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09-JUL-09 EC_LUG Newsletter
Jul 08, 2009 at 09:34 PM

Google Chrome OS - a new open source Linux distro.
ImageGoogle's Android mobile OS is not the only OS up Google's sleeve. Google announced late Tuesday that it is working on a Linux based Chrome OS as an operating system for the web. Don't rush out to Google to download Chrome OS today - Google doesn't expect to have it available to consumers until the second half of 2010. more... and Google to release Linux based ChromeOS and Introducing the Google Chrome OS.

VideoLAN releases VLC 1.0.0: Your media will never be the same.
VideoLAN's VLC media player, arguably the world's best media player, hit version 0.9.9 in early April. Three months and more than 78 million downloads later, VideoLAN has announced VLC 1.0.0, or "Goldeneye." One of the amazing things about VLC is that it can play anything that you've ever even thought about playing. more... and VLC 1.0.0 released.

Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms.
Sugar Labs has announced the first official release of Sugar on a Stick, a Linux-based learning environment that can boot from a USB memory stick. The Sugar platform, which originally emerged from the One Laptop Per Child project, could soon arrive in classrooms. more...

Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices.
Say hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom. more...

PostgreSQL 8.4 released.
This release contains an abundance of enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier than ever before. With 293 new or improved features in version 8.4, there are even more reasons to choose PostgreSQL for your next project. more...

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5.
After an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for <video> and <audio> in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship. more...

Tracking Your Time with Project Hamster.
Project Hamster is “time tracking for [the] masses.” It aims to be a tool which enables users to quickly and accurately keep track of the amount of time they spend on their activities over time. Project Hamster is a relatively new module for GNOME, having been brought into GNOME officially for the 2.24 release. more...

VirtualBox 3.0.0 is amazing!
Just a few days ago, VirtualBox 3.0.0 has been released amidst a flurry of excitement. This was a great opportunity to see how well it fares, both against its predecessors and VMware Server. more...

Firefox 3.5 - A Really Impressive Release.
Firefox 3.5 was released just a couple of hours ago and it comes with great new features and a new version of Gecko, the rendering engine. Firefox is currently the most popular browser on the Linux platform and the top choice on Windows more...

Palm Pre Dances Nicely with Linux.
Summer releases of the latest smart phones from Apple, Blackberry, Google and Palm have excited geeks all over the world. The big question on the mind of Linux users has to be "Can I sync my Linux machine and my cool new phone?" We decided to find the answers specifically for the new Palm Pre. more...

Misc.
Apache attacked by a "slow loris".
AndNav2 - GPS navigation application for Android.
Maemo To Switch To Qt.
From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise.
Attempted Break-In on www.centos.org.
Low End Linux Netbook Prices Continue To Drop.
Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released!
AmigaForever 2009 Released.
ASCAP Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones.
Die HAL Die.

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02-JUL-09 EC_LUG Meeting
Jun 30, 2009 at 08:58 PM

ImageMozilla Firefox 3.5 Released.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has been released. Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in more than 70 different languages, Firefox 3.5 is the most recent major Mozilla browser release since the launch of Firefox 3 in June 2008. more... and What's new in Firefox 3.5 and Benchmarking Firefox 3.5.

Eclipse Foundation Releases Galileo 2009.
Galileo encompasses the open source foundation's biggest release so far, with 33 projects and over 23 million lines of code. More than 380 developers from 44 organizations have contributed, according to the foundation. more... and Eclipse Galileo: The release train leaves the station.

Ohio Linux Fest [September 25-26].
The Ohio Linux community continues its forward march and is gaining momentum every year. Each year brings a new group of speakers and generates more excitement—2009 will be no exception! The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio. more...

15 years of FreeDOS.
Originally released on the 28th of June 1994, FreeDOS is now 15 years old. FreeDOS is a free open source DOS clone. The current release, version 1.0, was released in early September of 2006 and is licensed under GPL. more...

As Dell and Acer Duke it Out, Their Open Source Stances Matter.
For so many years, Taiwan-based Acer was an under-the-radar computer manufacturer. Although it has been the number three player, behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell, for a long time, even the company's previous business strategy tended to keep it anonymous. Acer used to make computers that other companies would put their brands on. It was better known overseas than in the United States. more... and Dell’s Consumer Ubuntu Linux Strategy.

Misc.
Intel develops simpler alternative to ACPI for Linux.
Top 10 Linux Backup and Recovery software.
Magento's open-source e-commerce platform makes progress.
Social media center Boxee comes to Windows.
VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 2 arrives.
EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Benchmarks.

See you next Thursday 7 P.M. at Dooley's Pub, 442 Water Street, Eau Claire, WI.

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25-JUN-09 EC_LUG Newsletter
Jun 23, 2009 at 09:41 PM

Tux BizIntel and Nokia partner on open source mobile computing.
The two companies announced plans to create devices, Nokia calls “the next wave of mobile technology”; a new mobile device platform based on Linux and a range of open source technologies using Intel x86 Architecture chips and Nokia HSPA chipsets. more...

Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features.
Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it's just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release. more... and Firefox 3.5 RC Review and Firefox 3.5 Release May Accelerate IE's Downfall.

Cisco offers Linksys 802.11n router with Linux.
Cisco today aimed its Linksys routers at the open-source community with its first modern-era, 802.11n Wi-Fi router using Linux. The WRT160NL gives power users more control over the operating system driving the network device without having to resort to hacked firmware. more...

Amazon Kindle powered by Linux, FSF not impressed.
Amazon is now making new source code available for its Amazon Kindle. Basically what it represents is, Amazon's responsibility to make the GPL licenced source code that is used in the Kindle available to others. more...

Clutter 1.0 Reaches RC1 Milestone.
Clutter, the open-source toolkit designed to develop rich user interfaces with OpenGL and OpenGL ES but without the complexity of programming to such APIs, is nearing version 1.0. This toolkit, which was used to create the very impressive Moblin V2 interface, is backed by Intel and continues to gain steam. more...

Installing Sonar in a Linux environment.
If you are serious about Code Quality management, you should know about Sonar. Sonar is a one-stop shop for code quality metrics. If you are using Maven to generate code quality metrics with tools like Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs, Cobertura, and/or Clover, forget the standard Maven reports - use Sonar instead! Sonar gives you a dynamic view of both snapshot and historical data coming from all of these tools. more...

Misc.
T-Mobile Phones Home, Again.
Chris Mason on BTRfs: the next generation file system for Linux.
Valve To Launch Native Linux Game In July?
EFF busts bogus Internet subdomain patent.

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