Enterprise / Open Source News

Monday, September 17 2007

GPL'd Linux stack supports touchscreen phones

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5429713730.html (20070918 04:10)

Trolltech will release its entire application development framework for Linux-based mobile phones under the GPL license, it announced on Sept. 18. Additionally, the development tools and software stack vendor plans to support FIC's iPhone-like GTA01 ("Neo1973") as an open phone development platform.

Fear of Web 2.0

http://digg.com/tech_news/Fear_of_Web_2_0 (20070918 02:50)

Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and 'web 2.0' trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, but they aren't yet ready to usurp many desktop software apps. The Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate currently raging is proof of that.

Happy birthday, Linux

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92869 (20070918 01:59)

Today, Sept. 17, Linux turns 16 -- old enough to drive in some states, not to mention that in some Southern states, Linux is old enough to marry its cousin. Want to sign a card to Linus and the rest of those who made the operating system what it is today, or tell us how you got started with Linux? Getnix.com has a card to send the principals ready for you to fill out.

Apple event tomorrow at 10:00AM BST / 5:00AM EDT, set your alarms (really!)

http://digg.com/apple/Apple_event_tomorrow_at_10_00AM_BST_5_00AM_EDT_set_your_alarms_really (20070918 01:50)

Europeans have been waiting in constant anticipation since June 29th to hear when and in what form their version of the iPhone will take. The rumors pretty much revolve around which carriers in which regions will get the phone, with a hint of speculation about a 3G update in HSDPA and UMTS rife Europe.

W3C sets standards for SOA and Web 2.0

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92808 (20070918 01:29)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced two standards aimed at bringing order to the web. In early September W3C introduced Web Services Policy 1.5, giving developers a way to connect web services standards such as SOAP 1.2, WSDL 2.0, and XML Schema to new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications. And last week it gave a boost to what W3C calls the "semantic web" with the long-awaited announcement of the standard for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL).

Acronis grabs virtual servers by their backups

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/acronis_echo_true_image/ (20070918 00:23)

'We're in the moving business'

Data protection specialist Acronis has jumped on the virtualization bandwagon with a product aimed at handling data backups for physical and virtual servers.…

Core 2 Duo AMC runs Carrier Grade Linux

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3741178211.html (20070917 23:56)

Performance Technologies is sampling a Core 2 Duo-based processor module in the AdvancedMC (advanced mezzanine card, aka "AMC") form-factor. The AMC121 supports PT's own NexusWare Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) implementation, and targets packet processing and general computing applications, including IMS, wireless, softswitches, and shipboard communications.

Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Yahoo_Acquires_Zimbra (20070917 23:40)

Zimbra announced today that Yahoo! is acquiring it to extend its email leadership to the University, Business and ISP markets. In order to focus on this effort, the Zimbra team will report to the communications group where we will remain fully committed to the community and to our customers and partners while leveraging opportunities .

Free software made mandatory in India

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Free_software_made_mandatory_in_India (20070917 23:30)

"The Director of Public Instruction (DPI) has issued orders making free software compulsory. It says Linux Operating System should be used for IT education in eighth, ninth and tenth standards."

Salesforce force feeds SaaS to the masses

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/17/dreamforce_salesforce_isvs/ (20070917 23:04)

Whoo oo oo ooo... Can you feel the force?

Dreamforce Chief executive Marc Benioff today kicked-off Salesforce.com's fifth, annual Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco by citing customer numbers, growing developer and partner channels, and increased revenues as proof that Salesforce.com will force its way onto the software industry's table.…

UPnP approved as ISO standard

http://digg.com/tech_news/UPnP_approved_as_ISO_standard (20070917 22:30)

The UPnP communication protocol has received official status as a standard from the JTC 1 board that forms part of the ISO. But will anyone use it?

