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eBay subsidiary Skype is beta-testing a "Moblin" version of its proprietary VoIP softphone. Skype 1.0 Beta for Intel-based MIDs (mobile Internet devices) is claimed to offer excellent, free video calling, thanks to the high-performance processors and high-bandwidth 3G/4G/WiMAX wireless networking capabilities MIDs are expected to have.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, January 8, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 43. In today's news, Apple gets it, a bit, Fedora is nameless, a review that isn't, Abiword gets some, the iceberg issue, convert them with these, pirates with law degrees, and the end of OLPC as you knew it.

Pop the hood on our new Web site and you’ll find one very powerful engine. It’s called Drupal, a free, open-source platform that powers all of our content entry. As many healthcare IT workers know, the value of open-source solutions isn't just the (lack of) price tag: it's the fact that the products are user-developed, community-tested and constantly improved. After an exhaustive evaluation process, the open-source model was the only solution that met our needs for a fast-paced, ever-adapting content management system (CMS).

After learning jQuery, I've had a lot more fun programming in the JavaScript language. All the boring stuff is taken care of, so I can focus on coding the juicy stuff.

Free VoIP platform software FreeSWITCH is now in version 1.0.2. Enhancements include a fax module and new codecs for higher sampling rates.

LXer Feature: 09-Jan-2009

A review of my time walking around the largest technology exposition on the planet and how I barely avoided an epic fail at finding something FOSS related to write about.

References may belong in an encyclopedia, but what purpose do they serve in Perl?

In 1976 one man changed the face of text editors. That man is Bill Joy who developed vi for BSD UNIX.

We’ve been brought up with many different variations of this popular function. Some books/teachers like to write it as “int main”, some write it as “void main” and then there are some who make do with just “main”, forgoing the return type altogether. So, which one out of them is correct? Or does it even make a difference?

This article describes how you can shrink and grow existing software RAID1 partitions with LVM on top. I have tested this with logical volumes that use ext3 as the file system. I will describe this procedure for an intact RAID array and also a degraded RAID array.

Vietnamese ministry servers are to run exclusively on open source software in 2009 and the government is also urging dealers to install the free software.

This article covers the creation of custom RAD JSF components such as menus, rich text editors, file uploads, and calendars: functionality that users expect. See how to design modern Web applications using Rational Application Developer (RAD), that provide your users with a richer experience with more complex components than what the JSF specification provides. This article covers the creation of custom RAD JSF components such as menus, rich text editors, file uploads, and calendars: functionality that users expect.

Cisco is holding a contest for Linux developers as a way to familiarize them with its Network as a Platform concept. The goal is to generate applications to run on Cisco's Application Extension Platform and to create a Linux developer network.

The December holidays always hold some interesting surprises for me, and this year's season was no exception. However, in this context "interesting" can mean either "utterly engaging fascination" or "coma-inducing exasperation". This holiday season I got plenty of both.

Matt Hartley offers up some helpful tips, tools, and strategy to aid in migrating from Windows to Linux without making a big mess. Security, basic system management, and thinking like a Linux user instead of a Windows user are foundational steps to get started.

[Lookout people, its a Matt Hartley story.. - Scott]

Former president of Novell's EMEA operations Volker Smid has taken over as head of operations at HP in Germany. Javier Colado assumes Smid's old role at Novell.

On this special edition of The_Source I interview Elizabeth Garbee from Ohio Linuxfest 2008. She talks about using Open Source as a teenager. This is part 1 of 3 from Ohio Linuxfest.

Just a little more than a week after AMD openly released R600/700 GPU code to begin development of an open-source 3D driver for their ATI Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 hardware, a disassembler and table dumper for their video BIOS abstraction layer has been released to developers. This tool called AtomDis was used early on in the development of the RadeonHD driver by Novell and is now being released under the GNU GPLv2 license to assist interested open-source developers or act as an instrument to those learning about graphics processor programming.

Novell has hired an enterprise application expert -- who is a veteran of Microsoft -- to help drive the company's channel partner program and SUSE Linux efforts forward, The VAR Guy has learned. Here's the scoop.

Vietnam will ring in the Tet New Year on January 26 this year, and 2009 will be the Year of the Buffalo. And for government servers, it appears that it will be the year of a few other animals as well, including the GNU and the Firefox.