Enterprise / Open Source News

Saturday, September 22 2007

Open Source Is the Big Disruptor

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93106 (20070923 01:14)

Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result in cheaper software and new business models. Open-source products accounted for a 13 percent share of the $92.7 billion software market in 2006, but should account for 27 percent of the market in 2011 when revenue is expected to be $169.2 billion, according to Gartner research.

Latest Leopard Visual Tweaks and Intro Movie

http://digg.com/apple/Latest_Leopard_Visual_Tweaks_and_Intro_Movie (20070923 00:50)

The latest Mac OS 10 Leopard seed that was released on Friday to developers has introduced a number of notable visual tweaks to the operating system. Notes and screenshots have been gathered from public forums which reveal the improvements found in the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard.

Develop Powerful XML Applications with DB2

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93111 (20070923 00:16)

XMLTABLE is one of the most powerful functions in the SQL/XML standard and is available in DB2 9 for Linux, Unix, Windows, and z/OS. In part 1 of this two-part series you learned how to use XMLTABLE to retrieve XML data in relational format, how to deal with repeating or missing XML elements, and how to handle namespaces. Part 2 describes common XMLTABLE usage scenarios, such as shredding XML into relational tables, and producing hybrid XML-relational storage of your XML documents.

Mach Boot: The live CD that supposedly boots in 10 seconds

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93103 (20070922 21:07)

Catching my eye from this week's Distrowatch Weekly: MACH BOOT - a live CD that boots in 10 seconds. TEN seconds? I'm lucky to get anything to boot in less than three minutes. And I've never heard of Mach Boot. But I am intrigued. When an obscure distro gets mentioned in Distrowatch, it's a recipe for an overloaded server, but I will try to download, burn and boot Mach Boot to see how quickly it, in fact does boot. And whether it works at all.

New Firefox 3.0 alpha blocks malware, secures plug-in updates

http://digg.com/security/New_Firefox_3_0_alpha_blocks_malware_secures_plug_in_updates (20070922 20:20)

Security features debut in latest preview, as Firefox 3.0 heads down the stretch

'Open Minds' want Linux and open source in American schools

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93097 (20070922 20:10)

Many other countries are turning to Linux and open-source for their school-house computer needs, and now there's a conference for those who want to bring it to schools in the U.S.

KDE Quarterly Report 2007 Q2

http://osnews.com/story.php/18658/KDE-Quarterly-Report-2007-Q2/ (20070922 19:38)

The second KDE e.V. quarterly report [.pdf] is available, covering topics like KDE's involvement in the Google Summer of Code, the SQO-OSS project (Open Source Software Quality Observatory), akonadi, ODF, and Oxygen meetings, as well as reports from marketing, HIG, and sysadmin teams.

Fedora Reaching Out to New Niches

http://osnews.com/story.php/18657/Fedora-Reaching-Out-to-New-Niches/ (20070922 19:35)

"Purpose-built Fedora distributions, called 'spins', are a recent addition to that community in an attempt to reach additional users. The idea is to use tools like Revisor to create a custom collection of software that work well together for a particular set of tasks. This collection can then be installed or run from a live CD, providing an easy means to have the right collection of tools immediately, rather than after a lengthy yum install pass."

Apples or oranges? What is JeOS?

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93102 (20070922 18:31)

Are you planning on juicing anytime soon? How about JeOSing? Confused yet? Heres a hint: Both those sentences sound exactly the same when you say them aloud. Whats different about them is a case of apples and oranges however, and Im not talking about Tropicana. Im not even talking about pro sports figures and questionable performance enhancing tactics that may or or may not lead to asterisks being placed next to stats and failed Hall of Fame bids.

Bugtraq: 2 vanilla XSS on Wordpress ?wp-register.php?

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480327 (20070922 18:15)

2 vanilla XSS on Wordpress ?wp-register.php?

