After four years of continuous efforts, Satyasheelan developed Linux Intelligent OCR Solution (LIOS), involving a scanner connected to a computer, which helps blind people read books, newspapers or any printed or web content. It runs on Ubuntu operating system, a Linux- based open source software available free of cost. His son Nalin Sathyasheelan, a BSc Computer Science student supported him in the endeavour while professionals of IIT, Hyderabad, helped him to get Malayalam OCR (Optimised Character Recognition) for LIOS.
Google turns 14 today. Yeaah, I know it really doesn't seem all that long ago when Google was the 'new kid' on the block and we all used AltaVista (or at least I did…).
Like millions of others I first noticed Google because of its use by Yahoo. The bulky Yahoo portal page of 14 years ago was a mess so I just started going to Google directly (like millions of others). Back then Sergey and Larry were also a lot more accessible than they are now. I remember emailing about a result error and getting a personal reply (and a T-shirt) back in response.
There were quite a few words on the death of Linux on the desktop lately, but people have been saying that for a long time now. Even I talked about it at one point. In some ways Linux is dead, if you judge a liveliness of a platform by how much relevance it has to the mainstream consumer. That doesn’t, however, mean that a revival isn’t possible. And amidst all these death proclamations a few key trends are emerging that could actually signal a rebirth.
Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, September 23rd, that the seventh Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.6 kernel is available for download and testing.
The latest achievement within the Wayland camp is wlterm, a native terminal emulator.
This wlterm project is another terminal-related project by David Herrmann, the open-source developer that wrote KMSCON as a DRM-based terminal emulator, the FBLOG driver, and previously proposed Wayland virtual terminals.
This morning you may be seeing a number of performance previews on AMD's Trinity APUs for the desktop, while the full embargo covering these latest Fusion products has yet to expire. Phoronix tests of Trinity under Linux are forthcoming.
Intel has been working on a tablet shell for Wayland's Weston compositor. Work on this reference tablet shell continues to move forward.
Although we all are technology enthusiasts and like to spend a significant amount of everyday time in front of our computers, we also don’t forget to stay fit and exercise regular for a healthier body.
Unfortunately, there aren’t many sports tracking applications available in Gnome, so chances are that you either using Windows to do this, or you are not tracking your athletic activities at all. The recently updated SportsTracker could be the solution to this.
Reinventing the wheel is often cited as a barrier to the adoption of open source software. Critics point out if developers combined forces on projects, instead of duplicating software that already exists, this would help to alleviate the problem of an overwhelming amount of choice that faces users when installing new software. By reducing redundancy and duplicated effort, enhanced cooperation between developers would actually help to progress the development of established open source projects. There is an element of truth that development time is wasted, and it is not hard to identify examples of developers reinventing the wheel in their code, rather than contribute their development skills to projects with broadly similar objectives.
Here at “The Powerbase“, we usually report on software, hardware, or services which are open source. That’s sort of the whole point of this little thing we do. Someone browsing through our site could get the impression that the world is overflowing with open source projects, and everyone and everything is sharing data.
Unfortunately, that’s not exactly the case. While there is no question that open source has moved from niche to mainstream, there are still some big players who can’t seem to get their act together.
Valve’s much-ballyhooed expansion of the Source engine and Steam to the Linux world just took a major step forward with the announcement of a private external beta. If you’re running Ubuntu, you could be one of the lucky 1,000 users to take Steam and a Valve game for a spin sometime in October. Of course, if you’re really lucky, you’re probably gearing up for the private internal beta, which starts next week.
A new game – ‘Sacred Gold’, described as a ‘classic RPG’ – has been added to the Ubuntu Software Center.
Its arrival marks the beginning of a ‘new relationship’ between Linux Game Publishing and Canonical, which the games company says will ‘bring the greatest Linux ports of your favourite games to Ubuntu’.
Imagine if a bunch of flight-sim enthusiasts got together and spent years assembling a free, open-source, constantly updated flight simulator. Wait actually, you don't have to imagine that: It's a real thing, and it's called FlightGear. The open-source simulator has been around for years.
The game was released in 1994 for DOS and Amiga and it was open sourced in 2003. Since then it has been ported to many platforms using ScummVM. The game is available in repositories of many Linux distributions.
YoYo Games' popular 2D game engine GameMaker will soon have an option for exporting games to Ubuntu. Similar to what Unity 4.0 game engine is doing, developers will be able to export their games to Linux platform.