OS X Dashboard Widgets running on iPhone (with screen shot)

http://digg.com/apple/OS_X_Dashboard_Widgets_running_on_iPhone_with_screen_shot (20070917 22:30)

Copy /System/Library/WidgetResources over to your iPhone, install your OS X widgets into /var/root/Library/Widgets and run Widgets.app. "The Weather, ESPN and Calendar widgets are some of the best; the Flight Tracker, Dictionary and Phone Book are among the worst" in compatibility

Network accelerators come with Linux drivers

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5459759352.html (20070917 21:49)

Cavium Networks has launched two families of Linux-friendly network accelerator cards. The lower-end Nitrox PX XL PCI-Express cards target security appliances, storage equipment, and service-provider infrastructure, while the higher-end Octeon XL NICPro2 PCI-X cards target L4-L7 switches, session border controllers, and ad-insertion appliances, among other applications.

FOSSFA calls for use of open hardware

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92801 (20070917 21:27)

In conjunction with Software Freedom Day, the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) has made a call for governments to purchase hardware that will not limit its choice of what software to run. The foundation, which promotes the use of free software and open source methods within Africa, said that during all the debates about FLOSS (free, libre and open source software) it was often forgotten that in many cases the hardware was locked into some proprietary operating system. The use of non-restricted hardware would benefit both governments and citizens, it argued.

High-performance microcontrollers come with Linux

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4469294424.html (20070917 21:17)

Freescale is sampling a new family of 32-bit microcontroller units (MCUs) "for Linux applications," the company said. The ColdFire MCF5445x family includes a dozen different parts, along with a development board provided with a complimentary Linux BSP (board support package) and toolchain.

Will Linux Steal Apple's Thunder?

http://www.linux.com/feed/119255 (20070917 20:00)

As Apple Computer (AAPL) surpasses the one million iPhones sold mark and Wall Street has to some degree sold the "news" about the iPhone, not to mention getting lost in the mortgage morass, Apple still remains one of the strongest stocks in the market and should for some time to come. I have been saying this to everyone who'd listen for a lot longer than the Street has been buying up Apple's shares, and I think this market correction is just another great buying opportunity. Apple proved with the iPhone's comprehensive and extremely clever communications UI and with their interactive pixels technology that they are simply the leader in UIs and product design. Many manufacturers and Linux developers are nipping at their heels though, and the question is how many more tricks Apple has up their sleeves.

Ruby On Rails at SPIN

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92809 (20070917 19:54)

The topic for this month's Cape Town SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) is Ruby on Rails. The guest speakers will be Farrel Lifson from Aimred and Gopal Ramasammy-Cook from Psybergate. Ruby on Rails is a full-stack open source framework for developing database-backed web-based applications, and it is built on the Ruby language.

CTOs mull multicore issues at Power.org devcon

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9115082677.html (20070917 19:12)

Four technical leaders in the embedded software and tools market will discuss multi-core enablement in an epic two-hour forum at the first-ever Power.org developer's conference later this month. On the table will be several factors impeding broader adoption of multicore in embedded, organizers say.

2.5-inch flash drive holds 461 GB

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4331778531.html (20070917 19:12)

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford one. That statement likely applies to Bitmicro's new E-Disk Altima E2A3GL, which crams up to 461 GB of flash memory into a standard 2.5-inch hard drive form-factor, and which targets military and industrial applications.

High-integration MIPS processors run Linux

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9530578373.html (20070917 19:12)

PMC-Sierra has started shipping the first two chips in a new line of MIPS-based SoCs (system-on-chip processors) aimed at networked appliances, storage systems, and security devices. The MSP8100 series SoCs are based on 400MHz cores, consume less than 1.5 Watts, and are available with a development board and Linux toolkit.

Virtualization vendor touts Intel VPro support

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9966170639.html (20070917 19:12)

VirtualLogix will demonstrate an intriguing application for its VLX processor virtualization technology at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) next week in San Francisco. The vendor says its VLX technolgoy can give VoIP softphones, firewalls, and other applications "industry-leading QoS" (quality-of-service) by providing them their own virtual machine on vPro systems.

