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KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4

Tuesday, 09 February 2010
The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation. The redesign is the result of many hours of work by artists, coders, writers and testers. Keep reading to gain some insight into the people and processes behind the retooling.

VMware Partner Exchange: Searching for Zimbra Clues

Tuesday, 09 February 2010
More than 2,600 partners will converge at this week?s VMware Partner Exchange conference in Las Vegas. Lots of news will surface at the conference. But I'm looking behind the curtains for new clues involving VMware's strategy for Zimbra, the recently acquired open source email provider. Here's an update.

OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study

Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate over the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government.

When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Linux Herd...

Tuesday, 09 February 2010

Monday, February 08, 2010 When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Windows Herd. Look...let's face this together. Dating can suck. Now when you are young, it's an adventure. One has relatively little "baggage", the emotional scars are few and the dating world is your oyster...so to speak. And you haven't even begun to think about their therapeutic value yet. Ah, youth... But then you find yourself at midlife, choosing from a large pool of potential crisis'. So many to choose from. Maybe there is a divorce or two under your belt, some strong political or religious beliefs that are deeply ingrained, and oh yeah, there's that messy incident with the hacking conviction... Those tend to narrow down the potential list of candidates for life-long bliss. Throw your use/obsession of Linux into the mix and what do you get? More than likely a room at your mom's house and a NASA-level computer bank in her basement.

Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project to think about the future of a11y efforts in GNOME.

Open Source Software - Rational or Risky Business?

Tuesday, 09 February 2010

I received quite a few comments this past week following the publishing of California IT Policy Letter 10-01 which formally establishes "the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in California state government as an acceptable practice." While many of my security colleagues offered words of caution following the announcement (and even a couple of "are you crazy" comments), most were pretty enthusiastic with remarks like, "Finally, enlightenment" and "It's about time government joined the 21st century." As a security guy, I've been on both sides of the OSS fence at different times but I've come to the conclusion that anyone who doesn't think OSS has a place in today's business or government simply hasn't been paying attention.

Planetarium Software for Young Children in Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Stellarium

Monday, 08 February 2010
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium Software for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Too fun not to mention, look here!

LCA2010 raises over $33,000 in support of Life Flight Trust!

Monday, 08 February 2010

WELLINGTON, New Zealand ? Monday 8 February 2010 ? linux.conf.au 2010 is over, but the generosity of its delegates will leave a lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust.

During the conference closing dinner at the Wellington Town Hall, attendees bid to win a unique opportunity to join an action-packed Westpac Rescue Helicopter winch training mission. All bids were donations to Life Flight.

Delegates could donate online with their laptops and results were displayed in real-time on an open source application created by Andrew Caudwell of Catalyst IT.

At the end of the evening a $12,750 donation from Linux Australia brought the total funds raised to more than $33,000.

Life Flight CEO David Irving said, ?Free open source software is founded on generosity and these supporters have certainly taken that value to heart.

?The funds raised will enable 13 people to receive emergency flights, which is a great outcome for the community.?

linux.conf.au bring together the global community of Linux enthusiasts who contribute to the operating system and the vast array of free and open source software that is transforming information technology around the world.

Life Flight Trust provides a national air ambulance service and the Wellington Westpac Rescue Helicopter. Life Flight Trust is a registered charity that relies on community donations to keep flying. For further information or to help save lives visit http://www.lifeflight.org.nz.

To donate to Life Flight Trust, please visit: http://www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/LCA2010/.
About linux.conf.au

linux.conf.au is one of the world’s best conferences for free and open source software! The coming linux.conf.au, LCA2010, will be held at the Wellington Convention Centre in Wellington, New Zealand from Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January 2010. LCA2010 is fun, informal and seriously technical, bringing together Free and Open Source developers, users and community champions from around the world. LCA2010 is the second time linux.conf.au has been held in New Zealand, with the first being Dunedin in 2006.

For more information see: http://www.lca2010.org.nz/
About Linux Australia

Linux Australia is the peak body for Linux User Groups (LUGs) around Australia, and as such represents approximately 5000 Australian Linux users and developers. Linux Australia facilitates the organisation of this international Free Software conference in a different Australasian city each year.

For more information see: http://www.linux.org.au/
Emperor Penguin Sponsors

LCA2010 is proud to acknowledge the support of our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, InternetNZ, Google, HP and IBM.

For more information about InternetNZ, see: http://www.internetnz.org.nz/

For more information about Google, see: http://www.google.com/

For more information about HP, see: http://www.hp.com/

For more information about IBM, see: http://www.ibm.com/

LXer Weekly Roundup for 07-Feb-2010

Monday, 08 February 2010
LXer Feature: 07-Feb-2010

Innovation on Linux and UNIX

Monday, 08 February 2010

Innovation is at the heart of our enterprise search strategy, and a commitment to innovation is what brought FAST and Microsoft together. When we announced the acquisition two years ago, we said that we were committed to cross-platform innovation?that we?d ?continue to offer stand-alone versions of ESP that run on Linux and UNIX,? and that we would provide updates to these versions to address customer concerns and add new features. Over the last two years, we?ve done just that. We?ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and we?ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models.

The Bruno Knaapen Technology Learning Center is Established

Monday, 08 February 2010

As we've written about this week, The Christo Rey Catholic Church houses a 25 computer learning center for the residents of East Austin. The HeliOS Project provided the computers and manpower to make this place a reality. This center serves the disadvantaged people in the area and we are proud to provide instructors and volunteers to teach computer classes there and maintain the equipment. I had a meeting with Christina Collazo, the Director of a non-profit, Centro de Aprendizaje ¡Sí Se Puede! that serves this church and the surrounding community. She agreed that the answer was simple. We will dedicate this learning center to Bruno Knaapen.

Cairo-Dock 2.1.3 Is Out, Features A Simplified Configuration Panel

Monday, 08 February 2010
After 3 months of hard work, the new version of GLX-Dock/Cairo-Dock (2.1.3) is out. The new version brings a lot of fixes for some existing problems such as smoother auto-hide, automatic detection of indirect rendering for Intel/ATI cards, but the most visible change in Cairo Dock v2.1.3 is the new configuration panel which is now very easy to use.

10 Ways that Enterprises use Linux

Monday, 08 February 2010

Do you use Linux in your enterprise? These are the ten ways that I've seen it used. The world's largest technical support, software and hardware companies use Linux on a daily basis for a variety of tasks and solutions. This post gives you an overview of all the ways in which large companies use Linux. Most don't use Linux on the desktop but do use it in ways you might expect (and a few you might not expect) a company of that magnitude to use it. They've leveraged Linux for some of the most critical workloads and 100% uptime service levels. Welcome to the world of enterprise Linux.

MySQL handler Jacobs walks out on Oracle

Monday, 08 February 2010

Oracle's open source strategy was looking a little fenced in this morning, after the database giant lost one of its most prominent voices and OpenOffice was snubbed by Ubuntu developers. Ken Jacobs resigned from Oracle late last week, according to reports. Jacobs was vice president of product strategy in Oracle's server technologies division, and was seen as the vendor's friendly face when it came to dealing with the Open Source community.

Archos posts 'full' Linux distro for Android tablet

Monday, 08 February 2010
Media player maker Archos has posted a full Linux distro that will run on its Archos 5 machine. The 5 ships with Android as standard, but open sourcerers can download a special, emebedded build of Angstrom Linux and use it to replace the Google OS.

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