Answers from Harald Welte, "VIA's Open Source Representative"
Slashdot: "5) Have you ever accused an innocent? -- by BitterOldGUy
From your Bio you started gpl-violations.org."
High-End Developers Choose Commercial Linux
Vnunet.com: "Developers are choosing commercial, rather than non-commercial, distributions of Linux when it comes to building high-performance or mission-critical systems, according to new research."
Update On The Tux3 Filesystem
LKML: "It's been a busy week with all the checkins. Not all of them from me! And Tux3 university, which seems to be going quite well. For the next session (Tuesday, 8 p.m. pacific time on irc.oftc.net #tux3) the theme will be: VFS read and write. Yes, that's all, and it's a lot."
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Look Ma, No Terminal!
Linux Haxor: "A common misconception with Linux is that you have to know how to use the terminal in order for you to use linux. The fact is you won’t have to use the linux terminal more than you would use CMD in Windows or the terminal in Mac OS X."
SUSE Linux Family Products - Personal category
Computing Tech: "Novell divides its SUSE Linux products into Enterprise and Personal. This is essentially the distinction between the versions that are sold with a paid-for software maintenance system and those that are not. The Personal category now consists of just one product, SUSE Linux Professional."
Twelve Myths about Free and Open Source Software
Datamation: "However, once you move beyond techie circles, you'll find that, for many people, the concept is unknown. Even worse, when people have heard of it, they have alarming -- and rather discouraging -- misconceptions of what it involves."
VMware Wants to Trump Windows and Linux Servers With its Virtual Datacenter OS
ZDNet: "With the Virtual Datacenter OS, VMware wants to essentially de-emphasize the traditional OS in the server room (Windows, Linux, and Unix) and use a new software layer-- the VDC-OS-- to aggregate different types of hardware resources and make the hardware itself invisible to the applications that run on it."
A Guide to Amarok 1.4.9.1
Echoes: "Amarok gained its huge popularity due to a vast number of features and very good functionality, like a complex collection management, support for iPod and several other MP3/Ogg players, integration with Wikipedia, lyrics fetching, support for scripts, cover manager, dynamic playlists, podcasts."
How to Build an Open Source Mainframe in Your Kitchen
Interop News: "Can you build a mainframe computer at home in your spare time? On your kitchen table? Using only common utensils and your bare hands?"
CodeWeavers Ports Chromium to Linux and Mac OS X
OStatic: "This post from the CodeWeavers blog details how the company has succesfully ported versions of Chromium--the open source core of Google's Chrome browser--for Mac and Linux."
Perl Script To Maximize Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Lists
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Breaking tradition (or continuing it, depending on how often you read this blog ;) we're going to have part 2 of yesterday's two-parter tomorrow and put up our final Perl script to find the maximum guaranteed number sets, or lists, within larger number pools."
Stellarium -- Free Opensource Planetorium on Your Computer
SUSE & openSUSE: "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope."
Oldham, England Brings Open Source To Schools
OStatic: "Not only are Oldham schools adopting open source software to deliver Internet-based services but Oldham Council appears to have done its homework."
Open Source's Ups and Downs With the Economy
451 CAOS Theory: "Those that are enjoying the benefits of open source software development, distribution and cost will typically say, 'We think organizations are being forced to cut costs at the same time they are being forced into compliance and regulation, so it's driving deals our way.'"
10 Things You Wanted to do With Ubuntu But Didn't Know How!
The How-To Geek: "Configure How often Ubuntu checks for Automatic Updates"
Review: 'EFI-X Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac'
If you want to run Mac OS X on a standard, non-Apple-labelled x86 box, you have various options. You can go all creative and build and install one yourself, and then be weary when installing updates from Apple. You can also buy a Mac clone from PsyStar, and then be weary of Apple's crack team of lawyers. A third option has just become available: EFI-X.
