2012: What a Year for Linux

Four reasons I like developing with open source code

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/four-reasons-i-like-developing-with-open-source-code-121210074506.html

 OpenSource.com:  Here are some of the reasons why I prefer to develop with open source code.

NASA utiliza OpenSource para gerenciar dados vindos de Marte

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/mkVgn4gsC6U/nl1351600050.html

Em notícia recente divulgada pele site Opensource.com apresenta como a NASA disponibiliza o conteudo disponibilizado pelo rover Curiosity que pousou em Marte em Agosto passado.

O grande desafio da NASA é deixar disponivel a qualquer momento e a partir de qualquer lugar os dados da exploração do rover Curiosity. Trata-se de um volume de tráfego de centenas de gigabits/segundo gerado por centenas de milhares de visualizações concorrentes.
A plataforma desenvolvida foi toda baseada em open source.

Notícia Completa: http://www.madeira.eng.br/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=602
Postada por: Frederico Madeira, fred[ARROBA]madeira.eng.br

Introducing pdf2htmlEX: converts PDF to HTML without losing format

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/introducing-pdf2htmlex-converts-pdf-to-html-without-losing-format-120905061002.html

github: pdf2htmlEX renders PDF files in HTML, utilizing modern Web technologies, aims to provide an accuracy rendering, while keeping optimized for Web display.

Why Linux Will Never Suffer From Viruses Like Windows

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/why-linux-will-never-suffer-from-viruses-like-windows-120904133958.html

 Hot Hardware: There seems to be a recurring phenomenon in the technology press, where any trojan that affects Linux or Macs becomes front page news.

How Twitter tweets your tweets with open source

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/how-twitter-tweets-your-tweets-with-open-source.html

ZDNet: Chris Aniszczyk, open-source manager at Twitter, explained just how much Twitter relied on open source and Linux at LinuxCon.

How to Make Your Linux PC Wake From Sleep Automatically

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/how-to-make-your-linux-pc-wake-from-sleep-automatically.html

HowToGeek: Want to put your Linux PC into sleep or hibernate mode and have it automatically wake at a specific time? You can easily do this with the rtcwake command, included by default with most Linux systems.

How to move from Windows to Linux?

URL: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/how-to-move-from-windows-to-linux/

Stack Exchange

This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites.

rincewind asks:

I need to reconcile these 2 facts:

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Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_luPCWpRBUE/linux-played-a-vital-role-in-discovery-of-higgs-boson

An anonymous reader writes "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. Linux systems are used every day in their analysis, together with hosts of open software, such as ROOT. Linux plays a major role in the running of their networks of computers (in the grid etc.) and it is used for the intensive work in their calculations."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Why Microsoft's Metro Push Is Good for Linux

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/why-microsofts-metro-push-is-good-for-linux.html

Datamation: The Windows 8 interface may prompt a certain group of users to adopt the Linux desktop.

Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu Uses GPL Code

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/r69bm9gdxJ8/stuxnetflameduqu-uses-gpl-code

David Gerard writes "It seems the authors of Stuxnet/Duqu/Flame used the LZO library, which is straight-up GPL. And so, someone has asked the U.S. government to release the code under the GPL. (Other code uses various permissive licenses. As works of the U.S. federal government, the rest is of course public domain.) Perhaps the author could enlist the SFLC to send a copyright notice to the U.S. government..."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Why Linux Doesn't Need Defragmenting

URL: http://www.linuxtoday.com/storage/why-linux-doesnt-need-defragmenting.html

HowToGeek: If you're a Linux user, you’ve probably heard that you don't need to defragment your Linux file systems.

The Facebook Phone Will Use Linux

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/mMZ2bPXufG8/vr.php

This shouldn't come as a terrible surprise, but the Facebook Phone looks like it will be running atop Linux...

DRM books need to disappear. NOW. (Or, my horrific experience with www.kalahari.com)

URL: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drm_books_need_disappear_now_or_my_horrific_experience_wwwkalaharicom

DRM turned a 10 minute purchase into a 2 and a half nightmare (and counting). I wanted to buy a book: I ended up in a journey which made it dead clear that in a sane world, there is absolutely no space for DRM-protected contents. The only real warning I have about this article is that it may make you feel sick.