With Gnome 3.6 still being on beta (3.5.90), the discussions about the features of the upcoming 3.8 have already begun. It is not surprising that the first feature that is under examination is Fallback Mode.
Fallback seems low-maintained and not lot of people using it.
Gnome Files 3.6 is far from completed and is more like an experimental version of what is coming next, in 3.8. Overall, I think it is an improvement over 3.4 but this has to do in what way you’re using it.
Some things are done faster in new Files and some things are done slower. For common tasks? It is lot lot faster!
The 1.4 branch of KDE’s music player Amarok is admittedly the best music player that ever existed :) Unfortunately, the Amarok developers decided that it was too good to be true and they destroyed it with version 2.0, but Clementine did the trick by forking 1.4 and evolving into an even greater music player. Clementine uses Qt though, and we don’t prefer this toolkit in our system…so what about an Amarok 1.4 “clone” that uses GTK?
Today after reading a great review of SnowLinux 3 E17 Crystal from mylinuxexplore.blogspot.ca I decided to do a short video review of this Linux Distribution. After downloading the amd64 ISO, I spun it up to take a look.
The developers of the multimedia Live CD distribution GeeXboX have released a new version of their software which adds live TV functionality. After one year of work and the addition of up to 140MB of additional firmware and drivers to the distribution, users of GeeXboX 3.0 are now able to watch and record live television from DVB sources.
Today I created a short video on Sabayon Linux 10 XFCE. Sabayon comes in many flavours of desktop managers. XFCE is probably one of the lightest, so I decided to look at it. I have to admit, I have always had issues with Gentoo, Sabayon is based on Gentoo and from what I have read helps Noobs like me come to grips with Gentoo. As far as Sabayon’s ‘Out of the Box’ theory it is basically sound as installation, although different from other distributions I have played with was flawless.
"After nearly three years of work, I have the pleasure to announce that Qubes 1.0 has finally been released," Joanna Rutkowska, Founder and CEO of Invisible Things Lab, announced today.
Qubes OS is a "stable and reasonably secure desktop OS", she writes, explaining that she cannot call it "secure" or "unbreakable" unless it is formally proven that the whole design and implementation are 100% secure.
Robert Shingledecker has announced earlier today, September 25th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core and Tiny Core Plus Linux operating systems.
According to its financial results for the second quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, US-based Linux distributor Red Hat has seen increased demand for its open source applications. The company has reported quarterly revenues of $323 million (approximately €£199 million), an increase of 15% compared to the previous year. Its subscription software revenues rose by 17% compared to the same quarter last year to $279 million. The company posted a fall in net profits to $35 million, 12.5% down on last year's figure of $40 million; profit per share for this quarter was $0.18.
In Linux and other UNIX-like computer operating systems, the root account is the administrator account. A user with root privileges can perform many tasks that a standard user account cannot. In current editions of Fedora 17, the idea of a disabled root account is a foreign one.
But come Fedora 18, the next stable release, the root account will be disabled by default. It is one of the many new features of Anaconda, the Fedora system installation program. That at least is what you see in the just released Fedora 18 Alpha.
I bit the bullet and did some repartitioning of my Debian Wheezy-running laptop to give myself more space on the Linux side, taking it from the seldom-used Windows side of my dual-boot system.
Running stable software often means sacrificing the latest and greatest software features — especially in the open source world, where development cycles tend to be rapid and bleeding edge code is available to anyone who dares run it. If you want to build a cloud infrastructure on Ubuntu, however, you no longer have to choose between stability and features, thanks to a new OpenStack archive from Canonical. Here’s the scoop.
The Orbital Desktop Flickr user Jonathan Quintana loves to customize desktops, and this Ubuntu setup is his first linux desktop. It looks sharp, offers some useful information, and still has plenty of room to work and get things done.
Canonical generated significant excitement earlier this year when it announced its Ubuntu for Android plans, which included dockable smartphones that can launch the full Ubuntu Linux desktop.
No specific names were mentioned at the time regarding manufacturer partners, but recently a new concept project appeared that seeks to bring that vision to life.
Ubuntu users might already be familiar with the upcoming Shopping Lens function: the Home Lens, somewhat similar to Windows’ Start menu, will automatically search for products similar to your search term on services like Amazon. That means that typing something like “Photoshop” into your Home Lens will not only display search results for “Photoshop” in your applications, but display search results from online stores as well, giving you quick access to pages where you can buy the Photoshop software package.
