I was wandering through the mall the other day with my youngest, we happened to stumble across this... I did a double-take when I saw the screen on the photo booth, blinking away, looking for input. The power in the mall had blinked a half-hour earlier, and I imagine the system has been rebooted then.
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Given the recent news that GNOME development will be moving to git soon, I decided to take a look at three DVCMs to see how they matched each other. Not that I made exhaustive tests. I just thought of a series of operations to perform on a small and a big project to see how they matched against each other.
I compared git, mercurial and bazaar (the one I use).
Read more »Linux'ers who thought they had erased all traces of their latest Ponzi scheme, beware: MacForensicsLab's desktop forensic tool has moved to Linux.
Read more »Flash memory prices have tumbled in recent years, which has been good for MP3 players, cell phones, SSDs, and the now-ubiquitous USB thumb drive. Falling flash prices have also been good for motherboards, allowing Asus to cheaply equip some of its latest models with 512MB memory chips that house an ExpressGate instant-on operating system that's—you guessed it—based on Linux.
Read more »Even the smallest amount if research into Linux will have illustrated the sheer range of distributions out there. They are all based on the original Linux kernel built by Linus Torvalds (the father of modern Linux) and can all interoperate to varying degrees.
Read more »As one Ubuntu Linux release bows out, another is on its way. And this time around, Canonical is clearly taking aim at the netbook market.
Read more »As the lobby for software patents in Europe intensifies, we identify and dissect the culprits. EUROPE is under attack at the moment. Lobbyists of firms like Microsoft - and in particular ACT - are trying to legalise software patents, thus marginalise Free software, and the Commission is not particularly helpful; it's almost playing along with the lobby, or playing right into its hands.
Read more »"If you care about FOSS generally, I need you to show up at the HIMSS meeting. If you care about FOSS in Health IT, it is especially important that you be there. I believe that FOSS is the only real hope for untangling the mess that is Health IT." - interview with Fred Trotter
Read more »The details are sketchy, and the two companies are not confirming or denying that something is going down, but the Wall Street Journal broke a story last Tuesday, right smack dab in the middle of the opening session of Sun Microsystems' CommunityOne East developer conference in New York, that IBM was in talks to shell out between $7.4 billion and $8.2 billion to acquire Sun.
Read more »When tools for fighting against Conficker only run on GNU/Linux. COMPANIES WHOSE machines leak sensitive data, attack other machines, and cause other forms of sabotage need not fret. They can finally assess the damage already done, if any. They will, however, need to get hold of GNU/Linux first.
Read more »pyshaper lets you set bandwidth minimum and maximum limits on several criteria:
* remote host/port, and local host/port (most shaper apps have this)
* pid of locally connected program
* username under which local program is running
* command line and arguments under which local program was launched
He raised a very valid point: Linux was easy and multimedia on Linux was easy - but only for people with solid Internet connection. Let's help people without broadband enjoy Linux.
Read more »The trends in the IT market have changed consistently with time. Today, technology becomes obsolete faster than ever before. Open source has become an evolution in itself. The presence of Linux and its role in market is difficult to predict as the computing market is exploding today. Experts like Alan Cox are sure about its sustainability
Read more »As an administrator the major interest that you will have with the web interface is the ability to recognize and respond to problems. The quickest access to all of the recognized problems is the “Service Problems” page. This page provides a summary of all problems related to services that Nagios detects.
Read more »...speaking as the guy who promulgated “open source” to abolish the colossal marketing blunders that were associated with the term “free software”, I think “free software” is less bad than “FLOSS”.
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