards | KOffice standardises on OpenDocument. | http://dot.kde.org/1194021253/ | ||
1194066359 | OIS ports real-time CORBA ORB to embedded Linux | Objective Interface Systems (OIS) is shipping a version of its real-time CORBA ORB (object request broker) middleware targeting Sysgo's embedded Linux distribution. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9647012697.html | ||
1194066447 | Industry group aims Linux at automation apps | As the market for Linux in industrial automation grows, so do the activities of the Open Source Automation Development Lab. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7513572062.html | ||
1194101426 | Mozilla: 67 Million in Revenues, 20 Million In Expenses, 74 Million in Savi | It sounds impossible to me as well. But these really are the numbers from Mozilla, the open source project that started at Netscape, was morphed into a non-profit foundation, and most recently, the Mozilla Corporation – a taxable entity owned by the Mozilla Foundation. | http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10/67-million-in-r.html | ||
1194101507 | Nigerian-Microsoft [anti-Linux] deal revealed | Intel has just announced that it has donated the lappies to Nigeria for nothing as part of a move to train 150,000 new teachers in the populous African nation. [...] It appeared that Microsoft offered to use its Partners in Learning programme, which helps train teachers in computer skills... | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/trojan-knocks | ||
1194101608 | Eben Moglen: Copyleft Capitalism, GPLv3 and the Future of Software Innovat | Eben then related how he had finessed the famed “coupons” in the Microsoft/Novell brouhaha, describing how he had “hacked” Novell. | http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/eben-moglen-copyleft-capitalism-gplv3-and-the-future-of-software-innovation/ | ||
1194101729 | GPLv3, bug fixes, and complexity | The GPL, as far as I know, is the only free software licence that has been tested in court, and it's used by more software projects than all other free software licences combined. This gives it's writers a lot of information with which to do bug fixing, and it gives the GPL a massive responsibility to work solidly. | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2571 | ||
1194101811 | Google to unveil mobile strategy: sources | Sources said the Google mobile operating system would be based on open-source Linux code, which will support applications from different software developers in addition to Google's own services, which include e-mail and mapping. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071103/bs_nm/google_wireless_dc | ||
1194101887 | Hitting the Open Source Road With a Linux-Powered Driverless Vehicle | "Any time something creative is done with Linux on Power, it showcases a unique solution and stimulates others to also think outside of the box to recognize that we can choose to live in an other than Wintel world and still be viable, even thrive," Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions... | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60140.html | ||
1194102008 | Ubuntu 7.10 - The Best Version. | Even when you're not the follow-the-crowd type of Linux user, who can resist the plethora of new features on this new incarnation of Ubuntu 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon. | http://www.linuxseekers.com/content/view/203/1/ | ||
1194102105 | Lotus Symphony Linux Beta Review | Lotus Symphony is a really interesting initiative. There’s a great need of competition on the office suites (especially those that support the ODF format) market. | http://polishlinux.org/apps/openofficeorg/lotus-symphony-linux-beta-review/ | ||
1194102205 | Open source hardware comes out of closet | EVER SINCE open-source software created a buzz, people have stroked chins, pondered and pontificated about the possibility of open-source hardware – and now it’s becoming a reality. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/02/open-source-hardware-coming | ||
1194102312 | Open Source and the Feds; Your Tax Dollars at Work | Overall, 90 percent of open source respondents who have adopted open source assert that their agency derives value from it. 29 percent of the respondents who have not implemented open source say that they plan to implement it in the next six to 12 months, with the Intelligence community leading the way. | http://www.ddj.com/blog/portal/archives/2007/11/open_source_and.html | ||
1194102411 | Linux Development Kit For Portable Multimedia Devices | Microcross, Inc. has debuted the an embedded Linux development kit, the GX-Linux, which is being targeted at portable multimedia devices. | http://www.arm.com/iqonline/news/marketnews/18910.html | ||
1194137597 | Heads Are Rolling at Novell | We want the old Novell back — the Novell that used to sell and promote Linux (without the FUD) back in 2005. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/03/novell-jobs-india/ | ||
1194148604 | Fedora 8 RC 3 [Really Good Preview] | Fedora 8 RC 3 was released three days ago. This RC shows what users can expect from the upcoming Fedora 8. It comes along with a huge list of new features and bug features. Among them are a KDE 3.5.8, a new NetworkManager core, PolicyKit, PulseAudio and RandR 1.2 support for the open ATI drivers. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/fedora-8-rc-3/ | ||
1194148722 | [Linux Advocacy:] For Some...Don't Waste Your Time | There are millions behind me should I tire and fail. You should hope to stick with fighting me Mr. Gates...I know some of the people that will fill my space when it inevitably becomes vacant... | http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/349-For-Some...Dont-Waste-Your-Time.html | ||
1194148841 | [Use Linux to] Diagnose and Repair an Unbootable XP or Vista PC | If you're ready for a Windows alternative, try Puppy Linux, which you can download as a ready-to-burn .iso file from the Puppy Linux Web site. Boot from the CD, and you'll have a nongeek's version of Linux running on your PC. | http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139226-c,windowstips/article.html | ||
1194149005 | Linux Swap Over NFS | The first fifteen patches set up a generic framework for reserving memory. Patches 16-23 actually put the framework to use on the network stack. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Swap_Over_NFS | ||
1194161675 | The Jonney Machine [or Why Windows was Rejected for Linux] | Asustek decided that the Windows operating system was out of the question. The licensing costs would have been the most expensive part of the computer. So it decided to use Linux and build its own user interface, and that became the most time-consuming part of the project. | http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/1112/024a.html | ||
1194161749 | Out the windows... [in with Linux] | .. in with the doors. Or put in another way why and how I ditched Windows (Vista) for Linux. Vista the worst operating system from MS ever. It eats resources like candies. Come on, on new double core systems it drags and drags for a bit of shiny graphics... | http://1ntrep1d.blogspot.com/2007/11/out-windows.html | ||
1194161822 | Get free software and save a fortune | The report, South African Open Source Market, said allegations by large developers, led by Microsoft, and the Business Software Alliance, of piracy and copyright violations have cast a shadow over the legitimacy of free software. | http://www.thetimes.co.za/Business/Article.aspx?id=602887 | ||
1194161901 | Is MySQL's Google's Trojan Horse for world domination? | Also over the next couple of years - and this is where Cringely seems to veer back into Conspiracy Land - Google will work in conjunction with IBM to infect the minds of America's Youth. | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/google_mysql_together/ | ||
1194162009 | Free and Open Source Games | I got involved with the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative because I was (and am) fundamentally interested in helping organizations work in a way that doesn't just lock out groups that don't have the financial resources to keep up with software advances | http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2007/11/free-and-open-source-games.html | ||
1194184790 | The Man Behind the Linux-based Google Phone | ?The thing that gets me going is touching a large number of people ? if there?s 3.1 billion phones out there, it?s a great way to touch people,? he says. ?I want to find something that delights people so they use it, and they use it for the merits of it being it.? | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04google.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=f05a55321435d1e9&ex=1351828800&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin | ||
1194185043 | Choice: The system of Checks and Balances in Linux | What am I getting at here? Just that Linux has and always will be about choice. And although it is probably good to keep choice to a minimum when it comes to OEM deals (so as not to confuse the unwashed masses), it must be remembered that Linux can never consolidate to a point where only a few distros exist. | http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/95008/ | ||
1194185111 | Free Software Research and Civil Society | The STACS project wants to explore the possibility of joint research projects between civil society and public research bodies. This workshop is one step in that process and will serve as a research project "incubator", trying to identify and activate possible research cooperations. | http://www.france.fsfeurope.org/projects/stacs/belgrade | ||
1194225452 | Wireless Wars: Apple and Google Take On the World | Vodafone and Japan's NTT DoCoMo recently cofounded LiMo, one of nearly two dozen mobile flavors of Linux. And when another mobile Linux purveyor named Trolltech released a limited batch of handsets for developers to play around with in June, "a surprising number of handsets were bought by operators" | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60055.html | ||
1194225608 | MSBBC loses 97200 Linux users, generates FUD | "We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users" [the clueless and lying Ashley] Highfield is quoted as saying. | http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1781.html | ||
1194254374 | PCLinuxOS Magazine November 2007 Released | PCLinuxOS Magazine, November 2007 (Issue 15) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website. | http://pclosmag.com/html/enter.html | ||
1194254460 | Phoenix HyperSpace: Quick-Boot Your Laptop | Also, since HyperSpace is a Linux-based platform, Windows viruses won't affect it. | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2211507,00.asp | ||
1194254629 | Fedora Linux Rave | Today just for grins, I loaded a computer with Fedora Linux 7 and was very pleasantly surprised. Except for a very minor issue with my Network Card (NIC), it just plain installed and worked! | http://www.americandaily.com/article/20822 | ||
1194254713 | A tale of two plug-and-play Linux boxes | As many of us who watch the Linux market know, the past week has seen the announcement of two markedly different plug-and-play Linux computers. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15191/1023/ | ||
1194254780 | Linux 2.6.22.11 Released | Based on the responses of the last patch review cycle, we've received a number of other patches that should be added to the 2.6.22.y tree, so there will be one more release in this series. | http://lwn.net/Articles/257002/ | ||
1194254850 | FOSS India Awards: Name It To Claim It | According to openITis.com, "By creating a platform for Indian developers to showcase their contributions, we hope to wipe away the rampant misconception that Indians do not contribute to the FOSS ecosystem..." | http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/22513/news.htm | ||
1194254950 | Sun's pooled approach to storage is a breakthrough | You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. It is Sun's invention, yet Sun has opened it to the world by including it with the mass of Solaris code that Sun has open-sourced. | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/0CAA625880958290CC257386008109F7 | ||
1194258804 | ECMAJavascript and ECMA?s OOXML Are a Sign of Things to Come | On the other hand when ECMA standards are supported by the competition (like Mozilla and Javascript/ECMAScript), they try to break them (Extend, Embrace, and Extinguish) or come out with something different and utterly incompatible. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/ecmajavascript-ecma-ooxml/ | ||
1194290760 | GNOME-Mono Dependency Revisited | "...the core of Gnome is now Mono dependent, just as I predicted it would eventually become." | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/gnome-mono-yelp/ | ||
1194294439 | Open Source Consortium: An Open Letter to Ashley Highfield | To be honest, Ashley, whilst the BBC, a state-funded institution which is supposed to be commercially independent, remains so firmly "in bed" with Microsoft, we have our doubts whether what you say is anything other than smoke and mirrors, FUD and Microsoft-sourced propaganda. | http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/77/55/ | ||
1194294545 | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 227, 5 November 2007 | An excellent week for open source software enthusiasts as it finally brought the first public preview of the OpenSolaris-based Indiana, a new operating system trying to take over our desktops. Will it succeed? Although the release was marred by controversies and heated discussions on the project's mailing list... | http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071105 | ||
1194294622 | Angolan govt to store documents on OSS | Melmed explained that the application was web-based, meaning that it could be accessed by any browser. He noted that the Angola's governmental departments used both Mandriva and Windows as their operating systems. | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1851 | ||
1194294752 | Are Linux users really a feral bunch? | It is, however, uncommon for a writer to set out to deliberately provoke Linux users with over-the-top stuff - just to prove his contention that said users are a bunch of ferals. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15198/1091/ | ||
1194294845 | Interview :: Linus Torvalds on Open Source: 'A Much Better Way to Do Thin | Linux really wouldn't have gone anywhere interesting at all if it hadn't been released as an open source product. I also think that the change to the GPLv2 from my original "no money" license was important, because the commercial interests were actually very important from the beginning. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60052.html | ||
1194308584 | The Brief on Groklaw | It also covers news about patents, standards, licenses, and numerous other topics of interest to Groklaw's readers. It corrects misinformation, otherwise sometimes known as FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). And it's a site where a large group of volunteers do legal research. | http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/interviews/6434/1/ | ||
1194317612 | CCID Consulting: China's Linux Market Grew by 29.2% and Desktop Has Great | CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong, recently released its article on China's Linux market, which grew by 29.2% and has great prospects for its new Linux Desktop. | http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,215219.shtml | ||
1194317683 | Tech File: Another option to Apple/Microsoft duopoly: Linux PCs | Last week, Linux got a potential shot in the arm when Everex announced that it will offer a $200 Linux PC through Wal-Mart. The new Everex gPC will feature the gOS operating system based on the Ubuntu distribution of Linux. | http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_7374205?nclick_check=1 | ||
