● 10.06.08

● Links 5-6/10/2008: A Look at Omega GNU/Linux, Mandriva 2009 RC2; Linux Turns 17

Posted in News Roundup at 2:05 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzGNU/LinuxThe BeBook eBook Reader is a great deviceIntel’s GEM Coming In Linux 2.6.28 KernelAnother IKEA linux clusterIn 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 RC2For 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 HPFree, Professional Music Production: A Linux IntroductionThese 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 impressionsTrue GNUI 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 17One-time hobby now free to everyoneAndroid has power of a clean sheetOpen-source server appliance is ‘free’gOS 3 – the most beautiful LinuxgOS 3.0 Gadgets ScreenShotsAtmosphir Game ReviewWhat’s Coming In Ubuntu 8.10: Intrepid IbexGentoo : First thoughts after the switchOmega 10 Live CD Beta: Fedora With Added MultimediaI 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/OSSSo, what am I doing with OpenSolaris?Top 10 open source s/w support issuesOpenOffice.org in the City of Katowice, PolandWe 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 SourceWe 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 CheruvathurFreedom, software and societyOpenStreeMaps: free software’s answer to Google and commercially-restricted geo-dataSri Lankan MIT award recipient proof of power of volunteerismOpen source can still win in a down economyChoose the right licensing model for security softwareKDECamp KDE 2009: Call For PresentationsCamp KDE 2009: Jamaican me crazy!KDE 4.2 (trunk) Now Rocking On My Thinkpad T61!!!LeftoversJudge halts sales of RealDVDWal-Mart Drops DRM Servers, Customers Lose MusicTo 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 DayAndrew 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. 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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