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VIA Releases 16K-Line FOSS Framebuffer Driver
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billybob2 writes "VIA has released 16,434 Lines Of Free & Open Source code that enables Linux natively to use the framebuffer on VIA's graphics chipsets. This comes a month after VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and documentation on its Web site so that its hardware will work out of the box with Linux distributions. This gives VIA-powered systems that come pre-installed with Linux — such as the gPC, 15.4" gBook, CloudBook, and Zonbu — the ability to output graphics through digital connections such as HDMI, and probably makes them the best-supported framebuffers Linux has ever had. Look forward to documentation and X.org drivers from VIA as well in the near future."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1736250&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/11/1736250"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1736250&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=77lKyh"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=77lKyh" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/288250824" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2008-05-11T20:41:00+00:00graphicscan-only-get-better-from-heretech126126,118,98,78,35,25,17http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1736250&from=rssHow the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level
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An anonymous reader brings us IBM Developerworks' recent analysis of how the NSA built SELinux to withstand attacks. The article shows us some of the relevant kernel architecture and compares SELinux to a few other approaches. We've discussed SELinux in the past. Quoting: "If you have a program that responds to socket requests but doesn't need to access the file system, then that program should be able to listen on a given socket but not have access to the file system. That way, if the program is exploited in some way, its access is explicitly minimized. This type of control is called mandatory access control (MAC). Another approach to controlling access is role-based access control (RBAC). In RBAC, permissions are provided based on roles that are granted by the security system. The concept of a role differs from that of a traditional group in that a group represents one or more users. A role can represent multiple users, but it also represents the permissions that a set of users can perform. SELinux adds both MAC and RBAC to the GNU/Linux operating system."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1524236&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/11/1524236"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1524236&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=VuVNV6"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=VuVNV6" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/288130487" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2008-05-11T16:08:00+00:00securitynot-by-beating-the-end-boss-of-the-previous-levellinux142142,137,106,88,32,20,17http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1524236&from=rssMicrosoft Decides To Take On Linux On Low-Cost PCs
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e5rebel writes "Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs. It is an effort to stop Linux dominating this market but Microsoft is insisting on limiting the hardware specs of these devices."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/1310230&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/10/1310230"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/1310230&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=1bCyJm"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=1bCyJm" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/287556137" height="1" width="1"/>CmdrTaco2008-05-10T15:49:00+00:00microsoftbecause-they-canlinux329329,325,264,215,74,48,33http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/1310230&from=rssFirst Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released
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moronikos writes to mention that the first release candidate of Wine 1.0 was announced and released into the wild today. This new version includes only bug fixes as the team is in a code freeze while pushing for the full 1.0 release.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/0427234&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/10/0427234"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/0427234&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=QVXZVR"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=QVXZVR" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/287362764" height="1" width="1"/>ScuttleMonkey2008-05-10T07:31:00+00:00winecome-a-long-waystech269269,264,233,178,74,51,40http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/0427234&from=rssIn Australia, XP Cheaper Than Linux On Eee 900
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KrispyDollars writes "It sounds crazy to say this, but the XP-based version of the Eee PC 900 (the new version with the 8.9" screen) will actually be considerably cheaper than the Linux-based version. At the official launch today, the company told journalists that 'Microsoft has been a longstanding supporter of Asus' to explain the price discrepancy. And — get this — only the XP-based machine will be sold at mass-market retailers, while the Linux-based model will be consigned to computer stores."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/1247238&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/08/1247238"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/1247238&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=gqz6vi"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=gqz6vi" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/286107577" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-08T13:55:00+00:00portablesmoney-changes-everythinghardware318318,307,259,200,68,46,29http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/1247238&from=rssHow To Perform a Bare-Metal Backup On Linux LVM
