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Oracle doesn’t understand open source: Monty

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:25:47 +0000

MariaDB founder Ulf Michael “Monty” Widenius says that Oracle has failed to make a success of MySQL because the company doesn’t understand open source. “It’s not in their blood,” Widenius, one of the three co-founders of MySQL, told iTWire in an interview. LXer Linux News

Shuttleworth: Still Key to Ubuntu Linux, Open Source, Canonical?

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:25:43 +0000

How important is Mark Shuttleworth’s to Canonical, Ubuntu, Linux and open source? Officially, Shuttleworth’s role at the company behind Ubuntu, which he founded in 2004, has been limited to product strategy and design since he stepped down as CEO in December 2009. Still, his presence looms much larger in the Ubuntu community. LXer Linux News

NVIDIA Driver Soon Likely To Support EGL, Mir

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:25:27 +0000

While there hasn’t been any official communication out of NVIDIA yet, it’s likely that their binary display driver will soon be bearing EGL support to complement their GLX windowing system support. The EGL interface is for sitting between OpenGL and the windowing system. EGL is used by Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices. Beyond [...]

OpenMandriva Goes Into Alpha Form, Russian-Based

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:25:46 +0000

The first alpha release of OpenMandriva Linux is now available. This new OpenMandriva distribution is derived from the Russian-based ROSA Linux distribution, which in turn was forked from mainline Mandriva last year. OpenMandriva Lx/2013.0 is the new version in development and this alpha release features the Linux 3.8 kernel, KDE SC 4.10, LibreOffice 4.0, Firefox [...]

Quick troubleshooting network bottleneck on Windows (using Open Source)

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:25:51 +0000

Have you ever looked for a tool similar to iftop to Windows? Where you could quickly see where the network bottleneck or even a malware is coming from/to ? We have a wide range of softwares for troubleshooting in Linux ie built-in or not, however when it comes to Windows environment you can mostly find [...]

Linux Shell:Timeout

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:25:31 +0000

Sometimes it’s useful to write a bash script that do something like “Do this job, if it’s still running after XX second kill it”, how to implement this in a normal bash environment ? Nothing simpler: Use the timeout shell command to achieve this. From its info page: timeout runs the given COMMAND and kills [...]

Canonical names carrier group for Ubuntu Touch devices

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:35:07 +0000

Canonical has announced a “Carrier Advisory Group” (CAG) of eight mobile carriers, which will influence the development of Ubuntu for Phones. The initial CAG membership consists of Deutsche Telekom, Everything Everywhere, Korea Telecom, Telecom Italia, LG UPlus, Portugal Telecom, SK Telecom, and an unnamed “leading Spanish international carrier.” When Canonical announced its Ubuntu Touch mobile [...]

TypeScript 0.9 arrives with new compiler, support for generics

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:40 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday announced TypeScript 0.9.0, the latest version of its (JavaScript killer) alternative web language, which Redmond describes as the “largest update to TypeScript to date.” In addition to the usual assortment of bug fixes and performance improvements, this release includes a number of significant new language features and introduces a new, more scalable [...]

Nuke plants to keep PDP-11 UNTIL 2050!

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:25:33 +0000

The venerable PDP-11 minicomputer is still spry to this day, powering GE nuclear power-plant robots – and will do so for another 37 years. That’s right: PDP-11 assembler coders are hard to find, but the nuclear industry is planning on keeping the 16-bit machines ticking over until 2050 – long enough for a couple of [...]

Google’s JavaScript challenger gains better tools, performance

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:25:48 +0000

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s latest TypeScript release, Google has shipped the first beta SDK for Dart, its own JavaScript killer alternative web language, including bug fixes, performance enhancements, and an improved editor. Like TypeScript, Dart is a language aimed at making it easier to develop large, complex web applications that are efficient, secure, [...]

Red Hat (RHT) Q1 2014 Earnings: Cloud, Storage Lift?

