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Android: the return of the Unix wars?
Friday, September 03, 2010 @ 14:02:56 CEST by tw45admin (73 reads) |  Your editor was recently amused to encounter this ZDNet article on "Android's dirty little secret." According to that article, the openness of Android has led to an increase in the control held by handset manufacturers and wireless carriers and the fragmentation of the platform. The Open Handset Alliance is in a "shambles," and Android phones have undone all the gains won by that great standard bearer for openness and freedom - the iPhone. One might easily conclude that Android is just business as usual for the mobile telephony industry, but there are a few things worth contemplating here.
Android's "dirty little secret" is revealed at lwn.net.
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New Web Book Available: Using GIMP
Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 17:11:12 CEST by tw45admin (111 reads) | It became available about a month ago. Since it's part of QUE's new "USING" series, there were a few extra bumps in the road slowing down the book's release. There's no print version. Everything is accessible from the Internet. View the text, see the video tutorials and listen to the audio sidebars. It's all available now so please take a look and start "using GIMP".
Author's official announcement at A Million Chimpanzees. Buy this book at the QUE Publishing store.
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Valve: no plans to bring Steam to Linux
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 13:35:19 CEST by tw45admin (132 reads) | Close scrutiny of the Steam port for Mac OS X led to the discovery of evidence which suggested that a Linux version might be coming soon. Sadly, Valve marketing vice president Doug Lombardi dispelled these suspicions in a recent interview during which he confirmed that the company is not actively working on Steam for Linux. Steam is a popular digital content delivery channel for computer games. It allows users to purchase and download games from a wide range of mainstream vendors. The service is developed and operated by Valve, the company behind Half-Life, Portal, and a number of other well-known games. Steam was originally only available for the Windows platform, but Valve officially launched a Mac OS X version earlier this year. Linux hardware news site Phoronix discovered that a shell script in the Mac OS X version of Steam includes a conditional expression that checks to see if the user is running Linux.
Full article at ars technica.
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Cool User File Systems: GlusterFS
Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 15:38:29 CEST by tw45admin (154 reads) | I’ve been talking about user-space file systems for several articles now. The concept of being able to quickly create a file system using almost any language you want using FUSE (File System in Userspace) libraries and kernel module is a very powerful one (however I’m still waiting on the Fortran bindings). One can build a file system that meets a particular set of requirements without having to develop and maintain kernel patches for a long period of time, without having to ask testers to apply the kernel patches and test, and then going through the kernel gauntlet. It can be developed quickly, with a variety of languages, get immediate feedback from testers, does not have to be tied to a particular kernel release, does not require a kernel patch and/or rebuild.
Read more at linux-mag.com.
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Linux Foundation Announces Open Compliance Program
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 14:38:34 CEST by tw45admin (80 reads) | The Linux Foundation began LinuxCon with a bang when it announced the formation of the Open Compliance Program, Tuesday. The Open Compliance Program is an initiative meant to help companies abide by open source licenses and alleviate legal concerns within the marketplace. The program consists of six elements:
Training: The Linux Foundation offers additional documentation and training models that cover open source licensing fundamentals and activities geared toward enterprise. The foundation also will offer offer on-site or online training...
The complete article, along with helpful links, is found at Linux Pro Magazine.
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Legal DVD Playback Coming to Linux?
Monday, August 09, 2010 @ 19:49:07 CEST by tw45admin (164 reads) | In a country where the legal system is based on precedents, a judge's recent decision just may make the use of Linux a whole lot easier. From nearly the beginnings of entertainment DVDs, Linux users in certain countries either had to break the law to watch their legally obtained media on their computer, boot a Windows system, or not use them. Many chose to break the law and install decryption software. Perhaps those days are over. Appeal Judge Garcia found that General Electric did not break the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by merely unlocking MGE UPS Systems' protection software in order to repair faulty power supplies. The judge wrote that the DMCA protects against infringement, not viewing or using. While these aren't DVDs with copyrighted movies or music, it still sets a precedent for legal fair use of DMCA protected products.
Full story at the Linux Journal.
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AppArmor Is Going Into The Linux 2.6.36 Kernel
Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 15:45:08 CEST by tw45admin (192 reads) | James Morris has outlined a preview of the security
subsystem changes he is currently carrying in his security-testing-next branch of the Linux kernel that he plans to have Linus Torvalds pull into the next kernel development cycle for Linux 2.6.36. The big change in the kernel security world is that AppArmor is being planned for integration into the Linux 2.6.36 kernel. AppArmor is a Mandatory Access Control system has been in development for a half-decade as an alternative to using SELinux for securing Linux systems. Similar to SELinux and TOMOYO, AppArmor is implemented over the Linux Security Modules (LSM) kernel interface. Some of the major distributions that have backed AppArmor as part of their security model are Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Mandriva.
Phoronix has the rest.
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Lifehacker Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Downloads
Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 13:33:50 CEST by tw45admin (299 reads) | We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great. Linux isn't quite like Windows or Mac, as there are many, many distributions, usually running on one of two desktop systems (GNOME or KDE). We've chosen to write this list up from the perspective of a standard, GNOME-based Ubuntu user. Ubuntu is what the Lifehacker editors use, it's what most of our Linux-leaning readers use, and it's generally popular and frequently updated. Many of these apps can be downloaded and installed on other Linux systems, of course—check the Download link, or search out its name in your own system's package installer.
Found (where else?) at Lifehacker.
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NASA drops Ubuntu's Koala food for (real) open source
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 13:30:36 CEST by tw45admin (113 reads) | NASA is dropping Eucalyptus from its Nebula infrastructure cloud not only because its engineers believe the open source platform can't achieve the sort of scale they require, but also because it isn't entirely open source. NASA chief technology officer Chris Kemp tells The Reg that as his engineers attempted to contribute additional Eucalyptus code to improve its ability to scale, they were unable to do so because some of the platform's code is open and some isn't. Their attempted contributions conflicted with code that was only available in a partially closed version of platform maintained by Eucalyptus Systems Inc., the commercial outfit run by the project's founders.
Open core is not open source: a cautionary tale by The Register.
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What Good is it if They Don't Know it's Linux?
Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 18:35:33 CEST by tw45admin (177 reads) | One of Ken Stark's more famous antics has stuck in my mind all these years, when he flummoxed the illustrious panel at the 2008 Linux Collaboration Summit with a simple, polite question:
"My customers can turn on their cable television and in 30 minutes watch five Microsoft Windows commercials. When are IBM and HP going to put the same things on? When are my customers going to be able to see about Linux? Television and radio legitimize the product."
I was not, and still am not, impressed by the responses...
The rest of Carla Schroder's commentary is at Linux Today.
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