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Ubuntu's Pipe Dream: True Free Software Syncronicity
(May 17, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (569 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
internetnews.com: "While I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Shuttleworth and what he has accomplished in his life, I don't think distribution syncronicity is something that will ever happen--nor should it..."

Gentoo Foundation Reinstated, Gentoo Council Goes Out with a Fizzle
(May 16, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (1024 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
kloeri: "Some important things for Gentoo happened over the last few days. First of all we have a bit of good news as all the paperwork for the Gentoo Foundation was filed and approved a few days ago..."

Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System
(May 16, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (917 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
KernelTrap: "'I'm please to announce [the] POHMEL high performance network filesystem. POHMELFS stands for Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System,' began Evgeniy Polyakov..."

How to Add an Internationalized Keyboard to Your Web Site
(May 16, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (735 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "JavaScript VirtualKeyboard provides a virtual keyboard entirely written in JavaScript with more than 130 supported keyboard layouts allowing you to enter text in a variety of languages..."

Why Open Source Developers Can be More Productive, and Other Tales from a Google Open House
(May 15, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (1056 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ONLamp: "Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge..."

Laura Thomson on Coding, the Workplace, and FOSS
(May 15, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (762 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "She is currently a senior software engineer at the Mozilla Corporation, where her recent work includes the API for the Add-ons Manager on Firefox 3..."

Discussing Free Software Syncronicity
(May 15, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (668 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
here be dragons: "There’s been a flurry of discussion around the idea of syncronicity in free software projects..."

Thunderbird 3 Fledges with First Alpha Release
(May 15, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (2300 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars Technica: "Mozilla Messaging announced today the first official alpha release of the next generation Thunderbird e-mail application..."

Make Your Scripts User Friendly with Zenity
(May 14, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (2012 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "The first time I played with Zenity, I recognized several potential uses for it. While I'm pretty comfortable with interacting with computers with a command line interface, I know many people are not..."

OpenOffice.org Obeys Moore's Law?
(May 14, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (3102 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OpenOffice.org Ninja: "Kryder's Law, a variation of Moore's Law, describes the trend 'magnetic disk areal storage density doubles annually...'"

Linux PCs Still Available at Wal-Mart: Just Not the One Down the Road
(May 13, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (2111 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Practical Technology: "Recently there were some rumors that Wal-Mart was once more selling Everex PCs with gOS Linux. Well, they got it about a third right..."

Linux 2.6.26-rc2 [Released]
(May 13, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (1847 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LKML.org: "About 45% architecture updates (counting the include files too), about 30% drivers, and about 25% odds-and-ends..."

Changing The Language & Keyboard Layout On Various Distributions
(May 13, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (1039 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to reconfigure the default language and the keyboard layout on various distributions so that they suit your location..."

Are We Breathing in the Same Rhythm?
(May 12, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (1124 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
vizZzion.org: "Tom and Aaron discuss timing and release schedules, and development cycles. Aaron talks about trunk/ and freezes therein should follow a natural lifecycle..."

The Art of Release
(May 12, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (1742 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
here be dragons: "As a result, we can commit that the next LTS release of Ubuntu will be 10.04 LTS, in April 2010..."

Microsoft Emails Blender
(May 12, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (4036 reads) (22 talkbacks) (feedback)
Groklaw: "Microsoft has just approached the Blender guys, and I would assume have or will approach other FOSS projects since we learn that Microsoft has assigned a guy to work with Open Source projects, with a request for information on how to make Blender run better on Windows..."

Firefox 3 RC1 Code Complete, Due in Late May
(May 12, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (2622 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: "Mozilla now expects Firefox 3 RC1 will be ready to go in late May..."

Autotools: A Practitioner's Guide to autoconf, automake and libtool
(May 12, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1945 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "There are few people who would deny that autoconf, automake and libtool have revolutionized the free software world.

Ksplice: Kernel Patches Without Reboots
(May 11, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (2380 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN: "The kernel developers are generally quite good about responding to security problems..."

