GNU/Linux

• Intel snubs Microsoft; offers Linux certification
  
  

  Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.

  
  
  
• Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU
  
  

  Yes, we're talking Intel's Atom, specifically the 1.6GHz 230, which Bytemark's now using as the basis for what it claimed were its lowest-cost dedicated Linux-running servers yet.

  
  
  
• Alitheia Online Demo Available
• Why do GNOME people always play the man?
• RS: Ministry backs localised GNU/Linux distribution and CMS
  
  

  The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society last month presented Cp6Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution translated into Serbian, based on the GNU/Linux distributions Debian and Ubuntu.
  
  The localisation of the GNU/Linux distribution was carried out by the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade. Its name is derived from the Cyrillic writing of 'Serbian Linux', "срб-линукс".

  
  
  
• Stuff That Works With Linux #1
• Review: Sabayon Linux 3.5S
  
  

  abayon 3.5 is a definite step up from 3.4a, despite only being a single subversion higher. The improvements and changes allow for a very complete, complex, yet simple and easy to use Linux distribution that can serve the needs of everyone from the UMPC and older PC users to those with the latest, greatest hardware. Sabayon Linux 3.5 really has a something for everyone, and it does an excellent job of fulfilling their motto of "Dreams we can believe in." And Sabayon 3.5 is more than a dream I can believe in, it's a reality I can use and trust.

  
  
  
• Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC
  
  

  Out of the many distributions that work on the Eee PC, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (or 2008.1) is one that works exceptionally well. It can be installed to the built-in SSD or onto an external SD card.

  
  
  
• Brazilian Federal Court Unifies IT Infrastructure With Red Hat Solutions
  
  

  Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Distrito Federal Justice Court (TJDFT) has implemented Red Hat solutions across the IT systems of its 16 courts and is leveraging the performance, security and cost-effective benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite.

  
  
  
• Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
  
  

  Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks.
  
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  Windows’ memory usage went up by 0.07GB, or 71.68MB. The CPU still fluctuated madly but hung around 20%. Under Fedora, memory usage increased by only 50MB and with a maximum processor utilisation of 4%, shortly resuming to 1% while sitting idle (with Windows still jumping all about.)

  
  
  

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu Linux, My Favorite Desktop
• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #100!

Devices

• Linux-powered CherryPal uses just 2W
  
  

  The CherryPal mini-desktop runs an embedded version of Debian on a Freescale processor running at 400MHz, with 256MB of RAM and 4GB of internal flash storage.

  
  
  
• Towards using the FreeRunner as my primary phone
  
  

  First of all, having a phone that you can SSH into and do all the usual Linux-y stuff on is very, very, cool. When you plug the phone into your GNU/Linux computer it appears as a device on the other end of a new network interface usb0. An SSH server is configured and works out of the box. You need to do a small amount of configuration to let your FreeRunner use your computer's connection to get to the internet.
  
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  I installed a PDF reader and downloaded a couple of e-books to the phone. Astonishingly I can (pretty comfortably) read pages formatted for printed books on the FreeRunner's screen.

  
  
  
• Jailbreak for iPhone 3G released: how to use
• Q5 interview - John Bruggeman, Wind River
  
  

  How important is Linux and move to open-source environments?
  
  Growth of Linux went faster than anyone thought it would. For us the Linux business has grown from zero to $50m in 24 months. Most of our Linux customers originally experimented with free software and then they discovered the hidden costs.

  
  
  
• Automotive Linux drives innovation
  
  

  There are vendors developing embedded operating systems for the automotive infotainment market but they do not have the scale to bring all the new and exciting capabilities to the equipment quickly. Well established real-time operating systems such as Wind River’s VxWorks can have around 50,000 developers and still can’t provide all the required drivers and interfaces in the time needed.Because of this, a number of large car and equipment manufacturers have been working on ways to provide innovative new equipment designs.

  
  
  
• Timesys Announces Embedded Linux Support for TI OMAP(TM) 35x
• Linux-friendly SBC is cool, rugged type

F/OSS

• X Devs Drop NVIDIA Auto-Config Support
  
  

  It'd work out nice for a new user who wishes to use the binary NVIDIA driver to play games or use Compiz, but does it teach them anything about free software?

  
  
  
• It'd work out nice for a new user who wishes to use the binary NVIDIA driver to play games or use Compiz, but does it teach them anything about free software?
• Interesting comment spotted on Jonathan Schwartz' blog:
  
  

  [...] I work for a major Fortune company, and we're in the process of putting Oracle on a "sunset" list of restricted vendors. No new applications are allowed on Oracle, the only approved vendors are Sun/MySQL and Microsoft/SQL Server. So I don't know how Sun did that, but if their objective was to provide competition for Oracle, it appears to have worked with my management...

  
  
  
• Inquisitor v3.0 release
• Open Source Alternative to Commercial Software
• Six open source web application testing tools

Security

• Security is no secret
  
  

  The Linux community was one of the first groups to embrace Flask. With the help of open-source developers, NSA created a Linux security module based on Flask, called Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). It is now one of the core features in the widely used Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

  
  
  
• Mac Enterprise Security: Flawed in Fact, or Flawed Facts?
• Georgia President's Web Site Falls Under DDOS Attack

Leftovers

• VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption
• Yahoo Reaches an Agreement With Carl Icahn on Board (Update2)
• Google 'UK's top consumer brand' [at Microsoft's expense]