Back in 2007, Canonical launched Ubuntu Live - a one-time conference hosted in Portland, Ore. Since that time I've been looking for another Ubuntu-centric conference where I can meet key sources from across the Ubuntu ecosystem. Fast forward to September 2009, and I think there might finally be a conference that fulfills my Ubuntu educational needs.
It's called Atlanta Linux Fest.
Preview: Ubuntu Experts At Atlanta Linux Fest
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Fedora 12 Alpha To Bring Many Linux Desktop Improvements
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While there is this seven-day delay, an Alpha 1 RC1 ISO spin is available and we decided to provide a very early and brief look at the Fedora 12 release.
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New Ubuntu Installer Coming Soon
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Canonical is working hard these days to redesign the Ubuntu installer (also known as Ubiquity) into something a little more in tune with our times.
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Microsoft's Emergency Motion for a Stay Repeats Arguments Already Rejected by District Court
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In Microsoft's Emergency Motion for a Stay of Injunction [PDF], it argues that it would be irreparably harmed without a stay, that it's in the public interest to avoid disruption to its business and its partners' businesses, and that while they expect to win on appeal, they'd then would be out all the expense of implementing the injunction.
Read more »The realtime preemption endgame
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There has been relatively little noise out of the realtime preemption camp in recent months. That does not mean that the realtime developers have been idle, though; instead, they are preparing for the realtime endgame: the merger of the bulk of the remaining patches into the mainline kernel. The 2.6.31-rc4-rt1 tree recently announced by Thomas Gleixner shows the results of much of this work.
Read more »PySide Brings LGPL Qt to Python
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The PySide team is pleased to announce the first public release of PySide: Python for Qt. PySide is a project providing an LGPL'd set of Python bindings for the Qt framework.
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Open source supercomputer compiler?
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Why open source may be the answer for companies going bankrupt.
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Citrix: Novell's only option for virtualization marriage
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What is commercial Linux distributor Novell going to do about server and desktop virtualization? It's a good question, and one that the company's top brass has not really addressed. In July 2006, with the launch of SUSE Linux 10, Novell was the first commercial Linux vendor to ship a Xen hypervisor tuned for Linux.
Read more »10 Awesome Google Chrome JavaScript Experiments
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Several months ago, Google launched Chrome Experiments to feature some of the most innovative uses of JavaScript. Designers and programmers from all over the world are encouraged to submit their own experiments using the latest open standards that include HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and more.
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Free Software In Mainsteam News
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One of the most painful parts of writing this blog is the necessity to read mainstream news sites trying to describe free software. For example, this CNN article titled "Microsoft takes on the free world"...
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Thoughts from OSCON 2009: Open government, concurrency
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According to O'Reilly, the entity Gov 2.0 has several features. It emphasizes transparency of social networks and allows citizen contribution and collaboration. It treats government as a platform and a means of collective action, but it's about Benjamin Franklin's concept of citizen action, not what Donald Kent called "vending machine government."
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A Quick and Easy Guide to KDE KIO slaves
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One of the many ways KDE makes our lives easier is by providing graphical interfaces for many of the tasks that computer users want to perform. Web browsers typically accept certain protocols that connect them to resources, such as http, https, and ftp. In KDE, these are called KIO slaves, and nearly all KDE applications can interact with them.
Read more »Xkill is your friendly neighborhood process killer
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Reader Alan Rochester told me about xkill, the utility that helps you ... kill things on your Linux desktop. I had gFTP die on me today and gave it a try.
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Linux vendor revenue $1 billion by 2012? Or is it $49 billion+ ?
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IDC is out with a new report forecasting Linux revenue from 2009-2013. According to a post on the data, from Novell CMO John Dragoon, in 2008, the Linux vendor community saw a 23.4 percent growth in revenue.
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If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it?
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When a company announces a technology release, the least one would expect is that the company itself has found said technology worthy of use.
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