12.24.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Links Xmas Eve: OLPC in Colombia, Mandriva 2009.1 @ Alpha
GNU/Linux
- TED follows Negroponte to Colombia to deliver GNU/Linux XO laptops
TED followed Nicholas Negroponte into Colombia to deliver 650 GNU/Linux-powered OLPC XO laptops to kids there. Interesting story with deployment numbers scattered all over.The video also addresses other areas in the world and ends with a Give 1 Get 1 plug.
- Linux and the PC Mentaility
- Why I do not use Windows as my primary OS
- The top 5 Linux myths: Why you shouldn’t fear the penguin
- Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support
- Autodistro
- Using Kernel Customization Tools
- [openmoko-announce] Om 2008.12 & Beyond
- A Brave New World
- Wizzard launches AT&T’s Text-to-Speech version for Linux
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Graphics
- First There Was Compiz, Now There Is Compiz++
First there was Compiz, a compositing window manager that brought very interesting desktop effects to Linux, and then Beryl came about as a fork of Compiz before it ultimately turned into Compiz Fusion. Today though, on Christmas eve, the world can now meet Compiz++.
Compiz++ is a branch of Compiz that brings several new features to the table and there are huge changes. First off, the Composite and OpenGL layers to Compiz have been separated so that Compiz++ no longer is just a compositing window manager. If your graphics hardware or drivers don’t support Composite, you can now run Compiz++ as a normal window manager without compositing effects. Other rendering back-ends could be introduced to Compiz++ so that the windowing manager could render to say X Render or Clutter. Compiz++ also provides re-parented decorations.
- 25 Best Linux Desktop Customization Screenshots
One of the advantage of using Linux is that you can choose the graphic environment you want to use and you can customize it as you want. This article offers you a list of the 25 best screenshots, found on the Internet, and which will give you inspiration to customize your desktop.
- First There Was Compiz, Now There Is Compiz++
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Distributions
- Sabayon 4 & future Entropy
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Ubuntu
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Mandriva
- Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 1
- Oh [Madnriva is] Beautiful
These were the exact words from my wife’s mouth when she saw my Mandriva 2009 install. I choose the KDE 4 desktop which is eye-candy in itself, but Mandriva devs have put in a lot of effort and made KDE look much more adoring. Every look is pleasing and speaks of the attention to details paid by devs.
- Mandriva Linux and your Blackberry
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Red Hat
- Advantage: Red Hat
- Six Stages to SOA Evolution in the Enterprise
Fricke cited a Red Hat customer, a passenger railway company with 100,000 daily passengers and $1 billion in revenue, that deployed JBoss applications server, reaping 700 per cent performance gain. Following that, ticket sales were integrated with eBay auctions to improve utilization of trains. “One of the beauties of SOA is it’s not a static deployment. It can be expanded to solve other business problems,” said Fricke, while stressing that as SOA deployment expands across an organization, governance becomes increasingly important.
- A Penguin Deathmatch? Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10
I’ve talked about a lot of pros for Fedora. What Ubuntu has going for it is that it is a bit simpler to get installed and working for a basic setup on common hardware and getting common software packages installed is much easier. If you know what you are doing (aka you are a geek seeking fun and entertainment), Fedora is more efficient, can be hacked around with a bit more, and in my opinion is a better distro, but not by very much.
Above all – you can’t really go wrong with either one of these fine software systems. They are easily better than MS Vista…I can’t comment on what Apple and BSD has to offer yet. Now I’m onto getting Eclipse 3.4, Seam, MySQL, and JBoss AS/Portal installed on my shiny new Fedora laptop. That should provide hours of geeky fun”.
- Boss by day, gamer by night: Tech leaders’ favorite video games
Do you play now, and if so, what games and on what systems? I play occasionally, most often choosing a game at random from the selection available for the Fedora Linux distro. I tend to stick to variations on the classics but have to admit that Blob Wars is amusing.
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Intel
F/OSS
- December 2008 Web Server Survey
Apache shows the largest growth this month, gaining a further 2.47 million sites.
- Mathematics Software SAGE Version 3.2.1 Released
- The future of open source
- Software for the recession
- Open Source Integration Challenges and Solutions
- Open source document management solutions
- Bring Open Source into Hedge Funds
- Open Source Developers Want Sandy Back
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FSF
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Presidency
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Ecuador
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Sun
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Mozilla
- IE Loses European Market Share
For November, IE’s share of Europe’s browser market was 59.5%, down a percentage point since June and off five points since April.
- latest numbers from xiti monitor
- Is Epiphany ready to replace Firefox?
- Mozilla: Chrome has “complicated” relations with Google
- Browser for Linux devices hits second alpha
- Try Mozilla’s Fennic Mobile Browser on Windows, Mac or Linux
- about:mozilla – Fennec, Firefox, Impact Mozilla, Camino, Firebug, QMO, Videos, Design community, and more…
- IE Loses European Market Share
MAFIAA
- ACTA Negotiators Hold Closed Door Meeting To Say They Need To Be More Transparent
- RIAA Apparently Unable To Stop Lawsuits In Motion
- Prosecuting Online File Sharing Turns a Generation Criminal
- Reboot the FCC
Knowledge
- EU’s new online library reopens
- Mobile Wikipedia officially launched
- An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
- What happened to Free and Open Knowledge?
Censorship
- Vietnam tightens rules on blogs
- China Rebuilds its Great Firewall
- Aussie government defends Internet censorship technology
Leftovers
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Markos Moulitsas, creator of the Daily Kos on-line political magazine 05 (2005)
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