http://linux.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-07-06T21:50:28+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://linux.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/g2eKMHReMto/Nokias-Maemo-Switching-To-Qt suka writes "During a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Nokia's Quim Gil announced that a future release of Maemo is going to be built around Qt. Maemo Harmattan is going to switch away from GTK+ / Hildon, derStandard.at reports from the conference." Michael Pyne also writes with a post describing day one of the conference from a KDE perspective.<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/04/2155209/Nokias-Maemo-Switching-To-Qt?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/04/2155209"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/04/2155209/Nokias-Maemo-Switching-To-Qt?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Rx3y3Q9BpaujnNUJlspZKNCot8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Rx3y3Q9BpaujnNUJlspZKNCot8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Rx3y3Q9BpaujnNUJlspZKNCot8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Rx3y3Q9BpaujnNUJlspZKNCot8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/g2eKMHReMto" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-04T22:50:00+00:00 gui on-the-qt-but-not-very-hush-hush tech 174 174,167,129,102,34,18,9 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/04/2155209/Nokias-Maemo-Switching-To-Qt?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/cksZnyegr_w/Emulated-PC-Enables-Linux-Desktop-In-Your-Browser Ianopolous writes "Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser! The latest JPC, the fast 100% Java x86 PC emulator, is now available with online demos and downloads. JPC is open source and is the most secure way of running x86 software ever &mdash; 2 layers (applet sandbox, JPC sandbox) of independently validated security make it the world's most secure means of isolating x86 software. Visit the website to try out some classic games and play around with Linux all within your web browser. Refresh = reboot!"<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1248246/Emulated-PC-Enables-Linux-Desktop-In-Your-Browser?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/03/1248246"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1248246/Emulated-PC-Enables-Linux-Desktop-In-Your-Browser?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QgdahTIu8WHxGQK8uTjGV7-S04w/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QgdahTIu8WHxGQK8uTjGV7-S04w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QgdahTIu8WHxGQK8uTjGV7-S04w/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QgdahTIu8WHxGQK8uTjGV7-S04w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/cksZnyegr_w" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-03T13:50:00+00:00 software right-where-you-need-a-pc-is-on-your-computer tech 156 156,155,134,94,41,30,18 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1248246/Emulated-PC-Enables-Linux-Desktop-In-Your-Browser?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/TthJXy9XRQo/Linux-Patch-Clears-the-Air-For-Use-of-Microsofts-FAT-Filesystem Ars Technica is reporting that a new kernel patch may provide a workaround to allow use of Microsoft's FAT file system on Linux without paying licensing fees. "Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers behind the Samba project, published a patch last week that will alter the behavior of the Linux FAT implementation so that it will not generate both short and long filenames. In situations where the total filename fits within the 11-character limit, the filesystem will generate only a short name. When the filename exceeds that length, it will only generate a long name and will populate the short name value with 11 invalid characters so that it is ignored by the operating system."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/1317229/Linux-Patch-Clears-the-Air-For-Use-of-Microsofts-FAT-Filesystem?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/02/1317229"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/1317229/Linux-Patch-Clears-the-Air-For-Use-of-Microsofts-FAT-Filesystem?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQfioaGD2-6lNbx4cCJKRsMUQvk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQfioaGD2-6lNbx4cCJKRsMUQvk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQfioaGD2-6lNbx4cCJKRsMUQvk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQfioaGD2-6lNbx4cCJKRsMUQvk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/TthJXy9XRQo" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-07-02T14:02:00+00:00 microsoft anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better linux 267 267,264,225,175,56,29,22 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/1317229/Linux-Patch-Clears-the-Air-For-Use-of-Microsofts-FAT-Filesystem?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/UGEHSxTh_PM/Jim-Zemlin-Pitches-Linux-App-Stores-For-Telcos angry tapir writes "Mobile carriers may start giving away netbooks for free, and Linux-based application stores could help them profit by doing so, the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin argued at a recent forum in Beijing. 