Quantal Quetzal won't properly launch until October 18th, but a tentative timeline for Ubuntu 13.04 has already appeared on the horizon. Come December 1st, the as-of-yet unnamed version will hit its first alpha and transition into its second testing stage on February 7th.
Canonical is working on a toggle to let Ubuntu users block Amazon-stocked products from appearing in their desktop search results.
Say you're performing a local search on your computer for the word "Thompson" to locate documents about one of your clients. The last thing you likely want or need alongside the list of relevant files is a list of random products available on Amazon (as well as music in the Ubuntu One Music Store) that happen to include the search term. Yet that hasn't stopped Canonical, maker of the popular Ubuntu, from desperately defending its plan to add that very "feature" to the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10, dubbed "Quantal Quetzal."
Canonical has reversed its decision to drop Ubuntu’s GRUB 2 bootloader in favor of EFILinux on systems using Secure Boot, which prevents the loading of drivers or OS loaders that are not signed with a certain digital signature, after the Free Software Foundation (FSF) stepped in and said it will help find a workable solution for Linux installations.
Canonical's Linux based Ubuntu distribution has courted a lot of controversy in the past two years during its move from the Gnome desktop to Unity, and now the outfit is set to once again raise the ire of longstanding users. Canonical will include Amazon search results when users initiate Dash searches.
The new version of Ubuntu Linux slated for release in October introduces a feature that some users claim is at worst a violation of privacy or, at best, generally annoying. Ubuntu 12.10 introduces search results from Amazon into the Dash. That means you could be searching for a file or application on your computer and get shopping results under a "more suggestions" section after your general results.
While some are calling it a tempest in a teapot, Ubuntu loyalists are expressing fury that the next version of Ubuntu includes shopping suggestions from Amazon directly in desktop search results. Version 12.10 is imminent, and many Ubuntu users feel like the Amazon inclusions are nothing more than adware. What does Canonical get out of this arrangement, and will the company reverse its decision? Mark Shuttleworth has weighed in.
Steve Langasek from Canonical announced a few days ago, on August 27th, a proposal to drop the Alternate CD ISO images starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.
Four days later, on August 30th, the Alternate CDs were gone from the daily builds and will not be available at the launch of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1.
Ubuntu developer Canonical is making a push to establish itself as a force in the Linux server and cloud computing markets.
The company, which has long been known as a champion for the expansion of Linux into the consumer and developer markets, said that Ubuntu will also play a part in the next generation of cloud computing platforms.
Speaking in a keynote address at the 2012 LinuxCon North America convention in San Diego, Canonical vice president of cloud Kyle MacDonald told attendees that the company sees itself performing particularly well in the scale-out server market.
Take a quick look around the Ubuntu forums and IRC channels and you can miss the pattern: it's mostly men. That is not to say that there is no diversity in the open source community, only that you need to look a little deeper to find it.
According to a recent survey, only 12% of professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are women. So I felt especially lucky to "sit-down" with Ubuntu Women members Elizabeth "Lyz" Krumbach and Cheri Francis over a Google+ hangout to discuss the work they are doing with the organization.
Canonical announced today, September 27th, that the second and last Beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system is now available for download.
An interesting bug report cropped up on Launchpad a couple of days ago. Apparently, it is quite easy to bring up search results for sex toys, pornographic materials and other adult-related merchandise in Ubuntu 12.10 via the Dash.
Unity 6.6.0 has just been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal proposed repositories, bringing some polish for various aspects like the Dash Previews, animations, 2 new default lenses and more.
Last week I posted an article about Linux Mint 13 using the Mate desktop. The machine I used as the host for the Mint 13 Mate desktop is a fairly basic laptop with not much in the way of graphics rendering capabilities.
This article is a review of the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint 13. Now obviously it would be unfair to use the same laptop to do the Cinnamon review because clearly the laptop is not up to the task of running Cinnamon.
From standard feature upgrades to controversial integration with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), we’ve already surveyed the highlights of the desktop version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 release. But what do Ubuntu server users have to look forward to Oct. 18? Read on for a round up of the new bells and whistles set to make their debut in the backroom version of one of the world’s most popular open source operating systems.
Since Ubuntu Server 12.10 is not a longterm support (LTS) release, which means its lifetime of official support from Canonical will be relatively short, it’s not likely to see significant implementation in production environments. But that also makes it a ripe testing ground for Ubuntu developers to roll out new server features and get some real-world feedback in time to smooth out the kinks before the next LTS release.
