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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:06:53 GMT
The H Open: "Nearly three months after the last update, the Songbird developers have released version 1.8.0 of their open source media player, code named "Orbital"."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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64 Studio Ltd. has created a Linux distribution for HörTech gGmbH to
aid in research on hearing impairment and augmentation technology.
"64 Studio was commissioned by HörTech to create a GNU/Linux
real-time audio distribution, code-named Mahalia, optimized for the Lenovo
Thinkpad X200 notebook. Giso Grimm of the Carl von Ossietzky-Universität
Oldenburg explained: "We prefer to use ready-to-use Linux audio
distributions over patching the kernel ourselves, since our expertise is in
signal processing, not kernel development. When we were faced with the fact
that our then favourite audio distribution failed to deliver stable
real-time kernels for several releases, we asked 64 Studio to tailor us a
customized distribution with a working real-time kernel that matched our
specific needs and ran stable on the selected hardware.""
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Toshiba has announced its own entrant into the tablet market with the Folio 100, which will run on the Android 2.2 operating system. Sporting a screen just over 10 inches, the device will be larger than other early competitors to Apple's iPad tablet computer, such as the Dell Streak. The Folio will debut in late October in Europe as a standalone device with WiFi capability.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:36:53 GMT
Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: "Jono wrote about his new ZaReason Strata, and Rich wrote about his new ZaReason something-else, so I figured I'd let you all know about the ZaReason Terra HD I said I wanted to order, now that I've had it about a month."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) beta is available for testing. The Ubuntu
10.10 family of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu,
have also reached beta status. Maverick Meerkat is scheduled for a final
release on October 10, 2010.
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Despite the best hopes of many of us in the community, the man suing Sony over the removal of the "other OS" feature from its PS3 has apparently lost his case. The bad news is that the man won't get the money he had requested to compensate for an upgrade to his newly crippled PS3; the good news is that he reportedly wasn't forced to pay Sony's legal bill to boot.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:21:47 +0000
When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then. more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:06:53 GMT
Linux User and Developer: "Ubuntu 10.10 has strived to build on the choices of Lucid, bringing bleeding edge versions of software whilst maintaining the stability that Lucid provided. Join Ubuntu developer, Dave Walker, as he takes an insiders look at Maverick Meerkat"
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Debian has updated barnowl (denial
of service).
Fedora has updated rekonq (F13, F12:
cross-site scripting), sssd (F13, F12: authentication bypass), wireshark
(F13, F12:
multiple vulnerabilities), and F12: kernel
(privilege escalation).
Gentoo has updated wxgtk (arbitrary
code execution).
Mandriva has updated wget (code
execution).
Pardus has updated openssl (denial
of service) and flashplugin (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel
(privilege escalation).
SUSE has updated kernel (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Samsung has unveiled its much-discussed Galaxy Tab Android-powered tablet at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany. The device runs Android 2.2, has a seven-inch display, and focuses on connectivity and entertainment. It also enables video conferencing and can be used as a mobile phone.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:18:35 +0000
When the OpenSolaris Governing Board issued their ultimatum to Oracle on July 12, few thought it would have the desired effect of saving OpenSolaris. The board sent a message that if Oracle didn't start to show some interest in OpenSolaris by August 23, they would disband and leave OpenSolaris without leadership and guidance. more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:36:53 GMT
Network World: "People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It's dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free, or why developers are working for free."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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On her blog, Mackenzie Morgan reports on efforts to increase the number of women speakers at Ohio LinuxFest. Due to the outreach, the number of women speakers went from five of 31 last year to 14 of 38 this year. "Recognising the various concerns women speakers can face, we tried to specifically address potential issues in the email sent to women-focused mailing lists. Some of these known issues include lack of confidence in new speakers, not being clear what the intended audience is, or the "imposter syndrome," where someone doesn't recognize that they are qualified to speak on a topic. The woman to woman dialog made the difference.".
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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In my dumber days when I ran Microsoft Windows, I was more concerned with backup programs. After I moved into the Linux desktop, I became much less paranoid about system failures. The Linux environment just never crashed. That does not mean that I never make backup copies of my critical data files.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:56:33 +0000
In the latest round of upgrades and new installs of openSUSE around here
I decided to take a different approach and use the network install and
install from a USB stick rather than a DVD.
