Enterprise / Open Source News

Thursday, September 27 2007

Linux powers programmable automation controller

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4955698667.html (20070928 01:20)

Taiwan-based embedded networking device vendor Artila Electronics has announced a new programmable automation controller targeting facility management, remote device monitoring, building automation, and machine control. The iPAC-5010 is powered by a 180MHz ARM9 core, and comes with Linux and a GNU toolchain.

Hynix leaves DRAM market spotless

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/hynix_dram_spot_market/ (20070927 23:48)

Falling prices causes memory loss

Hynix, the Korean computer memory maker, is fleeing the DRAM spot market - because prices are too low. That's not the spin the company is putting on the decision, telling Reuters that it wants to "enhance our flexibility and strengthen our position in the contract market".…

Enterprises warned to approach Web 2.0 with caution

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092707-web2-caution.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070927 23:34)

Web 2.0 software applications that are easy to write and deploy have a place in the enterprise for improved work collaboration and customer convenience. But security experts at an AjaxWorld conference advise that apps with security, identity or accessibility issues are inappropriate for client-based Web 2.0 and should stay server-based, behind the firewall.

Quantum Chip Rides on Superconducting Bus

http://osnews.com/story.php/18692/Quantum-Chip-Rides-on-Superconducting-Bus/ (20070927 22:48)

For the first time the components that underlie quantum computing's great potential - qubits - have been linked on chips like those in conventional computers. Two US research teams used superconducting circuits to make two of the quantum components linked by a quantum information cable or bus. The bits that work together on calculations in a normal computer can exist in two states - either 0 or 1. But qubits can inhabit both at once, allowing them to process many calculations simultaneously when they get together.

Can Linux stop global warming?

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5277050440.html (20070927 22:42)

A privately held German company with offices in the U.K., U.S., Cyprus, and Malta is touting its Linux-based thin-client technology as a climate change remediant. "2X Ltd" says businesses can halve computer-related electrical consumption by replacing PCs with Linux-based thin clients and its centralized management software.

Standards bodies vow to resolve MPLS flap

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092707-standards-bodies-mpls-flap.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070927 21:59)

The Internet’s leading standards bodies have agreed to work together to ensure that a new transport protocol being developed for Multiprotocol Label Switching networks is compatible with the billions of dollars worth of MPLS equipment that carriers have installed in recent years.

Mobile WiMAX to Succeed Where Muni WiFi Failed?

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/162153739/article.pl (20070927 21:43)

WiNot writes "WiMAX's supporters are positioning Mobile WiMAX as an alternative to municipal WiFi networks in the wake of recent cancellation or postponement of muni WiFi projects in Chicago and San Francisco. 'There's no business case for municipal WiFi ... With many municipal WiFi deployments in a holding pattern, it may be Sprint's Xohm WiMAX network will be up and running before muni WiFi can get its act together.' From what Ars saw during its Motorola-sponsored cruise on the Chicago River earlier this week, WiMAX has the potential to deliver the goods in terms of speed, latency, and reliability. If Sprint hits its goal of blanketing metropolitan areas with WiMAX in a timely fashion and prices the service attractively, the kind of expansive municipal WiFi networks once envisioned in Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco could go the way of Pets.com and Flooz."

Consultant uses open source to offer more choices to clients

http://www.linux.com/feature/119404 (20070927 21:00)

Neutrino Consulting provides IT services for small companies that don't want or need an in-house technology departments. Michael Wacht, Neutrino's founder and principal, says because he offers open source software alternatives to his clients, they get to choose the "best of the best," avoiding big license fees and vendor lock in. That, he says, makes Neutrino more competitive.

OpenVZ Virtualization Software Available with CentOS On 'Live CD' To Simplify Trial Usage

http://www.linux.com/feed/119495 (20070927 20:30)

The OpenVZ project (http://openvz.org) today announced availability of its operating system (OS) server virtualization software as a modified version of the CentOS 4.4 bootable Live CD so that users can test drive the OpenVZ software without changes to their computer or installing anything on their hard disk.

Open source to help quell ICT trade deficit: Waugh

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93329 (20070927 20:03)

Australia's $21 billion ICT trade deficit could be dramatically reduced if the local industry played to its strengths and exported services using open source software, according to industry analyst Jeff Waugh.

"Real-time" Linux supports popular PowerPC SoC

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7721841717.html (20070927 20:03)

MontaVista has ported its newest "real-time" capable embedded Linux operating system to a PowerPC SoC (system-on-chip) targeting secure networking and pervasive computing applications. MontaVista's Linux Professional Edition 5.0 is claimed to offer the "first real-time Linux" for AMCC's 440EPx SoC.

eWEEK Labs Tests Windows Server 2008 Virtualization

http://www.linux.com/feed/119494 (20070927 20:00)

'Radical rethinking' of Internet routing under way

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092707-rethinking-internet-routing.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070927 19:52)

Some of the world’s leading network engineers are engaged in a research effort that could lead to the most radical redesign of the Internet’s underlying routing architecture since it was developed in the 1980s.

