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Phenomenon Redux: AMD Phenom II in Linux Test

  • Linux Pro Magazine; By Marcel Hilizinger (Posted by brittaw on Jan 28, 2009 6:41 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A recent Linux Community test compared the AMD Phenom X4 with a Turion X2 and Intel P9400. Meanwhile AMD has sent us its new Phenom II processor, prompting a new test. These are the latest benchmark results.

Jetty proposes to Eclipse

The Jetty project has now formally proposed to join the Eclipse project. Greg Wilkins has previously discussed the potential move to place the open source Java HTTP server and servlet container under the umbrella of the Eclipse project, and now the formal proposal has been made. The proposal notes that the Eclipse IDE already uses Jetty to serve help pages and that Jetty is a mature project and technology.

KDE 4.2 out, not just for enthusiasts say developers

It’s been a while in the coming but KDE 4.2 is here. The latest release of the popular desktop environment packs a truck-full of improvements over earlier releases and developers are saying that KDE 4.2 is the best choice for all users, not just KDE enthusiasts. Previous releases of KDE 4x have sparked controversy in the open source community over its suitability as a general purpose desktop.

Set Up A Linux PlayStation 3 Media Server (CentOS 5.2)

  • HowtoForge; By Andrew Colin Kissa (Posted by falko on Jan 28, 2009 3:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Red Hat
The Sony PlayStation 3 is a DLNA compatible device, DLNA is a framework where home electronics can share digital media and content seamlessly. This tutorial is a followup to the previous howto on Ubuntu. Given that I like most others use CentOS as their server distribution of choice, I find it fitting to run my DLNA server on it as well. Although several other open source media servers exist, I chose to use Fuppes due to its ease of use as well as built in support for transcoding.

Mozilla contributes $100,000 to fund Ogg development

Mozilla has donated $100,000 to help fund a collaborative initiative with the Wikimedia Foundation to improve open standards-based technology for video on the web.

Systems administrator's role changing via the cloud

The uptake of cloud computing was rendering many traditional systems-administrator functions obsolete, tech author and Google sysadmin Tom Limoncelli told attendees at Linux.conf.au (LCA) in Hobart this week.

The Publisher's Pushback against NIH's Public Access and Scholarly Publishing Sustainability

The dying light of the George W. Bush presidency was marked by, among other things, a legislative move to derail recent gains in the federal government's opening of science. In particular, the innocuous sounding “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” introduced into the House by John Conyers, Jr., on 9 September 2008 was poised to shut down the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, as well as forestall the spread of this open-access spirit to other areas of federally sponsored research and scholarship. Hearings were held, but the bill did not make it through the House. End of story? Not quite.

[Not directly FOSS related, but definitely very interesting, since open access publishing has the same philosophy and ethos as FOSS. Thanks to Dr.ir. Jens Staal for the tip. -- Sander]

Kuki Linux 2.0 for the Acer Aspire One

Kuki Linux (pronouced “cookie”) is a new Linux distribution, optimized for the Acer Aspire One netbooks.

Opengear Named to Open Source 50

Leader in Console Server Solutions recognized with Sun, Novell, Red Hat, as top open source company in the channel

Intel Moblin V2 Core Alpha: It Boots Fast!

Intel has been at the forefront of producing hardware for netbooks and other mobile devices thanks to their Atom processor family, but they are also looking at being a key part of the mobile software ecosystem. Back in 2007 we witnessed the launch of the Moblin project, which is Intel's open-source venture for creating a complete stack of software for these mobile devices. Originally, the Moblin core was based upon Ubuntu, but Intel ended up rebasing off Fedora last year and they have been preparing for the second version of their core operating system. Just this week they released Moblin V2 Core Alpha, which we are looking at in this article. Specifically, we are looking at how fast this Intel software is able to boot!

Old School Keyboard Control and HTML Character Entities On Linux And Unix

Two somewhat interesting but unrelated topics. The antibiotics must be kicking in ;) I think the sickness is finally leaving my body (I'm referring to the virus, or whatever I have, and not the mental condition that I fear I'm going to be stuck with until they tag my toe ;), so, in between bouts of feeling like I'm not getting better, I'm cranking out this disjointed post. It's going to be a 2 point post, but there's absolutely no natural flow between the first and second topics.

NVIDIA Releases Four New Linux Drivers

The NVIDIA 180.22 Linux driver was released less than three weeks ago, but today NVIDIA has released a new 180.xx display driver update. In addition, NVIDIA has updated all three of their legacy display drivers.

OpenOffice.org Impress: Preparing a Slide Show

Once you finish adding content to your presentation in Impress, your efforts aren't over yet. You still need to prepare how you will deliver it. These preparations are partly a matter of choosing various options for slide transitions and delivering the show, but they also include some practical choices and -- worst of all -- the practical considerations such as making sure that you have all the graphics, fonts, and audio files you need, and are ready to work with dual monitors in a world in which GNU/Linux is still a rarity.

A New Day, A New Dot

Hello everyone! I would like to welcome you to the new and improved KDE Dot News. As I am sure many of you know, although the old KDE Dot News has served the KDE community very well, it was beginning to show its age. Because of that a number of people including myself took it upon ourselves to modernise the Dot.

Eclipse Europa Web development using Java, PHP, and RadRails

This three-part "Web development with Eclipse Europa" teaches you how to use Eclipse Europa for Web development using Java technology, PHP, and Ruby RadRails.

Microsoft's metered pay-as-you-go patent. It's Trusted Computing Mark Two but worse

  • Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond (Posted by scrubs on Jan 28, 2009 4:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft
This time, Microsoft may have outdone themselves with a proposed patent of such breathtaking hubris that it makes their previous FUD pale by comparison. If it comes off it will either be a licence to print money (Redmond’s version of Quantitative easing?) or the biggest Pyrrhic victory in the history of computing since Steve Jobs refused Bill Gates and hardware vendors a license to use Apple’s OS and software. When you first read about Microsoft’s proposed patent you are suffused with the glow of righteous anger but before you get carried away, stop. Stop and think. This patent might just be, to mix my metaphors, a Trojan Horse and the straw that breaks the Camels’ back.

The Best Offline/Desktop Blogging Client For Linux

  • Shantanu’s Technophilic Musings; By Shantanu Goel (Posted by shantzg001 on Jan 28, 2009 3:36 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
A quick googling for best desktop blogging client would yield just a few (read millions/gazillions) results. Having researched the subject a lot, my choices were finally limited down to BlogJet and BlogDesk, as per my feature set requirement goes (Primarily, off line editing, draft, WYSIWYG editing, categories, tagging support, pinging, trackbacks support, timestamping, past post editing, automatic image uploading) BUT there is one little problem. Both of these don’t work on Linux.

Moblin v2 Alpha Linux for netbooks released

Moblin v2 Core Alpha has been released. Moblin is a custom Linux distro optimized for netbooks & mobile internet devices (MIDs).

Lenovo's S10e Linux Ideapad

People have been wanting something like a netbook ever since we can remember, even way back in the last millennium. But hardware costs made them unattractive. Now we're tripping over netbooks every time we turn around, and have a wealth of attractive choices. Paul Ferrill takes the Lenovo Ideapad, loaded with SUSE Linux, for a test drive and reports his findings.

If Open Source Doesn't Succeed, Don't Blame the Teachers

According to the BBC, "Good teachers will always be looking to move forward but they are so busy that they are often conservative." Datamation's Matt Hartley has a completely different take on why open source can't get a foothold in American classrooms, and he claims it's largely because teachers and school IT professionals are "misinformation junkies."

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