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Kernel Progress Entering New Era of Innovation
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 16:43:28 CEST by tw45admin (115 reads) |  The last 12 months in Linux kernel development may have been less than exciting, but that may be just a breather before what's coming up next, according to kernel developer and Linux Weekly News editor Jon Corbet. Last week at LinuxCon, Corbet delivered what has become a ubiquitous fixture in many Linux gatherings: The Kernel Report, a highly detailed and informative look at the current state of the Linux kernel, and what's on the way. Corbet's unique position as journalist and kernel developer lends the Kernel Report a sweeping scope over many facets of kernel development. Corbet is in strong company. 2,800 developers worked on the last five kernel releases, 16.6 percent of them volunteers. Red Hat, Intel, Novell, and IBM filled the remaining top five contributors' slots, respectively.
Learn more about the future of Linux kernel development at Linux.com.
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Socrates on sharing knowledge
Thursday, June 24, 2010 @ 23:56:20 CEST by tw45admin (107 reads) | tetris4 writes If you have problems in understanding the substance of Free Software, read this dialogue between Socrates and Antiphon.
How do you feel about this? Does it represent the essence behind FLOSS to you?
You can read the dialogue over at MyGNULinux.com
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2.6.34 is Out; Let’s Review
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 @ 17:06:41 CEST by tw45admin (127 reads) | Do You Feel That? It’s the Quickening! Sorry for using an obviously “geeky” title but I haven’t seen many Highlander quotes in a while and the “quick” pace of Linux kernel development caused me to recall the movie. Regardless, when you are doing day-to-day work on your wonderful Linux system, it is easy to think that the pace of kernel development is somewhat slow. However, if you step back and watch the pace of development, it is truly remarkable, particularly around file systems and storage.
The Highlander notwithstanding, read the rest at linux-mag.com.
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Linux 2.6.35-rc2 Kernel Released
Monday, June 07, 2010 @ 13:27:47 CEST by tw45admin (135 reads) | With a week having passed since the release of Linux 2.6.35-rc1, Linus Torvalds has now replaced it with Linux 2.6.35-rc2. This second release candidate for the Linux 2.6.35 kernel brings more changes than Linus would have liked to see, but a bulk of the activity is happening within the kernel's driver staging area.
Some 70% of the 2.6.35-rc2 work are for Linux staging drivers, but besides that there is the assortment of usual work. There are also some ATI Radeon and Intel i915 graphics DRM fixes in the mix too. This release candidate also pulls in an Intel Core i7 EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) driver.
More on this at Phoronix.
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Personalize and Optimise your Vim Editor with Vim 7.2
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 13:56:23 CEST by tw45admin (115 reads) | swati writes Packed with tips and tricks, Vim users will learn to create, install, and use Vim scripts and scripting to extend functionality. They will be introduced to Vim and the vi editor along with making basic changes in the appearance of the Vim editor. Written for Vim 7.2, Hacking Vim 7.2 will show users how to navigate through files faster while editing multiple files in Vim, speed up their productivity with templates, auto-completion and format text and code, including using external formatting scripts.
For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/hacking-vim-7-2/book
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Is Linux a Religion
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 13:43:18 CEST by tw45admin (204 reads) | I recently read through a post on "The Blog of Helios". The article was about the troubles of porting Osmos to Linux. There were apparently many struggles with audio and video support, due to the variety of platforms. This isn't surprising when we consider that variety is Linux's main selling point. Don't like [insert feature] in Ubuntu? Try Arch. Don't like [insert feature] in Arch? Try Slackware, ad infinitum. Yet, this hurts developers who are not part of the community and are writing software for a profit. Which distributions should they support? Which audio systems? Which DEs? Which WMs? Which graphics drivers? Which GUI toolkits? And these problems can be more serious than they at first appear. If you make the wrong choices with Linux, you may not just fail to sell the software, you could anger the Linux community and lose sales with other products as well (**cough** KDE4 **cough**).
This is definitely an opinion piece, though some people do believe that software is a religion. Read all of the content and post a comment at Eleven is Louder.
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Trying on sidux
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 14:16:33 CEST by tw45admin (238 reads) | The sidux distribution is one which has been on my to-review list for a while. It's a small project which makes a bold effort to take Debian's Unstable repository and turn it into a functioning day-to-day operating system. Prior to trying out this ambitious distro, I had a chance to chat with two of the project's developers, Ferdinand Thommes and Chris Hildebrandt.
Interview by Jesse Smith for DistroWatch.com.
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Diary Of A Linux Newbie: The First Year
Monday, April 05, 2010 @ 22:40:11 CEST by tw45admin (225 reads) | Just a year ago -- April 21, 2010 to be exact -- I installed a Linux distribution. I installed it from a DVD of Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex, that came with an issue of Linux Pro magazine I bought from a news stand, and I put it on a hand-me-down eMachine with 384MB RAM (the other 128MB being dedicated graphics). It was the first time I had ever installed an operating system. In fact, it was the first time I had ever installed anything at all, anytime, anywhere. I had always just called for (and paid for) professional help from a neighbor who extended me rates more favorable than his enterprise customers paid. Raised at IBM, he had become a born-again Microsoft True Believer and wanted to keep us all happy Windows users.
Emery Fletcher's saga is recorded at the Linux Planet (although, I wonder if he meant to say he installed his first Linux distro on April 21, 2009?).
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There is More to Linux Than Ubuntu
Sunday, April 04, 2010 @ 17:14:08 CEST by tw45admin (298 reads) | The fine people at Canonical are experts at keeping Ubuntu in the news, and keeping a lot of buzz alive. That is a good thing; still, it is easy to get the impression that Ubuntu is Linux. But we know there is a whole world outside of Canonical, so here are some of my favorite Linuxes. Kubuntu was my favorite distribution for a time, back during the KDE 3.5 series. I was a KDE user all the way back to 2.0. Before Kubuntu I used mainly Debian unstable on the desktop, and Debian stable on servers. Way before that, Red Hat and Slackware. Red Hat 5 was my first Linux, on actual 3.5" diskettes. Somewheres in there I used Libranet, which was a super-nice Debian derivative, but sadly it died with the passing of its founder.
Carla Schroder's full editorial is at Linux Today.
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Will The Linux Desktop Soon Be Irrelevant?
Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 14:43:33 CET by tw45admin (344 reads) | We’ve all been hanging out for the “year of the Linux desktop” (whatever that means) but we’re still waiting. Let’s face it, we’re going to be waiting for a while. Is it because Linux isn’t yet good enough? Hardly. These days there are few barriers to adopting Linux, primarily issues relate to the requirement for a specific Windows based application, proprietary devices, or perceived complexity of this strange new system. Is it because Microsoft has too strong a hold on the market? Well, that certainly does help to hinder Linux adoption. Whatever the reason, in the end it might not actually matter at all.
Can anyone really predict the future of "the Linux desktop"? See what Christopher Smart has to say about it at linux-mag.com.
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