The members of this community aim to popularise Linux and encourage people to develop their own versions of the free software
They do not come across as your regular geeky computer guys who toil away endlessly to code and develop softwares for various business solutions, nor do they aim to overwhelm people about the work that they do, but for members of the Pune based organisation PLUG (acronym for Pune Linux User’s Group) spreading awareness, about the freedom that Linux as an operating system offers, is a cause that they have been promoting since the last 12 years.
According to our poll, one in five readers are considering moving over to Linux. That's quite a swing and a damning result for Microsoft's latest operating system. By dumping Windows XP, without doubt the most popular piece of software to come out of Microsoft in recent times, the firm may have inadvertantly given Linux the boost it needs on the desktop. Desktop oriented Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Open Suse and Mandriva should take note and capitalise on growing disillusionment among Microsoft users.
Flowsoft is a software and systems solution provider specializing in Linux consulting and support for server-based solutions and mobile environments.
But that’s not all. Sources say Intel has approached ClearFoundation and ClearCenter about leveraging ClearOS — a Linux-based solution — for the Intel Hybrid Cloud. It sounds like Intel plans to leverage ClearCenter’s expertise in VMs for network, gateway and server services, at times replacing and/or integrating with Microsoft Active Directory. Plus, ClearCenter Products (such as ClearSDN Cloud Services) may be sold via the Intel Hybrid Cloud offering, the sources add.
Isilon said the UCLA lab is using the storage alongside a 5,000-plus compute-core Linux cluster and repository of 2D and 3D neuroimages.
Demand for Linux programming skills has exceeded that for Unix programming skills for the first time ever, according to Richard Nott, director of recruitment site CWJobs.co.uk.
Possible reasons for this include the fact that more mobile platforms are supported by Linux, as are HD boxes, Nott said. In addition, the increasingly popular open source operating system Ubuntu also runs on Linux.
Chronic Logic announces Gish v1.6 with five new community campaigns totaling over forty new levels and five new VS. levels. Best of all the full version of Gish for Windows, OSX and Linux is now offered at a price of your choosing!
Many of the LinuxLinks crew grew up playing games on the ZX Spectrum, an 8-bit personal home computer. By today's standards, the games were simple with basic graphics plagued by attribute clash and primitive sound generation. However, this did not stop the best games being incredibly addictive. The famous Crash magazine (a monthly publication devoted to the ZX Spectrum) used to rate games by their addictive qualities. This was often the rating that interested us the most.
WAGO Corporation’s updated 758 Series IPCs pair CoDeSys V2 software, Linux OS, IEC programming languages and multiple onboard fieldbus protocols for real-time control applications.
SSV announced a new member of its "DIL/NetPC" computer-on-module (COM) family, offering a web server designed for remote access via smartphones. The Linux-based DIL/NetPC DNP/9265 incorporates an ARM9 Atmel AT91SAM9263 processor with 32MB SDRAM, 32MB flash, Ethernet and other I/O, and is offered with an "SK30" starter kit.
Earlier this year, Nokia and Intel announced that they are combining their Linux-based operating systems. Nokia's Maemo is currently available on the N900, while and Intel's Moblin was created for netbooks and tablets.
Meego -- the Linux effort headed up by Intel and Nokia -- recently scored a fairly major win, with GENIVI selecting it as the platform of choice for in-vehicle infotainment. In case you're not familiar with GENIVI, it's a consortium comprised of several high-profile companies including GM, BMW, Hyundai, Intel, Nokia, NVidia, ARM, Freescale, and many others.
The MeeGo Seminar Summer 2010 edition took place on July 26th, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. The event was packed. More than 530 registrants, 21 sponsors, 16 speakers, 3 tracks (Business, Technology, Qt+Atom), multiple demos and the announcement that the GENIVI Alliance has selected MeeGo as its future in-vehicle infotainment center.
At the same time (i.e. the beginning of 2009), Internet search giant Google also made an entry into the mobile space. Known as Android, they wanted to play their game differently. Following their "Don't be Evil" corporate slogan, they made their Linux-based mobile OS Open Source. This meant anybody was free to download the source code from Google and change it to their liking, and put it in the device of their choice. But its not like you can download Android and install it on your Nokia in a few clicks, the way you would download and install Linux on your PC. It meant manufacturers, big or small, could easily take Google's OS and put it in their hardware.
That little search bar at the top right of your Firefox browser is driving 9.18% of searches, according to research by advertising network Chitika, Inc.
That's a huge chunk in a market where Google handles more than 80% of searches and its competitors Bing and Yahoo! handle just 8.56% and 6.69%, respectively - suggesting a huge bidding war may be brewing for November 2011 when Google's contract with Mozilla is up.
I’m writing this column about Tab Candy while I also have my Webmail open, Twitter and Identi.ca, a page showing flight information and travel plans, and the Linux Magazine backend open. That’s a light load, because I’m traveling. In my home office I usually work on three or four writing projects at a time, plus social media sites, mail, and so on.
Ecuador has agreed to refrain from drilling for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest reserve in return for up to $3.6bn (€£2.26bn) in payments from rich countries.
Under a pioneering agreement signed with the United Nations, the oilfields under the Yasuni reserve will remain untapped for at least a decade.
The money is about half of what Ecuador would make by selling the oil.
Although peopleüs rights to their commons are often recognized and validated in smaller communities, scaling these lessons to the global level will require a new dimension of popular legitimacy and authority. The world community is rapidly evolving a sense of social interconnectivity, shared responsibility and global citizenship, yet the sovereign rights of people to the global commons have not been fully articulated. In declaring our planetary rights for these commons, we shall be confronting many decisive questions:
(1) Are modern societies prepared to create a framework in which the incentives behind production and governance are not private capital and debt-based growth, but human solidarity, quality of life and ecological sustainability?
(2) How soon — and how peacefully — will the subsystems of the Market State integrate their structures of value-creation and sovereign governance with the greater biophysical system of ecological and social interdependence?
(3) Can the global public organize effectively as a third power to develop checks and balances on the private and public sectors and establish the resource sovereignty and preservation value needed for a commons economy?
Globally, consumer rights and even human rights are eroding as some vendors infect their consumer electronics with Digital Restrictions Management mechanisms and as DMCA -- the law that tries to protect DRM -- is being secretly negotiated by a few strong countries and to be forced upon the rest of the world as treaties (ACTA 1, 2). These strong forces are overriding the three laws of robotics (if there ever will be at all) with something else.
As Asimov pictures it, a robot should give highest priority to (L1) protecting human beings (L2) obeying human orders (L3) protecting itself, in that order, above anything else. Any robot in Asimov's Sci-Fi is equipped with a positronic brain that will go nuts, so to speak, if it ever breaks these laws. This is to a society heavily dependent on robots what a fuse is to an electronic device. Imagine the threat one faces living in a world full of robots without these laws.
Summary
* The measures on copyright infringement will not come into effect until January 2011 at the earliest. * All these measures will involve (initially) is sending letter to those accused of infringing. * ISPs are under no obligation to monitor their subscribers' Internet use. * Technical measures cannot come into force until further consultation has been done and the regulations have been approved by Parliament. * It is up to the copyright owner to prove the infringement happened and an IP address was used. * It is up the the accused to prove that they did not commit the infringement if "their" IP address was allegedly used. * The government could put in place a method whereby websites and content could be blocked by ISPs due to alleged copyright infringement.
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