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+-   Video Medion 2MP USB WebCam UnBoxing -> on Saturday November 21, @09:37PM timmy1980

Submitted by timmy1980 on Saturday November 21, @09:37PM
gui
timmy1980 writes "Live Action Video about UnBoxing & Test in Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala a Medion 2MP USB WebCam that cost $29 from ALDI Supermarket. Medion model is P86004 MS 86061"
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Comments: 1 +-   Fedora 12's package installation policy tightened-> on Friday November 20, @12:26AM AdamWill

Submitted by AdamWill on Friday November 20, @12:26AM
redhat
AdamWill writes "In response to Slashdot's earlier story about Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see the official announcement and the development mailing list post for more details."
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Comments: 7 +-   Linus Torvalds suggested for Nobel Peace Prize-> on Thursday November 19, @10:52PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @10:52PM
linux
An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..."
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+-   Whats new in Fedora 12-> on Thursday November 19, @02:36PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @02:36PM
linux
An anonymous reader writes "A detailed look at Constantine — The twelfth version of Fedora is equipped with a current and comprehensive selection of software packages that offer a whole range of technological advancements. Several of the new features, which include extended hardware support for kernel-based mode setting (KMS), 3D support for recent Radeon graphics cards, and the emerging KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging), are also likely to turn up in other Linux distributions in the near future"
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+-   Local users get to play root on Fedora-> on Wednesday November 18, @02:59PM eqisow

Submitted by eqisow on Wednesday November 18, @02:59PM
security
eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packaged without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing list thread that is, as of this writing, over 100 posts long.

The arguments for both sides can be seen on Red Hat's bugzilla as well as on the mailing list, but what does the Slashdot community think? Was this a good move or should it be reverted? Should there have been more discussion on the subject sooner?"
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Comments: 1 +-   Fedora 12 released-> on Tuesday November 17, @11:38AM AdamWill

Submitted by AdamWill on Tuesday November 17, @11:38AM
redhat
AdamWill writes "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in a hurry. The full release announcement has details on the major features, and the release notes contain comprehensive information on changes in this new release. Known issues are documented on the common bugs page."
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Comments: 3 +-   Linux contractor fired for using Firefox on Linux-> on Tuesday November 17, @12:31AM mariushm

Submitted by mariushm on Tuesday November 17, @12:31AM
security
mariushm writes "A US Linux technician received a contract proposal from a big company (with three letters in its name) to patch more than 1000 Linux servers with some proprietary SAN access software. After about a month of grueling process of approval, he came to the very last step...a simple competency test to be taken online. He was given the URL and instructed to complete the test and notify the Project Manager at the computer company with three letters in their name when finished.
However, upon accessing the website, he found out the page would not render at all and upon an inquiry he received the answer from the Project Manager (of the three letter company)that the website will not run on Linux using Firefox and that he will receive a laptop with Windows and VPN software to complete the test.
While waiting for the laptop, he sent an email asking the website administrators for the reason why the page does not load on Firefox/Linux and the company with three letters in the name promptly fired him for "refusing to use Windows and Internet Explorer" and blackballed him from future projects."
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+-   Free Software for All Russian Schools in Jeopardy-> on Sunday November 15, @03:18PM Glyn Moody

Submitted by Glyn Moody on Sunday November 15, @03:18PM
education
Glyn Moody writes "Last year, Slashdot reported on a Russian plan to install free software in all its schools. Seems things aren't going so well. Funds for the project have been cut back, some of the free software discs already sent out were faulty and — inevitably — Microsoft has agreed a "special price" for Windows XP used in Russian schools."
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+-   The Hail Mary Cloud is Growing -> on Sunday November 15, @09:19AM badger.foo

Submitted by badger.foo on Sunday November 15, @09:19AM
security
badger.foo writes "The .au Rickrolling of jailbroken iPhones only goes to prove that bad passwords are bad for you, Peter Hansteen points out before he reports on the further exploits of password-guessing Hail Mary Cloud (previously /.ed here). The article contains log data that could indicate that the cloud of distributed password guessing hosts is growing."
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+-   Crucial times for Free Software in India-> on Saturday November 14, @02:27AM smyrnensis

Submitted by smyrnensis on Saturday November 14, @02:27AM
it
smyrnensis writes "The information technology (IT) industry in India is bitterly divided over the issue of technological standards to be adopted in e-governance processes. This problem stems from the fact that large, state-funded e-governance projects in the pipeline present the recession-hit IT sector with substantial business opportunities. With the guidelines for setting these standards being finalised by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) under the National Policy on Open Standards for E-Governance, the debate on the nature of the standards – critical to the effective delivery of public e-services – is hotting up. Intense lobbying is on by those in favour of proprietary standards and by the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement, which is against it."
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+-   Dual Boot USB stick with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10-> on Friday November 13, @10:32AM zvrk

Submitted by zvrk on Friday November 13, @10:32AM
microsoft
zvrk writes "I setup on doing a dual boot (or hopefully dual boot + dual install) of Windows and Ubuntu on USB stick. This proved to be more challenging than I would expect, so I'll try to outline what my conclusions are and how to make dual boot stick."
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Comments: 1 +-   OpenSUSE 11.2 released on Thursday November 12, @09:21AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12, @09:21AM
linux
An anonymous reader writes "openSUSE 11.2 is available for download now. Their servers are predictably slow so here are some links to the bittorrent links

