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GNOME Do is a Quicksilver Clone

2008-02-02T03:10:00.007-08:00

GNOME Do is a Quicksilver Clone
Do, is an application to find things on your system and quickly perform actions, similar to Quicksilver for OSX and GNOME Launch Box. It works on a variety of different desktop environments, including GNOME and KDE. Basically, all you need to do is to press Super + Space on your keyboard, and the Do dialog will open.

Some assignments for Social Graph Foo Camp

2008-02-02T03:10:00.005-08:00

Some assignments for Social Graph Foo Camp

Free thinking and free code have two things in common: a lot of the best work has already been done, and we can re-use it.

That's my second challenge to Social Graph Foo Campers. The first is getting some clarity about what the "social graph" means in the first place.

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Bill Gates� Retirement Merely a Political Lock-in Crusade

2008-02-02T03:10:00.003-08:00

In the past week alone, Windows deals in Dubai, in Paris and even in Greece were announced not quite by Microsoft, but by Bill Gates, who had met politicians. We seem to recall press releases suggesting so � giving Gates all the credit. This was a not technical decision as much as a political one. Read more

Efficient rsyncrypto hides remote sync data

2008-02-02T03:10:00.001-08:00

Efficient rsyncrypto hides remote sync data
The rsync utility is smart enough to send only enough bytes of a changed file to a remote system to enable the remote file to become identical to the local file. When that information is sensitive, using rsync over SSH protects files while in transit.To protect the files when they are on the server you might first encrypt them with GPG. But the manner in which GPG encrypts slightly changed files foils rsync's efficiency.rsyncrypto allows you to encrypt your files while still allowing you to leverage the speed of rsync.

Microsoft's Open-Source Strategy: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

2008-02-02T00:09:00.007-08:00

Microsoft's Open-Source Strategy: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
All About Microsoft: "Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy--beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares...?"

Linux Australia Chief Bids Goodbye

2008-02-02T00:09:00.005-08:00

Linux Australia Chief Bids Goodbye
For Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, today, the final day of the 2008 Australian national Linux conference is a day of fulfilment and also some sadness...

Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista

2008-02-02T00:09:00.003-08:00

I have been using Vista for well over a year now (since Beta 1). Of course Vista is slow, its bloated (over 10x the size of XP), aero kills system performance (even though this should be done on the video card), networking is pathetically slow, etc etc. We all know Vista sucks. Read more

Bill Gates� Retirement Merely a Political Lock-in Crusade

2008-02-02T00:09:00.001-08:00

Can Google's Android Thrive in the Enterprise?

2008-02-01T21:04:00.005-08:00

While some had expected Google to come out with an iPhone-killing G-Phone, the company's announcement in November of the Android mobile platform is something far more sweeping, and it has ramifications for IT. To show that Android is no pipe dream, Google trotted out scores of partners in the initiative, including handset vendors, carriers and software providers. While some had expected Google to come out with an iPhone-killing G-Phone, the company's announcement in November of the Android mobile platform is something far more sweeping, and it has ramifications for IT. To show that Android is no pipe dream, Google trotted out scores of partners in the initiative, including handset vendors, carriers and software providers. What's most interesting is that the Linux-based platform will be open source -- under the Apache license -- and free of charge. Read more

Virtualization: The Key to an Efficient Data Center

2008-02-01T21:04:00.003-08:00

Virtualization: The Key to an Efficient Data Center
Server visualization is transforming how organizations design and deploy services within data centers. While server virtualization can reduce hardware and operational costs, the agility of a virtualized infrastructure unlocks new ways to deploy, manage and monitor networked and Internet services. Server visualization is transforming how organizations design and deploy services within data centers. While server virtualization can reduce hardware and operational costs, the agility of a virtualized infrastructure unlocks new ways to deploy, manage and monitor networked and Internet services. Virtualization enables increased utilization of the data center by consolidating multiple environments onto a single server, allowing businesses to maximize existing resources. With fewer systems required for the same tasks, virtualization simplifies the IT infrastructure.

$4.7B Wireless Spectrum Bid Triggers Open Network Mandate

2008-02-01T21:04:00.001-08:00

The Federal Communications Commission received a $4.7 billion bid for Block C, a swatch of spectrum being auctioned that is mandated to operate as a national wireless network that works with any mobile device. The auction started on Jan. 24, but the FCC won't announce which company submitted the bid until after the auction closes. The Federal Communications Commission received a $4.7 billion bid for Block C, a swatch of spectrum being auctioned that is mandated to operate as a national wireless network that works with any mobile device. The auction started on Jan. 24, but the FCC won't announce which company submitted the bid until after the auction closes at a yet-to-be-announced time. Until then, the only information available is the amount of the bid. Read more

Should We Fight the Proprietary Open Source Power?

