06.12.08
Links 12/06/2008: Debian Super-Success Story, GNU/Linux for Obama
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GNU/Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics have created Germany’s 4th largest supercomputer by using Debian GNU/Linux.
- Obama Campaign Hopes for Better Web Security
- PCLinuxOS 2007: Funny name, serious distro.
- Review: TinyMe 2008
But other than that and the few other tiny quirks I mentioned before, I really have nothing bad to say about TinyMe 2008. It’s a great OS: lean, clean, responsive and ready for newbie and experienced user alike. So if you haven’t had a chance to check it out, I recommend downloading it.
- 10 Things a new Linux user needs to unlearn
- Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications
- What is the ultimate goal of Linux?
- AMD Releases R600 GPU Documentation
- Coming To A Desktop Near You: X.Org 7.4
- Sabayon Linux Partners with NetCraft Communications to Enhance Versiera’s Support for Linux OS
- Web developer practices open source but doesn’t preach it
- Open source tour of Europe: Russia
Ubuntu
- 2008-06-09 – Ubuntu Eee goes gold!
- Ubuntu Eee 8.04: Custom Ubuntu distro for the Eee PC
- Shuttleworth talks up app launcher for ‘netbooks’
- Spawn of Ubuntu
Kernel/Embedded
- EMBINUX platform for mobile devices
- Tasty Tomato firmware for routers
- Linux kernel development talk
- Get the Facts Straight
Firefox
- Mozilla’s Mac Mini array is making Firefox better
Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner explained to me that Mozilla is using ‘regular’ Windows, Mac and Linux machines as part of their build environment, with Linux (CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux) serving up their Tinderbox build reporting environment.
- Firefox Download Day Set
F/OSS
- New FSF online store
- The amazing power of the community: real numbers from Apache
- The Law Goes Open Source
- Web Conferencing Goes Open Source
- Akaza Research and Conecta Join Forces for OpenClinica in Italy
- Open source Java projects: SwingLabs PDF Renderer
Conferences
- Best of Open Source Security Conference announced
- Open Source Unconference – Osscamp Delhi Summer Edition
- 2008 Open Source CMS Award Details Announced
Security
- Ransomware: Malware Armageddon approaches
- Why are European governments able to do more for less when it comes to National Security?
- The Rise of User Circumvention and Risky Unauthorized Activities























