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Google
Lets You Custom-Print
Millions of Public Domain Books.
 Any one of the
more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into
the public domain. Over the last seven years, Google has scanned
millions of dusty tomes from deep in the stacks of the nation’s
leading university libraries and turned them into searchable
documents available anywhere in the world through its search box.
more...
HP
Sneaks Linux Onto New Laptops.
HP's new laptop
will run Splashtop Linux, but the company seems to be having trouble
admitting that. Except for Dell, the major PC vendors are reluctant
to admit they actually sell and support Linux. For instance, HP,
supports Linux quite well on its servers, but is very reluctant about
supporting it on its desktops. Or, it seems they have trouble even
admitting that they're now shipping DeviceVM's instant-on Splashtop
Linux on their new notebook lines. more... and Hewlett
Packard’s Linux Systems.
Linux-based
picture frame adds
Internet radio, widgets, multimedia.
HP announced an
ARM-based digital picture frame enhanced with multimedia
capabilities, Internet radio, and widget-based clients for services
such as Facebook and Pandora. The HP DreamScreen provides a 10- or
13-inch display with 800 x 480 resolution, 2GB of RAM, WiFi,
Ethernet, and dual card readers more...
Cisco
Routers Powered By Linux.
At the heart of
many Cisco enterprise routers is its IOS operating system. When it
comes to small business, however, Cisco isn't pushing IOS, which it
developed itself -- instead, the networking giant is new small
business router is powered by Linux. more... and Cisco
Pursues Small Business With Linux Routers.
Seagate
Unveils Filesharing Hardware
For The Home.
The FreeAgent
DockStar works with its FreeAgent external hard drive and other
USB-connected storage devices. It plugs into a router and makes all
the content in connected drives available to all computers on the
home network. In addition, the DockStar interface also makes all
content on the network accessible through any computer with a Web
browser and Internet access. more...
Using
mobile phone as remote for
Linux media players is fun!
Remuco is a duplex
remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices
equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi. To put it simple you could actually
use your mobile phone with bluetooth or Wifi as a remote control for
linux media players like Amarok, Banshee, Totem, VLC and more.
more...
Opera
browser bids for America.
The founder of
Opera has said despite its 100m worldwide users, they have a big job
ahead conquering America. In the US, the latest figures by Net
Applications showed Opera is 5th in the market with a 2% share behind
Microsoft, Apple, Google and Firefox. more...
Undead
COBOL celebrates (another)
50th birthday.
In May 1959,
during a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the US
Department of Defense organized a committee charged with developing a
"short range" approach to a common business computing
language. And on September 18th of that year, the new Short Range
Committee coined the name COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented
Language. more...
Ubuntu
Artwork team starts
delivering - Four cool themes and two icon sets to start with!
Ubuntu Artwork
team finally starts delivering. Although Ubuntu have been the most
popular distro for a pretty long time now, it really need to put in a
lot of work on enhancing look and feel. more...
My
preference for cross-platform
applications leads me to Scribus for desktop publishing.
While I've known
about the free, open-source desktop publishing application Scribus,
until I happened across this article today I didn't know that Scribus
is a cross-platform program that runs not just in Linux/Unix but also
on computers using the Macintosh OS X and Microsoft Windows operating
systems. more...
Misc.
KOffice
to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone.
Ubuntu
10.04 The Lucid Lynx. Shuttleworth says it won't stink.
GIMP
2.8 and its (huge) improvements to the User Interface!
Sugar
on a Stick and wiki.
Gnome
3 – A Quick Visual Tour.
The
path to GNOME 3.0.
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Sep 16, 2009 at 04:17 PM |
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 Ohio
Linux Fest [September 25-27]
Back to the Future of Linux!
Registration has
been lighter than past years please forward this release to friends
in the Ohio and surrounding areas. Columbus, Ohio The seventh annual
Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater
Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio. more...
The
2.6.31 kernel is out.
Linus has released
the 2.6.31 kernel. A few of the major features in 2.6.31 include
performance counter support, the "fsnotify" notification
infrastructure, kernel mode setting for ATI Radeon chipsets, the
kmemleak tool, char drivers in user space support, USB 3 support, and
much more. As always, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.31 page for a much
more exhaustive list. more...
Quick
Previews In Gnome & Ubuntu
With Gloobus.
Gloobus is an
extension of Gnome designed to enable a full screen preview of any
kind of file. Gloobus currently supports the following files: TXT ,
PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF. Finally I can
preview PSD and XCF files. more...
IBM
punts free enterprise language
tools.
IBM has begun
offering a free version of its Enterprise Generation Language (EGL)
tools, so developers can build dynamic web applications without
getting their hands dirty using HTML or JavaScript. more...
Texas
Judge Bans Microsoft From
Selling Word in the U.S.
Microsoft also
faces more damages over willful infringement Microsoft's Office 2003
and 2007 wove XML into Word, with the introduction of .docx,
otherwise known as Office Open XML, as the format of choice. The new
format brought an open standard and better storage to the
application. Unfortunately, it also turned into one of the company's
biggest legal headaches. more...
Dell
Looks to Linux to Expand
Netbook Presence.
