Linux Today News BODHI LINUX 1.0 REVIEW "Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager." THE FIRST GREAT ANDROID TABLET: NOOK COLOR "Let?s get real. There are only two great tablets out there today: Apple's iPad and the iPad 2. But, the iPad may soon have a serious Android opponent: Barnes & Noble?s Nook Color." SET UP OPENVPN SERVER WITH AUTHENTICATION AGAINST OPENLDAP ON DEBIAN 6.0 "This is useful if you have services on a local network and need to access them remotely but don't want these services to be publicly accessible. By integrating with OpenSSL, OpenVPN can encrypt all VPN traffic to provide a secure connection between machines." XEN VERSION 4.1 RELEASED "After 11 months of work, the Xen developers have announced that version 4.1 of the open source Xen hypervisor software is now available to download." WHAT IS THE VALUE OF RED HAT'S PATENTS? "Open Source software and patents aren't exactly the best of friends. That fact has not stopped enterprise Linux leader Red Hat from assembling one of the strongest patent portfolios in the IT business." YAHOO TO OPEN SOURCE NON-CORE TECHNOLOGIES "A working group on open source at Yahoo is currently evaluating technologies that could qualify to be released to open source. The company has to first make sure that each of the technologies will really be useful and provide significant value outside Yahoo, before releasing it to open source." GET YOUR FREE ERP SOFTWARE "Open source ERP software vendor OpenERP has launched an online apps library with more than 1,000 free applications." DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: GOOGLE AS OPEN SOURCE BIG BROTHER "Google has set themselves up as 'Big Brother' here and made the decision 'for our own good'. This big brother approach is not going to win them any points or fans in the community, except for the big tablet makers who get a bit of a bigger head start on the market." AWARDS HIGHLIGHT IMPACT OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE "Adding fuel to the celebratory open source fires over the past few days, however, have been several batches of awards recognizing the global impact of various free software projects and contributors." LINUX DISTROS BUILD ON CONARY PACKAGE SYSTEM "Foresight Linux, which our sister site DesktopLinux once called 'the distribution for those who like living on GNOME's cutting edge', has reached version 2.5." BEEP, NEW SPACE EXPLORER AND PLATFORMER COMING TO LINUX IN APRIL "Big Fat Alien, a Kelowna based indie game development studio is coming up with new fun space explorer and platformer for Linux in this April called BEEP." HOW A ROBOTICS COMPETITION BOOSTED COLLABORATION "What I found interesting was seeing how groups of kids have to collaborate to work on fairly big projects in very limited time: they have to design, buy, build and market the necessary spare parts to build a robot in just a few weeks' time, then ship it off to St. Louis and try to make it work under extreme duress during the competitions." PEOPLE BEHIND DEBIAN: BDALE GARBEE, CHAIR OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE "Maybe you have heard the story where he got his beard shaved by Linus Torvalds to raise funds to protect the Tasmanian Devil. More seriously Bdale has played and continue to play a number of important roles in the Debian community." |