09.14.08
Links 14/09/2008: New GNU/Linux Releases, Unigine Demo
Releases
- 12 September 2008 : GParted 0.3.9
- CentOS 4.7 Release Notes
Welcome to the CentOS 4.7 release. CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by our Upstream OS Provider (UOP)1.
- Elive 1.8.8 development released
The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.8.8
GNU/Linux
- gOS 3 Google Gadgets Review
This weekend I decided to take the Linux distribution known as gOS 3.0 beta for a spin. The gOS is an Ubuntu 8.04.1 derivative that shows some promise with it’s integration of Web applications. Although they are not affilated with Google, gOS has incorporated many Google online tools into their desktop.
- Unigine Tropics Sets Linux OpenGL Precedence
Unigine Tropics is set around a tropical environment (hence its name) and it runs through various scenes of an island during both the day and night. Some of its technical features though include a dynamic sky with light scattering, live water with a surf zone and caustics, special materials for vegetation, HDR rendering, parallel split shadow map for the sun, depth of field, and real-time ambient occlusion. Whether you are interested in benchmarking or not, this is one impressive graphics demo just to watch — permitting your graphics card can handle it!
- My First Linux Encounter or How to Switch to Linux
- What To Look For In Fedora 10
- The Difference Between Debian and Ubuntu (part 1)
- What is happening in the world of Ubuntu?
- Big LOL at a Linux old-timer (i.e. myself)
- What is with the all Linux users?
- A Week Working With Linux
After a short vacation during which I made a traveling test with Linux, which was very successful, I decided to continue the test by using it as much as possible for my work this week. As I have mentioned previously, I have my primary laptop set up to multi-boot Windows XP Professional, Ubuntu or Mandriva, so it is just as easy for me to boot Linux as Windows at any time. I was very curious as to how many times during the week I would “have to” boot Windows.
- Why Linux funding will skyrocket
- Inexpensive USB Display with Sideshow support displays stocks, weather and much more.
- Making the most of the acer aspire one
- Word-of-mouth is Linux’s best bet for success
KDE
- Introducing the darkest power of PowerDevil
So, want to give it a shot? PowerDevil is, at the moment, in kdereview, but will be soon moved to kdebase and will be the default powermanager in KDE 4.2.
- KDE Commit Digest: Issue 127: 7th September 2008
Rob Scheepmaker introduces his work on “Extenders in Plasma”: I’ve been working on Extenders for my Google Summer of Code project, and while there are still a couple of known (and probably also unknown) problems, they are basically ready for use. I’d like to take this opportunity to explain and show what this extender thing actually is, and why it is awesome.
Thanks to extenders, it is now very easy for applet developers to embed relocatable widgets in your applet. Any QGraphicsWidget can be wrapped in a so-called “ExtenderItem”, which allows the widget to be simply dragged anywhere by the user. Items that have been “detached” this way, can live on even when the applet that created them goes away, and can even be persistent between sessions. Widgets can also be reordered by the user, they can be collapsed and expanded, and custom actions can be registered for easy interaction. Take a look at the following simple screencast to get an idea about what all this means.
F/OSS
Collaboation
- Open Source Architecture, The Power of Collaboration
- Open source promises greater collaboration
- Clandestine world of intelligence-gathering turns to an open market for data
- Open-source intell gets governance
- Spy Agencies Turn to Newspapers, NPR, and Wikipedia for Information
- Homeland Security lacking ‘open source’ intelligence
Leftover
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Brian Behlendorf, lead developer of the Apache Foundation 04 (2005)
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
Technie said,
September 14, 2008 at 12:14 pm
What happened to MS – Yahoo >> ??
Roy Schestowitz said,
September 14, 2008 at 12:29 pm
It has been rather quiet recently. However, Yang is still under pressure (investors and procies), Ichan+Microsoft+friends are still on his board and another Softie has just landed there. They could get ‘hijacked’ for a lower price.