Knock me down with a feather - apparently the OSP covers the GPL.
Read more »The Updated OSP and Free Software Interoperability
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Users made us more open - Microsoft
Microsoft’s annual geek gathering, TechEd, is not the place you’d expect to hear words like “Linux” or “open source” - at least not without a good punchline.
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A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community
Esther Schindler came home from OSCON with thoughts on growing the size of the pool in open-source development communities. And it's all upbeat news.
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Programming PHP - Implicit OOO In Error Catching Structure
Guest Post On Deconstructing Error Catching and Handling In PHP
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GTK+ Indirect Renderer
The GTK+ Indirect Renderer is a new GDK backend for the GTK+ toolkit. It renders each toplevel window to a Cairo image surface, and lets the application sort out the details of blitting these to a device. This is useful for applications that want to use GTK+ widgets in contexts that are not officially supported, such as games that use SDL or OpenGL.
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5 Cool Firefox Alternatives for GNU/Linux (with Screenshots)
I still use Firefox (well, Iceweasel) on Debian, but sometimes I just don’t have the time or the nerves to wait for this add-on-packed conglomerate to load. While there is a noticeable speed improvement with Firefox 3, you still need some time for it to load. So, when I’m in a hurry, I sometimes fire-up an alternative browser.
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New Linux Foundation Meeting for End-Users
The Linux Foundation has had several public meetings before, but they were really only for Linux developers and their best friends. Now, the Foundation is holding one for end-users: the Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit.
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Fantastic new RAID controller with support already in the kernel as of 2.6.25
We received the more powerful RocketRAID 3510 (RR3510). The RR3510 features an 800MHz Intel IOP341 RAID I/O Processor, supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. The RR3510 also doubles the amount of onboard DDR2 ECC RAM that the RR3120 had, with 256MB.
Read more »Learning doxygen for source code documentation
Maintaining and adding new features to legacy systems developed using C/C++ is a daunting task. Fortunately, doxygen—a documentation system for the C/C++, Java™, Python, and other programming languages—can help. Discover the features of doxygen in the context of projects using C/C++ as well as how to document code using doxygen-defined tags.
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Cairo-Dock - Desktop dock for openSUSE Linux
Cairo-Dock is a simple but effective feature rich dock for your openSUSE Linux.
Read more »New Virtualization Tool Plows Field for Big Server Farms
3Leaf says its new V-8000 Virtual I/O Server v. 2 is the first input/output virtualization tool to run on off-the-shelf, commodity x86 servers. V-8000 is designed with an enhanced backbone I/O fabric of up to 40 GB per second, giving servers a wide road for heavy I/O operations.
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Miguel de Icaza: "We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight"
Mono leader criticizes double standards when it comes to the open web and talks about future developments and the increasing openness at Microsoft
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Scroll Emacs-W3M buffer from the Gnus summary
"Emacs-W3M is great for reading RSS with Gnus, but what was bugging me for some time is that I always had to switch to the W3M buffer for scrolling (I use a three pane layout). Of course, you could always sit down and write a Shimbun, but since there are feeds which are actually very readable with W3M, why not just scroll the W3M buffer from the summary? The following code will do exactly that..."
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Can Ubuntu Linux Close the Digital Divide?
Untangle is scheduled to host an Ubuntu Linux Installfest from Aug. 4 to 7 at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. This latest Installfest, coupled with recent moves by Canonical and Intel made The VAR Guy wonder: Can Ubuntu Linux close the digital divide?
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emacs/web integration with w3m (for real this time)
"I have been enjoying a loosely-coupled emacs/w3m setup, but having to click around during intensive form editing was getting tiring. Also, w3m was forcing me to use the mouse to click links, runing my ratpoison experience. If w3m lived in emacs, I could navigate over to the link withoug leaving my keyboard. It is time for real emacs/w3m integration..."
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