1194317748 | How can I get valuable documents off a virus-infected flash drive? | Various versions of Linux, referred to as Linux Live, can boot from a CD or flash drive. Use Puppy Linux. It's free (not unusual for Linux), small, and very easy to set up on a CD. Putting it onto a flash drive isn't hard, either. | http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/0d006c250a01040801e2edad5aeba049/pg0.htm | ||
1194317810 | Linux Professional Institute forms European affiliate | With its new affiliate, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) intends to promote the certification of Linux professionals across Europe. LPI-Central Europe will be responsible for Germany, Austria, Switzerland as well as for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/98468 | ||
1194317920 | [Sun CEO:] Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community! | I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt congraluations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone platform, Android. Congratulations! | http://biz.yahoo.com/sunblog/071105/congratulations_google_id.html?.v=1 | ||
1194318121 | Linux Testing Suspend and Hibernation | "The second one [patch] modifies the hibernation core so that it can use the same facility (it's a bit more powerful than the existing hibernation test modes, since they really can't test the ACPI global methods)." | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Testing_Suspend_and_Hibernation | ||
1194318223 | Linux-based programmable clock device ships | Chumby is shipping its Linux-powered device designed for the bedside, desktop, and kitchen counter. The alarm-clock sized "Chumby" has hackable hardware, software, and outerware, connects via WiFi, and can be programmed to display everything from clock faces to stock quotes, says the company. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5718528026.html | ||
1194335071 | Marvell Joins Open Handset Alliance | Marvell believes that this open platform will spark innovation and empower developers to create revolutionary applications and accelerate the delivery of those applications to mobile users," said Marty Schroeder, Vice President of Marvell's Cellular and Handheld Business Group. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/14064/marvell-joins-open-handset-alliance | ||
1194335247 | Debian powers sleek, two-pound mini-PC | German Web retailer Manufactum has introduced a sleek, low power mini-PC that runs Debian Linux. The 450-Euro Manuscriptum is based on a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800, is equipped with an 80GB hard drive, and offers 1920 x 1400 graphics, according to the company. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9615148023.html | ||
1194335350 | Debian and the grass roots of Linux | Debian GNU/Linux was the first project to be deliberately modelled on the principles of distributed software development, and provides the core software for many of the more successful commercial Linux distributions. | http://www.itpro.co.uk/applications/features/135084/debian-and-the-grass-roots-of-linux.html | ||
1194335436 | Whither OOXML? | Strangely, however, Microsoft appears to be soft-pedaling its own standard. At GOSCON last week there was a panel on document formats, with reps from IBM, Sun, Adobe, and Microsoft present. Each of the company representatives got to speak for five minutes and present his company's perspective on document formats. | http://advice.cio.com/bernard_golden/wither_ooxml | ||
1194335509 | Exciting Features For GNOME 2.22, 2.24 | The GNOME team is out with the road-map for GNOME 2.22, 2.24, and future releases. There's quite a few changes planned, but a few in particular had caught our attention. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE3Mg | ||
1194335602 | Some numbers about Debian?s history | There?s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis. I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives. | http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=260 | ||
1194335706 | LiMo (Linux for Mobiles) is Ready to Go Prime Time | Now that the Google Phone platform has been unveiled, one thing is abundantly clear: Happy days are around the corner for Mobile Linux. | http://gigaom.com/2007/11/05/limo-2/ | ||
1194335822 | Linux device driver drama: Who will deliver support, code sharing? | When it comes to device drivers, Linux is at once a success story and an on-going drama. | http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1280659,00.html | ||
1194335901 | Defense procurement ill-suited for open source | In order to fully take advantage of open-source software, Defense Department agencies may need to rethink how they do procurement, said Fritz Schulz, who works in the chief technology office of the Defense Information Systems Agency. | http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45376-1.html | ||
1194335969 | LiMo Foundation Welcomes Google’s Mobile Initiative | The LiMo Foundation today issued a statement from Executive Director Morgan Gillis and Chairman Kiyohito Nagata in regard to Google’s mobile initiative announcement. | http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071105006382&newsLang=en | ||
1194336206 | XML data integration for SOA goes open source | XAware Inc. is going open source today with the fifth generation of its XML data abstraction and federation tools for Web services and service-oriented architecture applications. XAware5 will be marketed in the commercial open source model under the open source GPLv2 license at a new community site launching today... | http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1280942,00.html | ||
1194336298 | [OLPC:] Cheap as chips | It runs on flash memory, which drastically reduces power consumption, and a version of the open-source Linux operating system. | http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops/cheap-as-chips/2007/11/04/1194117870384.htmllinux | ||
1194377466 | Novell to close Israel branch | Novell Israel Software Ltd. has been operating for 12 years, and its activity will be transferred to REL Ltd., the company's local distributor. | http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000271722&fid=1725 | ||
1194385881 | Cray stretches Linux in supercomputer | The day after Google announced a new initiative to pack Linux into mobile handsets, supercomputer designer Cray is announcing a system it claims will be its biggest computers to use the open source operating system. | http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802892&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS | ||
1194385961 | PostgreSQL Advocates Press On | PostgreSQL adoption is on the rise, proponents say, and they hope it will continue to pick up steam. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2212555,00.asp | ||
1194386052 | Kubuntu Gutsy [7.10 Review] | Kubuntu Gutsy is an exceptionally polished KDE based distribution, easily equal with the enterprise-oriented SuSE Linux in the workplace and possibly a simpler and easier experience for the home user. All aspects of laptop usage excel - even suspend to ram is working on my Vaio TX - and the application feature set covers all bases. | http://canllaith.org/?page_id=48 | ||
1194386126 | Ubuntu migration: the sweet taste of freedom at a price | Well the Linux desktop is certainly here and I can prove it because as of today I'm officially an Ubuntu user and even though things aren't perfect, I feel like I've finally escaped from jail. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15214/1023/ | ||
1194406094 | SCO's bankruptcy hearing wonders where the wonga's gone | Judge Kevin Gross took the matter under advisement, but said he wouldn't take very long to rule. Observers reporting to Groklaw felt Novell won its motion, but that is yet to be known. | http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/06/sco-bankruptcy-hearing | ||
1194406413 | Video ads broker says best part of open source is the cost: zero | By the time he made up his mind to launch his own business, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) was the only smart choice. | http://www.linux.com/feature/119956 | ||
1194406500 | OLPC rolls off the production line | Here, for the first time, are pictures of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) coming off the production line at the Quantas factory in China. | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1862 | ||
1194406563 | Access Linux Platform (ALP) First Thoughts | Access Systems (formerly PalmSource) is in the process of trying to drum up interest among potential ALP licensees, and couple of people from the company -- Albert Chu and Brian Purdy -- gave me a demonstration. | http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13471 | ||
1194406622 | Roaring Penguin Upgrades CanIt Spam Filter for Linux, Unix | With CanIT 4.0, Roaring Penguin is adding performance improvements for the PostgreSQL database that is behind the spam filter. | http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb110607-story08.html | ||
1194406701 | Ubuntu 7.10: adding some 'bling' to Linux | Ubuntu 7.10 (codenamed 'Gutsy Gibbon') could arguably be called the 'bling' release of the world's most popular Linux distribution. Swish 3D desktop effects, coupled with a new display configuration tool, make eye-candy the focus. | http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/software/operating-systems/features/ubuntu-710-adding-some-bling-to-linux | ||
1194406773 | Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying | It is also another awe-inspiring -- or terrifying, depending on one's perspective -- display of the engineering and business resources Google can unleash and of the power it has to influence, disrupt and rearrange markets. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071106/tc_infoworld/93133 | ||
1194406865 | Nokia says door open to Google alliance | Nokia may still join Google's new mobile software alliance, which is seen as rivaling Nokia's own plans. | http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6217202.html | ||
1194407005 | Synaq scores Linux hole-in-one | Each division of MoreGolf runs off a Linux-based infrastructure and connects with head office in Woodmead through ADSL VPN. There are ten sites that form part of this VPN and each site runs a Linux firewall. | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1857 | ||
1194407089 | GigE AMC cards target Carrier Grade Linux apps | GE Fanuc has introduced two versions of a Gigabit Ethernet card in the AMC (advanced mezzanine card) form-factor. The Telum GE-QLX and GE-QSX deliver up to four Gigabit Ethernet ports and offer fiber optic transceivers, and support Carrier Grade Linux, according to the company. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6240119660.html | ||
1194431721 | Microsoft Spent $4.8M Lobbying | Microsoft Corp. spent $4.8 million to lobby the federal government in the first half of the year on visas for high-tech workers, software piracy and numerous other issues. | http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071105/microsoft_lobbying.html?.v=1 | ||
1194431788 | Students develop GNU/Linux supercomputer | Team leader C. Mahesh said that Dakshina, with Linux operating system, is a platform to deliver excellent performance for users who seek high computer power and resource in a multitasking environment. | http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/06/stories/2007110650920200.htm | ||
1194431858 | Eclipse Community Survey of 2007 Results | Windows is the most popular development platform, with 74% of organizations choosing Windows as their primary development platform, followed by Linux at 20%. However, for primary deployment platforms, Linux is well represented at 37%, compared with 47% on Windows. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/14119/eclipse-community-survey-2007-results | ||
1194431993 | T-Mobile and Sprint embrace open source | So when we learned today that T-Mobile and Sprint have signed onto the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the group that will develop applications for Google's new Android mobile phone platform, immediately I was intrigued. | http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9811044-7.html | ||
1194432069 | President praises Open Source conference in Sofia | Topics include a presentation on how to configure a thin client infrastructure using the Linux Terminal Server Project, an outline on FreeBSD and its new network and transport protocols and a discussion on the uses of the Cluster File system. | http://www.socialniprava.info/article1894.html | ||
1194432176 | OPEN STANDARDS, OPEN FORMAT - Key to the Future | Gandhi's philosophy is still relevant, in all walks of life. In the context of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the end is - dissemination and communication of information: the means are - how to achieve it; how to implement it; what kinds standards to employ; what kinds of formats to adopt; what kind of software to use? | http://kvtrust.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-standards-format-key-to-future.html | ||
1194432242 | Popularizing Linux | How to get linux adopted by the mainstream consumers? It is the fact that a product is a better tool which makes it a popular item for people to purchase. | http://transparent.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/05/1074854-popularizing-linux | ||
1194432337 | Linux-powered Finnish firewalls add IPv6 | A security appliance vendor based in Linux-creator Linus Torvalds's birth city has promised to add IPv6 support to its extensive line of Linux-based security appliances. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2552856097.html | ||
1194479193 | Sun's open source strategy questioned | The company has been offering up to open source crown jewels such as its Java platform and the Solaris OS. Singer, who was vice president of Global Information Systems Strategy at Sun, stressed that he agreed with a lot of the open source efforts, such as open-sourcing Solaris and Java... | http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071107/tc_infoworld/93228 | ||
1194479291 | Overcoming Social Inertia [in Free Software] | Social inertia consists of people giving in to social inertia. When you give in to social inertia, you become part of it; when you resist it, you reduce it. We conquer inertia by identifying it, and resolving not to be part of it. | http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.html | ||
1194479378 | HTC to make first Android handset | Taiwanese mobile-handset manufacturer HTC announced Tuesday that it will release its first Android-powered device into the European market in the second half of 2008. | http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62034201,00.htm | ||
1194479798 | Linux Boot Time Greatly Reduced, x86 Version of TP InstantBoot Announced | The boot loader extension transfers and expands the image to the memory at startup and returns the state of the InstantBoot driver to what it was just before power was shut off. The solution reduces startup time through a combination of these processes. | http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071107/141935/ | ||
1194479893 | Giving the Lie to Patents and Innovation | This leaves open source software, and particularly community software (as compared to FOSS that is supported by major vendors), more vulnerable to those that oppose it, or are threatened by it. | http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071107044814132 | ||
