ARM reveals Eagle core as Cortex-A15, capable of quad-core computing at up to 2.5GHz
ATI FirePro V9800 4GB
Earlier this year AMD rolled out the ATI FirePro V8800 workstation graphics card as their new high-end offering derived from their Evergreen architecture and to serve as the next-generation solution to the FirePro V8700 / V8750. The FirePro V8800 2GB though is no longer AMD’s top workstation graphics card as this morning they are rolling out the ATI FirePro V9800 4GB.
How Ubuntu Gets Made: A Look Inside
Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman shares details on the tools and tactics his team uses to shepherd development of the latest Ubuntu release.
Mozilla to Tighten Security With Firefox 4
With the forthcoming version of the popular open source browser, Mozilla is planning to include support for a security standard that can navigate to the encrypted SSL version of a website.
WIFI Problem in Ubuntu 10.04 SOLVED!!!
Hey all you ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, Slackware and other open source linux OS users out there, I have a fix to a serious bug that has happened in 10.04 lucid lynx ubuntu but may have happened in other versions of this or other OS’s.
I recently upgraded to 10.04 from my old jaunty distro and i love the new desktop interface!!! the only thing was that i could not connect to the internet for some reason. The wifi applet in the notifications bar said that it was connected but firefox wouldn’t load a page for some reason. I had been researching for days and hadn’t found anything, except for NDISwrapper which wouldnt install for some strange reason. But then, while patrolling the forums, i found a post by our very own mfillpot saying something about wicd, an app that handles wifi supposedly better than the native applet. Well, he’s right, as always, and it even comes with a GUI!!! So i downloaded it from terminal and it installed beautifully. I then just had to enter the WPA key for my wireless network and i was in. must have had an integrated driver. that or i just hadnt set up wifi correctly, both are possible, seeing as i am more of an end-user software IT guy than an OS setup guy. XP
P.S. i am running an hp mini with broadcom wireless card and ubuntu 10.04
HOPE IT HELPS,
PAYTON
Wine Release 1.3.2 Now Available
The favorite wine is not emulator, which allow you to run Windows programs on Linux has a new version. In this new version of wine you can see several updates and many more bug fixing, some of the new updates are:
- Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version.
- New implementation of console support on Unix terminals.
- Many new functions in the C runtime dlls.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
Source: Wine HQ
Mozilla Public License Alpha 2
The second alpha version of the revised Mozilla Public License has been posted; the text has been annotated to make it relatively easy to see what has been changed. “The most significant change in this draft is the patent language. We have made it easier to read but also, we hope, better at protecting communities who choose to use the MPL. It should also have the side effect of making the license Apache-compatible, allowing projects licensed under the next MPL release to include Apache-licensed code in their code bases.“
US government shouldn’t fear foreign participation in Forge.gov
In an effort to reduce IT costs and boost efficiency, the US federal government is increasingly turning to open source software. We wrote last year about Forge.mil, a code sharing site that was established by the military to encourage broader collaboration and reuse of existing source code throughout the Department of Defense. The US General Services Administration (GSA) is planning to launch a similar site, called Forge.gov, that is intended to serve a related function, but for a broader range of government agencies.
In a recent blog post, Red Hat public sector strategist Gunnar Hellekson described several of the challenges posed by Forge.mil and explained why it’s important for Forge.gov to be operated as a more inclusive environment. Various security considerations made it necessary for Forge.mil to be developed as a relatively closed ecosystem, one which is only accessible to DoD employees, contractors, and others who have a DoD Common Access Card. The isolation obviously precludes public participation and leads to military-only forks of mainstream public open source projects.
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