Tiny module targets mobile, embedded apps

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9134275099.html (20070917 19:12)

Embedian has started shipping a tiny embedded processor module available with Linux and a development board with LCD. Roughly half the size of a credit card, the COM-7211 is based on an ARM9 processor, and targets industrial automation, portable devices, POS, transportation, medical, and defense applications.

Debian mini-distro suits routers, low-end devices

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5426112912.html (20070917 19:12)

A Hong Kong-based WiFi equipment and service provider is offering a free Linux mini-distribution that might hold special appeal to builders of routers and other sparsely-resourced systems running x86-class processors. Voyage Solutions's "Voyage Linux" is based on Debian Etch, and retains Debian's handy apt-get package manager.

Federico Biancuzzi: Virtualized rootkits - Part 1

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/451?ref=rss (20070917 19:12)

Virtualized rootkits - Part 1

Federico Biancuzzi: Virtualized rootkits - Part 2

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/452?ref=rss (20070917 19:12)

Virtualized rootkits - Part 2

Damn Small Linux Makes Darn Big Impression

http://www.linux.com/feed/119247 (20070917 18:00)

At a mere 50MB, Damn Small Linux (DSL) seems like it would be more at home in the realm of rescue disks instead of Desktop OSs. After booting up into full graphical mode, you may be hooked on this tiny distribution forever. I am impressed with the number of applications and the fact that DSL has two choices for graphical interfaces (Window Managers): Fluxbox and jwm (see Figures 1 and 2). DSL is based on the Debian Linux distribution.

GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/157676016/article.pl (20070917 17:03)

Sunnz writes "The leaner, lighter, faster, and most importantly, BSD Licensed, Compiler PCC has been imported into OpenBSD's CVS and NetBSD's pkgsrc. The compiler is based on the original Portable C Compiler by S. C. Johnson, written in the late 70's. Even though much of the compiler has been rewritten, some of the basics still remain. It is currently not bug-free, but it compiles on x86 platform, and work is being done on it to take on GCC's job."

One Less Reason to Adopt IPv6?

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/157645216/article.pl (20070917 16:19)

alphadogg writes "For a decade, IPv6 proponents have pushed this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol because of its three primary benefits: a gargantuan address space, end-to-end security, and easier network administration through automatic device configuration. Now it turns out that one of these IPv6 benefits — autoconfiguration — may not be such a boon for corporate network managers. A growing number of IPv6 experts say that corporations probably will skip autoconfiguration and instead stick with DHCP, which has been updated to support IPv6."

Zenoss Added as Global Sponsor of Software Freedom Day 2007

http://www.linux.com/feed/119233 (20070917 14:30)

Open Source Systems Management Leader to Support Worldwide Education and Awareness Event

UNIX Pipes, Streams and Redirections

http://www.linux.com/feed/119231 (20070917 14:00)

This is the third article in the “CLI tricks” series. This time we are going to cover UNIX-specific pipes, streams and redirections, explaining what they are for and how they can help us in every day console tasks.

jQuery User Interface Library

http://digg.com/tech_news/jQuery_User_Interface_Library (20070917 13:40)

"Draggables, droppables, resizables, shadows, sliders, sortables, tabs, accordions, selectables, trees, and modals. All completely documented, demoed, themed, and 100% Free Open Source Software." Should be available in a couple of hours.

How To Change The Linux Distribution On A Remote Box With Only SSH Access

http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_To_Change_The_Linux_Distribution_On_A_Remote_Box_With_Only_SSH_Access (20070917 08:40)

How to completely change your distribution on a remote box without a boot disk, with only ssh access, using only one partition, and with only one reboot at the very end of the conversion process. And by completely, I mean completely. You can delete every single file of the old distro if you want.

Fast WLAN - will the standard fail?

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92781 (20070917 02:11)

Patents are making trouble again. This time the upcoming wireless network standard 802.11n is the victim, its finalisation potentially blocked because of a patent held by an Australian research institution.