While I was at it I decided that I'd try to make a dual boot installer
that would allow me to install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version
of the latest openSUSE (version 11.3) from the same USB stick. more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:06:53 GMT
Tech Comics: "The process of ending a friendship is far more complicated than it once was."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Michael Opdenacker has announced the availability of videos from this year's Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Francisco in April. The slides and Theora video are available for most, if not all, of the talks. Opdenacker and the Free Electrons team do the community a great service by doing the work to record and transcode the videos. "If you are interested in such talks, what about joining the European
edition of the conference? It will take place in Cambridge (UK), on
October 27-28, and will be colocated with the GStreamer conference
(October 26). See http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe10/
and http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/ for details."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Cloud computing, technology delivered over the Internet, has become a hot area in the last few years. The technology marketplace moves at breakneck speeds, but it is still shocking when innovation almost completely wipes out squabbles like those over open source vs. proprietary software.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0000
Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest & greatest Wine 1.2
more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:36:53 GMT
Open Source at Google: "Whilst at GUADEC (the GNOME conference) I did a series of video interviews with participants. Several have now been published here:"
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Mandriva has updated thunderbird
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated wget (arbitrary
code execution).
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Corporate America is playing a cruel joke on Linux desktop. Businesses benefit from free Linux, improving their bottom line on the shoulders of Linux -- all the while ignoring (and damaging I think) the Linux desktop. Linux servers toil in back rooms bringing big bucks to companies smart enough to use them. What do these companies install on their employees' desktops? Windows, of course!
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:06:53 GMT
Low Cost Computing: "The search for the perfect kernel scheduler is like searching for the Holy Grail. Linux 2.6 started with the O(1) scheduler, which solved a lot of issues for real-time processes. However, it didn't scale to large NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machines."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Tiago Vignatti has put together a report on the development X.org 1.9. In the tradition of the kernel statistics reported on LWN, and the more recent GNOME census, he ranks developers and employers based on the number of changes made to various pieces of the X.org tree during the development of 1.9 (April 2 to August 20). The statistics are broken up along functional lines into several categories: X implementation, X input drivers, user space video drivers, Pixman, X11 conformance testing, and X documentation. "Of course lines of code and changeset are far from being a good metric to see actually how the development happened. But still, it does represents something."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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So widely acknowledged are the security advantages of Linux that on those rare occasions when a bug is found, it tends to makes quite a splash. Such, in fact, is just what happened recently when news broke of the Linux kernel bug that -- it turns out -- had been around since 2004. A fix was actually supplied back then by SUSE maintainer Andrea Arcangeli, but it never got incorporated into the Linux kernel.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:38:59 +0000
This month Shawn and Kyle throw out X-Windows, and kick it old
school with the command line issue. Granted, "kicking it old school"
isn't really a stretch for them, especially Kyle, but you can join in
the fun with an entire issue focused on command line tools. Whether more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:36:53 GMT
Desktop Engineering: "GPUs are now powerful enough to do more than just move images across the screen. They are capable of performing high-end computations that are the staple of many engineering activities."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 2, 2010 is available.
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Say what you will about Microsoft's products, but there's no denying the company's entertainment value. Where else, after all, could a Linux fan find reason to laugh, cry, scream and commit various violent acts, all neatly wrapped up in one little package? That is, Redmond's latest attempt to ingratiate itself with the FOSS community.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000
How often do we all hear the phrase, ?Could you take a look at it for me?? Whether you are checking out a machine for a friend or colleague or looking after one of your own machines, it's handy to have the ability to virus check a Windows setup from the safety of a Linux boot CD or USB stick. This short guide shows you how to scan for infected files by booting into SystemRescueCD and running ClamAV, a virus checker. more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:06:53 GMT
eWeek: "Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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On his blog, Harald Welte writes about work he is doing as part of the gpl-violations.org project. "Right now I'm facing what I'd consider the most outrageous case that I've been involved so far: A manufacturer of Linux-based embedded devices (no, I will not name the company) really has the guts to go in front of court and sue another company for modifying the firmware on those devices. More specifically, the only modifications to program code are on the GPL licensed parts of the software. None of the proprietary userspace programs are touched! None of the proprietary programs are ever distributed either." If the manufacturer were to succeed with its claims, it could jeopardize many different projects that provide alternate code for devices, he says.
