http://linux.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-09T10:40:33+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://linux.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/9eSDM16ymq8/MythTV-022-Released uyguremre writes "After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV announced that MythTV 0.22 is now available. There have been a lot of large changes since 0.21, including a port from Qt v3 to Qt v4 and a major UI rewrite to convert to MythTV's new MythUI user interface libary. As always, this release adds support for some new hardware, in this case VDPAU video acceleration, DVB-S2, and the Hauppauge HD-PVR. The MythUI toolkit allows themes much greater control over the user interface and today we're announcing a competition to design new themes for MythTV. With the new release comes a theming competition too. For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/035228/MythTV-022-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/09/035228"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/035228/MythTV-022-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CEaPC-IbAYOqhjPnwR_9cSvmrRw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CEaPC-IbAYOqhjPnwR_9cSvmrRw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CEaPC-IbAYOqhjPnwR_9cSvmrRw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CEaPC-IbAYOqhjPnwR_9cSvmrRw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/9eSDM16ymq8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-09T03:33:00+00:00 media excess-of-caution news 134 134,128,89,70,28,14,7 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/035228/MythTV-022-Released?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/0s5zDQY2uPA/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube An anonymous reader writes "Instead of spending the next 10 years trying to find a Flash implementation for Linux or OS X that doesn't drain CPU cycles like there's no tomorrow, NeoSmart Technologies has made an HTML5 viewer for YouTube videos. It loads YouTube videos in an HTML5 video container and streams (with skip/skim/pause/resume) against an MP4 resource, and an (optional) userscript file can update YouTube pages with the HTML5 viewer. The latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are supported. Personally, I can't wait until the major video sites default to HTML5 and we can finally say goodbye to Flash."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/193209/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/193209"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/193209/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LTS_CadFCSVm4hXeiViFVwV1fMM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LTS_CadFCSVm4hXeiViFVwV1fMM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LTS_CadFCSVm4hXeiViFVwV1fMM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LTS_CadFCSVm4hXeiViFVwV1fMM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/0s5zDQY2uPA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-08T19:32:00+00:00 media that-taste-great-together news 290 290,288,227,175,42,23,14 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/193209/Tired-of-Flash-HTML5-Viewer-For-YouTube?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/eqZ7U1Ftct0/How-Google-Uses-Linux postfail writes 'lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features.'<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/07/2013246"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jMrf9m7sctiMlIKJQNBaDqhxNcM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jMrf9m7sctiMlIKJQNBaDqhxNcM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jMrf9m7sctiMlIKJQNBaDqhxNcM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jMrf9m7sctiMlIKJQNBaDqhxNcM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/eqZ7U1Ftct0" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-07T20:39:00+00:00 google rebasing-not-freebasing linux 143 143,134,111,87,35,27,16 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/07/2013246/How-Google-Uses-Linux?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/dwDsJqXph6k/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners Riskable writes "Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI? Today Ubiquiti posted the winning entries to their support wiki. The grand prize was a tie between PyCI (written by yours truly) and NETSHe with OpenNET as the runner up. Source code and firmware images for each entry are available for download on their respective wiki pages. I'll be setting up a project page for PyCI (and l2sh) soon to make it a participatory open source product. Even if you don't have a RouterStation, or don't care about OpenWRT, there are numerous Python modules and tools inside of PyCI that could prove useful to other open source projects (e.g. iptables.py can read/interpret over 400 permutations of the iptables command). I'll also be checking the comments if anyone has any questions for me about PyCI or the contest in general. BTW: I'd like to thank all the commenters in the original article that insinuated that the technical requirements were impossible and/or that making a GUI to configure such complex things is a waste of time. I read every one and I wouldn't have made it such an obsession otherwise!"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/06/0030256"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CrhkVFaGtTZh6EJjsyj1boBfZYA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CrhkVFaGtTZh6EJjsyj1boBfZYA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CrhkVFaGtTZh6EJjsyj1boBfZYA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CrhkVFaGtTZh6EJjsyj1boBfZYA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/dwDsJqXph6k" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-06T02:29:00+00:00 gui congratulations-to-you technology 86 86,78,61,48,18,12,7 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/0030256/Ubiquiti-Announces-RouterStation-Challenge-Winners?