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Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10

The new version offers a user experience that is incrementally better than its predecessors, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. Some of the new software introduced in Ubuntu 9.10 feels incomplete and will need a lot more work before it ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  19 Nov 2009

Tip of the hat: Fedora 12 a strong update

Red Hat announced today the official release of Fedora 12, the latest version of the popular open source Linux distribution. This release brings some impressive new features and a lot of much-needed bugfixes. It's a strong update that puts the distro ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  17 Nov 2009

Microsoft's psuedo sudo patent doesn't really cover sudo

Righteous indignation erupted on the Internet last week following reports that Microsoft had patented sudo, a traditional command-line tool that is widely-used on Linux and some UNIX platforms for selective privilege escalation. Some enthusiastic ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Qualcomm hopes Snapdragon smartbooks take bite out of Atom

Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor is finally coming to little laptops. The chip company has confirmed that its speedy ARM offering has been adopted by Lenovo for a new product with a netbook form-factor. The device will be available from AT&T, presumably ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Qualcomm,  AT&T Inc.,  Sony,  Paul Jacobs,  NVIDIA

Test, package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in

Linux vendor Novell is offering a new commercial add-in for Visual Studio that will allow software developers to test and package .NET applications for Linux without having to leave their Windows development environment. The new tools could potentially ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Miguel de Icaza,  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft pulls Windows 7 tool after GPL violation claims

Last week, Within Windows noted something suspicious in regards to Microsoft's use of the GNU's General Public License (GPL): "While poking through the UDF-related internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just ...

From RYAN PAUL, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Bill Gates

Go: new open source programming language from Google

func sum(a []int) int { // returns an int s := 0; for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ { s += a[i] } return s } s := sum(&[3]int{1,2,3}); // a slice of the array is passed to sum Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

GNOME roadmap updated, version 3 pushed back to late 2010

The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working on version 3.0, the first major overhaul since 2002. The GNOME release team has updated the roadmap and has set ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel

SFLC tech director finds one new GPL violator every day

Bradley Kuhn, the technical director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), has published a helpful set of guidelines about the most productive way to respond to a suspected violation of GNU's General Public License (GPL). The guidelines caution ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Firefox turns five: half a decade of web liberation

Five years ago today, Mozilla announced the official release of Firefox 1.0. The open source web browser has come a very long way since then and has achieved a level of popularity that few would have imagined possible. The success of Firefox and ...

From RYAN PAUL, Ars Technica,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ars Technica,  Google Inc.

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