Of all the relationships changed by open source, perhaps the most nagging is that between business and politics. There’s another taste of that in today’s news, word the BBC is looking to make an open source version of its iPlayer
Read more »GNUmed 0.2.6.3 released
The new version sports few new features but rather quite a few changes under the hood. Software errors are handled much better in a way that they can be easily reported to the developers.
The so called slave mode has proven to be stable on MS Windows and is in use now daily.
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Smolt To Become A "Linux Thing"
Smolt, the Linux hardware profiler that was introduced by the Fedora project for automatically reporting installed hardware and other system attributes, reached a new milestone last week and is in the process of another. Last week, Smolt reached 75,000 profiles for Fedora after being introduced back in January of this year. At the time of writing, there are now over 78,300 profiles.
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Installing The Avivo Driver On Ubuntu
It was just a month ago that the open-source Avivo driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) series was introduced to the public, but in this time we've seen some great progress made. This open-source R500 driver now contains RandR 1.2 support, support for a variety of R500 graphics cards, and most recently support for Shadow Framebuffer was added.
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MorphOS 2.0 on EFIKA presentation at SceneCON
SceneCON is an annual meeting of underground computer artists who are members of the famous demo scene. With SceneCON, the organizers aim to follow the two decade old tradition of demo scene parties in Hungary. Yet, with a bit of a twist. This years party was held from the 16th until the 17th of June, 2007.
Read more »openMosix Project End of Life Announcement
Moshe Bar, openMosix founder and project leader, has announced plans to end the openMosix Project effective March 1, 2008. The increasing power and availability of low cost multi-core processors is rapidly making single-system image (SSI) Clustering less of a factor in computing.
Read more »Linux USB Pen / Stick RAID
This is an example of productive and practical use of a RAID. Granted, this project does not have the archaic grandeur of a Floppy Disk RAID, but then again, the capacity and performance of this system are utterly superior to those of a Floppy Disk RAID
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MusicPal WiFi radio from Freecom offers internet radio
While most portable audio devices have MP3 (and video) files in mind, the new device by Freecom has internet radio as the main feature, but can still play the usual MP3s. It is called MusicPal WiFi radio, and as the name suggests it uses the wireless connection mode to access the internet.
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Tester's Notebook: Ready, Get Set, Run
We evaluated XenSource XenEnterprise 3.2, including its storage capabilities. Its lean code base and Windows and Linux paravirtualization tools make XenEnterprise a bargain compared with VMware, but some shops will want to hold out for 4.0.
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Defender of the Expert's Realm
"I'm nervous of creativity and knowledge being lost," said author Andrew Keen. If the rise of blogs, wikis, social networks and YouTube continues unabated, Keen believes we could face a return to medieval times. He doesn't mean that sewage will be tipped straight onto the streets again, but that the great artists and creators will once more be dependent on a few select patrons.
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How to build a fully encrypted NAS on OpenBSD
In this article I will try to give you all the clues on how to build yourself a fully encrypted NAS for your home network. But first of all, why? Well, I believe that my data is my data and not somebody elses.
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Intel GMA950 & xf86-video-intel 2.1.0 [driver review]
Phoronix: "It was earlier this month that version 2.1.0 of the xf86-video-intel driver was released, which among other things had introduced open-source Linux graphics support for the G33, Q33, and Q35 chipsets..."
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Intel and OLPC kiss and make up
There's nothing like allegations of predatory conduct to bring two organizations together. Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project has decided to bring Intel on board as a partner and a possible future supplier, just a few months after Negroponte went on 60 Minutes and essentially accused the chip maker of trying to destroy his low-cost PC project.
Read more »ACPI in Linux - Myths vs reality
"Major Linux distributors have been shipping ACPI in Linux for several years, yet mis-perceptions about ACPI persist in the Linux community. This paper addresses the most common myths about ACPI in Linux [.pdf]."
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Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies
In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowlegde of using Linux.
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