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Torvalds On TiVo

Shuttleworth szülöhazája szereti az Ubuntu-t:)
Spreading Open Source in South Africa

Venezuela migration to open source
Az ok: a teljes nemzeti olajvállalatot megbénította egy puccs soran a CIA. Gondolom a "mi aztán soha nem csinálunk ilyet" backdorokon keresztül.

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Jon Maddog Hall has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Hall has been the executive director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a volunteer. He has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer in the Digital Unix marketing group and Bell Laboratories among other companies.
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When did you start using Linux or open source?

I was using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in 1969, but we did not call it that at the time. We called it "software".[...] Finally, in 1994, I was introduced to Linus Torvalds, and my life was changed forever. I came back from that meeting and told my fellow workers "Linux is inevitable". I even put that message in a slide presentation, in 1994.
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Where do you see Linux heading in the next five to 10 years?

Meghozza jutalekkent, hogy a firefox jobb felso sarkaban ott a google kereso box.
Ez kb. a redhat 6 honapos bevetele.
Mozilla Confirms Firefox Taking In Millions Of Google Dollars

The polls have been closed and the results have been audited, which means the results are in. We once again had a record number of votes cast - thanks to everyone who participated. Also a huge congratulations not only to the winners, but to everyone who was nominated. We'll be working on the certificates and site buttons, which should be available ASAP. Without further ado, I bring you the winners of the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.

Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (19.49%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (62.98%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (84.84%)
Browser of the Year - Firefox (71.90%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (51.74%)
Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (37.96%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (23.17%)
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (27.11%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (64.86%)
Audio Multimedia Application of the Year - amaroK (41.86%)
Video Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (46.94%)
Messaging App of the Year - Gaim (52.41%)
Security App of the Year - nmap (31.68%)
LiveCD Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (39.59%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (53.94%)
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (51.25%)
IDE of the Year - Eclipse (31.99%)
Graphics App of the Year - GIMP (62.02%)
Shell of the Year - bash (89.67%)
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (44.31%)

Tudjátok az a kakaóbiztos Csepeli György:
Csepeli vizsgáztat saját választási eredményéből

Kell hozza egy PC, 6 videokartyaval, 6 monitorral, 6 egerrel, 6 billentyuzetel es egy linux;)
részletes howto:
Build a Six-headed, Six-user Linux System

How to switch an enterprise to OSS

Beleértve az eddigi ügyvezető és gazdaságiigazgatót is. A cég bevétele az elmult évben közel megfeleződött. A következőkben dobja, mind az Irix-et, mind a MIPS RISC-et. A cég szinte kizárólag Intel Itanium+Linux-os gépek eladásából fog élni
SGI Cuts 250 Jobs, CFO, COO, további info: SGI kicks off new era by firing 12% of its staff

Tux-shaped computer runs Linux

Még 2004 novemberében kiszámoltam/megtippeltem, hogy mikor lesz 1millió cikk a wikipédiában. napra pontosan sikerült:)
slashdot cikk:
At 23:09 UTC, the one-millionth article was created in the English-language Wikipedia. The milestone was reached with the creation of an article about Jordanhill railway station in Scotland. Congratulations to all the Wikipedians, especially Nach0king who wrote the millionth article and Mészáros András who in November 2004 correctly predicted that it would be created today.

South Africa may migrate 14,000 Windows desktops to Linux

Ujabb szabadalmi csoda:
Balthasar has been awarded a patent on "Methods, systems, and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet" ( USPO 7,000,180). In an article at news.com the company claims that "The patent covers all rich-media technology implementations including Flash, Flex, Java, AJAX and XAML and all device footprints which access rich-media Internet applications including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes and video game consoles". The patent was filed on 9 February 2001, five years after the original Flash application, FutureWave Splash, was introduced in May 1996. Online Rich Media Patented

This is your daily IT Lawsuit News Feeder. Groklaw reports that IBM has subpoenad Microsoft in its enduring legal battle with SCO. IBM is demanding Microsoft delivers all communications between Microsoft and SCO, since June 28th 2002, including conversations Darl McBride may have had with Steve Ballmer. But no worries, that ain't all! IBM, Red Hat, Sun, and Real have filed a complaint with the European Commission because Microsoft unfairly scotches competition. That was your daily IT Lawsuit News Feeder, end transmission.

Times Square has seen the largest Windows error message ever. One of the many machines controlling one of the many electronic billboards crashed, displaying a large DirectX error message. The billboard is two stories high. Adam Gaffin happened to be at Times Square and took some pictures of the world's largest error message.

Aki éles rendszeren windows használ megérdemli/kiérdemelte az ilyen tipusu ciki dolgokat:)

HP opens UK Linux testing centre

Arxceo used embedded Linux to build a small anti-reconnaissance, anti-intrusion device the size of an eyeglasses case. The Ally ip100 can be installed in front of wireless access points or at the edge of 100Mbps networks, where it provides behavior-based intrusion detection and prevention, the company says.
Device Profile: Arxceo Ally ip100 intrusion prevention device

Open Source has become significant enough - as either threat or opportunity - for Oracle to throw about half a Billion into a buying spree of Open Source companies. Do they understand what they've bought? Two of the acquisitions are designed to discomfit MySQL, but MySQL will have no trouble side-stepping Oracle's maneuvering. And Oracle may soon find: you can't really buy an Open Source project. Open Source leader Bruce Perens presents a strategic analysis of Oracle's purchases and their effect on MySQL:Does Oracle Understand What It's Buying?

bejelentes: atsec information security Completes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CAPP/EAL4+ Common Criteria Certification for IBM

Új webkereső oldal indult, ami az opensource forráskódokra, és a dokumentációjukra koncentrál.
Krugle.
slashdot hír: Search Engine For Coders to Launch, ez nem az első ilyen probálkozás, íme a régebbi: koders.com

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols több informatikai lapban megjelent elemzése végigmegy az utóbbi idők minden opensource-el kapcsolatos céges hírén, és arra a következtetésre jut, hogy jelenleg egy csendes, de óriási változásokat hozo forradalom zajlik. Úgy gondolja, hogy az opensource nem csak a egy lehetséges szoftverfejlesztési mód, hanem a legjobb, és erre nemsokára a Microsoft is rá fog döbenni.

Az elemzést megtalálod például itt, vagy itt

By Kim Tae-gyu
Staff Reporter

The Korean government plans to select a city and a university late next month where open-source software like Linux will become the mainstream operating programs.

The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) Wednesday revealed the scheme of building up the city and university, which will operate as test beds for the open-source programs.

``We will start to receive applications next week. After screening candidate cities and universities, the test beds are likely to be decided by late March,’’ MIC director Lee Do-kyu said.

Lee said that the project will be kick-started just after the decision of the city and university, toward which end the ministry earmarked 4.1 billion won for this year alone.

és arra való, hogy gylorsan menjen minden tabon a back-forward. Ugyanis minden tabra elmenti a eddig megjelenitett oldalakat.
kikapcsolasa a browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers parameter allitgatasaval (-1 unlimited)
Firefox Memory Leak is a Feature