1194479959 | Hectronic: ARM9-based embedded Linux PC family | Hectronic has announced the H6043, an ARM9-based embedded Linux PC board. It measures 52.5mm x 20mm and comes ready-to-run with an open-source Linux Board Support Package, 32MB LVDRAM, 16MB Flash, SPI and I2C interfaces, GPIO and a USB2.0 port. | http://www.embedded-control-europe.com/prodnews?cat=1&pid=964 | ||
1194493273 | Channel Chief Erdman Leaves Novell | A Novell spokesman confirmed late Wednesday that Erdman had left the company, but he did not have information on why and when the channel chief departed. | http://www.crn.com/it-channel/202803581 | ||
1194496520 | OpenBSD 4.2 review | One thing that hasn't changed in OpenBSD, thankfully, is its outstanding release engineering. | http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/88 | ||
1194496605 | Open Document Format gains more support [and Linux too] | ...OpenOffice and Linux operation systems on their laptops and has in view to extend this program to all diplomatic workstations by the middle of 2008. | http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.21/odf-workshop | ||
1194496649 | Did IT work: Putting Linux on desktops | While Linux servers are now commonplace, the desktop version of the Linux operating system has been slow to penetrate ? particularly in enterprise workgroups. | http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d637fe7a-8c95-11dc-b887-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fd637fe7a-8c95-11dc-b887-0000779fd2ac.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&nclick_check=1 | ||
1194508223 | Brian Behlendorf on the Sharepoint threat to open source | What Brian did say about Sharepoint is potentially more troubling. Has the open-source community effectively given away a big chunk of the future's software stack to Microsoft? And has it effectively ceded the role of data aggregation to Sharepoint? | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9812668-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1194508347 | HealthVault: software freedom and personal health records | Free software is about freedom from control. This article discusses how the free software ideals should be applied to hosted personal health record software and how Microsoft's newest PHR, HealthVault, is a threat to free software. | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/healthvault_software_freedom_and_personal_health_records | ||
1194508476 | KDE Digest - Raptor | One part of the vision of the Raptor team is to create a menu that combines the strengths of 3 ways to launch programs.. | http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-11-04/ | ||
1194508627 | Screenshots: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 RC | Firefox 2.0 is just over a year old, but the Mozilla developers are out today with the first beta for Mozilla Firefox 3.0. Firefox 3.0 (known as Gran Paradiso) uses the Gecko 1.9 engine, and features a number of improvements | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=906&num=1 | ||
1194570594 | Recruiting software talent: interview with Lisa Alexander, Red Hat | Red Hat Software participates in high-profile projects, such as One Laptop Per Child, and many of its employees are high-profile contributors to open source projects used outside the company. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/110607-red-hat.html | ||
1194570703 | Happy Birthday, GNU/Linux | RMS sends his own characteristic birthday greetings to celebrate the marriage of GNU and Linux | http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/11/happy-birthday-gnulinux.html | ||
1194570776 | Reaching for Apple, Falling Short | Frankly, Windows Mobile 6 is a mess. Common features require an infinitude of taps and clicks, and the ones you need most are buried in menus. Apparently the Windows Mobile 6 team learned absolutely nothing from Windows Mobile 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin | ||
1194570920 | Mark Webbink On: The Patent Promise | This week, former Red Hat General Counsel, Mark Webbink, discusses how Red Hat’s patent promise was developed to combat patent trolling. | http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/08/mark-webbink-on-the-patent-promise-2/ | ||
1194571090 | Hands-On With Everex's $200 gPC | Everex's stock in trade is delivering decent technology at rock-bottom prices. Its $200 gPC, available immediately, offers a no-gimmicks machine for a song. To get there, it broke away from standard low-end practice and opted for GNU/Linux. | http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/11/hands-on-with-e.html | ||
1194571175 | Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell? | Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1194598465 | South Korea, OSS License Guide Announced | The Guide explains how to strategically manage and utilize open source SW as well as what the open source SW is and how to use it. Explanation for GPL, an open source SW, published in June, 2007, is included in the Guide as well. | http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/enterprise/0,39036961,39163094,00.htm | ||
1194598564 | Microsoft 'deals' with open source software in Russian schools | 1999 China government got concerned with dependence on Microsoft, so it decided to develop its own open source software on the basis of Linux, called Red Flag Linux. In Russia a similar program has just been launched. | http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/11/08/273904 | ||
1194598616 | Microsoft-Novell: Has Their Deal Made a Difference? | Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff sees little impact. "Overall, it's hard to see a lot of impact to date in the sense that there haven't been major market share shifts among any of the major players," Haff said... 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett is on the same side of the fence... | http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3710096 | ||
1194598742 | KDE 4 Recent build impressions | Hey, I built KDE 4 overnight on my new Mandriva system, and while most of the pain was just in getting all the various -devel packages installed that I required for building, it seems that once those dependencies have been taken care of, everything went swimmingly. | http://troy-at-kde.livejournal.com/10931.html | ||
1194598826 | Linux appliance adds DTV support | Parisian startup Linutop has updated the Linux-based firmware for its compact, low-power, Geode-based Internet appliance. The V1.2 firmware features an improved graphics driver and media player, enabling the Linutop mini-PC to serve as a DVB-T rendering device or digital video kiosk, the vendor claims. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7986490955.html | ||
1194598970 | Massive scale installation and management tools for Debian GNU/Linux | Having 50 thousand machines across the country to install and manage is not a trivial task. | http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/massive_installation_management_tools_p_2 | ||
1194599008 | Another Day Another Distro - Part 8 - SimplyMEPIS 7.0 Beta 6 | This time around I decided to try out another distribution I'd never used before in the shape of MEPIS. | http://adventuresinopensource.blogspot.com/2007/11/another-day-another-distro-part-8.html | ||
1194604595 | US Navy acquisitions site uses open source CMS | Minor hadn't used open source software extensively, so she commissioned a research project. "We did a full-fledged market research study on open source CMS products. We called out a list of 28, and did a complete analysis based on our requirements and the Navy's needs. | http://www.linux.com/feature/120870 | ||
1194604805 | So, why, why does a company develop free software? | If you send your patch back to the Apache developers, you will know that the bug will be fixed in every new release of Apache, so you won't have to keep fixing it every time you upgrade to a new version. Not only that, but everybody else who uses Apache will benefit too. | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/editorial_20 | ||
1194604956 | Free Software as Social Innovation | I own up, I've been using KDE for ever with no plans on changing. One techie talked to me about Adrian de Groot's KDE 4 presentation the previous night, promplty confessing to having "a few problems" with KDE and wasn't convinced that using C++ was a wise decision. | http://www.fsfe.org/news/fsasi | ||
1194605167 | Novell CEO, Ron Hovsepian -- Light Red Hat FUD? | Q How do you position yourselves in relation to Red Hat? Hovsepian: They are an edge server strategy company with one product. We have a two-year lead on them for desktops. [Hello, Fedora...?] | http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=BB0A2C43%2D1623%2D4759%2D9535%2DDC8B77CD5DED | ||
1194679583 | Novell Settles One Antitrust Claim with Microsoft for $536 Million | Novell has announced an agreement with Microsoft to settle potential antitrust litigation related to Novell's NetWare operating system in exchange for $536 million in cash. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/14223/novell-settles-one-antitrust-claim-microsoft-536-million | ||
1194679672 | Do Your Customers Hate Vista? Rip and Replace with a Twist | Arguably, the most complex thing about Linux today is picking a distribution to run. Solution providers need only consider a few simple elements when choosing what distributions to standardize on. First off, is commercial support needed? | http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Do+Your+Customers+Hate+Vista+Rip+and+Replace+with+a+Twist/218994_1.aspx | ||
1194679736 | 100th Post: A Call for the Senate to Pass Patent Reform | This is really the year of the patent troll. Last year, approximately 6,000 defendants were sued nationwide in about 2,800 patent cases. This year, the 6,000th defendant was sued sometime in early October. With the number of cases up nationwide probably 5% over last year, we're still projected for at least a 30% increase | http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/2007/11/100th-post-call-for-senate-to-pass.html | ||
1194679887 | Linux, the BBC and Your Rights | Imagine a world where you were told how to think, feel, and act. You were told what to buy...told what not to buy. Having trouble imagining these things? Maybe I can help. Check out a short story I wrote on the subject of Digital Rights Management (DRM). | http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/233-Linux,-the-BBC-and-Your-Rights.html | ||
1194679994 | Nokia impresses with latest GNU/Linux-based Internet Tablet | What it is: This is a very small, thin and portable handheld device with a large color touchscreen (800 by 480 pixels) and the ability to perform Web browsing, play multimedia (music, photos and videos), read e-mails and access other applications (games, calculator, etc.). | http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/110707-cool-tools.html | ||
1194680193 | Does anyone care about the MS-Novell agreement besides, well, MS and Nove | I realize it?s only one year in, but I think it would behoove Microsoft and Novell to flesh out what it is they mean when they talk about ?interoperability frameworks? and the like. Revenue numbers from Novell for its OS business wouldn?t hurt, either. | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/11/09/does-anyone-care-about-the-ms-novell-agreement-besides-well-ms-and-novell/ | ||
1194680273 | Marketer finds good karma in using and sharing open source | "With Oog, the whole concept is very inclusive. Everybody's welcome on OoghaBoogha Island. Everybody's welcome to come in and contribute and then take what they need to make their lives easier as well. That karma aspect and goodwill was very key to our brand. | http://www.linux.com/feature/120877 | ||
1194680313 | Synopsis Of Linux Graphics Drivers | While the RadeonHD is the open-source ATI/AMD driver for the future, there's much work left to be completed before it's ready for primetime. AMD still has to release much more documentation (or the community do more reverse engineering) and when they will next do that is anyone's guess. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=908&num=1 | ||
1194680407 | ReviewLinux.Com: gOS is worth looking into.... | Everybody is going Green. I take a quick look at the new kid on the block. gOS 1.0.1 was released earlier this month and I take a short screenshot tour of this "Green" Linux OS. Check out the short flash video too. | http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=8247 | ||
1194680505 | Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD | So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with “marketing help” to get them to choose Windows. | http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS | ||
1194680638 | Microsoft and "Interoperability"...LOL! That's a good one! | Let's call MS's "interoperability" campaign what it really is. Its a farce of half-hearted attempts to LOOK like they're doing something (for their Press Releases, EU, and public), but not really achieving anything substantial if they don't see or get any direct benefit from it. | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/21799 | ||
1194680724 | Botnets: Storm, Rbot, and Bobax - How to Beat Them | Install Linux on your computer today and all that will disappear. Linux doesn?t have botnets. Linux doesn?t have viruses (only a few known and you have to actually type a command to start the virus running). Linux has no spyware. | http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/234-Botnets-Storm,-Rbot,-and-Bobax-How-to-Beat-Them.html | ||
1194680810 | Interview with Linux-VServer Project Leader Herbert P?tzl | I use both Linux-VServer and OpenVZ at work for server virtualization and they both work fantastically. Since I've already done an interview with the head of the OpenVZ project, I thought it was time for an interview with the head of the Linux-VServer project. | http://www.montanalinux.org/linux-vserver-interview.html | ||
1194680898 | Perens urges firms to go open source | Many companies could successfully partake in open source projects without adversely affecting their business, according to open source activist Bruce Perens. | http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203142/companies-should-share-software | ||
1194681002 | River + Linux= Great PMP! | iRiver doesn't miss a chance to say something to the geek masses. This time, while they're working on the P10 portable media player, they’re also developing a cool Linux based PMP. Besides working great with Linux, the new PMP also features a tethered docking station, as well as a detachable mobile unit. | http://news.softpedia.com/news/iRiver-Linux-Kick-Ass-PMP-70458.shtml | ||
1194745250 | GPLv3 Project Watch List | This is a growth of 50 new projects , which is consistent with past growth of approximately 50 projects per week. The LGPL v3 list has also increased, bringing the current total to 94 LGPL v3 projects, with 10 new LGPL v3 projects added to the database over the past week. | http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2007/11/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of_09.html | ||
1194745400 | I couldn't resist a FREE offer from Microsoft. | The FREE website? Well I was wondering if I could log onto it with a Debian Linux system and attempt to manage it using Iceweasel (Firefox), OpenOffice 2.0 and Bluefish. Nope no go. Its all Active Pages and dotNet stuff and it hangs almost immediately. I'll bet I can't log on with Win 2K either. FREE in this case means you have to buy Windows XP | http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006397o-2000440676b,00.htm | ||
1194745482 | Too many free operating systems? I don't think so. | And people say there is too much choice?? It pretty much comes down to basically only 3 ways. | http://www.nuxified.org/blog/too_many_free_operating_systems_i_dont_think_so | ||
