Opensource

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 ...

I check the Official Google MacBlog regularly and, yeasterday, I read something interest on it: SpotlightFS is a MacFUSE file system that creates true smart folders, where the folders’ contents are dynamically generated by querying Spotlight. This differs from Finder’s version of smart folders, which are really plist files with a “.savedSearch” file extension. Since SpotlightFS smart folders are true folders, they can be used from anywhere—including the command line! SpotlightFS is not very complicated, and it’s a good example of what can quickly and easily be done using MacFUSE. Please check out SpotlightFS and the other cool stuff on the newly updated MacFUSE project site. ...

This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to OpenDocument and HTML. Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Oasis OpenDocument 1.0 which can then be converted to HTML, RSS, or any XML format. The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted to HTML or any XML. This is done with XML Pipelines, an approach that supports XSLT, breaking up content over headings or sections, and saving those results to multiple files (e.g., chapter1.html, chapter2.html…). The result is returned in a .zip file. ...

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.

A new distro-based version of Asterisk, with the aim of make a smart-setup of an Astrisk PBX Server easy and quick. Asterisk® in 30 minutes or less. The most popular open source PBX software, Asterisk®, can now be easily configured with a graphical interface. AsteriskNOW™ is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk®, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk® system. ...

Taking a walk for one of my preferred blogs I found an interesting article from IBM DeveloperWorks: “Get the most out of zsh”. I did’t know this shell until now and, reading the article, I was convinced to give it a try. icebook# sudo apt-get install zsh Take a look at it. Is the Bash era over? Looking for direct links? Official homepage of the ZSH. An interesting mirror on SunSite.

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Here is a collection of “code snippets” about the .htaccess file of Apache. Take a look: it’s full of usefull things. It remembers to me about a very little howto (in italian) that help to make multiple web-sites on the same machine… without virtual-hosts: a very little and poor self-production.

The BEST Open-Souce RDBMS (not only for me), becomes better than itself. 5 December 2006, Washington DC (LISA Conference): The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announces the release of version 8.2 of the PostgreSQL object-relational database management system. This 14th public release adds features, maturity, and performance requested by business users, delivering manageability comparable to leading enterprise database systems. Version 8.2 is expected to drive even more migrations toward PostgreSQL. ...

On 16 Nov 2006 Google release the new version of GWT (Google Web Toolkit). As experts probably know, until this release GWT was not “develop-able” on MacOSX. But the music is changing… Edit Nov 22 2006: On the Official GWT Blog: After a couple weeks of fixing all the issues our developer community has so diligently reported in the issue tracker, we are happy to announce the official release of Google Web Toolkit 1.2 today. ...