Enterprise / Open Source News
Wednesday, September 19 2007
AMD adds single-core Athlons to embedded portfolio
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6110819528.html (20070920 02:59) AMD has reaffirmed its commitment to the embedded market, announcing two new low-power, single-core processors. Compatible with the company's AM2 socket, the AMD Athlon 64 processor Models 2000+, 2600+, and 3100+ feature power envelopes of 8, 15, and 25 Watts, respectively.
New group mulls tiny computer module specs
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6234529747.html (20070920 01:56) A new standards group focused on small format board-level embedded computers was unveiled today at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston. The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF SIG) aims to "develop, adopt, and promote circuit board specifications and related technologies [but] not compete with existing trade organizations."
SAP fails to unveil on-demand service
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/sap_a1s_businessbydesign/ (20070920 01:31)
Swiss-cheese time for A1S
SAP has crashed Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce conference with its own event, trumpeting its long-awaited on-demand business applications challenger.…
Low-power EBX SBC supports SPX expansion
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2167738090.html (20070920 01:24) Versalogic has introduced an EBX format single-board computer (SBC) based on a 1.2 GHz Via Eden processor. Compatible with embedded Linux, the Sidewinder features modular PC/104-Plus expansion, but adds Versalogic's proprietary SPX-based serial expansion format to the mix,
State pharmacies migrate onto Red Hat Linux
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92938 (20070919 23:39) With Apoteket's server infrastructure reaching end of life and experiencing performance issues, Apoteket said it made the decision to replace both the hardware platform and the server operating system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel-based servers. This replaced its existing SPARC-based Solaris servers running an in-hosue developed ERP system. All servers at approximately 900 pharmacies have now been replaced with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Gnome 2.20 released!
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Gnome_2_20_released (20070919 23:20) The GNOME desktop and platform received a lot of improvements and new features. Learn more about this release through the detailed release notes.
Rackable parks portable data center outside Intel event
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/091907-rackable-sun-portable-data-center.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070919 23:14) Rackable Systems used the Intel Developer Forum to launch its portable data center built inside a shipping container, similar to Sun’s Project Blackbox, both designed so companies could add data center capacity quickly, or truck capacity to locations where it’s needed.
iPhone confirmed for T-Mobile Germany
http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_confirmed_for_T_Mobile_Germany (20070919 23:00) Ze Germans get Ze iPhone.
Atmel and TimeSys Announce Free Linux Board Support Package for AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92935 (20070919 22:52) Atmel(R) Corporation and TimeSys(R) announced today a free Linux(R) Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. Supporting the entire range of SAM9 products, this BSP includes Atmel's Linux kernel and drivers, BusyBox utilities for basic commands and features, and a Linux host/cross toolchain capable of re-building the Linux kernel and the basic packages included in the BSP. Together with a full documentation set and support services, this offering provides a ready-to-use package to validate Linux with Atmel microcontrollers.
Serverwide Performance Benchmarking
http://osnews.com/story.php/18640/Serverwide-Performance-Benchmarking/ (20070919 22:33) "Before installing a new shared Linux database- and webserver I wanted to get an idea of the real world performance of various filesystems combined with the noatime and atime flags. This article contains a brief analysis of the results of my testing. To get a good idea of the relative impact of the chosen filesystem I also tuned the amount of shared buffers used in the PostgreSQL database software, which powers a number of sites on the server. On top of that, I also took a look at the benefit of using APC, the Advanced PHP Cache."
Supermicro debuts super quiet server blade
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/supermicro_debuts_officeblade/ (20070919 22:21)
Shhh, do you want to wake the baby?
IDF Supermicro is showing off a new ultra quiet and low energy server blade at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week.…
Broadcom joins Linux Mobile Foundation
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92936 (20070919 22:05)
Fabless chip supplier Broadcom Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) has joined the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation as an associate member. The group, originally formed by Motorola Inc., NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Vodafone plc, is chartered with delivering a consistent open-source Linux software platform for mobile phones. Broadcom said Linux is gaining momentum in mobile phones and that it would work with LiMo Foundation members to address power consumption, size and cost, in an effort to achieve widespread adoption of Linux-based handsets.