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/orxab2y3jqM/Ryan-Gordon-Ends-FatELF-Universal-Binary-Effort recoiledsnake writes "A few years after the Con Kolivas fiasco, the FatELF project to implement the 'universal binaries' feature for Linux that allows a single binary file to run on multiple hardware platforms has been grounded. Ryan C. Gordon, who has ported a number of popular games and game servers to Linux, has this to say: 'It looks like the Linux kernel maintainers are frowning on the FatELF patches. Some got the idea and disagreed, some didn't seem to hear what I was saying, and some showed up just to be rude.' The launch of the project was recently discussed here. The FatELF project page and FAQ are still up."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/1735225/Ryan-Gordon-Ends-FatELF-Universal-Binary-Effort?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/1735225"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/1735225/Ryan-Gordon-Ends-FatELF-Universal-Binary-Effort?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z48Hn4gvWghj7folm7vje9At8F4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z48Hn4gvWghj7folm7vje9At8F4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z48Hn4gvWghj7folm7vje9At8F4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Z48Hn4gvWghj7folm7vje9At8F4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/orxab2y3jqM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-05T18:30:00+00:00 software that-was-quick linux 546 546,536,438,351,58,37,21 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/1735225/Ryan-Gordon-Ends-FatELF-Universal-Binary-Effort?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/4eN7SpYr4Kk/Mandriva-Linux-2010-Is-Finally-Out ennael writes "We finally did it. Mandriva Linux 2010 is out and comes with many improvements and innovations. We still go on supporting in the same level of integration GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2. Support for netbooks is improved as users can now easily test Moblin 2.0 environment. 'Smart desktop' coming from European research is now fully integrated and is the first real working semantic desktop. Mandriva Control Center also brings improvements in tools: a new netprofile management tool, a GUI for Tomoyo security framework, and parental control. A big thanks to our community, who worked hard and made this release possible."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/0113247/Mandriva-Linux-2010-Is-Finally-Out?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/0113247"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/0113247/Mandriva-Linux-2010-Is-Finally-Out?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xV-17QeB6bzNFjtUdoOFniX0g-k/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xV-17QeB6bzNFjtUdoOFniX0g-k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xV-17QeB6bzNFjtUdoOFniX0g-k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xV-17QeB6bzNFjtUdoOFniX0g-k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/4eN7SpYr4Kk" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-11-05T06:00:00+00:00 mandriva get-it-while-it's-hot linux 266 266,258,208,160,50,28,17 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/0113247/Mandriva-Linux-2010-Is-Finally-Out?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/ZRm24waEYXc/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum remolacha writes "I've been given the task of tech chief for a biggish art museum (1,300 m^2, or about 13,000 sq ft) in Spain. The museum's designers want 20 'terminals' that will offer on-demand video and interactive content. The terminals' content will change with the exhibits; many will have touchscreens. More interesting forms of input are planned as well (floor sensors, big buttons). It's all on one floor, and the floors are raised, so I can run cabling and set up floor ethernet jacks. Max cable run is 60m / 190ft. The museum may expand to 4 times its projected size once open, by comandeering other floors in the building. To give an idea of where the designers heads are, they were talking about a massive DVD changer in a closet somewhere. I am thinking an intranet running a web server with a CMS and Flash media server, terminals running Firefox in kiosk mode. I'd love to do everything on Linux. Does anyone have experience with a setup like this, better ideas, or advice?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2236220/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/04/2236220"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2236220/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ar7v81ypCy_9lxiM0fQx4mJ2Db8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ar7v81ypCy_9lxiM0fQx4mJ2Db8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ar7v81ypCy_9lxiM0fQx4mJ2Db8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ar7v81ypCy_9lxiM0fQx4mJ2Db8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/ZRm24waEYXc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-04T22:55:00+00:00 displays free-reign-in-spain askslashdot 131 131,129,90,56,21,11,5 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/2236220/On-Demand-Video--CMS--Interactive-Input-For-Museum?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/m3OPDPF3wUA/New-Web-Based-Netbook-From-Litl-mdash-Based-On-Clutter-Uncluttered cananian writes "The webbook company of Gnome's own Havoc Pennington (with a healthy dose of ex-Nokia and ex-OLPC engineers) finally shed its secrecy today, with a new web site and an article in the WSJ. Technical specs on the hardware were found by Engadget last week, and now comes a bit more information on the software behind the UI. Most of the client software is written in JavaScript with GTK/Clutter bindings, and the UI has some superficial similarities to Pentagram's designs for OLPC's Sugar."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/211204/New-Web-Based-Netbook-From-Litl-mdash-Based-On-Clutter-Uncluttered?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/04/211204"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/211204/New-Web-Based-Netbook-From-Litl-mdash-Based-On-Clutter-Uncluttered?