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Aside from the fact that the FSF seems to have lost interest in .NET cloning, the key difference between dotgnu and Mono is that the former is intended to bring legacy applications over to GNU/Linux (much like Wine), whereas the latter — Mono — is somehow making its way into GNOME/GTK applications.

The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers — including Linux creator Linus Torvalds (shown at left) — discuss their development activities. The Kernel Summit is an annual invitation-only meeting during which kernel developers discuss the current state of the Linux kernel and plans for future development.

Last year we hosted a 2007 Linux Graphics Survey and received more than 20,000 submissions of users sharing their video card preferences, driver information, and details about different aspects of X.Org. This year we're hosting the survey again to allow the development community to get a better understanding of the video hardware in use, what open-source and closed-source drivers are being used, and other relevant information.

To create loadable Fedora 10 PV image we would have to manage at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 either multibooting with Hardy Dom0 or remote.To install Fedora 10 PV DomU local NFS share will be utilized. Local Apache Server simulating HTTP mirror may be used as well. Installer provides both options. Attempts to perform install on Ubuntu Hardy Dom0 failed. Looks like Hardy has problems with the most recent Fedora’s file system. ISO image mounted via losetup doesn’t work correct versus it happens on CentOS 5.2

Recently, I stopped by a local T-Mobile Latest News about T-Mobile store, the home of the new G1 phone. This is the so-called Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google phone, the mobile device with Google's Android operating system. Many in the press have anointed the Google phone as a potential "iPhone killer." That is, a device capable of knocking the iPhone off its pedestal as the most desirable and most well-reviewed smartphone on the market. While the iPhone is not yet the leader in sales, it's moving along here as well; latest reports show that the iPhone has surpassed RIM's BlackBerry to reach second place in smartphone rankings.

I am involved in a very personal war … a war on Spam not because I must, everybody else lives with it, but just because it makes me mad! Spam has made me so mad I have gone on a personal goal to cut the Spam on my servers to 0%…realistic, probably not. Die trying…yep that’s me.

The btrfs filesystem is widely regarded as being the long-term future choice for Linux. But what if btrfs is taking the wrong direction, fighting an old war? If the nature of our storage devices changes significantly, our filesystems will have to change as well. A lot of attention has been paid to the increasing prevalence of flash-based devices, but there is another upcoming technology which should be planned for: object storage devices (OSDs). The recent posting of a new filesystem called osdfs provides a good opportunity to look at OSDs and how they might be supported under Linux.

Last year I told you the "10 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You To Know." All these secrets still apply (and the retailers still don't want you to know them). What's different this year is that Black Friday will be dominated by netbook deals. Here's why: First, unless the Grinch finds a way to keep Christmas from coming, the holidays will soon be upon us. Netbooks make perfect gifts because the cost is low, the value is high, and everybody wants one. Unlike other gadgets, netbooks are popular among all age groups, from 9 to 99. They're even great gifts for people who already own desktop, laptop and other netbook computers. You can never be too rich, too thin or have too many netbooks.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is slashing its workforce on a scale typically reserved for automakers, announcing today that it plans to lay off up to 6,000 employees — a restructuring that comes on top of earlier cutbacks made over the past year. In moving to cut its current workforce by between 15% and 18%, Sun is trying to stay ahead of a falling knife. And today's announcement made it clear that Sun officials are banking on the the company's open-source strategy to help it pull through.

It's been around for a while, but I've finally found my favorite stick-figure online computer-humor :) Hope your Saturday is going okay and that you're reading this in the evening or late afternoon (since, if you're like me, that's breakfast time ;) To start off this week's Linux and Unix humor section, I went looking around all 4 corners of the earth for something that made me laugh (at the very least, on the inside ;) and I ran back over a site that I'd actually used one cartoon from in a previous humor post. The site's name is XKCD and, after spending a while browsing through the tons of content on the site, I found that I liked way too many of the cartoons to include them all here.

The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers -- including Linux creator Linus Torvalds (shown at left) -- discuss their development activities.

Currently the Sugar/OLPC/XO development community is discussing what to add, change or improve in the next major release. Printing is a topic that is currently under discussion. This discussion occurs on the OLPC development list and related lists. These lists are open, and any interested party can join.

Earlier today we shared that NVIDIA is bringing PureVideo features to Linux through a major update in their binary display driver. The NVIDIA 180.06 driver adds VDPAU support on Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD operating systems, with VDPAU being a set of APIs designed by NVIDIA to accelerate video decoding, provide post-processing capabilities, timstamp-based presentation of video frames, and compositing of sub-picture elements. We have now had the time to benchmark the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix and have seen the benefits of PureVideo features finally arriving on alternative platforms.

I spend a fair bit of time being baffled by humanity. You'd think that for as many years as I've been creaking around on this planet I'd have become accustomed to the depths to which some people so readily sink. Indeed, even dive into enthusiastically. But a lot of things still have shaking my head in wonderment. The biggest one is the tech industry's enthusiastic glee for Peeping Tom-ery. It's like a perversion, an insatiable, pathological need to snoop and pry where, according to ordinary courtesy and respect, they have no business going.

Beleaguered server and software maker Sun Microsystems said Friday that it will lay off as many as 6,000 employees, or 18 percent of its worldwide workforce, over the next year. Sun's announcement appears to confirm fears that the economic turmoil that has overtaken the financial services and manufacturing sector has now spread to the technology sector.

Angela Byron is one of the lead developers and a community manager for the open source content management system Drupal, which OStatic is based on (along with sites such as The Onion and Fast Company). Few people have more influence on and knowledge of Drupal than she does, including working directly with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal. We caught up with Angie and she weighed in on the future for Drupal, and what the open source movement needs.

“They order, said I, this matter better in France.” So wrote Laurence Sterne in his 1768 book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Alas, things have changed much since then, at least as far as the Internet is concerned. In the light of recent events, now he would we have to say: they order this matter worse in France. Even more unfortunately, France's bad habits are spreading, and could have serious consequences for free software. These started going downhill with the “three strikes and you're out” idea:

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, November 14, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, the economy just keeps on getting worse, proprietary software is really bad, making copyright into copywrong, Ubuntu gets ARMed, and the Sun goes down on a lot of jobs.

Isn't anything safe from hackers? Now they've apparently found a way to hack into systems through a media stream, threatening users with denial of service attacks that can bring down servers and desktops alike. The vulnerability was reported yesterday by VoIPshield Laboratories, a security tools maker in Canada.

Is it reasonable to expect users to understand the differences between WEP and WAP, IMAP and SMTP, how to figure out the ins and outs of encryption? Kenneth van Wyk believes that the security community simply forgot about the users, and as a result created more problems than solutions.