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Can free software drive the fourth paradigm?

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:45 +0000

The biggest science story to hit the mainstream media in the last year was of course the big switch on at CERN. What made it such a great story for me was not just the sheer and audacious enormity of the enterprise or the humbling nobility of the colossal experiment but the story behind the [...]

Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:44 +0000

Haiku OS, the nine year old project to develop an open-source BeOS-compatible operating system, is hoping it will receive a new OpenGL stack this year. The Haiku project, like X.Org, will be participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code project where the search engine giant pays many student developers to work on code for [...]

Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 "Lyngen" Alpha 1

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:38 +0000

It’s been just a month since releasing Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 and that was followed by the release of our PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 operating system, but since then work has been flowing into the next release of the Phoronix Test Suite and related benchmarking technologies. The next release, Phoronix Test Suite 2.6, is codenamed [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 To Hang Onto Old Intel Driver

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:34 +0000

When it comes to Intel’s X.Org driver for Linux, xf86-video-intel, the most recent release was version 2.10 and it arrived in early January complete with Pineview (their next-generation Intel Atom systems) support, X-Video improvements, and various other features. The xf86-video-intel 2.11 driver is now emerging as their next quarterly update that brings in the KMS [...]

Steam Client and Source Games Porting to OSX

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:31 +0000

So the devil called me this afternoon and said they where having a snowstorm in hell. In other news Valve announced that their revolutionary “content delivery service” known as “Steam” is being ported to OSX and will be available as early as April 2010. No really its true, straight from the horse’s mouth. In addition [...]

Joint European Parliament ACTA Transparency Resolution Tabled, Vote on Wednesday

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:25 +0000

A joint resolution on Transparency and State of Play of ACTA negotiations from virtually all party groups in the European Parliament was tabled earlier today. It will debated tonight and faces a vote on Wednesday. If approved, the resolution marks a major development in the fight over ACTA transparency. It calls for public access to [...]

Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 Screenshots

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:23 +0000

Julien Lavergne has released the next Alpha 3 of lubuntu. lubuntu is a faster, more lightweight and energy saving variant of Ubuntu using LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. The lubuntu team aims to earn official endorsement from Canonical. Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 Screenshots at My SEO Company

StrongVPN on Ubuntu: Simple VPN Solution That Works

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:19 +0000

Ask any knowledgeable mobile user, and she will tell you that the best way to securely access the Internet in public places is through a VPN (virtual private network) connection.

Open Source Saves the Day

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:17 +0000

Case studies of open source success are always useful – especially when, like this one, they show how a UK government project that cost £100 million ($150 million) using traditional approaches but still didn’t work properly, was fixed for just £35,000 ($53,000) using free software.

Quick and Dirty Backups with rsync

jfeedor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:13 +0000

We’ve all seen countless articles, blog and forum posts explaining how to back up a server with rsync and other tools. While I’ve cringed when people talked about using non-scalable methods, there actually is a place for quick and dirty backup mechanisms. Small companies running just a few virtual machines in the cloud, or even [...]