Real Time Logic (RTL) released a free demo version of its user-friendly personal server stack. The BarracudaDrive demo runs on the "Unslung" Linux distribution available for Linksys's NSLU2 (aka "Slug") networked attached storage (NAS) device, and includes a lightweight, dynamic development environment that supports asynchronous communications.
I've faced a difficult task of late -- finding a replacement for my much-loved fourth-generation iPod, which is on its last legs after three years of solid use. Most people would just go buy a new iPod, but Apple doesn't seem to want my money, and I've decided that I'm happy to oblige them.
HP is planning to introduce desktop and laptop computers that come with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system preinstalled.
Systems are scheduled to start shipping worldwide in select geographies in the second quarter of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter. The two vendors will jointly develop software drivers and provide support to end-users.
HP didn't respond to several requests for comment.
The survey, which was conducted by Sydney-based consultancy Waugh Partners, also found that Queensland is the best state in which to study open source and proprietary source developers are paid less than their open source counterparts.
In a video interview conducted at linux.conf.au in Melbourne last month, Jeff and Pia Waugh of Waugh Partners revealed some initial trends from the survey's findings.
You can, and it's actually called "homebrew," which is one of those words that always sounds like a neologism (a newly coined word) but in fact originated in the mid-nineteenth-century, meaning "an alcoholic beverage made at home." Go beer, then, and what's more, go who'd-a-thunk-it hacks that let you for-real load Linux and "embrace your inner penguin" on an unassuming white box half the size of a toaster.
Google software engineer Dan Kegel posted a message to the Wine mailing list last week describing some of the improvements to Wine that Google has sponsored in the past year. These improvements, says Kegel, have substantially improved the Linux compatibility of several popular commercial software applications, including Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking.
A major security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which was revealed on Sunday, has claimed its first confirmed UK victim in business ISP Claranet.
Hackers used a bug in the sys_vmsplice kernel call, which handles virtual memory management, to gain root privileges and replace Claranet customers' index.html files with the hacker's calling card.
The exploit was noticed at about 6pm on Tuesday.
The LiMo Foundation's members unveiled the first of their Linux-based mobile handsets at Monday's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The move could steal the thunder from Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Android handsets, which are scheduled to make their debut in reference designs at the conference.
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and NTT DoCoMo led the surge of working handsets with several devices each, while Samsung unveiled a single handset. LG Electronics, Aplix' Opal, and Purple Labs introduced prototype and reference handsets Monday.
Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server both use the Xen virtualisation software, a "hypervisor" layer that lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. In contrast, the KVM software runs on top of a version of Linux, the "host" operating system that provides a foundation for other "guest" operating systems to run in a virtual mode.
Linus Torvalds normally eschews playing the lawyer and giving out legal advice. But when it comes to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rattling the patent saber, he has a bit of legal analysis to share with Linux users.
"When you're a convicted monopolist in the marketplace, you really should not be suing your competitors over patents. I think most Microsoft lawyers would say, 'You know, let's not do that. That sounds insane.'"
