Resumen: Patrones de FUD (Miedo Incertidumbre y Duda) que han muerto en su mayoría están regresando a las noticias corporativas, por lo que rápidamente los refutamos de nuevo.
El número de vectores de ataque es cada vez mayor cuando se trata de Microsoft Windows. No tiene sentido negar el hecho de que muchos de los problemas de seguridad que tenemos hoy son causados por Windows. Lo que queda a los expertos para debatir es si la cuota de mercado es un factor.
Hay una comparación vieja de las plataformas basadas en criterios de seguridad y esto es un frasco de gusanos que no se ha abierto desde hace tiempo. Las GNU/Linux flamewars cuota de mercado, incluso las de GNU/Linux frente a Windows debate sobre la seguridad, no han hecho muchos titulares durante meses si no años. Con el Register haciendo algunos comentarios falsos y algunos otros sitios siguiendo su ejemplo, el debate aburrido se volvió a abrir, así que vamos a tratar muy rápidamente (sin puntos antes de repetir que cubrimos, con suerte).
Hace sólo unos días que hemos escrito acerca de la inseguridad de Vista 7[http://techrights.org/2011/05/13/back-door-friendly-windows_es/], anuncio una vez más algunos posts anteriores sobre el tema, tales como:
1. La ciberdelincuencia Aumenta y Vista 7 ya está abierto a Criminales[http://techrights.org/2009/01/01/vista-7-not-secure/]
2. Vista 7: Roto Antes de su Llegada[http://techrights.org/2009/02/01/windows-7-banned-insecure-uac/]
3. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional ‘envenenado’ por parte de Microsoft, Vista 7 esta abierta a Secuestradores de nuevo[http://techrights.org/2009/03/12/phil-reitinger-in-dhs-vista7-awol/]
4. La Seguridad de Vista 7 “no puede ser arreglado. Es un problema de diseño.”[http://techrights.org/2009/04/23/vista-7-cannot-be-fixed/]
5. ¿Por qué Vista 7 Podría ser el sistema operativo menos seguro que nunca[http://techrights.org/2009/04/27/vista-7-least-secure-os/]
6. Periodistas Sugieren la prohibición de Microsoft Windows. Tal vez una demanda por los ataques DDoS[http://techrights.org/2009/08/09/ddos-attacks-and-microsoft/]
7. Vista 7 vulnerables a las últimas “Defectos Críticos”[http://techrights.org/2009/08/13/vista-7-rtm-was-vulnerable/]
8. Vista 7 Al parecer, afectado por varios de las más “críticas” fallos este mes[http://techrights.org/2009/09/09/flaw-paid-for-launch-parties/]
9. Razón # 1 para evitar la Vista 7: la inseguridad[http://techrights.org/2009/08/14/vista-7-insecurity/]
10. Vista 7 Hackeable Una vez más (casi una repetición mensual)[http://techrights.org/2009/10/09/vista-7-hijack-risk/]
11. Trend Micro: Vista 7 menos seguro que Vista[http://techrights.org/2009/12/11/vista-7-insecurity-2/]
12. Vista 7 menos seguro que sus predecesores? Remoto BSOD Ahora Posible![http://techrights.org/2009/09/08/vista-and-vista-7-bsod/]
13. Vista 7 inaceptable para las grandes empresas y Windows XP no es todavía seguro[http://techrights.org/2010/03/11/intel-and-win7/]
Groklaw señala que “Microsoft resta importancia a amenaza del error de Servidor[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216602/Microsoft_downplays_Server_bug_threat_say_researchers]” al citar:
Microsoft está restando importancia a la amenaza planteada por uno de los tres errores que la empresa hoy parchó, dijo que los investigadores de seguridad.
La actualización en cuestión, MS11-035, los parches de una sola vulnerabilidad en WINS (Windows Internet Name Service), un componente en todas las ediciones compatibles de Windows Server, incluido Server 2003, 2008 y el R2 más reciente, Server 2008.
Los atacantes podrían explotar el bug WINS elaborando un paquete de datos maliciosos, a continuación, disparándole a un Servidor de Windows vulnerable.
Esta es una prueba más de la negligencia Microsoft [1[http://techrights.org/2009/11/13/microsoft-security-negligence/], 2[http://techrights.org/2009/11/16/microsoft-onecare-activex/], 3[http://techrights.org/2009/11/17/no-desire-to-secure/]].
