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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 31

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:53:38 -0400

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

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:53:38 -0400

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

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:53:38 -0400

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…

Linux-based Exchange replacement helps 3 health care systems cut costs

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:43:14 -0400

Linux-based Exchange replacement helps 3 health care systems cut costs

#1 Supercomputer in the World Runs Fedora

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:33:58 -0400

#1 Supercomputer in the World Runs Fedora

Phoenix firmware with Fedora hypervisor to premiere Monday in NEC laptops

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:50:35 -0400

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

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:09:21 -0400

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

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:09:21 -0400

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:52:29 -0400

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:46:52 -0400

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?

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:55:11 -0400

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:53:35 -0400

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?

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:49:58 -0400

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:48:10 -0400

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

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:44:35 -0400

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.”

Firefox 3 Sets Guinness World Record

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:34:24 -0400

Firefox 3 Sets Guinness World Record: “Yesterday Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!”

Plans for Gtk+/GNOME 3.0 surfaced

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:24:00 -0400

Plans for Gtk+/GNOME 3.0 surfaced: “Basically the main aim for Gtk+ 3.0 is to clean up everything..New features are planned for versions coming afterwards….One notable idea though is to flag all dropped functions as “deprecated” in an upcoming GTK+ 2.x release. The GNOME release team also plans to drop unnecessary/old code and to clean up the code base, and again the plan is to make this transition as smooth as possible. Additionally, it is planned to come up with a two-sided release schedule: there will be a release every six months, but there will also be long time rhythm for larger aims and features.”

Bank of America to support Firefox, finally

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:21:07 -0400

Bank of America to support Firefox, finally: Apparently the 2nd largest bank in the US doesn’t support Firefox on its websites. According to Tara Burke, a BoA spokeswoman, “we will be initiating a full support model for Firefox version 2.x in the very near future.” LOL.

Sabayon Linux 3.5 - Review - PlanetOSS

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:12:41 -0400

Sabayon Linux 3.5 - Review - PlanetOSS:

“After nearly a year of hard work, Sabayon team has released their new Gentoo based Linux, SabayonLinux 3.5 on 1st July 2008. Sabayon is the most successful project in making Gentoo beginner friendly. Sabayon differs from Gentoo in the following areas.

Out of the Box experience (hardware detection, proprietary drivers, plug-ins, multimedia codecs)
Easy to configure 3D desktop effects
Binary package management system (Entropy)
Easy to use installer”

Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:08:42 -0400

Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0: “In summary, OpenSUSE 11.0 is a stable and powerful Linux distribution, but one that doesn’t accommodate the inexperienced Linux user. It may be just the thing for your servers, but day-to-day and even business desktop users may want to lean toward a more user-friendly distribution.”