Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in Linux | Posted on 16-02-2010
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When the Symbian Foundation announced the opening up of its namesake smartphone platform on Thursday, it caused a major shift not just in the mobile landscape but also in the FOSS world. Announced by Nokia back in 2008, the transition of the leading platform from proprietary code to open source was completed four months ahead of schedule and is the largest in software history, the foundation said. “The development community is now empowered to shape the future of the mobile industry,” said Lee Williams, the Symbian Foundation’s executive director.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 19-08-2009
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This is the second part of the two-part tutorial. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to model a character head in Blender. Along with basic modeling tools we will also focus heavily on good topology and how to create a clean mesh that will deform well during animation. To read the first part, click: Character Head Modeling in Blender: Part 1
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 17-08-2009
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Free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is celebrating a new milestone – an article on Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen added on Monday took the English-language version of Wikipedia over the three million article mark. The encyclopaedia, which first went online in January 2001, now contains a total of more than 13 million articles in more than 200 languages. The English-language Wikipedia, as the oldest version, remains the leading version. The German version is second with more than 940,000 articles, and the French version is third with 840,000 articles.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 16-08-2009
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I’ve been setting up some Ubuntu Jaunty systems for relatives as an excuse to get rid of a lot of old hardware including some SCSI scanners. I encountered an HP scanner that was supported by sane but not recognized by Ubuntu. The device ended up with the wrong permissions preventing anyone except root from scanning. This is an explanation of how to create a udev rule to automatically fix this type of problem.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 13-08-2009
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What is the most popular programming language used by open source developers? The answer depends on how you define popularity. According to a new study from Black Duck, a software-license code analysis vendor, C represents more than 40 percent of all code written for open source software. Black Duck made its determination by counting the actual lines of code. While C is the leader by that measure, PHP and JavaScript are on the rise when you look at the broader picture of how open source projects use programming languages.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 13-08-2009
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The openSUSE project, which creates the development version of Novell’s SUSE Linux, is getting a handful of full-time Novell developers. You might find it hard to believe that there were not already full-time staffers dedicated to openSUSE, given the importance of Linux to Novell’s future. But apparently, this has been the case since Novell formalized and opened up the openSUSE project four years ago.
Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 13-08-2009
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Trains, planes, and automobiles: Juliet Kemp has been romaing the planet for months, while supporting remote servers and writing Linux howtos for LinuxPlanet and Serverwatch. It’s a tough life: "…lying in my tent with a cup of tea and a stack of chocolate biscuits, watching TV series downloads on the laptop."