● 05.26.08

● Links 26/05/2008: Red Hat Comes to South Africa, GNU Software Lands on Mars

Posted in News Roundup at 12:26 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzGNU/LinuxRed Hat to open SA officeLinux vendor Red Hat is to open an office in South Africa. Starting Monday Red Hat will have an SA-based country manager who will be responsible for the Southern Africa market on behalf of the company.AMD Releases Stream SDK For LinuxNVIDIA’s competition for Stream computing is CUDA, which is the Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA for short. CUDA has been supported on Linux now for some time and NVIDIA is in the process of bringing PhysX to CUDA, for physics acceleration thanks to their acquisition of AGEIA. Intel’s competition is Ct, or C for Throughput Computing.A look at OpenSolaris 2008.05 (by John Frey)RedPost Launches Wicker: A Customized Ubuntu for Digital Signs and Photo FramesGoogle to give Sydney demo of Android platformMusix GNU/Linux 1.0R4 Released – Everything from sound editing to graphical designFedora 9: Drumrolls with Linux HydrogenMaking that old PC usefulSo then, why do it? Why jump through so many hoops to make a Linux desktop look like some other operating system, instead of just installing XP or Vista, or even a different, easier Linux distribution? Well, I mentioned the answer at the beginning of this article: speed. While looking like Vista (and I do believe it’s close enough to fool the normal pc user), it behaves nothing like it. Vista wouldn’t even install on this machine. XP would be slow. Run Native Linux Applications in Windows Vista – Via Ulteo Virtual DesktopKorean Government Writes Digital Textbook on LinuxThe government-led Korean digital textbook project will adopt Linux. The Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea announced their decision to choose the open software for digital textbook, the key project for the government’s digital education policy.Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 26 May 2008Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 92F/OSSMarble integration with KOfficePhoenix Mars Lander – A Victory for Open SourceThe amount of software coordination and lack of commercial software geared to the aerospace industry continues to make custom software necessary for almost every mission. Linux, the gcc compiler, visualization libraries and more have allowed NASA to expand the capabilities of their missions beyond their greatest expectations.GPL Project Watch List for Week of 05/23, Special Interview With Marco Barulli From ClipperzMicrosoftGaining System-Level Access To VistaHow Microsoft missed the boat on zero-day threatsMicrosoft And The $1,632 Copy Of VistaMicrosoft looks to tackle software piracyMicrosoft Closing Live Search Books and Academic ProjectsThe beginning of the end for the Microsoft ZuneMicrosoft Axing Underperforming XBLA TitlesMicrosoft shelves spring update for Xbox 360Microsoft shares may stay cheap: Barron’sWith Microsoft down about 21 percent for the year and trading close to a 52-week low, the downside seems limited.Cyberspace feels the force of Microsoft rumour-mill‘So what’s really going on here? Microsoft is poised to shift from open to closed. Google is making exactly the opposite move: shifting from closed to open.’Google co-founder: Yahoo ad deal could workMicrohoogle recap, May 23: Page gets politicalWhile Microsoft and Yahoo Fiddle, Google BurnsAnalyst: Microsoft cashback not game-changer Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink  Send this to a friend

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