Bugtraq: OpenSSL SSL_get_shared_ciphers() off-by-one buffer overflow

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480855 (20070927 19:39)

OpenSSL SSL_get_shared_ciphers() off-by-one buffer overflow

Justice in India is done with the help of Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Justice_in_India_is_done_with_the_help_of_Linux_OpenOffice_and_Firefox (20070927 19:10)

In Uttar Pradesh (most populated state of India), Judges have been distributed laptops powered by Linux, OpenOffice, Evolution, Gnome, Firefox. Judicial staff too is trained to use OpenSource applications. Judgements are available on RSS and Atom feeds. Linux supremacy in India is a judgement away.

This week at LWN: Large pages, large blocks, and large problems

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93321 (20070927 18:29)

Most of the core virtual memory subsystem developers met for a mini-summit just before the 2007 Kernel Summit in Cambridge. They came away feeling that they had resolved a number of VM scalability problems. Subsequent discussions have made it clear that, perhaps, this conclusion was a bit premature. They may well have resolved things, but it is not clear that everybody came to the same resolution.

Red Hat to Present at Investor Conference

http://www.linux.com/feed/119487 (20070927 18:00)

Red Hat RHT, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it will present at the following investor conferences.

Linspire adds paid support option to Freespire

http://www.linux.com/feed/119483 (20070927 17:00)

Linspire, the company behind the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, has announced the immediate availability of its first commercial paid support offerings for Freespire 2.0 users.

SCO Sells Text Ads On Website After Filing For Bankruptcy

http://digg.com/linux_unix/SCO_Sells_Text_Ads_On_Website_After_Filing_For_Bankruptcy (20070927 17:00)

If you've been to www.sco.com lately, you've probably noticed something a little strange - links at the bottom for SEO and web design.Who's paying for these links, and more importantly, WHY?

Is mobile Linux ready for the enterprise?

http://www.linux.com/feed/119482 (20070927 16:30)

Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?

Cisco agrees to buy call-center vendor Latigent

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092707-cisco-buys-latigent.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070927 16:10)

Cisco has agreed to buy Latigent, a vendor of call center reporting tools, and plans to integrate Latigent's products with its unified customer contact center systems.

JNode 0.2.5 Released

http://osnews.com/story.php/18688/JNode-0.2.5-Released/ (20070927 16:08)

"After nearly a year of hard work the JNode team is proud to announce the release of JNode 0.2.5, the new intermediary development version of the JNode operating system. JNode is a free, open source Java technology base OS written fully in Java language (with a very small assembler nano-kernel). This release features OpenJDK integration, Java 6 support, substantially impoved consoles, experimental support for isolates and a large set of bug fixes and improvements to all parts of the system, including better memory mamagement and increased performance."

Hospital's brand new '£1m' server room goes up in smoke

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/leeds_server_overheat/ (20070927 16:03)

Money's too tight for air-con?

An investigation has been launched at Leeds' famous St James' hospital after a server room disastrously overheated, permanently frying a new computer system for storing patient x-rays.…

Export Writer documents into any wiki format

http://www.linux.com/feature/119363 (20070927 16:00)

One of the most welcome additions to OpenOffice.org 2.3 is a new export filter that allows you to save Writer documents as MediaWiki-formatted pages. That's all fine and dandy if you are using MediaWiki, but what about other wiki systems? The answer to this question comes in the form of the OpenOffice2UniWakka export filter. While it's designed to work with the UniWakka wiki, with a bit of hacking you can adapt it to other wiki systems as well, even if you are not familiar with XML and XSLT.

GNU Herds: The Job Site With a Free Software Focus

http://www.linux.com/feed/119477 (20070927 15:00)

People interested in offering and seeking jobs specifically related to Free Software might find the GNU Herds project interesting...

Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092607-gmail-zero-day-flaw-allows-attackers.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070927 14:34)

Accounts on Google's Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future e-mail messages -- to be forwarded to the attacker's own inbox, a vulnerability researcher said Tuesday.

Google picks ex-IBMer to lead expansion in Europe

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/092707-google-picks-ex-ibmer-to-lead.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20070927 14:34)

Google has appointed a top IBM researcher to lead the expansion of its engineering group in Europe, the search company announced Thursday.

Women in Technology: Hear Us Roar

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93301 (20070927 14:11)

O’Reilly is running an interesting series of articles written by a number of different women in tech, about how they got to where they are and their adventures along the way. It’s a good read with a lot of different experiences and viewpoints. http://www.oreillynet.com/womenintech/

Autodesk geography tool goes open source

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93296 (20070927 11:49)

Autodesk on Tuesday announced it will release as open-source software a tool that can convert geographic coordinate data from one format to another. If you're not a map nut, that's the challenge one might encounter switching, for example, from latitude and longitude to Universal Transverse Mercator--or from geocentric latitude to geodetic latitude, for that matter.