[If they only started making Linux drivers for their wireless cards... – Sander]
Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/158728319/article.pl (20070919 21:15) Aaron Ricadela writes to mention that BusinessWeek is taking a look at the tech agendas for several presidential candidates. The amount of attention being paid to Silicon Valley especially is unprecedented with the computer industry citing contributions of $2.2 million up from just $1.2 million in the first six months of the 2004 and 2000 primary campaigns. "So even while the general election is likely to be dominated by the war in Iraq, the continued threat of terrorism, and economic issues, candidates have staked out early positions on topics dear to the tech industry, including increasing federal spending on research and development, allowing more highly educated foreign workers into the country, widening the availability of high-speed Internet service to create new markets for hardware and online services, and improving the state of U.S. math and science education."
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Internet services entrepreneur uses OSS to "decouple" software and hardware
http://www.linux.com/feature/119200 (20070919 21:00)
BinHost, a Web hosting and Internet services company, launched in 2000, "a time when discussion and email lists were not particularly easy to find a home for," says Justin Newman, BinHost's founder. Even back then, Newman built all of his infrastructure and services on open source software. As Newman has expanded his venture into telephony services, he still believes that open source saves business owners time, energy, and money.
HP to expand Linux pilot programs
http://www.linux.com/feed/119311 (20070919 20:30) A few months ago, we heard that HP was tinkering with the idea of selling machines stock with Linux. Details were light, but after the warm response Dell received for their introduction of desktop-class Linux machines, it seemed plausible for HP to consider it as well.
Linux kills innovation, claims Vole
http://www.linux.com/feed/119310 (20070919 20:00) A TOP VOLE has slammed Open Sauce as an innovation killer.
Internet pipes not ready to burst, researcher says
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/091907-internet-burst.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070919 19:30) New Web site monitors Internet traffic growth and finds growth rate is slowing despite influx of video and other traffic
Intel Harpertown (Penryn) Quad CPUs Benchmarked
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/158728323/article.pl (20070919 19:13) unts writes "The Intel Developer Forum is currently running in San Francisco, and Intel is showing off the up-coming Harpertown processors based on the Penryn core. HEXUS got hands on with a test system and ran some performance tests: 'Harpertown is a better quad-core processor than Clovertown: it's as simple as that. More L2 cache will gobble-up larger application data-sets and a higher FSB, on select models, will ensure that per-CPU bandwidth is less of a concern.'"
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Bugtraq: file upload vulnerability in joomla media component
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479973 (20070919 18:31) file upload vulnerability in joomla media component
Bugtraq: [security bulletin] HPSBUX02259 SSRT071439 rev.1 - HP-UX Running logins(1M), Remote Unauthorized Access
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479974 (20070919 18:31) [security bulletin] HPSBUX02259 SSRT071439 rev.1 - HP-UX Running logins(1M), Remote Unauthorized Access
10,000 municipality employees will change to open source software
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92930 (20070919 18:08) 17 September 2007 - All government agencies must change to open source software, the national government says in an action plan presented today. Amsterdam is already testing such software and will decide on whether to renew its Microsoft contract in December.
STB SoC does real-time HD encode/transcode
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6847973829.html (20070919 16:55) Horizon Semiconductors has announced a system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates multi-standard, dual-channel HD decoder, MPEG2/4 decoder, audio processor, and graphics accelerator functions. Aimed at STB (set-top box) and DVR (digital video recorder) applications, the Hz3120 and Hz4120 also include a "high performance" application processor.
Ubuntu tries to squeeze out a virtual appliance edge with JeOS
http://www.linux.com/feed/119298 (20070919 16:30) Canonical Ltd. is set to release a stripped-down version of Ubuntu in late October for use in virtual appliances. Called JeOS (pronounced "juice"), the acronym stands for Just Enough Operating System, as Canonical has ripped out several software packages to streamline the OS for virtualization purposes. The subtractions include the open source database MySQL; the Common Unix Printing Layer, or CUPS; email, as well as LDAP functionality.
