An ARM-based netbook running Ubuntu could be in your future with the newest version of Ubuntu Netbook Edition.
Read more »Ubuntu Optimizes its OS for ARM CPUs
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Looking out for Bilski: software patents v. FOSS
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Users of free and open source software (“FOSS”) have little to gain and much to fear from the patent system. The patent system poses two major threats to users:
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Linux Gaming With Sabayon Gaming Edition DVD
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One of the most common complaints I hear about Linux is that it’s just no good for gaming. Some complain about hardware support, others the lack of titles, others that it’s just too complicated. It’s true that Linux probably isn’t the first platform that comes to mind when I think about PC gaming, but some parts of that reputation are inaccurate or outdated.
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Ubuntu One Music Store Sneak Peek
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It looks like 7digital are providing the back-end for the Ubuntu One Music Store which is due to land in Ubuntu Lucid at Alpha 3 – real soon now. The screenshots below were taken by me today on my laptop.
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Linux Wall Wart Works Wonderfully
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It looks like a wall wart, but the Tonido Plug is really a fascinating little Linux computer that is sold as a "personal cloud", but you can make it do just about anything, just like any Linux.
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KDE or Openbox
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I love KDE, and the latest release is better than ever. It’s easy, fast, beautiful, all that. So when I installed Arch on another partition and slapped Openbox on it I certainly didn’t think I would consider using it full time.
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Open Source Bits and Pieces
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A number of folks have been surprised by Google’s decision to transition to Portage – the package management system from the Gentoo Linux distribution – rather than something more popular like Apt (Debian/Ubuntu) or Yum (Fedora).
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Enterprise Edition... Space Invaders?
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What do you get when you cross business logic and 80s arcade video games? An open source Space Invaders clone that's being used to illustrate the power of a business logic integration platform for game design.
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Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens Defamed by Troll
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Serial harasser of Free software luminaries may be put on their blacklists, but the verbal abuse continues
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Petition: Ogg Vorbis Support in 7Digital Music Store!
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As some of you may know, Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" will come with an integrated music store, which offers mostly MP3's and SOME FLAC files. This petition would make both Canonical and 7Digital consider offering Ogg Vorbis for all of 7Digital's collection as an option for the end user.
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Open source - the once and future dream
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Since Oracle's endorsement of Linux, the kernel and operating system have penetrated everything from high-end data centers to handheld consumer electronics. Linux pulled open-source applications along with it. FOSS moved into middleware and applications. So where does the chain-reaction go from here and where will FOSS be in the next 10 years?
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The open source mobile ’super-platform’ cometh
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As you may be aware by now Nokia and Intel have announced that they will merge their respective Maemo and Moblin software platforms to create a combined Linux-based operating system targeting a new broader range of fixed and mobile devices. But is MeeGo, just an Android me too?
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Syntensity: A Possible Alternative To Steam?
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A bit of a discussion on upcoming technologies in the Syntensity FOSS gaming platform, and some suggestions as to how it could make a complete gaming experience that would help loosen Valve's deathgrip on the online gaming industry, using Free Software.
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Novell and SCO throw legal darts at each other's motions in limine
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It's a plot, I tell you! The parties in SCO v. Novell are trying to cause me to lose my beauty sleep. Before I can finish doing the text of one filing, they file 25 more. Literally. They have filed between them 25 memoranda in opposition to the others' motions in limine. Say. They have finally hit on the way to shut Groklaw up. Just keep filing documents until I give up and go to sleep.
Read more »Set up Ubuntu Karmic Server (Grub2) PV Guest at Xen 4.0-rc4 (2.6.32 pvops) on top of Fedora12
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Due to set of CSs for GRUB 2 Support written by Ian Campbell usual sharing image devices between Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server HVM and PV Guests appears available at Xen-4.0 Linux Dom0. Fedora 12 has been selected due to presence of Libvirt 0.7.1 providing virt-install and virt-manager utilities.
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