'Selling discounted netbooks to users who buy a mobile data subscription would extend a sales strategy widely used for mobile phones. Carriers often sell phones for below retail price and let a user's subscription fees make up for the loss. AT&amp;T already sells subsidized 3G netbooks in the US, and China Mobile has announced similar plans. Carriers worldwide are likely considering the option, which lets them charge for added services like downloads of music, videos and software, said [analyst Jack Gold]. Those downloads could come from platforms like the iPhone App Store that target mainly mobile phones today. Competition could push netbook prices down as more carriers subsidize them, which would make putting Linux on the laptops an attractive way to cut costs, said Zemlin.'"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/145204/Jim-Zemlin-Pitches-Linux-App-Stores-For-Telcos?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/01/145204"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/145204/Jim-Zemlin-Pitches-Linux-App-Stores-For-Telcos?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sQ-1S8jZYks6UAZW1b1u1FBpebI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sQ-1S8jZYks6UAZW1b1u1FBpebI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sQ-1S8jZYks6UAZW1b1u1FBpebI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sQ-1S8jZYks6UAZW1b1u1FBpebI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/UGEHSxTh_PM" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-07-01T14:52:00+00:00 portables eventually-your-toaster-will-have-an-app-store hardware 83 83,80,69,54,11,4,1 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/145204/Jim-Zemlin-Pitches-Linux-App-Stores-For-Telcos?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/CxnkuoGic0U/Moblin-V20-Beta-For-Netbooks-and-Nettops superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1814235/Moblin-V20-Beta-For-Netbooks-and-Nettops?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/30/1814235"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1814235/Moblin-V20-Beta-For-Netbooks-and-Nettops?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kGdlQFfFAP_G8X0qZaoNBoMyEpo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kGdlQFfFAP_G8X0qZaoNBoMyEpo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kGdlQFfFAP_G8X0qZaoNBoMyEpo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kGdlQFfFAP_G8X0qZaoNBoMyEpo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/CxnkuoGic0U" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-06-30T18:31:00+00:00 os get-your-mobility-on tech 50 50,48,39,28,12,6,3 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1814235/Moblin-V20-Beta-For-Netbooks-and-Nettops?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/fXWxtzyXRv4/EXT4-Btrfs-NILFS2-Performance-Compared An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has published Linux filesystem benchmarks comparing XFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems. This is the first time that the new EXT4 and Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems have been directly compared when it comes to their disk performance though the results may surprise. For the most part, EXT4 came out on top."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1543246/EXT4-Btrfs-NILFS2-Performance-Compared?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/30/1543246"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1543246/EXT4-Btrfs-NILFS2-Performance-Compared?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKJXPn121VsGvmipjvMC1M9zR7Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKJXPn121VsGvmipjvMC1M9zR7Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKJXPn121VsGvmipjvMC1M9zR7Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pKJXPn121VsGvmipjvMC1M9zR7Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/fXWxtzyXRv4" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-30T16:07:00+00:00 storage where-will-you-put-your-bits-next-year? linux 101 101,96,76,58,23,13,10 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1543246/EXT4-Btrfs-NILFS2-Performance-Compared?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/_X1l9CcI0IM/The-State-of-Munichs-Ongoing-Linux-Migration christian.einfeldt writes "The Munich decision to move its 14,000 desktops to Free Open Source Software created a big splash back in 2003 as news circulated of the third-largest German city's defection from Microsoft. When it was announced in 2003, the story garnered coverage even in the US, such as an extensive article in USA Today on-line. Currently, about 60% of desktops are using OpenOffice, with the remaining 40% to be completed by the end of 2009. Firefox and Thunderbird are being used in all of the city's desktop machines. Ten percent of desktops are running the LiMux Debian-based distro, and 80% will be running LiMux by 2012 at the latest. Autonomy was generally considered more important than cost savings, although the LiMux initiative is increasing competition in the IT industry in Munich already. The program has succeeded because the city administration has been careful to reach out to all stakeholders, from managers down to simple end users."