1194745604 | Revealing Errors | Geeks support groups like the FSF and EFF because, as people who understand technology, they understand just how powerful technology is. Geeks know that control of our communication technologies is control over what we can say, who we can say it to, and how and when we can say it. | http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20071107-00 | ||
1194772909 | The Open Graphics Development Board | Additional details are available on the Traversal Technology Product Page. | http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OGD1 | ||
1194830766 | The GNU/Linux Pen O’ Sheep | Microsoft is hoping to assemble all Linux users (currently spread across 500+ Linux distributions) in a single ‘box’ and then eliminate them. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/11/novell-pen-sheep/ | ||
1194842765 | Novell Closes Five EMEA Offices | Novell is closing down its direct sales offices in Israel, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and Turkey | http://linux.sys-con.com/read/458976.htm | ||
1194851605 | Feature plans for Fedora 9 | Fedora 8 is out now and plans for Fedora 9 are made. The feature list is already in place and contains several entries. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/feature-plans-for-fedora-9/ | ||
1194851683 | RPM Fusion for Fedora | Time will tell if RPM Fusion will live up to its own expectations and will be able to provide a consistent and fully working 3rd party repository for Fedora 9 or even Fedora 8. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/rpm-fusion-for-fedora/ | ||
1194851758 | Why is there no Open Source SLES ? | Another reason is that Novell is not in favor of such a project (even though people from within Novell _and_ people in the SLES community disagree with management) because it fears it will take away some of the profit and Novell made a big risk by taking the Linux route, they cannot afford to make it fail. | http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/why-is-there-no-open-source-sles | ||
1194851847 | Use open source to build your own top-class online presence for nothing, p | Ok, not really nothing: it?ll cost you $9.99 for a domain name. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15281/1054/ | ||
1194851972 | One Laptop Per Child: the dream starts to deliver | "Against all the naysayers ... we have developed and now manufactured the world's most advanced and greenest laptop and one designed specifically to instill a passion for learning in children," Negroponte said. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071111/tc_afp/technologyitinternetchildren | ||
1194866517 | 50,000,000 Desktop GNU/Linux Users Already? | That's 30 million. Recent statements made by some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. | http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html | ||
1194866597 | OpenDocument and Qt fonts goodness | Like South Africa Adopts ODF, German Foreign Office comes out in favor of ODF and there are various articles going over how Holland and Belgium are steadilly switching governments but also schools over to ODF. | http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/10/opendocument-and-qt-fonts-goodness/ | ||
1194866763 | Perception of Free/Libre Software | In my recent public speeches I focused on one value of Free Software: business ethics within digital society. In short, my argument is that since the society has changed to an economy of information, those that write software have the power to control information and therefore control society. | http://maffulli.net/2007/11/09/perception-of-freelibre-software/ | ||
1194866925 | ATI Radeon 6.7.196 Driver Release | The ATI 6.7.196 release includes a few Radeon fixes, specifically for cursor-related hangs, LVDS fixes, support for new DDC type, and BIOS/dock/LVDS hardware state fixes. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE4NQ | ||
1194917926 | Fedora/Linux for Noobs | The desktop in Fedora 7 (Gnome) is very pleasing to look at. | http://blog.coffeedaze.com/?p=66 | ||
1194918058 | Linux, Dell, Novell, Microsoft... part 2 | As I predicted here about two months ago, Dell has announced that it will offer its customers a neat package of Dell hardware, Suse Linux software, and Microsoft patents. | http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-9066/linux-dell-novell-microsoft-part-2 | ||
1194918135 | OpenSUSE's first governing board is set up | Novell has recently decided to start setting openSUSE free from direct Novell oversight by setting up the first openSUSE board of directors. | http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7472787860.html | ||
1194918309 | I have a dream | I?d love to work for the city of Munich for example, where they change 14,000 desktops to free and open source software - and I?m a big supporter of that, as most of you know. I even met these people, who helped at our Debian booth at the Systems fair in Munich. But getting a job with them? As good as impossible. | http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=504 | ||
1194918402 | But Everyone Uses It | Ah, the "everyone else has it" myth! [...] You don't have to feel guilty about taking something you didn't pay for. And you don't have to shell out a single cent. Welcome to freedom! | http://goodcomputing.blogspot.com/2007/11/but-everyone-uses-it-ah-everyone-else_06.html | ||
1194918633 | Stable [Linux] 2.6 Branches | Greg KH and Chris Wright have been maintaining a -stable 2.6.x.y patchset for the 2.6.x and 2.6.(x-1) kernels since March of 2005. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Stable_2.6_Branches | ||
1194918758 | Red Hat to launch virtual appliance OS in 2008 | For customers, the downside to Red Hat AOS virtual appliances is that they'll inevitably cost more than an appliance using a generic Linux as its foundation," Haff said. | http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1281298,00.html?track=sy420&asrc=RSS_RSS-27_420 | ||
1194918878 | Sun builds Constellation of petascale supercomputing | A Linux-based Constellation-class system named "Ranger" using 15,000 AMD quad-core Barcelona chips is already under construction at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC). | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1854345449&rid=-50 | ||
1194918951 | Bootcamp 499: Put a puppy in your PC Part 1 | So what is this miraculous product? It's called Linux, and before you make your excuses and leave this is not geeky Linux, it's a small, cuddly, and incredibly easy to use version called Puppy Linux | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/11/12/ecrboot12.xml | ||
1194919097 | Mass appeal and free to boot | Windows Vista could be that good reason. Moving from XP to Vista may be almost as disruptive as moving from XP to Ubuntu. The big difference is that Ubuntu is free, whereas with prices for upgrades as high as $650 and possibly the need for some extra hardware, the move to Vista will certainly be more expensive. | http://www.smh.com.au/news/how-tos/mass-appeal-and-free-to-boot/2007/11/11/1194749391258.html | ||
1194919197 | BitDefender approved to defend RedHat & Novell Linux | Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), today announced that their SAS and SATA ll RAID drivers have been integrated directly into the Red Hat 5.1 (and later), allowing future versions of RHEL operating systems to support Areca's entire family PCI-X and PCI-Express series of high performance SAS and SATA ll RAID controllers. | http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15302/53/ | ||
1194919320 | Red Hat has back-ported Areca fully series SAS and SATA RAID driver Linux | Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), today announced that their SAS and SATA ll RAID drivers have been integrated directly into the Red Hat 5.1 (and later), allowing future versions of RHEL operating systems to support Areca's entire family PCI-X and PCI-Express series of high performance SAS and SATA ll RAID controllers. | http://www.techmessenger.com/Areca-SAS-and-SATA-RAID-driver-back-ported-into-Red-Hat-071112001.html | ||
1194919551 | Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor | By offering Oracle VM support at lower prices, Oracle again is pursuing a strategy it revealed last year when it offered less-expensive support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system than Red Hat does. By offering a Xen-based hypervisor, just as Red Hat and Novell do, Oracle could increase its competitive pressure. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/111207-oracle-hypervisor.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1194919651 | Network security device adds WiFi, runs Linux | A Taiwanese network-appliance system integrator announced a wireless network security appliance that runs Linux. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8284127706.html | ||
1194919781 | In evaluating operating systems, Williams overlooked pitfalls of Linux?s c | When I installed Ubuntu 7.10, a common distribution of Linux, last Wednesday, I had to download exactly one driver. If I had installed Windows XP or Vista, I would have found it necessary to download many more. | http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22384 | ||
1194919912 | Oracle Database Delivers Record Performance with Linux | Landmark Speed and Scalability Attained with Oracle(R) Enterprise Linux | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM12712112007-1.htm | ||
1194920020 | From Danger's realm come Android's makers | After years of rumors of a Google phone, the search giant a week ago finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android. | http://www.news.com/From-Dangers-realm-come-Androids-makers/2008-1039_3-6218126.html?tag=newsmap | ||
1194920101 | Objective Interface and Wind River Deliver High-Performance Solution for D | ORBexpress RT also supports Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, a run-time environment for developers who need Linux capabilities, but are not constrained by memory footprint or real-time requirements | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0326965.htm | ||
1194929564 | When Will We Finally See Lawsuits Over Microsoft’s OOXML Frauds? | Forget and forgive? No. Time is not a cure for a crime. Microsoft was never punished, either. This is unacceptable and it clearly shows the sad state of the legal system. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/12/lawsuit-ooxml-crimes/ | ||
1194939419 | Appro Reveals New Xtreme-X Supercomputer Series | Appro’s Xtreme-X Services will support Linux operating environments... | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/14334/appro-reveals-new-xtreme-x-supercomputer-series | ||
1194939539 | Power Systems Division: A New Unit, i5/OS and iCluster Included | The next layer up in the pyramid is the operating systems that run on Power, which today include i5/OS, AIX, and Linux, and perhaps someday soon, a Power-variant of the open source Solaris Unix operating system. | http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh111207-story02.html | ||
1194939615 | Foresight Linux 2.0 Alpha 1 [Screenshots] | With its lime green theme, the appearance of Foresight 2.0 Alpha 1 is certainly distinct from most other desktop Linux distributions. However, it's| color theme is not all that's unique about this new development release. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=913&num=1 | ||
1194939705 | Interesting Changes For GNOME 2.21.2 | The first development release in the road towards GNOME 2.22.0 was released two weeks ago and already the second release is coming this Wednesday. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE4OA | ||
1194939791 | StartCom Enterprise Linux (AS-5.0.1) - Update Release | StartCom is pleased to announce the availability of StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.1. StartCom Linux is using the latest in open source technology and with its known stability, reliability and security allows for mission-critical server deployments. | http://linux.startcom.org/?app=14&rel=27 | ||
1194939860 | SplashTop Source Code Release Coming | According to the SplashTop blog, the code release is imminent while a more formal SplashTop SDK will ship at a later time. Once the SplashTop source release is available, we'll of course post an update (with another possible article). | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE4Nw | ||
1194940020 | An obstacle for Linux desktops: Windows applications | If no one listens to you, that's OK. Its not the end of the world. Take the code of the existing solution and either change things yourself OR work with someone who shares the same view as you. (There's a few million coders out there, I'm sure there's atleast one person who agrees with you and would like to help!) | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/21889 | ||
1194940073 | 10 Reasons Why You Need to Download Ubuntu Right Now | NTFS Read/Write Straight Away; Package Manager; GNOME + Compiz = One Beautiful GUI... | http://www.softwarebattle.com/2007/11/12/10-reasons-why-you-need-to-download-ubuntu-right-now/ | ||
1194940141 | ubuntu vs opensuse | So really the big basic difference is that Ubuntu is a simplified cookie cutter distribution designed to not overwhelm the new user with choice. | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/21908 | ||
1194940308 | Report: KDE at The Italian Linux Day 2007 in Rome | On October 27th, KDE Italia attended the Italian Linux Day 2007 in Rome at the Tor Vergata University. Other cities had their Linux Day throughout Italy at the same time. | http://dot.kde.org/1194921052/ | ||
1194940362 | Playing around with KWin 4 | The first one is of the PresentWindows effect and the second one is of the DesktopGrid effect | http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/playing-around-with-kwin-4/ | ||
1194940430 | 3DLABS Introduces Linux Developer Kit for its DMS-02 Applications Processo | 3DLABS Semiconductor is now shipping its Linux 2.6.21 based Software Development Kit (SDK). The kit brings the latest open source innovations to developers and device makers using 3DLABS' DMS-02 processor to deliver unrivalled application and media processing performance within low power environments. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/embedded/14362/3dlabs-introduces-linux-developer-kit-its-dms-02-applications-processor | ||
1194940520 | CORBA middleware supports real-time Linux | Objective Interface Systems (OIS) is shipping a version of its real-time CORBA ORB (object request broker) middleware targeting Wind River Linux. ORBexpress RT supports both Wind River's General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, and Real-time Core, the company's POSIX-compliant real-time add-on. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9398024382.html | ||
1194940627 | Bootcamp 500: Ten uses for an old PC | For reasons best known to the Linux community downloads are rarely straightforward, you have to negotiate a maze of files with similar sounding names to find the one you want, and Puppy Linux is no exception... | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/11/13/ecrboot13.xml | ||
1194999602 | Red Hat and Platform Computing Collaborate to Deliver Integrated HPC Solut | HPC Solution, that fully integrates Platform's Open Cluster Stack1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071113/20071113006137.html?.v=1 | ||
1194999653 | Monta Vista launches Linux Carrier Edition 5.0 | Monta Vista, the mobile and embedded Linux company, unveiled version 5.0 of its carrier-grade embedded Linux kernel today. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071113/tc_infoworld/93367 | ||