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perlow writes "Using the free System Rescue CD you can perform bare-metal backups and restores of many types of computer systems. In this article, ZDNet columnist Jason Perlow explains the multi-step procedure in detail on an LVM-based system."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/07/1831206&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/07/1831206"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/07/1831206&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=eRxeAx"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=eRxeAx" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/285576602" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-07T19:00:00+00:00osyou-may-touch-only-the-heavy-atomstech3434,34,27,25,11,4,0http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/07/1831206&from=rssHow To Move Your Linux Systems To ext4
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LinucksGirl writes "Ext4 is the latest in a long line of Linux file systems, and it's likely to be as important and popular as its predecessors. As a Linux system administrator, you should be aware of the advantages, disadvantages, and basic steps for migrating to ext4. This article explains when to adopt ext4, how to adapt traditional file system maintenance tool usage to ext4, and how to get the most out of the file system."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/1650257&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/06/1650257"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/1650257&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=0sLnwf"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=0sLnwf" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/284816194" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-06T17:32:00+00:00storageor-you-could-guesslinux302302,301,258,211,70,42,30http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/1650257&from=rssLinux Desktop Distro Shootout
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An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek has posted an open-source OS comparison. Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared pits openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.4, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1 against each other. And the winner is ... Ubuntu. Author Serdar Yegulalp writes: 'Ubuntu 8.4 remains one of the best desktop distributions for many good reasons: it works with almost any hardware you throw at it, and has tons of features for both existing Linux users and prospective converts from Windows.' He also gave openSUSE points for ease of use on the desktop, and Mandriva kudos for ease of administration."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/1440214&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/05/1440214"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/1440214&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=3pzPmD"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=3pzPmD" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/283997792" height="1" width="1"/>CmdrTaco2008-05-05T14:59:00+00:00osslow-news-daytech378378,364,298,206,64,39,28http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/1440214&from=rssThe Continuing War Against Microsoft's "Facts" Campaign
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davidmwilliams writes "I've been rallying against Microsoft's so-called 'Get the Facts' site for the last fortnight in my blog. Rather than give any legitimate comparison facing off Windows Server vs similarly spec'd Linux options, the Microsoft spin doctors opt for bunkum and hogwash with sensational headlines that don't have any substance underneath. Here's the state of play, including an update on my request to Microsoft PR to do something about the blatant lack of integrity displayed. I also go over the latest case study put up by Microsoft: they promise to show why people are choosing Windows Server 2008 over Linux using the City of Uppsala as an example."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0328237&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/05/0328237"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0328237&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=wsIN2P"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=wsIN2P" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/283772583" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-05T07:31:00+00:00microsoftsometimes-they-come-backlinux315315,302,247,187,77,56,38http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0328237&from=rssSlackware 12.1 Released
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SlackFan writes "Slackware 12.1 has been released, with kernel 2.6.24-5. 'Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll find better support for RAID, LVM, and cryptsetup; a network capable (FTP and HTTP, not only NFS) installer; and two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.4.2, a fast, lightweight, and visually appealing desktop environment, and KDE 3.5.9, the latest 3.x version of the full-featured K Desktop Environment.'"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/2335221&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/02/2335221"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/2335221&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=UaAmQD"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=UaAmQD" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/282521958" height="1" width="1"/>ScuttleMonkey2008-05-03T03:33:00+00:00osold-timerslinux244244,237,172,123,37,21,13http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/2335221&from=rssSCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX"