* Review: Asus Eee PC 4G 701 *
Our friends at Geeks.com, known for their cheap laptops offers, sent in one of the most popular netbooks around: the Asus Eee PC. The model is the 701 4G, with 512 MB RAM, and Windows XP in it. Read through for a review of the product. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
Review: Citrix XenDesktop and the Future of VDI
Paul Venezia offers an in-depth review of Citrix XenDesktop 2.0, touching on the growing importance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure as a whole. 'Citrix has married VDI to its existing stable of application and desktop delivery mechanisms, and it continues to leverage the stellar ICA protocol to assist in speed, user experience, and manageability,' Venezia writes. 'If the company can continue to improve XenServer, XenDesktop could become the showcase VDI implementation. As it stands now, coupling XenDesktop with VMware VI3 is probably the best of both worlds.'
VMWare Fusion 2.0 Released
"VMWare has released Fusion 2.0, which is a free upgrade for 1.x owners, new features / improvements of the Intel Mac virtualization software include: Multiple Snapshots & AutoProtect, Shared Folder, Improvements & Mirrored Folders, URL Handling, Application Sharing, True Multiple Display Support, Unity Improvements, Graphics Improvements. For details on all the above and more visit the Fusion website for the release notes."
Open Source Teaches us How to Sell Games
The Open Road: "If there is one thing that open source has taught us it's that there are "users" and there are "customers." Odds are that all of your customers will be users first"
Crypto-Gram Newsletter, September 15, 2008
Crypto-Gram Newsletter: "Return on investment, or ROI, is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive return on investment, and a good one at that, in order to be viable...It's a good idea in theory, but it's a mostly bunk in practice."
Linux Tip of the Day - Find the Hog
dralnuX: "If your users keep using up all the space in your home directory, here is a way to apprehend the top offenders."
sidux 2008-03 preview 1
Sidux: "Later than planned (due to a hard to find bug in virtualbox-ose), sidux 2008-03 "Ουρέα" is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, accompanied by a ≈695 MB large combined xfce-lite flavour for amd64+i386."
Video: The History of Fedora
Red Hat Magazine: "We were trying to innovate, and we were trying to stabilize, both at one time in one product. And it didn't work very well."
Tinest Linux System, Yet?
Linux Devices: "CompuLab introduced a tiny fanless PC using 4-6 Watts of power. The Linux-ready "Fit-PC Slim" measures 4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches (110 x 100 x 30mm), but includes a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800, Ethernet, VGA output, WiFi, and a 2.5-inch hard drive option"
Microsoft Hails Open Source Outreach
InfoWorld: "Microsoft continued to make its case on Tuesday that it is a friend to open source, listing a number of efforts it has undertaken in spaces ranging from Linux to virtualization and rich Internet application technology."
OpenOffice.org Basic Crash Course: Saving User Settings
Linux.com: "The ability to save user settings can come in handy if you want to make your OpenOffice.org solutions more flexible, efficient, and user-friendly. In this article, we take a look at how to save user settings in a plain text file and then retreive them from there."
The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: UNIX Internals
LWN: "The only solution was to learn more about operating systems, and quickly. So I pulled out my favorite operating systems textbook and read and re-read it obsessively over the course of the next year. It worked well enough that my company tried very hard to convince me not to quit when I got bored with my "dream job" and left to work at Sun."
Microsoft's Interoperability Dodge in UK Schools
The Open Road: "...The Register is reporting that Microsoft is saying all the right things to the UK government in its attempt to placate the European Commission over interoperability with open file formats. Everything, that is, except how it intends to make its software more interoperable."
Mozilla to Remove Firefox EULA
Practical Technology: "Ubuntu users who couldn’t stand the idea of a EULA (End User License Agreement) for the popular Firefox Web browser are going to get their way."
OEM Version of AmigaOS 4.1 for Sam440ep Imminent
"Hyperion Entertainment VOF and ACube Systems SRL are pleased to announce that they have entered into an OEM license agreement which will allow ACube to offer its customers an OEM version of Hyperion's AmigaOS 4.1 operating system for their SAM440 range of motherboards. Prospective customers wishing to beta-test the near final OEM version of AmigaOS 4.1 for the SAM 440ep will be afforded the opportunity to do so and will subsequently receive the full version. Orders can be placed as of now with ACube. A first public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 for SAM440ep is scheduled for the upcoming exhibition "Pianeta Amiga" in Empoli, Italy on September 27-28, 2008."
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