Facebook may believe they can toy with their user’s privacy, but in reality, their hold on their user base is probably more tenuous than they believe.
Call it a rare triple play in the open source server market. Lenovo, Red Hat and Tech Data are partnering to give partners discounts on select Lenovo ThinkServers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced. Here are the details — and the implications for the smal business market.
Well, I figured that I should take an opportunity to introduce a few opensource OSs that really haven’t been in the lime light much. We all know about Linux and many of us also know about Darwin and BSD. Still some know about OpenSolaris. Which ever ones you know or don’t here’s a chance to get the scoop.
Linux Pro Magazine met the author of numerous standard works in informatics and the most famous Linux critic at the Fosdem in Brussels.
Smartphone manufacturing giant HTC on Tuesday unveiled three new smartphones and announced upgrades to its Sense user interface at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Two of the smartphones — the Legend and the Desire — run the Sense UI on top of Android. The third, the HD mini, runs Sense on top of Windows Mobile 6.5. The devices will be released in Asia and Europe. Both the Legend and the Desire support Bluetooth 2.1. For file transfer, they use FTP and Object Push Profile.
Google has updated the beta version of its Chrome for Linux with a variety of fixes designed to make the browser more reliable, the company announced Thursday. Version 5.0.307.7 of Chrome for Linux addresses several bugs that were problematic in the previous version. One fix, for example, changes an out of memory killer mechanism so that it terminates runaway tabs before it closes the browser when memory is low. The upgrade was released in tandem with a similar update to the Mac version.
Well the Day of Love is safely behind us again for another year, and not a moment too soon! For some it may be a joyous occasion — a time of bubbles, flowers and pink puffy pillows — but let’s just say that sentiment is by no means unanimous. No, at the other end of the introversion scale, Valentine’s Day is fraught with anxiety, doubt and *way* too much time in the card aisle. It’s not often that geeks wax philosophical about the World of Amour, but HeliOS’s Ken Starks was recently brave enough to venture into those treacherous waters.
It may not seem obvious at first, but the tragic earthquake in Haiti, the historic election that put a Massachusetts Republican in the U.S. Senate and the 2010 Super Bowl all have something in common: the smartphone. During each event, billions of consumers around the globe were glued to their phones, either donating to charities and updating their Twitter accounts about the crisis in Haiti, posting on blogs about how change seems to be in the air in U.S. politics, or conveying their happiness (or unhappiness) about the big game.
Well, it’s been a few weeks since the launch of Apple’s comically named “iPad,” and there’s no doubt the world has much to think over. That’s particularly true for those in the FOSS community, of course, given the decidedly closed nature of Apple’s new device. Fans of Cupertino may be swooning with delight, but the picture is less clear for those of us in the rest of the world. The new device is “a frightening step backward for computing and for media distribution,” according to the Free Software Foundation.
Krusader is one of those must-have computing tools that turns difficult or tedious computing tasks into easy, point-and-click operations. It’s an advanced twin-panel file manager that’s loaded with features. When I made the switch from the Windows to the Linux operating system, I had a short list of program requirements. This list was a match to critical computing procedures I relied upon in Windows. I quickly discovered that Linux offers numerous twin-panel file managers, but very few have the power built into Krusader.
One of the key objections Mozilla and its supporters have had to the use of H.264 codecs for HTML5 video — the built-in decoding system being developed for the next edition of HTML — is that it’s proprietary technology. As such, there are no guarantees against the rights holders to that technology staking claims to it and charging money for it — and there may not be much protection against others who believe they have claims on it to test their theories in a full-scale patent infringement trial.
