Alles over Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2009-07-25 23:18:28
Hugh Pickens writes "In the aftermath of Microsoft's recent decision to contribute 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community, Christopher Smart of Linux Magazine talked to Linus Torvalds and asked if the code was something he would be happy to include, even though it's from Microsoft. 'Oh, I'm a big believer in "technology over politics." I don't care who it comes from, as long as there are solid reasons for the code, and as long as we don't have to worry about licensing etc. issues,' says Torvalds. 'I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. I believe in open development, and that very much involves not just making the source open, but also not shutting other people and companies out.' Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. 'I agree that it's driven by selfish reasons, but that's how all open source code gets written! We all "scratch our own itches." It's why I started Linux, it's why I started git, and it's why I am still involved. It's the reason for everybody to end up in open source, to some degree,' says Torvalds. 'So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That's the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the "your" in question happens to be.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2009-02-09 01:58:57
mikesd81 writes "Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890. This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. Matias Palomec has a perl script you an use to see what time that will be for you: perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over February 13th, UNIX Time Will Reach 1234567890 | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2009-02-08 22:46:14
mikesd81 writes "Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890. This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. Matias Palomec has a perl script you an use to see what time that will be for you: perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-12-14 01:04:01
walterbyrd writes "Linux magazine has up a decent article comparing Gutsy Gibbon to Leopard. 'The stereotype for each OS is well known: Mac OS X is elegant, easy-to-use, and intuitive, while Ubuntu is stable, secure, and getting better all the time. Both have come a long way in a short time, and both make excellent desktops. So we have two great desktop operating systems out at roughly the same time. Let's see how they stack up against each other.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Linux as A Musician's OS? | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-05-07 18:00:32
lazyeye writes "Keyboard Magazine has an in-depth article about the state of music production on Linux. While it does introduce Linux to the average musician, the article does get into some of the available music applications and music-oriented Linux distributions out there. From the opening paragraph 'You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over How Do You Advocate Linux in 5 Minutes? | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-02-03 08:11:13
xtracto writes "I just returned from buying certain Linux magazine. While looking at the 'Computing' stand in the library, and right after I grabbed a copy of the Linux magazine, a guy asked me if I used Linux. After that, the man told me he had tried to use Linux, but he had found it difficult. I told him the first things that came to my mind: that it depended on the distribution (he tried Kubuntu). I recommended him to look for a Linux User Group near his hometown (he told me he didn't live near a city). What would you tell these kinds of people? Not so long ago, and to my surprise, a relative who is completely computer illiterate started talking about Linux, but the general thought is that 'it is harder than Windows'. How do you advocate Linux to people who are more comfortable using Windows?"
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Alles over Games for Windows Magazine hits newsstands | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-11-19 09:08:03
Filed under: Mac, PC, BusinessThe first-ever issue of Games for Windows: The Official Magazine (formerly Computer Gaming World) hit newsstands Friday. Weighing in at 134 pages, the magazine's new focus on games for Windows allows the editorial staff to focus on the PC as a platform to rival consoles "minus the annoying Linux and Mac noise" according to the magazine's editor.A few highlights from issue 01: Nice, light design. Most game magazines have a heavy, dark feel to them. GFW's art and layout are lighter and easier on the eyes, though almost all of the advertising is still annoyingly black. GFW's editor (Jeff Green) promises that Microsoft has no say in anything that his staff prints between the covers of the magazine. It's still an independent editorial venture, "despite that big honkin' Windows logo on the front cover." That's important. If you didn't care for the magazine before, it's unlikely that the renaming and new design will change your mind. The magazine's contents are still the same because it's still staffed by the same staff sitting in the same seats at the same desks covering the same games. This is the same book with a different cover. The most exciting change is GFW's new scoring system. In a ballsy move, GFW has recalibrated their score system: a score of 5 out of 10 is "average." Anything above a five is "above average" and anything below five is "below average." Games that previously might have earned 8 or 9 might now be earning scores of 6 or 7! Let's see how long they'll stick to their guns on this one, as they're sure to catch a lot of heat from game publishers. Stay strong, guys! You're on the side of the gamer with this change. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Source: http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~3/51185934/ Vladimir Cole http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/67319
Alles over Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?" | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2006-10-23 18:45:45
frdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article speculating that Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him. Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing great turmoil for the people around him.'"
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Alles over Will Stallman Kill the 'Linux Revolution'? | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2006-10-23 02:41:00
frdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article speculating that Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him. Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing great turmoil for the people around him.'"
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Alles over Linux to get reliable NTFS read/write support | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Neowin.net | 2006-08-02 03:11:36
Thanks to danwarne for submitting this to the newsdeskLinux users have long had the ability to read NTFS partitions inside Linux using Linux-NTFS and while it has technically been possible to write to NTFS partitions, this feature came with a big scary warning in the kernel. An alternative solution has existed, Captive NTFS, that requires users to use the original NTFS.SYS file to read and write data from a NTFS volume. This solution has some legal issues and, since an original file from Microsoft is required, a working solution cannot be included "out of the box" with Linux distributions.Members of the original Linux-NTFS team have now created a promising new solution for using NTFS formatted drives in Linux without the use of any Microsoft code, drivers or files. Finally, Linux users will have reliable ability to both read and write reliably to Microsoft 's NTFS filesystem, using this new driver that is currently in beta. APC Magazine has tested stability and speed of the new driver, NTFS-3g, and found it works flawlessly but that the performance when writing data, in particular, was slow (10 minutes to write a 2GB file).This is big news for desktop Linux users who dual boot between Windows and Linux. It also means that users of external hard drives will no longer have to deal with the artificial 32GB size limit on FAT32 formatted drives. News source: APC Magazine Read full story...
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