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h5irEtlM9wQv85MiWPEPwiUEHkA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h5irEtlM9wQv85MiWPEPwiUEHkA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h5irEtlM9wQv85MiWPEPwiUEHkA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h5irEtlM9wQv85MiWPEPwiUEHkA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/m3OPDPF3wUA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-04T21:24:00+00:00 portables looks-nifty-will-it-ship? mobile 108 108,106,94,72,20,9,6 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/211204/New-Web-Based-Netbook-From-Litl-mdash-Based-On-Clutter-Uncluttered?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/w_PiMd5K1dM/Bug-In-Most-Linuxes-Can-Give-Untrusted-Users-Root Red Midnight and other readers brought to our attention a bug in most deployed versions of Linux that could result in untrusted users getting root access. The bug was found by Brad Spengler last month. "The null pointer dereference flaw was only fixed in the upcoming 2.6.32 release candidate of the Linux kernel, making virtually all production versions in use at the moment vulnerable. While attacks can be prevented by implementing a common feature known as mmap_min_addr, the RHEL distribution... doesn't properly implement that protection... The... bug is mitigated by default on most Linux distributions, thanks to their correct implementation of the mmap_min_addr feature. ... [Spengler] said many other Linux users are also vulnerable because they run older versions or are forced to turn off [mmap_min_addr] to run certain types of applications." The register reprints a dialog from the OpenBSD-misc mailing list in which Theo De Raadt says, "For the record, this particular problem was resolved in OpenBSD a while back, in 2008. We are not super proud of the solution, but it is what seems best faced with a stupid Intel architectural choice. However, it seems that everyone else is slowly coming around to the same solution."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/0320254/Bug-In-Most-Linuxes-Can-Give-Untrusted-Users-Root?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/04/0320254"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/0320254/Bug-In-Most-Linuxes-Can-Give-Untrusted-Users-Root?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L-Dkaio8aj_TU88d7dXIX98qwRQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L-Dkaio8aj_TU88d7dXIX98qwRQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L-Dkaio8aj_TU88d7dXIX98qwRQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/L-Dkaio8aj_TU88d7dXIX98qwRQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/w_PiMd5K1dM" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-04T13:51:00+00:00 security patchin'-place linux 280 280,273,212,175,51,26,18 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/04/0320254/Bug-In-Most-Linuxes-Can-Give-Untrusted-Users-Root?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/0AXp_b1gX7Y/Some-Early-Adopters-Stung-By-Ubuntus-Karmic-Koala Norsefire writes to mention a Register piece reporting that early adopters are having a tough time with Karmic Koala, Ubuntu's latest release. "Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Ubuntu forums." What has been your experience if you've moved to Karmic?<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/2211231/Some-Early-Adopters-Stung-By-Ubuntus-Karmic-Koala?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/03/2211231"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/2211231/Some-Early-Adopters-Stung-By-Ubuntus-Karmic-Koala?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LueNf7jd48Z0ik71Kgb2YNe8dkQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LueNf7jd48Z0ik71Kgb2YNe8dkQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LueNf7jd48Z0ik71Kgb2YNe8dkQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LueNf7jd48Z0ik71Kgb2YNe8dkQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/0AXp_b1gX7Y" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-03T22:29:00+00:00 upgrades arrows-in-back linux 1218 1218,1206,894,554,104,63,28 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/2211231/Some-Early-Adopters-Stung-By-Ubuntus-Karmic-Koala?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/7drQTopBfH0/Skype-For-Linux-To-Be-Open-Sourced-In-the-Nearest-Future rysiek writes "Seems like there might be a revolution in the works, as far as VoIP software for Linux is concerned. After mailing Skype support about Skype providing Mandriva RPM packages, Olivier Faurax got an answer which suggests that the Linux Skype client will be open-sourced. After asking for verification of whether that was the case, the tech support answer claimed it is going to happen, and that it's supposed to happen 'in the nearest future.' Now, this probably only means the client (the underlying protocol will probably be handled by a binary-only library), but even if that's the case, it seems like there is still reason to celebrate."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/1353245/Skype-For-Linux-To-Be-Open-Sourced-In-the-Nearest-Future?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/02/1353245"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/1353245/Skype-For-Linux-To-Be-Open-Sourced-In-the-Nearest-Future?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XiwDeamKoZXu1JKgnNsUkfPah68/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XiwDeamKoZXu1JKgnNsUkfPah68/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XiwDeamKoZXu1JKgnNsUkfPah68/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XiwDeamKoZXu1JKgnNsUkfPah68/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/7drQTopBfH0" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-02T14:39:00+00:00 communications more-or-less linux 175 175,168,145,115,34,19,11 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/1353245/Skype-For-Linux-To-Be-Open-Sourced-In-the-Nearest-Future?