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September 22, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- The next Linux distribution that IBM throws its weight behind is likely to be China's Red Flag Linux, suggesting that for businesses elsewhere in the world the Linux market will remain a two-horse race for the time being.

Embedded CPU/DSP core specialist ARC International is shipping a programmable multimedia subsystem consisting of a configurable 32-bit RISC core with an MPEG-4 decoder and various audio codecs, supported by a Linux stack. The ARC Player Subsystem targets portable audio players, electronic toys, and low-end mobile phones, according to the company.

NIIBE Yutaka is the chairman of the Free Software Initiative of Japan (FSIJ), a long-time Debian developer, and a hacker to the core. After his talk at the Fourth International Conference on GPLv3 in Bangalore, India, last month, I spent some time with Yutaka to learn about the degree of acceptance of Free Software in Japan and his efforts to nurture its growth.

linux.conf.au 2007 meets demand by extending the official conference period to a full week, and broadening the scope and number of community organised streams, called "miniconfs."

The features Red Hat says will be in RHEL 5 sound great, but the promise was hard to prove in tests because of some system flakiness and omissions.

Mark Shuttleworth should sell the idea of non-patentable shared "open energy technology" to world leaders as its potential to have a profound impact on the reduction of the greenhouse gases is enormous.

[Any environmentalists in our audience? - dcparris]

The DotNetNuke Corporation was formed to serve the needs of the DotNetNuke project, a popular Open Source web application framework for the ASP.Net platform.

Citing a rise in customer demand for Linux, companies at this week's Interop show demo'd new Linux-enabled products running the gamut from multifunctional management appliances to specialized software for combatting viruses and administering UPS power devices. Jacqueline Emigh reports.

Teradata now runs on 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise providing open-source operating system and platform flexibility

Supporting AMD Opteron 2000 series processors, Altus 1600 and 2600 Linux servers are based on AMD64 technology and have form factor of 1U and 2U, respectively. Features include SATA, SCSI, and SAS storage options, and slots for PCI Express serial I/O technology to accommodate cluster fabrics and enterprise-class storage adapters. Incorporating up to 24 GB of DDR2 memory, servers provide 2 x 1 MB level 2 cache memory and HyperTransport bus for data transfer.

The fruits of Novell Inc's development agreement with real-time systems specialist Concurrent Computer Corp will be released in October in the form of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time, according to reports.

2U 8 Bay and 12 Bay Low Cost Rackmount Systems Provide High Performance and Reliability

Awards Reinforce Products' Ease-of-Use and Industry's Demand for Proven Disaster Recovery Solutions

How many times has someone verbally explained how to do something on a computer to you? How many times do you end up asking them to just show you? For these situations there is pyvnc2swf, a program that turns screen input into video files. Let's see just how easy it is to use it to producing training videos.

ARM has joined the Eclipse Foundation, an industry group which promotes the use of open-source software for embedded system development.

Debian Project Leader (DPL) Anthony Towns may face a recall vote over his involvement with Dunc-Tank, a non-official group that proposes to collect donations to pay Debian release managers to ensure that Debian etch is in early December as scheduled.

[Let's hope this matter is resolved to the benefit of the Debian community and their users. - dcparris]

Five-year milestoneThe open source community this week hailed the most significant update to Python in five years.

Like the Lambada, only differentColumn The use of "lambda" originates from functional programming and lambda calculus, where a lambda abstraction defines an unnamed function. Lambda functions or Lambdas in C++ are one of the more interesting things to look forward to in the next C++ standard; giving us the ability to treat functions as first class objects at last; composing them inline and treating them as class objects. Up until now we've scraped by with pointers to functions, and various libraries like Boost Lambda, both of which approaches suck.

BERLIN - A debate is ongoing between “open source” (OS) software developers and devotees to Creative Commons licenses over the right way to promote free culture. Creative Commons licenses, under which some rights are reserved, are too restrictive for some in the OS community.

[Well, I have to say, I am puzzled by Lessig's viewpoint. I don't know who killed objectivity, but freedom is freedom. There are even degrees of freedom. However, if we say that different communities can define freedom for themselves, then we may as well say that the Chinese have defined freedom for themselves, and are thus a free people. It won't make them any more free, but then that's not our definition of freedom. Likewise, Microsoft has attempted to redefine "open" - it isn't the same as ours. I don't think I care for all this Postmodern thinking. - dcparris]

LXer Announcement: 22-Sep-2006

For the past couple of months, LXer has been beta testing a new look aimed at improving the site's appearance and usability. The time has come to launch.