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Not all image files are created equal. Most of us know this from working with the everyday formats like PNG, JPEG, and TIFF, each of which has its own pros and cons. But cutting-edge applications from cinematography to computer vision demand more range, color depth, and accuracy than these formats can deliver. That demand drove the development of what are called High Dynamic Range file formats. Luckily for us, Linux is a first-class citizen in the HDR image world.

Does it bother anyone that for years, Health Information Technology (IT) successes implied by the news and even in casual conversation may largely be an illusion? Does it bother anyone that Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)'s might be failing at a very high rate? It is important to ask the question given the United States rich history of failure and two notable successes with large scale Health IT.

[Ed: To our health/medical IT pros - do not miss the significance of this editorial for libre software opportunities. - dcparris]

In this monthly column, IBM visionaries provide their insight and outlook about issues facing IT architects today and in the future. This month they consider the question, "How do I translate the business needs of my organization to IT requirements so that they can be addressed within my system architecture?"

Winsystems has released Blue Collar Linux for its -40 to +85C EPIC, PC/104, PC/104-Plus and EBX single board computers (SBCs). 'Blue Collar' Linux is Winsystems' implementation of Gnu/Linux that provides customers a way to quickly embed Linux for industrial-based applications. Integrated with Winsystems' rugged x86-based products, it provides an excellent starting point for developing applications in machine control, instrumentation, COTS/military, machine-to-machine communications (M2M), transportation, pipeline, and homeland security.

'Linux is a fast, low-cost, and widely accepted operating system well suited for robust embedded applications', said Robert A Burckle, Vice-President of Winsystems.

Brendan Eich has posted a draft plan for Gecko 1.9 Trunk and 1.8 Branch Management, including a FAQ at the mozilla wiki. Comments should be directed as followups to the newsgroup post.

In an inheritance hierarchy, permit each parent class's method to extend its child class's method so it can act as a decorator for its child class's behavior.

PowerStream 6100 Triples Signals Intelligence and Radar System Antenna Channels and Improves Bisection Bandwidth by 10x in Military Contractor Applications

My name is Henry the Adequate, and I am a superhero. Since becoming a computer guru I have been receiving quite a lot of requests for advice, mostly from those who aspire to one day become as I.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) opened the Patents Commons Reference Library in November, providing an overview of patents that have been pledged towards open source. OSDL's chief was quoted as saying that the open source patent was hereby diffused.

During the past year corporate Linux supporters from IBM to Philips have scrambled to support Linux, pledging that they will not enforce their patents against the open source operating system and, in some cases, to open source in general.

But others claim that neither OSDL nor the commercial pledges offer any help. Linux advocate Bruce Perens lashed out against both at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco in August.

Construct and package a Linux® LiveCD so that it will install using the standard Microsoft® Windows® install process and will operate as a standard Windows screensaver.

So why should you read this article? Why, indeed, should I write it? My motive is to help remove two obstacles to the wider adoption of free and open source software. Those obstacles are:

* The perceived difficulty and disruptive effects of installing Linux

* The uncertainty of hardware support for Linux

The minutes of the mozilla.org staff meeting held on Monday 5th December 2005 are now online. Issues discussed include Firefox Summit and Engineering.

Red Hat has impressed once again, posting a 44 per cent surge in revenue during the third quarter. The software maker's results mark the second stellar quarter in a row. Red Hat's revenue hit $73.1m in the period, which compares to $50.9m in the same period last year

Luban Programming Language Beta 2 is released with one major feature addition: the Luban Java Bridge has been built to enable Luban to access arbitrary Java classes, functions and fields.

David Tenser has posted an interview with Mozilla Foundation's User Experience Lead, Mike Beltzner. The interview was conducted over instant messaging sessions during the last week of November. Mike talks about usability studies, design of the Mozilla Developer Central, and the new bookmark system planned for Firefox 2.

Recovering critical key file such as /etc/shadow is a challenging task.

This is very nice indeed - Performancing, an extension for Firefox 1.5 that enables you to use write a post and publish it to your blog just by using Firefox.

Yahoo has added open-source blog publishing software to its Web hosting. The Net giant has struck a deal with WordPress and will add its software alongside proprietary alternative Moveable Type, which whom Yahoo struck a deal last week. The deal is intended to broaden the blogging software options accessible to individuals and companies that use Yahoo to host their websites, the company said.

Foreword -- LinuxDevices recently caught up with OSDL spokesperson Bill Weinberg, to discuss the organization's new Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI). Weinberg, who serves as the OSDL's representative to the MLI, filled us in on the initiative's early progress, strategy, and tactics for the year ahead.

Many people are interested in getting their linux or BSD desktop interface to look as much like Apple's very successful OS X gui as possible.

Git maintainer Junio Hamano [story] announced the official 1.0.0 release ofgit, the directory content manager originally written by Linus Torvalds and used to manage the Linux kernel source tree. Junio notes that there haven't been any big changes recently, "

Development of the git directory content manager was begun by Linus Torvalds in early April of 2005 [story], quickly following the announcement that BitKeeper would no longer be freely available to kernel developers [story]. Git rapidly evolved with the help of an active developer community, quickly enough that when the 2.6.12 kernel was released two months later it was already being managed by git [story].