Enterprise / Open Source News

Saturday, October 06 2007

What Is Project Indiana? Explained

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93739 (20071007 03:21)

What is Indiana? No one seems to know. Some people are excited. Some people are confused. Some people are scared and angry. Why? What is Indiana? The answer is, "Exactly!"

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93737 (20071007 02:14)

The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel's new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have seen to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client! Within five seconds of turning on this $360 USD gaming/enthusiast motherboard, you can be using Linux and surfing the Internet. On this motherboard the feature is known as ASUS Express Gate, which is powered by something called SplashTop. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop being created by DeviceVM. SplashTop isn't even launching for a few more days (October 10), but in this article we have more details on this embedded Linux environment as well as screenshots and our thoughts with what will hopefully come next for this Linux environment.

The best Linux system repair distribution gets better

http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_best_Linux_system_repair_distribution_gets_better (20071007 01:20)

If there's a better system repair kit than the Gentoo-based SystemRescueCD Linux distribution, we haven't seen it yet, and the new version is better than ever. Here's why.

First Syllable Server Development Release

http://osnews.com/story.php/18733/First-Syllable-Server-Development-Release/ (20071007 00:12)

The first development release of Syllable Server is available. It provides a text mode Linux environment, but also contains a preliminary graphical environment built on the framebuffer device, with DirectFB and SDL on top. The planned graphical environment from Syllable Desktop is not included yet. The installation procedure is short, but is still manual - and resembles the installation procedure for the old AtheOS. Included are tools such as a graphical web browser, a file manager and an editor. One thing Syllable Server is designed for is to function as a light-weight virtualisation platform for running other operating systems (or multiple instances of itself). The QEmu virtualisor/emulator is included, and the KQEmu Accelerator kernel module is integrated into the system. There's a screenshot of Syllable Server running on Syllable Desktop, installation and usage instructions, a torrent (preferred), and an installation package [.tar.7z].

Uruguay poised to make first governmental OLPC purchase

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93735 (20071007 00:04)

Uruguay's government this week announced the results of a study indicating that XO computers from the One Laptop Per Child project were a better value for the nation's schoolchildren than Intel's similar offering, the Classmate PC. The next step is likely to be a purchase agreement between OLPC and Uruguay for at least 100,000 laptops. Though nothing has been finalized yet, when asked what needs to happen for formal agreement to occur, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte simply says, "business closure."

Introducing MonaOS

http://osnews.com/story.php/18732/Introducing-MonaOS/ (20071007 00:02)

"MonaOS is a free operating system. It's new, small, simple, open source and well structured. So, MonaOS may be suitable for education of operating system and program at school." It's a microkernel-based operating system, MIT-licensed, and available for IA-32.

'Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software'

http://osnews.com/story.php/18731/Ten-Ways-to-Make-More-Humane-Open-Source-Software/ (20071006 23:59)

"A lot of bandwidth has been wasted arguing over the lack of usability in open-source software/free software. Some people say that bad usability is endemic to the entire OSS world, while others say that OSS usability is great but that the real problem is the closed-minded users who expect every program to clone Microsoft. Some people contend that UI problems are temporary growing pains, while others say that the OSS development model systematically produces bad UI. In an effort to understand usability in the OSS world, I've researched the stories behind my favorite - and least favorite - OSS programs. I've found a fascinating variety of personalities, design philosophies, and project organizations. Although I've only scratched the surface, there are already themes that come up again and again."

Raptor next generation application menu for KDE.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Raptor_next_generation_application_menu_for_KDE (20071006 23:30)

Raptor aims to be a a new answer for an old desktop question, how to launch the applications? By intruducing new features like :1.Usage database.2.One panel only.3.New user action structured menu.4.Automatic find tool.5.Favorites easily accessible.6.Application description.7.Highly user configurable.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 7

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93696 (20071006 23:07)

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 7 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Add Ruby scripting to your Project Zero

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93713 (20071006 20:43)

See how easy Ruby development can be with Project Zero code.

