Friday, November 20, 2009

11/21 technology / software linux news stories aggregated by FeedZilla.com




Editor's Note: Do It Yourself ''Cloud'' (source: Linux Today)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Last week I wrote "Cloud is Just Another Word for "Sucker". My objections to buying into this whole "cloud" services fad are three-fold: trust, reliability, and performance. But why not do-it-yourself? Linux has everything you need. (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions (source: Linux Today)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Ghacks: "The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are V... (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 3) - Storage (source: Linux Today)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Kernel Log: "The kernel development team have enhanced various aspects of Btrfs, one effect of which is to significantly improve the experimental file system's write performance." (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

TV Mythos Renewed: MythTV 0.22 with Many Improvements (source: Linux Today)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Linux Magazine: "The MythTV hard disk recorder software is available in a new version that is based on Qt4 and supports new hardware and the VDPAU decoder." (source: Linux Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Enhancing openSUSE 11.2: Adding Repositories and Packages (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Linux.com: "So you've got that shiny new openSUSE 11.2 system up and running. Now what? The default repositories have plenty of software, but there's much more for openSUSE in community and semi-official repositories that you might find useful." (source: Internetnews) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

A Northwest Nobel option? (Linus for the Nobel Peace prize) (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Ridenbaugh Press/Northwest: "It would be fitting to honor that international effort by giving a Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds, perhaps in 2011 on the 20th anniversary of the August 1991 Linux announcement, or in 2012 on the 50th anniversary of Pauling's aw... (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Cloud Computing Security Benefits, Risks and Recommendations (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Help Net Security: "ENISA's report is the first to take an independent, in-depth look at all the security and privacy issues of moving into the cloud, outlining some of the information security benefits of cloud computing, as well as 35 key security risks.... (source: Internetnews) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Keeping score in test-driven development with Python, PyLint, unittest, doctest, (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Free Software Magazine: "Programming is more fun when you keep score. The extreme programming (XP) development model popularized the idea of test-driven development (TDD) with professional programmers in mind. But TDD turns out to be even more useful for l... (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 12 (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 7:11 am

LWN.net: "We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like yo... (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

What Applications Should be in the Standard Installation? (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 7:11 am

I Been to Ubuntu: "You may have heard that GIMP and F-Spot aren't safe for inclusion in 10.04. 700MB isn't much space to work with Why not question all the applications in Ubuntu, then? What should be in the default installation?" (source: Internetnews) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Linux Kernel Recompilation: Is it Worth the Pain? (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 7:11 am

PCLinuxOS: "Except for some really weird situations, modern Linux distributions don't really need kernel recompilation. Here are the reasons:" (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Linux Bug #1: Bad Documentation (part 2) (source: Internetnews)
November 20, 2009 at 7:11 am

LinuxPlanet: "In Part 1 I talked about the messy state of Linux documentation, and how telling users to rely on Google is not documentation. Good documentation is equally important as good code. Today we look at the different types of documentation, from m... (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Google Spills Chrome OS' Guts (source: LinuxInsider)
November 20, 2009 at 2:24 am

Google on Thursday opened the source code for its fledgling Chrome operating system to developers. This means "Google developers will be working on the same tree as external developers, and we're looking forward to working with the open source community," ... (source: LinuxInsider) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Haiku OS Alpha 1 Screenshots (source: Linux Today)
November 19, 2009 at 7:03 pm

Nuxified: "As you may or may not know Haiku OS Alpha 1 was recently released. It is a full featured and improved clone of the old BeOS. OSNews has a nice review starting with a bit of history." (source: Linux Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Ubuntu's Canonical and Google partner to create Chrome (source: Linux Today)
November 19, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Cyber Cynic: "Some people may see Google's Chrome operating system as competing with existing Linux desktop distributions. Canonical, the company behind popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, isn't one of them. They're working with Google to make Chrome." (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Liveblog: Google Chrome operating system arrives (source: Linux Today)
November 19, 2009 at 6:33 pm

Computerworld: "Today, November 19th, we're finally going to get a good look at Google's Chrome desktop operating system. Join me as I give a live overview." (source: Linux Today) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

What Does a User Cost? (source: Linux Today)
November 19, 2009 at 6:03 pm

OStatic: "Godin writes today about embracing the "lifetime value" of a customer. Open source projects may not have customers, but it pays to think about the lifetime value of users as well." (source: Linux Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Wiring California with Bob Evans and the Fiber Internet Center (source: linux.sys-con.com)
November 19, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Bob Evans always has ideas. Ideas to make his work, and the work of others, more useful and efficient, as well as easier. We first met Bob when he asked if it was "OK" he develop a route server for our young Internet Exchange Point (Any2 Exchange), which w... (source: linux.sys-con.com) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

CA Simplifies Mainframe Ownership (source: linux.sys-con.com)
November 19, 2009 at 3:45 pm

CA announced the integration of CA Endevor Software Change Manager (CA Endevor SCM), CA's change management solution, and IBM's Rational Developer for System z (RDz) V7.6, the IBM Rational mainframe development environment. This new integration is designe... (source: linux.sys-con.com) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

DocuSign CRM Now Available on Salesforce.com AppExchange (source: linux.sys-con.com)
November 19, 2009 at 2:45 pm

DocuSign is the seamless eSignature solution allowing Salesforce CRM users to quickly manage and send contracts for e-signing from a single workspace. Contracts can be conveniently signed in the cloud and returned within minutes. The contract signing proce... (source: linux.sys-con.com) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com


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