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금, 2008/10/10 - 7:37am
A bit later than expected, Linus has released the final 2.6.27
kernel. For those just tuning in, 2.6.27 includes (among many other
things) UBIFS, support for integrity checking in the block
layer, multiqueue networking,
the ftrace tracing framework,
the lockless page cache, the
relocation of a lot of
firmware, the GSPCA webcam driver set, and a number of extended system calls.
See the always-excellent
KernelNewbies summary for lots more information about this release.
목, 2008/10/09 - 11:41pm
The Register
reflects on the history of Linux.
"Linux is what Windows had once promised to be - at least in terms of cross-platform support. In the wake of the PowerPC alliance from IBM, Apple, and Motorola in 1991, Microsoft made a commitment to support Windows NT 3.51 on PowerPC chips. Windows eventually added support for Digital's Alpha NEC's and SGI's MIPS chips. Workstation maker Intergraph ported Windows NT 3.51 to its Clipper chips and said it was creating a port to Sparc chips from Sun. Neither ports saw the light of day."
목, 2008/10/09 - 8:55pm
DesktopLinux.com features an
interview with Miguel de Icaza.
"GNOME project co-founder Miguel de Icaza discusses the release of Mono 2.0, in this detailed interview with Henry Kingman, executive editor of DesktopLinux. The conversation spans Mono's history, current state, and future, with stops along the way for updates on Moonlight and Mono Develop."
목, 2008/10/09 - 8:46pm
Debian has updated
mon (insecure temp files) and
iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities).
목, 2008/10/09 - 7:49pm
Mandriva has
announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2009.
"Mandriva Linux 2009 goes further in its innovations and offers a thoroughly modern and cutting-edge graphical environment: KDE 4.1. Personalizable, modular, scalable, and full of visual effects that enhance the environment, KDE's new version is usable everywhere, from the oldest hardware to the newest.
Mandrivas team has gone to great lengths to integrate this new environment in a way that ensures everyone can jump right in to using it, with a customized graphical theme, careful choice of the most powerful applications, and a default configuration tuned to your system's particular hardware."
목, 2008/10/09 - 7:18pm
There appear to be some opposing trends involving Linux on Netbooks.
PC World's article
Netbooks Will Boost Adoption of Linux, Says Novell CTO notes:
"A surge in demand for netbooks is helping drive business for Linux, as the devices are designed to be low-cost with smaller storage, according to Novell's chief technology and strategy officer for Linux.
" People typically don't care what operating system is on the netbooks, because they don't buy them to run a suite of applications like Microsoft Office, but to be on the Web using a Web browser," Nat Friedman said in an interview with IDG News Service."
Laptop Mag's article
Ubuntu Confirms Linux Netbook Returns Higher than Anticipated quotes Canonical's marketing manager
Gerry Carr:
"We dont know what the XP return rates are. But I will say that the return rate is above normal for netbooks that offer open-source operating systems, Carr echoed. Carr highlighted a few reasons why Ubuntu-running netbooks are returned more often. Unclear selling is happening, typically online. The customer will get their netbook sent to their home and they imagine to find something like a Microsoft desktop, but they see a brown Ubuntu version. They are unwilling to learn it and they were expecting to have Windows."
목, 2008/10/09 - 12:23pm
The 2.6.25.18 and 2.6.26.6 stable kernel updates have been
released. Each contains a long list of fixes for a number of important
problems.
목, 2008/10/09 - 2:50am
Linux Pro Magazine will be streaming live video of the Linux-Kongress keynotes. You can see James Bottomley's "What is the value of Open Source", LWN Executive Editor Jonathan Corbet's "Kernel Report", or Dirk Hohndel's presentation on Mobile Linux. Linux-Kongress is being held October 7-10 in Hamburg, Germany. See the web site for the schedule.
목, 2008/10/09 - 2:01am
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 9, 2008 is available.
수, 2008/10/08 - 8:30pm
The 2009 edition of linux.conf.au has announced three keynote speakers for the conference. It will be held January 19-24, 2009 in Hobart, Tasmania. "The speakers are: internationally recognised author, speaker and systems administrator, Tom
Limoncelli; co-founder of Wikia and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board, Angela
Beesley; and Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, Simon Phipps." Click below for more information.
수, 2008/10/08 - 4:14pm
In order to increase the number of eligible voters for the upcoming openSUSE board elections, there is a mechanism for openSUSE Members to grant a registered user the ability to vote in the election. That ability expires at noon UTC on October 9th. "Why? Simplisticly it's to get more
voters/users/contributors involved in influencing how the openSUSE
project progresses. There are 2831 registered users now, but only 212
Members - so according to my bad maths that makes about 7.5% eligible
to vote. That to me isn't entirely representative of the community, so
in comes the Franchise vote, we members have the ability to increase
that voting percentage to 15%. The catch is that the users have to
have registered prior to 01 September 2008." Click below for the reminder which includes more details.
