This is likely to be about XPS, the Microsoft XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's PS/PDF successor. I'd guess that Kyocera has written an XPS implementation for Linux, and wants to deploy it to support uses printing directly from XPS-enabled software. An open source XPS implementation was written within a few weeks of the release of the XPS spec -- maybe they're even just shipping that: http://www.ndesk.org/Xps
The spec is freely available, but the introductory paragraphs in the spec suggest that implementing it without licenses is not permitted.
It looks like the article authors do not know what they're talking about. Yes, Android does use WebKit and they are feeding patches to upstream at a fantastic rate, suggesting that they're sticking with WebKit in the long term. Given that Opera is not even a member of the OHA, this looks like some really bad journalism, or worse, product placement.
Remeber that the Mono project has already independently implemented large parts of Silverlight in their Moonlight implementation with little or no help from Microsoft. Microsoft's official support will definitely be helpful when it comes to test suites and some further details, ie. the "last few percent", but it has already been demonstrated that the community is entirely capable of implementing and maintaining this platform by itself.
Some strange withdrawal by Microsoft will not result in a significant loss of resources here, and will not get in the way of replacing the proprietary Flash platform with a more free alternative. Kudos to the Mono team -- they have played their cards well here.
It may have been sequenced, but it will be some time before we have the technology to truly "decypher" or unlock the meaning of these sequences. Strikes me as a sensationalist headline.
Wouldn't it be great to see an innovative new calculator design from HP to mark the 35th anniversary rather than a re-hashed "special edition" of some classic design?
The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software, the shadow chancellor has estimated.
George Osborne said the savings would cut 5% off Whitehall's annual IT bill.
What I found inspiring about the talk by a leading Conservative MP was that it emphasised not so much the savings of going Open Source, but that it embraced the idealogogy as a philosophy to run an entire government. I am not a Conservative, but this talk inspired my faith in UK politics as a whole.
She also was hoping that by being semi-anonymous "people could assume whatever they wanted and just focus on what I said, rather than on who was saying it. For that reason, I chose PJ, because it could be anyone, either sex, any nationality, anyone and no one in particular."
So basically TFA is saying that Pamela Jones is indeed not a real person. SCO has hit the nail on this one.
One of the goals of any operating system is to maximise efficient use of resources, so if it's not utilizing near 100% available CPU, the kernel is probably failing to efficiently schedule tasks and is leaving processes IO bound.
So in summary 75% CPU use at that kind of load is not impressive and doesn't sound at all competitive with the schedulers in Linux, Solaris and even Windows.
Nobody with any sense in the free software world has touched Mono
Right, that is why Debian GNU/Linux was the first to not only package Mono, include it in the distribution but also write a spec describing how packages using Mono can integrate right into the core of the system.
I won't go into how the gtk-sharp toolkit is one of the best maintained and most active language bindings for the gtk+ GUI toolkit incuded in GNOME today.
Free Software developers who haven't touched Microsoft Windows in years or who come from a completely UNIX background are happily writing desktop applications, system daemons and web applications using Mono today.
So, Bruce Perens, what on earth are you talking about?
My largest gripe with the agreement (as a contributor to Novell's open source projects) is that it will encourage the adoption of the overbearing GPL3 license. As the battle lines are drawn, open source and free software developers are going to polarise, and I suspect that this deal will only encourage the mass of developers to side with the FSF to get the protection that the new license affords, even if it restricts many fair uses that we've come to accept with GPL2.
Couldn't we have taken a little more time to work on these new licenses before forcing the issue to come out into the open? If Moglen decides that this is a violation of the GPL, the rules of the game will have changed for good, and it will probably only be a matter of time from there for GPL3 to gain credibility and critical mass for better or for worse.
Sure, but that's why every Debian developer has to have a GPG key. It's a requirement of the project, and GPG keys are proof of identity and revocable, and what's more, they can be used to sign SSH keys. That's how freedesktop.org works, and that's how Debian would have been working today if its hierarchy of command hadn't crumbled years ago and someone were actually in the position to mandate that logins should be done by PKI.
That said, pretty much everything else in the Debian project appears to work fine without centralised control -- it's just the little things like this that slip.
How much of a liability will PDF writing support be in the next generation of the Cairo graphics library?
Cairo with the PDF writing backend was set to ship with the next crop of distributions as the bugs have been pretty comprehensively fixed over the last few months.
It would be a shame if PDF writing support ends up tainting Linux distributions and slowing their adoption in large organisations. It seems that making at least a branch of Cairo without the PDF writing backend would be a good move for now.
The risk of having free distribution FTP sites, the free Ubuntu ShipIt service etc. threatened and forced to charge for the software they distribute because of PDF writing capabilities just seems too great.
Just imagine if all the work that has been going into cleaning up the behemoth OpenOffice codebase had instead been directed at an open source version of ApplixWare. Maybe the world would be a slightly better place today, but obviously the Applix guys have decided to take their office suite to the grave with them.
