Open Source News
This section provides a daily dose of regularly updated Open Source News.GeneGo Products Available on Mac, Linux
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Feb. 26 / / - GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that its data analysis products MetaCore, MetaLink, MapEditor and MetaRodent are now supported by Mac and Linux operating systems and multiple web browsers. "Mac-compatibility is good news for our industrial and academic users," said Julie Bryant, GeneGo's VP of Business development. "The ...
3/5/2008 8:04:39 AM
Paylocity Saves Money Developing on Linux
Linux.com: "Paylocity provides payroll and human resources outsourcing services for companies that don't want the burden of performing those functions in house..."
3/5/2008 7:34:25 AM
LiMo Foundation aims to put Linux in your handset
Will a pro-Linux consortium unwittingly present a roadblock instead smooth sailing for mass adoption of Linux?
3/5/2008 4:03:29 AM
What is Linux?
It was a year ago that AMD had replaced its aging FireGL Control Panel inside its Linux driver with the AMDCCCLE, or AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.
3/5/2008 3:40:09 AM
Archive files in both Windows and Linux using PeaZip
If you need an archiving program that can run under both Windows and Linux, sport a graphical interface, and be licensed as open source software, only a single program will do: PeaZip. It acts as a graphical front end for several tools that provide archiving, compression, encryption, and similar functions.
3/5/2008 3:11:00 AM
Do Linux Users Care About Freedom?
"Over at the TuxToday blog, there's a post about Linux users not caring about freedom--because they'd rather just use Adobe's Flash plugin in lieu of Free Software like Gnash. Or they think Richard Stallman and the FSF are morons who are hurting the Open Source movement.
3/4/2008 7:12:54 PM
Linux Server Administration: Basic Linux Firewalls
In this article, Mark Rais shares some of the basics of setting up a Linux firewall using the iptables tool. It includes a review of some firewall options, basics of getting started, details of the iptables syntax and some example configurations.
3/4/2008 10:10:00 AM
Texas Instruments joins Linux Foundation for mobile Linux
Texas Instruments has become an official member of the Linux Foundation, with mobility expert Eric Thomas joining the group's board. (This 2006 phone from Imcosys of Switzerland ran mobile Linux with a TI chip. From Ubergizmo.) Thomas was elected to the board yesterday alongside Larry Augustin and...
3/4/2008 9:03:36 AM
CNR.com Delivers Linux Users Virtualization Software From Virtual Bridges
Linspire and Virtual Bridges announced the availability of Win4Lin Pro Desktop 4.5 through CNR.com's one-click Linux software delivery service. Win4Lin Pro Desktop provides consumers, SMBs and enterprise customers a virtualization solution that allows Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Ubuntu 7.04 & 7.10 desktop Linux users to run Windows on Linux and assists in the complete migration process to ...
3/4/2008 8:26:06 AM
New Cell-based blade, tools support Linux
Mercury Computer Systems is shipping a high-performance computing (HPC) blade system based on Cell processors. The 1U Dual Cell-Based System 2 (DCBS-2) is equipped with two Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processors, runs Linux, and is available with an updated version of Mercury's MultiCore Plus tools.
3/4/2008 1:09:59 AM
Low-cost MicroTCA server runs Linux
Emerson Network Power (ENP) announced a microTCA system said to cost half what existing microTCA products go for. The under-$5,000 Centellis 500 features a plastic case, runs Wind River Linux, and is described as a deployable, validated system for cost-constrained enterprise, medical, and industrial automation markets.
3/3/2008 10:10:01 PM
GNU/Linux Desktop: The Case Against Running Windows Apps
GNU/Linux Desktop: The Case Against Running Windows Apps
3/3/2008 7:49:09 PM
Why Attracting More Users to Linux Matters
[ Thanks to LinuxLoop for this link. ] "Many decisions and opinions in the Linux world are justified by the idea that the decision will help attract new users to Linux, but why should anyone care at all if other people use Linux?
3/3/2008 3:32:59 PM
Linux growing fast in POS, Microsoft still tops
— Feb. 22, 2008 — In the North American market for POS (point of sales/service) terminals, Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL Group.
3/3/2008 1:17:01 PM
Ten Steps Needed for Fiery Desktop Linux Adoption
From a longtime Linux user, a list of key areas -- from video to mobile phones to OEMs -- that are needed for Linux to catch the other major OSes.
3/3/2008 10:41:27 AM
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 Released, Reviewed
The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here . This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See here for ...
3/3/2008 10:12:55 AM
Distro Review: Foresight Linux 1.4.2
"After some delay and threatening over the last couple of weeks I've finally gotten around to typing up my review of Foresight Linux, if you don't believe me you should do because you're reading it right now hehe :) Foresight is a distro I've been interested in for quite some time, I knew it had a lot of cutting edge features but I was a little worried about the stability issues that might cause.
3/3/2008 5:42:54 AM
Better Linux Sound Management With ALSA
LinuxPlanet: "So today we're going to dig into ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, because I think it's the best tool for managing your Linux sound devices..."
3/2/2008 12:16:29 AM
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC1 Released
The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here.
3/1/2008 8:19:56 PM
Amazon MP3 Downloader now for Linux
Amazon MP3 Downloader now for LinuxAmazon MP3 is one of the most formidable rivals to the Apple iTunes service in the US market.They have now made available their media downloading application on the Linux platform which further boost the availability of their media on various platforms.Amazon is of course also providing Windows and Mac versions [...]
3/1/2008 12:46:45 PM
Kontron SBCs support Linux
Kontron has introduced a trio of single board computers (SBCs) that run Linux. The "PM" boards are based on Intel 852GM chipsets and Celeron/Pentium M processors, and are available in form factors that include PC/104-Plus, EPIC, and JRex.
3/1/2008 10:10:32 AM
As Vista Struggles, Desktop Linux Finds Beachhead
A confluence of events has given Linux a legitimate opening in the desktop PC market, just as Microsoft is struggling to fix Vista's ills.
3/1/2008 7:58:40 AM
Free x86 router distro gains faster routing, Linux-like shell
Vyatta is alpha-testing a major new release of its X86-Linux router distribution for enterprise and Tier-2 network operators. Vyatta Community 4 (VC4) boasts new open source routing protocol implementations, a more Linux-like command-line user interface, and support from a new open source community website.
3/1/2008 5:40:04 AM
The Linux Test project ltp-full-20080229 released
The Linux Test Project test suite has been released for the month of FEBRUARY 2008. The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux OS.
3/1/2008 2:24:47 AM
Industrial PC runs Linux on pico-ITX mainboard
Delock has announced a compact industrial PC built around a Via pico-ITX motherboard. Designed for DIN-rail mounting, the DL-18HD runs Linux on a 1GHz Via C7 processor, supports hard disks up to 300MB, and has an optional quad-band cellular modem, according to the company.
2/29/2008 7:24:48 PM
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