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/0344234/The-State-of-Munichs-Ongoing-Linux-Migration?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/28/0344234"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/0344234/The-State-of-Munichs-Ongoing-Linux-Migration?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VE5zFVbUtsH4nzhzXoUYtM4N0xU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VE5zFVbUtsH4nzhzXoUYtM4N0xU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VE5zFVbUtsH4nzhzXoUYtM4N0xU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VE5zFVbUtsH4nzhzXoUYtM4N0xU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/_X1l9CcI0IM" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-28T08:56:00+00:00 linuxbusiness es-geht-immer-noch news 200 200,194,158,128,50,36,24 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/0344234/The-State-of-Munichs-Ongoing-Linux-Migration?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/BcMfez1tpkc/Ksplice-Offers-Rebootless-Updates-For-Ubuntu-Systems sdasher writes "Ksplice has started offering Ksplice Uptrack for Ubuntu Jaunty, a free service that delivers rebootless versions of all the latest Ubuntu kernel security updates. It's currently available for both the 32 and 64-bit generic kernel, and they plan to add support for the virtual and server kernels by the end of the month, according to their FAQ. This makes Ubuntu the first OS that doesn't need to be rebooted for security updates. (We covered Ksplice's underlying technology when it was first announced a year ago.)"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/2238255/Ksplice-Offers-Rebootless-Updates-For-Ubuntu-Systems?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/27/2238255"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/2238255/Ksplice-Offers-Rebootless-Updates-For-Ubuntu-Systems?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KcKYtaAtSLcRavGpF4YJKMjmxY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KcKYtaAtSLcRavGpF4YJKMjmxY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KcKYtaAtSLcRavGpF4YJKMjmxY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8KcKYtaAtSLcRavGpF4YJKMjmxY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/BcMfez1tpkc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-28T05:50:00+00:00 security uptime-preserver linux 211 211,207,173,135,38,18,12 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/2238255/Ksplice-Offers-Rebootless-Updates-For-Ubuntu-Systems?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/LPDo09WjmG4/Richard-Stallman-Says-No-To-Mono twitter writes "There's been a lot of fuss about mono lately. After SCO and MS suing over FAT patents, you would think avoiding anything MS would be a matter of common sense. RMS now steps into the fray to warn against a serious mistake: 'Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. .... This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. ... [writing and using applications in mono] is taking a gratuitous risk.'" Update: 06/27 20:22 GMT by T : Read on below for one Mono-eschewing attempt at getting the (excellent) Tomboy's functionality, via a similar program called Gnote. Update: 06/27 21:07 GMT by T: On the other side of the coin, reader im_thatoneguy writes "Jo Shields, a Mono Developer, has published an article on 'Why Mono Doesn't Suck,' why it is not a threat to FOSS, why it is desirable to developers and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/1759255/Richard-Stallman-Says-No-To-Mono?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/27/1759255"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/1759255/Richard-Stallman-Says-No-To-Mono?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OoggPkWvMl58Ndd_kQjLZ9WxmMY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OoggPkWvMl58Ndd_kQjLZ9WxmMY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OoggPkWvMl58Ndd_kQjLZ9WxmMY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OoggPkWvMl58Ndd_kQjLZ9WxmMY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/LPDo09WjmG4" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-27T18:30:00+00:00 gnu therefore-not-a-monomaniac news 1004 1004,982,781,610,114,58,33 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/1759255/Richard-Stallman-Says-No-To-Mono?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/usKPhbWCKHc/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 Marten writes "It was more than a year ago that Walter Bender left OLPC and started SugarLabs.org. Now, the first version of the new project has been released. Sugar on a Stick is a USB drive that runs on Mac and PC-style hardware. 