Posts Tagged ‘linux’
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Can it be? Is it really possible? Adobe has finally put up with a 64-bit Flash player for Linux. Admittedly, it’s still a preview release, but still it seems too good to be true. It isn’t April Fool’s, is it?
The pre-release release was announced with a bit of, what I hope is, sarcasm:
We are pleased to announce that there is now a version of the Flash Player for Linux that supports 16 theoretical exabytes of physical memory. This technological feat is accomplished using a bleeding edge type of processor known as a 64-bit CPU.
I feel a bit sentimental about it all. It’s weird, but I think I’m going to miss the hundreds of comments on every post gently requesting a 64-bit version. So don’t be afraid to pop in with a “64-BIT NOW!!!1!!” comment every so often, you know, just for old time’s sake.
The alpha release of 64-bit Flash for Linux is now available for download at Adobe Labs, go and get it if you dare.
Adobe Penquin.SWF blog [via Slashdot]
Tags: 64-bit, adobe, flash, linux
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Donald Townsend. CC BY-NC-SA
A recently released study conducted by the Linux Foundation place the value of the Linux Kernel at around 1.4 billion US dollars (~1.1 billion €) and the value of a the full Fedora 9 distrbution at just above 10 billion US dollars (~7.85 billion €).
The companies and individuals who work on Linux-related projects and build this value proft by sharing the development burden with their peers (and sometimes competitors.) Increasingly it’s becoming clear that shouldering this research and development burden individually, as Microsoft has done, is an expensive approach to building software. While monopoly position in the past has allowed them to fund this massive development, we believe that in the future competition from collaborative forces will make such an isolated position untenable.
O’Reilly Radar
Tags: linux, study, value
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Linux kernel version 2.6.27 is now officially out. This new release brings with it quite a few improvements and new features, including a new filesystem (UBIFS) for ‘pure’ flash-based storage.
Read on for the release announcement and links to the relevant pages.
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Tags: kernel, linux
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
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gOS
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ZeBuntu / ZevenOS
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Linux XP
As we all know, there lots of distros out there that excel in different areas and niches. Ubuntu is great for beginners and desktop use, Red Hat/SuSE for the corporate types, Gentoo for control freaks (don’t get me wrong, Gentoo’s great…) and so forth. And then there are the distros that make us Linux affcionados bow our heads in shame. Distributions like Linspire (formerly Lindows), gOS, Linux XP and so on.
To this end, the Internetling blog has a post outlining the three worst offenders: gOS, ZevenOS, and Linux XP. The last of these even appears to be in violation of the GPL as they only offer a 30-day trial version for download.
Internetling
Tags: distros, horrible, linux
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu Linux
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CrossOver Chromium on Mac OS X
The folks over at CodeWeavers (of CrossOver fame) have managed to create a working port of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac using WINE. The port is available for free on the CodeWeavers site. Most of the Google Chrome functionality has been implemented, the biggest missing feature seems to be auto updates.
Jeremy White writes on the CodeWeavers blog:
[On] Thursday, September 4th, I called a company Fire Drill. I said I wanted to ship ported versions of Chromium for Mac and Linux, and I wanted to do it as fast as possible. By Friday, we had a first working build. But it had a major problem – you couldn’t do https sites, so logging in to Gmail, for example, was right out. Unfortunately, supporting that required that we finish the implementation of a nearly brand new DLL in Wine – the winhttp dll. Luckily for us, Hans Leiddeker had recently joined CodeWeavers, and in a bit of a hazing ritual, we asked him to scramble madly to implement what we needed. A little more than a week later, and he had done it. Of course, there were many other people who pitched in and tuned Wine to make Chromium just that much nicer.
NB. The CodeWeavers implementation is “free as in beer” but not “free as in speech”.
Tags: chrome, chromium, codeweavers, google, linux, mac
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Bluegiga, a company based in Finland, is offering what it claims to be the “smallest Bluetooth Access Point in the industry.” The BT AP runs an embedded Linux OS on a 200MHz ARM9 processor.
The heart of Access Point 3201 is Bluegiga’s customized Linux operating system with a number of built- in applications, such as SPP-over-IP and ObexSender (for Bluetooth marketing). For Bluetooth wireless technology, the product has extremely advanced, reliable and easy-to-use software interface called iWRAP, which enables you to connect your Bluetooth equipped devices into TCP/IP networks with built-in security and reliability.
To me, at least, it seems like a rather awesome product. I simply find it amazing how much can be packed into so little space. Not to mention the inherit coolness of running Linux on something that tiny.
Bluegiga [via LinuxDevices.com]
Tags: access point, bluetooth, embedded, linux
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Seems that ATI/AMD is becoming more and more Linux friendly.
[Today they announced] CrossFire and OverDrive support for Linux [through Catalyst 8.8 drivers]. Phoronix has a complete run-down on both features — including benchmarks — in their AMD OverDrive on Linux and ATI Radeon CrossFire On Linux articles. Other features were also introduced in this update such as Linux 2.6.26 kernel support, Adaptive Anti-Aliasing, and other fixes.
[Via Slashdot]
Tags: amd, ati, linux, support
Posted in Drivers, Hardware | No Comments »
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
getdeb.net, a provider of quality packages for Ubuntu, have announced “the start of a gaming repository for Ubuntu.”
The repository (codenamed “Playbuntu“) will provide all games available on getdeb.net in an easy to use repository format – enabling you to receive updates for your favourite game via the Update Manager tool. Additonally, if a game has several packages, installing them is quite easy as it’ll be automatically handled.
geddeb.net [via Software Journal]
Tags: games, linux, ubuntu
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Red Hat has announced that Munich Airport (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) has migrated a large portion of it’s UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
After experiencing consistent performance issues, Munich Airport, according to the company, conducted detailed cost-analysis research on alternative technology solutions that could boost performance for its IT systems. Results revealed that Red Hat Enterprise Linux, already in small use in the Airport’s IT systems, could provide both the savings and performance benefits desired. In 2005, Munich Airport migrated a portion of its servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and in March 2006, it also migrated most of its desktop workstations to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop. Since September 2006, Munich Airport has equipped more than 30 servers and 40 desktops to run using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat-based systems are also used by Airport’s external mail gateways providing anti-virus and anti-spam functionality.
TradingMarkets.com
Tags: linux, red hat, RHEL
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