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/-YrbQ27rIK0/Installing-Linux-On-Old-Hardware cptdondo writes "I've got an old laptop that I've been trying to resurrect. It has a 486MHz CPU, 28 MB of RAM, a 720 MB HD, a 1.44MB floppy drive, and 640x480 VESA video. It does not have a CD drive, USB port, or a network port. It has PCMCIA, and I have a network card for that. My goal is to get a minimal GUI that lets me run a basic browser like Dillo and open a couple of xterms. I've spent the last few days trying to find a Linux distro that will work on that machine. I've done a lot of work on OpenWRT, so naturally I though that would work, but X appears to be broken in the recent builds &mdash; I can't get the keyboard to work. (OK, not surprising; OpenWRT is made to run on WiFi Access Point hardware which doesn't have a keyboard...) All of the 'mini' distros come as a live CD; useless on a machine without a CD-ROM. Ditto for the USB images. I'm also finding that the definition of a 'mini' distro has gotten to the point of 'It fits on a 3GB partition and needs 128 MB RAM to run.' Has Linux really become that bloated? Do we really need 2.2 GB of cruft to bring up a simple X session? Is there a distro that provides direct ext2 images instead of live CDs?"<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/2126252/Installing-Linux-On-Old-Hardware?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/30/2126252"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/2126252/Installing-Linux-On-Old-Hardware?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JVtjaDFFJZGBS2d7P3mP-9Aq2H8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JVtjaDFFJZGBS2d7P3mP-9Aq2H8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JVtjaDFFJZGBS2d7P3mP-9Aq2H8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JVtjaDFFJZGBS2d7P3mP-9Aq2H8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/-YrbQ27rIK0" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-10-30T22:18:00+00:00 linux where-are-those-old-telegraph-drivers askslashdot 507 507,500,362,257,62,32,22 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/2126252/Installing-Linux-On-Old-Hardware?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/UzLWM66e38s/Ubuntu-910-Officially-Released palegray.net writes "The latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released. Offering numerous enhancements for both desktop and server environments, this release includes notable features like Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubuntu One 'personal cloud,' and Linux kernel version 2.6.31. Please be sure to use a release mirror close to your geographic location to help reduce the stress on Ubuntu's primary servers; using BitTorrent for downloads can help alleviate the load even more. If your organization has adequate network and server resources, please consider hosting a mirror as well."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/128205/Ubuntu-910-Officially-Released?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/29/128205"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/128205/Ubuntu-910-Officially-Released?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lKx9RdGECRG1NOpLhOYlxhENCw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lKx9RdGECRG1NOpLhOYlxhENCw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lKx9RdGECRG1NOpLhOYlxhENCw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/7lKx9RdGECRG1NOpLhOYlxhENCw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/UzLWM66e38s" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-10-29T13:27:00+00:00 linux get-it-while-it's-hot linux 744 744,735,580,433,87,48,29 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/128205/Ubuntu-910-Officially-Released?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/EiaM0xguIaY/New-DoD-Memo-On-Open-Source-Software dwheeler writes "The US Department of Defense has just released a new official memo on open source software: 'Clarifying Guidance Regarding Open Source Software (OSS).' (The memo should be up shortly on this DoD site.) This memo is important for anyone who works with the DoD, including contractors, on software and systems that include software; it may influence many other organizations as well. The DoD had released a memo back in 2003, but 'misconceptions and misinterpretations... have hampered effective DoD use and development of OSS.' The new memo tries to counter those misconceptions and misinterpretations, and is very positive about OSS. In particular, it lists a number of potential advantages of OSS, and recommends that in certain cases the DoD release software as OSS."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/2115243/New-DoD-Memo-On-Open-Source-Software?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/27/2115243"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/2115243/New-DoD-Memo-On-Open-Source-Software?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xmwVC_OtLMpWDZkQwX66A_AfYc4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xmwVC_OtLMpWDZkQwX66A_AfYc4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xmwVC_OtLMpWDZkQwX66A_AfYc4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xmwVC_OtLMpWDZkQwX66A_AfYc4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/EiaM0xguIaY" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-10-27T22:55:00+00:00 military rules-of-engagement linux 146 146,142,114,80,39,23,17 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/2115243/New-DoD-Memo-On-Open-Source-Software?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/h1k0rnpLfkc/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android An anonymous reader writes "Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one? Is the issue as mundane as choosing your favorite desktop distribution, or is there a more significant difference? This article compares the two from an end user and developer perspective, emphasizing root access and ease of sharing code."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/27/1335227"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/behdaCCUsRUOce6PoAXWvzUFqXc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/behdaCCUsRUOce6PoAXWvzUFqXc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/behdaCCUsRUOce6PoAXWvzUFqXc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/behdaCCUsRUOce6PoAXWvzUFqXc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/h1k0rnpLfkc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-10-27T13:49:00+00:00 handheld they-canna-take-our linux 244 244,239,199,157,44,28,17 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/27/1335227/Comparing-the-Freedoms-Offered-By-Maemo-and-Android?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://linux.slashdot.org/search.pl