05.26.08
Links 26/05/2008: Red Hat Comes to South Africa, GNU Software Lands on Mars
GNU/Linux
- Red Hat to open SA office
Linux 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 Linux
NVIDIA’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 Frames
- Google to give Sydney demo of Android platform
- Musix GNU/Linux 1.0R4 Released – Everything from sound editing to graphical design
- Fedora 9: Drumrolls with Linux Hydrogen
- Making that old PC useful
So 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 Desktop
- Korean Government Writes Digital Textbook on Linux
The 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 2008
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 92
F/OSS
- Marble integration with KOffice
- Phoenix Mars Lander – A Victory for Open Source
The 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 Clipperz
Microsoft
- Gaining System-Level Access To Vista
- How Microsoft missed the boat on zero-day threats
- Microsoft And The $1,632 Copy Of Vista
- Microsoft looks to tackle software piracy
- Microsoft Closing Live Search Books and Academic Projects
- The beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune
- Microsoft Axing Underperforming XBLA Titles
- Microsoft shelves spring update for Xbox 360
- Microsoft shares may stay cheap: Barron’s
With 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 work
- Microhoogle recap, May 23: Page gets political
- While Microsoft and Yahoo Fiddle, Google Burns
- Analyst: Microsoft cashback not game-changer