2008-02-01T19:01:00.007-08:00

ZDNet: "Mr. Buzzword for February appears to be proprietary open source..." Read more

Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy

2008-02-01T19:01:00.005-08:00

Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy

There's no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era. This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago. Most people know that he's going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets. But what will that really mean for free software?

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ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB

2008-02-01T19:01:00.003-08:00

Last week AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series, which are the new low-end graphics processors compared to the Radeon HD 3800 series. These budget graphics cards are branded as the Radeon HD 3450, 3470, and 3650 and are all available for under $100 USD. While they may be cheap, they are the first graphics cards to introduce support for DisplayPort. DisplayPort is the newest digital display interface standard, backed by VESA, and is direct competition to HDMI. DisplayPort has yet to be fully supported by the available Linux display drivers, but the Catalyst Linux driver already supports these new ATI graphics cards and there will be open-source support through the RadeonHD driver in the coming days. At hand today we have the Sapphire Radeon HD 3650 512MB graphics card as we deliver the first Linux benchmarks for this RV635 GPU. Read more

The Why Behind Microsoft's OSS Strategy?

2008-02-01T19:01:00.001-08:00

Editor's Note: "When Sam Ramji, Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, describes his company's open source strategy, I believe him. Every word..." Read more

Examining the XO's Learning Activities

2008-02-01T17:00:00.007-08:00

I have previously discussed the XO's hardware, as well as its multimedia and web activities. The XO has several tutorial activities that can be used in a fairly productive (read 'useful') way. Read more

Interview With Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon

2008-02-01T17:00:00.005-08:00

Linux Journal recently caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out more about a recently announced partnership between Mandriva of France and Turbolinux of Japan.

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Linspire Customized

2008-02-01T17:00:00.003-08:00

Linspire is now offering customized desktops to customers. It's Linux's modular, open philosophy that makes this popular. Fat chance of Microsoft or Apple ever offering a customized desktop solution. Read more

Getting Ready for the Python Breakage

2008-02-01T17:00:00.001-08:00

Getting Ready for the Python Breakage
ZDNet Australia: "The launch of version 3.0 of Python, expected within the next year, will see major changes to some fundamental elements of Python, release manager Anthony Baxter explained in a keynote speech at linux.conf.au in Melbourne..."

23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines

2008-02-01T15:02:00.005-08:00

23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.

Sun and MySQL: Honeymoon's Over Already?

2008-02-01T15:02:00.003-08:00

Sun and MySQL: Honeymoon's Over Already?
In agreeing last week to pay $1 billion for MySQL, Sun Microsystems said it hopes to make MySQL's open source database more attractive to enterprise customers. However, Sun has a lot of work to do, according to some MySQL users. It isn't just technical fixes that are needed, they said. In agreeing last week to pay $1 billion for MySQL, Sun Microsystems said it hopes to make MySQL's open source database more attractive to enterprise customers. However, Sun has a lot of work to do, according to some MySQL users. It isn't just technical fixes that are needed, they said. Although Sun described MySQL as "an open source icon," it also will have to mend fences with users who are unhappy about the database vendor's sales tactics and complain that it has ignored their development suggestions.

Gnome Linux desktop updated

2008-02-01T15:02:00.001-08:00

The Gnome project has released the first test version of Gnome 2.22 this week, including a new Web-browser engine, a new virtual file system and updates for virtual network computing and accessibility. Gnome is, along with KDE, one of the two major desktop environments used with Linux-based operating systems. Aside from managing the graphical windowing portion of the OS, it includes a number of applications, such as a Web browser, e-mail client, configuration manager and other components. Read more

IBM Expands Linux App Virtual Environment for SMBs

2008-02-01T11:58:00.007-08:00

IBM Expands Linux App Virtual Environment for SMBs
It's long been acknowledged that small and medium-sized businesses provide the engine of growth for the economy, and IBM has been targeting this area for some time now. Big Blue's latest whack at the SMB market is in the virtualization arena. IBM is including PowerVM Lx86 with all copies of its PowerVM virtualization offerings for its System p servers. It's long been acknowledged that small and medium-sized businesses provide the engine of growth for the economy, and IBM has been targeting this area for some time now. Big Blue's latest whack at the SMB market is in the virtualization arena. IBM is including PowerVM Lx86 with all copies of its PowerVM virtualization offerings for its System p servers. Lx86, developed by Transitive, lets users create an x86 Linux application virtual environment for IBM System p servers running the Linux on Power operating system.

