Blog Profile / Ostatic
| URL : | http://ostatic.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Programming / Open Source | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4710 | |
| Posts / Week: | 17.8 | |
| Archived Since: | April 22, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
OpenMandriva Picks Name, Releases Alpha
While the rest of Linuxdom was reading of the Debian 7.0 and Mageia 3 releases, the OpenMandriva gang have been hard at it trying to get their new distribution some attention. The OpenMandriva name was made official and an alpha was released into the wild. Show More Summary
Dell Changes Up OpenStack Cloud Plans
In a major announcement from Dell yesterday, the company announced that its public cloud ecosystem and strategy will be centered on partners Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag, and will emphasize recent acquisition Enstratius. The announcement...Show More Summary
Raspberry Pis Chained Together Provide Massive Computing Muscle
As we've covered before, when it comes to the top open source stories of the last 12 months, it's clear that one of the biggest is the proliferation of tiny, inexpensive Linux-based computers at some of the smallest form factors ever seen. Show More Summary
Maintain A Local Repo
NextStep4it has a nice little tutorial on setting up a local CentOS yum mirror using reposync. Maintaining a local mirror has several benefits, and is a recommended practice for maintaining even modest number of servers. Pointing all...Show More Summary
Chromium May Become Default Ubuntu Browser in Version 13.10
Ever since 2005, Ubuntu has delivered Mozilla's Firefox browser as its default browser, which has made millions of Ubuntu users loyal users of Firefox. But Firefox is hardly the only browser choice that Ubuntu users have. If you've tried Chromium--the open source core of Google's Chrome browser--you already know that it's fast, clean and very stable. Show More Summary
Samsung Calls Out Developers with $800,000 Galaxy S4 App Challenge
If you've been following recent market share numbers for smartphones and mobile operating systems, then you know that Samsung has achieved a dominant position with its Android phones, and especially the Galaxy line of phones. Now, Samsung...Show More Summary
Mageia 3 Released with Steamy Goodness
The third official release of, the popular Mandriva fork, Mageia is now available. After months of delays and a mountain of challenges, Patricia Fraser said, "We still can't believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we've been doing it for two and a half years." Like every new release, Mageia 3 comes chocked full 'o upgrades. Show More Summary
openSUSE 13.1 Off to the Races
The development cycle of openSUSE 13.1, codenamed "Bottle," was officially kicked off today when Andres Silva announced Milestone 1. He said, "As early version, it is expected that this Milestone is not fully functional or very stable. Show More Summary
Mozilla Needs More Time Before Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default
After much public discussion of the issue, Mozilla has decided to postpone blocking of third-party cookies by default in the next version of Firefox. As noted in this post, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) had raised a major stink...Show More Summary
Is Patenting Open Source Software The New Normal?
In an interesting new Outercurve Foundation blog post from Penn State professor Clark Asay, he discusses "the tactic of patenting open source software to guard against patent trolls and the weaponization of corporate patent portfolios...gaining...Show More Summary
Linux Mint 15 Most Ambitious Release Ever
Clement Lefebvre, Mint founder and lead, recently announced the public release of Linux Mint 15 Release Candidate. Mint 15 brings lots of fixes, two new tools, and several new features. In fact, Clem said, "Linux Mint 15 is the mostShow More Summary
Critical Linux Exploit In The Wild
If you run servers that provide shell accounts, it’s time to take some preventive measures. At least it is if you are running kernel versions 2.6.37 to 3.8.8, or if you are running RHEL 6 or a clone like CentOS, then the bug was backported to 2.6.32. Show More Summary
The Beginner's Guide to Inkscape
In the open source community focused on graphics tools, GIMP gets a great deal of attention, and there are many free online resources available for it, but if you're in search of an open source illustration tool that can compete with Adobe Illustrator and is increasingly useds by designers for effects, logos and still graphics, give Inkscape a try. Show More Summary
Google Touts Big Share for Chrome, and New Voice Search Plans
At this week's Google I/O conference, Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, announced that Chrome has reached the milestone of 750 million monthly users. This number is being misinterpreted by some to mean that 750 million people are using the Chrome browser on desktop computers. Show More Summary
KDE 4.11 Beginning to Take Shape
It's been just a week since KDE 4.10.3 was announced, but 4.11 is already reaching its first milestone freeze. TSDgeos reminded developers today that the 4.11 Soft Feature Freeze happens in just one more week. What does that mean for users? Soft feature freeze mean developers have to have any new feature plans on the official Feature Plans list. Show More Summary
The New Yorker's Strongbox Anonymity Application Has Some Notable Roots
The late web activist Aaron Swartz was famous for a number of things, but not everybody realizes that he created an anonymous electronic tip box application at the request of Wired magazine's Kevin Poulsen. In fact, you can read Poulsen's account of the story here. Show More Summary
Firefox 21 Arrives, Featuring Health Reports, More Social Features
Version 21 of Mozilla's Firefox browser is out for Windows, the Mac, Linux and Android. You can download the standard browser here, and get Firefox for Android here. If you're already a Firefox user, you should be automatically upgraded. Show More Summary
Antergos Erases Cinnarch with Inaugural Release
It was just little over a month ago that the Linux community learned that Cinnarch developers were giving up on using Cinnamon as their default desktop because Mint was "1 year behind with upstream code." With that a name-change would also be needed and 93% of the community agreed. Show More Summary
Unix Architecture Showing it's Age
High Scalability has a fascinating article up that summarizes a talk by Robert Graham of Errata Security, summarizing the development choices needed to support 10 million concurrent connections on a single server. From a small data center perspective, the numbers he is talking about seem astronomical, but not unbelievable. Show More Summary
IBM Focuses on Linux in China, Partnered with Red Hat and SUSE
In Beijing this week, IBM has announced that it is further extending its reach into China with the opening of its first Linux innovation center there. The center will initially be focused on Power Systems clients and business partners, and will be located inside IBM's China Systems Center. Show More Summary