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CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows (Mar 11, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (477 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "Microsoft's role in forming the CodePlex foundation reflects the company's growing acceptance of the open source development model and willingness to collaborate with other commercial vendors on open source technology."
Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.34 goes into testing (Mar 10, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (737 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS SSD file system."
Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux for GPU computing (Mar 10, 2010, 20:32 UTC) (688 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "The Japanese Fixstars Corporation, which specialises in software for the Cell processors, has announced the release of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 6.2 for CUDA, the first enterprise Linux OS optimised for GPU computing."
Updating the MPL (Mar 10, 2010, 19:02 UTC) (418 reads)
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(feedback) Mozilla.org: "On March 10th, 2010, Mozilla announced a public process to help create the next update of the Mozilla Public License. Here you can find information on the process, details, and learn how to get involved."
Freescale’s Sub-$200 Tablets to Be Compatible with Linux, Chromium OS, Android (Mar 10, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1400 reads)
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(feedback) eHomeUpgrade: "Attached here is a video from Mobile World Congress 2010 with Freescale’s product manager of software development explaining that Freescale’s sub-$200 ARM (i.MX51 Cortex-A8) tablets will be compatible with just about any Linux distribution that supports ARM..."
Fedora 13 Alpha released (Mar 10, 2010, 12:32 UTC) (1437 reads)
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(feedback) Test-Announce: "
The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now..."
Last Day At Sun (Mar 10, 2010, 12:02 UTC) (1611 reads)
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(feedback) Wild Webmink: "Today is my last day of employment at Sun (well, it became Oracle on March 1st in the UK but you know what I mean). I am a few months short of my 10th anniversary there..."
Improving in the MonoDevelop user interface (Mar 10, 2010, 03:02 UTC) (1268 reads)
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(feedback) Food For Monkeys: "In the past weeks (actually, months) I've been doing some changes in the MonoDevelop GUI to make it more functional and better looking. Here is the result:"
Open Source CouchDB Heads to the Cloud (Mar 9, 2010, 22:36 UTC) (1468 reads)
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(feedback) Developer.com: "SQL-based relational database management systems (RDBMS) are beginning to be challenged by a new movement of NoSQL databases. Among those NoSQL databases is the open source CouchDB..."
Kernel Log: Stable kernels analysed, Linux without firmware, new graphics drivers (Mar 9, 2010, 18:36 UTC) (1800 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements."
400,000+ lines added in Linux 2.6.34-rc1 kernel
(Mar 9, 2010, 14:48 UTC) (3306 reads)
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(feedback) Netstat -vat: "Linux founder Linus Torvalds has just pushed out a the first Linux 2.6.34 kernel release candidate and he's included some big stats as part of the announcement."
Oh Linux, how shall I count thy installs? (Mar 9, 2010, 04:34 UTC) (1813 reads)
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(feedback) Toolbox for IT: "Everybody loves statistics. Statistics can be used to say just about everything when they are boiled down to a nice colourful pie chart. I have also heard it said that 76.3% of people believe that you put a percentage sign behind any random number they will believe it to be true."
Google open sources reMail
(Mar 8, 2010, 22:31 UTC) (2651 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Following its recent acquisition by Google last month and removal from the App Store, reMail has now been released to the open source community."
James Bottomley Speaks (Mar 8, 2010, 21:07 UTC) (1360 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User: "I’m a distinguished engineer at Novell. My primary role for the Linux kernel is to be SCSI subsystem maintainer, which means I have to run a Git tree for Linux and manage a mailing-list-based community."
Five Indispensable MySQL Tools (Mar 8, 2010, 04:02 UTC) (2905 reads)
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(feedback) Developer.com: "Thanks to a number of well-designed tools, MySQL simply is a very easy database to "talk to," a convenience which is particularly important because developers often are tasked not only with constructing very complex schemas and queries, but also with monitoring overall server health and performance."
Of Android and the Fear of Fragmentation (Mar 6, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (2755 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Glyn Moody takes a look at the state of Android, at the worries that the platform is fragmenting and why it isn't a bad thing."
SCALE 8x: Free software legal issues (Mar 5, 2010, 20:32 UTC) (1223 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "But in reality the FLOSS ecosystem relies on a complex legal framework in order to run smoothly and to stand up to proprietary software competition: the various software licenses, contribution agreements, copyright and other "intellectual property" law."
Google releases "Living Stories" code (Mar 5, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1588 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "You are reading a standard-form news article, and when new information comes to light, the piece you're reading might just be referenced in a follow-up — but it won't be displayed in context or be easy to navigate. However, if Google's Living Stories experiment takes off following the release of its code, that won't always be the case."
