Linus Torvalds quietly released another update to the Linux kernel over the weekend that offers better support for kernel-based virtual machines, a kernel debugger, improved webcam support and new support for the One Laptop Per Child architecture.
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Second Life vendor Linden Lab has been dabbling in open source for quite a while: their client code is available, and they’ve persistently talked about making the server open source as well. But now the company is facing a potential upheaval to its business model, as alternative compatible virtual worlds are popping up all over the place
What makes this significant right now is that IBM and Linden Lab have demonstrated interoperability between the "official grid" and an OpenSimulator server, moving an avatar (virtual world user) from one to the other….
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What are the 10 best best quotes from the father of Linux? CBR magazine thinks it has the answers!
Compared to Linux, yes, there are NO viruses but the users & staff spend 300 days a year tinkling & experimenting. By the time they got a nearly workable solution, hey! the new version of this linux is out and we should try it because it…
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“The latest NETGEAR open source wireless router is the WGR614L: the open wireless router platform of choice for serious developers and newer users alike. Flexible and powerful, the WGR614L can support many popular third party firmware applications, including DD-WRT, Tomato, and Sveasoft.”
So, you've "bricked" your WGR614L, either through too much tinkering or just a fluke. You may have tried tftp through your network cable, you just can't get a ping or for any reason can't get it going again. Rather…
O'Reilly Media is running an interview with Gordon Mohr, Chief Technologist for the Internet Archive (archive.org). If you've ever wondered how pages are selected for archiving, or just how they manage such a huge quantity of data, the answers are here. The interview also touches on the problems of intellectual property in archives.
GM: Absolutely; and that's by a couple of different ways in which that could be covered a whole lot more, one of which is simply anyone's broad crawl including Alexa is very sensitive to sites that are highly in-linked. So things that…
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When Eclipse committers discovered that a proprietary SUN software library was embedded in a widespread open source project they decided to file a bug report. A few days ago, SUN decided to release it as open source. No questions asked.
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The UK government’s education technolgoy agency has snubbed Ubuntu and a host of top notch open source companies and awarded a contract to promote open source in schools to a company that boasts its ability to develop vocational qualifications. Looks like the Microsoft tax lives on…
I\'ve written a number of times about BECTA, charting its constant flip-flops on open source in schools – sometimes damning it, sometimes driving it. Like me, you\'ve probably been increasingly confused about BECTA\'s…
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How the Boy Scouts will fix everything that doesn’t work with open source: project management, self-serving geeks and even the open source definition.
Since a recent experience with Microsoft got me worried about people using terms out of context, I thought I'd browse through the open source BSA site to find out more. Especially worth reading (and source from most of the quotes) are…
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Want to get the power of the free OpenOffice, and combine it with the collaboration capabilities of Google Docs? There’s a way to get the best of both worlds, with a free OpenOffice extension.
You don't have to wait for Google to take the advice though. You can integrate the two today. An eagle-eyed reader of my blog noted that such a thing is already possible, to a certain extent. It's not available from Google, but instead…
Easily run an autoscaling, load-balanced, monitored failover-safe cloud computing cluster on Amazon's EC2 cluster on open-source software!
PoolParty is based on established open source technologies that have been widely used in production. It takes your EC2 server pool, and invites S3Fuse, monit, and members of the High Availability Linux Project . Now you don’t just have a…
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In a bid to keep software developers in its orbit, Facebook is making its code open-source.
Intel’s Chief on Strategy, Globalization and the Price of OilIn a wide-ranging interview, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini talks about Intel’s move into processors for smaller machines, the company’s new chip…
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The open-source revolution rolls on….
Another worthy contender is the Cingular 8525 offered by AT&T. Apart from being one of the few international smart phones that can be used in Japan, the 8525 can take advantage of the medium-speed UMTS (universal mobile…
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The makers of a third-party Apple TV upgrade, which gives the device support for new video file formats, video streaming and full web browsing, have pulled the product over unspecified “fair use” concerns. Until yesterday, Highlands Ranch, Colorado-based Apple Core sold a very handy little USB stick called aTV Flash. The thumb drive was a plug-and-
Just because something is open source does not make it GPL. I have a number of applications that are distributed commercially as open source but are not redistributable. Open source is about freedom to make changes or audit the code, it is not…
The Moscow regional administration will test usefulness of an Open Source desktop by migrating several hundreds of desktop PCs to Mandriva GNU/Linux and by installing OpenOffice on a thousand others.
The regional government staff and their IT administrators will be trained to use Mandriva GNU/Linux and OpenOffice. The trainings are also open to all interested public administrators in the Moscow region, Klerk writes. Citizens interested in the…
