MySQL CEO sees 'invisible hand' at work
What's the link between eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, often regarded as the father of modern economics, and the open-source software movement? According to Marten Mickos, the…
Install XGL & Beryl on Dapper w/ nVidia using apt-get
An easy-to-follow reference for installing XGL and Beryl on Dapper for those of us with nVidia cards. Remember, Beryl is still pre-alpha though.
http://dev.tufuncion.com/xgl-nvidia-ubuntu-…
Library requirements for Flash 9 Player for Linux
As we draw closer to an anticipated beta release of the Flash Player, we thought people might be interested in knowing what libraries their host systems will be expected to provide for the Player…
RPLinux: China's Answer to the $100 PC
A while back, I stumbled upon something called the Municator PC from YellowSheepRiver Municator, Inc. At first, I thought this had to be yet another hoax, but as I looked deeper into it, I found…
Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox
The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon.
An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser…
The Openoffice.org Template & Clipart Creation Contest
The goal is to increase our trove. Frankly, we don't have enough; users are feeling deprived. That means over 50 million people.
You can help change that... and also maybe win some money.…
Nice collection of 270 Linux white papers
Kernel development, file systems, virtualization, networking, security, performance, scalability, applications and a lot more. Absolutely free. No other OS grows this fast!
Ottawa Linux…
Weekly Wrap-up
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is the weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- How XGL Works
- Alan Cox's…
Apache Muse 2.0.0 is now available
Apache Muse 2.0.0 is now available. The Apache Muse Project is a Java-based implementation of the WS-ResourceFramework (WSRF), WS-BaseNotification (WSN), and WS-DistributedManagement (WSDM)…
Torvalds should create a better GPL
The anti-GPLv3 position of Torvalds, and now a large cross-section of Linux kernel developers, appears to be hardening. In response to a rebuttal by Eben Moglen, chief counsel for the Free…