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Oregon Governor Announces New Open Source Technology Initiative by ...
On Tuesday Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski announced the contribution of $350,000 by search technology leader Google Inc. to a joint open source technology initiative of Oregon State University and Portland State University. With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide. The universities will also help provide a bridge between Oregon's universities and Oregon's growing open technology industry.
Oracle goes free to fight MySQL, SQL Server Express
Its Database 10g Express Edition is free, and is compatible with the vendor's higher-end offerings.
Sierra Club grows open source application
Jennifer Mears writes: "Best known for its grassroots environmental protection activities, the Sierra Club also helps thousands of members get outdoors each year with trips that span the globe. Sierra Club has offered these worldwide adventures for more than a century, but in recent years its IT team has focused on streamlining the trip-reservation process by enabling members to sign up online."
Shareholders rebuke Sun
Shareholders attending Sun Microsystems' annual meeting Thursday chastised Chief Executive Scott McNealy for everything from the company's performance and low stock price to his stewardship...A second shareholder proposal, to tie stock options for senior executives more closely to the company's performance, was defeated. But it got a sizable 42.8 percent of the votes.
Plenty of news heading into Open Source Business Conference
Mark Brunelli writes: The days leading up to this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) bore witness to an influx of announcements from open source companies and projects looking to make headlines ahead of the show.
[This article highlights some of the big announcements leading up to the Open Source Business Conference - Ed]
[This article highlights some of the big announcements leading up to the Open Source Business Conference - Ed]
Red Hat Readies for Government Scrutiny
"There have been a couple of runs at trusted operating systems in the past, but the difference between what's out there now and what we're announcing is that, in the Linux world, we'll have trusted capabilities in a standard distribution," said Paul Smith of Red Hat.
A Look at Trolltech and Qt 4
Jonathan Riddell writes: "Two recent articles cover the success of Trolltech and their product Qt 4, on which KDE 4 will be based. Trolltech: A case study in open source business looks at the continued growth of the company based on dual licenced Free Software. The article describes what KDE and Trolltech gain from each other, including user feedback to Trolltech and sponsored developers for KDE. The Australian Computerworld declairs that Qt 4 raises the bar for cross-platform app dev tools. They cover the separate modules of Qt 4 and the cross-platform quality, giving it a 9.2 out of 10 approval rating."
[As pointed out in the KDE News post, the Computer World article erroneously refers to software in the public domain. This stuff has been around for over 22 years. Seems like professionals in the field would have some concept of this by now. - Ed]
[As pointed out in the KDE News post, the Computer World article erroneously refers to software in the public domain. This stuff has been around for over 22 years. Seems like professionals in the field would have some concept of this by now. - Ed]
Modern Memory Management
Despite this enormous increase in memory capacity, many of the problems that exist on today's machines are the same as those of their early predecessors--namely, running out of memory.
This article, the first in the series, discusses the Unix dynamic memory allocation system along with the concept of memory segmentation. It also reviews the utilities top and ulimit, giving special attention to their role in memory management. Memory management is an important concept to grasp regardless of which programming language you use. You must be most careful with C, where you control all memory allocation and freeing. Languages such as C++, Java, Perl, and PHP take care of a lot of the housekeeping automatically. Nevertheless, all of these languages and others can allocate memory dynamically, and thus the following discussion applies to them all
DistroWatch Weekly: BSD Week, Ubuntu Below Zero, E17 on SUSE, book review
Welcome to this year's 44th issue of DistroWatch Weekly. Fans of the BSD family of projects can expect an exciting week as NetBSD 2.1, FreeBSD 6.0 and OpenBSD 3.8 are all expected to be announced and released with the next couple of days. On the Linux front, we have some interesting information regarding the Ubuntu Zero Conference, a link to guide describing the installation of Enlightenment 17 on SUSE 10.0 and news about a working graphical front-end for the Debian installer. Finally, the fans of Debian-based distributions will no doubt appreciate our review of The Debian System - Concepts And Techniques, a newly released book written by a well-known Debian developer. Happy reading! Join us at irc.freenode.net #distrowatch
HP to unveil Itanium blades this week
Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce its first blade servers that use Intel's Itanium processor on Tuesday in the US, sources familiar with the product plans said.
