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I realize that all the problems I'm having with Fedora 13's new 2.6.34.7-61 kernel are potentially (and probably actually) of my own making. I've gone outside the Fedora and RPM Fusion repositories only when I absolutely needed to do so to bring or restore functionality to my system, but that's probably what made my particular system hard to upgrade thereafter. Think of this as a) a cautionary tale on running Fedora in production, b) a wild, geeky ride, c) sort of a learning experience (and I've got more to learn if I ever hope to make this all work correctly in the future), or d) all of the above.

With Android’s growing use as the OS embedded in phones, in tablets, in set-top boxes, and in TVs, we can’t help wondering: will the Linux-based OS soon dominate the entire non-PC consumer device OS market?

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Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across the company. In the opening section of that memo, I noted that about every five years our industry experiences what appears to be an inflection point that results in great turbulence and change. In the wake of that memo, the last five years has been a time of great transformation for Microsoft. At this point we’re truly all in with regard to services. I’m incredibly proud of the people and the work that has been done across the company, and of the way that we’ve turned this services transformation into opportunities that will pay off for years to come.

Android has just rocketed past a major milestone: 100,000 applications available in the Android Marketplace. The announcement was made with just a tweet from the Android Dev Twitter account. “One hundred thousand apps in Android Market,” was all the tweet needed to say to spread the news. The search giant recently expanded the Android Marketplace to 20+ countries in an effort to kick its developer ecosystem in high gear.

A mere four months since the 0.9.0 release, which was the first release in quite a while, Compiz developers brought out version 0.9.2. Sam Spilsbury, developer of Compiz, announced this release on the Compiz mailing list as well as his personal blog on Sunday, October 24. This release brought a few new features and lots of stability and performance fixes. Splisbury says it should be ready for general usage.

Link: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2010/10/25/android-open-source-... Lead: Is Android really open source or not? That is the question being asked by almost everyone. A lot of people, especially those influenced by RDF or those who are in the news industry with no idea about OS and open source but were asked by their boss to get a scoop on this pronto, tend to bring up a few keywords and then twist them around in the way they see fit to make sure it says Android isn’t open. A lot out of the rest of the people, who are indeed informed, make the mistake of thinking that “Open Source = GPL” or “Open Source = Free Software”, which is not true. I write this post to speak my mind about this matter by talking about various points thrown up by the above mentioned classes

The most important issue is their very own fork of the Linux kernel which no longer can be merged with the upstream kernel.

As expected, the intel_idle includes C4 and C6 CPU power saving modes in kernel 2.6.36, even if your BIOS doesn't announce them. (...) This can make your netbook quieter while on AC and extend battery life (...)

Straight forward attempt to load 2.6.34.7 kernel xenified aka Suse under Fedora’s 14 Xen 4.0.1 generates following output to console. Starting udev: udevd-work[591]: kernel-provided name 'pci_iomul' and NAME= 'xen/pci_iomul' disagree, please use SYMLINK+= or change the kernel to provide the proper name
udevd-work[539]: kernel-provided name 'evtchn' and NAME= 'xen/evtchn' disagree, please use SYMLINK+= or change the kernel to provide the proper name

The UDS-N (Ubuntu Developer Summit - Natty Narwhal) started today and Mark Shuttleworth already announced that Unity will be default for Ubuntu 11.04 desktop:

The world’s best Linux home and small business server has apparently just got better. Russell Barnes tests the B3, Excito’s latest Bubba home server…

It was the dawn of the third age of Java, ten years after the Sun/Microsoft war. The Java Community Process was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where technologists and vendors could work out their differences peacefully.

[I love the analogy, I happen to be a big fan of the show too. - Scott]

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US-CERT is aware of public reports of multiple vulnerabilities affecting Linux. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to access the system with root or "superuser" privileges. The first of these vulnerabilities is due to a flaw in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol in Linux kernel versions 2.6.30 through 2.6.36-rc8. By sending a specially crafted socket function call, an attacker may be able to write arbitrary values into kernel memory and escalate privileges to root.

Firefox, the second most popular web browser, just upped the stakes significantly for its competitors with the release of a beta version of its browser for Android.

From KDE's Plasma Netbook to EasyPeasy, every Linux desktop for netbooks that I’ve seen are designed with the same assumptions. Each assumes that, because of the smaller screen, the desktop must be simpler than a workstation's, and will be used mainly for light computing in general and social networking in particular.

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. As a large desktop application that is also cross-platform, OpenOffice.org (or should I say LibreOffice?) seems to have attracted more myths than most. Here are the top five that I have kept stumbling across in eight years of advocacy..

What goes inside a computer case matters more than the case-- but a nice case is a pleasure to use, and it runs quieter and cooler. Here's a quick look at the excellent Antec 300.

The big news at the Ubuntu Developer Summit? Moving to Unity as the default interface for Ubuntu Desktop with Natty Narwhal (11.04), rather than GNOME Shell. Earlier this year, Canonical representatives had to deny that they were forking GNOME with the work on the Unity interface. (Quick disclaimer, I'm a GNOME Member and help out with GNOME PR.) Unity is a Canonical-sponsored project that was initially delivered for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. GNOME Shell is the interface being developed for GNOME 3.0, which was delayed to spring 2011. Apparently, Canonical were being asked the wrong question. During the opening keynote, Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is committing to making Unity the default desktop experience "for users that have the appropriate software and hardware." Unity requires compositing to work properly, which means users need functioning 3D support to use the interface.