Cuando una empresa no se ocupa de fallas conocidas, entonces no merece el respeto de ninguna empresa. Microsoft también miente sobre el número de defectos, porque esto ayuda a sus juegos de números y hacer que parezca como si Red Hat, por ejemplo, hace un sistema operativo menos seguro.
Hay un nuevo artículo[http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3933491/article.htm] con un titular que se burla planteando una alegación como una pregunta. Pero se citan algunos mensajeros válidos, por ejemplo:
“Linux ha sido más ampliamente desplegado, que sin duda ha convertido en un destino más grande para los piratas informáticos en general”, dijo Charlie Belmer fundador y CEO de proveedor de seguridad Tecnologías de Golem. “Pero en términos de seguridad global sigue siendo muy superior a la de Windows.”
El Sr. Belmer tiene un punto, a diferencia de Ballmer.
Tony Bradley, quien ha estado defendiendo desde hace años en Microsoft IDG, está molesto por un artículo de su colega, Katherine, a quien le gusta GNU / Linux. Ella escribió sobre cuestiones relativas a las alegaciones de las puertas traseras para la NSA (Agencia de Seguridad Nacional) [http://techrights.org/2011/05/11/windows-vs-activists_es/] de nuevo hace unos días y el refuerzo de Microsoft está molesto por supuesto. Él admite que Vista 7 no es tan seguro. Es aún menos seguro que sus predecesores. Emprende la defensa de su argumento mal estructurado por señalar con el dedo en otra parte y la difusión de la “cuota de mercado del 1%” insulto hacia GNU/Linux. Hacia el final se convierte en el “pero” troll que parece justo. ¿Qué superficial y transparente!
En realidad, esto nos lleva a abordar la siguiente pieza de FUD que ha regresado. Algunas cifras que se presentan en este nuevo artículo[http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/05/12/the-top-20-strongholds-for-desktop-linux/] confirman lo que hemos dicho durante años:
Este cuadro refleja la relativa popularidad de Linux como sistema operativo de escritorio en cada país. Esto no significa que estos países tienen la mayoría de los usuarios de Linux en general (que es más difícil de estimar correctamente).
Statcounter mide cosas como referencias o sitios que entregan registros, lo que lleva a un sesgo estadístico. Privacidad es correlaciona con GNU/Linux uso. Pero de todos modos, la observación más importante que es que el mundo de habla Inglés NO está a la vista. Dile esto a todas las empresas de la “cuota de mercado[http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_Market_Share]” Inglés-céntrica.
GNU/Linux no tiene una cuota de mercado del 1% sobre el escritorio. Esto podría ser cierto en los Estados Unidos, cuya población sólo representa alrededor del 5% de todo el mundo. está respaldada por las estadísticas no son tan infrecuentes e IDG empuja un montón de esta mentiras, es una empresa con sede en los EE.UU..
Como algunas personas con razón, se mostrarán este mes, hay un fuerte aumento en el uso de GNU/Linux (relativa) en Wikipedia hace poco (que aún está centrada en Inglés). Es evidente que hay algo que hacer. Mientras tanto, Google afirma que sólo el 20% de sus empleados usa de Windows y fundador de la compañía tiene palabras duras para Microsoft[http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/051111-chrome-os-first-look.html?hpg1=bn]. Google prohibió Windows por razones de seguridad y su fundador, dijo que Windows es la “tortura” de los usuarios. Ha jugado muy bien. Como lo expresó el Sr. Pogson:
Sergey Brin, de Google fue citado diciendo que otros sistemas operativos e incluso usuarios de GNU/Linux torturan. Me gustaría tener GNU/Linux cualquier día, porque si usted no desea administrar que la maldita cosa sólo sigua funcionando. He creado máquinas que corrireon años sin una actualización. Otros han informado de que las máquinas olvidadas siguieron corriendo durante muchos años.
Ya existe un cierto control de daños de parte de los impulsores de Microsoft como Gralla, que niega la verdad[http://blogs.computerworld.com/18276/windows_is_not_torturing_users_despite_the_claim_of_googles_brin]. La gente no elige Windows, simplemente compran una computadora. Muchos se ponen a sí mismos en una tortura de malware y falta de fiabilidad.
