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While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skills and even my sanity, to attack Ladislav Bodnar for posting the review, to blame the hardware, anyt (Read More)
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Korean electronics giant Samsung is helping the Linux-David Enlightenment with development ressources. It’s possible that the lightweight and robust window manager might be the basis for Samsung’s upcoming Bada mobile phone platform. (Read More)
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If you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age. As with all software, it doesn’t take long before the latest-and-greatest becomes old-and-haggard. Features have been piling up in Grub without mu (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced co (Read More)
TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL:
Google's official release of Chromium OS open source project added yet another flavor of Linux. But we all know from the very start that it's no ordinary distro. Google Chrome OS is poised to become the operating system of tomorrow. But can it really succeed and take Linux to a whole new level?First, we have to look at the (Read More)
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eWeekreports on Tim O’Reilly’s prediction of a shift towards opennessat Microsoft.“At the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O’Reilly predicts that Microsoft will emerge as a leading proponent of the open Web, despite the company’s tradition of fostering its own proprietary operating systems and development languages. O’Reilly says Microsof (Read More)
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The Fedora Project has announced the latest version of its popular open source Linux distribution. Nicknamed Constantine, Fedora 12 has quite a few impressive new features and demonstrates that the project has gained a renewed sense of direction. In the build-up to the release of Fedora 12, the Fedora community has focused (Read More)
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Scott DowdleinterviewsRed Hat’s Andy Cathrow and Jim Brennan about the company’s latestEnterprise Virtualization technology.“ML: In the year between the merger with Qumranet and the release of RHEV for Servers, what were the primary changes made to the product?AC: We made many, significant changes. A quick, but not complete (Read More)
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Google has posted some information about Chromium OS, along with the current source. “First, it’s all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating pro (Read More)
Open Source:
Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said.But there was some significant news for the community today. Google made the early code available to (Read More)
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It was a difficult choice this year among many worthy people and projects but the panel of judges has spoken. The recipients of the 2009 Linux Medical News Freedom Award presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (amia.org) Fall Conference are the open source, US Government NHIN Connect project and Kevin Topp (Read More)
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Release early, release often. That mantra has served open source really well because it provides an opportunity for developers to get in and provide feedback (and patches) through the lifecycle of a project, and not when something is completely finished and would require huge amounts of effort…. (Read More)
Open Source:
Regular readers here have probably guessed why Microsoft decided to open source .NET Micro under the Apache 2.0 license.Competition.Makers of embedded devices have been moving strongly into open source, especially Linux, and Microsoft was at great risk of being left behind. The announcement was made at the company’s Profess (Read More)