Ubuntu Kung Fu (Tuesday 06th of January 2009 12:30:02 PM)
Lorin Ricker writes "Back in the dark ages of windows-based GUIs, corresponding to my own
wandering VMS evangelical days, I became enamored of a series of books jauntily entitled Xxx
Annoyances (from O'Reilly & Assocs.), where "Xxx" could be all from ...
(more)Linux In 2009 — Recession Vs. GNU (Saturday 03rd of January 2009 09:45:01 AM)
RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and calling feds*
alike are predicting gloomy profitable times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open
source os (FOSS), abruptly the mood brightens. Whether their concern ...
(more)Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" (Saturday 13th of December 2008 10:30:01 AM)
An couple of nameless readers wrote in to let us know about a followup to last Wednesday's
story of the teacher who didn't believe in free software. The Linux advocate who posted the
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(more)FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents (Tuesday 09th of December 2008 07:30:01 AM)
An unsigned reader lets us know about a new initiative designed to help shield the open source
ms-dos state from threats posed by patent trolls. The initiative, called Linux Defenders (the
website is slated to go live tomorrow, Dec. 9), is sponsored by ...
(more)Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share (Tuesday 02nd of December 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Ozmanjusri writes "Online market share of the dominant Windows business expenses system has
taken its biggest monthly fall in years to drop below 90%, by the numbers to Net Applications
Inc. Computerworld reports that Microsoft's flagship product has ...
(more)Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Rinisari writes "Finally, the day has come. Adobe has released a pre-release version of the
64-bit Flash player. It is facile at the Adobe Labs Flash Player 10 key in site immediately.
Where are the Windows and Mac versions? 'Release of this alpha version ...
(more)NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux (Saturday 15th of November 2008 12:30:02 AM)
Ashmash writes "Phoronix is reporting on a new Linux driver nVidia is about to release that
brings PureVideo kisser to Linux. This video API will reportedly be in nVidia's 180 series
driver for Linux, Solaris, and *BSD. PureVideo has been around for several ...
(more)Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS (Wednesday 05th of November 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Linux Blog recommends an audience up on the O'Reilly site with Greg Kroah-Hartman, long-time
Linux kernel hacker and the current Linux kernel maintainer for the USB driver core. He updates
the free Linux driver program announced almost two years ago, ...
(more)Motorola Moving to Android, Windows Mobile for Smartphones (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:02 AM)
NerdyH writes "Motorola will ditch its MotoMAGX Linux stack and UIQ Symbian stack in favor of
Google's Android Linux/Java stack and Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7, it announced today. The news
comes after five years selling slew of Linux phones in Asia, and ...
(more)Motorola Moving to Android, Windows Mobile for Smartphones (Saturday 01st of November 2008 11:30:01 AM)
NerdyH writes "Motorola will ditch its MotoMAGX Linux stack and UIQ Symbian stack in favor of
Google's Android Linux/Java stack and Windows Mobile 6.5 and 7, it announced today. The news
comes after five years selling million of Linux phones in Asia, ...
(more)BMW asks other automakers to collaborate on in-car open source platform (Friday 24th of October 2008 10:59:00 AM)
Filed under: Transportation
In March of last year, we heard that Toyota had a mind to create
its very own in-car general expenses expenses system to "boost efficiency and speed up
development." Now, it's bruited that BMW is asking any automaker who will ...
(more)Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup? (Sunday 05th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
RichiH writes "Most of you are the free IT staff of friends and family, just as I am. One of my
largest headaches is backing up their data. What I am looking for allows for off-site storage
on llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new ...
(more)Examining Chrome's Source Code (Sunday 14th of September 2008 11:00:01 AM)
An nameless reader writes "Chrome is open source, and there's clearly still some work to be
done on it. In this article, Neil McAllister decided to take a peek under Chrome's hood and
view it through the eyes of the developers who will improve and ...
(more)HP May Be Developing Its Own Version of Linux (Saturday 13th of September 2008 09:45:01 AM)
Vondiggity writes to tell us that HP is working on several unique ways to make an end run
around Vista. Among the plans is also a conjectural rumor that certain factions within HP are
third world nation their own flavor of Linux. supervisors at HP ...