Will Open Source World Welcome Microsoft-Yahoo Combo?

2008-02-01T11:58:00.005-08:00

The VAR Guy: "Microsoft has confirmed that it's seeking to acquire Yahoo! Some folks--you know, the open source crowd--will likely bash a proposed Microsoft-Yahoo combo..." Read more

Data Integrator XAware Raises $7.4M for Open Source Push

2008-02-01T11:58:00.003-08:00

Colorado Springs-based software developer XAware landed $7.4 million in venture capital last week in the biggest such investment locally since 2006. XAware plans to use the money to finance its switch to an open source business model in which the company will make its software available at no cost and generate revenue by offering service and support to users, said Tim Harvey, XAware's chief executive. Colorado Springs-based software developer XAware landed $7.4 million in venture capital last week in the biggest such investment locally since 2006. XAware plans to use the money to finance its switch to an open source business model in which the company will make its software available at no cost and generate revenue by offering service and support to users, said Tim Harvey, XAware's chief executive. The investment is the most money secured by a Colorado Springs company since Accellos scored $20 million in October 2006. XAware last raised $3.35 million in 2006. Read more

Gallery Remote Install Troubles : "nawk: error..."

2008-02-01T11:58:00.001-08:00

We use Gallery2 quite a bit for our photos and accordingly use a handy tool called Gallery Remote to upload images to the albums. Under Linux and OSX, there aren't really any efficient ways that I know of to upload lots of photos at once. Under Windows you can use an explorer type plug-in in the uploads section. Gallery Remote is a nice little java application which can handle drag-and-drop image adding, multiple photo addition, addition of captions and changing names, and some other features such as saving login information for multiple accounts or galleries. However, I have had trouble installing Gallery Remote on all of my Linux boxes so far, so I will show you the results of my Googling below and what has worked. Read more

Earnings up at Google but just shy of expectations

2008-02-01T09:55:00.007-08:00

Despite some market concerns over Google's growth potential in a slowing economy, the search giant continues to report strong growth, with fourth quarter revenue up 51 percent over the same period the year before. Read more

Project Planning

2008-02-01T09:55:00.005-08:00

Project Planning

I love planning but I hate planning software. It's an interesting problem. When I am working on something alone I tend to outline the project, estimate each piece and be done with it. My estimates tend to be accurate and the project gets done.

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Why Companies Don't Support Debian

2008-02-01T09:55:00.003-08:00

Linux-Watch: "At a recent Australian Linux conference, Sam Varghese reported that two Debian developers pointed out that the Debian Project needs more corporate support for 'men, money and machines' to advance the operating system..." Read more

Black Duck Offers Developers a New Tool to Manage Code

2008-02-01T09:55:00.001-08:00

Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other third-party software components. Black Duck Software announced today the availability of Black Duck Code Center software to help manufacturers accelerate software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Code Center manages software component selection, project approval and license tracking designed to maximize benefits to organizations from their reuse of open source and other third-party software components. The new software addresses the complexities involved with mixing internally developed code with code from open source communities, partners, vendors, outsourcers and other third parties. Read more

Linux Assimilation

2008-02-01T07:54:00.005-08:00

Linux is appearing everywhere these days: your PCs, laptops, mobile phones, GPS systems, e-book readers, gaming consoles, and now your Television set. Learn about how Asus, maker of the popular Linux laptop the Eee, has announced the upcoming Linux TV. Read more

23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines

2008-02-01T07:54:00.003-08:00

Project Planning

2008-02-01T07:54:00.001-08:00

Project Planning

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Interview With Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon

2008-02-01T07:53:00.001-08:00

Linux Journal recently caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out more about a recently announced partnership between Mandriva of France and Turbolinux of Japan.

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Red Hat Readies Identity, Policy, Audit Offering

2008-02-01T05:52:00.007-08:00

Red Hat Readies Identity, Policy, Audit Offering
While the name "Netscape" is now mostly dead, its progeny continue to survive and develop. Many are familiar with Mozilla's efforts on the browser side, but Netscape also had another business -- a directory server business now run and expanded upon by Linux vendor Red Hat. Red Hat has been busily building out a major new evolution of Netscape Directory Server that will officially be called Red Hat Enterprise IPA (Identity, Policy and Audit).