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eldavojohn writes "Here's a short update on the Novell Vs. SCO case we've been following. Our good friend Darl McBride made some interesting comments in court yesterday. He stated (under oath): 'Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers... We have evidence System V is in Linux... When you go to the bookstore and look in the UNIX section, there's books on "How to Program UNIX" but when you go to the Linux section and look for "How to Program Linux" you're not gonna find it, because it doesn't exist. Linux is a copy of UNIX, there is no difference [between them]." This flies directly in the face of what SCO found in extensive investigations in 2002 and contradicts what SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag had just finished testifying earlier that day (testimony that McBride did not hear)."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1259231&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/02/1259231"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1259231&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=JpiC6O"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=JpiC6O" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/282113445" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2008-05-02T13:39:00+00:00calderacan-you-spell-perjuryyro446446,439,365,271,55,31,12http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1259231&from=rssDarl McBride Takes the Stand In Novell v. SCO
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UnknowingFool writes "Everyone's favorite CEO Darl McBride took the stand on Wednesday April 30 in Novell v. SCO. Chris Brown has posted his account on Groklaw of the 2nd day of trial. The first day's account can be found here. To refresh your memory in this ongoing case, Judge Kimball has already ruled that Novell owns the copyrights to Unix and has practically dismissed all of SCO's claims. This portion of the trial is about Novell's counterclaims that SCO never paid them the money from the Sun and MS deals. What is to be determined in this trial is how much of the money from the deals were for Unix licensing (SVRx) and how much were for SCO's server technology (Unixware)." (Read on for the rest, below.)<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/1856237&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/01/1856237"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/1856237&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=YHlIrk"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=YHlIrk" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/281654173" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-01T19:34:00+00:00calderautah's-own-information-ministeryro138138,136,110,90,10,4,1http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/1856237&from=rssFSF-Approved gNewSense 2.0 Released
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An anonymous reader writes "gNewSense DeltaH (2.0), a second major release of a GNU/Linux distribution with focus on freedom, has just been released. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04 which was released less than week ago. gNewSense is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions listed as free by the GNU Project."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/1153204&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/01/1153204"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/1153204&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=EYfg8a"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=EYfg8a" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/281420950" height="1" width="1"/>timothy2008-05-01T12:08:00+00:00gnuthis-one-is-really-not-unixnews222222,217,186,134,11,4,2http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/1153204&from=rssKDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Released
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Crobain writes "The first alpha release for KDE 4.1 is out, and bugs aside, it looks promising. The KDE Plasma desktop shell now has preliminary support for Mac OS X dashboard widgets and SuperKaramba, and panels can be added and removed via contextual menu items. 'This alpha release marks the start of the 4.1 feature freeze, so virtually all of the remaining developer effort between now and the official 4.1 release in July will focus on bug-fixing, polish, and stability. Despite the current breakage, the actual feature set that has been stubbed out for this release is pretty darn good. If the developers can deliver on all of this functionality and make it stable and robust, version 4.1 will offer a much better overall user experience than 4.0, and Plasma will come close to achieving functional parity with the KDE 3.5.x panel system.' The KDE Techbase wiki has a full list of the features planned for the 4.1 release."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/0441227&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/01/0441227"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/0441227&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=qc4RYD"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=qc4RYD" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/281316121" height="1" width="1"/>ScuttleMonkey2008-05-01T07:31:00+00:00kdestill-a-long-road-to-traveltech186186,177,150,101,11,3,1http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/0441227&from=rssTilera Releases 64-Way Chip Dev Tools
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eldavojohn writes to tell us that Tilera has released a Linux-based development kit for their 64-core system on a chip. "The Tile64 is based on a proprietary VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, on which a MIPS-like RISC architecture is implemented in microcode. A hypervisor enables each core to run its own instance of Linux, or alternatively the whole chip can run Tilera's 64-way SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) Linux implementation. An 'iMesh' switching interconnect, developed by Tilera's founder, MIT professor and serial entrepreneur Dr. Anant Agarwal, is said to eliminate the centralized bus intersection that limited scalability in previous multicore designs."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/0021249&from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/05/01/0021249"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/0021249&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?a=YJMpEZ"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotLinux?i=YJMpEZ" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/281222554" height="1" width="1"/>ScuttleMonkey2008-05-01T03:36:00+00:00hardwareanother-win-for-the-good-guyshardware7272,71,51,36,7,2,2http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/0021249&from=rssSearch SlashdotSearch Slashdot storiesquery
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