In an effort to
expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type
devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company
official said on Wednesday. more...
MonoTouch
1.0 goes live.
MonoTouch is a
commercial product based on Mono. The MonoTouch API is documented on
the Mono site. The MonoTouch API is a combination of the core of .NET
3.5 and the iPhone APIs. We have created some tutorials on how to use
MonoTouch and you can read the design documentation on the MonoTouch
framework. more...
Open
Source Photo Processing Comes
of Age.
People who enjoy
digital photography as a creative outlet are very familiar with
software products from companies like Adobe, Corel, ACD Systems,
Bibble Labs, Light Crafts, and even Google. Most of them are also
likely familiar with what until recently was the premier open source
photo editor, the Gimp. more...
Apple
Open Sources Snow Leopard's
Grand Central Dispatch.
Apple has decided
to open the code behind Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
feature. "The user-space implementation of the Grand Central
Dispatch services API, called libdispatch, has been delivered as its
own open source project, more... and Apple
open source Grand Central.
Oracle
breaks silence on Sun plans.
Oracle Corp. ended
its silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems
Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to
keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms. more... and Oracle-Sun
Plans Missing MySQL.
Microsoft
launches open source
foundation.
Microsoft has
launched the open source CodePlex Foundation. "The goals of the
CodePlex Foundation are spelled out on the website as enabling the
"exchange of code and understanding among software companies and
open source communities," as well as "increasing
participation in open source community projects." more... and The
CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions.
Misc.
Some
pics from the new GNOME Activity Journal.
ClearOS
(formerly ClarkConnect) 5.1 announced.
Chess
Tactics Server.
Project
Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer
programming problems.
Facebook
releases the "Tornado" web server.
Boxee Will Blow You Away.
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 Opera
enhances its web browser.
Norway-based Opera
Software has unveiled the final version of its browser Opera 10, with
a new compression technology and a sleek interface. It comes in 43
languages and works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. more...
Open
Invention Network purchases
former Microsoft patents.
According to a
report published by the Wall Street Journal, the Open Invention
Network (OIN) has announced plans to purchase 22 former Microsoft
patents. The consortium consists of numerous major software and
hardware firms, including a number of Linux distributors; it is
currently systematically setting up a portfolio of patents to protect
the Linux ecosystem from charges of patent violation. more... and Microsoft
and A Patent Checkmate of My Dreams.
DOJ
Gives SUN The GO.
If you thought the
sale saga of Sun Microsystems ended in April, Thursday's news from
Washington may have come as a surprise. Months after the ink dried on
the deal between Sun and database heavyweight Oracle, the U.S.
Department of Justice has finally gotten around to giving its
blessing. more... and EU
investigates
Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun and EU
fears Oracle will kill MySQL, but is that even possible?
Judge
overturns 2007 Unix copyright
decision.
A federal appeals
court Monday overturned a 2007 decision that Novell owns the Unix
code, and the ruling now clears the way for SCO to pursue a $1
billion copyright infringement case against IBM. In a 54-page
decision, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said it was reversing the
2007 summary judgment decision by Judge Dale Kimball of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Utah, which found that Novell was
the owner of Unix and UnixWare copyrights. more...
Slackware
Release Announcement.
Yes it's that time
again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are
proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0! more...
Cracked
in 60 Seconds: WPA Falls.
It's been known
for years that the Wired Equivalent Privacy or WEP protocol is easily
broken, and that to be secure, wireless networks should use the more
powerful protocol called Wi-Fi Protected Access, or WPA. more...
MonoDevelop
2.2 Beta 1: We go cross
platform.
MonoDevelop goes
cross platform. With this release MonoDevelop leaves its cozy Linux
nest and embarks on a wild adventure into the hearth of MacOS and
Windows. The MonoDevelop team made this one of their major goals for
this release: to turn our loved IDE into a cross platform IDE.
more...
Skype
Dials New Owner… And Open
Source.
Now that eBay has
sold most of Skype to private investors, some pundits may wonder what
markets Skype should tackle next. Actually, the answer has already
emerged — and it involves Skype plugging into Asterisk, the open
source IP PBX. Here’s the scoop and the implications for solutions
providers. more... and Skype
2.1 Beta Brings New Features To Linux.
Handbrake
- Converting Videos For
Mobile Devices.
HandBrake is a
free, open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video
transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. I have used
Handbrake to convert several types of video files to work on my
various gadgets including the g1 mobile phone. more...
Durian
is Coming: Blender's Third
Open Movie Project.
Blender third open
movie project, code-named “Durian” is ramping up to production,
and time is running out for the pre-sale campaign if you want to get
your spot in the credits. This time the project is focusing on an
adolescent audience with an epic-fantasy setting and a female
protagonist. more...
Misc.
Parallels
retools, renames Windows/Linux virtualization app.
Dell
Ships Ubuntu 9.04 Systems Ahead of Windows 7 Launch.
Drizzle
for Christmas - year-end-prediction for MySQL fork.
40
years of Unix.
Bash
Script tutorials.
Learn
Linux, 101: The Linux command line.
RHEL
5.4 released.
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