Track your collections with Tellico

2008-02-01T05:52:00.005-08:00

Is there anyone who doesn't collect something? I, for instance, have a sizable collection of books. Remembering who gave me which ones, and keeping track of ones I've currently lent to friends, is a nightmarish chore. Happily, the Tellico collection manager can catalog all sorts of collections, including books, movies, games, cards, coins, comic books, and even wine. Read more

Linux Assimilation

2008-02-01T05:52:00.003-08:00

Linux Assimilation
Linux is appearing everywhere these days: your PCs, laptops, mobile phones, GPS systems, e-book readers, gaming consoles, and now your Television set. Learn about how Asus, maker of the popular Linux laptop the Eee, has announced the upcoming Linux TV.

OpenLogic: HP hogged FOSS announcement limelight

2008-02-01T05:52:00.001-08:00

Hewlett-Packard's recent announcement regarding a pair of free and open-source software projects has irked one of its co-sponsors, OpenLogic. Read more

Microsoft is like the Matrix

2008-02-01T03:52:00.007-08:00

The majority of the users Just Don't Know. But I have been enlightened: Microsoft is like the Matrix. The only difference is that Microsoft does not desire electricity, but the money. All it can get. Now read, think and have fun. Read more

Asus Eee PC: Why is it SO Hot?

2008-02-01T03:52:00.005-08:00

Asus Eee PC: Why is it SO Hot?
Datamation: "If you want to see the future of the portable PC, forget about the MacBook Air..."

Data Integrator XAware Raises $7.4M for Open Source Push

2008-02-01T03:52:00.003-08:00

Splitting lighttpd Logs With vlogger And Creating Statistics With Webalizer

2008-02-01T03:52:00.001-08:00

Vlogger is a little tool with which you can write lighttpd logs broken down by virtual hosts and days. With vlogger, we need to put just one accesslog.filename directive into our global lighttpd configuration, and it will write access logs for each virtual host and day. Therefore, you do not have to split lighttpd's overall access log into access logs for each virtual host each day, and you do not have to configure lighttpd to write one access log per virtual host (which could make you run out of file descriptors very fast). At the end of this tutorial I will show you how to use webalizer to create statistics from the lighttpd access logs. Read more

Linspire Offers Custom Linux Builds

2008-01-31T23:48:00.001-08:00

vnunet: "Linspire, developer of the commercial Linspire and Freespire flavours of community desktop operating systems, is to offer a custom desktop Linux OS build service to partners..." Read more

VirtualBox: A Review

2008-01-31T23:47:00.005-08:00

VirtualBox is a great application for hosting guest operating systems on your Linux platform. It can be used to host other Linux operating systems and Windows. Read more

Virtualization: The Key to an Efficient Data Center

2008-01-31T23:47:00.003-08:00

Earnings up at Google but just shy of expectations

2008-01-31T23:47:00.001-08:00

Earnings up at Google but just shy of expectations
Despite some market concerns over Google's growth potential in a slowing economy, the search giant continues to report strong growth, with fourth quarter revenue up 51 percent over the same period the year before.

Motorola Responds to Nokia's Trolltech Buy

2008-01-31T20:47:00.005-08:00

LinuxDevices: "Motorola has responded to the news earlier this week that rival Nokia plans to purchase Trolltech, long-time supplier of the graphical development framework used in Motorola's Linux phones..." Read more

Polished NetBeans means Ruby

2008-01-31T20:47:00.003-08:00

Let's be honest, the rise of the Eclipse development platform is the best thing to ever happen to Sun Microsystems' NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse rolled out a solid platform, with good performance, high levels of extensibility and a rapidly expanding ecosystem of commercial and open source plug ins. NetBeans, by contrast, has been the poor relation with low levels of industry take up, fewer users and not much in the way of momentum. Read more

Writers with Technical Background Needed or Not

2008-01-31T20:47:00.001-08:00

One year ago, I stuck my resume up on Dice and Monster expecting to find a nice job as a system administrator. I wrote a decent resume, outlined my abilities and accomplishments and waited to see my cell phone light up with calls. Nothing happened. I went to both job boards and saw that I had a few hits. I seem to remember about four hits on each board for a total of eight hits.

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Is MySQL's Fate the Future of Open Source?

