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OpenSolaris
2009.06 Released.
 The OpenSolaris 2009.06 release
presents network virtualization support with Crossbow, SPARC support,
Intel Xeon 5500 series hardware support, MySQL and PHP DTrace probes,
improved usability with its package management system, and much more.
more... and Sun
adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris and Sun
Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS and OpenSolaris:
Foreshadowing Next Solaris?
Bilski case going
to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Bilski case will be reviewed by the US
Supreme Court. "Not since 1981 has the Supreme Court undertaken
to spell out the kinds of inventions that are eligible for patent
rights — that is, the right to produce or use an invented device or
process, or to license it to others for royalties. Much has changed
since the Court’s decision in Diamond v. Diehr in 1981, not least
the digital revolution." more...
Acer to make
first-ever Android
netbooks.
Acer at Computex today said it would be
the first to produce netbooks using Google's Android platform.
Company IT product president Jim Wong expects the systems to appear
in the summer and that the Linux-based systems will still use Intel
Atom processors. more... and Aspire
ONE
Android confirmed.
Companies to show
several ARM
netbooks at Computex.
Netbooks made with the processors
required to run Google's Android software will be on show at Computex
Taipei 2009 this week from at least five or six companies, an
executive from Arm Holdings said Monday. The company does not expect
to take a significant share of the central processing share of the
netbook market this year, but growing interest in its processing
cores should lead to greater gains next year. more... and The
MIPS Processor and the $150 Linux Netbook.
SanDisk releases
faster netbook
solid state disk drives.
SanDisk Corp. today announced the
general availability of two new solid state disk (SSD) drives for
netbooks that it said increase random read/write rates by as much as
nine times over its first generation netbook SSDs. The new SSDs are
about twice as fast as a typical netbook hard disk drive. more...
Mozilla Jetpack
Could Speed Firefox
Efforts.
One of the reasons the Mozilla Firefox
Web browser is used by more than 270 million people is its extensive
ecosystem of browser add-ons. With the new Mozilla Labs Jetpack
project, Mozilla hopes to make it easier for developers to build
add-ons and for users to manage them. more... and Mozilla
and Google Announce HTML-Based Extensions.
Testing Out The
SSD Mode In Btrfs.
One month ago we provided benchmarks of
the Btrfs file-system and found that while it contained many features
to make it a next-generation Linux file-system, its disk performance
was rather displeasing. We had found the EXT4 file-system ran faster
in a number of the tests and even EXT3 and XFS had their own
advantages. more...
Bing is not
Google, but it is a spin
engine.
Microsoft is at the beginning of a
major product launch, called Bing, in an attempt to catch up to
Google in search, following the collapse of Microsoft's take-over
attempt of Yahoo. While Bing is a re-branding of Microsoft's clunky
distant third place "Live Search" search service, Bing is
also an attempt to add new features to search. more... and Bashing
Bing, whacking Wave.
Using MoMA to Port
from Windows .NET
to Mono on Linux.
The Mono Migration Analyzer tool, or
MoMA, helps users port Microsoft .NET programs to Mono, with the
ultimate goal of porting Windows software to Linux. more... and MoMA page.
Spice up your LUG!
Do you attend or run a Linux User Group
(LUG)? Looking for some fresh ideas to give it a new lease of life?
Read on and discover how your LUG meetings can be more than a general
Linux-related chit-chat down the local pub... more...
Misc.
Ubuntu
Desktop Course 8.04 available.
60 Beautiful
Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers.
ngPlant - Open Source plant modeling package.
Open
Movie Editor - a simple non-linear video editor.
MyBB
is a discussion board that has been around for a while; it
has
evolved from other bulletin boards into the forum package it is
today.
Reading
up on SQL.
savannah.gnu.org status.
How To Tips. |
After numerous delays the Red
Hat-financed open source project Fedora has released its Linux distro
in version 11. Changes include the usual desktop updates like Gnome
2.26 and KDE 4.2 and the kernel 2.6.29.3. Yet the decision to make
ext4 the default file system ensures some real innovations. One of
the improved programs is the Anaconda installer for which the storage
component was completely rewritten. 
The Free Software Foundation and Cisco
have now settled the litigation over the GPL and Cisco's subsidiary,
Linksys. Cisco has agreed to appoint a Free Software director for
Linksys, and it has agreed to notify previous recipients of Linksys
products of their rights under the GPL and other licenses, to publish
a licensing notice on the Linksys website, and it will "continue
to make the complete and corresponding source code for versions of
the FSF programs used with current Linksys products freely available
on its website." And Cisco will make a monetary contribution to
the FSF. 