06.21.08

Links 21/06/2008: Choice a Necessity, GNU/Linux Development on the Rise

Posted in News Roundup at 8:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Why Many Projects Is Better Than Just a Few

Since free-software as promoted by the FSF is all about freedom and free choice, the developers are free to choose their own way of programming and building projects.
Alternative distros, alternative desktops
Latest ATI Linux Driver Introduces Support for YUY2 and UYVY
Can You Feel It?

Skipping ahead, Linux HPC clusters now dominate the market. We often hear about the “big ones”, but many small individual or group clusters still exist. I believe, the rapid and disruptive growth was due to the low barriers to entry. You could play with “it” before you committed big resources to a larger system. A simple and effective “try before you buy” proposition.
Mandriva’s Linux on a stick will wow all the ladies this Summer

Mandriva also includes its Control Center app which makes fiddling with settings and administering you machine much easier than the default KDE panels. Another nice touch is that the default Firefox page leads to a collection of resources and links for optimizing Mandriva.
Gutsy Geeks take Linux to the airwaves

Demonstrates Pocketsize PKI System at Red Hat Summit 2008
Desktop Virtualization Gets Military-Grade Security
Red Hat and the Linux Desktop 2008
Red Hat’s MRG makes advances in real-time computing

On Thursday, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. released its Red Hat Enterprise MRG platform, three separate subscriptions that collectively add advanced messaging, real-time computing and grid computing to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, or RHEL 5.
BakBone Releases Data Protection Solution

An interview with Jim Ready

We can all be quite proud of the enormous progress Linux has made in transforming the embedded OS marketplace from one which was highly fragmented and largely devoid of standards, to an environment based upon a highly functional OS which is a truly open standard: Linux.
Linux prominent in chip show awards
Home-Brewed Entertainment the Open Source Way

There are plenty of companies offering to sell you the latest set-top box or media server for your home theater. However, many of them are tied up with proprietary technologies that limit what a true-hearted tinkerer can do with them. There are other ways. Open source software exists for those with the courage to do it themselves.
Google’s Summer Of Code Attracts Hundreds Of Students

Google’s Summer of Code is one reason why Google keeps Microsoft executives awake at night.

Summer of Code is one of Google’s most active hosted sites for open source development. Google’s strategy is clear — give students a stipend and in return they’ll code their tails off and contribute to the open source community.

Now in its fourth year, the project has attracted open source heavyweights like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP and GNU.

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Java Programming said,

June 22, 2008 at 1:32 am

Since its inception, the released system, Linux, has been based on the Linux kernel, but most of the basic tools come from the GNU project, Linux. Java Programming
borgermaster said,

June 22, 2008 at 5:41 am

“Since free-software as promoted by the FSF is all about freedom and free choice, the developers are free to choose their own way of programming and building projects.”

Very funny. And there I thought you were against Mono. Go meditate a little about what ‘free choice’ means.