2008-01-31T18:43:00.007-08:00

Is MySQL's Fate the Future of Open Source?

It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL. Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion – helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash. But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups.

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Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy

2008-01-31T18:43:00.005-08:00

Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy

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Barracuda turns to open source users for patent research

2008-01-31T18:43:00.003-08:00

Barracuda turns to open source users for patent research
A security vendor whose product is heavily based on open source is looking to users to help it beat a 1995 antivirus software patent.

Is MySQL's Fate the Future of Open Source?

2008-01-31T18:43:00.001-08:00

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First Sub-$100 3G Linux Mobile Phone unveiled

2008-01-31T15:43:00.003-08:00

The new Purple Magic Linux 3G Linux reference feature phone offers video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming ... Read more

Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $153M

2008-01-31T15:43:00.001-08:00

Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner (US$153 million) in cash. Nokia hopes the Trolltech development team will give its own software efforts a boost. Read more

Review: OliveBSD turns OpenBSD into very usable live CD

2008-01-31T15:42:00.003-08:00

Review: OliveBSD turns OpenBSD into very usable live CD
The blogroll at Denny's blog -- Denny being committed to running OpenBSD as a full desktop operating system -- continues to point me toward interesting spins on the various flavors of BSD. Since OpenBSD is the only one of the three major BSD systems (which include NetBSD and FreeBSD) to run on my VIA C3 Samuel-based test box, I wanted to try one of the projects to which Denny linked right away. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to run the three main BSD projects and their various offshoots -- more trying than doing, actually, but I always want to try what's new.

In the Year 2020

2008-01-31T15:42:00.001-08:00

An interesting article that shows a what if scenario 12 years from now, concerning Linux and the rest of the world. Read more

SLAX on USB Drive

2008-01-31T13:45:00.005-08:00

SLAX on USB Drive
PolishLinux: "Such a stick is more than enough for a light Linux distro leaving a lot of space for other data..."

Portable power pack

2008-01-31T13:45:00.003-08:00

Portable power pack
Those of us living in South Africa are now facing the reality of rolling electricity blackouts for, at the very least, the rest of this year and possibly even longer than that. If you have a laptop and 3G connection then two or three hours a day without electricity is not unmanageable. Add the Flexopower SolarPouch to your backpack and your cellphone, iPod, PSP, GPS and music player are also covered for unexpected downtime.

Sun and Frontline Support KDE with Donation of Server

2008-01-31T13:45:00.001-08:00

Sun and Frontline Support KDE with Donation of Server
During a tutorial today on-stage at linux.conf.au, Sun Microsystems and Frontline donated a server to the KDE project, available for shipment within hours. Aaron Seigo, Plasma developer and KDE e.V President, accepted a certificate from Ross Cunningham of Sun Microsystems and David Purdue of Frontline on behalf of the KDE project.

Polished NetBeans means Ruby

2008-01-31T13:44:00.001-08:00

Polished NetBeans means Ruby
Let's be honest, the rise of the Eclipse development platform is the best thing to ever happen to Sun Microsystems' NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse rolled out a solid platform, with good performance, high levels of extensibility and a rapidly expanding ecosystem of commercial and open source plug ins. NetBeans, by contrast, has been the poor relation with low levels of industry take up, fewer users and not much in the way of momentum.

WSO2 Mashup Server: Unleashing the Power of Content

2008-01-31T11:41:00.007-08:00

WSO2, an open source SOA provider, has combined JavaScript programming and Web services with the launch of its Mashup Server 1.0. This open source offering, which can be downloaded without subscription fees, will allow enterprises to consume, aggregate and publish information in a variety of forms and from a variety of sources. WSO2, an open source SOA provider, has combined JavaScript programming and Web services with the launch of its Mashup Server 1.0. This open source offering, which can be downloaded without subscription fees, will allow enterprises to consume, aggregate and publish information in a variety of forms and from a variety of sources. At the same time, WSO2, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Mountain View, Calif., has announced the beta release of Mooshup.com, a hosted online version of the Mashup Server, which provides a community site for developing, running and sharing mashups. Read more

Open Solutions Alliance creating European office

2008-01-31T11:41:00.005-08:00

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) is adding a chapter based in Europe, the group is expected to announce Tuesday. Read more

Interview With Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon

2008-01-31T11:41:00.003-08:00

Linux Journal recently caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out more about a recently announced partnership between Mandriva of France and Turbolinux of Japan.