I don't see how you can call any of these Bluetooth features "cutting edge".. my Sony-Ericsson T630, now over two years old supports OBEX and all, as did its six precursors in the line. I've never met anyone with a phone that has cut-down features either.
This was surely the inevitable conclusion of Apple's x86 port all along? So if they knew the OS was going to be cracked and widely redistributed on the 'net, one wonders why they didn't just go ahead and offer ISO9660 images or links to BitTorrents of them on their own site. Looks like they missed an incredibly good opportunity to heighten public opinion of the company for no obvious reason.
It would have to be quite a 'USB to ethernet converter' to be able to work as a network interface through a gadget host controller (which is what I assume this is)..
People will argue about whether the quotation is accurate, but there's no doubt that Linus right now has more conservative views on intellectual property and the development of ideas than many in the software community, even proprietary software developers. You might call this hypocritical, considering how early releases of Linux were so closely modelled along the lines of Minix, including components like the cloning of the Minix filesystem with absolutely no modification or improvement on its design.
I don't really care. He's a kernel engineer and as long as his kernel continues to kick ass, I'll use his software. In the same way, I don't use GNU's silly excuse for a kernel, but think a lot of their politics is insightful and their userspace software unrivalled.
Actually, the article talks about "the Dell's Centrino WiFi circuitry". My emphasis on 'the', a definite pronoun, shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.
(Incidentally, open source drivers for Centrino wireless are available at ipw2100.)
Does this mean that the GStreamer media framework that Gnome has been adopting will now take the back seat in RedHat's Gnome distribution? Helix Player seems not to use the GStreamer infrastructure.
The most interesting thing is that Winer announced the withdrawal of service through a poorly recorded audio file. Could it be that he's been struck down with RSI?
Whatever the case, I think he could have shut down the service gracefully, perhaps handing it over to a friend or a third party rather than abruptly pulling the plug. But at the end of the day, he's only damaged his own reputation -- it's not the end of the world for anyone.
Yes, it's a testing candidate and not 0.9 at all. 0.9 is not out. Claiming to have reviewed 0.9 is misleading. From the page:
Firefox 0.9 RC now available
A testing candidate for the newest and best preview release of Mozilla's next generation browser is available for download - featuring a new theme for Windows and Linux and much more!
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This is likely to be about XPS, the Microsoft XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's PS/PDF successor. I'd guess that Kyocera has written an XPS implementation for Linux, and wants to deploy it to support uses printing directly from XPS-enabled software. An open source XPS implementation was written within a few weeks of the release of the XPS spec -- maybe they're even just shipping that: http://www.ndesk.org/Xps
The spec is freely available, but the introductory paragraphs in the spec suggest that implementing it without licenses is not permitted.
It looks like the article authors do not know what they're talking about. Yes, Android does use WebKit and they are feeding patches to upstream at a fantastic rate, suggesting that they're sticking with WebKit in the long term. Given that Opera is not even a member of the OHA, this looks like some really bad journalism, or worse, product placement.
Remeber that the Mono project has already independently implemented large parts of Silverlight in their Moonlight implementation with little or no help from Microsoft. Microsoft's official support will definitely be helpful when it comes to test suites and some further details, ie. the "last few percent", but it has already been demonstrated that the community is entirely capable of implementing and maintaining this platform by itself.
Some strange withdrawal by Microsoft will not result in a significant loss of resources here, and will not get in the way of replacing the proprietary Flash platform with a more free alternative. Kudos to the Mono team -- they have played their cards well here.
It may have been sequenced, but it will be some time before we have the technology to truly "decypher" or unlock the meaning of these sequences. Strikes me as a sensationalist headline.
Wouldn't it be great to see an innovative new calculator design from HP to mark the 35th anniversary rather than a re-hashed "special edition" of some classic design?
What I found inspiring about the talk by a leading Conservative MP was that it emphasised not so much the savings of going Open Source, but that it embraced the idealogogy as a philosophy to run an entire government. I am not a Conservative, but this talk inspired my faith in UK politics as a whole.
She also was hoping that by being semi-anonymous "people could assume whatever they wanted and just focus on what I said, rather than on who was saying it. For that reason, I chose PJ, because it could be anyone, either sex, any nationality, anyone and no one in particular."
So basically TFA is saying that Pamela Jones is indeed not a real person. SCO has hit the nail on this one.
One of the goals of any operating system is to maximise efficient use of resources, so if it's not utilizing near 100% available CPU, the kernel is probably failing to efficiently schedule tasks and is leaving processes IO bound.
So in summary 75% CPU use at that kind of load is not impressive and doesn't sound at all competitive with the schedulers in Linux, Solaris and even Windows.
Nobody with any sense in the free software world has touched Mono
Right, that is why Debian GNU/Linux was the first to not only package Mono, include it in the distribution but also write a spec describing how packages using Mono can integrate right into the core of the system.
