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Debian Linux founder and former OpenSolaris chief Ian Murdock is taking over the role of chief strategist for cloud computing at Sun Microsystems.
Small Universe: Lincity-NG 2.0
The Lincity-NG project takes after the classic SimCity, and with good effect. The new version enhances graphics and simulation logic.
Phenomenon Redux: AMD Phenom II in Linux Test
A recent Linux Community test compared the AMD Phenom X4 with a Turion X2 and Intel P9400. Meanwhile AMD has sent us its new Phenom II processor, prompting a new test. These are the latest benchmark results.
Helping Devils at Linux.conf.au
Linux.conf.au came to a close Friday after dozens of excellent talks, great social events, and the unexpected shaving of Bdale Garbee for the Tasmanian Devil.
Five Applications for Netbook Bliss
Want to beef up the software bundle that comes with your Linux-based Netbook? Here are five nifty applications and tools that are worth a closer look.
Sun's McNealy Advises Obama Administration on Open Source
Sun cofounder Scott NcNealy has submitted a paper to the new U.S. administration about the cost savings and security benefits of Open Source software.
Ultralight Windows Netbook from Sony with Linux Instant-On
Sony has brought a new mini-notebook to the market that is small, light, stylish and with Windows Vista, although its instant-on feature is Linux-powered.
Live from Down Under: Report from Linux.conf.au 2009
For FOSS fans, there's no better place to be this week than Hobart, state capitol of the Australian state Tasmania. That's where Linux.conf.au 2009 is being held through Saturday, January 24.
Shuttle Linux Minis to Come with VIA
Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer Shuttle has released a series of mini-desktops running Linux. The next generation will have power-efficient VIA Nano processors.
Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3: New Notifications and Ext4
Canonical has released its third alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04. It brings a few new features to test, including notification settings in the user interface and the much publicized ext4 filesystem support.
Rush Hour: Newest GNU Restricted User Shell
The latest stable release of the GNU Restricted User Shell (Rush), version 1.5, includes new configuration offerings and a notification feature.
Polyakov's OOM Killer Tamer
Evgeniy Polyakov has released a patch to the kernel's out-of-memory (OOM) killer function, which was designed to prevent a system freeze in an OOM condition by sacrificing one or more processes. The patch "tames" the function by defining the specific process to kill.
Google Sets Jaiku Free
Google will close the microblog project Jaiku and publish the source code under an Apache license.
Conceptual 1.0 with GUI and Eclipse Plug-in
The Conceptual domain-specific language generates programs that measure the performance and test the correctness of networks and their protocol layers. The newest version 1.0 of the product provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate generating these programs.
OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.
Free Firmware for Broadcom WiFi Chips
Developers Francesco Gingoli and Lorenzo Nava have released firmware under GPL for a number of Broadcom 802.11 chips.
Quo Vadis, Mozilla?: 3-Point Plan for World Domination
Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, has presented a plan in her blog whereby Mozilla will have Web world domination by 2010.
Tor Software Down to Zero Bugs
The Tor Project announces that it has removed all bugs that Coverity Scan had found in its software.
Ubuntu 9.04 Supports Ext4
Since its addition to Kernel 2.6.28, the ext4 filesystem can be manually installed in the upcoming Ubuntu release.
Kernel 2.6.29: Corbet Says Btrfs Next Generation Filesystem
Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet has just previewed the features of the upcoming Linux Kernel 2.6.29 that includes Btrfs, which he claims is the filesystem of the future.
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