Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week Mar 10 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Asterisk 1.4.1 Released
- FSF Urges Computer Makers To Replace…
SNORT prepares for IPO
Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., a leader in network intrusion prevention, announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,770,000 shares of its common…
Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing
An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues.
Developers working on the Higgins…
Xbox360 Linux-PPC Kernel 2.6.20 Diff-Patches - Linux Loader Coming Soon
Felix Domke, known from the GameCube homebrew scene and the 'Console Hacking 2006' & 'Xbox and Xbox 360 Hacking' presentations at 23/22C3 posted diff-style kernel patches on ozlabs' linuxppc-…
LinuxBIOS with X11 server completely in flash ROM
Now, this is one cool project (and video) from Alan Carvalho de Assis, as announced on the LinuxBIOS mailing list: LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside (YouTube video).
LinuxBIOS with X11 server…
Management 'scared' by open source
EclipseCon Fear is stalking the corridors of corporate power, as executives sweat over the legal exposure caused by developers using open source software.
And the suits are resorting to…
Where are the Linux admins?
In the battle to spread the use of GNU/Linux, it is often forgotten that education has to be the starting point. People need to be educated to the point where they come to demand decent behavior…
Open source becomes political wedge issue
Last year, in Massachusetts, we saw open source being used as a political football. But the underlying issue in that case was technological, the state's adoption of ODF as a standard format.
…City of San Francisco Plots its Urban Forest Using Open Source Mapping Technology
The City and County of San Francisco today announced the development and launch of a
city-wide, dynamic online map of the city's growing number of trees. Autodesk, Inc. , through the Mayor's…
Metisse — you thought you knew what 3D was?
On Tuesday, January 25th Mandriva introduced a new project: Metisse LiveCD. In this article we are going to investigate the features offered by this promising project and see if Metisse can…