Open source
alive and thriving
"New
York University anthropologist Gabriella Coleman says the open-source
software movement has emerged relatively unscathed from the economic
downturn. Ms Coleman was the opening keynote speaker at Linux.Conf.Au,
a trans-Tasman conference held in Wellington last week that attracted
more than 600 open-source software developers and enthusiasts."
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More: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/open-source-alive-and-thriving-20100126-mvti.html
Disk-O-Tech:
Linux Disk Management
"You might have worked with
Linux for years and never added an additional disk to your system or
perhaps you were too frustrated by Linux’s strange ways of dealing with
disks to attempt it. In either case, here’s your opportunity to work
through the steps required in adding a new disk to your system. The
process, once you have your disk physically installed into the system,
is simple."
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More: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7683/1.html
Enna – A New
and Exciting Linux Media Center
"These days,
buying a decent plasma is often a lot more expensive than building your
own media center. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few
years, a media center is basically a PC that’s focused solely on media
playback."
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More: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/enna-a-new-and-exciting-linux-media-center/
The real value
of FOSS to business – A personal example
"I
am going to tell a story just to give an understanding of the real
value of FOSS in business. I recently developed an SMS (Short Message
Service) daemon for a project at work. The daemon is using the SMPP
protocol to send messages. To save time (and money) I used an Open
Source SMPP library (from Logica) instead of implementing the protocol
myself."
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More: http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=470
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The development
continues. After several problems to build the base livecd system I
have already to restart the work because I have decided to not continue
with Bootsplash and use Plymouth, now I have to rewrite some Linuxlive
lines to add Plymouth to the initrd.gz. Besides Plymouth I will also
upgrade to the last Kernel version and finally finish the first step to
build the base system. During the next days I will dedicate the time to
include Plymouth, recompile the Kernel and start to test again the new
iso.
Plymouth
Plymouth is
already in use here. I have compiled and installed Plymouth to test and
I also prepared our theme, a small modification of one of the main
Plymouth themes. Plymouth will probably replace bootsplash in the next
releases.
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