Category: 

End users

Tagging: 

crack

drm

epub

adobe

License: 

Verbatim only

Linus Torvalds wins the tech. equivalent of a Nobel Prize

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-04-20-004-41-IN-KN

ZDnet: Linux Creator Linus Torvalds has won the Millennium Technology Prize. This is close as technology has to a Nobel Prize.

Munich mayor says switch to Linux is much cheaper and has reduced complaints

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-04-02-005-41-OS-DT

ComputerWorld UK: Monthly IT complaints dropped from 70 to a maximum of 46

How Linux is Built

A Call To "Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good"

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/xg1Ls9XcWFc/vr.php

Next week at the 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, two Qualcomm Atheros engineers will be speaking about their Linux device driver development experiences and will go as far as calling for all proprietary drivers to be killed for good. They talk not just about killing proprietary drivers for Linux, but for all operating systems. Can the plans they lay out to kill all proprietary drivers work or is this just a big pipe-dream?

Microsoft adiciona suporte a Git no CodePlex

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NoticiasLinux/~3/frgjk9fGmzY/nl1332813039.html

Git, o sistema distribuído de controle de versões (DVCS) criado por Linus Torvalds, se tornou tão prevalente no desenvolvimento de código aberto que até mesmo a Microsoft teve que adicionar suporte a ele em sua plataforma de hospedagem de projetos abertos. Agora novos projetos criados no Codeplex podem escolher entre Git, Mercurial e o Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), que também suporta clientes Subversion.
Em um post, Brian Harry, "Microsoft Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation", diz que o suporte a Git foi "a característica número 1 em pedidos para inclusão", com desenvolvedores pedindo isso desde 2008.

Post de Brian: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/03/22/the-future-of-codeplex-is-bright.aspx
Mais na fonte: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-s-CodePlex-adds-support-for-Git-1478835.html

Diga NÃO as patentes de software no Brasil!

URL: http://softwarelivre.org/portal/governos/diga-nao-as-patentes-de-software-no-brasil

Convidamos tod@s vocês contribuírem com este debate na lista pública do PSL-Brasil, e convidarem outras pessoas para postem no blog do "Patentes de Software, Não!

Além disso, vamos nos manifestar em massa diante da consulta pública do INPI no Diário Oficial da União.

Vamos enviar e-mail's para saesp@inpi.gov.br , nos manifestarmos por fax (0xx21) 3037-3638 ou ainda diretamente a uma das recepções do INPI.

NÃO vamos usar o formulário próprio em formato privativo da Microsoft sugerido pelo INPI (em .doc argh).

Usemos o formulário no formato padrão internacional odt, salvando o arquivo disponível neste link

Para acessar os procedimentos de exame, clique aqui

Bora lá galera!!

Agora já, não deixe pra depois.

'Anonymous' Linux sparks concerns

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-03-16-007-39-NW-RL

The H Open: "Anonymous vs. anonymous: a new Linux distribution targeted at hackers showed up on SourceForge yesterday, appearing to be from the Anonymous activist group."

65 Open Source Replacements for Security Software

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-03-14-009-41-SC-DT

Datamation: Open source apps for anti-virus, anti-spam, firewalls, encryption, security gateways and more.

PHP 5.4 Will Make the Web Faster

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-03-01-010-41-OS-DV

InternetNews: 35% faster sounds good to me.

Create a radio station in five minutes with Airtime 2.0 on Ubuntu or Debian

URL: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/create_radio_station_five_minutes_airtime_20_ubuntu_or_debian

Airtime is the GPLv3 broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management. It supports both soundcard output to a transmitter, and direct streaming to an Icecast or SHOUTcast server. Web browser access to the station's media archive, multi-file upload and automatic metadata import features are coupled with a collaborative on-line scheduling calendar and playlist management. The scheduling calendar is managed through an easy-to-use interface and triggers playout with sub-second precision.

Category: 

End users

Tagging: 

radio

audio

broadcast

ubuntu

debian

License: 

GPL

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2012-01-12-002-41-NW-HW

Register: Flying assassins upgraded after Windows virus outbreak