1194999732 | Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP... | Among silicon.com readers at least, the most recent iteration of Windows - aka Vista - garnered just 14 per cent of the vote, making it less popular than both Mac OS X and Linux. | http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39169139,00.htm | ||
1194999823 | The Low-Down on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Enhancements | On the virtualization front, RHEL 5.1 has been updated to the Xen 3.1.0 hypervisor, an update that allows Windows guests to be run atop the embedded Xen hypervisor inside the Linux platform. | http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb111307-story05.html | ||
1194999939 | One-stop open-source support launched in U.K. | The supported distributions include Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat, Xandros, Gnome, KDE, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kolab Groupware, eGroupware, Asterisk, Apache, Samba, Nagios, and Xen. | http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6218232.html | ||
1195000046 | Mike Milinkovich: Why Communities Win | And that is the key point: an open platform is one which people adopt because it is in their own best interests to adopt it. The developers working on Android made the call on their own, and not because of any talents of persuasion we may have at the Eclipse Foundation. | http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-communities-win.html | ||
1195000184 | IBM hopes its second Symphony beta hits an even higher note | So far, Symphony is only available in English, but Beta 3, which is due by the end of the year, will include support for 23 languages, Rhodin said. "We're pretty serious about this," he said. | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=mobile_and_wireless&articleId=9046639&taxonomyId=15 | ||
1195000295 | DSL 4.0: Damn small improvement | Damn Small Linux is tiny Linux distribution that John Andrews originally created in 2002 to see just how many applications could fit into a 50MB system. | http://www.linux.com/feature/120923 | ||
1195000375 | Embedded Linux board comes with small claims | The Hectronic H6043 is a low-cost ARM9-based Embedded Linux PC board, and with a footprint of just 52.5 x 20mm, the company reckons it is the smallest Linux computer available today. | http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/het/het100.html | ||
1195000498 | Verdasys Announces Availability of Software for GNU/Linux | Verdasys, Inc., the first company to provide enterprise-wide data security solutions for the Global 2000 and the leader in host based data loss prevention, with over 500,000 agents deployed, announced today the general availability of Digital Guardian for Linux environments. | http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Aktie/12717491/News/14164025/SOFTWARE.html | ||
1195000597 | ACCESS to Showcase Support for Web 2.0 at Mobile Internet World | ...the mobile browser and mobile Linux-based platform will impact the open Internet ecosystem -- from next-generation network infrastructure to IP-based, content-rich communications services for billions of open Internet-capable converged devices. | http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,221953.shtml | ||
1195000724 | LiMo Foundation Exec Morgan Gillis on Mobile Linux, Android and What Lies | "We're warmly and publicly welcoming the OHA. The reason we're doing that is because it is very different from LiMo. Google's background and focus within mobile are on the user experience and, in particular, on bringing the next generation of mobile Internet experience to consumers," said Morgan Gillis. | http://www.technewsworld.com/story/LiMo-Foundation-Exec-Morgan-Gillis-on-Mobile-Linux-Android-and-What-Lies-Ahead-60281.html | ||
1195000833 | Desktop GNU/Linux old and new | ...it?s good to see healthy supply and demand for desktop Linux. It?s certainly come a long way from the meager offerings of the recent past. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/13/desktop-linux-old-and-new/ | ||
1195006362 | Attempts to ?Infect? Google?s Android with Microsoft IP Tax? | If you still don?t understand why Mono is dangerous to GNU/Linux, then do some reading. Also recall Samsung?s patent deal with Microsoft. They do phones with Mono. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/13/android-mono/ | ||
1195018437 | U.S. Department of Defense announces open-source conference | It wasn't very long ago that open-source developers struggled to make the market believe that open source was secure, ready for prime-time adoption, etc. Now the debate has shifted to demonstrating just how widespread adoption is and and pointing to case studies of how to get the most from open source. | http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815890-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog | ||
1195018546 | South African government gets serious about ODF | A week before the workshop the South African government became the latest country in the world to adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a government standard for information exchange. | http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1879 | ||
1195018668 | Innova Card: Linux-powered single-chip POS [Point-of-Sale] | DA Sistemi has unveiled DAndY POS, its new POS terminal powered by a highly integrated single chip USIP SoC from Innova Card. While POS terminals running Linux operating system are slowing emerging into the payment market... | http://www.embedded-control-europe.com/prodnews?cat=1&pid=997 | ||
1195018754 | Worldwide 2008 Mandriva Linux Installfest | Mandriva rallies the community of Linux users in many cities across the globe on November 17th 2007. | http://www.hartware.de/press_7471.html | ||
1195019032 | Tour of GNOME Online Desktop | Here?s a tour of the pre-alpha demo release of GNOME Online Desktop included in Fedora 8. | http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/13/tour-of-gnome-online-desktop/ | ||
1195019138 | Open-Xchange launches migration tool for Domino data | Open-Xchange and Pavone have developed a tool, Domino20X, to make it easier for administrators to convert from IBM's Lotus/Domino to the open source Open-Xchange groupware server. The tool, which has been developed as part of a technical collaboration between the two companies, extracts user data | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/98901/from/rss09 | ||
1195019381 | Xubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon) Screenshots Tour | Xubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux based operating system with an Ubuntu base. It is lighter on system requirements and tends to be more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE, since it uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which makes it ideal for old or low-end machines, thin-client... | http://www.debianadmin.com/xubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-screenshots-tour.html | ||
1195026147 | Another Linux Patent Deal. This Time It’s Kyocera Mita Corp. | Which patents does Kyocera Mita allegedly infringe on? It’s safe to say that Kyocera Mita did not even ask and Microsoft would not say because, according to Microsoft, it requires too much paper. | http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/14/kyocera-mita-patent/ | ||
1195032470 | Blade Servers Make It to the Top HPC Sites | Linux has ruled the Top 500 list for quite some time, and the advent of a Windows alternative from Microsoft has not, as yet, changed that. Linux is the sole operating system on 426 of the 500 machines in the November ranking, or 85.2 percent of the machines | http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns111307-story01.html | ||
1195032580 | Scali, Linux Networx Announce New Benchmark Results | Scali, the leader in higher performance computing software and LNXI, an award-winning provider of Linux-based, production-ready High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, today announced that the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has published benchmark results provided by Scali using the SPEC MPI2007 benchmark suite. | http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1891156.html | ||
1195032652 | Sun to herald virtualization plan at Oracle show | Featured in xVM Server is work from the Xen open-source community. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071114/tc_infoworld/93388 | ||
1195032744 | Android vs. OpenMoko: Who Will Win? | ...the open-source mobile platform known to many GNU/Linux users, OpenMoko, hasn't kicked up nearly as much mainstream media attention. Both OpenMoko and Android leverage the power of the Linux kernel and other open-source projects to provide a free software platform for mobile devices. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjE5Mg | ||
1195032826 | Google Android gets positive early reviews | After downloading and examining Google's Android software development kit yesterday, some software developers gave the platform favorable reviews and praised it as a breath of fresh air for an industry that has long been characterized by closed devices and software. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2059151437&rid=-50 | ||
1195032995 | Open source Java - one year later | A year ago this week Sun finally bowed to pressure and agreed to make Java a free, open source project. It was an odd move given Sun's strong resistance to making Java open source for a more than a decade. | http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/11/13/open_source_java_anniversary/ | ||
1195033081 | Eclipse gets seat on Java board | In a first for the open-source tooling organization, the Eclipse Foundation has won a seat on a Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071113/tc_infoworld/93375 | ||
1195039768 | Paldo 1.12 - From Switzerland comes a new flavor of Linux | I am honestly pleased to give this package a 4 Pennie review. The installation was a pure joy, and running the desktop in live and native modes was also very rewarding. | http://knolinux.com/2007/11/12/paldo.aspx | ||
1195039931 | KDE 4 Goodness: chinny chin chin [with screenshot] | Wade pointed out vertical alignment issues and there's been lots of discussion on presentation issues. right now it looks like this on my machine... | http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/11/chinny-chin-chin.html | ||
1195039998 | Spinning a New Kind of Distro | The real question is, however, is such an advantage something that will make Fedora more attractive? Time will tell. | http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/071113-111653.html | ||
1195040056 | Smolt passes the 200k entries mark | Almost all machines are still Fedora machines by now since other distributions haven’t picked up the tool - yet. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/smolt-passes-the-200k-entries-mark/ | ||
1195040118 | Don't cry for Microsoft (the truth is, it never loved you) | Microsoft's history can be simply summarised. It made billions on the back of software that was in fact years behind the competition. What it did right, was to license the software for anyone who used a standard Intel architecture. This made it instantly poplar and useful for a lot of people. Other simply followed suit. | http://teknoboy.blogspot.com/2007/11/dont-cry-for-microsoft-truth-is-it.html | ||
1195083990 | Linux rising in the government sector as Unix slowly ebbs | And Linux is on the rise in the government market while Unix is declining, he said. As an operating system, Linux is on 12 percent of all government servers currently and Smith said it would rise to 19 percent within the next few years as Unix wanes. | http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=22642 | ||
1195084061 | Is Red Hat Recession Proof? | Lofty oil prices. Sub-prime mortgages woes. Whispers of a potential recession ahead continue. That made me wonder: If the U.S. heads into a recession soon, are open source companies like Red Hat (RHT) better positioned to weather the storm than their closed source counterparts? | http://seekingalpha.com/article/54170-is-red-hat-recession-proof?source=yahoo | ||
1195084282 | Xilinx MicroBlaze Processor Supports Linux and C-to-FPGA Acceleration | By combining Impulse C development tools with full, memory-managed Linux, embedded systems designers now have the ability to create hardware-accelerated, multi-processing, multi-threaded and high-reliability applications. | http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/eda/14438/xilinx-microblaze-processor-supports-linux-c-fpga-acceleration | ||
1195084382 | Thin clients win big in Germany | Thin client specialist Chip PC has scored a big win for Microsoft in the German public sector - traditionally thought to be a hotbed of Linux - with what it claimed is Europe's largest single deal for thin clients. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/111407-thin-clients-win-big-in.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1195084497 | Mobile operating systems: First thoughts on Access Linux Platform | All in all, my first impressions of ALP were positive. It seems to offer the features it needs to replace the current version of the Palm OS, which isn't hard, considering how woefully out of date Palm OS Garnet is. | http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid40_gci1281855,00.html | ||
1195084581 | Linux Kernel space: Memory management for graphics processors | The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/111307-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1195084678 | Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' desktop Linux | Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' brings flash and function to the operating system, cementing Ubuntu's lead as the desktop Linux leader. | http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1413 | ||
1195097544 | NASCAR drivers get boost from HPC | But Picklo, whose systems total 1,650 cores running in clusters in Linux and Unix environments, is certain of one benefit. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=403140911&rid=-50 | ||
1195097635 | New Day Dawning for Desktop Linux? | Has the time for desktop Linux finally arrived? One relevant data point is that Wal-Mart has sold out of the Everex gPC, a Google-friendly, Linux-based PC priced at $199. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071114/bs_nf/56737 | ||
1195097703 | Bug Fixing and Linux Kernel Code Quality | "This is the listing of the open bugs that are relatively new, around 2.6.22 and up. They are vaguely classified by specific area," Natalie Protasevich said, posting a current list of bugs each linking to an appropriate bugzilla.kernel.org entry. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Bug_Fixing_and_Kernel_Code_Quality | ||
1195097814 | SplashTop Source Code Released | These patches are for Bootsplash, DVM, getting the CMOS time, adjusting the max loop, the sk98lin networking driver, and SquashFS. Presently, the Linux kernel that SplashTop uses is Linux 2.6.20.11. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=915&num=1 | ||
1195098050 | What did Oracle ever do for open source? | Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here?s what happened as it happened, including Oracle?s engagement with open source communities and contributions to Linux and open source middleware. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/14/what-did-oracle-ever-do-for-open-source-part-one/ | ||
1195098128 | Linux group helps create IT Certification Council | Technical certifications, and what they really mean both to employers and to would-be employees, can be confusing. | http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7604197941.html | ||
1195098251 | Red Hat Exchange gets appliance, services boost | The way this ties into RHX is that a wide range of software applications on Red Hat Exchange (RHX) are already available for trial and purchase as pre-configured software appliances. | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/11/14/red-hat-exchange-gets-appliance-services-boost/ | ||
