Editor's Note: Linux Should Copy Amiga
(Nov 21, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (1624 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Mark Shuttleworth made headlines not too long ago when he called for the Linux desktop to surpass Mac OS X in both beauty and functionality. While a lot of folks thought that was breathtaking and audacious, I think he's aiming way too low. I think Linux should aspire to equal or better the Amiga OS.

GCC Hacks in the Linux Kernel: Discover GCC Extensions for the C Language
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (673 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "The Linux kernel uses several special capabilities of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) suite. These capabilities range from giving you shortcuts and simplifications to providing the compiler with hints for optimization. Discover some of these special GCC features and learn how to use them in the Linux kernel."

More Milestones in Linux Kernel Development History
(Nov 21, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (613 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Developer Network: "After we published the "Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution" whitepaper, out of curiosity I wondered where in the overall development history of the Linux kernel the $1 billion number was actually reached. There was also the desire to trace the history of Linux and monitor its growth. Here's what I came up with."

Book Review: SQL Hacks
(Nov 21, 2008, 11:03 UTC) (770 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "SQL Hacks: Tips & Tools for Digging into Your Data by Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell sets itself apart through format, easy-going style, and ability to cover lots of tips, tricks, and hacks with Structured Query Language."

30 Game Scripts You Can Write in PHP
(Nov 21, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (1135 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Each article in this "30 game scripts you can write in PHP" series will cover 10 scripts in 300 words or less (3d10 stands for "roll three 10-sided dice") simple enough for even a beginning developer, but useful enough for a seasoned game player. The goal is to give you something you can modify to suit your needs, so you can impress your friends and players by busting out your laptop at your next gaming session."

Creating a Daemon With Python
(Nov 21, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (1331 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise IT Planet: "If you are an average internet user, then you interact with daemons every day. This article will describe what daemons do, how to create them in Python, and what you can use them for."

VIA Publishes 2D/3D Documentation, Partners With OpenChrome
(Nov 20, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (838 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Earlier this year VIA announced they wanted to join the open-source bandwagon by establishing an open-source driver development initiative, releasing documentation and source-code, and to better engage with the Linux community at large. They have made a few small steps over the past few months, but today they have made their largest open-source contribution yet by releasing four programming documentation guides..."

O'Reilly Webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know About Drupal but Were Afraid to Ask
(Nov 20, 2008, 11:33 UTC) (1066 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
O'Reilly Media: "Join us for this free live webcast:
Everything you wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to ask; Presented by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of "Using Drupal"

Bash Cable, Dish and Local TV Listings Script For Linux Or Unix
(Nov 20, 2008, 05:33 UTC) (852 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script continuation, we're following up on our script from last week. If you liked that one, please revisit last week's cabletv.sh script, as this one introduces some features which (while nice) introduce a bit of extra run time. This week's improvements include making the script output more readable..."

Book Review: C Programming: A Modern Approach by K. N. King
(Nov 20, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (1518 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "A good starting point for learning is K N Kings popular book "C Programming: A modern approach", published by Norton, which has just reached its second edition and hence worthy of a new review."

kerneloops.org Records its 100,000th Oops
(Nov 19, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (963 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN: "Today, just a few days short of the first anniversity of the project, the kerneloops.org database of oopses and warnings has passed the 100.000 stored oopses/warnings."

Will Microsoft Build Native Mac and Linux Tools?
(Nov 19, 2008, 19:33 UTC) (1229 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Builder.au: "If the future is in Microsoft's online services why isn't the company building native tools for Mac and Linux developers?"

Unjustifiable Criticism of Richard Stallman by Linus Torvalds
(Nov 19, 2008, 18:03 UTC) (3227 reads) (8 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "A recent attack piece against Richard Stallman was written by Linus Torvalds on the eve of Obama's election. Black and white by Linus Torvalds."

GNOME.Asia Summit 2008 Report
(Nov 19, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (454 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
17Lamp.net: "The first ever GNOME.Asia Summit was held at the Beihang university, Beijing, China, from October 18th to 19th, 2008. The GNOME Foundation was the organizer of GNOME.Asia Summit in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) and China OSS Promotion Union (COPU)."

