Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Google has finally released the full source code of its Linux-based Android platform. The source files are available for download at:
http://source.android.com/posts/opensource
David Bort writes on the Android page:
Even if you’re not planning to ship a mobile device any time soon, Android has a lot to offer. Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, and some of the best development tools I’ve ever worked with.
[via Ars Technica]
Tags: android, code, google, Open Source, release
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Intranet Journal has a conside article comparing open source and proprietary intranet software. T It is set to be a three part series, and atleast this first part is general enough to be applicable to most OSS vs. non-free choices.
The article covers the pros and cons in terms of:
- Freedom from “The Man”
- Cost of ownership
- Experienced support communities
- Software customization
- Product longevity
So if you need to convince someone to go with OSS instead of proprietary, take a look.
Intranet Journal
Tags: choice, intranet, Open Source, proprietary
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Is the adoption of open source systems being hindered by the rampant piracy of proprietary software?
So says Louis Suarez-Potts, the community manager at Sun Microsystems Inc. for the OpenOffice.org open-source project, who discussed the phenomenon here at the 10th annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention.
“Piracy hurts open source because open source asks people to help give back and contribute code, but they say, ‘Why should I help? I have Microsoft Office for free,’” Suarez-Potts said.
There is no direct financial loss to Open Office when someone has a pirated copy of Microsoft Office. To the extent that BSA enforcement actions cause fear in the market, that just benefits open source, so why join it?
On the other hand if we helped Oracle enforce its license terms we might accelerate the move to mySQL and Ingres.
ZDnet & Computer World
Tags: Open Source, piracy
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Netgear has announced a new open source wireless router today (the WGR614L) and has launched a new web community, MyOpenRouter.com.
The new portal site features a ton of articles, tutorials, downloads and community advice to support “Netgear’s open source router community.”
The WGR614L itself is being marketed as an “open-source router for Linux developers and open-source experts” on the Netgear site. The WGR614L is priced at an affordable $69 (or about 44€).
Netgear [via InformationWeek & ZDNet]
Tags: netgear, Open Source, router, wgr614l
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Linux Devices reports that OpenMoko has begun shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner (3D model) phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India.
Specifications:
- Processor: Samsung S3C2442 500MHz
- RAM: 128MB
- Flash: 256MB
- Display: 4.3″ diagonal 640 x 480 VGA Colour TFT LCD
- Graphics: SMedia 3362-based 3D graphics acceleration
- Accelerometers: 2 x 3D accelerometers
- Audio: “high-quality” audio codec
- USB: 1 x version 1.1
- Cellular: 2.5G tri-band GPRS/GSM (900MHz or 850MHz)
- WiFi: 802.11b/g WLAN
- Bluetooth: version 2.0
- GPS: AGPS (assisted global positioning system) receiver
LinuxDevices.com
Tags: neo freerunner, Open Source, openmoko
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
In an interview with Builder AU Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phipps admits that they “screwed up” with open source in 2001/2002.
“All [open source developers] can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite frank with you, we screwed up. We alienated a large group of open source developers by the attitudes we had of the community back then,” said Phipps.
Phipps says that Sun has since tried to remedy the situation with the “open sourcing Solaris, Java, the application server Glassfish, NetBeans and the rest of the portfolio.”
See Builder AU for a video of the interview.
Builder AU [via Slashdot]
Tags: Open Source, sun
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nokia announced to day that it is buying the remaining share of Symbian Limited that it doesn’t yet control for about 264 million euros. Nokia plans to turn Symbian over to to a newly created Symbian Foundation. Other members of the foundation include Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo.
The foundation is commited to moving Symbian to the open source realm within two years and plans to use the Eclipse Public License.
Press Releases:
[via Engadget]
Tags: nokia, Open Source, symbian
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
LinuxLinks.com has a fairly substantial list of free games available for Linux. In a two part series they cover a total of 84 games that meet their requirements, which are:
- Free to play (no download charge, no monthly charge)
- Does not require Wine to run. Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows software.
- Not in the early stages of development
The games range from action titles such as Nexuiz and Warsow, to game engines such as Sauerbraten and ScummVM. Surely this is a list from which any Linux user can find a game they like, but if it isn’t you can also check out the list of the 42 best commercial games available on Linux.
Update: LinuxLinks seems to be experiencing some problems and so it might be difficult to access the articles. The first of the articles can be seen through a Coral CDN mirror, but I’ve had no luck with the other.
Tags: Free, games, Open Source
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Everybody knows about Firefox, Open Office etc. But what about those less well known, but still very useful, open source programs? Well, here’s a Network World article that covers twenty of them.
- Angry IP Scanner
- Cobian Backup
- Filezilla Server
- FOG
- Groundwork Monitor
- H-Inventory
- jNetStream
- Juice
- Keyfinder
- LifeRay
- NetStumbler
- Paglo
- and more…
Network World
Tags: Open Source, windows
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Google has finally released the full source code of its Linux-based Android platform. The source files are available for download at: