Linux clustering is very popular for RenderMan customers. And while the software is "certainly used extensively on OS X workstations...very few people run RenderMan on OS X clusters," according to the source.
You see, as a fact, collaborative innovation is the key to creating free software. Why? Because the concept has the ability to claim not one, but thousands of developers. Something that can be created for large amounts of money by a small team, can be created with thousands of the same experts who come from different backgrounds. The software that comes out is the software that is created by the user for the user, which is a very large advantage. Linux, for instance has come a long way, and much of its components such as the kernel owe its existence to open source.
Recently I bought an Eee 901. Asus has modified the kernel's ACPI driver. They released the source code to that on an 8G surf model, but the 901 has additional hardware features in the ACPI space (bluetooth radio power toggle, for instance) that are not in the source they released back then. There are no sources released at all under the 901 section of their website.
Anyone know whom to contact at Asus about this?
This year Akademy held a dedicated day for mobile and embedded talks. With Trolltech being owned by Nokia, mobile is suddenly a hot topic for KDE and several variants of Qt and KDE on mobiles were in progress at Akademy. Read on for an overview of the talks.
Debian kicks arse. Ubuntu kicks arse. They just kick arse in slightly different ways with a strong connection. DebConf, my first one, demonstrated such arse kicking, and I look forward to continuing to work with our friends there.
Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.2 has been released for i386 and x86_64
In our ongoing series of Free and Open Source Software deployments in Malaysia, OpenMalaysiaBlog is proud to highlight the efforts of the City Council of Melaka. They were one of the first few departments to migrate completely to OpenOffice.org (98% of their 300 hundred seats.
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Hun
2008-08-17 15:15:32
Lot of others sites filter out the good stuff