I have been running Bodhi Linux on my Acer Aspire One Netbook for most of this year but today I finally decided to upgrade to the latest version.
The screenshots of Bodhi 2.10 that I had seen looked great and the version I had previously been running was just brilliant.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has performed testing on the effects of overclocking and overvolting, and is now providing what it calls a "turbo mode" for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. While the Foundation has always supported these kinds of modifications, they have in the past voided the customer's warranty for the product – a sticky bit in the BCM2835 chip makes sure this operation cannot be performed undetected. The turbo mode option enables users to get more performance out of their Raspberry Pis without having to be afraid of affecting their warranty.
The source code and the SDK for Tizen 2.0 alpha has been released. Tizen is a Linux distribution for mobile platforms cobbled together with parts from the MeeGo project, Moblin and Maemo (all three are now defunct). Tizen’s development is overseen by the Tizen Association, a non-profit organization supported by power-house companies in the industry
Several Phoronix readers have written in about libhybris, a way to load Android libraries while overriding some Bionic symbols with those symbols from glibc.
SAN DIEGO. It's no secret that Google's Android mobile operating system has had its share of security flaws. But what is less well-known is that the U.S. government's National Security Agency (NSA) is among the teams working to improve Android security.
Speaking at the LinuxCon North America 2012 conference, NSA developer Stephen Smalley detailed how the NSA is working to make Android more secure for everyone.
The NSA is no stranger to the world of Linux and open source security. In 2004, the NSA began to work on something known as SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux). SELinux provides mandatory access control and granular application level controls to Linux. SELinux is now baked into Linux and is a key component of its overall enhanced security.
The theory that Android smartphone users don't buy apps is wrong, according to new data that shows 93 per cent of Android phone owners are buying apps rather than just downloading free ones.
In a recent survey by Android keyboard developer Swiftkey, the data reveals that twice the number of Android owners own more than 20 apps compared to users last year.
SAN DIEGO. Twitter has become one of the most pervasive forms of real time social media interactions in recent years and it's largely powered by open source technology. That's the message coming that Chris Aniszcyzyk, the open source manager at Twitter, delivered today at the LinuxCon conference.
Twitter's infrastructure runs on open source technology using the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and the Scala programming language. Aniszcyzyk noted that Twitter was first built with the open source Ruby on Rails framework, but ended up moving away from Rails for performance reasons.
Just over two years after their now-famous Kickstarter fundraiser that generated ten times the amount of funds they were seeking, the founders of Diaspora have announced they will shifting control of the project to the Diaspora community.
Diaspora is one of the flashy success stories of the social media age. Conceived by four NYU students as an open source, distributed answer to Facebook, the project received a lot of media and hacker attention in 2010, just as the apex of concern for Facebook's data privacy policies was being reached.
Twitter seems to have a somewhat cynical approach on how to treat developers these days. The news that Twitter is joining the Linux Foundation comes just days after the microblogging company angered many in its development community with tighter restrictions on its APIs.
The timing for joining the Linux Foundation seems rather suspect--observers have already called Twitter on trying to spin the negative response it received when the company announced the changes to version 1.1 of the Twitter API on August 16.
“What a crazy week,” said Eric Gundersen, CEO of MapBox, a cloud-based digital map publishing company, in an interview with TPM.
Gundersen’s point is well taken, given his small 25-person startup, based in Washington, D.C., just won a $575,000 grant from the journalism innovation nonprofit the Knight Foundation.
I participated in a panel discussion at LinuxCon today with other journalists who cover Linux and open source goings-on, including our own Alex Williams. One of the questions that was asked was “What was the most important story for you this week?”
The answers from my peer journalists were interesting, and reflect the diversity in interest (and beats) between us all. From Google’s admission to using — and paying for support for — Ubuntu on the desktop, to Linus’s revelation of a Linux 4.0 release within the next couple of years, the things that piqued our various interests covered the spectrum of what happened this week.
The Australian national Linux conference appears to be becoming a victim of its own success, with no team putting up a bid to host the event in 2014.
But the sponsor, Linux Australia, has no choice but to keep finding an organising team - the conference serves as its main source of funds. Else, it would not be able to spread its wings as it has.
It's not as easy a question as you might think. For me, I used to (perhaps naively) believe that any license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is open source. Those licenses are all supposed to conform to the Open Source Definition.
Speaking at the LinuxCon conference, Red Hat lawyer Richard Fontana led an awesome session that really illuminated by view of the whole discussion.
