Showing all newswire headlines

Red Hat this week is expected to announce an investment in Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence company. Here's the scoop, from The VAR Guy.

The Linux Foundation (LF) announced the results of its Technical Advisory Board (TAB) election. Six new members were elected to the ten-member TAB, originating from companies including Intel, Oracle, and Red Hat, says the LF. The TAB participates in LF events, including its Annual Collaboration Summit, which next year takes place in San Francisco. The TAB will also participate in the first-annual LinuxCon conference, scheduled for next fall.

The last time we looked in-depth at HDMI support on Linux was last December when talking about HDMI with the ATI Catalyst Linux driver. Since then there has been improvements in a number of drivers for different hardware. In this article we have a brief overview on the status of HDMI support in the Intel, NVIDIA, and ATI Linux drivers.

A startling development is being reported by the BBC in the UK. It seems that the Internet Watch Foundation which looks like a quasi governmental organization, has taken offense with an album cover on Wikipedia and is “blocking” access to it. IWF claims it is an issue of child pornography, Wikipedia is calling it censorship.

I haven't booted the Power Mac G4/466 running Debian Etch in a while, but I did so today because I'm about to move the box and its massive LaCie electron22blue monitor. So I wanted to power it up, do a software update and get it on the cart. This is a nice box on which to run Debian. I've complained at length at how poorly Fedora 9 installed and autoconfigured on this box and how startlingly better Debian Etch did with that same task. Sorry to repeat that, but it bears repeating.

Vim is an advanced text editor, used by many free software fanatics. It is highly configurable, beside the default features it has a way to be enhanced using the built-in interpreter. Read more to see how to convert the standard Vim editor into a keyboard trainer program.

In this first of a multi-part series of articles, XML Schema 1.1 is introduced with an overview of the features in this emerging standard.

Bit by bit, the Microsoft monopoly on office productivity applications is receding -- and one of the most important ways this is happening is through the proliferation of open source productivity suites. The most obvious example is OpenOffice.org, now in a landmark third release, but they're also not the only ones in town anymore.

LXer Feature: 10-Dec-2008

A few weeks ago, I installed Debian for the first time on the desktop. Once, a friend and I installed a console-only version on another desktop and we connected remotely to his hosted game server which also ran Debian, so I hoped I should be a bit familiar with it. I have to note however, I have run Gentoo for the past four years, and most of the times it's hard to 'learn' something else. However, I still liked to try and find out for myself if Debian was an easy distribution to use. So, how did I fare?

For many Linux users, Linux in education just seems natural. Unfortunately, not everyone sees it that way. What would you like to see happen to bring Linux into schools?

Last week we learned a few tips for writing better documentation, and talked about why good documentation is so important. Which seems self-evident, but some folks aren't getting the message :). Today we'll talk about letting clear, precise examples do the talking, and why being strictly literal is so important.

This Free Ubuntu Training course includes over 150 pages of Ubuntu desktop training tutorials with screen shots and step-by-step Ubuntu help.

Perl hacker Ian Malpass uses Perl, Firefox and Greasemonkey to make Etsy.com, the popular online crafts market, more usable and seller-friendly---without ever touching the servers. Tina Gasperson reports on how he did it, and how anyone can do it.

Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Jaspersoft has closed a new round of financing -- thanks to backers that now include Linux vendor Red Hat, InternetNews.com has learned. Jaspersoft's new round of financing totaled $12.5 million, bringing the company's total venture financing to $43.5 million to date.

Sugar Labs today announced its membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organization of Open Source and Free Software projects. Sugar Labs supports the free and open source desktop environment, Sugar, originally created for the One Laptop per Child Project (OLPC). The Sugar community now has an active global developer base that is focused on engaging young children in learning through computing and the Internet. As a member of the Conservancy, the Sugar community will work to accelerate the adoption of the Sugar learning platform and strengthening the project by attracting new industry members and community contributors.

My primary target was testing xVM performance at opensolaris 2008.11(based on 101b Nevada build). Solaris Nevada works smoothly with images located on UFS and zpools.Opensolaris 2008.11 requires only zpools as image devices for Xen Guests to be installed in reasonable time.I believe it's a known issue caused by ZFS. From my standpoint the most impressive UI feature is Package Manager. It's really helpful.

The Open Invention network has formally launched a program aimed at helping developers document patent claims and defend them against possible claims from vendors and patent trolls.

Dear President-elect Obama, As part of your campaign, you were an advocate for small and medium business (SMB). I agree with this philosophy, since such a large number of people in the United States are employed by SMBs, and since such a large portion of our economy is based on SMBs. In the computer industry there is something known as Free Software, which is software that guarantees the availability of the source code for the software solution to the end user. This allows the end user to make a business decision about whether they wish to use the software the way it exists, or take steps to change the software to have it meet the end-user needs.

"The future of software is in cloud computing," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol, a company that provides mobile services. And if free and open source software (FOSS) is going to survive in that emerging market, he says, then the community needs to adjust by promoting greater use of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), a license specifically crafted for software as a service.

Microsoft has launched Oxite, an open source blogging platform. However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type. Microsoft posted the Oxite code on its CodePlex Web site last week and made an official announcement this week. The software, described as an alpha release, is available under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL), one of Microsoft's OSI-certified open source licenses.