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Arduino Mashes Up OSS with Modular Hardware

Have you ever heard of Arduino? It's billed as an open source electronics prototyping platform, and proponents claim that it could lead to devices capable of interaction not seen on today's computers. I'd say it's not entirely open source for several reasons, but it does leverage open source software components and an inexpensive starter hardware platform following many of the principles that open source projects follow. O'Reilly has just announced a $12.99 new book called Getting Started with Arduino, intended to kick-start new Arduino projects.

GNOME Do - Launcher tool to search and launch applications files and more

GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. “GNOME Do” not only allows you to search for items in your desktop environment (e.g. applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, music), it also allows you to specify actions to perform on search results (e.g. run, open, email, chat, play).

Indamixx sound box plays on Linux base

Hip hop artists might not be the most obvious target for Linux evangelists, but a little-known distribution called Transmission is making waves. It's what powers Indamixx, a pro audio production system that runs on a customised Samsung handheld computer created by Trinity Audio Group. Developed by 64 Studio Ltd. on a mixed Debian/Ubuntu base, Transmission and its bundled applications are a quintessential open source story.

Debian Etch on The Self-Reliant Thin Client

I'm running what I call The Self-Reliant Thin Client on Debian Etch, a GNU/Linux distribution I haven't run intensively in quite some time. I also recently installed the PowerPC build of Etch on my Power Macintosh G4/466, but I've been using the converted thin client almost exclusively since I built it last week using an 8 GB Compact Flash module as the system's sole hard drive.

Contest Winners Rig Up Wacky Linux Implementations

Plat'Home, a Japanese Linux company, is announcing today the winners of its "Will Linux Work?" contest. Launched a month ago, the contest challenged users to come up with interesting, challenging technology solutions leveraging Linux. Full results of the contest including quotes from the winning contestants are found here. Here, below the fold, are some of the more imaginative winning solutions.

Install OpenSuse 11 PV DomU at Xen 3.2 Ubuntu Hardy Dom0 via local HTTP Server (all 64-bit)

  • Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets (Posted by dba477 on Oct 22, 2008 9:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: SUSE, Ubuntu
Attempt to reproduce for OpenSuse 11 procedure worked so smoothly for RH’s PV DomUs , described in previous post, appeared to be a bit more complicated. Pygrub installation profile reading data from HTTP source at Dom0 still worked fine, but Xen 3.2 Ubuntu’s 8.04.1 pygrub failed to read image had been created for OpenSuse 11 PV DomU (/dev/sda11) . Just an ordinary “xm” profile was required to finish configuration and load PV DomU when image was already created on block device, say /dev/sda11. Xenified kernel and ramdisk had to be copied of image device to Dom0 file system. There may be several ways of achieving this goal.

Who Are The Real Friends of Linux and Free Software? Or, Linux Is Still a Dirty Word

Ken is a well-spoken polite man, but that doesn't prevent him from asking the hard questions that nobody else wants to ask at these industry lovefests, which increasingly appear to be more about newer and more innovative ways to exploit Linux and FOSS. Ken stepped up to the mike at the panel discussion and asked a simple question that visibly discomfited the panel: "My customers can turn on their cable television and in 30 minutes watch five Microsoft Windows commercials. When are IBM and HP going to put the same things on? When are my customers going to be able to see about Linux? Television and radio legitimize the product."

The responses, in my occasionally-humble opinion, were worthy of Redmond itself.

Symbian Foundation: To EPL or Not to EPL?

With the Symbian Foundation throwing its weight behind the Eclipse Public License (EPL), the cache of that license has grown a great deal. But what prompted the foundation to go with the EPL. Was it just a total aversion to the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Well, David Rivas, vice president, S60 Software, Product and Technology Management, Devices at Nokia, which is the charter member of the Symbian Foundation, will not say that, exactly.

Microsoft and Novell Still Fight Against Freedom of Software, But Is Horacio Gutierrez Lying?

All of these developments are merely things to keep an eye on because Microsoft is gradually falling, and being the vicious company which it is,

Google Bares Android's Soul

As promised, search engine giant Google has released the source code for its Android platform -- the open source technology that Google hopes will be adopted by mobile application developers, phone makers and carriers alike. The move comes just a day before the first Android-powered smartphone -- the G1 -- is set to hit U.S. stores.

Debian Lenny with Blu-Ray Images and Live CD

  • Linux-Magazine; By Britta Wülfing (Posted by brittaw on Oct 22, 2008 5:21 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian
The upcoming version 5.0 of Debian GNU/Linux, codenamed Lenny, provides for the first time not only image downloads for CD and DVD, but also for Blu-ray disks, along with live images. Debian project leader Steve McIntyre, on the developer mailing list, describes the version as including the "biggest change" in recent history.

PCLinuxOS Magazine October 2008 Released

PCLinuxOS Magazine, August 2008 (Issue 24) is available to download. You can find it at the PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you'd like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

Android Market Gears Up for Battle

Google's Android Market is seeing some changes in the final hours before the phone's debut. Many of the apps that had been added to the storefront disappeared this week, and a handful of big-name offerings popped up in their places. Imeem, Shazam and MySpace are among the services with applications now available. The first Android-powered phone, T-Mobile's G1, is set to launch Wednesday.

Buddi - Personal budget software for Ubuntu Desktop

  • ubuntugeek.com (Posted by gg234 on Oct 22, 2008 2:59 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
Buddi - Personal budget software for Ubuntu Desktop. We have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users. Buddi will run on almost any computer which has a Java virtual machine installed. This can include Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and many other operating systems.

Fix Linux bugs. Get free cookies

  • InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Oct 22, 2008 2:12 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Debian, Linux; Story Type: News Story
Fixing bugs becomes increasingly important at release time - which is where Debian is now at with the upcoming "lenny" release. Debian is gearing up for a bug sprint to fix remaining bugs (about 100 key ones) and is offering a unique incentive to developers - free cookies.

Anti-piracy day? No thanks

Today is Microsoft’s self-declared Global Anti-Piracy Day. No surprise then that the local arm of the Business Software Alliance has been ringing up journalists over the past couple of days with the ominous news that South Africa is losing between R2.8 billion to software pirates every year.

Will Opening Code Keep Symbian Out in Front?

Users of the Symbian mobile phone operating system, meeting in London this week, hope that making the software freely available will help it regain momentum in the battle with new rivals like Apple and Google. The two-day conference is the first since Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, announced in June it would buy out its partners in UK-based Symbian for $410 million.

WFTL Bytes! for Oct 21, 2008

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 21, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include people making money from open source software, battling Androids, a new push for Linux standards, and a question as to whether we need any steengkeeng ad campaigns in our quest for World Domination.

Will Linux Work? Contest Winners

  • DaniWeb; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Oct 21, 2008 11:22 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The Plat'Home Will Linux Contest Winners and their projects were announced this morning.

Review: Linux Wi-Fi Manager Roundup

The quest for easy wireless client management on Linux continues; Eric Geier takes us on a tour of three Linux network management tools for managing roaming, profiles, and encryption keys.

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