PHP Zend Framework 1.7 adds Adobe support
(Nov 19, 2008, 05:33 UTC) (884 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Netstat -vat: "The open source Zend Framework 1.7 is now available expanding the PHP framework to work better with Adobe Flex and AIR applications."

GNOME's Stormy Peters on the Most Important Desktop Issue
(Nov 18, 2008, 14:05 UTC) (1745 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "The GNOME Foundation executive director, Stormy Peters, recently wrote a bit about why the focus on "the KDE versus GNOME" debate is not the real issue. Many commenters on her post agree (while others actively demonstrate) that it is counterproductive."

Understand Commonly Used Features in Java Development Tools
(Nov 18, 2008, 06:05 UTC) (1316 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "This "Mastering Eclipse" series of articles teaches complete newcomers to Eclipse the ins and outs of the Eclipse IDE. By the end of the series, you'll be on par with advanced users. In this article, learn about working with various parts of the Eclipse JDT."

Founding of the Freedesktop Group in Beijing
(Nov 18, 2008, 04:35 UTC) (682 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
17Lamp.net: "I was honered to be a guest at the founding meeting of the Freedesktop Group Bejing (which is part of the College Open Source Society) last Saturday, November 8, 2008 at Tsinghua University and to introduce LXDE to some of the brightest IT students from universities in Beijing."

Administering RBAC in PHP 5 CMS Framework
(Nov 18, 2008, 03:05 UTC) (789 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Webreference: "The administration of the system could be done by writing directly to the database, since that is what most of the operations involve. There are strong reasons not to do so."

The Robot: Base, Wheels, Motors, and Sabertooth Motor Controllers
(Nov 18, 2008, 01:05 UTC) (976 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Adam's Tech Talk: "Rather than another visit to Homebase for some steel reinforcement, I just stuck (melted) two pieces firmly together with polycarbonate acid glue and then trimmed the edges with an electric saw."

The Wit and Wisdom of Linus Torvalds
(Nov 17, 2008, 18:31 UTC) (1954 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux Distillery: "Linus Torvalds is known, rightly so, as the creator of the Linux kernel. What began as his own hobby project now powers major data centres, enabled the netbook market to exist, and has given rise to many a user group install-fest. It's no wonder his opinion is canvassed regularly but the answer may not always be what you expect. Here are some of the best and most defining."

Java's Spiral Into Extinction - Can Open Source Stop It?
(Nov 17, 2008, 17:01 UTC) (2252 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
steaming open cup: "The single feed from java.blogs that caught my attention today was this title: Sun Microsystems to Cut 6000 Jobs."

16 videos from the Linux Kernel Summit
(Nov 17, 2008, 12:01 UTC) (961 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
DeviceGuru: "The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers - including Linux creator Linus Torvalds (shown at left) - discuss their development activities."

Ubuntu-on-ARM to Target Handhelds
(Nov 16, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (1423 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
DeviceGuru: "Canonical Ltd., commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, says it's porting Ubuntu to the ARM RISC processor architecture. Ubuntu on ARM will target netbooks and other emerging device categories requiring a "rich, always-connected, mobile computing experience, without compromising battery life."

PHP V5 and Object-Oriented Programming
(Nov 15, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (1910 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "It's designed to be a release to prepare developers for PHP V6 when it comes by adding many new features, cleaning up existing features by tweaking the functionality, fixing platform-specific issues, and deprecating old features that won't be in future versions of PHP. In this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series, we'll look at these new V5.3 features, and see how they are used and how they can be used in your Web application."

Perl, Outsourcing and China
(Nov 15, 2008, 16:02 UTC) (1578 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
17Lamp.net: "The advent of outsourcing has greatly impacted the face of IT. As you know, India has taken the leading role in IT outsourcing and China is quickly catching up."