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Review: OliveBSD turns OpenBSD into very usable live CD

2008-01-31T11:41:00.001-08:00

The blogroll at Denny's blog -- Denny being committed to running OpenBSD as a full desktop operating system -- continues to point me toward interesting spins on the various flavors of BSD. Since OpenBSD is the only one of the three major BSD systems (which include NetBSD and FreeBSD) to run on my VIA C3 Samuel-based test box, I wanted to try one of the projects to which Denny linked right away. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to run the three main BSD projects and their various offshoots -- more trying than doing, actually, but I always want to try what's new. Read more

IBM adds Linux apps support to Unix servers

2008-01-31T09:39:00.007-08:00

IBM adds Linux apps support to Unix servers
IBM has added a new capability to its virtualization platform that will allow Linux applications to run on IBM's Unix servers, the company announced Tuesday.

Core Driver Patches in the 2.6.25 Merge Window

2008-01-31T09:39:00.005-08:00

Core Driver Patches in the 2.6.25 Merge Window
KernelTrap: Prefacing a series of 196 patches, Greg KH noted, 'due to the low level nature of these patches, and because they touch so many different parts of the kernel, a number of the subsystem maintainers have asked me to get them in first to make merging other trees easier..."

A better ext4 filesystem for Linux

2008-01-31T09:39:00.003-08:00

A better ext4 filesystem for Linux
A new Linux filesystem gets rid of the 256-petabyte limit, and adds a checksum feature for the journal. But developers want you to know that it's not yet ready for production sytems.

Sun and Frontline Support KDE with Donation of Server

2008-01-31T09:39:00.001-08:00

2008's Top Leaders in Open Source Business

2008-01-31T05:42:00.001-08:00

LinuxWorld: "According to an IDC report, Open Source Software Business Models 2007-2011 Forecast: A Preliminary View, worldwide open source-related revenue reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow to reach $5.8 billion by 2011..." Read more

Bordeaux WineTricks Manager 0.3 Released

2008-01-31T05:41:00.005-08:00

Wine Review: "This is the third release (0.3) of Bordeaux, this release has many fixes and improvements over the 0.2 release..." Read more

Windows Vista Making Geek Squad Rich?

2008-01-31T05:41:00.003-08:00

Perhaps The VAR Guy pursued the wrong career. He�s blogging for free, but could be making $229 per hour or so � that�s nearly $460,000 a year � troubleshooting Windows Vista PCs for his neighbors. That may sound a little far fetched. But check out this amazing math, using some quick cost estimates from The Geek Squad. Consumers are actually paying Geek Squad a hefty fee ($129 to $229) to set up and optimize their Windows Vista PCs. Can you imagine calling Linus Torvalds to re-boot Linux? The VAR Guy thinks not. Here�s a look at the fees Geek Squad is charging to keep all of those poor Windows Vista customers up-and-running. Read more

IBM adds Linux apps support to Unix servers

2008-01-31T05:41:00.001-08:00

IBM has added a new capability to its virtualization platform that will allow Linux applications to run on IBM's Unix servers, the company announced Tuesday. Read more

SLAX on USB Drive

2008-01-31T03:38:00.007-08:00

PolishLinux: "Such a stick is more than enough for a light Linux distro leaving a lot of space for other data..." Read more

OpenLogic: HP hogged FOSS announcement limelight

2008-01-31T03:38:00.005-08:00

OpenLogic: HP hogged FOSS announcement limelight
Hewlett-Packard's recent announcement regarding a pair of free and open-source software projects has irked one of its co-sponsors, OpenLogic.

SWM, Shell User, Seeks Soul Mate for GUI-Free LTR

2008-01-31T03:38:00.003-08:00

SWM, Shell User, Seeks Soul Mate for GUI-Free LTR
Last week felt somewhat quieter than usual on the Linux blogs, and we here at LinuxInsider have a small theory as to why. Sure, lots of people were coming down off the CES/Macworld excitement, and granted, regular readers of this column might have been busy making preparations for Y2K38. But last week was also notable for another, less-hyped event: Monday was "Blue Monday," the most depressing day of the year. Last week felt somewhat quieter than usual on the Linux blogs, and we here at LinuxInsider have a small theory as to why. Sure, lots of people were coming down off the CES/Macworld excitement, and granted, regular readers of this column might have been busy making preparations for Y2K38. But last week was also notable for another, less-hyped event: Monday was "Blue Monday," the most depressing day of the year. That fact may have bounced right off those perky, Vista-cheerleader-type readers out there, of course.

