11.14.08

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Links 14/11/2008: ARM-powered GNU/Linux is Near

Posted in News Roundup at 7:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

Linux boot sequence visualized
An Introduction To OSC
Obama Won the Web Uptime Race, Too [with GNU/Linux]
Help Spread Linux… Don’t Preach It!

Long story short, the lesson seems to be that waving something in someone’s face is more likely to come off as rude and nagging, instead of capturing their interest as you hope to do. While trying to spread the perks of Linuxis a totally legitimate and an encouraged pursuit, one can’t expect to have too much luck with it by decking passers-by in the street with LiveCDs and harassing colleagues with stories of how perfect Linux is and pouncing to point out Vista’s flaws every time they encounter UAC asking for their permission to do something.
Fedora 10 Preview Review

Overall I believe that it is a great upgrade over the last Fedora which I had on my laptop for all of 5 hours as it was not as great as all the people said it was. I will continue to use Ubuntu and I may try out some more distros to see how great they are.
5 Reason Why I am Using Ubuntu Linux
The Bias Of A Windows User That Prefers Linux
Debian Lenny blinks its peepers
Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1
Devices
- Ethernet connector contains Linux server
- Linux barcode scanner uses OLED display
  
  An Estonian embedded design house has developed a data-collection barcode scanner and PDA with an OLED display. Billed as the first OLED-equipped mobile terminal device, Artec’s Triskan TS8 Professional Mobile Terminal runs embedded Linux on an ARM processor, and includes Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS, with optional WiFi.
- Java and Linux on the Android – Almost the Perfect Match?
- Find your way with tangoGPS
Sub-notebooks
- Super Small Laptop From Korea
- OLPC
  - Computer Per Child • Govt’s Initiative To Boost ICT Skills In Public Schools
  - OLPC and Windows
    
    2. The reason these 10,000 systems had to be customized? Simple: Windows can’t even boot on open firmware. Can’t even boot! Which means that the other 990,000 XO (or so) systems in the wild CANNOT EVEN RUN WINDOWS with the firmware installed on them.
ARM
KDE4
- KDE4 apps: Dolphin
  
  Dolphin is the default file manager for KDE4. It is very powerful, offering many functionalities. The developers have focused on the functionality of Dolphin – being a file manager. As a long-time user, I can say it is a very proud substitute for its older brother, Konqueror (the default file manager for KDE3).
- Plasma: I’m back
  
  Plasma is, among other things, the new way of building your desktop, it works using Plasmoids, those Plasmoids are similar to Gadgets or Widgets. Plasmoids are contained by… well… containments, this relantionship it’s the secret of its flexibility. The Desktop (image background) is a containment, you can put as many plasmoids as you want, those can create a normal interface showing your /desktop files, or you can put clocks, stocks viewers, media controls, pictures, etc. However, the panel is a cointenment too, you can place your Plasmoids in your desktop or in the panel, Plasmoids will change their layout to match correctly their new containment.
- Kdenlive 0.7, for KDE 4
‘Cloud’
- Opinion: Why GNU/Linux will ultimately succeed
  
  When I upgraded this week from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, I had a remarkably short list of applications to install. I realised that I am using more and more applications “in the cloud” and fewer and fewer “on the Desktop”.
  
  “Cloud computing” has been around for a while now, but just in case you haven’t encountered it yet, it is the concept of using your web browser as a front end for an online application, whilst configurations and your data are stored on the providers server. Some people may refer to it as “software as a service” or a variety of other names.
- Linux, Microsoft, Mac: Meet your real competitor
- Why clouds should be more like operating systems
Ports
Training
- Learn Ubuntu with Hackett and Bankwell
- Test Driving Linux With Holonyx And Emprise™ 5000

F/OSS

Leftovers

Internet filter to block 10,000-plus “unwanted” sites

READERS of The Courier-Mail online have blasted plans for Australia’s mandatory internet filter to block as many as 10,000 websites.

The websites form a blacklist of unspecified “unwanted content”, Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy revealed in Federal Parliament.
A copyright call to arms

In the era of peer-to-peer file sharing, on-demand television and easy copying of video games and movies, Canadians often take for granted the availability and ease of using digital media. It’s hard not to: the sheer amount of digital content available online is astonishing. For many, the Web is a black box that provides us with what we want, when we want it.

But with a new session of parliament a week away, a host of proposed changes to copyright legislation threaten to tip the legal balance further in favour of those who sell and disseminate cultural content, rather than everyone who consumes it.
Bruce Schneier: Securing Your PC and Your Privacy
AMD
- Nvidia loses market share to AMD
- AMD Unveils a Server Chip Called Shanghai