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Pollycoke, che sta ormai acquistando una certa notorietà in tutta la comunità Italiana (ma non solo), ci parla di una proposta SCONVOLGENTE (in positivo) fatta dalla comunità degli sviluppatori del Kernel ai produttori di hardware: […] the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver developmentAll that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. […] In return, you will receive a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree ...

It’s a new Ubuntu-based distro: it is a “pro-target” Ubuntu, designed for: * photographers * printers * audio editors … and so on. Coming this April… Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. Source, OSSBLog.

Mark Spencer, developer of many Open Source projects like Gaim and, obviously, Asterisk, and founder of Digium, shows us how much simple is to start a PBX with AsteriskNOW!. I spoke about AsteriskNOW here, at the time of its presentation. Source, OSSBlog.

Main changes: 0.3.0) 2006-12-20: Updated the kernel to Linux-2.6.18.5 with Reiser4 Added xorg graphical environment with WindowMaker Added gparted-0.3.3 to replace qtparted Added ntfs3g-beta-20061212 (full NTFS Read/Write) Added graphical editors (gvim, leafpad) Added graphical web browsers (firefox-2.0 and dillo) Updated the file-system tools (parted, e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, …) Updated the system (glibc, clamav, …) Updated the bootdisks I used it a couple of times to fix my linux-box and, in general, my pc. It’s the swift knife of every good admin. The only “fault” of it? The project is growing only on x86: PPC is sucking. ...

Title: LCA Linus Torvalds dunking Abstract: The dunking of Linus Torvalds and other well known Linux personalities raised just over $6000 for Cystic Fibrosis SA (CFSA).

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure Error and warning notification for your code Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions Cross-platform support Free and open source. (Source available soon) Aptana seems to be a very powerfull IDE for Javascript (finally!!!). The biggest features is the Integrated documentation, merged with a “suggestions-system” that indicate standard and non standard tags and attributes (indicating the browser compatibility with icons). A screenshot follows: ...

Leggete un pò cosa é successo ad un utente “non utonto” che ha, come a casa mia, la sua Lan configurata di tutto punto, quando ha deciso di provare Alice Home TV. Da piangere. Meno male che l’Open Source esiste… Circa 2 mesi fa mi contatta un operatore Telecom e mi propone un upgrade della mia linea: dalla 4mb sarei passato ad adls2 a 20mb, conservando lo stesso contratto e fermo restando il prezzo: per 6 mesi, avrei usufruito gratuitamente anche della HomeTv di Alice, che porta la Tv “on demand” direttamente a casa, grazie al modem-router e ad un annesso decoder (sembra un messaggio promozionale :-D ). Accettata l’offerta, è passato 1 mese prima di riuscire a vedere un tecnico, e ben 4 telefonate che mi chiedevano se il tecnico si fosse fatto vivo. Ad un certo punto non nascondo che stavo per dire “ci rinuncio, tenetevi la vostra offerta e lasciatemi la mia stabile 4mb”. … ...

Imagine an Integrated Desktop Search Engine that re-index every work you write, every file you create, every “content”… as you do that things… in a very discreet way. Every developer will thinks it’s a very difficult “mission”, it isn’t? ;) Ok, but take a look here: The GNU/Linux Semantic Storage System (GLS³) is a solution designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of your data. It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. With GLS³, you can organize and retrieve your data based on their semantics, based on What they mean to you, and not based on their hierarchical location. GLS³ is an open source semantic storage solution for GNU/Linux that indexes your data, extracts from it metadata and relevant information, allows you to organize it using queries and tags, an API to allow Developers to integrate searching and organization capabilities in their application, an extensible plugin-based Type System, shared schemas between applications through an API, a pseudo file system for backward compatibility, a web interface, As-You-Type searching and more. I suggest also to take a look to the published demo-videos: these are very interesting and… pregnant! ...

Remember, Unix is a “kind” of Operating System, UNIX is a Registered Trademark: a little bit different :D Unix History Graph Source, Ziobudda.