Is MySQL's Fate the Future of Open Source?

2008-01-31T03:38:00.001-08:00

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Updates, Beautiful Updates

2008-01-31T00:35:00.007-08:00

Updates, Beautiful Updates

2008 is off to a fine start for the world of Linux sound and music software, so this week's story is straight reporting from Studio Dave, with breaking news from various points on the Linux audio compass.

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Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $153M

2008-01-31T00:35:00.005-08:00

Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $153M
Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner (US$153 million) in cash. Nokia hopes the Trolltech development team will give its own software efforts a boost.

Firefox and the Enterprise: An Uneasy Fit

2008-01-31T00:35:00.003-08:00

With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft's still-dominant Internet Explorer software. However, the Mountain View, Calif.-based open source vendor continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment within their organizations. With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft's still-dominant Internet Explorer software. However, the open source vendor continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment within their organizations. In the past, Firefox faced two main obstacles among enterprise users: its immaturity, and its incompatibility with corporate Web applications and intranets that relied on Microsoft technologies such as ActiveX. Read more

Open source project: zmugfs

2008-01-31T00:35:00.001-08:00

In April 2007, I bought my wife a digital SLR for her birthday. I also took this chance to install Fedora 7 on her computer. I am familiar with using digital cameras under Linux and had no desire to figure it out on Windows. Within a couple hours, Fedora 7 was installed, and I was able to download images from the camera to her computer. We tried several photo management programs like gthumb and f-spot. We stuck with gthumb, using the standard directories, as this was more natural for how we worked. Read more

PCLinuxOS interruptus

2008-01-30T22:32:00.007-08:00

PCLinuxOS interruptus
I was pleased to learn that the Los Angeles Daily News' Rick Orlov -- L.A.'s most esteemed City Hall reporter -- recently bought an ASUS Eee-PC, and in his quest to make it run as well as it can, has begun reading this blog. Well, if hundreds of rambling posts about my Linux and BSD highs and lows helps, I'm glad to be of service.

California company introduces new mobile Linux platform

2008-01-30T22:32:00.005-08:00

Another mobile Linux platform, this time from Azingo, hit the market on Wednesday, joining an increasingly crowded market of Linux phone software. Read more

Red Hat Readies Identity, Policy, Audit Offering

2008-01-30T22:32:00.003-08:00

Red Hat Readies Identity, Policy, Audit Offering
internetnews.com: "While the name 'Netscape' is now mostly dead, its progeny continue to survive and develop. Many are familiar with Mozilla's efforts on the browser side, but Netscape also had another business--a directory server business now run and expanded upon by Linux vendor Red Hat..."

BarCampESM - Making Things Happen in Austin, TX

2008-01-30T22:32:00.001-08:00

BarCampESM - Making Things Happen in Austin, TX

This past Saturday, approximately fifty members of the enterprise systems management community got together in Austin, Texas for their own BarCamp. This event, BarCampESM, allowed for an informal gathering at which to brainstorm and create some real change in their industry.

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Open Solutions Alliance creating European office

2008-01-30T20:32:00.007-08:00

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) is adding a chapter based in Europe, the group is expected to announce Tuesday. Read more

Sun's Best Buy Ever: MySQL

2008-01-30T20:32:00.005-08:00

eWeek: "Some people can't believe Sun actually spent a billion dollars for MySQL; I can't believe they got such a great deal..." Read more

Desktop GIS for Linux: An Introduction

2008-01-30T20:32:00.003-08:00

Desktop GIS for Linux: An Introduction

This article provides an overview of Linux-based tools for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including a quick take on the ESRI's ArcReader. Future articles will explore this and other individual tools in greater depth.

The Story of a Map Lover, GIS User

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Sun and MySQL: Honeymoon's Over Already?

2008-01-30T20:32:00.001-08:00

In agreeing last week to pay $1 billion for MySQL, Sun Microsystems said it hopes to make MySQL's open source database more attractive to enterprise customers. However, Sun has a lot of work to do, according to some MySQL users. It isn't just technical fixes that are needed, they said. In agreeing last week to pay $1 billion for MySQL, Sun Microsystems said it hopes to make MySQL's open source database more attractive to enterprise customers. However, Sun has a lot of work to do, according to some MySQL users. It isn't just technical fixes that are needed, they said. Although Sun described MySQL as "an open source icon," it also will have to mend fences with users who are unhappy about the database vendor's sales tactics and complain that it has ignored their development suggestions. Read more

Journalism in a world of open code and open self-education

2008-01-30T17:38:00.007-08:00

Think about the differences between stories and facts. Between generating interest and pursuing knowledge. Between grabbing attention and building out what we know. Then think about the connections between the freedom to build code and the freedom to inform one's self and others. Because the former is a model for the latter.

