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Wine 1.2-rc5 Released
The Wine development release 1.2-rc5 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
Alexandria Project, Chapter 23: Sarin? You Thought I Said Sarin?
In which a coup is planned in North Korea, a mystery is unraveled in Nevada, and Frank (unknowingly) finds himself out of the frying pan - and into the fire.
Has Oracle been a disaster for Sun's open source?
Companies based around open source are still comparatively young. So it remains an open question what happens to them in the long term. As open source becomes more widely accepted, an obvious growth path for them is to be bought by a bigger, traditional software company. The concern then becomes: how does the underlying open source code fare in those circumstances?
BASHing Visual Basic Out of the Picture
"Awhile ago, two family members of mine were programing something for a simple task, they chose to do it in Visual Basic as the program was going to be running in a Windows environment anyway." ... "There were small problems getting it to work properly (as this can happen programing anything.) Seeing the code, everything looked like it would work"
What Linux means for the Consumer - Drivers, Open Source and Support
When a consumer installs a Linux system, this has various consequences for him, which are sometimes hard to estimate at first. I've written a little summary touching the differences to Windows and Mac OS X in drivers, open source and support.
KidZui Internet For Kids Firefox Extension Works Like a Charm in Linux
KidZui turns Firefox into fun, kid-safe browser and online playground for kids in the age group 3-12, with over a million kids games, YouTube videos, and websites. Or in other words, KidZui Firefox extension turns Firefox into a place where your kids would love to be.
Ubuntu Control Center 0.3 “UCC” On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Great tool to get access to main configuration tools, system tool packages also listed in good way to easily access your configurations, Ubuntu Control Center inspired by Mandriva Control Center... readmore
This week at LWN: Mark Shuttleworth at LinuxTag
Your editor had the pleasure of giving a keynote talk at the 2010 LinuxTag, immediately prior to Mark Shuttleworth's keynote - a position described by more than one person as being Mark's warmup act. That role must have been successfully carried out; Mark's talk was, indeed, well received from the start. Topics ranged from the familiar (cadence) to issues like quality, with a look at upcoming Ubuntu design features as well.
3 Handy Commandlinefu One Liners
Commandlinefu.com collects your useful command-line one liners and shares them with the rest of the world. I check it out every so often (if you're really dedicated, there are Twitter and RSS feeds),
Decibel Audio Player – Simple and nice music player for the GNOME desktop
Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL) audio player for GNU/Linux. It is very straightforward to use thanks to a clean and user-friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome and follows the Gnome HIG.Decibel Audio Player is built around a highly modular structure that lets the user disable completely the features he does not need. A disabled feature uses absolutely no memory and no processor time.
Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny
This tutorial describes how you can monitor your server with the tool Bijk. Bijk creates online 30 graphs about load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, NginX, PostreSQL and others with alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and Gentoo. In this article I will explain how to install Bijk on Debian.
Here's Bilski: It's Affirmed, But . . .No Decision on Software Patentability - Updated
Here's the US Supreme Court's opinion [PDF] in Bilski v. Kappos, at last. The lower court's decision is affirmed, and so no patent for Bilski. However, business methods are not found totally ineligible for patents, just this one. But the door is not swung wide open. From the Syllabus: "Finally, while §273 appears to leave open the possibility of some business method patents, it does not suggest broad patentability of such claimed inventions."
Linux User & Developer talks to Qt's Volker Hilsheimer
Adrian Bridgwater talks cross-platform application and user interface framework development with Qt program manager Volker Hilsheimer…
KDE SC 4.5 RC1- The (well) hidden features
This is the third in a series of posts about the pre-releases of KDE SC 4.5. This one is about the first release candidate. In the previous posts about beta 1 and beta 2 I went over the new features in 4.5 – few as they are. I also pointed out that one of the focuses of this release is stability.
Android vs iPhone: Comparison of Security Models
Android and iPhone OS (iOS) have been at loggerheads for quite some time now and recently there has been a lot of talk about which is more secure or which has more malware. This is a take on which has a better security model to protect its users. It will give a point by point detailed account of which platform does what "kind" of security better.
Benchmarks Of The Latest Nouveau Gallium3D Driver
In recent weeks we have published a number of benchmarks showcasing the ATI Gallium3D driver that supports the R300-R500 graphics processors as this open-source driver has been maturing at such an exciting rate with impressive changes and measurable performance gains over a short period of time. This ATI Gallium3D driver in most instances is outperforming the classic Radeon Mesa driver that supports up through the ATI Radeon X1000 series graphics cards. However, how is the Nouveau driver maturing that supports NVIDIA's wide-range of GeForce graphics cards? In February we published some Nouveau Gallium3D benchmarks, but now we have a fresh set of numbers from three different NVIDIA graphics cards and we also compare the Nouveau Gallium3D driver to NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver.
NTP: Timing is Everything
What’s the one thing that you see criminals, spies and other mysterious individuals doing just prior to embarking on a caper? If you said, “synchronize their watches” you guessed correctly. And, why do they do it? Because timing is everything. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) does the same thing for your systems and for the same reasons; it keeps them synchronized.
LXer Weekly Roundup for 27-Jun-2010
Unlocked iPhones Could Herald True Mobility
Apple begins selling the latest version of its iPhone this week in the United States, and while the device will not be sold in Canada until mid-July, Canadians will be among the few that will have the opportunity to purchase it "unlocked" so that it is not tied to any specific wireless carrier.
Toshiba A100 smartbook: with Android but why?
The A100 smartbook, recently announced by Toshiba, has some intriguing features, worth to blog about. First of all, it is built around Nvidia’s Tegra2 system-on-chip (SOC). The Tegra2 is a powerful, ARM SOC with two generic application processing cores and integrated media cores (AV decoding/encoding…etc). The A100 is the most promising netbook form-factor machine with Tegra2 to date.
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