MythDora-3.1 Released
This is a bug fix release to MythDora 3.0. This version should correct the mythbackend issue that some were having as well as an Nvidia bad colors display in mythtvsetup.
MythDora-3.1…
Hans Reiser Laughs During Court Proceedings
Oakland computer programmer Hans Reiser repeatedly laughed in court and whispered in his lawyer's ear today as prosecutors presented circumstantial evidence aimed at proving that he murdered his…
The future of RPM
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM -- its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous…
Binary Drivers May Be Banned
Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be working on a kernel patch which will only allow drivers licensed under the GPL to be loaded into the kernel - at least, that’s what he said in passing in a longer…
Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates
If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's…
ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 8.32.5 Released
A new version of the ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver has been released. The driver may install on a number of Linux distributions. Refer to the Package Generation installation…
Bringing Democracy to America with FOSS
I propose we start the OVPC (One Voting-machine Per Country) project. Instead of the hodge-podge of machines and software used across the country to conduct elections, let's standardize on one…
MySQL did NOT actually drop Debian
In relation to yesterdays story 'MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux', it appears that Debain IS supported.
Linux radio suite powers independent broadcasters
Community radio stations in Sierra Leone and in other emerging democracies may well soon be powered by Campcaster 1.1, free and open source software that turns a PC running the free Linux…
Liferay Unveils Liferay Portal 4.2
Liferay today announced the release of Liferay Portal 4.2. The latest version offers added back-end enhancements to workflow and content management via integration with ServiceMix JBI, jBPM…