I won't go into how the gtk-sharp toolkit is one of the best maintained and most active language bindings for the gtk+ GUI toolkit incuded in GNOME today.
Free Software developers who haven't touched Microsoft Windows in years or who come from a completely UNIX background are happily writing desktop applications, system daemons and web applications using Mono today.
So, Bruce Perens, what on earth are you talking about?
My largest gripe with the agreement (as a contributor to Novell's open source projects) is that it will encourage the adoption of the overbearing GPL3 license. As the battle lines are drawn, open source and free software developers are going to polarise, and I suspect that this deal will only encourage the mass of developers to side with the FSF to get the protection that the new license affords, even if it restricts many fair uses that we've come to accept with GPL2.
Couldn't we have taken a little more time to work on these new licenses before forcing the issue to come out into the open? If Moglen decides that this is a violation of the GPL, the rules of the game will have changed for good, and it will probably only be a matter of time from there for GPL3 to gain credibility and critical mass for better or for worse.
Sure, but that's why every Debian developer has to have a GPG key. It's a requirement of the project, and GPG keys are proof of identity and revocable, and what's more, they can be used to sign SSH keys. That's how freedesktop.org works, and that's how Debian would have been working today if its hierarchy of command hadn't crumbled years ago and someone were actually in the position to mandate that logins should be done by PKI.
That said, pretty much everything else in the Debian project appears to work fine without centralised control -- it's just the little things like this that slip.
How much of a liability will PDF writing support be in the next generation of the Cairo graphics library?
Cairo with the PDF writing backend was set to ship with the next crop of distributions as the bugs have been pretty comprehensively fixed over the last few months.
It would be a shame if PDF writing support ends up tainting Linux distributions and slowing their adoption in large organisations. It seems that making at least a branch of Cairo without the PDF writing backend would be a good move for now.
The risk of having free distribution FTP sites, the free Ubuntu ShipIt service etc. threatened and forced to charge for the software they distribute because of PDF writing capabilities just seems too great.
Your system is affected just as much as any other. Unless the machine is single-user, all other users on the system will be able to exploit VNC.
System administrators should understand that binding a service to loopback is not a valid means of sandboxing insecure software.
Just imagine if all the work that has been going into cleaning up the behemoth OpenOffice codebase had instead been directed at an open source version of ApplixWare. Maybe the world would be a slightly better place today, but obviously the Applix guys have decided to take their office suite to the grave with them.
I don't see how you can call any of these Bluetooth features "cutting edge".. my Sony-Ericsson T630, now over two years old supports OBEX and all, as did its six precursors in the line. I've never met anyone with a phone that has cut-down features either.
This was surely the inevitable conclusion of Apple's x86 port all along? So if they knew the OS was going to be cracked and widely redistributed on the 'net, one wonders why they didn't just go ahead and offer ISO9660 images or links to BitTorrents of them on their own site. Looks like they missed an incredibly good opportunity to heighten public opinion of the company for no obvious reason.
It would have to be quite a 'USB to ethernet converter' to be able to work as a network interface through a gadget host controller (which is what I assume this is)..
People will argue about whether the quotation is accurate, but there's no doubt that Linus right now has more conservative views on intellectual property and the development of ideas than many in the software community, even proprietary software developers. You might call this hypocritical, considering how early releases of Linux were so closely modelled along the lines of Minix, including components like the cloning of the Minix filesystem with absolutely no modification or improvement on its design.
I don't really care. He's a kernel engineer and as long as his kernel continues to kick ass, I'll use his software. In the same way, I don't use GNU's silly excuse for a kernel, but think a lot of their politics is insightful and their userspace software unrivalled.
Does the name 'git' strike anyone else as an odd name for a (kind-of) SCM system?
Or is this Linus making a not-so-subtle pot-shot at Larry McVoy?
I'm finding it difficult to see any non-male names on that list. Discuss.
More accurately, 'the' is a definite article.
Actually, the article talks about "the Dell's Centrino WiFi circuitry". My emphasis on 'the', a definite pronoun, shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.
(Incidentally, open source drivers for Centrino wireless are available at ipw2100.)
Does this mean that the GStreamer media framework that Gnome has been adopting will now take the back seat in RedHat's Gnome distribution? Helix Player seems not to use the GStreamer infrastructure.
The most interesting thing is that Winer announced the withdrawal of service through a poorly recorded audio file. Could it be that he's been struck down with RSI?
Whatever the case, I think he could have shut down the service gracefully, perhaps handing it over to a friend or a third party rather than abruptly pulling the plug. But at the end of the day, he's only damaged his own reputation -- it's not the end of the world for anyone.
Yes, it's a testing candidate and not 0.9 at all. 0.9 is not out. Claiming to have reviewed 0.9 is misleading. From the page:
Firefox 0.9 RC now available
A testing candidate for the newest and best preview release of Mozilla's next generation browser is available for download - featuring a new theme for Windows and Linux and much more!