1195098380 | Open source summit coming to Boston | A large annual conference for open-source software enthusiasts will be held in Boston next year. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/071114/1550478.html?.v=1 | ||
1195112822 | Larry Ellison thrashes Red Hat | "At Oracle we've been in the Linux business for a year now," he said. "With the Red Hat code all we did for the first year was fix bugs. Now Oracle growing a lot faster than Red Hat. Red Hat's been growing too because it?s a growing market." | http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2203490/ellison-aims-red-hat | ||
1195112924 | OpenWorld: 1,500 companies adopt Oracle Unbreakable Linux | Despite Oracle's fast growth, Red Hat remains the top dog in the enterprise Linux market, with tens of thousands of subscribers to its support business. During its Q1 2008 call with analysts, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said it added "multiple of thousands of customers" in that quarter alone. | http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=9046978&intsrc=hm_topic | ||
1195113046 | For Linux admins, career options remain plentiful | Thanks for the advice, Brent. The future looks bright for Linux. Anything else you want to tell our readers? Don't worry about getting an MCSE, Linux is where it's at right now. | http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1280915,00.html | ||
1195113160 | I dunno what people mean when they talk about RPM hell | When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they?re talking about. Here?s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight... | http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/11/14/i-dunno-what-people-say-when-they-talk-about-rpm-hell/ | ||
1195113257 | Foresight Linux KDE Edition: The start of the odyssey! | So, what can you do to lend us a hand? Well, there are lots to do and there’s room for everyone! You can start by downloading the ISO and playing with it. If you’re interested in learning about conary so you can help out with packaging, read the FAQ | http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=416 | ||
1195113342 | Open source may be the winner in the consumerization of IT | One thing is clear: the old world of bloated enterprise applications is changing. Perhaps the shift away from enterprise software has more to do enterprise software companies wasting the time, attention, and intelligence of enterprise IT departments with bloated, expensive, and poorly written software. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816770-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad | ||
1195165168 | Wal-Mart Plans To Restock Hot-Selling Linux PC | The gPC comes pre-loaded with the gOS operating system -- a Linux variant -- and a 1.5 GHz processor manufactured by Intel clone maker Via Technologies. The rest of the specs include an 80-Gbyte hard drive and 512 Mbytes of DDR 2 memory. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20071115/tc_cmp/203100017 | ||
1195165357 | Computer Programs and Systems Announces Migration of CPSI System to Linux | Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare information system to the Linux operating system. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071115/20071115005804.html?.v=1 | ||
1195165464 | IBM's Lotus Symphony Continues ODF Push | Symphony has been downloaded by more than 250,000 registered users since its release, according to IBM. | http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/139602/ibms_lotus_symphony_continues_odf_push.html | ||
1195165659 | ARC Rides Embedded Linux Wave into Home Media Servers and Converged Mobile | ARC is optimizing, delivering, and directly supporting versions of Embedded Linux 2.6, and GNU tools based on GCC 4.2 and future versions. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071115/20071114006710.html?.v=1 | ||
1195165831 | A magazine about free software, made with free software | Linux community members use Inkscape, OpenOffice, and other free tools to create a PDF magazine for readers in the former Yugoslav countries. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/110907-gnuzilla.html | ||
1195186668 | Online music school saves cash with Linux | Her experience has been so good, Hoefner recommends other Web developers take a hard look at Linux. | http://www.linux.com/feature/121369 | ||
1195186851 | Linux in more than 91% of top supercomputers | Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459 systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/ | ||
1195200015 | Students will get laptops with plan | "Over 15,000 children will be receiving their own personal laptops," said John Katopodis, a longtime Langford friend who is negotiating with the One Laptop Per Child foundation on Langford's behalf. | http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1194945540247570.xml&coll=2 | ||
1195200090 | OLPC XO User Review | The OLPC is a very good tool for a classroom setting. All the interfaces in each application interact extraordinarily well together. At a price of $400 you certainly get a lot of value for your money. If you're the only one you know with one though, you'll miss out on a lot of the great collaboration utilities. | http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4093 | ||
1195200367 | Reaction to Google's Android Is Positive, Cautious | Serdar Yegulalp, writing in Information Week, wrote on Wednesday that he had a "hard time not jumping up and down with glee" when he first saw the user interface implemented in a Google-made video on YouTube. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071115/bs_nf/56748 | ||
1195200446 | Server to server: MacOS X vs. Linux | ...the right data center solution is Linux, not MacOS X. Why? tecause when it comes to cleaning the Augean stables front end loaders just work better than perfume spritzers. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1006 | ||
1195200607 | From Linspire to PCLinuxOS via Mandriva 2008 | Pretty good install, all the things I need working and as a bonus this is the only distro I have tried that will allow Audacity to run concurrently with other apps as well as allowing it to record and play in the same session! | http://www.planstoprosper.org.uk/index.php?itemid=33 | ||
1195200773 | 2008 Linux Symposium information | The 2008 Linux Symposium has been scheduled for July 23 to 26; it will, as usual, be held in Ottawa. This year's program looks to feature mini-summits prior to the main events and "speakers from outside the industry" to give a wider view. The call for papers is open now with submissions due by the beginning of February. | http://lwn.net/Articles/258745/rss | ||
1195200882 | For Linux Networx, It's All About Balancing Risk | Picking the right focus seems to be the name of the game for established HPC companies without a global mega-corporation to support their supercomputing habit. While Cray heads for the high end hills, Linux Networx is adopting a focused and decidedly down market approach. | http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1892062.html | ||
1195201005 | Paravirtualized Ubuntu shows early performance promise | Early testing has shown that Ubuntu, when run as a virtual guest taking advantage of the new paravirt-ops paravirtualization interface, delivers as promised: it runs faster and more efficiently that it would as an unmodified guest. | http://searchvmware.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid179_gci1281989,00.html | ||
1195201112 | Sun tiptoes into GPLv3 | Sun Microsystems will release its xVM Ops Center virtualisation management application under the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3), the company revealed at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. | http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3 | ||
1195201362 | Computer role-playing games for GNU/Linux | Of all the various types of computers games out there, my favorite is the computer role-playing game, or CRPG for short. Almost everyone has heard of classic CRPGs like Ultima, Baldur’s Gate, and Fall Out, but what about free software CRPGs? In this article, I take a peek at what’s out there. | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/role_playing_games_gnu_linux | ||
1195201494 | World?s most remote island gets advanced medical support | Project Tristan, which is based on open standards and runs on the Linux Operating System, is expected to greatly enhance the island?s level of medical care and standard of living. The island?s physician is now able to electronically capture and share medical data and information... | http://www.computingsa.co.za/article.aspx?id=613835 | ||
1195201610 | SolutionBase: Get familiar with alternative Linux desktops | Desktop customization in Linux is very flexible; from the ultra-modern KDE and GNOME window managers to with the likes of Fluxbox and AfterStep, there's a Linux desktop to suit everyone. | http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2415-10877_11-176034.html | ||
1195201731 | Open source values: Consensus | All this is in stark contrast to the proprietary model, which is at heart an entrepreneurial model. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison give orders, set direction, and play business differences like great poker players. Neither could have succeeded, I think, if open source were the chief model for software success 20 years ago. | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1682 | ||
1195201812 | Petite i.MX31 module comes with Linux BSP | Phytec has announced an embedded processor module aimed at simplifying the development of devices based on Freescale's highly-integrated i.MX31 SoC (system-on-chip). The PhyCore-i.MX31 comes with a Linux BSP, and is optionally available with a carrier board and touchscreen LCD. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5351328190.html | ||
1195251286 | Is Microsoft (Still) Trying to Shut Me Up Using Lies? | It turns out that this happened in the past to other innocent Web sites too. Exact same scenario: ?Websense and false accusations.? | http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/11/16/smear-campaigns/ | ||
1195262034 | Historians Recreate Source Code of First 4004 Application | The team of 'digital archaeologists' who developed the technology behind the Intel Museum's 4004 microprocessor exhibit have done it again. | http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/15/1818248&from=rss | ||
1195262099 | Putting Unbreakable Linux into perspective | The only problem for Oracle is that a win for Linux introduces a new third party that stands between its software and its customers. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/16/putting-unbreakable-linux-into-perspective/ | ||
1195262198 | Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future | LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the Internet. | http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html | ||
1195262313 | StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.1 | If you are into RedHat or CentOS you might want to give this OS a try. | http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=8370 | ||
1195262386 | ATI HD 3800 Supported By Open-Source | This morning, Novell's Luc Verhaegen has confirmed in a thread in the Phoronix Forums that these new GPUs should already be supported by xf86-video-radeonhd. The RadeonHD developers haven't actually seen either the HD 3850 or HD 3870 yet... | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjIwMQ | ||
1195262505 | What's With the OLPC Hate? | Come to think of it, my goal to be a billionaire seems pretty selfish when compared to the goals of the OLPC. I think I'll instead set a goal to make the world better for as many people as I can. No one can criticize that, can they? | http://etech.eweek.com/content/desktops_and_notebooks/whats_with_the_olpc_hate.html | ||
1195262580 | Gosh, gOS is good | I really liked gOS. It's a cute little system with lots of functionality and great looks. It works well and is fast and stable on my laptop. | http://www.linux.com/feature/121151 | ||
1195262683 | There's more than one $199 GNU/Linux PC out there | In response to one of my Everex articles, commenter Alan Rochester clued me in to the Canada-based Linux store, which is offering a somewhat similar $199 PC preloaded with Ubuntu 7.10. | http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/96034/index.html | ||
1195262754 | OS upgrade leaks for Linux-based tablet | The hotly anticipated Maemo operating system upgrade for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has leaked. Early reviewers are impressed with the upgrade's faster performance and Mozilla-based Web browser. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7806233999.html | ||
1195262830 | OpenMoko prepping to push sales of Linux-based handset | OpenMoko, a Linux-based open source handset platform developer, is pushing the development of Linux-based smartphone with its open source handset, the Neo 1973, which may be available to the mass-market in the second half of 2008, according to company sources. | http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20071116PD213.html | ||
1195262904 | Envisioning the Android User Experience: Customizable to the Max | Now that the nitty-gritty details of the SDK are becoming known, developers are starting to get some sense of what the platform could mean in terms of the actual products it spawns -- in other words, just what, exactly, Android phones might look like. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60342.html | ||
1195263032 | Now that your TV is a Linux computer | It is also a computer that runs Linux, the free open-source operating system. I know because it crashed once, and I got a command prompt. (Plus, the Dish people have Linux programming code posted on their Web site, as they're supposed to under the open-source license.) | http://www.newsday.com/technology/ny-bzdolinar1118,0,866932.column | ||
1195263151 | KDE: Art Tablets for Krita | One tablet is currently with Boudewijn Rempt, who is working on a Chinese paintbrush simulation. | http://dot.kde.org/1195170820/ | ||
1195263229 | Appro Looks for its Supercomputer Groove | The first of these offerings is the Xtreme X1 dual-socket blade, which will be based on Intel quad-core Xeon processors, uses a Linux operating system and will be available to order later this year. A version based on Advanced Micro Devices chips, the X2, is scheduled for release in 2008. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2217843,00.asp | ||
1195285113 | Linux Makes the Grade | Today, more than 100,000 Indiana school kids (in all, 300,000 high schoolers are slated to receive one) have their own $298 computer and monitor with numerous free software applications, and, in turn, schools across the state have secure, reliable, sophisticated server systems thanks to Linux-based open source technology. | http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604800 | ||
1195285218 | Google, GNU/Linux and the future of personal computing | I agree that mainstream popular computing is shifting from desktop apps to web apps, and while Microsoft is trying to do it all itself, specialist players like Apple and Google are forming coalitions. | http://understandinglimited.com/2007/11/14/cloud/ | ||
1195285378 | PC-BSD 1.4.1 Available | A update to PC-BSD has been released today, version 1.4.1. This new version may be obtained from our download page , additionally users who are running version 1.4 may download a patch to upgrade. | http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/28/11/ | ||
