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Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Arduino is an inexpensive, easy-to-use electronics platform. The entire platform, both the hardware and the software, is completely open source, and the language is loosely based on C/C++. Arduino was built for makers, tinkerers, and artists who want to take the plunge into creating interactive physical objects."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "The creation and management of user-space processes in Linux have many principles in common with UNIX but also include several unique optimizations specific to Linux. Here, review the life cycle of Linux processes and explore the kernel internals for user process creation, memory management, scheduling, and death."
Source: Linux Today Standards Blog: "Yesterday I filed a pro bono amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief with the United States Supreme Court in support of the Federal Trade Commission's petition for writ of certiorari in its suit against Rambus Technologies. I'm pleased to report that 19 standard setting organizations (SSOs), representing over 13,300 members, joined as amici curiae supporting this brief; the list of participants appears later in this blog entry."
Source: Linux Today In which your faithful editors dispense good will, good wishes, and a scoop on a big Linux story.
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-operating system runtime that lets you use rich Internet applications that combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Flex technologies. What that means to you and me is that it's lets us run another kind of application on our Internet-connected Windows PCs, Macs, and just this month, Linux desktop computers."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in open source or the promotion of free software idealism, experts see FOSS as starting from a strong base and actually benefiting from the hard times expected next year."
Source: Linux Today Tip of the Trade: "DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) is designed to fully and securely wipe your disk. It's a downloadable self-contained boot disk, available for CD/DVD, floppy disk, or USB flash drive."
Source: Linux Today Desktop Linux: "Q1 -- When I installed OpenSUSE 11.1, I had to agree to the new license first, but it only seemed to be available in English. Given SUSE's proud history as Europe's top Linux desktop, are there plans to translate the license to, for example, German?"
Why have a EULA at all?--ed.
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "What's the biggest secret to Red Hat's success in a down economy? Plenty of pundits think it's Linux and JBoss open source middleware. But The VAR Guy has another theory: One of Red Hat's smartest moves is promoting a particularly influential magazine article about the company."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Video acceleration APIs for Linux has been a hot topic recently with NVIDIA having introduced VDPAU last month (the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) that brings PureVideo-like features to Linux with great results while it's already finding its way into MPlayer, FFmpeg, MythTV, Xine, and VLC. AMD has been working hard on XvBA (X-Video Bitstream Acceleration), but that has yet to be officially introduced."
Source: Linux Today Open Enterprise: "I don't know what Cox will be doing at Intel, but as an employee of a hardware company he is likely to be involved in dealing with the kind of lower-level issues that have presumably become increasingly scarce at Red Hat. Assuming that's the case, this will be good news both for Cox and for the free software world."
Source: Linux Today Help Net Security: "As a new year approaches we must prepare for new Internet security threats. Every year, new and innovative ways of attacking computer users emerge and continue to increase in volume and severity. To know where we are going it is helpful to look at where we have been."This isn't really about security trends-- it's about threat trends. --ed.
Source: Linux Today Mandriva: "The first alpha for Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (2009.1) is now available"
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "I've never believed that the distinction between "amateur" and "professional" was quality; that is, that amateur means poor quality and professional = high quality. The only difference is professionals get paid."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "One of the notable features of open source software is forking. If an open source project takes a direction that users or developers don't like, well, they can fork off in a new direction."
Source: Linux Today SSL Shopper: "Unethical business practices of an SSL Certificate reseller have been exposed and it is causing many to wonder about the security and practices of SSL providers."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Current balloting for Debian Lenny's future has led to strife in the organization. Secretary of the free project, Manoj Srivastava, has resigned his position. A possible consequence is that the next version will undergo further delay in its release."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "9. Hard Work and Practice in Programming
There's a long arc in computing that teaches us how much we gain through advances in ease-of-use, with the iPhone being the latest breakthrough success "
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "These days, there is an almost unfathomable number of ways in which to communicate. I have a telephone, email, snail mail, and a multitude of Instant Messaging accounts. I have a cell phone and can send and receive text messages. I'm on MySpace. I can receive phone calls over the Internet via SIP. I'm on IRC and various mailing lists. You would think that I use these wonderful tools to keep in touch with friends and family."
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