DVD 32-bit: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/iso/openSUSE-11.2-DVD-i586.iso.torrent
DVD 64-bit: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/iso/openSUSE-11.2-DVD-x86_64.iso.torrent"
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+-   Scientists unveil lightweight rootkit protection-> on Wednesday November 11, @03:33AM DangerFace

Submitted by DangerFace on Wednesday November 11, @03:33AM
security
DangerFace writes "Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance. The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a guest OS to a dedicated page-aligned memory space that's tightly locked down. The team installed HookSafe on a machine running Ubuntu 8.04, and found the system successfully prevented nine real-world rootkits targeting that platform from installing or hiding themselves. The program was able to achieve that protection with only a 6-percent reduction in performance benchmarks."
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+-   SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day-> on Tuesday November 10, @04:59AM eldavojohn

Submitted by eldavojohn on Tuesday November 10, @04:59AM
linux
eldavojohn writes "In July, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) leveled the finger at Microsoft for a GPL violation but how often does this actually happen? Sunday, Brad M. Kuhn (tech director at the SFLC) stated in his blog that since August of 2009 he has been finding about one per day. So why is it that we have only covered a handful of these cases in the news? Brad offers sage wisdom surprisingly recommends, "Don't go public first. Back around late 1999, when I found my first GPL violation from scratch, I wanted to post it to every mailing list I could find and shame that company that failed to respect and cooperate with the software freedom community. I'm glad that I didn't do that, because I've since seen similar actions destroy the lines of communication with violators, and make resolution tougher." Public shame is evidently not always the best answer. Ars has a few more details and notes that (in accordance with Brad's advice) lawsuits are usually a dead last resort."
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+-   MythTV 0.22 Released on Sunday November 08, @02:23PM uyguremre

Submitted by uyguremre on Sunday November 08, @02:23PM
media
uyguremre writes "After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV announced that MythTV 0.22 is now available. There have been a lot of large changes since 0.21, including a port from Qt v3 to Qt v4 and a major UI rewrite to convert to MythTV's new MythUI user interface libary.
As always, this release adds support for some new hardware, in this case VDPAU video acceleration, DVB-S2, and the Hauppauge HD-PVR. The MythUI toolkit allows themes much greater control over the user interface and today we're announcing a competition to design new themes for MythTV. With the new release comes a theming competition too.
For a more complete list of changes and new features, read the Release Notes on the wiki."
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+-   How Google Uses Linux-> on Friday November 06, @11:19PM postfail

Submitted by postfail on Friday November 06, @11:19PM
google
postfail writes "lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit (http://lwn.net/Articles/KernelSummit2009/) includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers and how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features."
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+-   Ryan grounds FatELF on Thursday November 05, @12:11PM recoiledsnake

Submitted by recoiledsnake on Thursday November 05, @12:11PM
linux
recoiledsnake writes "A few years after the Con Kolivas fiasco, the FatELF project to implement the 'universal binaries' feature for Linux that allows a single binary file to run on multiple hardware platforms has been grounded. Ryan C. Gordon, who has ported a number of popular games and game servers to Linux, has this to say: "It looks like the Linux kernel maintainers are frowning on the FatELF patches. Some got the idea and disagreed, some didn't seem to hear what I was saying, and some showed up just to be rude. I'll definitely think twice before trying to contribute again, especially if it addresses the status quo. Open source is a lot more gratifying when you are working on your own project. Contributing to other projects? Not so much fun, it turns out." The launch of the project was recently discussed here.. The FatELF project page and FAQ are still up."
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+-   Mandriva Linux 2010 code name Adelie is finally ou-> on Wednesday November 04, @03:53PM ennael

Submitted by ennael on Wednesday November 04, @03:53PM
mandriva
ennael writes ""We finally did it. Mandriva Linux 2010 is out and comes with many improvements and innovations. We still go on supporting in same level of integration GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2. Support for netbooks is improved as users can now easily test Moblin 2.0 environment. "Smart desktop" coming from european research is now fully integrated and is the first real working semantic desktop. Mandriva Control Center also bring improvements in tools: new netprofile management tool, gui for Tomoyo security framework, parental control,...

A big thank to our community who worked hard and made this release possible.

Release Notes : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Notes
2010 Tour : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Tour" Link To Original Source"
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+-   litl, unmasked-> on Wednesday November 04, @03:29PM cananian

Submitted by cananian on Wednesday November 04, @03:29PM
gnome
cananian writes "The webbook company of Gnome's own Havoc Pennington (with a healthy dose of ex-Nokia and ex-OLPC engineers) finally shed its secrecy today, with a new web site and an article in the WSJ. Technical specs on the hardware were found by engadget last week, and now comes a bit more information on the software behind the UI. Most of the client software is written in JavaScript with GTK/Clutter bindings, and the UI has some superficial similarities with Pentagram's designs for OLPC's Sugar."
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+-   Mandriva Linux 2010 code name Adelie is finally ou-> on Wednesday November 04, @02:00PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04, @02:00PM
mandriva
An anonymous reader writes "We finally did it. Mandriva Linux 2010 is out and comes with many improvements and innovations. We still go on supporting in same level of integration GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2. Support for netbooks is improved as users can now easily test Moblin 2.0 environment. "Smart desktop" coming from european research is now fully integrated and is the first real working semantic desktop. Mandriva Control Center also bring improvements in tools: new netprofile management tool, gui for Tomoyo security framework, parental control,...
A big thank to our community who worked hard and made this release possible.

Release Notes : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Notes
2010 Tour : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Tour"
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