'The open-source education software developed for the "$100 laptop" can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to give aging PCs and Macs a new interface and custom educational software.' Bender said, 'What we are doing is taking a bunch of old machines that barely run Windows 2000, and turning them into something interesting and useful for essentially zero cost. It becomes a whole new computer running off the USB key; we can breathe new life into millions of decrepit old machines.'"<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/24/1243255"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TEzgwwjTKUOs7wkdZw6uKtouDZY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TEzgwwjTKUOs7wkdZw6uKtouDZY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TEzgwwjTKUOs7wkdZw6uKtouDZY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TEzgwwjTKUOs7wkdZw6uKtouDZY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/usKPhbWCKHc" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-06-24T12:52:00+00:00 education one-easily-lost-usb-stick-per-child news 144 144,141,118,94,30,16,8 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/z1xjdbjjA0M/Predicting-SCOs-Actions-Post-Bankruptcy eldavojohn writes "SCO lost last year and began the bankruptcy filings a long time ago but PJ has some speculative bad news on what they retain through the bankruptcy proceedings. SCO proposes to sell a number of assets to an outfit called UnXis, which PJ characterizes this way: 'It starts to hint that this is more a renaming, taking in some new management who seem to have financial expertise, and SCO keeps skipping along as unXis, with the dangerous litigation spun off safely into a litigation troll.' In their filings SCO says they retain 'their litigation and related claims against International Business Machines Corporation, Novell, Inc., AutoZone Corporation, Red Hat and certain Linux users which are not material customers of UnXis (excluding certain large-scale users of Linux servers) that are claimed to have infringed against UNIX copyrights.' So that's still a possibility they could go after anyone who is a 'certain Linux user.' And what's even worse is that they'll retain a patent for running multiple Java applications on a single Java virtual machine. We may not be out of the SCO litigation woods yet."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/2028252/Predicting-SCOs-Actions-Post-Bankruptcy?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/23/2028252"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/2028252/Predicting-SCOs-Actions-Post-Bankruptcy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJv5iVkoflD95sPXnWZljuI-LSk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJv5iVkoflD95sPXnWZljuI-LSk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJv5iVkoflD95sPXnWZljuI-LSk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJv5iVkoflD95sPXnWZljuI-LSk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/z1xjdbjjA0M" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-06-23T22:29:00+00:00 caldera litigious-doesn't-begin-to-cover-it yro 102 102,99,81,66,35,23,15 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/2028252/Predicting-SCOs-Actions-Post-Bankruptcy?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/5SDOEOlp8Qk/The-Truth-Behind-the-Death-of-Linux-On-the-Netbook eldavojohn writes "Groklaw brings us news of Microsoft holding the smoking gun in regards to the death of Linux on netbooks. You see, the question of Linux on netbooks in Taiwan was put forth to the Taiwan Trade Authority director, who replied, 'In our association we operate as a consortium, like the open source consortium. They want to promote open source and Linux. But if you begin from the PC you are afraid of Microsoft. They try to go to the smart phone or PDA to start again.' It's simple; fear will keep them in line. PJ points out, 'So next time you hear Microsoft bragging that people prefer their software to Linux on netbooks, you'll know better. If they really believed that, they'd let the market speak, on a level playing field. If I say my horse is faster than yours, and you says yours is faster, and we let our horses race around the track, that establishes the point. But if you shoot my horse, that leaves questions in the air. Is your horse really faster? If so, why shoot my horse?'"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/0250205/The-Truth-Behind-the-Death-of-Linux-On-the-Netbook?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/20/0250205"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/0250205/The-Truth-Behind-the-Death-of-Linux-On-the-Netbook?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8dSPsoxeoX4maCqujfcJBLRwBZg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8dSPsoxeoX4maCqujfcJBLRwBZg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8dSPsoxeoX4maCqujfcJBLRwBZg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/8dSPsoxeoX4maCqujfcJBLRwBZg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/5SDOEOlp8Qk" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-06-20T13:19:00+00:00 portables it's-a-horse-analogy hardware 406 406,401,332,272,62,36,30 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/0250205/The-Truth-Behind-the-Death-of-Linux-On-the-Netbook?