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Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 177

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Dec 10, 2011 11:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Welcome to the 177th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

webOS: The latest open source, Linux distribution

  • LinuxBSDos (Posted by finid on Dec 10, 2011 10:24 PM EDT)
  • Groups: HP
The source or cause of the joy is none other than the announcement from HP that webOS will be, in their own words, a “pure open source project.” Awesome! Did I see this coming? Yes, sir! Did I influence HP’s decision? Perhaps. Ok, alright, that last one is a stretch, but back on August 19 2011, after HP had announced that it “will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones,” I suggested in a blog post (see what HP should do with webOS), that “to not let webOS be a failed distribution, here’s what I think HP should do with webOS – make it a free, Linux distribution, such that the relationship between it (HP) and webOS would be akin to that between Red Hat and Fedora, or Canonical and Ubuntu.”

Talking Point: Should Distros Stick to CDR Size?

It's starting to look like the end of an era for Ubuntu users as Canonical mull the creation of an ISO that won't fit onto a CDR. The question is, does it matter? Canonical owes at least part of its success with Ubuntu Linux to the unique way that it has been distributed. From the start it has been available as a downloadable ISO image and a free CD, posted at no cost to the user. This was great news for people who wanted to install Linux but did not have the luxury of a decent Internet connection. In a sense, installing via a CDR image has always been like a kind of cache, in that you're moving part of the content that you need onto permanent storage rather than pulling it through the network connection.

Motorola wins injunction against Apple, could spell trouble for EU sales

Motorola Mobility on Thursday won an important injunction against Apple in Germany, which could potentially bar Apple's European sales arm from selling iPhones and 3G-equipped iPads. At issue is a Motorola patent for cellular data transmission, part of wireless data transmission standards that are encumbered by an agreement to license the patent on "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" terms. The ruling suggests that, at least in Germany, raising a FRAND defense against standards-essential patent infringement claims could be a difficult proposition, and may force Apple to accept Motorola's licensing terms—FRAND or not—for "past infringement."

HP throws WebOS to open source community

WebOS wobbles and it does fall down HP will bite the bullet and dump the WebOS operating system on the open source community.…

Pissed Off Penguins A Free and Open-Source Game

  • BeginLinux.com; By Andrew Weber (Posted by aweber on Dec 10, 2011 6:35 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Kris Occhipinti is currently in the middle of creating a 2D game created using the Blender 3D game engine. The game, called Pissed Off Penguins, looks similar to the popular “Angry Birds” game most of you have likely heard about. I wanted to outline this open-source project and expose some of the unique techniques Kris is using to both fund this project and create the game itself.

Gartner Prediction Underestimates Cloud Security Concerns

  • Tech Target View From Above; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Dec 10, 2011 5:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
When Gartner made a prediction that by 2016 40 percent of enterprise customers would demand third-party security certification for cloud vendors, it left me wondering why the prediction was so conservative.

HP Open-Sources webOS & Enyo App Framework

Hewlett-Packard announced today what it will do with webOS, after announcing in August major changes would come to webOS and it would sell its PC business (later they changed their mind). HP hasn't changed their mind about webOS, but what they are going to do with it is quite good: Hewlett-Packard is open-sourcing webOS and its Enyo application framework...

HP's decision means webOS could end up more open than Android

In a statement issued today, HP said that the underlying webOS code will be published under an open source license. The company will continue to play an active role in funding and developing the platform. Ongoing development will be undertaken in collaboration with the open source software community and other interested parties through a "good, transparent and inclusive governance" model.

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 12/9/11

This week we look at 5 enterprise software development trends, how much you should trust your security vendor and if it's the end of stand-alone PCs.

Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011 | ODM Ubuntu Portal

Canonical introduced the new odm.ubuntu.com portal in ubuntu hardware summit yesterday held on Taipei, Taiwan. odm.ubuntu.com aims to provide help to engineering, and developers with manufacturing devices running Ubuntu operating system.

Top 10 Wireshark Filters

  • Linux-news.org (Posted by linuxaria on Dec 10, 2011 8:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
The filtering capabilities of Wireshark are very comprehensive. You can filter on just about any field of any protocol, even down to the HEX values in a data stream. Sometimes though, the hardest part about setting a filter in Wireshark is remembering the syntax! So below are the top 10 display filters that I use in Wireshark. Please comment below and add any common ones that you use as well.

FreeBSD 9.0 May Just Be One Week Away

After more delays, FreeBSD 9.0 RC3 was finally announced last night. Fortunately, it looks like the final builds of FreeBSD 9.0 may begin next week...

Signage computer can be turned on remotely

Lanner announced a mid-range digital signage player with remote power activation support and a dual-core, 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 featuring remote p. The fanless LEC-7105 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, features dual display via VGA and DVI outputs, offers an eSATA port as well as internal SATA and CompactFlash storage, and provides gigabit Ethernet, USB, and serial connections.

Open Source Total Cost of Ownership 2.0

Back in 2006, I wrote a piece for LXer called "A Brief History of Microsoft FUD". This ran through successive attempts by Microsoft to dismiss GNU/Linux in various ways. One of the better-known was a series of "Total Cost of Ownership" (TCO) studies. By an amazing coincidence, these all showed that Microsoft Windows was cheaper than that supposedly cheap GNU/Linux. Fortunately, people soon cottoned on to the fact that these studies, paid for by Microsoft, were pretty worthless (here, for example, is a great debunking of the kind of FUD that was being put out in 2005.) However, one knock-on consequence of that episode is that TCO studies rather fell from favour. So it's interesting to see this new report prepared for the Cabinet Office with the title "Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software", which has been released under the liberal Open Government Licence for public sector information.

Duqu vuln fix stars in bumper Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's Xmas gift to sysadmins: 14 security updates Microsoft plans to deliver a festive hamper of 14 security updates next week, three of which are designed to tackle critical remote code execution flaws.…

Why are Android anti-virus firms so slow to react on Carrier IQ?

  • The Register; By John Leyden (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 10, 2011 4:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Some Android anti-virus firms have begun releasing Carrier IQ detection apps, but only after the controversial software became a talking point on Capitol Hill ... and a month after a security researcher first discovered it. BitDefender released Carrier IQ Finder, an app that identifies the presence of the controversial mobile diagnostic tool, following Lookout's earlier release of a similar tool called Carrier IQ Detector. Both applications let mobile phone users know if they have Carrier IQ running on their Android phone without actually removing it. Each has been available at no charge via the official Android Market since last Saturday (3 December).

EC data protection proposals could open up Zuck's 'social graph'

Will Facebook be required to allow info transfer to *gasps* Google+? Draft proposals on the European Commission's "general data protection regulation" have been leaked online.…

How to setup Thunderbird for Exchange guide

  • High-On-It.co.za; By Markus Swanepoel (Posted by sidai on Dec 10, 2011 2:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Mozilla, Ubuntu
Here is a how to setup your Thunderbird installation with Exchange server 2003/2007

Amazon: The Microsoft of the cloud

Will AWS eat all the competition? Open ... and Shut Is there a cloud market, or is there an Amazon market?…

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