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BMC Software's William Hurley: A Penguin Among Sharks

2008-01-30T17:38:00.005-08:00

William Hurley has been involved in IT for more than half his life, starting after a car accident that left him badly injured. While recovering, he began hacking XObjects for MacroMind and later Macromedia Director in the open source multimedia community. He then went to work at Apple and IBM before joining a string of startups. Last February, Hurley joined BMC Software. William Hurley has been involved in IT for more than half his life, starting after a car accident that left him badly injured. While recovering, he began hacking XObjects for MacroMind and later Macromedia Director in the open source multimedia community. He then went to work at Apple and IBM before joining a string of startups. Last February, Hurley joined BMC Software, where he is combining his passion for open source with his longtime work in IT systems management. Read more

Journalism in a world of open code and open self-education

2008-01-30T17:38:00.003-08:00

IBM Expands Linux App Virtual Environment for SMBs

2008-01-30T17:38:00.001-08:00

French police plan Windows-free jails, offices

2008-01-30T13:33:00.007-08:00

French police plan Windows-free jails, offices
The French gendarmerie has blown a big framboise at Microsoft by ditching Windows XP in favour of Ubuntu. The paramilitary police force is to switch 70,000 desktops over to the Linux OS, two years after switching its browsers to Firefox, and three years after dumping MS Office for OpenOffice. Deputy director of the force�s IT department Colonel Nicholas Geraud said the change will be gradual, according to the AFP. 5,000 to 8,000 machines are to make the switch this year, with the rest swapping over the next four years.

Open source project: zmugfs

2008-01-30T13:33:00.005-08:00

Open source project: zmugfs
In April 2007, I bought my wife a digital SLR for her birthday. I also took this chance to install Fedora 7 on her computer. I am familiar with using digital cameras under Linux and had no desire to figure it out on Windows. Within a couple hours, Fedora 7 was installed, and I was able to download images from the camera to her computer. We tried several photo management programs like gthumb and f-spot. We stuck with gthumb, using the standard directories, as this was more natural for how we worked.

How Red Hat Became a Linux Market Leader

2008-01-30T13:33:00.003-08:00

How Red Hat Became a Linux Market Leader
One of the most fascinating stories in the technology sector has been the challenge posed by open source giant Linux to Microsoft's dominance of the market for operating system software. One of the key players in the rise of Linux is Bob Young, cofounder of Red Hat Software, the largest distributor of the Linux operating system. One of the most fascinating stories in the technology sector has been the challenge posed by open source giant Linux to Microsoft's dominance of the market for operating system software. One of the key players in the rise of Linux is Bob Young, cofounder 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.

BBC Moves Linux into TV Production

2008-01-30T13:33:00.001-08:00

BBC Moves Linux into TV Production
Computerworld Australia: "Expensive and error-prone digital tapes has forced BBC UK, one of the world's largest television broadcasters, to look at using computers running Linux to help produce its programs..."

Using mouse gestures across Linux

2008-01-30T10:27:00.007-08:00

My first brush with mouse gestures on the Opera browser was an accident, but the ability to quickly move backward or forward in the browser history, open new windows, close tabs, and more without using the menus or moving the mouse toward the navigation toolbar won me over immediately. Nowadays, this feature is available in Firefox and Konqueror too, and you can even configure mouse gestures for GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Read more

Final Beta of Escalante, Name Change to Moab Cluster Builder�

2008-01-30T10:27:00.005-08:00

Cluster Resources releases final beta of Escalante, their full HPC-stack deployment solution for Novell 's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, and announces product name change to Moab Cluster Builder� Read more

Techfest 2008: Bombay, India

2008-01-30T10:27:00.003-08:00

Bombay, India. While the official name of the city is now "Mumbai", the name "Bombay" is still used by a lot of the inhabitants, and its use draws images of one of the world's largest cities, a gateway to the sub-continent. Therefore an invitation to speak at Techfest 2008 (http://www.techfest.org/), a large student-organized technical showcase, was impossible to turn down.

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