IBM Identifies Hot Markets for iSeries Growth
As one might expect, IBM tries to keep careful tabs on hot and emerging market segments across all of its product lines. The go-to guy for up-to-the-minute analysis data for the iSeries market is Chip McClellan, IBM's senior marketing manager for market segments. I talked with McClellan recently and learned a lot about where IBM and its business partners will be investing time and energy in the near future and what 2006 might look like.
CLI Magic: GNU find
Don't you just hate it when you can't find a file you need, but you know it's on your computer? Wouldn't you like an easy way to track down files anywhere on your computer? If so, I have good news for you, a command available to you at the friendly Linux CLI called find.
Tips and Toys for the Hardworking Admin
Welcome to today's installment of More Tips and Tricks For Hardworking Admins, the finest and freshest collection of mini-howtos on the Web. Today we'll do dynamic blocking of SSH server attacks, run nested window managers, and take a peek at hacking the Linksys WRTG54.
[Ed.- The DenyHosts utility, for dynamic blocking of SSH or other port attacks, is quite ingenious and easy to use. Also, XNest is covered, for running multiple window managers simultaneously. Just try to do that with poor ole feeble MS Windows!]
New mobile Linux group to launch next month
A group of companies including PalmSource and France Telecom plan to launch an initiative in mid-November to standardize the applications layer of Linux-based mobile devices, representatives involved in the project said. The group will be called the Linux Phone Standardization Forum (LiPS).
Your Next WAP: Hold the Cheese?
Q:What's the difference between an enterprise wireless access point from a big name vendor, and a SOHO grade one from the likes of Belkin, Buffalo or Netgear? A: About 500 bucks OK, say it's not a very funny joke. In fact it's not really a joke at all – more of an economic observation. But like most jokes, there is a point to it: When you go shopping for wireless access points, do you really need to spend five times as much on an enterprise product which does the same base function – providing wireless network access – as a SOHO one?
ReactOS 0.2.8 Released
ReactOS is an open-source Operating System designed to be compatible with Windows NT. Version 0.2.8 sees the culmination of months of work since 0.2.7, and sees the project coming closer to the long-awaited 0.3.0 release.
[For those of you who just can't do without your Windows NT. The psyche_eval package is sold separately. Hey, at least ReactOS is libre! - Ed]
[For those of you who just can't do without your Windows NT. The psyche_eval package is sold separately. Hey, at least ReactOS is libre! - Ed]
Special Report on All About eBay
[Ed.- Here is a collection of good articles on building a business on Ebay, from starting out to building an attractive storefront, to auction-management tools, to protecting yourself from fraud. ]
BeleniX LiveCD 0.2 Screenshot Tour
Belenix.sarovar.org states - BeleniX is a *NIX distribution that is built using the OpenSolaris source base. It is currently a LiveCD distribution but is intended to grow into a complete distro that can be installed to hard disk. Version 0.2 of BeleniX has been released and it is now a LiveCD that can boot into a Graphical XFce4 desktop and provides a bunch of useful applications.
OSDir has some screenshots of the Belenix OpenSolaris Live CD.
Terror Pumpkins From Power Tools
The capital of high technology (San Jose) is the logical cauldron of Techno Pumpkin Making. This page is dedicated to furthering the art of Power Tool Pumpkins, by showing how I make mine.
[Ed.- This demonstrates that real hackers can hack anything! An interesting bit of trivia- this site is the #1 hit on Google for 'pumpkin trepanning'.]
Linux Home Page: Worth a Friendly Visit
This web site started several years ago, before the time of rss feeds. An ingenious programmer would grab headlines from web sites, parse the content and display it on his home page. You might like having all that news in one place. Also, notice how Lxer feeds take you right to the articles without forcing you to our web site first - kind of like free news as in freedom.
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