After much speculation and debate about Open Source Java, the Javalobby has covered about an annoucement made by Sun during the last JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. This annoucement involves the details of a new “Open Source Distribution Friendly” license called “Distro License for Java“. The DLJ will allow distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo […]
Note: AIGLX and Compiz is so cool. I saw it running on one of my students Ubuntu laptop. I install AIGLX without any problem. I got the break window on minimize to work. However, when I build compiz (and rebuilt Mesa) I was not able get compiz to work properly. So, I stopped it for […]
An Infoworld interview with Sun CTO James Gosling reveals that the Java Source Code is already available.
Sun Microsystems maintains a policy of requiring testing for Java compatibility and already offers a great deal of Java technology in an open source fashion, Gosling said in an interview this week to discuss next week’s JavaOne conference and […]
Vim lovers everywhere in the world must be pleased. Slashdot has this article about the release of a new version of Vi Improved (Vim). I am a big fan of Vi and have been using it since I learned how to use Linux in 1998. After months of development, a new version is finally out. […]
Summer in the US is quickly approaching and so it Google’s Summer of Code project. Here is a short description of the project:
Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of […]
eWeek carries this article on an internal debate raging within Sun about the future of Java. One of the discussions involves the possible open sourcing of Java.
New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source […]
I read an article in Slashdot pointing to an article on Setting up a MySQL Load Balancing Cluster. For the longest time, MySQL has been able to only provide secondary read-only slave clusters. This way writes are only made on one MySQL server. Having a load balancing cluster opens up more possibilities for open source […]
A Slashdot posting lead me to an article from Reuters about Oracle planning to enter the operating system business by buying a Linux vendor.
It said Ellison told the newspaper that Oracle wanted to sell a full range of software that, like Microsoft, included both operating system and applications.
“I’d like to have a complete stack,” Ellison […]
Kannel is a wonderful piece of open source software that allows easy interfacing with 2G Mobile SMSCs. Here is a patch from Dido Sevilla that would patch Kannel 1.4.0 to support Smart SPCC (Kannel 1.4.0 SPCC Patch). Thanks for the patch Dido.
Here is a SPEC file and a SRPM for Fedora Core 4 (FC4), […]
In this Slashdot article, it mentioned that the Xbox 360 has been hacked. Again. This means that we can finally install other systems and software (including Linux) on it. Again. In the xboxhacker.net forum, there are discussions about the recent hack on the Xbox 360.
Here is a short description of the hack:
A little more about […]
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