(more)Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros (Monday 01st of September 2008 08:00:01 PM)
An unsigned reader sends along a PCWorld recap of a new study by the 451 Group, which claims
that profession use of 'community' Linux distributions is on the rise — distros like
Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian, as opposed to "corporate" packages like ...
(more)Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "A lot of developers for open source systems program have full-time day jobs
too. As economist Milton Friedman said, 'The line of vocation is business.' So, does it make
sense for companies to rally their developers to contribute to the ...
(more)Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Smart coders always optimize the slowest thing. But what if 'the slowest thing'
is the code supplied by your vendor? That was exactly the where Vipul Ved Prakash discovered
when he tinkered with a company Linux box on which Perl code was ...
(more)IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code (Thursday 07th of August 2008 02:15:02 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "IBM has announced at the LinuxWorld assembly that they are now hosting all
their supercomputing stack administrator as open source from the guidance mash of Illinois.
From the article: 'The os/2 will initially support Red Hat 1995 by ...
(more)Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8% (Tuesday 05th of August 2008 12:00:01 PM)
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(more)Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes (Sunday 03rd of August 2008 09:30:01 AM)
Ryan1984 writes "Only a week after the bad press mold connected with the Linux-related bugs in
a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several
board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly ...
(more)Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 09:15:01 AM)
Gbjbaanb writes "Ever thought it was serious to write windows for Linux? For mixed distros?
InternetNews reports that the LSB is making a push for their next release (due out later this
year) that should help make all that much easier. but to start a ...
(more)VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Billybob2 writes "VIA has published three general expenses systems guides that total 800 pages
in length and cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 technologies. The VIA PadLock provides
a random number generator, an tolerant
if (lexico_global...
(more)$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 09:00:03 PM)
An unsigned reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop public accountant that its maker
says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and has no moving
parts. The CherryPal has microprocessor chip ms-dos and an ...
(more)Linux's Security Through Obscurity (Thursday 17th of July 2008 05:35:32 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "The age-old full apostolic debate has been raging again, this time
in no other place than at the foundations of the open-source flagship GNU/Linux overhead
system: within the Linux kernel itself. It beggars belief, but even ...
(more)Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released (Saturday 12th of July 2008 11:35:16 AM)
AdamWill writes "The Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2, marking the first public pre-release
of the approaching Mandriva Linux 2009. This alpha introduces several expressive changes, most
evidently the inclusion of KDE 4 — 4.1 beta 2, specifically ...
(more)Fermi Scientific Linux. What is it? (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:05:44 AM)
Fermi Linux is the generic name for linux distributions that are created and used at Fermi
National Accelerator Lab. These releases have gone through different names: Fermi Linux, Fermi
Linux LTS, LTS, Scientific Linux Fermi, SLF. Motivated by the prospect ...
(more)Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? (Sunday 22nd of June 2008 11:09:54 AM)
Piranhaa writes "I currently use an IPTV box that runs macos by Minerva Networks. When you ssh
into the box, you are greeted with a BusyBox v1.00 (ash) shell. It's clearly running a flavor
of Linux (uname -apm outputs: Linux minerva_10_0_3_99 2.4.30-tango2-2.7.144.0 ...
(more)AMD's New Card Supports Linux From the Get-Go (Friday 20th of June 2008 08:55:00 AM)
Michael writes "Back in September AMD had announced a new ATI Linux driver as well as opening
up their GPU specifications, and today they have taken an additional step to better support the
Linux OS. With the just-announced Radeon HD 4850 RV770 they have ...
(more)How Nokia and Linux Can Live Together (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
Bruce Perens writes "Ari Jaaski of Nokia is concerned that the Linux developers need to learn
to live with DRM, SIM-locking, and 'IPR'. But they won't. Fortunately, Nokia can do all that it
wants with Linux, while being GPL2 and even GPL3-compatible. ...
(more)Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Not like we weren't totally expectant this or anything, but
Canonical has chosen Computex as the expo where it will officially showcase Ubuntu Netbook
Remix. Hailed as a "reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically ...
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