openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 31 »
Issue #31 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!
In this week’s issue:
- Next Helping Hands Event
- www.opensuse-tutorials.com
- Hubert Mantel: openSUSE Gets the JeOS
- People of openSUSE:…
Digg/Linux: Gnome founder Miguel de Icaza critizes Gtk+ 3.0 proposal »
The proposal goes like this: Gtk+ 3.0 will hide all public fields in objects, provide accessors to these, remove APIs that have been flagged as deprecated and introduce no new features. All the…
FUDCon Brno 2008 in the Czech Republic »
The FUDCon Brno 2008 in Brno, CZ has been announced a while ago (previously as being located in Prague, though). But only just yesterday, some basic facts were confirmed, after a short planning…
Phoenix firmware with Fedora hypervisor to premiere Monday in NEC laptops »
NEC will roll out plans to include remotely manageable anti-virus technology in PC notebooks, running outside of the Windows OS in Linux-based HyperSpace firmware from Phoenix Technologies.
Digg/Linux: GNOME 3.0 officially announced... and explained »
The developers of the open-source GNOME desktop environment have announced their plans for version 3.0. This milestone will be reached through the current strategy of incremental development.
GTK+ State of the Union, Plans for 3.0 »
At last week’s Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ “state of the union” report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well…
5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G - Free Software Foundation »
- Block free software
- DRM
- Exposes physical location
- Won’t support patent/DRM free formats
- Other possible options like the FreeRunner
Mango Lassi - a new desktop input sharing application »
Like Synergy and x2x, but better.
Share mouse and keyboard over Avahi and supports clipboard and selection sharing.
This is a GNOME app.
Could Linux be a better gaming OS than Windows? »
Matthew Daly blogs: “However, I believe that from an architectural point of view, Windows is not the best platform for gaming. I know that many devoted PC gamers will spend a lot of time, money and effort building a PC designed to get the absolute best performance out of the components. To me, it then seems an incredible waste to then install Windows (especially Vista) on it. Even with several different versions available, it’s not possible to optimise Vista to get the absolute best out of it.”
School switches to Linux, hopes to keep MS funds »
“Warrington School, in Otago, has decided to jump ship and deploy the GNU/Linux operating system with free software across the board by a target date of 2010, says the school’s principal, Nathan Parker.” They only have 25 computers, but its a start.
Is Gentoo Ready for Latest Linux Release? »
“We canceled the 2007.1 release because after many cycles of work bringing in new security updates and fixing problems, it wouldn’t have come out till 2008,” Berkholz said. “Those same issues come up at every release, and the people building the release are only doing it in their spare time, so occasionally the real world interferes too.”
Italian lawyers use open source software to move online »
“The lawyers at Solignani in Vignola, just a few miles from the home of Ferrari in Maranello, never see many of their clients after one initial meeting. All communication takes place by phone, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Internet telephony, or email. While some clients see this as an awkward but necessary way to save money, the majority like it because it saves a lot of time. The first time each client contacts Solignani, he or she decides whether to go digital all the way or stick to traditional meetings.”
Linux Kernel Walkthrough »
“This is a recording of the first Kernel Walkthrough given by Bart Trojanowski for the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group. He starts with a presentation introducing some Linux development background, file layout and data types. The code walkthrough covers some important files and Linux list and bit modification APIs.”