I need to share this with you: NSFW Ubuntu logos.
I post 1 here only to know what to expect:
I just found nice post about "Fuck in Linux Kernel".
My deepest and sincere apologies if this site offends someone - my intention is only to show you something funny from my point of view.
Also is a study with graphs and all stuff about fuck and love in kernel comments
From today, 5 may 2009, Windows 7 Release Candidate , the new test stable version, will be free until June 2010. This version will be a full one without any limitation. You can get your copy from http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 and also you can get the serial for this version. One of the most expected features of windows 7 will the "XP mode" :) :) :). XP mode will help you to install XP application under Windows 7 (still a crap).
Hardware requirements:
CPU: 1Ghz
RAM: 1G/32bit 2G/64bit
HDD: 16G for 32bit vresion and 20Gb for 64 bit version.
GPU: Compatible DirectX 9 cu driver WDDM 1.0
Let's don't forget, this days Ubuntu 9.04 and Mandriva 2009.1 was released. :D
The best statistic ever on a linux symposium ... We need to write some sports programs :)
Linux Foundation started a contest for the best ad promoting Linux. Participants should do the ad in maximum 60 seconds and they need to promote I'm Linux. Was no requirement to mention Apple or Windows. And this ad was not for free. The winner get a free trip to tokyo to participate in the Linux Foundational Japan Linux Symposium.
Read more here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24408/1231/
Was 90 entries but the best 3 you can see them here:
This is just the third place ... but the finish is so funny
Do you know what is the difference between an apple and a window ?
Other 2 videos what should be mentioned:
In last years it seams the Gnome have some "lack of vision" and is not impressioning the desktop Industry with anything in the last years. In the same time Kde is releasing version after version each of them with a lot of eye candy, performance, and translations.
Gnome has been choose d the default desktop management for Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and soon they will release version 3.0 . It seems the new version 3.0 it will "revamping the user experience."
Just check this links for more informations for Gnome 3.0
http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist
I think everybody remember about Microsoft suit over the FAT patent. TomTom (the GPS manufacturer ) was sued because they use FAT as filesystem for their external storages (SD cards etc). Now is time for payback ... TomTom sues Microsoft for infringement of four patents in Microsoft Streets and Trips. Until now the real question was: The Microsoft are targeting Linux through TomTom? I hope not, but probably TomTom and Microsoft will shake their hands together ... it's just business after all.
Is Microsoft Targeting Linux Through Tom Tom? Oh Please…
TomTom Sues Microsoft for Patent Infringement
Yes, is working. Just look here ... is named ksplice and you can find there all the sources and documentation.
Now you will never reboot a production server just for a kernel security patch. All can be done online.
You can not change the entire kernel without rebooting ! The changes need to don't introduce any semantic changes to the data structure, but for almost all security patches is enough.
Right now supports just x86-32, x86-64, and ARM architectures and have been tested on Linux kernel versions ranging from 2.6.8 to 2.6.28-rc6.
Brian Rakowski, Chrome's product manager, wants to release Chrome for Mac and Linux before the first half of 2009 is up. It seems both version (Mac and Linux) are in the same stage of development and soon we will have some beta's.
"That team now is able to render most Web pages pretty well. But in terms of the user experience, it's very basic,"
This days I'm very happy because I use Debian/Ubuntu Desktops at work and home. Is insane to get 150$ for a downgrade. This is happening for Dell Users:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40501/140/
At Debian/Ubuntu it is free ... and I think no one will want to downgrade (as linux user). Anyway ... if you want it then you can get it for FREE not for 150$.
But is true ... a lot of Laptops vendors are selling their products only with Vista ... and no support for Linux, XP, Apple.
Another beer and I will sleep on the keyboard.
Probably yes ... but not so much. Anyway it seems HP puts Linux on business PCs. What means that? Not much ... but it happen because of economic crash. So, probably, more people will interact with OpenSource software.
HP says that it is offering SLED 10 on the machine only in the United States, and estimates that the street price of a base PC will come to around $519.