En cuanto a mí, he utilizado la sesión de KDE mismo desde marzo (sin pantalla de inicio desde entonces). Es así como fiable GNU/Linux hoy en día. KDE4 se ha convertido en absolutamente fantástico.
Uno de los mejores sitios, Dedoimedo (es penalmente bajo-suscrito), tiene este nuevo Gran Linux Mapa Mundial[http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-world-map.html], que en lugar de las distribuciones de nombre (que en su mayoría a montar las piezas) demuestra lo que hace a los sistemas operativos libres. Como el autor dice lo siguiente:
Por supuesto, no podía yeso cada distribución de un solo tema o relacionados con Linux en el mapa, ya que el desorden esta preciosa obra de arte. Usted obtiene la distribución de edad y se obtiene nuevas distribuciones, se obtiene los grandes y pequeños, populares y oscuro, pero no todos ellos. Si cree que su distribución de Linux ha sido descuidado, no es por malicia, es simplemente la pura estética. Por último, como es natural, ya que se trata de un humor de expedición hasta la negrita, no debe tomar nada en serio, ni nombres, ni términos, ni formas, ni utilizar frases. Todo es buena diversión.
GNU/Linux es todavía listo para ganar en el escritorio si sólo tenemos paciencia. Google está haciendo algunos movimientos interesantes en este momento con las subvenciones. Bueno, a través de Skype, Microsoft -como siempre- probablemente hará la vida más difícil para los usuarios de GNU/Linux y teléfonos basados en Linux[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/another-reason-microsoft-wants-skype-advertisers-advertisers-advertisers/9415] (y cualquier otro usuario del software propietario). Como Groklaw dijo, “esto significa que Skype será menos agradable para los usuarios y Microsoft llega a seguirnos la pista? Gracias, pero NO gracias”.
En otro contexto, argumentó Groklaw, “Cuando eso te sucede bastante a menudo, usted deja de usar software propietario.”
La primera página del sitio oficial de Ubuntu Web todavía muestra Skype. Esperamos que la modifique ya que promover software propietario nunca fue una idea brillante. █
Resumen: La misma agencia de relaciones públicas trabaja con Microsoft para atacar a Google acaba de ser pagados por Facebook, para el mismo fin: atacar a Google, también.
Facebook ha hecho mucho para ayudar a Microsoft, incluyendo la promoción de Silver Lie, OOXML, B0ng, e incluso pasar todos los datos de sus usuarios a Microsoft para la explotación minera así como la intrusión de privacidad es obvia. Hay mucho más de eso, pero lo hemos cubierto antes. Añadir otra medalla de la lealtad al chaleco de Mark “tonto m*mones[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/]” Zuckerberg.
Microsoft acaba de tener que pagar cientos de millones de Facebook (como en el caso de Novell) y la recompensa es buena porque los ataques contra Google están siendo financiados por Facebook[http://everythingnew.net/technology/facebook-admits-hiring-pr-firm-to-smear-google/] [a través de[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/12/138229/Facebook-Admits-Hiring-PR-Firm-To-Smear-Google], HT “walterbyrd”]
Gente, Facebook y Google, el choque de los Gigantes de Internet alcanzaró nuevas alturas después de un portavoz de Facebook confirmó a Daily Beast que Facebook pagó una empresa de alto nivel de relaciónes públicas para publicar y difundir historias en contra de Google a través de los medios de comunicación para estudiar diversos métodos para examinar las alegaciones de que Google ha estado violando la privacidad del usuario. La firma de relaciones públicas Burson-Marsteller, ofrecieron su ayuda a Chris Soghoian para escribir un artículo sobre los círculos sociales que muestra cómo los usuarios de Gmail pueden acceder a la información sobre “Conexiones secundarias” o amigos en su círculo de amigos. Esta muy “Círculo Social” parecía ser la esencia misma de la campaña contra Google por Facebook. El portavoz de relaciones públicas de la empresa, dijo el periodista de noticias en términos de blanco y negro.
