09.11.08
Links 11/09/2008: Many New Releases, KDE in CERN
New Kernel/Distribution Releases
- Linux 2.6.27-rc6
- [Pelican HPC:] 05 Sept 2008 v1.7 released
- OpenGEU 8.04.1 Luna Crescente Live CD Released
- MilaX Note (0.3.2)
- RIPLinuX 6.5
- GoblinX 2007.2 (XFlash)
GNU/Linux
- KDE Congratulates CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
We are pleased to see that like all world class physicists the first ever ATLAS results come from KDE. Their impressive control centre is also making excellent use of KNotes. Just as good, the world has not yet been sucked into a black hole.
- High-speed debug access via JTAG, more efficient program/data trace and Linux support
- 5 Best Free and Open-source Real-time Strategy Games for Linux
Spring (formerly known as TA Spring or Total Annihilation: Spring), is a full 3D free/open source RTS game engine originally created by the Swedish Yankspankers, intended to bring the gameplay experience of Total Annihilation (TA) into three dimensions. Games are played using one of a number of mods. The standard installation comes with a range of prepackaged mods, some which requires that one own a copy of TA to legally play them, and other Free Content mods which may be used free of charge without owning a copy of TA. Spring’s core game engine is licensed under the GNU GPL.
- Enhancing multi-screen user interfaces using Ghosd and Synergy
- ‘The WFTL Show’, Episode 3 : Show Notes
- Episode 6 – Blah Blah Blah
- A Credit Card-Sized Linux Computer and a Matchbook-Sized PIC Powerhouse
- Uzbeks, Rejoice!
- Tresys Hosting and Managing the Upstream SELinux Repository
Phones
- Open Linux phone gets datacasts
- OpenMoko Users Open up About Their Phones
- Look Out for the Mobile Version of Google Chrome
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 8.10: Comp[i]z-Fusion Cube Deformation
- The Ubuntu Look Can be Changed, but Linux CAN NOT have a “Look”.
Oh I get it, if GNU/Linux can’t make the user drool when he sees a Linux desktop, we’ll never get a large userbase. Here’s what I think; let’s not teach people to recognize Linux, but let’s teach people to recognize something that works as Linux.
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Review
- Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements
- The Mini 9 NetBook: Dell’s Hardware as a Service Experiment?
- Nexenta : Ubuntu Server with ZFS goodness
OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who’ve never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages.
- Banging on about Ubuntu…
I don’t want to bang on about how great Ubuntu linux is. Well, actually, I do. It’s great.
Last night I had to scan in a whole stack of forms to send off to The Professionals. My friends in sunny north London have an HP PSC 1205 all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/juicer. I plugged it in to my Aspire One running a tweaked Ubuntu, and started searching the HP site for drivers… but no, there was no need to do this. Ubuntu came up trumps yet again — the printer and the scanner were recognised straight away.
Virtualisation
F/OSS
- How the DoD learned to stop worrying and love open source
- GNU Planet!
- The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU’s Birthday
- GNU: the revolution turns 25
- 10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened
Judging from these ten software forks, common causes of forks are disagreements (sometimes purely ideological) and personality clashes, though more practical reasons are also common (such as the Webkit and Firefox examples). It is also interesting to see that many times the forks have surpassed the original software in popularity.
- Masters Course in Open Source: Orvieto
- Zenoss Becomes First Open Source Server and Network Management Solution Available Under STG’s EAGLE Contract
- Fonality Announces Support for R2 ITU Telecom Standard in Latin America
- Sub-Saharan universities train in Web 2.0 tools
- The benefits of an open source SOA
- Learning French…a lesson in open source acceptance
Events
- European Open Source Think Tank: Paris, 21-23 September
- European Summit on Interoperability in the iGovernment, Rome 20-22 October
- Celebrating Freedom
- Open source conference in Copenhagen
Leftovers
- French storm the bastille over ‘Sarkozy’s Big Sister’ database
- Proposed Copyright Law a ‘Gift’ to Hollywood, Info Groups Say
- Keith Olbermann’s Righteous Anger
- DoJ Intensifies Google-Yahoo Scrutiny
“Some folks running Quake 3 on a 12 machine Linux cluster with a total of 24 monitors and using the cool Gyro Mouse.”