How to sponsor an open source project?

http://www.linux.com/feed/119382 (20070922 17:00)

"I'm looking for ideas, established practices, do's and don'ts for sponsoring an open source project. An upfront caveat -- this is not an actual offer. It's totally hypothetical. If I make the offer it will be done in some other more formal way.

The project: I want the OPML Editor to run on Linux."

Building a community around your open source project

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93101 (20070922 16:53)

There are a vast number of fantastic open source projects out there, though for every one that is widely adopted, there are many that remain cloaked in relative obscurity. How can the open source development model best be leveraged to take advantage of community feedback, ideas, and testing, and ultimately gather code contributions? If you are just thinking about open sourcing a new project, what steps can you take to ensure a vibrant community? If you already have an open source project, how can you make your community more active? The community can make any project stronger, but they are not built automatically.

Schedules Direct meets membership goal, lowers price

http://www.linux.com/feed/119381 (20070922 15:30)

Schedules Direct, the non-profit service providing electronic program guide data to users of MythTV and other free software TV projects, has met its membership goals and lowered the price of its data service to $20 per year.

In pursuit of code quality: Adventures in behavior-driven development

http://www.linux.com/feed/119370 (20070922 14:00)

Test-driven development is a great idea in practice, but some developers just can't get over the conceptual leap associated with that word test. Get started with behavior-driven development (BDD) (via JBehave) and see for yourself what happens when you focus on program behaviors, rather than outcomes.

802.11n May Never Happen Due to Patent Concerns

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/159876904/article.pl (20070922 12:10)

afabbro writes "The Register is reporting that the 802.11n standard is imperiled because the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization has refused to submit a Letter of Assurance, promising not to sue those who implement the standard. '...the realization that CSIRO holds essential patents, and has failed to provide a Letter of Assurance as required by the IEEE, could prevent the standard ever being finalized ... 802.11n promises to deliver a fivefold increase in speed, and double the range of 802.11g. Indeed in many cases it's already delivering something approximating that, as pre-standard kit has been available for almost a year. In May the Wi-Fi Alliance got so bored waiting for the IEEE to complete the standard that they started certifying kit as conforming to the draft, even though the final version isn't expected until 2008."

Gartner: No New Unix Apps to Emerge After 2009

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93079 (20070922 12:07)

There are unlikely to be any new applications developed solely for Unix after 2009, George Weiss, a Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, told attendees at Gartner's annual Open Source Summit here Sept. 20. "I expect that, around 2009, we will have seen the last application developed specifically for Unix, after which no applications will be developed just for that operating system, though updates to existing applications will continue for some time to come," Weiss said in an address titled "Planning a Third-Generation Linux Enterprise."

NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/159876905/article.pl (20070922 10:19)

Novus Ordo Seclorum writes "The NSA has a new assignment. No longer merely responsible for signals intelligence, the NSA now has the task of defending against cyber attacks on government and private networks. 'The plan calls for the NSA to work with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to monitor such networks to prevent unauthorized intrusion, according to those with knowledge of what is known internally as the 'Cyber Initiative.' Details of the project are highly classified. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, a former NSA chief, is coordinating the initiative. It will be run by the Department of Homeland Security, which has primary responsibility for protecting domestic infrastructure, including the Internet, current and former officials said. At the outset, up to 2,000 people -- from the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA and other agencies -- could be assigned to the initiative, said a senior intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity.'"

Defending Openness

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93075 (20070922 08:37)

Things have been going pretty well for open source and open standards recently. First, there was theimplosion of the SCO case, in the wake of which even SCOaccepts that it may not be around much longer. Then we had therejection of Microsoft's request for a fast-track approval of its OOXML rival to ODF. Finally, the European Court of First Instance hasrefused Microsoft's request for an annulment of the terms imposed by the European Commission. All are notable victories that many regarded as unlikely a few years ago. But elsewhere, other open movements are still in the early stages of the struggle against forces pushing closed, proprietary standards.