Read the Fine Print on "Open Source" Software
(May 11, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (2520 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Back in the 1980s, when Richard Stallman was the only one talking about the need for 'free software,' no one quite knew what he was talking about..."

The Future of PHP
(May 10, 2008, 20:00 UTC) (3236 reads) (10 talkbacks) (feedback)
developerWorks: "The upcoming versions of PHP aim to add to this success by introducing new features that make PHP more usable in some cases and more secure in others. Are you ready for PHP V6...?"

Google's Open Source Problem is Affero
(May 10, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (3175 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: "The best open source protection for 'the cloud,' as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license..."

Unixfication II
(May 10, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (4271 reads) (12 talkbacks) (feedback)
Between The Lines: "Unless Linus decides to change his mind and move Linux to GPLv3, our favorite kernel is likely be left behind. You got that right people--Free Software Civil War..."

The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation
(May 9, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1150 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Socialized Software: "I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license..."

Interview with Bluewhite64 Creator Attila Craciun
(May 9, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1235 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the Bluewhite64 distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going..."

Moonlighting Linux: The Future of Rich Web Apps
(May 9, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2843 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux Distillery: "As we know, static HTML web sites are passé. Yet, Java applets never turned out to be the killer online application platform they possibly could have been..."

Senior Debian Developer Quits Core Teams
(May 8, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (2653 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
iTWire: "A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources..."

Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Milinkovich
(May 8, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1210 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld UK: "A couple of years ago, I described the Eclipse project as open source's best-kept secret, and to some extent that's still true today..."

Miniature Linux PC Targets Military Apps
(May 8, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1890 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Mercury Computer Systems announced a Linux-based engineering development kit for a 7-10 pound computer that targets small ground, naval, and air vehicles..."

ack! (thpppt!)
(May 8, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (2087 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Blog of an Alpha Animal: "Yet, the other day I read about ack, which claims to be 'better than grep, a search tool for programmers.' Woo. Better than grep? In what way...?"

Troll Treasure: An In-Depth Look at Qt 4.4
(May 7, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (1858 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars Technica: "Trolltech has announced the official release of Qt 4.4, a much-anticipated update to their popular, cross-platform software development framework..."

Valve's Source Engine Coming To Linux
(May 7, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (2309 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Among the Valve Source titles are Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Portal, and Team Fortress 2..."

OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is Ready for Testing
(May 7, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (3483 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
announce@openoffice.org: "The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available..."

Roll Your Own Firefox Scripts with the Chickenfoot Add-On
(May 7, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (1430 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Worker's Edge: "Any task you perform on the Web can be automated by writing a script. But you don't have to know how to use Javascript or some other scripting language to create your own custom scripts..."

More Than Five Top, Free Tools for Web Developers
(May 7, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2382 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use..."

CoreCodec Apologizes for Wrongful Google DMCA Takedown
(May 6, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2646 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars Technica: "CoreCodec, the company behind the high-performance CoreAVC H.264 implementation, issued an apology this morning for its recent abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act..."

Active Merge Windows
(May 6, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2353 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
KernelTrap: "'This is starting to get beyond frustrating for me,' complained David Miller of the latest merge window, launching what turned into a very lengthy and ongoing discussion about the Linux kernel development process..."

Black Duck's Excellent Acquisition--A Community
(May 5, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (1061 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Socialized Software: "He was just starting Black Duck Software and as a ex-Microsoftie talking about IP assurance I wasn't convinced about the bright future of his business. However, I enjoyed meeting Doug and wished him the best of luck and went on my way..."

Google Takes Down Open-Source Project After DMCA Complaint
(May 5, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (2673 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux following a complaint from the codec's developer--but the project could soon return..."

Linux 2.6.26-rc1 [Released]
(May 5, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2337 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
LKML.org: "Lots of changes, but nothing that really feels all that fragile to me..."

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