Linux, as we can expect from the linux-comunity, are ready for the EFI system that will substitute the old BIOS system on our (x86) machine. EFI is the boot-system used on the new MacIntel machine, presented from Apple at Jan 10. What it means? It means that we can install and run on EFI-enabled machine every Operating System, also which that does not “understand” EFI (WinXP is the biggest example). Here the home page of elilo, the EFI linux boot loader.
!= This funny article is here: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm. Thanks to KM.
Thanks to Treviño for the howto (in italian). But, for high-speed ubuntu/debian users, click here for the .deb.
Howto in italiano su come abilitare il supporto a Cairo per il tema Clearlooks delle GTK+. Questo tema é il nuovo tema ufficiale di Gnome e devo dire che con il supporto Cairo, tutto funge ancora più velocemente. Qui trovate l’howto.
It’s easy to understand how: WebKit and KHTML use the same core (now they aren’t still together). But, what about Cocoa-Based widgets? :?: From Zack Rusin’s blog: I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It’s in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we’ll merge it to HEAD. I’m planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I’ve spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element)… ...
The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively compiled programs. However, they are not languages that lend themselves to runtime flexibility. Once a C/C++ application is compiled, its code is pretty much static. At times, that can be a real hindrance. For example, if you want to allow users of a program to create plugins easily that extend the application’s functionality, you have to deal with complex dynamic linking issues that can cause no end of headaches. Additionally, your users will have to know C/C++ in order to extend the application, which severely limits the number of people capable of writing extensions. ...
XGL is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL. It is at an early stage in development and a number of important pieces are still missing. Xglx is the only server yet that use this architecture, it requires an already existing X server and is only intended for testing and development. Because of a slow “development process”, Novell decides to migrate the CVS of the Project and to make it private, paying developers to “speed up” the process. ...
In my University the Open Source has not much esteemer: a my good friend make a interesting “analysis” about the usage of OS software to pass an examination. At Neminis.org. I found the gEDA Project for Electronic Design Automation: I love you Nemo :D. It does not run on my IceBook :(.
Via OSSBlog.
Callware VoiceOne is a web-app with an user-friendly look&feel about the management of PBX based on Asterisk Realtime Architecture (ARA) platform. With this software, it’s possible to control the internal telephone line of our (:D) company. It’s possible to manage: Internal numbers VoIP Providers Queue and multilevel permissions Automatic responser systems The application is under the Open Source LGP license and require Linux. Actually, 0.1 version is available.