수, 2008/10/08 - 1:00am
LinuxDevices looks at a
Linux-to-Blackberry sync solution, now in beta testing. "Initially,
PocketMac for Blackberry, Linux Edition (let's call it "PBLE") is currently
being tested only on the Xandros distribution. Currently, it is designed to
sync with the KDE PIM suite. Other Linux distributions will be supported in
the near future, says the IAA, which did not offer any additional
information on Linux application support."
수, 2008/10/08 - 12:34am
This press
release looks at the Brazilian "Computador para Todos" (Computer for
Everyone) program that was announced in November 2005. The open source
Insigne OS has been key to the success of the program. ""It has been
hard but pleasant work reaching 1.5 million families," says Joao Pereira da
Silva Jr., Insigne's CEO. "Brand-new users considered the system very
friendly, and the other systems' former users expressed admiration and a
desire to migrate to Insigne. We are motivated to improve the Insigne OS to
increase our market share.""
수, 2008/10/08 - 12:02am
IDG World Expo has announced
the launch of OpenSource World(TM) Conference & Expo.
"OpenSource World will include the key features of LinuxWorld(R), but
will offer a strong focus on supporting and enlarging not only the Linux
market, but the overarching open source technology umbrella. OpenSource
World is scheduled to take place August 10-13, 2009, at San Francisco's
Moscone Center."
화, 2008/09/30 - 2:28am
Linus has released 2.6.27-rc8. "This
one should be the last one: we're certainly not running out of regressions,
but at the same time, at some point I just have to pick some point, and on
the whole the regressions don't look _too_ scary." It is worth
noting that the e1000e corruption problem remains unsolved; one assumes
that the final 2.6.27 release will not happen before that gets fixed.
월, 2008/09/29 - 10:06pm
O'Reilly has put up an
interview with Arjan van de Ven, available as (MP3) audio or a
transcript. "A lot of users were helping because if you give people
more battery life, that's what people care about a lot. Distributions also
use it because they compete almost on battery life. They compete on
usability and battery life is just part of usability; that's the thing that
PowerTOP has done is put that more on the radar--that software matters for
battery life."
월, 2008/09/29 - 10:03pm
Dave Phillips completes his look at Java sound and music applications. In the article, he looks at applications for MIDI, music instruction, music notation, and more. "During the research phase I discovered many applications that I had not known previously, and I now have a batch of Java audio/MIDI programs that I intend to explore more fully. I've already gone further into some of those applications, so there's a good chance that some of the programs I've presented will be reviewed more completely in future articles."
월, 2008/09/29 - 9:24pm
Fedora has updated epiphany (F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla vulnerabilities), chmsee (F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla vulnerabilities), firefox (F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), blam (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla vulnerabilities),
cairo-dock
(F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), kazehakase (F8,
F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), gnome-python2-extras (F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), gnome-web-photo (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), galeon (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), evolution-rss (F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), epiphany-extensions (F8, F9:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), devhelp (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), gtkmozembedmm (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), liferea (F8:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), ruby-gnome2 (F8,
F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), Miro (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), yelp (F8, F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), openvrml (F8:
multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), seamonkey (F8, F9: multiple vulnerabilities),
google-gadgets (F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), mugshot (F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities),
mozvoikko (F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), xulrunner (F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities),
totem (F9: multiple Mozilla
vulnerabilities), rubygem-rails (F9:
SQL injection), rubygem-activesupport (F9:
SQL injection), rubygem-activerecord (F9:
SQL injection), rubygem-activeresource (F9:
SQL injection), rubygem-actionmailer (F9:
SQL injection), rubygem-actionpack (F9:
SQL injection), rubygems (F9:
SQL injection).
Mandriva has updated thunderbird
(update to 2.0.0.17 for multiple vulnerabilities).
Slackware has updated thunderbird
(update to 2.0.0.17 for multiple vulnerabilities).
월, 2008/09/29 - 6:19pm
Mandriva's Frederic Crozat has a blog entry describing their efforts to reduce Linux boot time. "I thought it would be interesting to explain the various things we tried to save some seconds when booting, since it is a hot topic these days, with impressive results from various people, including Arjan Van de Ven 5s boot on a EEE 901 PC, even if I don't agree with all Arjan conclusions, mostly because it is not always possible to achieve the same kind of tuning with a flexible distribution which can run on many hardware platform, in contrast of a stripped installation and on a single (and now underpowered) hardware platform."
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