10.06.08
Links 5-6/10/2008: A Look at Omega GNU/Linux, Mandriva 2009 RC2; Linux Turns 17
GNU/Linux
- The BeBook eBook Reader is a great device
- Intel’s GEM Coming In Linux 2.6.28 Kernel
- Another IKEA linux cluster
In a bit of serendipity, reader [Tim Molter] had decided on the IKEA Helmer cabinet for his new cluster right before seeing the previous IKEA cluster we covered. He and his coding partner recently completed building their own version of the IKEA Linux cluster. The cabinet was $30 and holds six headless boxes. Each board has a quad-core AMD processor for a total of 24 cores.
- Mandriva 2009 ScreenShots RC2
For you Microsoft Windows Users, I think I feel I finally found a Linux OS that I can say that my wife will use and not get confused….. I had her using this distro for a couple of hours and she really enjoyed it except that it is missing the Ubuntu Fire Fox plugin that makes installing plugins so easy
. But Mandriva’s Control Panel is so like Windows Control Panel so Windows users do not fret and feel safe using Mandriva. - Open-source software and Linux at HP
- Free, Professional Music Production: A Linux Introduction
These are but two small examples of a much larger change that’s seeping through the music industry. The power of the internet and the ability to share information freely is giving more and more power to the individual user, and with it we’re starting to witness a kind of renaissance in the way we distribute and produce music.
- Voodoo Envy 133 unboxing and impressions
- True GNU
I switched back because, now, the situation is reversed. Since AMD bought ATI last year, ATI has been regaining market share. Moreover, while AMD’s behavior is far from perfect towards free software, it is still friendlier than any other manufacturer. Now, thanks to AMD, ATI free and open source drivers seem likely to mature first before NVidia ones.
- Xubuntu 8.04 [screenshots]
- Linux turns 17
- One-time hobby now free to everyone
- Android has power of a clean sheet
- Open-source server appliance is ‘free’
- gOS 3 - the most beautiful Linux
- gOS 3.0 Gadgets ScreenShots
- Atmosphir Game Review
- What’s Coming In Ubuntu 8.10: Intrepid Ibex
- Gentoo : First thoughts after the switch
- Omega 10 Live CD Beta: Fedora With Added Multimedia
I wanted to run a couple of other multimedia tests on a more powerful desktop machine - it has an AMD Sempron 3800+ processor and 1.5GB of RAM with two DVD drives. On this machine Omega 10 loaded much quicker, the sound and screen resolution (1280×1024) were perfect and my wired network was automatically configured.
F/OSS
- So, what am I doing with OpenSolaris?
- Top 10 open source s/w support issues
- OpenOffice.org in the City of Katowice, Poland
We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in Łeba. Today we are introducing yet another example of a well-done implementation of OpenOffice.org, in Town Council of Katowice.
- GPL Project Watch List for Week of 10/03: Financial Crisis and Open Source
We have noticed an increase in AGPL v3 numbers this week, which shows that the interest in the AGPL v3 is still growing. It is a relatively small license compared to the GPL v3, but is finding its niche in the market.
- Telepathy support in Qt Extended - soon in main Qt?
- Freedom Walk: Day 2 - Kanhangad to Cheruvathur
- Freedom, software and society
- OpenStreeMaps: free software’s answer to Google and commercially-restricted geo-data
- Sri Lankan MIT award recipient proof of power of volunteerism
- Open source can still win in a down economy
- Choose the right licensing model for security software
KDE
- Camp KDE 2009: Call For Presentations
- Camp KDE 2009: Jamaican me crazy!
- KDE 4.2 (trunk) Now Rocking On My Thinkpad T61!!!
Leftovers
- Judge halts sales of RealDVD
- Wal-Mart Drops DRM Servers, Customers Lose Music
To those of you who were loyal early adopters of Wal-Mart’s music download service, Wal-Mart has a message for you: Say goodbye to your music. Since February Wal-Mart has offered only DRM-free songs for download, but before that customers of Wal-Mart’s service could download songs encoded with DRM. BoingBoing picked up an e-mail Wal-Mart sent to its customers saying the DRM servers will be shut down on October 9, making it impossible for customers to transfer their DRM encoded music to a music device or another PC after that date.
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Andrew Pitonyak, author and computer scientist 02 (2004)
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.