A reader points out that SCO's legal page seems to be changing. Since that likely indicates what they are planning going forward and what cards they imagine they are holding, we at Groklaw thought it would be useful to answer them, item by item.
Read more »Answering SCO Bit by Bit - The Robert Swartz Memo, Take 2
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Songbird - The finest music player ever
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Discovering new applications is fun - discovering great new applications is sublime. For people with old, acquired taste, finding new thrills is not easy. But every now and then, you stumble upon a remarkable piece of engineering, which simply blows you away. Songbird is one such piece.
Read more »A FOSS Perspective On Richard Schaeffer’s Three Tactics For Computer Security
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This piece explores some relationships between FOSS and the three tactics recommended for computer security by Richard Schaeffers of the NSA.
Read more »Five Web-Centric Alternatives to Google Chrome OS
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Despite Google’s move into the operating system (OS) space, the idea of a primarily cloud-centric OS is nothing revolutionary. Some current offerings present welcome alternatives to mainstream operating systems, packing in useful features and making it easier to access your online content.
Read more »Ubuntu backup awesomeness
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Twas a night before Christmas it was the 12th to be exact at 3 am beside my computer I did sat. My ubuntu did stall, I had pondered and pondered and did a fresh install. Swiftly I got to the the manual partition, then suddenly I had a fine apparition.
Read more »Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project?
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According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth. At the same time David Schlesinger (on the Gnome Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote.
Read more »Open Source Licensing Detection Gets More Competitive
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With the current economic recession, open source software is a route that some enterprise developers are increasingly considering as a lower-cost alterative to proprietary solutions. However, one of the potential issues with open source software adoption is license compliance—ensuring that developers and enterprises are not in violation with a particular license.
Read more »Microsoft Puts Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool under GPL
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Microsoft had released a tool in mid-November that generated bootable USB media or a DVD from the download version of Windows 7 and that conflicted with the GNU Public License. They now followed up by putting the tool under GPLv2.
Read more »Linux development platform targets multimedia SoCs
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Timesys announced that its LinuxLink embedded Linux development framework supports NetLogic Microsystems’ MIPS32-based Alchemy Au1250 and Alchemy Au1300 system-on-chips (SoCs). The LinuxLink framework provides access to hundreds of open source Linux middleware packages, as well as automated development tools for processors used in mobile consumer electronics, says the company.
Read more »The GNU/Linux Naming Controversy Quietly Lives On
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Should we really have to call it GNU/Linux instead of just Linux?The question lingers in my mind after a recent reader commented and corrected me that I should use the term "GNU/Linux" when referring to the entire operating system. I guess the naming controversy quietly lives on.
Read more »Faster Browsing In Linux With Local DNS Cache
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A local DNS cache can help for faster browsing since you’re caching the DNS request instead of attempting that request multiple times. The internet speed will not get any faster, but the browsing speed will improve, because on each website there are usually quite a few DNS requests for which the local DNS cache will be used, bringing the query time to almost 0.
Read more »How To Relay Email On A Postfix Server
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For two small businesses I set up a debian lenny installation on their "home" dsl connection. The problem is that they have dynamic ip addresses and most mailservers will not accept incoming mail from a server on a dynamic ip address. The solution is rather simple. Set up postfix in a way that it will relay the outgoing email through the actual ISP.
Read more »Create a graph of your system’s performance
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Use Dstat and Gnuplot to monitor performance, then turn that information into neat-looking graphs that anyone, even your manager, can understand…
Read more »Fedora 12 – A Popular Linux Distro You Might Want To Try
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Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes Fedora 12. Fedora is a popular Linux distribution funded by Red Hat, the most profitable Linux corporation active today. For this reason, Fedora is a well respected and highly popular distribution.
Read more »What Will Happen To xf86-video-nv In 2010?
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Thanks to the surprise push this morning of the Nouveau driver for the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, this free software, reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver stack is on its way to being used in a lot more Linux systems and distributions. The xf86-video-nv driver just doesn't have any future compared to the Nouveau driver.
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