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Krita got €4,000 Donation

  • linuxcrunch.com (Posted by omlx on Dec 12, 2009 4:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Krita's team have reached their target to raise Krita to the next level since they've raised €4,000.00 so far, which is €1,000.00 over their goal!. This donation will be used to hire Lukáš Tvrdý for three months to work for accelerating Krita's performance, stability and usability.

Getting Started With Themes on Fedora

  • BeginLinux; By Andrew Weber (Posted by aweber on Dec 12, 2009 3:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
This multi-page Fedora desktop tutorial will outline the basics of using themes on the Fedora desktop. In addition to basic steps to finding, selecting, and customizing the pre-installed Fedora themes, students will also learn a few good places to find themes online and the steps to downloading and installing them.

A FOSS Perspective On Richard Schaeffer’s Three Tactics For Computer Security

  • Managing FOSS for Business Results; By CJ Fearnley (Posted by cjfsyntropy on Dec 12, 2009 2:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
This piece explores some relationships between FOSS and the three tactics recommended for computer security by Richard Schaeffers of the NSA.

Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project?

According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth. At the same time David Schlesinger (on the Gnome Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote.

Open Source Licensing Detection Gets More Competitive

  • Developer.com; By Sean Kerner (Posted by red5 on Dec 12, 2009 12:25 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
With the current economic recession, open source software is a route that some enterprise developers are increasingly considering as a lower-cost alterative to proprietary solutions. However, one of the potential issues with open source software adoption is license compliance—ensuring that developers and enterprises are not in violation with a particular license. "Open source has made its way into enterprises of all sorts, and because open source software is so pervasive now, it's critical for companies to look at how they comply with open source licenses," Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing at OpenLogic, told InternetNews.com."Before they can comply with open source licenses, they need to know which open source licenses they are using. As much as you might think that's easy to track, it's not."

Microsoft Puts Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool under GPL

Microsoft had released a tool in mid-November that generated bootable USB media or a DVD from the download version of Windows 7 and that conflicted with the GNU Public License. They now followed up by putting the tool under GPLv2.

Research Shows FOSS Bugs Get Rapid Response, Commercial Software Not So Much

Not that this should surprise anyone familiar with the open source community, but a new study shows bugs in open source software get fixed more quickly than issues in commercial software. Technology news Web site V3.co.uk got an early look at the results of research conducted by application security firm Veracode, which indicate "security issues in open-source software typically take less than a week to remediate and report on, or three man hours of effort."

Linux development platform targets multimedia SoCs

Timesys announced that its LinuxLink embedded Linux development framework supports NetLogic Microsystems’ MIPS32-based Alchemy Au1250 and Alchemy Au1300 system-on-chips (SoCs). The LinuxLink framework provides access to hundreds of open source Linux middleware packages, as well as automated development tools for processors used in mobile consumer electronics, says the company.

Kernel Log: New stable kernels, 2.6.33 with DRBD and RT2800PCI

Kernel versions 2.6.27.40, 2.6.27.41 and 2.6.31.7 offer minor improvements and correct several bugs – including one security hole. Torvalds has already incorporated more than 5,000 changes for Linux 2.6.33. Its merge window will probably be open for just over another week. Various developers are working on significant improvements to the open source Radeon graphics drivers.

Most FOSS users don't contribute to FOSS? No problem!

  • stop.zona-m.net; By M. Fioretti (Posted by mfioretti on Dec 12, 2009 6:44 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Getting upset because less and less FOSS users contribute to FOSS in any way is not just a totally unrealistic reaction, it can be counterproductive. The article explains why.

December 2009 Issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine Released

  • pclosmag.com; By Paul Arnote, Chief Editor (Posted by parnote on Dec 12, 2009 5:47 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community, Linux
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2009 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is lead by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Andrew Strick, Assistant Editor. The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved.

Faster Browsing In Linux With Local DNS Cache

A local DNS cache can help for faster browsing since you’re caching the DNS request instead of attempting that request multiple times. The internet speed will not get any faster, but the browsing speed will improve, because on each website there are usually quite a few DNS requests for which the local DNS cache will be used, bringing the query time to almost 0.

Looking for Newbies that want to learn Python

This is a Python tutorial that tries to touch on most areas of the Python language, but attempts to be very simple so that people who have never done any sort of programming can grasp it.

Build Sun xVM 3.4.2 from source on top OSOL 1002-128a

  • Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets (Posted by dba477 on Dec 12, 2009 2:56 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Sun
Following bellow is step by step instruction how to clone Sun's xvm 3.4.2 repository and build packages , required to setup xVM 3.4.2 Dom0 on top of OpenSolaris 1002-128a. View also manuals at opensolaris.org How to Build the Development gates

Distro Review: Fedora 12

Today I’d like to talk about my experiences with Fedora 12 over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been running it as my main desktop and really getting a feel for how it ticks. Fedora is the community release from corporate Linux giants Red Hat. I’ve used it on and off since its inception back in the early 2000’s, it’s fair to say there have been big highs and lows in that time. I considered Fedora 11 a definite high though, and I was interested to see how this release would stack up.

Yes, I Guess We Linux Fools Are Pretty Weird

Are fairness and honor strictly FOSS values? Are we smelly FOSS hippies anachronisms in a world of predators and parasites?

FSF is Asking for Money Again

Basically the Free Software Foundation is a poor provider of grass roots energy for it’s cause. In fact its obstinate, angry views combined with it’s anti-community culture, serve to suck the life out of the movement. In fact if Free Software philosophies are to become successful, I think it’ll be despite the actions of the FSF. It seems to want to serve as a top-down father figure, and very much not a bottom-up grass roots organisation, like all political movements it’s falling for it’s own inability to work with people on the ground to effect change.

Smart Phones, eBook Readers, and the Same Old, Same Old

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Dec 11, 2009 11:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
There are two ways to play the standards game - as a team player, or winner take all. It looks like Amazon is trying for the latter. It also looks like they'll lose.

Dell Website Shows Ubuntu More Respect

Only a few weeks after Microsoft's Windows 7 launch, Dell has quietly given Ubuntu Linux a bit more real estate on the Dell U.S. website. It's a small but significant move for Dell and the Ubuntu faithful. Here's why.

How To Relay Email On A Postfix Server

  • HowtoForge; By Stephan Jau (Posted by falko on Dec 11, 2009 9:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
For two small businesses I set up a debian lenny installation on their "home" dsl connection. The problem is that they have dynamic ip addresses and most mailservers will not accept incoming mail from a server on a dynamic ip address. The solution is rather simple. Set up postfix in a way that it will relay the outgoing email through the actual ISP. In this short howto I'll show you how to do that.

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