MicroSD Smart Card adds security to Linux devices

http://www.linux.com/feed/119670 (20071006 17:00)

German mobile security specialist IICS has announced what it claims is the world's first Smart Card that fits into a microSD slot. Supporting Linux-based mobile and embedded devices, the "Certgate" incorporates 2048-bit RSA encryption and 512 MB or 1 GB of user-accessible memory, the company says.

Top 40 Linux blogs

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93726 (20071006 13:53)

I have a Perl script to check the outgoing links from blogs for me, via planet sites. Yes, the planets aggregate the blogs, and the script snarfs the links from the planets. I'm so meta it hurts. So I have a bunch of link data, going back a little more than a year. This particular list doesn't even indicate whether or not I read your blog, just whether or not enough people whose blog copy my Perl script grabs from aggregator sites link to you.

Will open source change Canada? Democratizing sustainable housing in Canada (part 2)

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93700 (20071006 10:25)

Will democratizing sustainable housing be enough to change Canada? Its too early to tell, but theres a start. Open source can make sustainable designs available. Nobody owns it, everybody can use it, and anybody can improve it. The Now House is one sustainable housing design project created by one small team. What would happen if one hundred teams created projects like this?

Sprint Nextel and Verizon jury trials have Vonage on the brink

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/06/sprint_nextel_vonage_trial/ (20071006 08:02)

Patent defeat wounds Vonage further

Sprint has won a second jury trial over patent infringement against US VoIP service Vonage, in what is an echo of the defeat inflicted earlier by Verizon.…

Japanese Online Connectivity Ahead of EU/US

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/166144900/article.pl (20071006 08:01)

An anonymous reader writes "The experience of getting online in North America and Europe is years behind the internet connectivity options in Japan, the New York Times reports. While here in the US cable and DSL options are still struggling to reach rural areas, eight million Japanese consumers are now enjoying fiber optic speeds at home for comparable prices. The article explores the fiber-to-the-doorstep approach the country's telecoms are taking, with examination of both the ups and downs of such an ambitious project. 'The heavy spending on fiber networks, analysts say, is typical in Japan, where big companies disregard short-term profit and plow billions into projects in the belief that something good will necessarily follow. Matteo Bortesi, a technology consultant at Accenture in Tokyo, compared the fiber efforts to the push for the Shinkansen bullet-train network in the 1960s, when profit was secondary to the need for faster travel. "They want to be the first country to have a full national fiber network, not unlike the Shinkansen years ago, even though the return on investment is unclear."'"

ZFS in Leopard and future Mac OS X

http://digg.com/apple/ZFS_in_Leopard_and_future_Mac_OS_X (20071006 04:40)

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple operating system, AppleInsider has been told.

A New Map of the Internet

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/166018011/article.pl (20071006 04:11)

An anonymous reader writes "The Chris Harrison project has created a series of maps that show the geographical structure and distribution of the Internet. At the site you can view a global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. The visualizations were put together using data from the Dimes project. One visualization shows the density of Internet connections worldwide while the other displays how international cities are connected. Detailed Maps of Europe and North America are included as well. It's amazing how skewed the distribution is — beyond Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia, the southern hemisphere has only a peppering of connectivity."

Sun grabs patent for magneto-hydrodynamic heatsink

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/06/sun_magneto_hydrodynamic_heatsink/ (20071006 02:59)

Like a tiny X-Men villain on your CPU

Sun Microsystems has been issued an interesting patent for a "magneto-hydrodynamic" heatsink packed in a closed fluid system.…

Introducing the Dump Analyzer for Java

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93712 (20071006 02:47)

The IBM Dump Analyzer for Java is a tool that performs basic analysis against a formatted system dump and produces a concise report indicating what it thinks your next course of action should be. Cut through endless dump files to get to the heart of the problem.

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