German web host to go carbon neutral
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/strato_web_hosting_green_co2/ (20070919 16:14)
Trusty old diesel engine at hand if renewable energy cocks up
Web hosting firm Strato has pulled on its hemp-woven strides and made an ambitious proclamation that it will be completely carbon-free by January 2008.…
How to create a sensible telephone strategy
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/clinic_telephonestrategy/ (20070919 15:59)
To VoIP or not to VoIP
Mobile Clinic Mobile Clinic In this our penultimate mobile clinic piece, The Register's group of experts return to provide their opinions on your questions.…
Reflections on the Revolution
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92922 (20070919 15:55) So yes, I will today turn to the West and nod my head to the author of the Linux Kernel. I am not writing this to speak of his obvious genius. Neither am I banging on a keyboard to offer praise and accolades to our kernel developers, distro authors and graphic artists. What Linus Torvalds gave to us is worth more than we know. That is being done
Apple may be next in EU antitrust sights
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/091907-apple-eu-antitrust.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070919 15:46) With Microsoft's antitrust appeal now decided, the next U.S. technology company to get a place on the European Union's regulatory hot seat may be Apple, an antitrust expert said Tuesday.
USB 3.0 To Bring Optical Connection in 2008
http://osnews.com/story.php/18639/USB-3.0-To-Bring-Optical-Connection-in-2008/ (20070919 14:12) Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chip maker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires. Intel is working with fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008, said Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, in a speech here at the Intel Developer Forum.
Applying Mount Namespaces in Linux
http://www.linux.com/feed/119289 (20070919 14:00) What if you could allow users to craft their own filesystem setup without being constrained by the sysadmin-dictated structure? Well now you can with mount propagation. This article provides a step-by-step guide for Linux system administrators to allow users to export part of their own filesystem tree and import other users' exported filesystem trees into their tree.
Hacker Publishes Notorious Apple Wi-Fi Attack
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/158564467/article.pl (20070919 12:39) inkslinger77 writes "It's been about a year since David Maynor claimed to have found a way to take over a Mac using a flaw in a Wireless driver. He's now published his work for public scrutiny. Maynor had been under a nondisclosure agreement, which had previously prevented him from publishing details of the hack, but the NDA is over now and by going public with the information, Maynor hopes to help other Apple researchers with new documentation on things like Wi-Fi debugging and the Mac OS X kernel core dumping facility."
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Sweden’s Largest State Pharmacy Prescribed "Linux"
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Sweden_s_Largest_State_Pharmacy_Prescribed_Linux (20070919 12:20) The largest state run pharmacy in Sweden is switching 900 of its locations to Redhat Linux.
VMware Killer: Xen With Graphical User Interface On A Fedora 7 Desktop
http://digg.com/linux_unix/VMware_Killer_Xen_With_Graphical_User_Interface_On_A_Fedora_7_Desktop (20070919 09:40) This guide shows how to set up Xen on a Fedora 7 desktop. Fedora's virt-manager provides an easy to use GUI for setting up and managing your virtual machines. It does not have the extensive features like VMware Server, but the basics are in place.
This week at LWN: LCE: Linux, hardware vendors, and enterprise distributors
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92908 (20070919 08:59) Enterprise distributions are an important part of the economic success story of Linux. The creation of highly stable, highly supported distributions has brought significant revenue streams to some distributors and enabled the deployment of Linux into many "mission critical" situations. Enterprise distributions encourage the commercial world to take Linux seriously. At LinuxConf Europe, however, your editor has stumbled into a few conversations which characterized enterprise distributions as one of the bigger problems the development community has now. Then a talk by Dirk Hohndel made that point again in a different context.
