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Fedora 11 release date slips to June 9th

  • InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on May 30, 2009 6:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Fedora, Linux
From the 'better late than never' files: Fedora Linux 11 was originally scheduled to be out this week (May 26th), but that got bumped to June 2nd and now is being pushed back another week to June 9th. Fedora staffer Jesse Keating noted that there was a late bug discovered in anaconda storage that is triggering the push back.

Converting video & audio files using ffmpeg in GNU/Linux

  • mygnulinux.com (Posted by g0d4 on May 30, 2009 5:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
A few days ago I downloaded a video file (.flv) from a website. I wanted to convert the video from .flv to .avi (I know it’s not a free format, but I needed to). I searched over the Internet and found out about FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a command line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. Not only it converts video files but it also converts audio files.

FOSS and the Labyrinthine Land of Licensing

Pure, unadulterated FOSS is, of course, free to distribute as one pleases. What happens, though, when a private company grabs a piece of FOSS, adds a little of its own secret sauce to the mix, and creates a new application? How free is the software then? The answer depends in part on the license under which the original application operated and what exactly you want to do with the newly created software.

Mozilla and Google Announce HTML-Based Extensions

It appears that great minds think alike (or in the case of open-source software and the close-ties between Google and Mozilla, share-alike). Within a week of each other both Mozilla and Google have announced new initiatives to allow for extensions to their browsers to be written using regular HTML / JavaScript and CSS, greatly lowering the bar for developers to join in. Strap on your Mozilla Jetpack and take a peek at extensions for Chrome.

Poll: 90 per cent are satisfied with the Eclipse development environment

The Eclipse Foundation has published the results of the global Eclipse Community Survey 2009 in The Open Source Developer ReportPDF. The Foundation held the survey from mid-April to mid-May in order to get developer feedback on the tools and software that they use. The organisation wanted to learn how the respondents used open source software and how they interacted with the Eclipse community. Nearly 1,500 participants took part in the Foundation poll, of which 27.8 per cent were from Germany, followed by 15.7 per cent from the United States. Only 0.6 per cent of participants were from the United Kingdom. Approximately 80 per cent of the respondents worked for companies that are not members of an open source consortium.

So You Want To Build A Cluster: Five Things to Consider Before You Start

  • HPCCommunity.com; By Douglas Eadline (Posted by deadline on May 30, 2009 2:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Community
If you are interested in HPC clustering and don't know where to begin, you are in the right place. All to often HPC beginners jump right into building hardware without understanding the nuances of HPC clusters.

KDE 4.3: Fewer Radical Changes, More Polish and Refinement

With the release of the KDE 4.3 beta, the project is returning to incremental releases, and concentrating on customization and ease of use on the desktop, the panel, and system settings. Bruce Byfield takes an in-depth look.

Novell's Linux Business Still Not Profitable?

  • InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on May 30, 2009 12:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux, Novell
Novell is managing to grow its Linux business despite a difficult economy, but is it profitable? The answer, according to both Novell's CEO and its CFO, is not yet. "We have invested heavily in our Linux business to gain market share and acquire new customers," Novell CFO Dana Russell said on the company's quarterly conference call last night. "While the business is not yet profitable, we are making steady progress and plan for it to be break-even no later than 12 to 18 months from today."

IntelliJ's Maia shapes up against Eclipse

Web, scripting, and open-source have been boosted in the next version of the ever-popular IntelliJ IDAE, released this week in early access. Codenamed Maia, and due this fall, IDEA 9 wraps in features designed to keep the charged-for Java development environment in the running against free tools based on Eclipse.

No Plymouth Coming To Ubuntu 9.10

Plymouth, a project spawned by Red Hat to replace RHGB in Fedora with a much cleaner boot splash program that leverages newer technologies like kernel mode-setting, will not be finding its way into Ubuntu. Originally, it was considered that Plymouth could replace USplash in Ubuntu 9.04, but then Canonical and other developers decided to push that transition off to Ubuntu 9.10. They planned to integrate Plymouth in Ubuntu 9.10 (and offered up a PPA) to provide a clean, professional boot experience. However, this week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona that decision has been reversed. Plymouth will not be finding its way into Ubuntu.