Rack Mountable Streaming Video Server

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/9/prweb555469.htm (20070922 08:27)

Sensoray announced the newest addition to their streaming video server family, the 2446, which offers High Definition inputs in a 1U package.. Using an embedded CPU running a Linux operating system, high quality video and low latency are no longer obstacles to system integrators. (PRWeb Sep 22, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1TdW1tLUxvdmUtTWFnbi1UaGlyLVplcm8=

The Most Powerful Linux Command that nobody uses!!

http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Most_Powerful_Linux_Command_that_nobody_uses (20070922 08:00)

lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. The tool is aptly called lsof because it "lists open files". And remember, in Unix just about everything (including a network socket) is a file.

Is Open Source the Best Way to Unlock the Value of IT?

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93088 (20070922 07:39)

Open source is truly the best way to unlock the value of information technology, Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, said at the annual Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 20. "Open source can give you a common operating platform for real, and if you use Linux as a leveler, the individual ships will all right themselves rather than colliding into one another," he said, pointing to the fact that even Microsoft submitted two of its licenses to the OSI for approval, although as a company it remains ambivalent toward open source.

So This Penguin Walks Into The Library...

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93086 (20070922 06:42)

Lobby4Linux has recently acquired the means to label and display the disks in an attractive way. Distro authors and communities are encouraged to send us any "official" cd labels they wish used. We have 4 distributions that have actively requested that their distribution be included in the list of those made available,

Intel Releases Several Projects to Help Save Power

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/159760018/article.pl (20070922 04:39)

GeekyBodhi writes "LessWatts.org is Intel's new website that hosts several power saving tools. As Linux.com reports, it also shares tips and tricks to help optimize power consumption on hardware from portable devices running on batteries to large data centers. 'LessWatts.org is not about marketing, trying to sell you something or comparing one vendor to another. LessWatts.org is about how you can save real watts, however you use Linux on your computer or computers.' As reported on Slashdot earlier, this isn't the first time Intel has tried to help Linux users cut their power bills. In May, the company launched the PowerTOP program that monitors individual processes to keep track of power consumption. The project comes at a time when more vendors are pre-installing Linux on handhelds and laptops." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge.

o3magazine launches enterprise Open Source news site

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93083 (20070922 04:37)

o3 magazine, the enterprise Open Source magazine, today announced a beta of its news portal, o3news. The portal is designed to track all Open Source enterprise-related news. The service guarantees 24/7 coverage across timezones thanks to a globally distributed staff. o3news.com monitors over 25 news sources to keep you updated with enterprise news as it happens. You can read the news online at o3news.com or subscribe to its RSS feed (http://o3news.com/o3news.rss).

Got more than a gig of RAM and 32-bit Linux? Here's how to use it

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93087 (20070922 02:15)

Nowadays, many machines are running with 2-4 gigabytes of RAM, and their owners are discovering a problem: When they run 32-bit GNU/Linux distributions, their extra RAM is not being used. Fortunately, correcting the problem is only a matter of installing or building a kernel with a few specific parameters enabled or disabled.

Linus Torvalds hates C++

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linus_Torvalds_hates_C (20070922 02:10)

C++ is a horrible language. It’s made more horrible by the fact that a lotof substandard programmers use it, to the point where it’s much mucheasier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even ifthe choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out,that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

First look at Lenovo's ultra efficient A61e

http://www.linux.com/feed/119377 (20070922 01:15)

Just a few days ago Lenovo made a number of headlines when they announced their newest desktop, the ThinkCentre A61e. This "Ultrasmall Form Factor" system is not only small, but it was touted as Lenovo's most efficient desktop. A lot of the excitement about it was because it was said that the system could be powered by an optional solar panel, but the bigger news was that this desktop surpasses the EPA's Energy Star 4.0 criteria and that it received gold status from EPEAT. Small form factor fans were probably the most impressed by the fact that they were seeing a Mini-ITX system from Lenovo that started at $399 and it Linux-certified.

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