Guile is a library designed to help programmers create flexible applications. Using Guile in an application allows programmers to write plug-ins, or modules (there are many names, but the concept is essentially the same) and users to use them to have an application fit their needs.
There is a long list of proven applications that employ extension languages. Successful and long-lived examples in the free software world are GNU Emacs and The GIMP.
Read more »PacketProtector is an embedded Linux distribution based on OpenWRT, the first popular distribution designed to run on a number of wireless routers commonly found in SOHO settings. Like X-Wrt, which we reviewed earlier this year, PacketProtector extends OpenWrt by offering additional functionality to enhance network security right out of the box.
Read more »The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it.
Read more »If there's one thing that's always been true about Red Hat--they've always had an uncanny ability to stay on message with a single voice. "Uncanny" not in the X-Men sense, but more along the lines of "pain-in-the-butt-to-get-information-from" sense.
Read more »A Virginia-based company offering radio protocol conversion products for telecom infrastructure has reportedly licensed Enea's soup-to-nuts carrier-grade Linux and high-availability middleware suite. Enea says 4DK will use the "Enea Accelerator Platform" with its "SuperConnectivity" product, apparently aimed at enabling telecom infrastructure to support multiple cellular protocols.
Read more »Arena Solutions produces and sells a hosted, subscription-based product lifecycle management (PLM) tool for manufacturing companies. Arena founder and CTO Eric Larkin uses open source tools to develop, secure, and maintain the software-as-a-service product. He believes that open source is the path to success for subscription software. "It's a more cost-effective way to build and scale a SAAS business," he says.
Read more »"There has been a new wave of interest in Common Lisp over the last few years. This paper is a November, 2007 survey of Common Lisp implementations that are currently being actively maintained. It also provides references to writings about why Lisp is interesting and important, Lisp textbooks, and useful Lisp resources including repositories of available libraries. I hope it will help you find the right implementation for your project or product..."
Read more »"...It appears from the outside that Lisp, as a language, has the power to equal or better Ruby. But Ruby, when combined with Rails, puts you so far ahead of the game that it doesn't matter. That balance may change if the Lisp community builds their own Rails-style library, and for the sake of competition challenging everyone to get better, I hope they do..."
Read more »"While I’m talking about Ruby in Emacs, here’s a handy emacs function I wrote way back when..."
Read more »"...Use this tutorial to get started with Rails 2.0 and not older versions [...] On my debian machine I used the following commands to install Rails 2.0 ..."
Read more »Novell's restructuring moves may be costly, but they are necessary to ensure the company can execute well as it competes with Red Hat for direct Linux sales, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst Terry Tillman told LinuxInsider. Novell had been benefiting from a partnership with Microsoft, which is eager to make its products more compatible with open source options, but sales from that agreement have been waning.
Read more »ELCOT has migrated to SUSE Enterprise Linux for Tamil Nadu’s school project that will help it protect its existing investments in hardware.
Read more »I've heard for years how everyone is sick of Windows crashing and how Windows is a poorly made system. At the same time, I've heard about how much better a Macintosh is because it doesn't do any of these things. I've even heard that Linux is better than both of them.
Read more »For years people have been wondering how exactly will Linux become the number one operating system in the world. Some said it would start in the server world, and in many ways it has. But even having a majority market share in the server room doesn't translate to market dominance.
Read more »"A new development build of Elive, version 1.2.3, is ready for testing..."
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