Linux News: Community

Sun's OpenSolaris to Shine Through Amazon's Cloud

Monday - May 5, 2008

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community it created a few years ago have officially released the Unix-based OpenSolaris operating system into the wild. The two organizations shared the news at the CommunityOne Developer Conference Monday in San Francisco. OpenSolaris is based on Sun's Solaris kernel, but it has since been transformed into a more open and developer-friendly OS. "OpenSolaris is a massive advancement for OS development and deployment," noted Stephen Lau, an OpenSolaris Governing Board member. [More...]

Pondering the Reiser Fallout

Monday - May 5, 2008

After the exuberance that followed Hardy Heron's landing not long ago, the mood on the Linux blogs shifted considerably last week in the wake of the conviction of ReiserFS file-system designer Hans Reiser of first-degree murder. Before the highly publicized trial, Reiser and his team were working on Reiser4. [More...]

Sun Leads Developers Down the Open Storage Path

Thursday - May 1, 2008

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday brought new how-to guides and services to the community of more than 3,000 developers using its OpenSolaris-based open storage platform. Two how-to recipes aim to help developers build solid storage systems quickly and efficiently, while the new service capabilities are designed to speed open storage application development. [More...]

Social Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same Cloth

Tuesday - April 29, 2008

The ideas blend together so well. Open source has been around for a long time and is built on the concept of developers working together and sharing software. Social networking has broken into the headlines as a new generation uses MySpace and Facebook as a whole new means of sharing their life experiences. [More...]

Warning: Hardy Heron May Cause Linux Addiction

Monday - April 28, 2008

With the arrival of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron last week, it is perhaps an understatement to say that conversation on the Linux blogs was plentiful. The news was picked up on virtually every forum out there, including Slashdot (where more than 600 comments had already been made just a day after the release), the Linux Loop, All About Linux and Foogazi, to name just a few. [More...]

Taking On the Chinese Censorship Juggernaut

Sunday - April 27, 2008

If an Internet user in China searches for the word "persecution," he or she is likely to come up with a link to a blank screen that says "page cannot be displayed." The same is true of searches for "Tibetan independence," "democracy movements" or stranger sounding terms such as "oriental red space time" -- code for an anti-censorship video made secretly by reporters at China's state TV station. [More...]

Real Estate Wikis: A Leg Up in a Difficult Market

Friday - April 25, 2008

While Wikipedia may be the best known example, wikis are not only becoming the first place people turn when conducting online research, but also when they're looking to build specialist online communities. It's not surprising, then, that wikis dedicated to real estate are emerging. [More...]

Rough Going on the Way to a $100 Laptop

Thursday - April 24, 2008

The former president of the One Laptop Per Child project stepped down from his position earlier this week as the non-profit continues restructuring and faces competition from the private sector. Walter Bender directed the MIT Media Lab for six years before joining Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC project in 2006. [More...]

Facebook Catches Flak for Collaborative Translation Effort

Tuesday - April 22, 2008

The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billion by many estimates, got a good deal on going global. Its users around the world are translating Facebook's visible framework into nearly two dozen languages -- for free -- aiding the company's aggressive expansion to better serve the 60 percent of its 69 million users who live outside the United States. [More...]

Coding for Dollars - and Bragging Rights

Sunday - April 20, 2008

Jack Hughes, cofounder of TopCoder, admits that if he were to compete in one of his company's online computer programming competitions he'd be laughed off the screen. Hughes, a computer programmer, said his inability to write elegant code at cyber-speed doesn't bother him a whit. [More...]

Second Life: A Lot Like Kindergarten

Friday - April 18, 2008

Virtual worlds such as Second Life are like kindergarten playgrounds. That's not because the developers and devotees of those worlds are childish -- far from it -- but because basics of interpersonal relationships are still being worked out there. As businesses expand in those 3-D online environments, the potential for squabbling grows. [More...]

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