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Today, if you're in need of a task manager application, you're looking at a category filled -- perhaps even overfilled -- with options. If you carry a smartphone, you probably have a to-do list app in your pocket already. Gone are the days when Linux users had to panic over finding a suitable clone for Microsoft Outlook like Evolution.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000
BuGLe is a tool for OpenGL debugging, implemented as a wrapper library that sits between your program and OpenGL. Although it's still in development, the Web site states that it already can do the following: more>>
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:36:53 GMT
Maximum PC: "In this guide, we'll show you how to get Cygwin set up, the basics of how to navigate a Unix file system, and how to find more information as you need it."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Issue 21 of the GNOME Journal is
out; topics covered include simple real-time games, Grilo, and an interview
with Bradley Kuhn.
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Another day, another new smartphone coming to market. In this case, it is Dell's Aero, a device retailing for $99 with a two-year contract with AT&T. Features include a 5 MP camera, a 3.5-inch display, and Flash Lite support for streaming audio and video content. It also has WiFi connectivity, giving users access to AT&T's 20,000 hotspots, as well as Bluetooth and GPS. It runs on Android -- 1.5.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:06:53 GMT
The H Open: "At a press conference held yesterday, Intel and the WeTab developers, 4tiitoo, announced that the upcoming WeTab internet tablet, scheduled to arrive in September, will run the Linux-based MeeGo"
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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CentOS has updated C5: httpd
(multiple vulnerabilities) and C5: kernel
(privilege escalation).
Debian has updated wireshark
(arbitrary code execution).
Fedora has updated socat (F13, F12:
arbitrary code execution).
Mandriva has updated libgdiplus
(arbitrary code execution), perl-libwww-perl (unexpected download
filename), and openssl (denial of
service).
openSUSE has updated acroread
(multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated kernel (multiple
vulnerabilities) and acroread (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:36:53 GMT
CIO: "The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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On her blog, Máirín Duffy describes four archetypes of Fedora users (Caroline Casual-User, Pamela Packager, Connie Community, and Nancy Ninja) and how they relate to updates of the distribution. Fedora has been discussing its update policy for a bit and Duffy uses the user stories to present her thoughts on how to proceed. "Pamela wants updates to be constant throughout a release, no holds barred — she wants the latest Gimp and she wants it yesterday. Caroline just wants her computer to work — "please don't change a thing — it worked yesterday — if it breaks before my presentation I'm screwed!" Can both their needs be met? I think so! But it's easy to completely miss where interests and needs can both be met when the language is so easily interpreted to mean the problem is untenable."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:06:53 GMT
KDE.news: "The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications"
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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![[Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds]](http://lwn.net/images/conf/2010/lc-brazil/Linus Andrew-sm.jpg)
Linus Torvalds rarely makes appearances at conferences, and it's even
less common for him to get up in front of the crowd and speak. He made an
exception for LinuxCon Brazil, though, where he and Andrew Morton appeared
in a question and answer session led by Linux Foundation director Jim
Zemlin. The resulting conversation covered many aspects of kernel
development, its processes, and its history. Click below (subscribers
only) for the full report from São Paulo.
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:36:53 GMT
Linux Devices: "Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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The Debian Project has put up a brief notice on the
passing of longtime contributor Frans Pop. "Frans was involved in
Debian as a maintainer of several packages, a supporter of the S/390 port,
and one of the most involved members of the Debian Installer team. He was a
Debian Listmaster, editor and release manager of the Installation Guide and
the release notes, as well as a Dutch translator."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:06:53 GMT
Linux Magazine: "Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is available for testing. "No changes in commands, interfaces or APIs are expected between this release candidate and the final version. Applications which will deploy on 9.0 can and should test against 9.0rc1. Depending on bug reports, there may or may not be more release candidates before the final release."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. This is the main LWN.net feed,
listing all articles which are posted to the site front page.)
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Super Tux Kart is a fun little racing software similar to the popular Super Mario Kart 64 game. Players can choose between Grand Prix, Quick Race and Time Trial modes, and multiplayer modes for two, three or four participants. In single player mode you race against characters controlled by the AI (Artificial Intelligence) of the software. After deciding on a skill level, you can select from a choice of characters, choose one of many well designed tracks, and enjoy the ride. Soundtrack and background music ain't bad either.
