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Omega 10 beta released 
corbet via LWN.net on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
A beta version of a new distribution ("roughly similar to the
upcoming Fedora 10 Beta release") called Omega 10 has been released.
"It is a Live CD for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems that
includes a variety of free and open source software from Fedora and Livna
repository." It would appear to be a version of Fedora with the
"make multimedia just work" problem add
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Kernel prepatch 2.6.27-rc8
corbet via LWN.net on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
Linus has released 2.6.27-rc8. "This
one should be the last one: we're certainly not running out of regressions,
but at the same time, at some point I just have to pick some point, and on
the whole the regressions don't look _too_ scary." It is worth
noting that the e1000e corruption problem remains unsolved; one assumes
that the final 2
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KOffice 2.0 beta 1 released
corbet via LWN.net on Thu, 25 Sep. 2008
The first KOffice 2.0 beta has been released. "KOffice 2 will be a much more flexible application suite than KOffice 1 ever was. The integration between the components is much stronger, with the revolutionary Flake Shapes as the central concept."
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Rockbox 3.0 released
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 24 Sep. 2008
At long last, Rockbox 3.0 is out. Rockbox, of course, is a free firmware
replacement for a number of portable music players; see this LWN article for more
information on the 3.0 release.
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The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis (Datamation)
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 10 Sep. 2008
Here's a Datamation article raising concerns about the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat resulting from the handling of the recent security problems. "The damage to Fedora's credibility is potentially immense. In a matter of days, Red Hat has quashed Fedora's claim to independence. It
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KDE 4.1.1 released
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
KDE 4.1.1 has been released.
This is primarily a bug-fix release; see the
full changelog for all the details.
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Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Mozilla Labs has announced
the first release (an "early experimental prototype") of "Ubiquity," a
Firefox plugin intended to add a high-level command-line language to the
browser. The best place to see what Ubiquity is trying to do may be the
Ubiquity us
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Fun patent of the day
corbet via LWN.net on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
It seems that Microsoft was awarded patent
#7,415,666 on August 19, 2008. The bleeding-edge technology, which was
evidently invented around 2005, is: "In one im
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Canonical joins the Linux Foundation
corbet via LWN.net on Mon, 18 Aug. 2008
Here's a
press release from the Linux Foundation, announcing that Canonical has
just joined as a member. "'Canonical is an important new member for
The Linux Foundation,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux
Foundation. 'Matt [Zimmerman] and his team have created an exciting
distribution that
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Lessig on the model train decision
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
Lawrence Lessig comments
on the appeals court's decision establishing the validity of the Artistic
License, calling it "huge and important." "In non-technical terms,
the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set
conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you
viol
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Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable asCopyright Condition (New Media and Technology)
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
The New Media & Technology weblog covers
a new ruling in the model train case; it reaffirms that free software
license terms are, in fact, license terms. "The central issue in
the case is whether the conditions in the open
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Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer
corbet via LWN.net on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
Udev is now a key component in almost all Linux systems. It's like the
plumbing in a house; most people never notice it until it breaks. Then
they realize how important a component it really is. A recent discussion
on harmonizing udev rules across distributions has highlighted some of the
changes which are being made in the low-level Linux system plumbing; click
below (subscribers only) for LWN
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Freespire moves back to Debian
corbet via LWN.net on Wed, 06 Aug. 2008
Xandros, which recently acquired Linspire, has announced that the
"Freespire" distribution will drop its Ubuntu base and move back to
Debian. "We will have a leading edge code base while
preserving our commitment to Debian, stability, Windows interoperability,
and ease of use. This commitment allows us to meet the needs of a wide range
of users, from open source enthusiasts to demanding ent
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Building custom appliance distributions with rBuilder
corbet via LWN.net on Tue, 05 Aug. 2008
Linux distributions can be a pain. Users have to go through the whole
process of installation, configuration, and updates, and, often, all they
really want to do is to run a single application. The vendors of that
application, meanwhile, feel the need to support as many distributions as
possible, even though the actual system running underneath their code is
nearly irrelevant. Wouldn't it be ni
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IBM, Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat go for the desktop
corbet via LWN.net on Tue, 05 Aug. 2008
IBM, Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat have jointly announced
a scheme aimed at making progress in "the one billion-unit desktop market."
"The four leaders are working with their local business partners in
markets around the world to bui
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Fedora 10 Alpha released
corbet via LWN.net on Tue, 05 Aug. 2008
The first Fedora 10 alpha release is now available. "In an ongoing effort to prevent premature kitten death, the Fedora
Project is ecstatic to present the availability of Fedora 10 (Cambridge)
Alpha. Test now, make it better now, keep Cambridge on schedule, and
protect the kittens in the future." See the
release
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File descriptor handling changes in 2.6.27
corbet via LWN.net on Mon, 04 Aug. 2008
One of the changes merged for 2.6.27 is a set of system call extensions
designed to get around some longstanding security issues with POSIX file
descriptors; LWN covered these
extensions back in May. Now the author of that work (Ulrich Drepper)
has posted a
description of these changes, why they
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Go-oo - a true OpenOffice.org fork?
corbet via LWN.net on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
The longstanding ooo-build
project would appear to have matured into a project called Go-oo, and that, in turn, increasingly looks
like a fork of OpenOffice.org. "We believe that copyright assignment
to a single corporate entity opens the door for substantial abuse of the
best-interests of the c
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Stable kernel 2.6.25.13
corbet via LWN.net on Mon, 28 Jul. 2008
The 2.6.25.13 stable kernel update has been
released. This one contains several networking-related fixes. Some of
them look well-worth applying, especially on systems running various forms
of PPP.
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Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation (ars technica)
corbet via LWN.net on Fri, 25 Jul. 2008
ars technica reports that Microsoft will be contributing $100,000 annually to the Apache Software Foundation. "Microsoft's interest in funding Apache projects is likely driven by consumer demand for interoperability. A growing number of companies are deploying Apache-based
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