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(Sep 9, 2010, 01:35 UTC) (737 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "In meantime Xen 4.0.1 is available via rawhide repositories . Been installed along with 2.6.32.21 pvops kernel and the most recent libvirt 0.8.3 on top of F14 (rawhide) via just several yum install commands,it doesn’t require any longer to build xen rpms using corresponding xen-4.0.1-1.f14.src.rpm."
(Sep 9, 2010, 00:05 UTC) (672 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Journal: "The Red Hat board of directors announced a new chairman Monday, August 30, to replace outgoing Matthew Szulik. Henry Hugh Shelton, retired Special Forces general, has been serving on the board since 2003 after leaving the elite Army division."
(Sep 8, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (666 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LinuxPR: Instead, every piece of technology was chosen from the open source community. Here is the story of the technology behind stock photo agency YayMicro.com.
(Sep 8, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (792 reads) (3 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Conceivably Tech: "Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to be launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and enable 1080p video recording and playback."
(Sep 8, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (507 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Standards Blog: "I've been re-working The Alexandria Project in preparation for approaching a literary agent. One thing I'm toying with is whether the book needs to get to a quicker, edgier start than the original first chapter provides - such as what follows below. What's your opinion?"
(Sep 8, 2010, 22:03 UTC) (553 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) ZDNet Asia: "OrangeHRM, the open source human resource management (HRM) software company, wants to join the million-dollar revenue club by 2011."
(Sep 8, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (1146 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) MakeTechEasier: "With the coming of KDE 4, the number of effects has multiplied, and KWin (KDE’s window manager) is now on par with Compiz (a window manager with numerous desktop effects). Moreover, KWin’s primary advantage over Compiz is that it is part of KDE and integrates perfectly with the rest of the desktop."
(Sep 8, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (1346 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Digital Versus: "What is using Linux like in 2010? Can anybody pick it it? What about giving it a trial run first? Well, we're going to find out."
(Sep 8, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (660 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Serverwatch: "Love Microsoft or hate it, there are two things about the Redmond enterprise OS maker you can't deny: It's very, very big, and it likes to get its fingers into every pie around."
(Sep 8, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (1255 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Dedoimedo: "Several readers contacted me, urging me to review Zorin. My interest piqued, I set about the lanes of Google, searching for more information. The initial findings were quite positive. Zorin was praised in the reviews I read. The official website looked posh, sending a subliminal message that it was a kind of a freebie Mac OSX. "
(Sep 8, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (905 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Datamation: "The race to accelerate browser features continues as Mozilla developers race towards the finish line to get the finished version of the Firefox 4 Web browser out the door."
(Sep 8, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (908 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Threat Post: "Bad security isn’t just bad because it allows you to be exploited. It’s also a long term cost center. But more interestingly, even the most worthless security tools can be proven to “work” if you look at the numbers. Here’s how."
(Sep 8, 2010, 18:33 UTC) (681 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Packt: "The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects."
(Sep 8, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (684 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) LWN.net: "The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and
tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using
dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks."
(Sep 8, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (864 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) MWR Labs: "The previous article in this series on Linux security described different userspace protection mechanisms that can be applied to protect binaries on a Linux system. Unsurprisingly, without additional kernel settings and protections most of the previously described mechanisms cannot be utilised to their full extent."
(Sep 8, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (954 reads) (1 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) MWR Labs: "Probably every attack mitigation technique that has been developed over time to mitigate memory corruption exploits can be implemented and used in one form or another in a Linux operating system."
(Sep 8, 2010, 16:33 UTC) (1020 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Desktop Linux Reviews: The Desktop Linux Reviews blog now has a brand new discussion forum.
(Sep 8, 2010, 16:03 UTC) (852 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The Tyee: "Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network..."
(Sep 8, 2010, 15:33 UTC) (1619 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux Planet: "Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community."
(Sep 8, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (1494 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The H Open: "Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse"
(Sep 8, 2010, 14:33 UTC) (1632 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Shantanu’s Technophilic Musings: "The bad news is, the developer console will not let me change it! I have to pull the app until I can get this resolved."
(Sep 8, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (999 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) GRASS: "GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery."
(Sep 8, 2010, 13:33 UTC) (1659 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: "Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger."
(Sep 8, 2010, 12:47 UTC) (1302 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) CodePlex: "The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader, Matt Mackall."
(Sep 8, 2010, 12:02 UTC) (1495 reads) (2 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The H Open: "A beta of an unofficial remix of Ubuntu 10.04.1, the "Saner Defaults Remix", which offers "better default choices" and a Mono-free experience, has been released"
(Sep 8, 2010, 11:02 UTC) (1178 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) The H open: "The GNU Project Debugger release team has published the second point update to version 7.0 of its standard debugger for the GNU software system."
(Sep 8, 2010, 09:02 UTC) (1206 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) ServerWatch: "This week, I've been experimenting with gnome-do, the Gnome application launcher that also allows you to specify particular actions to take on whatever file or application you've found."
(Sep 8, 2010, 07:02 UTC) (4819 reads) (4 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) O'Reilly Broadcast: "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." --William James"
(Sep 8, 2010, 05:02 UTC) (2230 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Wine-Reviews: "Whats new in this release:
* Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version.
* New implementation of console support on Unix terminals."
(Sep 8, 2010, 03:02 UTC) (2163 reads) (0 talkbacks)
(Posted by cschroder) Linux.com: "Thanks to Compiz you have better, slicker, and more efficient ways to switch from one application to another. Take a look at Compiz Switchers, and you'll never want to go back to the boring old panel buttons!"