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:25:29 +0000

When Red Hat (RHT) announces Q1 2014 earnings on July 19, customers will gain a reality check. Is Red Hat successfully pushing beyond Linux to monetize virtualization, storage and cloud services? And if so, are channel partners profiting from those moves? LXer Linux News

Planetary Annihilation begins its Linux onslaught!

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:26:08 +0000

Planetary Annihilation one of the most successful games to hit it on Kickstarter has within the last week pushed out their Linux version! LXer Linux News

Europa Universalis IV is coming on Linux

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:25:31 +0000

Europa Universalis IV is expected to appear on 13 August 2013 for Linux, Windows and Mac. It was developed by Paradox Development Studio, the company that has published Crusader Kings II apart of Europa Universalis. LXer Linux News

Launching Maker Party 2013

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:25:50 +0000

Let’s get this party started! Mozilla has officially kicked off Maker Party 2013! For the next three months, people around the world will meet up at great events, make cool stuff and share it all online. LXer Linux News

Speed Up Your Web Site with Varnish

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:25:41 +0000

When you think about what a Web server does at a high level, it receives HTTP requests and returns HTTP responses. In a perfect world, the server would return a response immediately without having to do any real work. In the real world, however, the server may have to do quite a bit of work [...]

Mir’s GPLv3 License Is Now Raising Concerns

Michael Perks — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:25:08 +0000

Taking a break from blogging about UEFI and Secure Boot, Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett is now writing about how Canonical’s choice of license for their Mir Display Server is a bit scary. It’s not the GPLv3 license alone that’s raising eyebrows, but the GPLv3 combined with the Ubuntu Contributor’s License Agreement that is unfortunate [...]

D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:25:27 +0000

The D programming language continues to advance and show signs of promise as a high-quality computer programming language that may eventually prove competition for C. Last month there was the 2013 D programming language conference where a lot was discussed. LXer Linux News

Next Surface RT tablet will have Qualcomm mobile chip

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:48:58 +0000

Microsoft will not be giving up on Windows RT straight away it seems, despite expectations not being met, with new rumours fleshing out about the next Surface RT range. According to new reports, some tablets will come with Qualcomm chips instead of NVIDIA, although the company will continue to use NVIDIA Tegra chips in some [...]

Win a Linux training course in 300 words or less

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:25:31 +0000

Attention Linux developers: If you’ve ever wanted to take a class with the Linux Foundation but have been held back by enrollment costs, then here’s your chance to win a scholarship. LXer Linux News

How To Use PHP 4.4.9 (FastCGI) With Apache & ISPConfig 3 (Debian Wheezy)

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:25:33 +0000

Since ISPConfig 3.0.5, it is possible to use multiple PHP versions on one server and select the optimal PHP version for a website. If you have some very old websites on your server, they might not work with PHP5, but only with PHP4. This tutorial shows how to build PHP 4.4.9 as a FastCGI version [...]

Talend: Open Source Can Boost Big Data Quality

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:25:28 +0000

It’s easier than ever to store and analyze Big Data, but that doesn’t mean it’s always clean and accurate. That’s why data quality is a growing part of the Big Data world. And the channel is acting to meet the demand, as a partnership announced this week between open source Big Data vendor Talend and [...]

NVIDIA Driver Soon Likely To Support EGL, Mir

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:25:11 +0000

With NVIDIA entering the GPU IP licensing business, the need to support EGL by their binary display driver — and with that the Ubuntu Mir display server and Wayland — has become more pressing… Phoronix

What is your preferred chat platform?

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:49:32 +0000

Which chat platform do you primarily use? IRC Chatter Twitter Gchat Facebook Instant messenger Other (tell us in the comments) Chat has changed a lot over the years. It plays a vital role in communicating and collaborating. I remember using ICQ—do you remember that annoying sound when someone messaged you? Uh-Oh! read more opensource.com

What is your preferred chat platform?

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:49:32 +0000

Piumalinux 2012-1.2 Screenshot Tour

Michael Perks — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:25:28 +0000

Piumalinux 2012-1.2 is available. Piumalinux is an Italian Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the MATE desktop environment. LXer Linux News