Se escribió acerca de esta empresa a principios de semana [1[http://techrights.org/2011/05/11/jim-goldman-propaganda/], 2[http://techrights.org/2011/05/10/sock-puppets-of-microsoft/]], pero es más interesante que eso. En 2007, “Microsoft y la agencia de relaciones públicas Burson-Marsteller formaron ICOMP para luchar contra la adquisición de Google de DoubleClick,” como se citó el año pasado[http://techrights.org/2010/12/14/frivolous-legal-action-and-ita-2/]. También menciona a este perro de ataque en un artículo sobre Richard Edelman[http://techrights.org/2010/12/10/edelman-deceives-the-public/] el super-delincuente. Antes de esto que hemos mencionado de Burson-Marsteller en el contexto de Visible Technologies[http://techrights.org/2009/08/19/visible-technologies-funded-by-ignition/], una empresa fundada por ex empleados de Microsoft[http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Visible_Technologies] para participar en astroturfing a través de blogs (Microsoft es el cliente principal, obviamente). Se trata de algunas cosas desagradables, repugnantes. Microsoft, los hooligans en trajes son tan responsables como la propia Microsoft. ¿Dónde está la responsabilidad? ¿Dónde están los reguladores antimonopolios[http://techrights.org/2011/05/13/attacking-the-little-guy_es/]? █
Summary: Rusty, Gordon, Tim, and Roy meet again for a discussion about Skype, copyrights, PSN downtime, GNU/Linux, and Android
THE show notes will be released tomorrow (update yet to follow), but we release the show as soon as possible. Update: show notes are out.
Today’s tracks are “Quanto Tempo” by Doces Cariocas, “Cos I said so” by Fangs, and “Iguana” by SambaDa (I named the last song incorrectly on the show). All are part of SXSW 2010 Showcasing Artists (get the torrents legally here). We hope you will join us for future shows and consider subscribing to the show via the RSS feed. You can also visit our archives for past shows. If you have an Identi.ca account, consider subscribing to TechBytes in order to keep up to date. █
Summary: Microsoft’s vanity about market share is being used as a distractor in face of allegations that its software is inherently shoddy
THE MONOPOLIST (poor Microsoft) loves blaming its illegally-earned market share on the desktop for security problems, but as we explained yesterday, this is a nonsensical argument and it is negligence [1, 2, 3] — not installed base — which makes software vulnerable. Vista 7 is not secure and even Microsoft’s fanbase is willing to admit this. And in Windows, the “latest hole will soon be patched after a decade of vulnerability,” says a blogger. It is not the first such example of belated patching. If Microsoft’s installed base is the reason exploitable errors can be found, why has it taken a decade? The matter of fact is, less auditing of code lowers the quality of the code. Developers can get away with terrible programming practices and security is assumed to be assured by secrecy, not peer review that requires full transparency. This explains not only why Microsoft software is not secure but also why it is of such low quality (which makes the coders embarrassed to show it). As mentioned briefly in the daily links, Microsoft Fog Computing turns out to be as unreliable as its desktop-side software:
Customers on BPOS in the US and worldwide were kicked off their hosted Exchange email systems, being unable to read, write, or access their messages. All users were affected – from down in the cubicle farm all the way up to the CEO’s corner office. The outages started Tuesday and came after weeks of the service slowly degrading.
In conclusion, secret code is shoddy code. Free code is high-quality code. The more a stack uses components like Linux and Apache, the more solid it is likely to be. Every day I write software that will be freely shared; the visibility of the code comes with a burden — the burden that the code should actually be decent and well tested, not “spaghetti” as Vista’s codebase was once referred to as. █
Summary: Microsoft uses proxies to stomp on Google and give it antitrust trouble while it is actually Microsoft that deserve the antitrust treatment
Microsoft is not a reformed company. It’s a thuggish convict in search of a whipping boy. It is still an unethical bully which is more focused on bribes and extortion, as fiascos like OOXML and the B&N blackmail ought to remind regulators all across the world. It makes no sense whatsoever to remove oversight. It’s like releasing a prisoner who was beating inmates up. As one person puts it:
This ignores all the foot-dragging in the EU, the anti-competitive moves in mobile, the software-patent suits, etc.
