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Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” Frozen

edesio writes with a snippet from debian-news.net, trumpeting an announcement from the ongoing DebConf10 in NYC: "Debian's release managers have announced a major step in the development cycle of the upcoming stable release Debian 6.0 'Squeeze': Debian 'Squeeze' has now been frozen.

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DIY Graphing Calculator Is Built From Open Source Hardware

A home-brewed graphing calculator uses entirely open source hardware to create the ultimate status symbol for geeks and quant jocks.

Wired News

New iConji Language For the Symbol-Minded Texter

billdar writes "As texting evolves into its own language, a Northern Colorado Business Review article covers an ambitious project to develop a new symbol-based language called iConji for mobile texting and online chatting.

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MythTV 0.23 Released

An anonymous reader writes "After six months of our new accelerated development schedule, MythTV 0.23 is now available. MythTV 0.23 brings a new event system, brand new Python bindings, the beta MythNetvision Internet video plugin, new audio code and surround sound upmixer, several new themes (Arclight and Childish), a greatly improved H.264 decoder, and fixes for analog scanning, among many others.

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Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu

Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit, Mark Shuttleworth presented a few upcoming Ubuntu projects, including "Light" versions of the operating system for "both netbook and desktop, that are optimized for dual-boot scenarios." Shuttleworth also took the wraps off Unity, a new lightweight interface that will be included in Ubuntu Light and eventually in Ubuntu Netbook Edition as well.

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Ubuntu Linux is Missing the Steve Jobs Touch

The alternative PC operating system is speedy and stable, but it's still too easy to get lost in Linux-land

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, the Oracle/Sun conglomerate has denied public download access to all service packs for Solaris unless you have a support contract. Now, paying a premium for gold-class service is nothing new in the industry, but withholding critical security updates smacks of extortion.

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Novell Says Purchase Offer From Elliott ‘Inadequate’ (Update1)

Novell Inc. said a $5.75-a-share acquisition offer from Elliott Associates LP is “inadequate” and undervalues the maker of Linux operating-system software. .

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64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha

Luchio writes "Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bit enthusiasts! As noted, 'this is a prerelease version,' so handle with care.

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Symbian Goes Open Source

On Feb. 4, the Symbian Foundation will release the first completely open-sourced version of its mobile phone operating system, a move it hopes will make it easier for developers to improve the software and create applications for use on Symbian-based phones.

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SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access

Recently there were some complaints from certain users outside the US stating that they were no longer able to access SourceForge.net. SF.net (who shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) has outlined the reasons for these bans, and until someone with sufficient power to alter US law or the lists governing who is allowed to access what data from where, there is unlikely to be a change in these bans.

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Red Hat Chief Says Demand for Software Is Rebounding (Update2)

Red Hat Inc., the Linux software maker whose sales and profit in the latest quarter exceeded analysts’ estimates, said demand for its products is reviving, especially in North America.

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

How Oracle Disarmed EU Critics

A pledge in Oracle's commitments to European regulators would continue to license MySQL, a key Web site software, for five years after Sun is acquired

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Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” Frozen

Microsoft Adds OpenStreetMap Layer to Bing Maps

Microsoft's Bing Maps now offers an OpenStreetMap data layer. Bing users can download the new feature from the App Gallery that makes the maps from the popular open source project fully searchable in the browser. .

Wired News

The Economist Calls For “Open Source” Biology

Socguy writes "With the announcement earlier this week that a team of researchers has created the first artificial life, The Economist has been pondering the implications of what this brave new frontier means when the power to build living organisms filters through to anyone with a laptop.

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Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work?

An anonymous reader writes "I am a recent graduate, and I've been working on my own on a project that uses GPL-licensed libraries. Later a university department hired me, on a part-time basis, to develop this project into a solution that they needed.

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Hacking Vim 7.2

briancarper writes "Vim is an open-source text editor with a power and flexibility matched only by the steepness of its learning curve. As the author of this book states, 'Vim Can Do Everything' but configuring it to do so is sometimes daunting.

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Microsoft’s CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment

badpazzword writes "Microsoft employee Garrett Serack announces he has received the green light to work full time on CoApp, an .msi-based package management system aiming to bring a wholly native toolchain for OSS development and deployment.

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Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials?

QuaveringGrape writes "After a few years of Python I've recently been trying to expand my programming knowledge into the realm of compiled languages. I started with C, then switched over to C++.

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Former MySQL Chief Lands at Eucalyptus

Marten Mickos has opted to run another high-flier in the open-source software world.

New York Times

Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus’s Law

root777 writes to point out a provocative blog piece by a Microsoft program manager, questioning one of the almost unquestioned tenets of open source development: that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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Dell Buys Magnum Photo Print Archive Valued Over $100 Million

Billionaire Michael Dell’s investment firm, MSD Capital LP, has acquired about 185,000 vintage photographic prints from the Magnum Photos agency in what is thought to be among the largest photo transactions in history.

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

Mozilla Tries New “Lorentz” Dev Model

With the recent release of Firefox 3.6, Mozilla has also decided to try out a new development model dubbed "Lorentz." A blend of both Agile and more traditional "waterfall" development models, the new methodology aims to deliver new features much more quickly while still maintaining backwards compatibility, security, and overall quality.