Here comes summer's first Linux netbook

Reports of the Linux netbook's death at the hands of Microsoft have been greatly exaggerated. A flood of Linux netbook news will be made next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, but, after Intel announced the beta of Moblin 2, HP has decided not to wait and made an important Linux netbook announcement this week. HP announced that it was releasing a new netbook, the HP Mini 110, that runs Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with HP's easy to use Mi (Mobile internet) desktop interface. It will also be available with XP Home, but, for once, the Linux powered model looks to be the more compelling buy even if you don't care for Linux.

Hands on: Google Chromium browser alpha for Linux

The Linux Chromium alpha is shaping up nicely. Despite the missing features and rendering glitches, it is relatively usable and maturing at a reasonable pace. The developers still have a lot of work to do, but the portability challenges no longer seem insurmountable. Users who want to test the latest version of Chromium on Ubuntu can take advantage of Fabien Tassin's daily build package archive.

True cost of migrating to open source

I was hugely entertained by the latest piece of Microsoft spin: apparently the recession is putting a dampener on migrations to open source. Of course, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan put it: "The government has run out of our money." Nevertheless, I agree with Brown that this is an international crisis and one that demands an international response, even though not all countries are in the same dilapidated condition as the United Kingdom.

Debian Lenny (and fully working X in Linux) — I'm back

I've written hundreds of posts about Debian — and maybe just as many about trouble I've had with my Intel-graphics-using laptops and screen artifacts in the X Window System graphical environment for Unix/Linux operating systems. Now I've got a fresh, working Debian Lenny installation on a test machine and have solved the artifacts-in-X problem that has plagued me in Slackware and Debian (and a few other distros that escape me) for probably a year or more.

Google Reinvents Email, Docs with 'Google Wave'

What would e-mail look like if it were invented today, rather than several years ago? Meet Google Wave, a preview application shown off Thursday at the Google I/O conference. The Google Wave site is now up and running, although access to the application will be restricted. Google Wave was developed by the Google Maps team, led by Lars Rasmussen and his brother Jens. "One of the best times of my life was in 2005, just after the launch of Google Maps, when developers started doing crazy things with the APIs," Rasmussen said, adding that he hopes developers will do the same with Wave.

The Ext4 Linux file system

Ext3, the default Linux file system for many years, is definitely starting to show its age. Modern mass storage devices are approaching its limits and block-based data management is no longer adequate for modern file sizes. High time for an update!

Google and Microsoft Exchange Big Announcements

Big week for Google and Microsoft as Google announced its new unified communications platform dubbed Wave and Microsoft announced the Zune HD and a new search engine they're calling Bing. Wave looks the most interesting as it will be open source and Google is encouraging developers to create extensions.

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 Released

The openSUSE Project is happy to announce the second milestone release for openSUSE 11.2 is ready for download. This release includes Firefox 3.5 beta 4, KDE 4.3 beta 1, GNOME 2.26, and hundreds of other updates from Milestone 1. This is a Milestone Release, which means that it may not be suitable for production systems. This is one in a series of releases leading to the official openSUSE 11.2 release, scheduled for November 2009.

Linux New Media Launches Ubuntu User Magazine

  • Linux ProMagazine; By Rikki Kite (Posted by brittaw on May 29, 2009 4:29 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Canonical's popular Ubuntu operating system continues to win followers around the world, and Ubuntu User is the first print magazine specifically for this rapidly growing audience. "Ubuntu is popular with software developers and IT professionals, but it is also a hit with hobbyists and other desktop users who are looking for an alternative to Microsoft Windows and don't want the restrictive hardware policies of Apple," says Joe Casad, Editor in Chief of Ubuntu User.

Google Wave: The instant wiki communicator

At its I/O conference yesterday (27th of May) Google gave developers a preview of a new communication and collaboration product called Google Wave. Google will invite selected programmers to contribute to this project even before the software is released and plans to make Wave freely available as open source software in a few months.

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