There is another reason to keep Microsoft — not Google — under the microscope. It is Microsoft — not Google — which hires many AstroTurfers to daemonise a competitor, Google. In the context of Burson-Marsteller we mentioned this before Groklaw and others. Bob Sutor writes: “Burson-Marsteller: now #Facebook against #Google – http://bit.ly/ k6H6fL , then #Microsoft against #Google – http:// on.wsj.com/k5Brp9″
PJ opines (via reader of ours):
It links to a 2007 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Microsoft Goes Behind the Scenes — Public-Relations Proxy Aims to Gather Opposition To Google-DoubleClick Deal”, showing that Microsoft hired the same PR firm as Facebook, Burson-Marsteller, back then also to attack Google. If you are surprised, please raise your hand. Say, journalists, why not ask Facebook if they got this lame idea in 2011 from Microsoft? Or ask Burson if they got the idea from Microsoft and then pitched it to Facebook. I have the feeling we haven’t dug all the way to the bottom of this picture yet.
For Microsoft this is business as usual. See our page on AstroTurfing for additional examples. How can such a convict be left without supervision? █
Actually Limux is further along than halfway since all of the applications in use are now FLOSS but the operating system on 6000 PCs is now GNU/Linux. At the rate they are going sometime in 2012 12000 PCs will be running GNU/Linux. Apparently they will have 3000 still running that other OS when the migration is complete. That’s a bit puzzling since everyone is using FLOSS applications for everything. There should be no reason to leave that other OS on anything. Perhaps something is lost in the translation:
LiMux project celebrates mountain festival
Sigh. Apt-get update;apt-get upgrade is too much for them? They could not use a local repository, check things out and do the updates from time to time when convenient? That’s an awful lot less work than keeping one machine running that other OS and can be extended to hundreds/thousands with no extra effort.
I came across an article with a simple thesis: Desktop Linux needs a controller who looks out for the needs of the end-user; there isn’t one; Linux fails…
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The authour claims the success of Android/Linux is due to the magical control of Google but that is only part of the story. Google’s Android is just another distro (He derides distros…). The success of Google is not because of the central control but the energy of the hundreds of thousands of developers who tweak the systems and write applications for it and the hardware manufacturers, outside M$’s and Apple’s control, who invest in Android/Linux.
The refurbishing program buys large batches of used computers, usually about 5 years old, from various government agencies through its partner organization, MissionWV. Our refurbishers test, and in some cases upgrade, the hardware, and then install Ubuntu on them. We sell them to our partner fire departments at cost, who then sell them to the public as a fundraiser. The end-user price is between $125 and $175 for a laptop. We are also have 200 refurbished desktop computers ready for the new computer centers we’re adding this year.
I’ve never truly lost that sense of wonder from computers, and it was this wonder that eventually led me to Linux. It’s the modularity of the computer that gets the imagination running, and I think many software developers from the ’80s and ’90s, many of whom have contributed to the free software projects that got us to this point, feel the same way.
Over the course of the last month or so, numerous people have asked me for my opinion on what’s going on with the ARM architecture in Linux. It seems time to broadcast those thoughts more widely. For those who don’t want to read the whole thing, the short version is this: Linux on ARM is a victim of its own success and, as a result, is going through some growing pains. That has created a lot of noise, but all that’s really needed is a bit of house cleaning.
ARM processors are generally found in embedded applications; your phone, network router, video camera, and more are quite likely to be running Linux on ARM. Supporting ARM on Linux brings some challenges which are much less of a problem on desktop and server-oriented systems. ARM is not so much an architecture as a family of architectures with lots of little quirks; the size of the kernel’s ARM-specific code – nearly three times the size of the x86-specific code – reflects that. ARM also has traditionally suffered from the “embedded problem”: every vendor does its own work and, likely as not, never gets around to contributing its code upstream. That has resulted in a lot of fragmented and duplicated code.
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The ARM mess is not small, but it’s really just another cleanup job of the time that we have done many times in the past.
On and off over the past year I’ve been working with Jason Baron on a design for a UI for system administrators to control processes’ and users’ usage of system resources on their systems via the relatively recently-developed (~2007) cgroups feature of the Linux kernel.
After the excitement and the fun that is the Red Hat Summit, I had some time this week to work with Jason on updating the design. Before I dive into the design process and the mockups, I think it’d be best to do a review of how cgroups work (or at least how I understand them to) so that the rest makes more sense. (And maybe I’ve got some totally incorrect assumptions about cgroups that have resulted in a flawed design, so hopefully my calling out the current understanding might make it easier for you to correct me ).