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/TVYAJAJQXwA/State-of-Sound-Development-On-Linux-Not-So-Sorry-After-All An anonymous reader writes "There have been past claims by Adobe and others that development on Linux is a jungle, particularly with regards to audio. However today, the author of the popular 'The Sorry State of Sound in Linux' has posted a follow up showing Adobe's claims to be FUD, as well as being a good update on where OSS and ALSA are holding today, and why PulseAudio isn't a good idea."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1937210/State-of-Sound-Development-On-Linux-Not-So-Sorry-After-All?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/19/1937210"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1937210/State-of-Sound-Development-On-Linux-Not-So-Sorry-After-All?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2ALUItxVLe0r9IcGdbFIixS3sI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2ALUItxVLe0r9IcGdbFIixS3sI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2ALUItxVLe0r9IcGdbFIixS3sI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/o2ALUItxVLe0r9IcGdbFIixS3sI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/TVYAJAJQXwA" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-06-19T21:44:00+00:00 programming sounds-like-improvement linux 427 427,412,307,225,82,46,35 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1937210/State-of-Sound-Development-On-Linux-Not-So-Sorry-After-All?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/i4FA1i_Gze8/Nvidia-Lauds-Windows-CE-Over-Android-For-Smartbooks ericatcw writes "Google's Android may enjoy the hype, but an increasing number of key industry players say the mobile OS isn't ready for ARM netbooks, aka smartbooks. Nvidia is the most recent to declare Android unfit for duty, stating its preference for Microsoft's Windows CE, which an Nvidia exec praised for having a "low footprint" and being "rock solid." Nvidia is busy optimizing its multimedia-savvy Tegra system-on-chip for Windows CE. Such improvements won't arrive for at least a year to Android, which has an inflexible UI and poor graphics support for devices larger than a smartphone, says Nvidia. Other firms echoing similar criticism include ARM and Asustek."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1848234/Nvidia-Lauds-Windows-CE-Over-Android-For-Smartbooks?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/18/1848234"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1848234/Nvidia-Lauds-Windows-CE-Over-Android-For-Smartbooks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sl9rUc4z_mrE7Y08G2GKcY7hkrk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sl9rUc4z_mrE7Y08G2GKcY7hkrk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sl9rUc4z_mrE7Y08G2GKcY7hkrk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sl9rUc4z_mrE7Y08G2GKcY7hkrk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/i4FA1i_Gze8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-18T19:06:00+00:00 handheld this-is-2009-ce-after-all hardware 263 263,256,211,177,41,20,13 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1848234/Nvidia-Lauds-Windows-CE-Over-Android-For-Smartbooks?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/FLcI5FtQWag/SCO-Springs-a-Prospective-Buyer clemenstimpler sends a link to Groklaw, which has been following the proceedings dealing with the conversion of SCO's bankruptcy to Chapter 7 (i.e., liquidating the company). SCO has announced a prospective buyer. "...SCO has suggested it has a buyer. That doesn't mean it will avoid Chapter 7 of course, nor does it mean that the bankruptcy court will OK the suggested sale. But it likely does mean more delay, which is what this is likely all about. SCO very much wants to wait until the appeals court rules in SCO v. Novell. ... Hearing set for July 16 with backup for July 27. SCO has already moved to make it July 27. combo hearing on convert and sale. Frankly, it would not totally amaze me if the three entities that filed motions to convert were to appeal this. If not, SCO got its desired delay."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2317205/SCO-Springs-a-Prospective-Buyer?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/15/2317205"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2317205/SCO-Springs-a-Prospective-Buyer?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RKznZJtxtwbS_WyVBl5tEMWWdyg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RKznZJtxtwbS_WyVBl5tEMWWdyg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RKznZJtxtwbS_WyVBl5tEMWWdyg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RKznZJtxtwbS_WyVBl5tEMWWdyg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/FLcI5FtQWag" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-06-16T06:34:00+00:00 court from-what-dark-orifice yro 89 89,84,63,53,26,12,8 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2317205/SCO-Springs-a-Prospective-Buyer?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://linux.slashdot.org/search.pl