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OK, this has nothing to do with Linux or Free/Libre Open Source Software. But, darnit, it's funny.

[Gotta admit, it explains clearly why I use GNU/Linux. - dcparris]

Twice a year, the supercomputer market and the IT industry at large, gets a sense of the massive amount of performance in supercomputers thanks to the Top 500 rankings. This ranking of supers, which are based on the Linpack Fortran benchmark test, are interesting, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that companies and careers are affected dramatically (if not made or broken) by how many systems with a particular brand and using certain components are on the list.

Mercury Computer is sampling a PCI-Express add-in card powered by a Cell processor running Yellow Dog Linux. The Cell Accelerator Board (CAB) targets rendering, ray tracing, video/image processing, and signal processing applications, and is said to deliver 180 GFLOPS (billion floating-point operations per second).

This is a review of a good - I would say one of its kind - book which aims to be an all in one reference for people who are interested in porting Unix Applications to Linux. Considering that it took 3 people who are experts in their respective fields to come together to write this book speaks volumes about this niche subject.

Okay, I confess that I chose this headline to draw you into this blog entry. A more accurate headline would be"Operating systems need to disappear". But I don't want my meaning to be misconstrued. The term"operating systems" would have to include proprietary operating systems. If I say"proprietary operating systems need to disappear", I mean they should be wiped off the face of the earth. When I say Linux should disappear, I mean that end users shouldn't need to know it's there. Big difference. Add to that the fact that I would love to see Linux asthe operating system for all computing devices, and there's not much left to use as a headline except"Linux needs to disappear".

LXer Feature: 1 Aug 2006

What is the future of Linux and Free Software? A rigid little cult that accept only the Right People? Or a community that truly practices "Free as in Freedom"?

The mobile phone joint venture formed by NEC and Matsushita/Panasonic reportedly will include Texas Instruments (TI), and will be known as "Adcore-Tech Co. Ltd." TI will have a 12 percent share, and the venture will be capitalized at $103.8M, about 17 percent more than reported earlier, EE Times-Asia is reporting.

Linus Torvalds, who helped create the open source operating system Linux, is blasting the Free Software Foundation (FSF) again as the group releases its latest draft of a revised General Public License (GPL).

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The FSF and the Software Freedom Law Center released the second discussion draft of the GNU GPL version 3 last week. The draft marks the halfway point of a yearlong public review process for proposing changes and finalizing the GPLv3.

[There have been a lot of stories about this since the Groklaw story broke. Most have been repeats of a few snippets of the Groklaw comments. This one, at least, provides some context. -- grouch]

Linux vendor Red Hat has signaled its intent to extend its presence in the telecoms sector with the launch of a tailored partner programme.

What do you do when you're the number two player in the embedded Linux space? Copy what makes #1 successful of course.

Examine the processes behind building a parser using the lex/flex and yacc/bison tools, first to build a simple calculator and then delve into how you can adopt the same principles for text parsing. Parsing text is an important part of many applications. Within UNIX, several elements of the OS rely on parsing text, from the shell you use to interact with the system, through to common tools and commands like awk or Perl, right through to the C compiler you use to build software and applications.

* GOVERNMENT NEWS: The Department of Defense releases report: "Open Technology Development Roadmap"
* WEBINAR: Service-Oriented Architecture
* GOVERNMENT TRAINING SPECIAL: GSA Federal Government discount
* RED HAT ROADSHOW: Linux in New York City
* UPCOMING EVENTS: Red Hat Government tradeshows

Don't worry about having to borrow someone's swim trunks again

The project is trying to attract female coders, but some members of the FOSS community doubt it will be a success

The Defense Department has a practical reason for using more open-source software and incorporating open source into its procurement cycle.

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"This report highlights how open source has shifted from a curious alternative to a mainstream engine for value creation for industry," said David Mihelcic, chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency.

The Quanta development team is pleased to announce our Hot New Stuff server implementation is now running. This means that Quanta Plus users can now begin taking advantage of KNewStuff. We are also preparing for exciting new developments we want to work on during the upcoming Akademy in Ireland.
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Finally development has resumed on Kommander, read on for full details.

The Linux Phrasebook , written by Scott Granneman, is one Linux book that will stay within easy reach of my desktop. If you're fond of Linux, and you're not a programmer or network administrator, chances are you'll like this book. It can help you gain control over the appearance and performance of your Linux workstation without spending hours looking for answers online.

One would think, or at least hope, that those on Capitol Hill would be a handbrake on this sort of activity/mentality. When a disturbingly large number of Senators hold the belief that "Microsoft knows the business, why go with an unknown entity?", it sets the stage for a true-by-definition monopoly to take its first breath of life.

Wind River’s support for the open-source software community continues with the release of more than 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation.

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