AMD’s John Bridgman has now confirmed that they have hired two open-source developers. These two new development hires was done previous to the announcement a few days ago that they are still looking for another open-source developer to work on their open-source Linux (kernel DRM, Mesa / Gallium3D, DDX) stack for Radeon graphics hardware.
The “still very experimental for the foreseeable future but promising” Wayland has been discussed more at UDS Budapest, on the mailing lists, and now this weekend in Berlin at LinuxTag.
Wayland was already discussed earlier in the week during the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Budapest, Hungary. While I had left early on Friday to make it back to Deutschland for LinuxTag, Wayland was discussed some more.
There’s been a lot of references this week at UDS Budapest to OpenGL ES support since this version of OpenGL is what’s predominantly supported on ARM/embedded devices. There’s already been talk of OpenGL ES support in QEMU, among other projects. OpenGL ES 2.0 support is also coming to the Compiz and KWin compositing window managers. An OpenGL ES 2.0 back-end for Cairo was also brought up separately.
There’s already initial OpenGL ES 2.0 support for Compiz, but it’s not yet been merged upstream. OpenGL ES 2.0 support for KDE’s KWin is also being worked on.
The Compiz GLES 2.0 push upstream is expected to take place after the new Compiz shader API is integrated. Support for missing plug-ins also needs to be added along with per-plugin shader support. Clean-ups are also needed and potentially better consolidation between vanilla GL and GL ES code. Build-time support for OpenGL vs. OpenGL ES suppoort was also discussed as well as testing.
Citadel is a suite of packages in Debian GNU/Linux which you can install in a minute or two. You can install it on a PC or a server to provide web services, LAN service or just to serve your local PC.
Farming and Simulation game, Family Farm is now available in Ubuntu Software Center under applications available for purchase section. Few days back, we reported that soon Family Farm will be released in Ubuntu Software Center. Well, it is here now and the game is priced at $14.99.
Sharing a nice, big booth at LinuxTag, the KDE, Kubuntu and Calligra teams are pulling together to promo all things KDE. As you can tell from the picture below, the booth is very well visited, with lots of people interested all ’round – showing off Plasma on the desktop in the middle there, and the brand, spanking new Plasma Active running on an openSuse powered tablet nearest the camera – already a real crowd puller, even in its experimental stage! Kudos to the Active team there, great stuff, very demoable
“It’s not rocket science,” says Marina Zhurakhinskaya, the organizer of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women,talking about efforts to get more women involved in free software. “You just need to say that women are welcome in your project, because that in itself sends a signal. Also, you want specific people they can get in touch with to do their first patch and to ask questions.” It’s a simple formula, but the first indications are that it is a reliable enough foundation to make the recently revived Program a success.
I cannot blame Zenwalk 7 at all for this mishap. I understand that it was entirely my fault because I was not prepared to carry out this kind of installation. Zenwalk is a well-built, functional Linux system. That its installation is presently beyond my limited knowledge should not be taken as a negative point at all.
Dear fellow Slackers! We are happy to publish another interview with Robby Workman, a Slackware developer and one of the leading mainainers of the SlackBuilds.org project, he has kindly given us on the occasion of the Slackware-13.37 release. Enjoy!
If I were installing an OS on a tablet, I’d be all over this interface. But I’m not. And a desktop is not a tablet. Keep repeating that to yourself, Canonical. I hope it gets better.
Y PPA Manager lets you search, add, remove or even purge PPA’s in Ubuntu the easiest way. This is not a command line tool and is very easy for even a newbie Ubuntu user to understand and use. Below, you will see a brief review of Y PPA Manager and instructions for installing it in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.
Ubuntu Studio 11.04 comes with Gnome 2.xx not Unity or Gnome-Shell cause it don’t target audience or intended workflow. Now Ubuntu Studio developer mentioned on the mailing list they will re-base the project on Xfce lightweight desktop environment with custom user interface UI instead of Gnome 2 desktop.