1195285481 | Zenwalk Live 4.8 Released! | With great joy the Zenwalk Live Team presents Zenwalk Live 4.8. This new release features the speed, stability and usability of Zenwalk Gnu/Linux with several new features geared towards Linux Live CD users. From the beginning our goal was to make this the best Live CD ever and it makes us proud to offer it to the world. | http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=67 | ||
1195285625 | Panel PC targets Linux-based medical devices | Kontron has announced a lightweight panel PC for the medical industry, designed to run Linux. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4916097677.html | ||
1195285713 | Making the Case for Linux Distros in the Business | Are you considering an enterprise-wide switch from a Microsoft operating system to Linux? Or are you using Linux already and want to know how your distro stacks up against others? | http://www.cio.com/article/155701/Making_the_Case_for_Linux_Distros_in_the_Business | ||
1195285788 | Asia Catching Up with GNU/Linux Distributions | Number of visits from Japan were very high even in 2006 but the increase in visits from India over just seven months since then is remarkable. | http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/asia-catching-up-with-gnulinux-distributions/ | ||
1195285866 | Google and Sun may butt heads over Android | Google most likely built Dalvik as a way to get around licensing issues with Sun that would have come with using JME, said Stefano Mazzocchi, a developer and board member at Apache Labs. | http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/111607-google-and-sun-may-butt.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news | ||
1195340591 | [Another Good Review of] Asus Eee PC 4G sub-sub-notebook | Linux buffs and geeks will love its sheer hackability. For two hundred quid, it's a perfect impulse buy for folk who love messing around with operating systems. | http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/review_asus_eee_pc/ | ||
1195340710 | A year with Linux on the desktop | The kids have been using Linux for years, so they’re happy penguins. I’m a happy penguin. The wife’s laptop is the only remaining Windows machine in the house and it is nearing the end of its life. I’m predicting we’ll be a Windows-free household in just a few months with absolutely no regrets. | http://flagrantdisregard.com/index.php/2007/11/16/a-year-with-linux-on-the-desktop/ | ||
1195340774 | Operating systems - who needs them? | It never ceases to amaze me how new ideas, like cicadas, can appear, breed, hibernate for a few years and then re-emerge in a metamorphosed form. Several years back, I remember meeting some guys from Phoenix Technologies, one of the major developers of PC firmware, who showed me one such idea whose rebirth is well overdue. | http://www.whatpc.co.uk/itweek/comment/2203694/operating-systems-needs-3642444 | ||
1195340856 | Desktop, schmesktop meets Android | Google has changed all of that. They have announced and made available a full open source stack for mobile phones. It covers everything from the bare metal upwards, and it's extensible. It's called Android. | http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-schmesktop-meets-android.html | ||
1195340939 | Why I Started a XO User Club for Children in Houston | But even if XO doesn't make inroads in school districts, it still be a powerful learning device for children (especially with the right level of involvement from parents and adults). A "user club" model can do a lot to make that possible. | http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/start_xo_user_club_houston.html | ||
1195341177 | Product Review: openSUSE 10.3 | All in all, openSUSE 10.3 is highly recommended and is among the best distros released this year! | http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/462949_p.htm | ||
1195341258 | Enterprise IT spending is on the decline...Is that why open source is boom | There's never been a better time to be in open source. Why? When budgets tighten, companies get smarter with their IT budgets. Smart money buys open source. | http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9818835-16.html | ||
1195341359 | [Robert Love on Linux:] A Dozen Years Later | Just as titillating, with my 2400 "baud" modem, it took me two hours to download all of 1.2's whooping two megabytes. Today, I can download all 43MB of 2.6.23 in 15 seconds at almost 3MB/s. As a comparison, it would take two days to download a modern kernel with my old modem. | http://blog.rlove.org/2007/11/dozen-years.html | ||
1195360885 | A short look at gOS | So after downloading the gOS Live ISO onto my Debian Etch system I started Innotek?s VirtualBox, bound the freshly downloaded ISO as a CD-ROM, made a 4GB virtual hard disk image for installing it, gave that virtual computer 256MB of RAM, and started... | http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=255 | ||
1195360972 | Open Formats Enter the Presidential Debate | The fact of the matter is that I have no idea, but apparently he (or his handlers) believe that open formats are important enough not only to be used in the debate and the full nine-page policy statement available at the Obama Web site, but in the much briefer press release as well. | http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071117081545279 | ||
1195361081 | System analysis - Rick Maybury on setting yourself up with the right opera | Away from a corporate straitjacket, Linux has evolved into a huge and diverse family of operating systems, used in everything from parking meters and mobile phones to powering tens of thousands of computers in the Google search engine's server "farms". | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/11/18/dlsys18.xml | ||
1195361201 | Ubuntu ? The "Other" Windows | "Word's creeping out about Linux," the Geek Squad spokesman said. "Don't put it away, because it's going to be there for a long time, and it will eventually become mainstream enough that you will see it in mainstream markets." | http://www.cfnews13.com/Technology/YourTechnology/2007/11/16/ubuntu__the_39other39_windows.html | ||
1195361548 | Snaek Peek at Stacks for Awn (GNU/Linux 'Dock') | Stacks on Awn will get some more bling soon, as being discussed in this forum post(see pages 3+ of the post). | http://thelinuxmovement.blogspot.com/2007/11/snaek-peek-at-stacks-for-awn.html | ||
1195429183 | Germany Police Union Wants GNU/Linux | The demand of the police union now is to drop the Microsoft-based software and to reconsider the usage of free and open source systems instead. | http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=506 | ||
1195429333 | States shore up pitch to extend Microsoft oversight | A number of states including California and New York filed legal briefs Friday supporting their earlier request to extend the government's restrictive antitrust oversight of Microsoft Corp. | http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/states-shore-up-pitch-extend/story.aspx?guid=%7BBCF8977C%2DB377%2D424B%2D822C%2D05F0F7568EBA%7D&siteid=yhoof | ||
1195429422 | Paldo GNU/Linux 1.2: Yet Another Generic Distro | If you've never heard of Paldo, you need to check DistroWatch more. This completely new hybrid distribution (source *and* binary backage management) has started to get some major attention, and one site even went so far as to call it "this year's Sabayon". | http://distrogue.blogspot.com/2007/11/paldo-gnulinux-12-yet-another-generic.html | ||
1195429547 | Open Source Mathematical Software [PDF] | Increasingly, proprietary software and the algorithms used are an essential part of mathematical proofs. To quote J. Neubüser, 'with this situation two of the most basic rules of conduct in mathematics are violated: In mathematics information is passed on free of charge and everything is laid open for checking.' | http://www.ams.org/notices/200710/tx071001279p.pdf | ||
1195429633 | 2.6.24-rc3, Small Fixes and Cleanups | Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the third release candidate for the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel... | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/2.6.24-rc3_Small_Fixes_and_Cleanups | ||
1195429817 | Nouveau Very Close To Release? | Back in Nouveau Companion 30, we found out the Nouveau developers are getting very close to their first stable release. This first Nouveau driver release will include 2D, X-Video, and EXA acceleration across all NVIDIA graphics cards from the NV05 to NV4x. | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjIwMw | ||
1195429931 | Make Markets Not War | Open source is the biggest shift in the market this decade and market shifts are what the old guard hate. It destabilizes their ability to set high prices at will. | http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/460529_p.htm | ||
1195430023 | Recruiting software talent the Red Hat way | I think that focusing on FUD is not something that resonates the core values in a lot of the open source software community. I think that [ Linux columnist] Jeremy Allison said that his contributions would not support FUD efforts. | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/FEBC38E29C5622B6CC257394007FC715 | ||
1195430113 | Creative thinking [with Free Open Source Software] | Freeware and shareware has its dark side though and there are some rogue programs around, especially among the many utilities that purport to keep PCs healthy. Some report false positives or deliberately infect a PC in an attempt to frighten users into paying for expensive (and often useless) repair programs. | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/11/18/dlcreat18.xml | ||
1195430236 | Seneca College and open source education | ...since Riehle's community open source projects (Linux, Apache, Eclipse, etc.) are cross-company by definition, a graduate of (say) a hypothetical "Linux University" would likely face minimal barriers moving between any of the companies involved in Linux kernel development... | http://hecker.org/mozilla/seneca-college-and-open-source-education | ||
1195455871 | UK children's charity says goodbye to Excel | Cognos TM1 will house the charity's budgeting and financial planning data currently held on 2,000 Excel spreadsheets. | http://www.computerbusinessreview.com/article_news.asp?guid=98CC4FA6-BE3D-487F-B5C2-CAAE1489A516 | ||
1195455951 | Linux: Multiple Stable 2.6.23 Releases | The stable review resulted in six stable 2.6.23.y releases. The first, 2.6.23.2, contained bug fixes for the core kernel code. 2.6.23.3 contained bug fixes for architecture specific issues. | http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Multiple_Stable_2.6.23_Releases | ||
1195470363 | Open source partnerships advance management tools | Open source management software has become a viable alternative to commercial products, and a recent rash of partnerships proves it, an analyst says. | http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1127729677&rid=-50 | ||
1195470442 | The Linux-based Archos 604 | Geeks.com sent us in one of their consumer electronics, the Linux-based Archos 604 PMP for a whirl, and we surely gave it one. This 30 GB PMP is the fourth generation video product from Archos, one of the biggest names in that market. | http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18948/The-Linux-based-Archos-604/ | ||
1195524109 | Rice Technology Solutions to Distribute Ubuntu Based Linux Exclusively | Ubuntu was selected in large part because of the company's technical savvy and business acumen. The partnership will provide Canonical Ltd a local point of presence on the sales side, as well as hardware and software installation, service and support. | http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/26394/ | ||
1195524299 | Linux Automation Strategy Extended for CIOs | At the core of the Linux Automation strategy is the broad ecosystem provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering a rich set of automation, management and orchestration tools - now available and under development - by Red Hat and its partners. | http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071119/20071119005407.html?.v=1 | ||
1195524379 | Open Handset Alliance could prove a winner | Some have called the newly formed Open Handset Alliance just another Linux forum and have questioned its ability to produce a commercially viable mobile platform. But the OHA has a number of advantages, noteast of which is the backing of some big-hitting global companies. | http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/expertview/articles/20017480691.html | ||
1195524513 | Portrait: ZaReason [Linux Shop] founder Cathy Malmrose | Rather than choose her current career, it almost seems as if Cathy Malmrose's career chose her. Malmrose is CEO of ZaReason, an OEM that manufactures and sells desktop and notebook systems with Ubuntu, where she deals with everything... | http://www.linux.com/feature/121373 | ||
1195524809 | VIA and FIC to Release Linux NanoBook? | The CE260 called NanoBook, which was developed by VIA in co-operation with VIA fellow affiliate FIC, is planned to be marketed in the U.S. by FIC subsidiary Everex from 2008. According to Taiwanese online service DigiTimes, FIC estimates that 50.000 to 60.000 CE260s will be sold via OEMs in the first quarter of 2008. | http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/99208/from/rss09 | ||
1195524878 | Linux in NASA's Mars Rovers | It all runs on a collection of high-end Linux boxes -- nice systems, but commodity PC hardware. Since 3-D visualisation is a big part of the job, the Linux boxes sport bonzer NVIDIA graphics cards. | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;563338166;pp;1 | ||
1195539086 | Today's Screenshot: Cool Leopard-Flavored Dock for Ubuntu GNU/Linux | There's an Ubuntu Forums thread discussing Jensen's mockup. Some users think his dock apes Apple's dock a little too closely. While a strong visual resemblance is certainly there, the functionality is different. | http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/11/todays-screensh.html | ||
1195539325 | Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U6 Available | Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U6, a UK-based commercial distribution, was released today. It is built from the source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. | http://news.softpedia.com/news/Pie-Box-Enterprise-Linux-4-AS-U6-Available-71256.shtml | ||
1195539390 | Asus Eee PC Secret: Xandros Mimicking Windows XP | At last Wednesday's DC OLPC Meetup, I got to put my grubby hands on both a few OLPC XOs and an Asus Eee side by side. The Eee was lighter, but not as well built as the XOs for dusty, humid environments. By the end of the night, its battery was getting towards the low side, while the XOs were still going strong. | http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/competition/asus_eee_xandros_mimick_xp.html | ||
1195539465 | Fresh, cool and clean ? sounds like GNU/Linux | To support its new ERP software, Watts Water Technologies chose GNU/Linux Desktop for use in a thin-client deployment. | http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=419 | ||
1195539736 | Kimpel: A sweet office software suite need not cost an arm and leg | Currently in its second version, OO.o provides solutions that are on par, and in many ways superior to Microsoft Office. Even those who already have Microsoft Office installed may consider a switch. At a sticker price of $0, you almost can't afford not to give it a try. | http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19037684&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475590&rfi=6 | ||
1195540059 | PCLinux - PCLinuxOS 2007 review | A polished, accessible and tight Linux distribution that shows continued signs of improvement. It's not bleeding edge, but it is very good. | http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s535.htm | ||
