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LXer Feature: 12-Oct-2014
In this week's Roundup we have Samsung paying M$ a Billion dollars a year for Android patents, The world of kernel development gets emotional, LibreOffice at 4 years old and much more. Enjoy!
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Lawsuit reveals Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion a year for Android patents: Microsoft sued Samsung in August, alleging that the Korean firm had failed to make payments that were contractually owed. At the time, the documents were sealed, obscuring the value of the payments. Today, those documents were unsealed, revealing the full scale of the suit.
diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development: Kernel configuration has become more and more complex through the years with the proliferation of new drivers, new hardware and specific behaviors that might be needed for particular uses. It has reached about 3,000 config options, and that number will only increase.
The first open source tool I ever used...: Let's reminisce. What was the first open source tool you ever used? Was it for work or fun? Maybe you were trying to start or finish a project and reached for a free and accessible tool? Or maybe you just have a preference for open source software? Tell us about it. We're collecting stories.
Hate & Bullying in Linux Just Brought Down Gamingonlinux.com: Venn Stone and Pedro Mateus of the LinuxGameCast have successfully bullied gaminonlinux.com offline. Way to go guys...
LibreOffice at 4: How the OpenOffice Fork is Forging Ahead: VIDEO: Italo Vignoli, a director at the Document Foundation, discusses how the open-source LibreOffice Suite has evolved over the last four years.
News: Linux 3.17 is Getting ready for the Year 2038: Barely two months after the Linux 3.16 kernel release and Linux 3.17 is now out. The Linux 3.17 kernel is the fifth major kernel release so far in 2014 and among its features is a fix for a flaw that wouldn't actually impact Linux for another 24 years.
Lennart Poettering's Linus Torvalds rant: Open-source mailing lists and IRC conversations are as prone to flame wars as anywhere on the Internet, but now systemd co-creator Lennart Poettering is calling out Linus Torvalds in a more public forum for helping to create attacks on him.
Linux systemd dev says open source is 'sick', kernel community 'awful': Lennart Poettering, creator of the systemd system management software for Linux, says the open-source world is "quite a sick place to be in." He also said the Linux development community is "awful" – and he pins the blame for that on Linux supremo Linus Torvalds.
Time to Replace XFCE?: The XFCE Linux desktop has much to recommend it, yet users might also look at alternatives.
That Unpatchable USB Malware Now Has a Patch ... Sort Of: When security researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson publicly released attack code two weeks ago that takes advantage of an insidious vulnerability in USB devices, they argued that publishing their exploits would get the problems fixed faster. Now they've released a partial fix themselves-albeit one that's so messy it includes coating your USB thumb drive in epoxy.
How to speed up slow apt-get install on Debian or Ubuntu: If you feel that package installation by apt-get or aptitude is often too slow on your Debian or Ubuntu system, there are several ways to improve the situation. Have you considered switching default mirror sites being used? Have you checked the upstream bandwidth of your Internet connection to see if that is the bottleneck?
10 Steps To Overcome Your Fear Of Using Open Source Software: The entire Internet runs on open source software (OSS) and, if we used it more in medical devices, it would lead to reduced costs and increase the quality of devices. If you ask some regulatory affairs folks in medical device companies, they think OSS is too “dangerous” for use in safety critical systems.
One Week: Three FOSS Expos: The week after next the FOSS world will be brimming with opportunities to find out more about what’s going on in three separate shows around the country. If you are within a day’s drive of any of them — or if you are not adverse to flying — making it to one of them would be well worth the effort.
Multiple screens for your conference presentation: In two weeks the All Things Open conference will be taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina. Penguins from all over will be gathering together to share ideas. And as one of the presenters this year, I started wondering, in what ways can you open source a conference presentation?
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