With 227 replies, and almost 400 votes in this thread, it’s obvious that there is a sizable bunch of you who would really like to run the Plex Media Server on Linux. And who can blame you, with sexy Linux-based storage devices on the market like the ReadyNAS pictured below? A device like this (or an unRAID for the DIY-ers, and damn it, why did I have to go read about unRAID and end up falling in love with this case?) running the Plex Media Server, combined with a rich assortment of clients (a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, an Android tablet, an LG Smart TV for the guest room, and a Roku Streaming Player for the kids’ room?), makes for an amazingly flexible, unified, and powerful media solution. Not to mention, the NAS is the only device that has to be left on, so Al Gore would yet again be proud.
Global sales of Android-based smartphones are expected to grow from 60 million units in 2010 to 180 million units in 2011 and over 400 million units in 2014, according to Sony Ericsson vice president and CTO Jan Uddenfeldt.
The world designs and makes better software more efficiently than any single corporation. The Linux organization makes the hardware-abstraction layer and manages computing resources. Google designs the GUI and provides a virtual machine in which portable software runs. Thousands of developers produce software for the “app stores”. ARM designs the CPUs and ARM’s licensees customize ARM’s modular designs as they see fit. The smart phone manufacturers pull together material from dozens of industries and integrates the whole system. The system works and everyone does their best, makes a good living and there is no tax on the OS.
Day four was the last day of the LGM. Sad… But it was filled with action packed talks and some good hacking. Of course, today is already Day 5 so I’m a bit late reporting. It’s not because I went to the after-party — instead I went to the hotel room to hack and write this blog. But instead of blogging, I spent all evening helping people to get Krita up and running on #krita. Though I did have a nice beer with it.
Yesterday at the NLUUG conference I picked up a Solaris 11 Express CD in a nice brownish CD sleeve (I say “nice” because it feels and looks different from the generic white sleeves). Here’s a scan of the back of the sleeve, with a big sticker over the flap (click on image for a larger, readable version).
A new version of Perl, 5.14, was officially released on 14th May following the successful test period, including the testing of release candidates. This is the first release of Perl 5 using the new annual schedule.
Let’s assume you have some spare time on your hands. Who should you support then? Naturally, the underdog attitude wins. It’s always the champion of freedom and openness that ought to win our hearts. This war is no exception. Having a well known and open format helps standardize things, reduce monopoly and improve technology.
Now, as a developer or a website owner, you may have a special interest, since the technology could govern your revenue or success. It’s more than just which algorithm is used. It boils down to Flash versus HTML5. In your case, it’s not just fancy words, it’s the quality of audio and video delivery, it’s the scripting language, the backend, the debugging tools, the ease of use, the portability, everything. Can you be impartial? Hardly.
In this case, you should support what works best. And this has yet to be determined. Flash has been around for a while. H.264 family of codecs has been around for a while. WebM is a new kid on the block and has a lot of fighting ahead.
Customers on BPOS in the US and worldwide were kicked off their hosted Exchange email systems, being unable to read, write, or access their messages. All users were affected … Perhaps M$ should us a *NIX OS for its cloud. They might have fewer problems. Lately they have had problems with Hotmail, Update, WGdisA and now BPOS. The issue does not seem to be “network connectivity” which folks who hate thin clients harp on.
operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law … There is much talk of bin Laden’s [9/11] “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.
“FDA [has] no requirements until a health claim is made. Then there must be studies on safety, efficacy, mechanism of action, metabolism, etc. If a substance is simply added to a product and no claims are made there is not need for FDA approval.”
Shareholders at major banks are hopping on planes and scurrying across the country for their annual shareholders meetings to avoid the big bank backlash. JP Morgan Chase is fleeing New York for the heartland. Wisconsin’s M&I Bank is fleeing the heartland for Times Square. Let’s tell them that they can run but they can’t hide!
[according to a former staffer, Rove] initiated a whisper campaign that Kennedy was a pedophile. “It was our standard practice to use the University of Alabama Law School to disseminate whisper-campaign information,” the staffer went on. “… The students at the law school are from all over the state, … This would create the impression that the lie was in fact common knowledge across the state.” What Rove does,” says Joe Perkins, “is try to make something so bad for a family that the candidate will not subject the family to the hardship.”
“I believe the Citizens United decision was the right one, there should be unlimited corporate money, and I want some of it. I don’t want to be the one chump who doesn’t have any.” Colbert said he expected the FEC to take his request seriously.
