Open Source News
February 22, 2005
Twenty new Linux cellphones on the way, says software maker
January 26, 2005
The following is a copy of Sun's press release:
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Today, Sun announced that the source code for the Solaris Operating System--the most advanced operating system in the industry--will be made available through its OpenSolaris program. This milestone opens significant new opportunities for developers, customers, and partners. Open source Solaris means that the world will have full, free of cost access to the Solaris source code. Sun believes that the open source model is the right one because it benefits our customers. Open source means that our partners and customers will be able to more easily customize Solaris to fit their needs. It means developers ouside of Sun will be able to collaborate with our Solaris developers at Sun to make this great operating system even better.
Highlights of the announcement include:
Sun will release the code under the newly OSI-approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) code - which changes the way you performance tune, debug, capacity plan, or simply understand your systems - is available now on http://www.OpenSolaris.org
* Sun will form an advisory board consisting of two members from Sun, two members from the OpenSolaris pilot program, and one member from the broader open source community
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Find out more...
Read the entire press release: http://www.sun.com/news
Preview the Web site: http://www.opensolaris.org
If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to cddl_announce@sun.com.
Thank you,
Sun Microsystems
January 21, 2005
Embedded.com - IBM plan to open software patents seeds IP debate
Microsoft has told Linux companies in private discussions that they are violating its IP.
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January 13, 2005
IBM Gives FOSS Free Access to 500 Patents - Rethinks IP Management.
GROKLAW
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December 31, 2004
I was in the process of doing a new debian install, so I was expecting a few glitches...
BUT I know this WILL happen to more people and different distro's - So I thought I should share!.
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On boot my Gnome Spash screen was hanging...
On boot my Gnome Spash screen was hanging.
Oddly enough "synaptic" was showing as being run at the bottom of the splash screen. So I flipped over to a console (alt-F1) and did a "ps ax". We saw that "gksu" was trying to run synaptic as root.
We killed the process, flipped back over to gnome (alt-F7) and everything was fine. We rebooted as we expected it to happen again, which it did.
So to get to the bottom of this we started looking around on the net and noticed posts about editing .gconf etc...
BUT before doing anything drastic it dawned on us what was happening - Here's what was going on:
"gksu" was jsut sitting there waiting for a root password to be entered!
It's dialog box was (probably) just hidden by the splash screen box.
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The remaining question is why? Why was it trying to run Synaptic at startup?
Hmmm - Now I do recall at one point when loggin out/shutting down, that the "Save current setup" checkbox was marked. AND - Synaptic was running in another window!
At the time I ignored the message (something like) "Synaptic does not support saving current state"
This is the problem: a user can accidentally "save current setup" which includes a program that requires a dialog box to be filled in (such as in the case of gaining root access.) Next time they log-in the dialog will be hidden by the splash dialog box. Depending on how the program behaves, they could get "stuck" there.
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August 02, 2004
One of Canada's leading academic institutions, Nova Scotia's Acadia University, will provide students and faculty with Linux equipped notebooks in the fall semester.
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July 09, 2004
Ground Breaking News: The French Ministry of Equipment has chosen
Mandrakelinux Corporate Server to replace 1,500 Microsoft Windows NT
servers in a national scale deployment
Recently, Civil Service Minister Renaud Dutreil was quoted in Reuters as saying "the
competition is open" between open-source and Microsoft for the nearly one million government computers. Mandrakesoft is proud to supply the operating system for the Ministry of Equipment deployment, and to supply open-source alternatives to governments around the world.
Learn more about this significant news at:
Mandrakesoft Online Team.
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