The Robot: A Body, Sensors and Good Progress
(Nov 15, 2008, 06:02 UTC) (1444 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Adam's Tech Talk: "The body is ever so slightly lop sided by a few mm here and there which is a shame however from a short distance you wouldn't notice, it stands up straight and weight distribution is equal throughout the base plate so I’m happy with it."

Create Your Own Linux Appliances
(Nov 15, 2008, 04:32 UTC) (2625 reads) (12 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "That's right, create your own Linux virtual appliances with VMware Studio. Appliances are small, single purpose servers that provide a service to users."

Bug Labs Creates Open Source Lego for Software Engineers
(Nov 14, 2008, 23:35 UTC) (1356 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Most of the new breed of open source hardware centers on specific products. Bug Labs is taking a different approach. Instead of developing particular devices, Bug Labs' goal is to provide a Lego-like collection of open source hardware and software that customers can use to build their own devices."

Updates on OpenLogic's New Wazi Site, and Microsoft's CodePlex
(Nov 14, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (896 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Wazi is the Swahili word for open, and is a new effort from OpenLogic, which provides enterprise open source solutions, to provide original content on topics such as how open source packages can efficiently work together."

Linux Boot Sequence Visualized
(Nov 14, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (2849 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Make: "This is a visualization of a linux boot sequence where each function is a node and each edge represents a function call, direct branch, or indirect branch. Nodes are laid out using an unweighted force-directed layout algorithm, where each node is simulated as if it were electrically repulsive and had springs between nodes."

Debian Installer Lenny Release Candidate 1
(Nov 13, 2008, 20:09 UTC) (1370 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Debian News: "The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny."

Distributed Compilation: A Programmer's Delight
(Nov 13, 2008, 18:36 UTC) (1107 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
developerWorks: "Learn about open source tool options that can help speed up your build process by distributing the process across multiple machines in a local area network."

Broad Usage Of ipcs And ipcrm On Linux And Unix
(Nov 13, 2008, 15:06 UTC) (903 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "And today, to commemorate his entertaining, and often confusing, apocalyptic outlook on life, I'm going to make our post about something that has almost no relation whatsoever to any of our posts so far this week, this month or this year, and attack two commands that vary in options and output on almost every distro of Linux or Unix you'll ever pick up: ipcs (Inter-Process Communication Status) and ipcrm (Inter-Process Communication message queue, semaphore set or shared memory segment Remover). I salute, and dedicate this post to, you, Captain Trips"

Want To Program Smartly In C? Use GLib
(Nov 12, 2008, 23:04 UTC) (2828 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "GLib is a utility library for C, which augments the standard C library in several purposeful ways to make your life that much easier while programming. GLib has the following things to offer you:"

Bash Sub Shells
(Nov 12, 2008, 20:34 UTC) (1404 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "But what do you do if you need to run multiple commands in the background? You could put them all into a separate script file and then execute that script followed by an ampersand, or you can keep the commands in your main script and run them as a sub-shell."

Microsoft Rethinks Open Source CodePlex Site
(Nov 12, 2008, 15:47 UTC) (1575 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "Microsoft's CodePlex site could be revised before the year's out to signpost genuinely open-source projects, after the company got itself in hot water."

WiiBuntu (Part 1), Ubuntu Ports MID, and lpia
(Nov 12, 2008, 14:04 UTC) (1468 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Random Rantings: "So here I am, with a wonderful Wii, complete with Twilight Hack and Homebrew Menu installed, wondering if I could do something crazy like run Ubuntu on it. After some trial and error, it appears possible to do a debootstrap of an Ubuntu PowerPC installation and have it work!.

KDE 4.2 is Flat Out Going to Rock
(Nov 12, 2008, 13:34 UTC) (4679 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
moving parts of the kasper clan: "I've been running OpenSUSE 11 for a couple of months now, and thanks to the awesome nightly/weekly KDE 4.2/trunk packages, I'm thoroughly enjoying pretty-darned-bleeding-edge 4.2/trunk packages, but with half the carbs, and I am loving what I'm seeing!"

Former AROS Developers Start New OS Project, Much Secrecy
(Nov 12, 2008, 00:04 UTC) (1512 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OSNews: "We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time."

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