Yet, Burson-Marsteller apparently hasn’t learned its lesson from the influx of criticism surrounding its involvement in the mess. The company has since been caught deleting criticism from Facebook users posting on the company’s official Facebook page.
Just four months after voting to approve the the controversial merger of Comcast and NBC, Baker announced Wednesday she will become senior vice president of government affairs for NBC Universal.
A skin care company that claims to have a cure for acne, psoriasis, folliculitis and other disorders is contacting Virginia media outlets and offering to pay them $100 for each person who sees the company’s press release and signs up to get treatment.
The request came, ironically enough, in the middle of a Senate hearing at which lawmakers grilled Apple and Google executives over their collection and use of location-based data from iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.
The European Union is to categorise location data, routinely harvested by phone and internet providers, as private, a move which will place GPS data in the same category as names, birthdays and other personal data.
the CAFC noted that (1) Rambus’s document retention policy was not adopted for purposes of business management, but instead to further Rambus’s litigation strategy; (2) Rambus was on notice of potentially infringing activities by particular manufacturers; (3) Rambus took several steps in furtherance of litigation prior to the key shredding party…
The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings, now has some of its scripts and secrets out in the wild, an event which has the potential to upset the smooth of Hadopi.
Resumen: ¿Por qué la “defensiva licencias de patentes” no forma parte de la solución al problema que el software libre está teniendo.
“La lucha contra las patentes una por una nunca eliminará el peligro de las patentes de software, al igual que aplastar mosquitos eliminará la malaria”, como Richard Stallman celebremente lo expuso. Por eso, todos lo que los refuerzos patentes dicen ser “defensivas” las patentes están totalmente perdiendo el punto, o simplemente mintiendo a todos. Considere la posibilidad de Novell, por ejemplo. Un año que dice ser “defensor” de Linux con OIN y al año siguiente vende esas patentes a Microsoft. Sí, eso es “defensiva” para usted. Tomemos Sun como otro ejemplo. Las llamados patentes “defensiva” que había en Java se utilizan ahora para demandar a Google, que pasa a compartir un asiento con Oracle dentro de la OIN. ¡Qué fracaso! Y luego están las estafas de Microsoft, que la empresa utiliza para fingir que es seguro usar las patentes de Microsoft. Nathan Willis ayuda a promover el software Mono de un empleado de Novell[http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/444154:pinta-turns-10-and-brings-simple-image-editing-to-linux] a pesar del hecho de que el MCP de Microsoft deja vacíos legales. El análisis jurídico de los que resulta ser inútil.
Hay sin embargo otras de esas “defensivos” piscinas de patentes como se llama a sí misma (o de su proposición) de la Licencia de Patentes Defensivas (DPL), que se ha mencionado aquí antes [1[http://techrights.org/2010/05/08/8-stories-re-swpats/], 2[http://techrights.org/2010/05/19/germany-software-patents-ruling/], 3[http://techrights.org/2011/04/16/how-mobbyists-operate/]]. Se acaba de dar la charla siguiente, como se esperaba.
He escuchado toda la conversación y todavía no está a la altura de la realidad: la eliminación de las patentes de software. Los ponentes son gente amable, pero inútilmente hablan de “propiedad intelectual” y repiten como loros algunos pro-patentes temas de conversación. Ellos no se ocupan de la cuestión, o difícilmente lo harán. Es más como un grupo de defensa, de los cuales ya hay varios. Ellos tratan de encontrar los mecanismos legales para reducir el riesgo sin llegar a cuestionar el status quo, en lugar de limitarse a tomar las patentes de software concedidas. Tampoco proponen una solución a los trolls de patentes. Como señalamos ayer por la noche[http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTAL.jsp?id=1202493630932&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1], Yahoo consiguió batir un troll de este tipo[http://techrights.org/2011/05/12/bedrock-swpats-loss/] (que dirigidos contra Linux), pero esto no es una estrategia sostenible. Linux ya está siendo gravado por algunas patentes de software y Red Hat, por ejemplo, esconde este hecho. Lo mismo hizo Novell. Es necesario eliminar con urgencia las patentes de software, sin excepciones. La FFII(Fundación para una Infraestructura de Información Libre), la FSFE (Fundación Europea de Software Libre) y la FSF (Fundación de Software Libre) ha estado en lo correcto todo el tiempo. █
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