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Red Hat Chief Says Demand for Software Is Rebounding (Update1)

Oracle Soothes EU with Offer in Sun Deal

The software giant's $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems could clear European antitrust cops after Oracle agreed to invest in Sun's MySQL database

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More Than 10% of Mozilla Bug Finders Refuse Cash

angry tapir writes "The open-source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash.

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Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris

suraj.sun sends in this news from The Register. "If you were hoping that someone would fork the OpenSolaris operating system, you are going to have to settle for a spork.

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Mandriva Up For Sale

The French company that creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution is up for sale. The news about Mandriva SA originally surfaced on a French Mandriva portal, and was confirmed by one of the potential buyers.

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13 Open Source Hardware Companies Make $1+ Million

kkleiner writes "Selling products whose design anyone can access, edit, or use on their own is pretty crazy. It's also good business. At the annual hacker conference Foo Camp East this year, Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried from Adafruit Industries gave a rapid fire five-minute presentation on thirteen companies with million+ dollar revenues from open source hardware.

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MTV Could Break the Live Online Music Deadlock

Live music and the internet are not natural bedfellows, but they are starting to forge an uneasy friendship. And on the cutting edge again is MTV, the company that sparked the music video revolution in 1981 and is now quietly ramping up its live internet streams. .

Wired News

Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google

kai_hiwatari writes "Sometime back Canonical decided to change the default search in Firefox that comes Ubuntu 10.04 to Yahoo! from Google. In a surprising turn-around, Canonical have decided to a ditch Yahoo! for Google.

Slashdot

Open Source Is Not a Democracy

itwbennett writes "A recent kerfuffle within the Ubuntu community serves as a reminder of an inconvenient truth: open source is not a democracy, writes blogger Brian Proffitt.

Slashdot

Myst Online: Uru Live Returns As Free-To-Play

agrif writes "Shorah b'shemtee! Uru Live has been released for free, as a first step towards opening its source. This game, an MMO released by the makers of Myst and Riven in 2003, has been canceled, zombified, resurrected, canceled again, and is now about to be released as open source to its dedicated fan base.

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Google’s Android to Run Bug Labs Devices, Expand Beyond Phones

Google Inc.’s Android open-source operating system will run on Bug Labs Inc. devices, expanding its hardware lineup and developer community beyond mobile phones and netbooks. .

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

Dell Buys Magnum Photo Print Archive Valued Over $100 Million

The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans

waderoush writes "The secrecy surrounding the expected Apple tablet computer is only the latest example of the company's famously closed and controlling culture. Yet millions of designers, musicians, and other creative professionals love their Apple products, and the Apple brand is almost synonymous with free-thinking creativity.

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Red Hat Chief Says Demand for Company’s Software Is Rebounding

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Where To Start With DIY Home Security?

secretrobotron writes "I'm a recent university graduate from a co-op system which has kept me on the move every other semester, so I've never really had a permanent place to live, and I've never had the opportunity (or the capital) to buy expensive things.

Slashdot

Making Open-Source Software Free and Fabulous

Apple has schooled the mobile software industry on the need for good design. Companies that have embraced Linux should take heed .

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

Why Google Needs To Pull the Plug On Chrome OS

judeancodersfront writes "It's time for Google to realize that it is way too early to be pushing an OS that only provides a browser. If Chrome OS fails on netbooks it will just make OEMs even more hesitant to use a Linux-based OS instead of Windows.

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Console Makers Fight Back Against Piracy

Some PC game developers believe that up to 90 percent of the people playing their titles never paid for them. The gaming industry's Big Three — Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft — are in attack mode. .

Wired News

Ex-Hacker’s Dizzying Fall From Wall Street to Prison

"Unix Terrorist" hacker Stephen Watt went straight and put his past behind him -- until a friendly favor landed him in the biggest hacking prosecution in U.S.

Wired News

IBM Faces New EU Competition Complaint on Mainframes (Update1)

International Business Machines Corp. was named in a complaint in the European Union over claims it is blocking consumer access to open-source mainframe software developed by Paris-based TurboHercules SAS. .

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System

Milo_Mindbender writes "I've recently gotten ahold of an old Altos 586 Xenix system (a late '80s Microsoft flavor of Unix) that has one of the first multi-user BBS systems in the US on it, and I want to salvage the historical BBS posts off it.

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Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical

A week after the announcement that open source advocate and blogger Matt Asay is leaving Alfresco for Canonical, in the role of COO, Matt has agreed to answer your questions about his role at Canonical, his vision for the future of Ubuntu, or the prospects for open source as we begin to emerge from recession.

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The Story Behind the Legendary Magnum Archive Sale

The famous Magnum photo archive, including prints from seminal talent such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Ernst Haas and Eve Arnold, finds a new home in Texas.

Wired News

In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits

In the new age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design, all you need to conquer the world is a brilliant idea, says

Wired News

GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar

kfogel writes "GNU Emacs, one of the oldest continuously developed free software projects around, has switched from CVS to Bazaar. Emacs's first first recorded version-control commits date from August, 1985.

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Red Hat Chief Says Demand for Company’s Software Is Recovering

Red Hat Inc., the Linux software maker whose earnings exceeded analysts’ estimates last quarter, said demand for its products is rebounding, particularly in North America.

BusinessWeek.com -- Technology

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