Canonical CTO Bites Back at Linux Plumbers Conference Keynote
Heise Open Source: ""Canonical doesn't give back to the community""
Peru to be First With New OLPC Laptop With Windows
Computerworld: "Peru will become the first country ever to run a trial of OLPC laptops running on Windows XP."
Windows CE Takes on Linux in Low-end Netbooks
WindowsForDevices: "Quarta Mobile has announced a version of Windows CE 6.0 tailored for netbooks and MIDs (mobile internet devices). The San Jose company says the open-source "MID-Shell for Windows Embedded CE 6.0" is designed as an alternative to Linux for low-end devices with SSDs (solid state disks)."
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EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance."
Why GNU/Linux Needs Slick Marketing
IT Wire: "In the wake of the Firefox EULA issue, the well-known GNU/Linux news accumulation website, Linux Today, ran a very short editorial which came to the rather hurried conclusion that the free operating system does not need what it characterised as "slick marketing.""
Fixing An Ancient Unix System With Two Dead Printers
A.P. Lawrence: "I had a call from an old SCO Unix customer this week. There aren't many of those old systems left now - more than you'd probably think, more than there should be...Anyway, this customer called because two printers were not working."
Portrait: Linux Today Managing Editor Carla Schroder
Linux.com: "Carla Schroder says she just "kind of wandered into" her current life as a free software advocate and well-known IT journalist. "I don't have much in the way of formal education. But I've always been mechanically inclined - your classic ripping things apart and figuring out how they work. I think that makes open source a natural fit for me.""
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Revamped Perl Script To More Evenly Distribute Number Pool Match Odds
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "It's been noted (and I know that it's true) that the spread-system used in the last portion of our Perl script (posted yesterday in our entry regarding maximizing guaranteed matches) was somewhat uneven."
Setting Up Your Own On-Demand Video Site With PHP
IBM Developerworks: "This three-part series takes you through everything you need to know to create video optimized for the Web, as well as creating a PHP application that will help keep your videos organized and accessible."
aMSN - Opensource MSN Messenger Client for openSUSE
SUSE & openSUSE: "aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone for Windows,Linux,Unix & Mac with features like offline messaging, voice clips, picture display, custom emoticons, webcam support, full speed file transfer, chat logs..."
Plug and Run Fedora on a TOSHIBA A300D laptop
Spread Fedora: " Recently I purchased new laptop - A Toshiba A300D...that laptop was very carefully selected among many others. So, I knew that it should work at least at the minimum level with my favourite GNU/Linux distribution - Fedora."
An introduction to API Tools in Eclipse
IBM Developerworks: "Crafting Application Public Interface (API) and especially managing API among different releases is difficult. Learn how to take advantage of Eclipse's PDE API Tools to make this process easier and seamlessly integrated into your daily development. Note that this article is specific to Eclipse V3.4: Ganymede."
A Comparative Look at Compact Sysadmin Distributions
Linux.com: "Things go wrong. Hard disks fail and whole servers crash. Luckily, many Linux-based distributions are available to help systems administrators handle minor catastrophes. We looked at four of the most portable, all of which fit on a 210MB mini CD -- SliTaz, Parted Magic, GParted, and RIPLinuX."
IRC Clients for Linux Part 2: List of 5 CLI Clients
TuxArena: "A while ago I reviewed 6 GUI clients for IRC, so today I'll continue with the second part with this review of 5 CLI (Command Line Interface) clients."
Linux Tip of the Day - Paths Easier to Read
dralnuX: "Am I the only one who finds the '% echo $PATH' output unreadable?"
Ribbons, Ribbons, Ribbons
We all know that Windows 7 is on its way, planned for release somewhere late 2009 or early 2010. We already know it will have a multitouch framework, no major kernel and/or driver framework changes, and a new taskbar people at Microsoft are not supposed to talk about right now. The firs two milestone releases didn't appear to be very exciting, but now there is - supposedly - a milestone 3 (build 6780) release, and there is a screenshot, and more information on UI changes. According to Microsoft blogger Stephen Chapman, the ribbon will make its way to Windows 7.
Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward
Phoronix: "Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly initialize."
Fonality Sends Open Source Relief to US Gulf Coast
The VAR Guy: "We are sending them free servers, free shipping, and spending a free hour sending their backup configuration from our data center to their new onsite server."
VMware: A "Significant Portion" of our Technology May Include Open Source
The Open Road: "VMware has been publicly chastised for allegedly violating the GPL in its proprietary vmkernel technology. Now, in VMware's most recent quarterly report, the company calls out widespread use of open-source software in its products."
HP Layoffs: GroundWork Open Source Smells Blood
The VAR Guy: "Consider the situation at GroundWork Open Source, a systems management company that competes with Hewlett-Packard OpenView. Apparently, GroundWork Open Source is looking to capitalize on the layoff news out of HP."
PCMan: An Alternative File Manager For Linux
Linux Prime Time: "I had been mostly using Nautilus as my primary file manager and i was a bit sick to be honest from using it, Nautilus is very basic and a bit heavy file manager."
The Digital Car Is the Next Big Applications Market
VentureBeat: "In parallel to the Web and mobile devices, a new marketplace for applications and services is becoming accessible to entrepreneurs and developers -- the Digital Car."
Beware Open Source Violations Lurking in Your Code
Information Week: "As open source rises in popularity, so too does the likelihood that licensing violations have seeped into your applications."
What’s behind GregKH’s (latest) Rant?
Planet Ubuntu: "Greg has used at least two high-profile speeches this year (a Linux Plumber’s Conference keynote, and a Google Tech Talk) to tear down the contributions of Canonical to the Linux ecosystem."
Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme
Just three months ago, we announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter. Today we’d like to announce the next generation of our JavaScript engine - SquirrelFish Extreme (or SFX for short). SquirrelFish Extreme uses more advanced techniques, including fast native code generation, to deliver even more JavaScript performance. Benchmarks can be found Squirrelfish Extreme benchmarks can be found on the "Summer of Javascriptcore" blog. As seen, it claims to be faster than both Squirrelfish, Google's V8, and the upcoming Firefox javascript engine, Tracemonkey.
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