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Links 6/7/2011: Linux 3.1 Predictions, ‘Garshasp’ Comes to GNU/Linux



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GNU/Linux

  • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Running Ubuntu 11.04[Video]
    This is one of the advantages of having an open device running an open OS. ASUS Eee Transformer Pad is already among the fastest selling Android tablets out there and it is powered by latest Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. YouTube user lilstevie89 have managed to install and run Ubuntu 11.04's classic GNOME desktop in his ASUS transformer TF101.




  • Kernel Space

    • DRM Changes Coming Up For Linux 3.1 Kernel
      There's still a few more weeks left until the Linux 3.0 kernel will be officially released, but there are already some changes worth looking forward to with the Linux 3.1 kernel as it pertains to the Direct Rendering Manager drivers.

      In going over the drm-next Git tree of David Airlie's, for what will ultimately go in as the pull request when the Linux 3.1 kernel merge window is opened, there's a few items to mention at this time:




  • Applications



  • Desktop Environments



    • GNOME Desktop

      • Lunch With A Side Of GNOME
        Sometimes your plans for the day are altered greatly because of external circumstances. Nomachine released the latest NX 4 preview last night. We have been very anxious for this technology in order to deploy iPad/tablets, so this was my primary project for today. Prior releases inched closer to our goals, but were *far* too slow to do any beta testing. VNC testing over EVDO was painful as well. At this time no native client is offered for the iPad, instead it works by just using the Safari browser and then connecting to a web server. X is started inside the browser and your desktop appears. Performance on Firefox/Linux/Wired is very snappy and fast. Safari/iPad/WiFi works fairly well as does Safari/iPad/EVDO. So for the first time ever, I was able to take an iPad to lunch with me and log into our new GNOME server. I present, lunch with a side of GNOME:






  • Distributions



    • Debian Family



      • Derivatives



        • Canonical/Ubuntu

          • Unity Mail Gets GNOME Keyring Support, Graphical Configuration Dialog
            Unity Mail is a Unity-specific application to display the email unread count on the Unity launcher.


          • Overlay Scrollbars – Update
            When we introduced the new overlay scrollbars we knew it was a bold decision and we were expecting some critics because of the use cases we didn’t support.

            As hoped, we had a lot of very useful feedback. Most of the people very liked this innovation and understood our need to be consistent to our design principles. But because we were hoping for the minimal impact, it was important for us to understand when this wasn’t the case.


          • Ubuntu Linux 'Natty Narwhal' debuts in PHL
            Linux and open-source software fans can now keep up with Windows and Mac users with the release of the latest flavor of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

            Aside from being free, the open-source Ubuntu release 11.04 —codenamed “Natty Narwhal"— touts the improved graphical user interface (GUI) dubbed "Unity."

            "Over other Linux desktop [distributions], Ubuntu has the advantage of being easy-to-use, as well as having a solid infrastructure underneath. Ubuntu also has a broader coverage of language support, with the widely used Unicode as the default character encoding," Zak Elep, head of Ubuntu Philippine Team Local Community (LoCoTeam) said in a statement.


          • Free Official Ubuntu Book For Approved LoCo Teams


          • A new snapshot of Unity 2D


          • Weekend Project: Create Virtual Hosts with Apache










  • Devices/Embedded



    • Sub-notebooks/Tablets

      • HP Debuts TouchPad as Thunderbird Accelerates
        No, the HP TouchPad is not a pure-breed Linux up-front tablet. The HP TouchPad, which was released this past week, runs on HP's webOS, formerly the operating system used by Palm, which HP acquired in 2010 for $1.2 billion.








Free Software/Open Source



  • FOSS misfits: Rusty Russell's take
    It is even less often that a person who has the integrity of Rusty Russell does so. His comments about social misfits in the community - whom he refers to as arseholes (he used the American spelling, assholes) - has not received much attention, understandably, given the insular nature of most commentary about FOSS.

    Russell is a senior kernel programmer, a good guy, very funny and a genuinely impulsive person. He is well-known as a prankster; one of the pranks he pulled in 2010 resulted in the well-known Debian developer Bdale Garbee having to sacrifice his beard at the hands of Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

    [...]

    And senior FOSS people need to speak out more often about the problems within. Drawing a ring around things will not make problems disappear - when they do see the light of day, they will be akin to Murray Cummings' blast in 2007.


  • Interview with Libre Graphics Magazine at Libre Graphics Meeting 2011
    I was recently able to attend the 2011 Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal, and there i had a blast meeting lots of people and founding out about so many great projects. One of these, is Libre Graphics Magazine and the fantastic people behind it: ginger "all lowercase" coons along with Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente of Manufactura Independente.


  • Openness/Sharing

    • FabFi: An open source wireless network built with trash


    • The Uzebox: An open source hardware games console
      Anybody who has even a passing familiarity with IT — and even most who don't — encounters open source software on a daily basis. Whether it's Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, the Apache HTTP Server, which powers most of the world's Web sites, or Google's Android mobile platform, open source software has gone from being solely the domain of geeks to part of many people's everyday life — and it's become big business.




  • Programming





Leftovers





Clip of the Day



Minecraft- Redwall Abbey (Survival)



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