The fourth annual LinuxCon conference is getting underway this week here in Sunny San Diego. Over the last four years, LinuxCon USA has emerged as one of the preeminent Linux events on Earth, bringing together the best and brightest in a weeklong Linux love-in.
LinuxCon filled the gap that was left behind after the collapse of LinuxWorld (remember that show?) as a vastly superior, technology focused show. The 2012 event by all indications will be another epic bonanza for Linux aficionados. While there have always been co-located conferences at LinuxCon, this year the Linux Foundation is co-locating its newest conference CloudOpen with LinuxCon.
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the speaker lineup and program for Apache Con Europe 2012 which is taking place 5 - 8 November at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. According to the ASF, the conference is mostly targeted at "technologists currently developing Apache-based solutions, as well as those interested in committing code to an Apache project, contributing to the Apache Incubator, or enhancing their Open Source products and community practices."
Pitched as a browser for searching and browsing fast, with accelerated page loading, adjectives like "quick" and "speed" gave me the impression I was in for a Web-based speed record. That was not to be the case. I experienced sticky page scrolling at the image-heavy CNN website compared to scrolling on the stock browser.
Mozilla officially released the Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0 email and RSS client to the world on August 28th, 2012, bringing a few interesting new features.
The Mozilla Foundation is out with a public beta of Persona, a browser-centric system for logging in to online sites that could do away with managing lots of usernames and passwords. Mozilla has been working with the idea of Personas online for a long time, ranging from schemes to customize browser skins and the like to streamlining online log-in processes. Mozilla claims that the new public beta can do a lot to simplify online identities.
Mozilla has been waging a multi-year battle against memory bloat in its open source Firefox web browser. With today's Firefox 15 release, Mozilla is firing a major salvo in that battle, claiming a reduction in memory usage.
The memory reduction comes by way of plugging memory links in the way that third party add-ons consume memory.
In a blog post detailing the memory fix, Mozilla developers estimated that the memory improvement could be as much as a 4.8x improvement over the previous Firefox 14 release.
Today, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation announced eight winning ideas that offer a glimpse of what the internet of the future might look like. Next up: invite developers everywhere to make these and other big ideas a reality.
The Linux Foundation wrapped up its CloudOpen conference this weekend at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in San Diego.
Billed as "the only" conference providing a collaboration and education space dedicated to advancing the open cloud, but what kind of taste did it leave in our mouths?
Can we say unequivocally that ALL open source cloud computing is ALL good news?
Rackspace has announced that it is handing over the management and assets of the OpenStack project to the OpenStack Foundation. Members of the project had worked to set up the foundation since Rackspace's original announcement of it in October 2011 and, according to Rackspace, the course had been set since the very founding of the project.
In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more sophisticated ways to extract and transform data.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released updates to the 9.2.x and 9.1.x branches of its open source relational database. According to the project's developers, these updates fix two critical bugs that could lead to potential data corruption and which were accidentally introduced "as a side effect of performance optimisations and new features, mainly Unlogged Tables".
Oracle CIO Mark Sunday has a lot of users he needs to support and he's using Linux to do it. The tech leader took the stage at the LinuxCon conference this morning to discuss how Oracle uses and develops Linux.
"Linux is our platform of choice across a wide variety of services," Sunday said. "It is how we build products and how we provide services to our customers."
Oracle is a massive organization of over 125,000 employees spread across 49 countries and according to Sunday, they all depend on Linux. Linux is the core technology that powers Oracle's core collaboration, including email and its primary systems.
If the accusation Oracle is incrementally withdrawing MySQL from open source is FUD, as an Oracle VP claimed this week, then it's time for Oracle to take concrete steps to prove 'open' is their chosen path.
A startup has pledged to deliver for Java what the brains of Larry Ellison’s mighty Oracle and the entire Java community cannot: cloud scalability - now.
It also hopes to spread the love to Java-hating sysadmins.
Waratek is planning the general release of its Cloud VM for Java at JavaOne next week. The Cloud VM product is a virtualisation engine built by Waratek to deliver multi-tenancy and elasticity for Java apps. It will also release APIs that let you build for Cloud VM for Java at the event.
Oracle has announced two new Java products for embedded systems, with the aim of getting the object-oriented language running on as wide a range of devices as possible, including ones with very limited resources.
Tuesday's new addition to the database giant's Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) lineup, Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.2 shrinks Java's footprint down to levels that are almost unthinkable in the modern PC era. Derived from the version of Java ME that runs on feature phones, it supports devices with ARM processors and as little as 130KB RAM and 350KB ROM.