1195540172 | Nicaragua: Software Freedom Day Group Wins Award | Software Freedom Day, a celebration of Free Software and Open Source, announced tha the SFD group for Nicaragua won one of three top places worldwide for their efforts on bringing Open Source Software to the people. | http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/11/18/software-freedom-day-group-in-nicaragua-win-global-title/ | ||
1195540287 | Open source communities: Who's in charge? | Debian is a free operating system - a set of basic programs and utilities that make computers run - that uses the Linux kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer that manages demands on system resources: It allows you to run multiple programs simultaneously... | http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=129&id=12264&t=Open+source+communities%3A+Who%20s+in+charge%3F#07568965696919383461 | ||
1195540355 | Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A | Q: To get back to the original question, what is your assessment of the potential impact? A: It’s early, but November’s news was a good indication that innovation amongst economic models and deployment scenarios is still possible. | http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/19/redhat_cloud/ | ||
1195561088 | OOXML Dirty Tricks Are Back: Portugal will send Microsoft to the BRM | Microsoft, as president of the Portuguese Technical Committee, is already controlling who will be at the BRM for Portugal. The Head of Delegation will be... Microsoft! | http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-27501/portugal-will-send-microsoft-to-the-brm | ||
1195561177 | Why I've replaced Vista with Linux | This decision was a long time coming but I think it is the right thing to do right now: I have reformatted the hard drive on my laptop and replaced Vista with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux as the main operating system. I did this for a number of reasons: it's probably worth going through them one by one. | http://www.it-analysis.com/blogs/Total_Immersion/2007/11/why_i_ve_replaced_vista_with_linux.html | ||
1195616472 | ODF a National Standard in Korea | The proposal for ODF to be accepted as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM, Department of Standards Malaysia and ultimately the Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation is dormant for more than a year now. Four months after the Malaysian proposal went to sleep, Italy made ODF a National Standard. | http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/11/odf-a-national-.html | ||
1195616610 | Every Macedonian Student to Use Ubuntu-Powered Computer Workstations | Popular Linux distribution to appear on more than 180,000 classroom desktops nationwide. | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb570256.htm | ||
1195616761 | York Proposes to Take Over SCO's Unix/Linux Lawsuits | What this amounts to is that, in the event that SCO goes back into bankruptcy. York would get its loan money out of what was left of the company ahead of any and all other debtors and without having to go through the bankruptcy courts. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219742,00.asp | ||
1195616828 | Interview: On a mission to silence the doubters | How can a bunch of "hackers" create an operating system that can run mission-critical applications?" This is a question that Jim Zemlin is proud and relieved to say is no longer asked of Linux, the open source software that is increasingly becoming a force in corporate computing. | http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20071120/bs_ft/fto112020070958104470 | ||
1195616891 | Linux Internet tablets gain WiFi login agent | Boingo Wireless Inc. has announced a free WiFi software agent for Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablets. The quick-connect agent is said to streamline logins at some 100,000-plus Boingo Mobile hotspots, for users of Nokia's N810 or N800 running Tablet OS 2008. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3795463709.html | ||
1195617016 | Vendor Value: CIOs Rate the Leading Tech Providers, Red Hat #1 | This year's No. 1 vendor: open source software vendor Red Hat, which earned a remarkable 97 percent loyalty rating. | http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0%2c1540%2c2217095%2c00.asp | ||
1195617100 | Award-winning Snort creator Roesch shares secrets of his success | "You can try to ban open source software all you want, but if you're buying your infrastructure from Cisco, you're actually employing a lot of Linux. Most security technologies run on top of Linux. You can only ban it so far. Even the people who actually build your equipment are using it." | http://www.linux.com/feature/121377 | ||
1195617175 | Zenwalk Live 4.8 | One of my favorites, ZenWalk, just released Zenwalk 4.8 Live. Both Zenwalk and Vector ? the top Xfce-based, Slackware-derived distributions ? are very good, but I like the way Zenwalk looks and works just that much better. | http://thectrlfreak.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/zenwalk-live-48/ | ||
1195625205 | Digg.com: Divide and conquer the Community! | [Roy: NOT my opinion, but worth mentioning nonetheless] If you’re a digg user, please join me in my boycott of digg.com, they are showing signs that they are over-bloated. They can be left with user’s who don’t wish to support community, the unimportant ones. Before you leave, make sure that you’re exit is heard! Help spread the word! | http://www.interfce.com/?p=369 | ||
1195633019 | There's No System Like Linux for the Holidays | Holiday shopping season is about to hit full swing, and personal computers already rank high on many people's wish lists. If you're going to give the gift of a new PC, should you consider giving one with Linux? | http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Theres-No-System-Like-Linux-for-the-Holidays-60397.html | ||
1195633115 | Seek Enlightenment for an easy-to-use Linux GUI | There are numerous reasons to become an Enlightenment user... | http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/tutorials/0,1000002006,39290913,00.htm | ||
1195633223 | How to completely ditch GUI internet applications for the command line | Today, terminal-based programs have almost disappeared. GUIs are taking over, whether we like it or not. However, there is still a place for the old command line. Take the internet as an example: everyone’s using Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin for their internet activities. | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/ditch_gui_apps_for_command_line | ||
1195633399 | Bluewhite64 12.0 miniLive Released | The Bluewhite64 12.0 miniLive key features: - SMP Linux Kernel version 2.6.23.8; - X.org 7.2; - KDE 3.5.8; - IA32 emulation (run 32-bit CLI and GUI programs). | http://www.bluewhite64.com/live-cd-mini.html | ||
1195633506 | Ubuntu server momentum builds toward ?critical mass? | Carr said that while the deal will ?hopefully be with Dell,? Canonical is also considering server vendors other than Dell, and at a later date the company will reveal the results of those talks. ?This doesn?t mean a deal is imminent... | http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/11/20/shuttleworth-lays-out-the-case-for-enterprise-ubuntu/ | ||
1195633588 | Does your browser do video? | No more Flash, no more YouTube. Independence! And all of this using Vorbis and Theora as the baseline codecs! | http://spreadopenmedia.org/2007/11/18/does-your-browser-do-video/ | ||
1195633684 | Start-up turns Linux servers into virtual storage | The VSN software aggregates the disk storage on commodity Linux servers to provide one or more virtual file systems. The software configures one Control Node with as many as several hundred Storage Nodes, where each node is a server. | http://www.infostor.com/display_article/311329/23/ARTCL/none/none/1/Start-up-turns-Linux-servers-into-virtual-storage/ | ||
1195633816 | Some Linux Audio Updates And Expansions | In this week's article I'll bring you up-to-date on what's happening with some of the many exciting developments in the world of Linux audio software, with recent news regarding the JOST plugin host, the Audacity soundfile editor, and the new LV2 native Linux plugin standard. | http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005720 | ||
1195640915 | KDE 4: Plasma drag&drop, Digikam multiple storages | KDE 4 will be released in the next months, and most of the developers focus on polishing. At the same time, the big 3rd party KDE applications are ported to KDE 4. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/kde-4-plasma-dragdrop-digikam-multiple-storages/ | ||
1195641037 | California sues e-voting vendor over hardware changes | The original AutoMark A100 devices were conditionally certified by the state in August 2005 by a previous secretary of state, according to Bowen's office. One condition of that certification, according to her office, was that no "substitution or modification of the voting systems shall be made with respect to any component of the voting systems .. | http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1601140129 | ||
1195678693 | Microsoft and Intel in Collusion scheme? | If true, this would be a clear violation of the Clayton Act and would be collusion. It would also imply that the Intel chips should be boycotted by corporate as well as individual customers seeking to have Linux machines. | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/79b9d7d445faa7de | ||
1195689866 | [Delusional] SCO President Darl McBride: 'It's Not the End of the Line' | I don't tend to go out and pick fights on my own, but I also don't tend to back down from one when someone's coming after me. | http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/SCO-President-Darl-McBride-Its-Not-the-End-of-the-Line-60390.html | ||
1195689940 | Bob Young and the Rise of Red Hat Software | One of the key players in the rise of Linux is Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat Software, the largest distributor of the Linux operating system. Young's creative resolution of a crucial strategic dilemma was the event that put Red Hat ? and Linux ? on the path to profit and power in the marketplace. | http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071120.wmartin1121/BNStory/robAtWork/home | ||
1195690062 | Linux for business use | And one of the big advantages of Linux over Windows is that a lot of this application software will be bundled with the distro already. | http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2203933/linux-real-3522857 | ||
1195690148 | One "$100 Laptop" for Each Child in Ghana | Mind you, the mission of OLPC for its “$100 Laptop” is to “stimulate local grassroots initiatives designed to enhance and sustain over time the effectiveness of laptops as learning tools for children living in lesser-developed countries. | http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=2684 | ||
1195690231 | News on new EU antitrust investigation against Microsoft | ...most relevant to the Internet and work done at the IGF, was the problem of growing .NET-dependency for web applications. .NET is Microsoft?s platform for web applications software development. ?It is a sort of an effort to ?proprietise? the Internet,? said Vinje... | http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=828 | ||
1195690387 | Momentum Behind ODF Continues To Grow Internationally [PDF] | "We congratulate the Netherlands, South Africa,and Korea for recognizing ODF, each in its own way, and look forward to the movement's continued momentum in the new year. ODF enables diverse government agencies to work better with one another at lower cost and gives them access to their own information..." | http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20071120.pdf | ||
1195690497 | Early Win for AGPLv3 | The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL v3.0), a license we've been waiting for a long time that will allow us to open source more code such as the jCard (our Card Management System) and jPTS (an ISO-8583/2003 based jPOS Transaction Switch) projects. | http://jpos.org/blog/2007/11/21/agplv3/ | ||
1195690569 | How Red Hat Linux can help you boost performance and shrink IT costs | They need to rapidly develop and deploy new applications. They need to build a flexible infrastructure--one that can rapidly adjust to the needs of the business. There are many key benefits inherent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. | http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/news.asp?id=46026 | ||
1195712220 | Leaving Home for Good: It's Time for a Global Consortium Standards Organiz | ... there have been widespread reports of [Microsoft] disinformation, vendor pressure, and (in one case) even offers of financial reimbursement to business partners as incentives to join National Bodies in order to vote for approval. | http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071121045231677 | ||
1195712294 | Automation controller system runs on Linux | Based on a standard PC running Debian Linux, GPAC version 3.0 process management software is said to integrate devices, sensors, cameras, and subsystems to remotely operate device networks and monitor infrastructure. | http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3713947335.html | ||
1195712374 | Linux provides solid uptime for automated hunting and fishing licenses | Even with the challenges, Edwards is completely happy with Linux. "There's no question. It's absolutely critical for us to make money. If we're down, there's penalties we get assessed by the state governments. We absolutely have to be up all the time. For the most part, we make that. | http://www.linux.com/feature/121606 | ||
1195712461 | Linux as a Server Operating System in the Enterprise | If done well, you could derive significant cost savings for some expensive systems. Large e-commerce Web sites have been popular success stories. Using Linux for the appropriate application in a well-planned implementation will drive you to success. | http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/460532_p.htm | ||
1195712568 | Closing open source loopholes | While GPLv3 originally set out to tackle the issue of software patents, another loophole emerged with the Microsoft-Novell partnership a year ago, adding some urgency and significance to the issue. | http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/21/closing-open-source-loopholes/ | ||
1195712630 | Fedora project goodies [Update] | Two minor issues of the fedoraproject web pages and services have been fixed recently: the repoview is back again, and the build service search is now case-insensitive. In the meantime the package database shapes up to a central place for all package related tasks. | http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/fedora-project-goodies/ | ||
1195712695 | Open Source Software and the VIA pc3500 Motherboard, Part 1 | Welcome to the first of a five-part article series that examines how Ubuntu Linux and other open source software runs on a computer built around the VIA pc3500 motherboard. Each article will cover different aspects of the computing experience. | http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=542&P=1 | ||
1195712779 | Open Mobile SDKs March to Freedom | News Analysis: Open mobile platforms, such as Google's Android, should usher in a tidal wave of development that could change the industry. | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219854,00.asp | ||
1195766699 | Devil-Linux 1.2.14 released | The changes include lots of program updates, added missing iptables modules, Kernel 2.4.35.2 and much more. See the Changelog for details. | http://www.devil-linux.org/news/index.php?item=1983 |