OpenOffice.org Free Software Proves a Success at WalMart
http://prweb.com/releases/OpenOffice.org/Everex/prweb554712.htm (20070919 08:24) Delegates at the OpenOffice.org Conference today heard how their software - a free alternative to Microsoft Office - has proved a success with shoppers in US chain WalMart, thanks to a 'Back to School' PC from Everex. (PRWeb Sep 19, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/VGhpci1GYWx1LUluc2UtTWFnbi1UaGlyLVplcm8=
2.6.23-rc6-mm1,"This Just Isn't Working Any More"
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=92892 (20070919 08:11) A frustrated sounding Andrew Morton released the 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 kernel as"a 29MB diff against 2.6.23-rc6." Many patches are merged first into Andrew's -mm tree for testing before being pushed to Linus' mainline tree during the merge window. Andrew suggested that the -mm process wasn't working as well as it could:"It took me over two solid days to get this lot compiling and booting on a few boxes. This required around ninety fixup patches and patch droppings. There are several bugs in here which I know of (details below) and presumably many more which I don't know of. I have to say that this just isn't working any more."
Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List'
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/158454068/article.pl (20070919 08:08) ehud42 writes "According to Symantec, 'Internet security is headed toward a major reversal in philosophy, where a 'white list' which allows only benevolent programs to run on a computer will replace the current 'black list' system' as described an article on the CBC's site. The piece mentions some issues with fairness to whose program is 'safe' including a comment that judges need to be impartial to open source programs which can change quite rapidly. Would this work? The effort to maintain black lists is becoming so daunting that white lists may be an effective solution."
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Cisco to acquire wireless-management firm Cognio
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/091807-cisco-cognio.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070919 07:24) Cisco this week said it will purchase privately held Cognio, a maker of spectrum analysis and management systems for wireless networks.
iPhone v1.1.1 Feature Breakdown (8 and counting)
http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_v1_1_1_Feature_Breakdown_8_and_counting (20070919 07:10) Engadget got their hands on v1.1.1 iPhones at Apple's London event this morning. I thought I would breakdown the 8 new features I have gathered from examining there photos.
Intel slobbers over flash-based server storage
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/intel_flash_storage_servers/ (20070919 06:49)
Pricey but fast
IDF Intel plans to shakeup the storage market in 2008 with the introduction of solid-state disks designed for data center hardware.…
OpenOffice 2.3 Released
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/158454069/article.pl (20070919 06:23) ClickOnThis writes "Surely I'm not the only one who noticed that OpenOffice.org has announced the release of version 2.3! From the website: 'Available for download now, OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it. Plus: It is only with 2.3 that users can make full use of our growing extensions library.' You can download it but be kind and use a P2P client instead, such as bittorrent."
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Acer, Gateway Deal Gains U.S. Antitrust Approval
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cio/feed/solutions/1375/~3/158528496/Acer_Gateway_Deal_Gains_U.S._Antitrust_Approval (20070919 05:00) Acer's planned $710 million acquisition of PC vendor Gateway won antitrust approval in the U.S. as the clock struck midnight on Monday, Gateway said.
Hacktivism Hits State of Michigan's Website
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cio/feed/solutions/1374/~3/158725678/Hacktivism_Hits_State_of_Michigan_s_Website (20070919 05:00) Protesters express their displeasure about state government services in Michigan through attempted denial-of-service attack.
Holonyx Launches Value Added Reseller Partner Program for Linux Support and Open Source Software Support
http://www.linux.com/feed/119282 (20070919 05:00) Holonyx Inc. announced its Partner Program to provide Linux support and open source software support to Value Added Resellers and System Integrators. This program will allow Holonyx Partners to expand the technology solutions they offer to their customers by implementing fully supported open source solutions in their customer accounts.
Jobs confirms 3G iPhone for 2008
http://digg.com/apple/Jobs_confirms_3G_iPhone_for_2008 (20070919 04:00) Apple promises 3G iPhone for 2008 and you can expect a 3G iPhone later next year...
USB 3.0 around the corner?
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2925015127.html (20070919 01:05) Super-fast USB 3.0 technology may begin to supersede USB 2.0 in 2008. Drawing on technology developed by HP, Microsoft, NEC, NXP, Texas Instruments, and Intel, a USB 3.0 Promoter Group hopes to deliver by mid-2008 a proposed spec for backwards-compatible USB ten times faster than today's 480Mbps technology.
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