Doesn’t it give you a warm feeling when you’re asked to do a week’s work in twelve hours or less? It should. It should give you a warmer feeling when you can do it in far less time. Give your C-Level suitors this one in under an hour and they’ll think you’re as magical as Mr. Scott aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Mr. Scott often surprised the always demanding Captain Kirk with his ability to fix just about anything within the very tight time constraints placed on him. Instead of dilithium crystals and altered phaser electronics, you’ll have to work with Ubuntu and Drupal.
Support for featured images and all-new stats are the most notable features in the recent 2.2 release of the WordPress for Android mobile application. This new version now lets users set Featured Images from directly within the app; previously this could only be done using the web interface. After adding an image to the post, users can enable this option by tapping on it and selecting "Use as featured image"; the developers note that this requires WordPress 3.4.1 or later.
While the new AMD Trinity APUs are what's exciting and being benchmarked at the moment, here are some updated compiler tests from earlier this month on an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer system.
An interview with one of the talented people behind NASAs Open Government initiative.
Winston Churchill was known as a charismatic leader and statesman, able to rally his country to great things when they needed it most. He was also fond of the occasional salty outburst when needed—I won't repeat one of his more famous ones here, except to paraphrase it a bit...
In his recent post, Glyn Moody asks an important question: "Can open source be democratic?" He describes how free software emerged as a distributed, bottom-up system of writing code. The central defining aspects of that culture are a uniquely open process not just of programming but also of its organization, and a close relationship between programmers and users. Effectively, users and programmers together were both contributors, they collaborated on the project. Glyn goes on to explain how this community effort changed over time to become more institutionalized, more corporate and more dull—"becoming a 'Firefox Affiliate', hardly something that sets the pulse racing." Ordinary users no longer play an important part in open source projects.
Perhaps you read my, "No iOS 6 for my original iPad? Now, I'm an Angry Bird" post that describes, in detail, my irritation with Apple for no longer supporting my iPad 1. If you haven't, you should so that you'll understand this post. Don't worry, I'll wait for you to finish before I continue.
Now, that you're back, I've come up with a solution to this overt obsolescence dilemma facing tens of millions of disappointed customers--not only from Apple but from other companies as well. Just read the comments from the original post and you'll see that we all face this, "Buy our newest stuff" marketing ploy regardless of your device source.
Of course I went out to re-read both the open source and free software definitions so I could prove him wrong...but I can’t. He is right, the definitions of both free software and open source software say nothing about being developed in the open, but as those of you who have attended one of my workshops (or read my book) know, I disagree.
If you've been curious about GitHub then this short tutorial in the Open source Java projects series is for you. Get an overview of the source code repository that has changed the way that many developers work, both individually and collaboratively. Then try GitHub for yourself, using common Git commands to branch and commit your own open source project.
I recently wrote that to master technology, you must master software. It is software that differentiates one device or computing experience from another. And since nearly all software today is built using open source projects and code, knowing how to collaborate and contribute to an open development community is a requirement for any developer or company regardless of industry.
Stephanie Taylor from Google's Open Source Programs Office has announced the launch of the company's third Code-in contest for pre-university students. The annual event is open to students aged 13 to 17 from around the world and is designed to introduce them to open source software development.
The chairs of the W3C's HTML Working Group have presented a plan to approve a stable HTML5 specification before the end of 2014. The plan proposes to formally define a stable set of features as HTML 5.0, but when the HTML Working Group will approve this plan is as yet unknown. Features for which no stable specification is available by then could be moved to an extended "HTML 5.1" set of features that could be completed by 2016.
A lawyer for a former Goldman Sachs programmer charged twice with stealing secret computer code from the bank sharply criticized both the bank and the government in New York State court on Thursday.
“He left Russia for freedom, justice, and the American way and he got Franz Kafka and Goldman Sachs,” said Kevin Marino, the lawyer for Sergey Aleynikov, the former programmer.
The 'midata' agenda is an attempt by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to empower consumers through a right to request their personal data back from businesses. BIS describe their approach as 'a partnership between the UK Government, businesses, consumer groups, regulators and trade bodies to create an agreed, common approach to empowering individuals with their personal data.'
The Sharing of Costs Order basically sets out who pays for what bits of the setting up and running of the obligations under the Digital Economy Act. After an initial consultation in summer 2010, Ofcom eventually produced a revised Order in summer 2012. Their consultation on this ran until September 18th.
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