Tulip tries to buy back Commodore brand

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/tulip_wants_commodore_back/ (20070927 11:03)

Wants to get back into 'entertainment' products

Dutch manufacturer Tulip Computers has announced it wants to buy back the Commodore brand it sold to Yeahronimo Media Ventures in 2004 for €22m. The computer maker is planning to bid $1 a share for the US computer firm Commodore, valuing the company at $81m.…

Easy to install software stacks for Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla! and other open source apps released

http://www.linux.com/feed/119447 (20070927 10:00)

We just released several easy to install open source application stacks on our new site, BitNami.org. A stack combines an application with all its dependencies in a cross-platform installation package for ease of distribution and deployment. With just a few clicks, users can have Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla! and all of the other software required (Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, etc.) ready to run across a wide range of Linux distros. Currently available stacks include: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla!, Roller, Liferay and Mediawiki, and we’re working on several others. Each application stack is released as open source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

Monolithic OS upgrades are so over

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93297 (20070927 08:55)

The days of the monolithic upgrade are over. Five years, $6bn later and what do the ingrates do? Ask for a downgrade to Windows XP. Even Newham Council, which over the past couple of years veered from Linux pilot poster child to Vista case study as one of Microsoft's five key public sector accounts in the UK, has now delayed the upgrade of 1,500 desktops by 12 months. The council is now in the bizarre situation of facing a deployment of 1,500 CP desktops next spring, which will be over a year since Vista's launch. These desktops will then be upgraded to Vista sometime at the end of 2008.

Community Interview: Novell

http://osnews.com/story.php/18686/Community-Interview-Novell/ (20070927 08:55)

"Two months ago, the Brazilian Linux community gathered around BR-Linux invited Novell to answer 10 questions sent and selected by the users, about the company's stance on Linux, open source, licenses, document formats and other subjects." "Novell has been very consistent on this issue and we have publicly stated that we do not believe that Linux infringes on any Microsoft patents. That being said, our agreement with Microsoft takes the patent issue off the table for customers. We have simply made the patent issue a non-event as part of a customer buying decision."

BitRock Releases InstallBuilder 5.0, Simplifies Multiplatform Software Distribution

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/9/prweb556702.htm (20070927 08:12)

InstallBuilder makes packaging cross-platform applications faster and easier than ever before. (PRWeb Sep 27, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/Q3Jhcy1Mb3ZlLUNyYXMtTWFnbi1UaGlyLVplcm8=

Monsoon Apology

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Monsoon_Apology (20070927 08:10)

We have unwittingly neglected to honor the terms of the GPL... We wish at this point to apologize for this oversight, both to the copyright holders of the code which we have used and modified, and to the free software community in general.

Yahoo!'s insanity over Zimbra and Google's plan to rule open source code

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/open_season_episode_3/ (20070927 07:32)

Oh yes. It's Open Season

Audio What in heaven's name was Yahoo! thinking by purchasing Zimbra for a stunning $350m? Well, Matt Asay, Dave Rosenberg and I cover everything you could ever want to know about this deal in Episode 3 of Open Season. Insight? Hilarity? Ego-fueled punditry? Yep, it's all there.…

The inevitability of free software

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93293 (20070927 05:24)

Is software a product or a utility? Free software proponents say it's as critical to economic progress as fresh drinking water. It isn't hard to get Eben Moglen talking. We were eight minutes into our conversation before I got to ask my second question. But that really didn't matter, because Moglen was describing the future of software, and his perspective is fascinating.

Intel's x86 ISA grows down: today laptops, tomorrow the iPhone

http://digg.com/hardware/Intel_s_x86_ISA_grows_down_today_laptops_tomorrow_the_iPhone (20070927 05:00)

In 2008, Intel turns the 45nm corner with a pair of ultramobile platforms that will take the x86 ISA where it has never gone before: into pockets and purses. Here's a look at what's next for the ISA that just won't die.

Firefox addon makes web development easy

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93277 (20070927 04:37)

Taking some tentative steps into the world of web development, James Archibald discovers the sleek power and functionality of the Web Developer extension for Firefox. Although aimed at 'real' web developers, the extension proves to be handy for the novice too.

Podcast recaps Embedded Systems Conference East

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8639129517.html (20070927 01:44)

Embedded Linux services provider TimeSys has published a brief podcast describing the Embedded Systems Conference held in Boston last week. Hosts Gene Sally and Maciej Halasc discuss the show's size and relationship to the West Coast ESC, along with the role of Linux at the show.

CPU module runs Linux on dual PPC cores

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7421639853.html (20070927 01:13)

[Updated Sep. 27] -- Advanced Knowledge Associates (aka AKA) has started shipping a compact, 3-inch-square processor module powered by an FPGA with dual PowerPC 405 hard cores. The PRISM200 (packaged reconfigurable integrated system-on-module) runs Linux, and targets low-powered military, medical, industrial, automotive, and networking applications.

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