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Time to school the FCC on what "free" really means
July 04, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 6 hours, 32 minutes ago
It's time to get ornery again with the FCC. Fortunately, they're asking for it, by soliciting comment on this FCC rulemaking proposal for "Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1915-1920 MHz, 1995-2000 MHz, 2020-2025 MHz and 2175-2180 MHz Bands.
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RadeonHD Driver To Use AtomBIOS
July 04, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 32 minutes ago
We've talked all too often about AtomBIOS and there being two different open-source drivers that support the same ATI Radeon hardware with the key architectural difference between the two just being the use of this video BIOS abstraction layer. From the beginning, AMD was planning to have their Novell partners use AtomBIOS when writing this new (at the time, R500/600) driver, but the developers ultimately declined. These developers have expressed their opinions on AtomBIOS, which range from it being an unbearable mess to this design being nothing more than writing open-source code to power someone else's closed-source work. However, under pressure by AMD, the developers are now preparing to use AtomBIOS to a much greater extent within the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. In this article we'll tell you more about what's gone on and where you can checkout this AtomBIOS-bearing RadeonHD driver.
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Apricot - Open-Source Blender Game
July 04, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 32 minutes ago
Apricot is the newest project from the Blender Institute with the goal to build an open-source game instead of a Blender video this time. The characters used in the game are from the Big Buck Bunny movie, the last free movie developed using Blender under the name Project Peach.
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How To Measure Linux Filesystem I/O Performance With iozone
July 04, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 32 minutes ago
This article gives you a jumpstart on performing benchmark on filesystem using iozone a free Filesystem Benchmark utility.
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Garmin Nav devices run Gnome Linux
July 04, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 32 minutes ago
Garmin has posted Linux source code for its Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx-series GPS navigation devices. The Nuvi 8xx offers a 4.3-inch, 480x272 display, and appears to be based on a Marvell PXA-3xx processor, Gnome Mobile Linux, and GeoClue location technology.
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IBM vs PSI: Goliath slays David
July 04, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 32 minutes ago
Well, this sad little story has now come to an end. PSI is no more. IBM purchased the company this week for an undisclosed amount rumored to be in the tens of millions of dollars, thus extinguishing PSI's legal claims against it, and – more importantly – cementing a monopoly that is now more complete than at any time since Amdahl launched the first plug-compatible mainframe in 1975.
But aren't antitrust laws supposed to prevent this kind of thing? Surprisingly enough, the answer might be no. According to the Wall Street Journal, IBM believes PSI's revenues are too small to trigger action by either the U.S. Department of Justice or the European Union in Brussels. In other words, IBM is saying that since they already own 99.9% of the market, squashing the one remaining competitor who has 0.1% is no big deal.
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KDE Developer Quits
July 04, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 12 hours, 32 minutes ago
Recently though several KDE developers came right out and asked, “Does KDE even need (certain) users?” In the end though, KDE has ended up with at least one less developer.
Read more at: practical-tech.com ( 1 comment )
Brussels to proceed with IBM antitrust review
July 04, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 32 minutes ago
European regulators are to push ahead with an antitrust inquiry into IBM’s dominance of the computer mainframe market, in spite of the computer maker’s acquisition this week of the small rival whose complaint had stirred up the review.
On Wednesday, IBM announced it was buying Platform Solutions Inc, a Silicon Valley start-up which had been trying to enter the mainframe computer business. PSI had been pursuing an antitrust suit against IBM in the US and had complained to European competition regulators. It withdrew the latter objection on Wednesday, just before the IBM deal, for an unnamed sum, was disclosed.
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It's a Yankee Doodle Linux phone
July 04, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 14 hours, 32 minutes ago
OpenMoko will start selling its Linux-based Neo FreeRunner phone online on July 4th, says the company. Billed as a completely open source, hackable hardware platform, the Neo FreeRunner will receive updated software with new location-based applications in August, says OpenMoko.
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Low-power mini-ITX board runs Linux
July 04, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 18 hours, 32 minutes ago
Kontron announced a Linux-compatible mini-ITX motherboard based on a 1.6GHz Intel Centrino Atom processor. The KTUS15/miTX targets solar- or battery-powered applications, vehicle PCs, point-of-sale/interest kiosks, medical, multimedia, rugged tablets, industrial automation, and other embedded device applications.
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Mass-market WiFi router invites Linux hackers
July 04, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 22 hours, 32 minutes ago
NetGear has announced an 802.11g WiFi router and access point made to be hacked. Seemingly created in homage to LinkSys's hacker-friendly "WRT54GL," the WGR614L offers fairly generous complements of CPU power, RAM, and Flash, and supports several commercial and community-supported alternative Linux-based router distributions.
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Dell Finds a Way to Continue XP Sales
July 04, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 1 day, 2 hours ago
Much has been made about Windows XP fading into the sunset at the same time as co-founder Bill Gates leaves his full time position at the software giant. Microsoft has already extended the life of the aging operating system once, and will continue to offer it for ultra-mobile PCs.
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New Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Search?
July 03, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 6 hours ago
Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo's search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, The Wall Street Journal said.
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Making desktop Linux work for business
July 03, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 1 day, 7 hours ago
Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled with the ever-escalating cost of application licenses, make switching to desktop Linux an increasingly attractive option.
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Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?
July 03, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 7 hours ago
I just read Louis Gray’s post titled “On the Web, If You’re Not Growing, You’re Dying.” It gave me a chilling realization about web services. Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what’s happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing? Like Louis Gray, I’m going to use data from Google Trends. People searching the name of Linux distributions on Google can be considered new users. After all, wouldn’t experienced Linux users already know where the websites of the big Linux distributions are?
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The Six Kinds of Anti-FOSS Trolls
July 03, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 1 day, 8 hours ago
Since I wrote about the seven kinds of anti-Linux FUD pundits, it occurred to me that plain old forum and blog-comment trolls could be classified, too.
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Struggling towards a great Linux desktop
July 03, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 8 hours ago
I'm very happy with my Linux desktop. To be precise, I'm very happy with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP2; openSUSE 11, Kubuntu 8.04, Mint 5 and MEPIS 7. I'm also getting fond of Fedora 9.
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Don’t confuse bad Linux support for bad Linux
July 03, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 9 hours ago
Anti-Linux evangelists try to level many claims against the free open source operating system Linux. Arguments against the base cost (nothing!) or about the turnaround time to repair security exploits don’t work. But there is one item in the anti-Linux arsenal which often hits hard: lack of support. Here's why it makes good Linux techies groan when they see it.
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Openmoko to release Linux handset tomorrow
July 03, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 1 day, 10 hours ago
Anyone fond of creating their own applications within a open source environment will soon be able to get mobile. Openmoko has finally announced the launch date of its Neo FreeRunner open-source phone.
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Private St. Louis school goes Linux
July 03, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 10 hours ago
A private school in St. Louis, Mo. is increasingly choosing Linux for the computers it supplies to students and faculty, according to laptop supplier Lenovo. Students at the Whitfield School are using Linux about 86 percent of the time now, Lenovo says, up from 50 percent three years ago.
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