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Why I'm smarter than an Open Source surrender monkey

Many Open Source advocates have turned into Open Source pragmatists. That doesn’t mean we’ve surrendered. We’ve evolved. It came to my surprise last week when a fellow Open Source advocate and DATAMATION contributor, Bruce Byfield, called yours truly and my ZDNet colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes out in his piece Tech Pundits Surrender: The Retreat from Free Software and Open Standards. What set Bruce off? Well, he seems to think that as a group, “Tech Pundits” are collectively giving up on Open Source and Open Standards under the auspices of pragmatism and convenience.

Mandriva joins the CompatibleOne consortium

French Linux provider, Mandriva, has announced that it has joined the industry consortium CompatibleOne – a research project working on the development of a free cloud infrastructure using open standards and interoperable open source technologies. Its members include companies such as Bull and Inria.

Ubisoft Is Playing With Linux & Xen Virtualization

Ubisoft, the massive video game publishing and development studio, has been busy playing with Linux. In particular, exploring opportunities presented by Xen virtualization with regards to VGA pass-through as a means of decent gaming performance in a virtualized environment. A discussion began in the Phoronix Forums yesterday about Ubisoft's Xen VGA pass-through demo...

FLOSS: Accept no substitutes

Free-as-in-freedom software is very often free-as-in-beer, too. This is normally a good thing. But one open source project developer is calling out a troubling problem with free software: counterfeit applications. The problem, according to VideoLAN developer Ludovic Fauvet, is this: VideoLAN's highly regarded VLC Media Player, which is licensed under the GPL, is being redistributed by various organizations' websites, some of which claim that VLC is actually their application to distribute. These websites attract users with paid Google AdWords ads that come up in various media-player related searches.

A Status Update On GNU Hurd: Java, Debian, Money

Over on the GNU.org Hurd news page is a status update for the GNU Hurd operating system for Q2'2011...

Android mini-tablet integrates pico projector

  • Linux for Devices (Posted by bob on Jul 13, 2011 10:35 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
NionCom is preparing an Android 2.3 mini-tablet reference design that includes an embedded pico projector, capable of displaying content on a wall or screen sized up to 100 inches diagonal. The & MemoryKick Vision& offers a 4.3-inch capacitive WVGA display, 4GB flash memory, a 500GB hard disk drive (HDD), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus HDMI in and out ports, according to a story in Picopros....

Knoppix 6.4: can you spot the difference?

  • Linux notes from DarkDuck; By darkduck (Posted by darkduck on Jul 13, 2011 9:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Debian, Linux
From my perspective, Knoppix now simply follows the trend to update packages up to the latest version of those. Nothing significant happens in this part of Linux world. Somebody can call it stagnation. Somebody can call it stability.

Securing OpenVPN With A One Time Password (OTP) On Ubuntu

  • HowtoForge (Posted by falko on Jul 13, 2011 8:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
So, you got yourself a nice OpenVPN box. People need to login with their certificates but... if their laptop is stolen anyone could login. Sure, you could add password login but that's a bit outdated. The solution for this is using an OTP (one time password).

Popular Board Game Memoir '44 Comes to Linux as an Online Computer Game

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Jul 13, 2011 4:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
One of the most popular and award winning board game Memoir '44 is now available as an online computer game. Ranked 50 by Board Game Geek, The digital adaptation of the game was long awaited by the fans and now hundreds of players can play this game online from a dedicated Linux client.

Fairware: Supporting Open Source Projects

In the past year I have written a couple blog post about monetary contributions to Open Source projects. There are lots of great projects out there that have taken many unpaid hours to create. The question I had was how to contribute to them monetarily. Today I ran across what I think is a great idea, Fairware.

Lots of Support for One Percent!

  • Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland (Posted by Jeff91 on Jul 13, 2011 12:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
I was reading an article in Information Week cleverly titled "The OS Mess". The article raises the issue of the technology world becoming flooded with a plethora of different operating systems. I think having a variety of different platforms available is a good thing. Competition stimulates innovation and market growth.

Creating the Perfect Fluxbox Desktop on Linux

Fluxbox is a fast, lightweight, very customizable window manager for X. Fluxbox is a great choice for Linux users who favor speed and efficiency, and setting up their working environment just the way they like. Today we'll look at some super-saver speed tricks such as grouping applications with tabs, tear-off menus, sticky buttons, the infamous slit, and more.

I have this weird idea about computers. I think that we should control them, and that they should serve a higher purpose than being high-tech TVs feeding us a steady stream of drivel. We don't even get good drivel anymore — it's drivel lite.

Game Editor to create your game, on Linux

  • Linuxaria.com (Posted by linuxaria on Jul 12, 2011 10:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Thanks to a great application list made by Carla Schroder I’ve discovered this software: Game Editor. Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and, unlike other game creation tools, gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices.

Bodhi Linux… Ubuntu might have a competitor

Bodhi Linux is yet another attempt to convince users that you don’t have to pay 54£ (Windows 7 Home Premium) in order to use your computer for basic tasks like writing emails and browsing the Internet. Based on the ever-so-popular Ubuntu Linux, Bodhi pushes the boundaries a bit further in ease of use, resources required and “ohhhh prettyyy” factor.

Command Line | du Disk Usage Commands | Tips

  • www.LinuxNov.com; By mhnassif (Posted by mhnassif on Jul 12, 2011 8:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
du is a disk usage command allows you to easily know file and directory sizes, also you can view file and directory sizes decreasing starting by biggest file, otherwise increasing by smallest file.

Installing Bacula and Webacula on Fedora| Part 1

  • Unixmen; By Adam Searle (Posted by zinoune on Jul 12, 2011 7:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Bacula is one of the most widely used enterprise backup solutions for Linux, allowing systems administrators to automate backups using an array of tools. Bacula allows administrators to backup files from multiple clients to several different types of storage devices, including tape, raid, removable storage and networked storage. Webacula is a web application which allows you to monitor and control your Bacula jobs from a browser.

Oracle v. Google - Google Moves to Supplement Its Invalidity Defenses

Google has filed a motion [PDF] asking leave of the court to supplement its invalidity contentions regarding Oracle's patents, invalidity contentions it claims "it has now determined are among its strongest in the case". It has found prior art, in one instance going all the way back to Multics..

Easiest way to install new fonts in Ubuntu

  • Techlaze (Posted by techlaze on Jul 12, 2011 6:02 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Ubuntu, as of now, lacks a dedicated font installer. While this may not be a big problem for seasoned Linux users, but for new users who want to install some font that is not in the repositories, it could be quite an annoyance. Here’s a simple way to install new fonts in Ubuntu without doing a lot of hard work.

Using Functions in a Library

  • BashShell.net; By Mike Weber (Posted by aweber on Jul 12, 2011 5:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
When you want to reuse functions in multiple scripts you can create a library which allows you to access those created functions.

The Linux Desktop: We've Arrived

  • Linux Journal; By Kevin Bush (Posted by tuxchick on Jul 12, 2011 4:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux Desktop articles are all over the place. I can hardly open up a browser without tripping over one. Most of them are negative whine-fests, complaining that Linux is too hard for new users, or has become too dumbed-down for technical users, or the fonts are ugly, or the next generation desktop environments are too different, or... well I could go on, but I think you get the point.

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