Mozilla Lands Out-Of-Process Plugins in Firefox 3.7 (Mar 5, 2010, 14:32 UTC) (2392 reads)
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(feedback) Netstat -vat: "One of the big things that Google Chrome introduced is the idea of out of process plugins. It's something that has now (finally!) landed in Mozilla -- albeit in the Alpha 2 release of Firefox 3.7 (officially called Mozilla Developer Preview 3.7 Alpha 2)."
Analysis: How to get Linux to boot in one second (Mar 5, 2010, 14:02 UTC) (3674 reads)
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(feedback) Electronics Weekly: "In addition to designing real-time Linux, MontaVista has been working on the development of real-fast Linux, a Linux operating system that boots Click Here! in less than 1 second."
SCALE 8x: Moving the needle (Mar 5, 2010, 07:02 UTC) (1214 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Sarah Mei spoke at the Women in Open Source (WIOS) conference, which preceded SCALE 8x, to report on what she and other members of the San Francisco Ruby community have been doing to bring more women into that community. Her talk, Moving the Needle: How the San Francisco Ruby Community got to 18%, looked at the goals that were set, the methods that were used, and the results."
Transifex v0.8 "Magneto" has been released (Mar 5, 2010, 05:02 UTC) (1265 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Transifex is a localization platform that gives translators a simple
yet featureful web interface to manage translations for multiple
remotely-hosted projects."
Linux Australia Funds Important Legal Research on Free Software Compliance (Mar 4, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1091 reads)
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(feedback) Brendan Scott: "Over the past twelve months or so I’ve noticed an upswing in enquiries about free software compliance. For example, someone might be seeking access to source code for embedded devices with Linux and/or Busybox on them."
The Mobile View: Linux Kernel 2.6.33 (Mar 4, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (2014 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Last week brought the arrival of a new Linux kernel, version 2.6.33. With it, came quite a few changes likely to interest to device developers. So, here is a breakdown of the most significant mobile/embedded updates to come in the latest kernel."
How to Learn Embedded Linux (For Free Again) (Mar 3, 2010, 23:02 UTC) (2237 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux Foundation: "With massive growth comes the need for skilled developer talent. As many of you know, the Linux Foundation launched Linux training courses for developer and sys admins last year, and has been steadily expanding its offerings."
Take your freedom back, with Linux-2.6.33-libre (Mar 3, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (2377 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Linux hasn't been Free Software since
1996, when Mr Torvalds accepted the first pieces of non-Free Software
in the distributions of Linux he has published since 1991. Over these
years, while this kernel grew by a factor of 14, the amount of
non-Free firmware required by Linux drivers grew by an alarming factor
of 83."
Samba 3.5 release includes experimental SMB2 support (Mar 3, 2010, 19:32 UTC) (1986 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Major changes include implementation of SMB2 (used in Windows Vista and Windows 7) and support for Windows' 100 ns resolution timestamps, where supported by the kernel and system libraries."
Interview With Melissa Draper (Mar 3, 2010, 16:32 UTC) (1307 reads)
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(feedback) The Fridge: "Once upon a time I wanted to be an environmental scientist, but during one of the projects for a related course, I ended up with the task to create a website. I learned HTML one weekend, and realized I preferred computers to trees."
KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Release Announcement (Mar 3, 2010, 14:02 UTC) (1850 reads)
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(feedback) KDE press release: "KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates"
Who Needs Exchange Anyway? (Mar 2, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (2701 reads)
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(feedback) Zarafa: "Good things come to those who wait. It took about 12 months now, but I've reached my personal goal: Getting the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration into Fedora."
Watching the Sun Set (Mar 2, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (2182 reads)
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(feedback) Tux Deluxe: "If you click on www.sun.com, you get redirected to www.oracle.com. Sun is no more. The network is no longer the computer. The "Dot" in .COM is now a database. I'm really sorry to see Sun go. I have a long and varied history with Sun. What went wrong?"
Hands-on: Ubuntu goes social, gains Me Menu in 10.04 alpha 3 (Mar 2, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (1822 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, is planning to overhaul the desktop panel and integrate social networking features in Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed Lucid Lynx. One of the key components of this effort is the Me Menu, which shipped in the Lucid alpha 3 last week."
Major Linux 2.6.34 Kernel GPU DRM Update (Mar 2, 2010, 12:33 UTC) (2474 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "There's already quite a bit of code that has been merged into the Linus 2.6 Git tree for the Linux 2.6.34 kernel tree, but the first pull request for the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) code has went in this morning."
