1. Announcements
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* Pentaho and OpenOffice.org
* OpenOffice.org joins SPI
* Online form for submitting papers for OOoCon now available
* OpenOffice.org 2.2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK)
2. Success Stories
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* Michael Dell running Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org
* More than 800 JCA’s signed
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 38 for the week April
22nd - April 28th, 2007. In this issue we cover Gutsy Gibbon’s kick
off off development and new additions, the availability of VMware
server on Canonicals commercial servers and the Latinamerican
Installfest.
== In This Issue ==
* Gutsy Gibbon Ready for Development
* VMware server available for Ubuntu
* Flisol 2007
* Meetings and Events
* Security Updates
* Bug Stats
eWEEK Labs names the applications that have moved open-source technologies from corporate curiosities to integral enterprise tools.
If you have followed my articles on LDAP, you know we began looking at objectClasses in the last installment back in March. Since that time, I haven’t written much more about directory servers. I began contemplating whether or not to continue the LDAP series because things have changed. Let me explain:
When running a production server, whether it is under heavy load or otherwise, it is very much desirable to keep track of the various physical aspects of the server like the CPU load, memory usage by the services, whether the required services are running, the network traffic and so on. As well as make sure that all the necessary services are running even when under heavy load and do not die on
A driver development kit provides a build environment, tools, driver samples, and documentation to support driver development for a particular operating system. Linux had always lacked a proper driver development kit. And anybody who intended to write a device driver had to do with sifting through tons of documentation and example source code that other operating systems provide for their
BusinessWeek is out with a new article this morning entitled Sun Mulls Deeper Open-Source Dive. This news analysis goes over Sun Microsystems’ continuing problems in turning a profit on their servers with their stock price dropping 22% since February. Aaron Ricadela of BusinessWeek seems to believe Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz will announce releasing Solaris as GPL code. This announcement could come next week at JavaOne in San Francisco, California (which Phoronix will be covering live)…
Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is now available for testing. New features in this development milestone of Mozilla Firefox 3 include the FUEL JavaScript library for extension developers, a redesigned Page Info window, improvements to offline application support and Gecko 1.9 bug fixes. Several Mac OS X additions have also been made, including support for Growl notifications, improvements to the Cocoa user interface and an initial version of the Breakpad crash reporting tool.
Sam Hocevar recently became the next Debian Project Leader (DPL), defeating seven other candidates while running on a platform that emphasized ways to improve how project members interact. Hocevar’s election comes at a time when Debian may be losing mindshare among both users and developers to Ubuntu, and looking for ways to improve its efficiencies and to mend internal divisions. Recently, Linux.com discussed these challenges with Hocevar via email in his first interview since his election.
Many people have embraced Google’s Gmail service due to its slick interface and ample storage — but like any application, Gmail leaves a few things to be desired. To trick Gmail out to your specifications, take a look at Lifehacker’s Better Gmail, a Firefox extension that brings all sorts of extra goodness to Gmail.
Welcome to the 200th issue of DistroWatch Weekly. In this week’s issue: Review: Mandriva Spring - Beautiful Change of Season News: Notes on Mandriva Linux 2007.1, PCLinuxOS, Freespire updates, Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.1 downloads, KNOPPIX for 64-bit systems, interview with Sam Hocevar, Brazilian distro releases Released last week:….
“What was able to drain the marrow of life from my body and leave only hollowed-out shell of the man who once occupied this space? Six years ago I began working for Microsoft.”
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).
With the release of Microsoft’s new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. In this tutorial I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Debian Etch in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
“CentOS 5 has been out for about a week now, and in this time I’ve installed 3 new servers with it–one i386 and two x86_64.
“Again, the CentOS developers have done an excellent job of rebuilding Redhat’s SRPMs, and as usual Redhat have developed an outstanding distribution.
“I’ve found a few quirks in the new release, as well as a few interesting changes from CentOS 4. This post just details some of my notes, from the perspective as a server administrator (ie: some of this isn’t relevant for a desktop user)…”
Complete Story
The 2.6.20.10 and 2.6.21.1 stable kernels have been released. Both contain a pair of security fixes for the networking code.
Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is now available for testing. New features in this development milestone of Mozilla Firefox 3 include the FUEL JavaScript library for extension developers, a redesigned Page Info window, improvements to offline application support and Gecko 1.9 bug fixes.
Several Mac OS X additions have also been made, including support for Growl notifications, improvements to the Cocoa user interface and an initial version of the Breakpad crash reporting tool.
Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is intended for Web developers and the Mozilla testing community only, with regular end users strongly advised to stick with the stable Firefox 2 for now. Alpha releases of Firefox 3 are branded using the Gran Paradiso codename in an effort to discourage regular end users from downloading them.
MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006.
“It’s still in the pipeline,” Chief Executive Marten Mickos said of the plan to hold an initial public offering of his company’s stock. He declined to discuss when the company planned to go public, but said, “We’re making good progress, doing all the things we need to get done.”
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of the fourth and final test release of Fedora 7! Release notes: This test release includes three live images - an i386 Desktop live CD, an x86_64 Desktop live DVD, and an i386 KDE live CD; this test release features GNOME 2.18; the new Echo icon theme is no longer the default; KDE and Xfce, among several other packages, are included in the development repositories, but not on the media; Fast User Switching is now available; the Internet messaging program called ‘Gaim’ is now known as ‘Pidgin’….
View our Fedora 7 Test 4 screenshots
Inspired off the success of the Nouveau Companion, there is now The irregular Radeon Development Companion. This is a LiveJournal blog containing information on recent developments with the X.Org Radeon driver. Information in this blog is based largely off of information discussed in development IRC discussions. Unlike the Nouveau Companion that is usually pushed out to the Wiki on a bi-weekly basis, the TiRDC is updated whenever new information worth sharing is available…