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Alksnis and Ponosov in the front of fighting for Linux (CNews)
CNews reports that Victor Alksnis and Alexander Ponosov are founding the Open Source Technology Center in Russia. "Victor Alksnis, former deputy, and Alexander Ponosov, former school principal, announce to establish a public organization to promulgate open source software in Russia. According to the founders of the Open Source Technology Center, the given software is based on the world Linux-community principles, i.e. there will be no fixed membership and it will gain no profit to its developers. Mr. Alksnis and Mr. Ponosov believe that the open source software will consolidate the domestic IT-community, although to succeed support from the government or a philanthropist is necessary."
Trade Shows and Conferences
Android opens door to IC open source (EE Times)
The EE Times takes a look at the Android mobile operating system demonstrations at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "One open question is what it will mean to be an "open source" semiconductor manufacturer in a market as competitive as mobile-handset applications processors. Several semiconductor manufacturers are active members in the Open Handset Alliance, a group of technology and mobile companies committed to deploy handsets and services using the Android platform. Among them are leading handset chip makers Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm."
Foundations of Open Media Software Workshop 2008 coverage
Coverage of FOMS 2008 has been announced. "FOMS 2008, the Foundations of Open Media Software Workshop was held on 24th/25th January 2008 in Melbourne, Australia."
KDE Displays at SCALE 6x Expo (KDE.News)
KDE.News has a report from the KDE booth at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 6x). "From February 8th to the 10th, Linux enthusiasts from the greater Los Angeles area (and beyond that!) converged at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles Airport to celebrate Linux and Free Software. KDE was once again there showing attendees the best Free Software desktop. Starting things off, one of KDE's usability helpers Celeste Paul gave a talk on A Quick and Dirty Intro to User-Centred Design in Open Source Development."
Companies
Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work (C|Net)
C|Net reports on an effort by Google to bring the commercial Photoshop image editing software to Linux. "For the project, Google is funding programmers at CodeWeavers, a company whose open-source Wine software lets Windows software run on Linux. Wine is a compatibility layer that intercepts a program's Windows commands and converts them to instructions for the Linux kernel and its graphics subsystem. "We hired CodeWeavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine," Dan Kegel, of Google's software engineering team and the Wine 1.0 release manager, said on Google's open-source blog. "Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now...We look forward to further improvements in this area.""
Red Hat officials have big business plans for JBoss (eWeek)
eWeek looks at Red Hat's plans for JBoss. "Whatever else you can say about new Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, you can't say he thinks small. At the JBoss World 2008 tradeshow Feb. 13 in Orlando, Fla., Whitehurst said Red Hat plans not only for JBoss Enterprise Middleware to take 50 percent of the enterprise middleware market by 2015, but for JBoss' revenue to grow twice as fast as Red Hat's flagship Linux operating system during the next three years. During Red Hat's second fiscal quarter 2007, which ended Aug. 31, then-CEO Matthew Szulik said that the "rate of JBoss bookings and revenue to date has not met our expectations. The company expected it to grow at twice the rate its core RHEL [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] business has, but so far, it's about the same. We know we can do much better.""
Linux at Work
Linux steps up to power NZ Stock Exchange (Computerworld)
Computerworld looks at the deployment of Linux systems to run the settlement and clearing system of the New Zealand stock exchange. "The new technology will give NZX the ability to clear and settle a whole new range of products that it couldnt do before, says Turner. It also allows NZX to use a clearing and settlement methodology which is more common in the rest of the world, he says."
Interviews
Three SCaLE 6X speaker interviews
LinuxWorld's Jeffrey Bianchine interviews three SCaLE 6X speakers: Scott Shreeve, Christopher Blizzard and Celeste Lyn Paul.
Resources
Role-based access control in SELinux (developerWorks)
IBM developerWorks is carrying an article by security hacker Serge Hallyn on how to set up role-based access control using SELinux. "Different users using the same /bin/register program are able to read and write different files that they cannot access without the program. This is one of the core concepts of type enforcement: both the authorized context of the user and the code being executed should together determine the resulting process's 'domain of influence' over the system (or TE domain)."
How To Configure Remote Access To Your Ubuntu Desktop (HowtoForge)
HowtoForge has published a tutorial about configuring remote access on a Ubuntu system. "This guide explains how you can enable a remote desktop on an Ubuntu desktop so that you can access and control it remotely. This makes sense for example if you have customers that are not very tech-savvy. If they have a problem, you can log in to their desktops without the need to drive to their location. I will also show how to access the remote Ubuntu desktop from a Windows XP client and an Ubuntu client."
Reviews
Elonex launches Linux laptop (vnunet)
Vnunet looks at a new Linux laptop. "UK manufacturer Elonex is to unveil a £ 99 laptop aimed at school children. The Linux-based 'One' laptop weighs less than 1kg and offers a claimed three-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, a Flash-based hard drive, a hard-wearing case and a wireless music server."
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