Cheap price if is coming from HP ... :)
Read more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/hp_linux_biz_pc/
I can't belive that ... Slackware 12.2 was released. Slackware was the first distributions what I ever tryed ... in 1997, so I can get some time to announce their release. New features:
1. Kernel 2.6.27.7 + kernel patched with Speakup to support speech synthesizers
2. System binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.7.
3. X11 based on the X.Org Foundation's modular X Window System. (Only now ?)
4. gcc-4.2.4 as the default C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran-77/95, and Ada 95 compiler.
5. OpenSSH, OpenVPN, GnuPG and Apache 2.2.10
6. PCMCIA, CardBus, USB, IEE1394 (FireWire) and ACPI support great for your laptop
7. Perl 5.10.0, Python 2.5.2, Ruby 1.8.7-p72, Subversion 1.5.4, git-1.6.0.3, mercurial-1.0.2 ... (yummy)
8. New versions of Slackware package management tools make it easy to add, remove, upgrade, and make your own Slackware packages.
9. Web Browsers: Konwueror 3.5.10, Firefox 3.0.4 and SeaMonkey 1.1.13
10. KDE 3.5.10 + Koffice + Kdevelop (wow ... really for Slack)
11. More read here ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/PACKAGES.TXT
The past has moved here
I see a lot of howto's what are based on the same "story": boot in "single mode" and type passwd to change the password, but are some systems like Debian and probably others what doesn't let you get in single mode if you don't know the root password ... so the single mode solution it will not work.
After almost 2 years Video Lan Project announced the new release of the VLC media player 0.9.2 (code name Grishenko).
It comes with a new interface for windows and Linux and many many new features.
VLC is known as a multifunctional media player with a lot of features and with a lot of built-in codecs. Also can play various streaming protocols.
With the version 9 of it brings some new codecs support;
AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
E-AC3 (A/52b) support
VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
Flash Screen Video support
CamStudio Screen Video support
DosBox Capture support
Karl Morton's Video support
limited atrac3 support
Fraps support
Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
H.264 PAFF support
DNxHD / VC-3 support
NellyMoser ASAO support
APE (Monkey audio) support
RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
Dirac video support using libschroedinger
For the entire feature list just go here http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
To download the newest VLC just go here: http://www.videolan.org/
I collected some videos from youtube about differences and features between Vista, Mac OSx, and Linux. Just look at this amazing videos:
Vista vs Mac Osx:
Vista vs Linux (Ubuntu + Beryl):
Mac Vs Vista - start up
And another one:
Also look here: from PC World
so ... no comments :)
Miguel de Icaza and his team developed Monlight ... a "Linux Silverlight implementation".
Silverlight 1.1 (http://silverlight.net) is a new development technology for the Web created by Microsoft based on the CLR that augments it with a 2D retained graphics system and media playback engine and ships a subset of the standard .NET libraries.
Google desktop was launched some time ago for Windows and now (after 3 years) they came with a Linux version. For those who doesn't know what it is :
You have lots of information on your computer, and you see a lot more on the web. With Google Desktop, whenever you look at a web page, read an email or edit a file, Desktop indexes that item and copies its contents into your local cache, so you can quickly and easily find all this stuff right when you need it.
I think Vista need to learn more from XGL :) We wait several year for an interface what is using 3d interface but only "program switch" (Alt+Tab) is 3d :)
Microsoft hunting OS Developers ?
Development veteran Tom Hanrahan, former director of engineering for the Open Source Development Labs and current director of engineering for the Linux Foundation, will be now playing the role of the new head of Microsoft’s interoperability lab, one of the offspring of its deal with Novell in November 2006.
OK ... something about this "Surface" from Microsoft ... I think all technology is already OLD ... why ? Because some other smart guys (is true without to much money) already invented that :)and of course is based on X server from linux and is developed by Novell and other hundread of peoples :)
Surface
Linux Part 1
Linux Part 2
