Comment Re:Penalties (Score 1) 657
Yup, they are all patently stupid.
Comment Oh yeah... (Score 1) 186
I'm a PC...
Windows with no boundaries... er.. well...um...
Submission + - SPAM: Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research
narramissic writes: "A Dutch university has received a 2.5 million (US$3.3 million) grant from the European Research Council to fund 5 more years of work on a Unix-type operating system, called Minix, that aims to be more reliable and secure than Linux or Windows. The latest grant will enable the three researchers and two programmers on the project to further their research into a making Minix capable of fixing itself when a bug is detected, said Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit. 'It irritates me to no end when software doesn't work,' Tanenbaum said. 'Having to reboot your computer is just a pain. The question is 'Can you make a system that actually works very well?''"
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Submission + - Gnash Raising Funds for OpenStreetMap Support (linuxfund.org)
LFI writes: "Gnash Developers and Linux Fund Raise Funds for OpenStreetMap Bounties
Linux Fund has expanded its partnership with the Gnash media player team to bring OpenStreetMap editing support to the open source Flash® player, Gnash. This work will also improve YouTube compatibility and joins Linux Fund's existing effort to bring the Real Time Messaging Protocol support to Gnash. OpenStreetMap. the free wiki world map, is an editable map of the whole world built by community contributions. To contribute and donate towards the Gnash OSM support see the Linux Fund website.
In addition to contributing directly towards the OSM bounty, community members can contribute to all Linux Fund support projects by applying for a Linux Fund credit card. Linux Fund card holders contribute to funding and development of open-source software projects with each credit card transaction. To apply for a card see the Linux Fund website today.
Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides financial and supervisory support to the free and open software community. Linux Fund raises funds with its line of rewards credit cards and direct donations, and has given over half a million dollars to open source projects since its founding in 1999."
In addition to contributing directly towards the OSM bounty, community members can contribute to all Linux Fund support projects by applying for a Linux Fund credit card. Linux Fund card holders contribute to funding and development of open-source software projects with each credit card transaction. To apply for a card see the Linux Fund website today.
Linux Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides financial and supervisory support to the free and open software community. Linux Fund raises funds with its line of rewards credit cards and direct donations, and has given over half a million dollars to open source projects since its founding in 1999."
Submission + - Full Circle Magazine - Issue 24 - The two year ann (fullcirclemagazine.org) 1
mrmonday1 writes: Full Circle Magazine — the independent magazine for the Ubuntu community — is proud to announce the release of its two year anniversary, issue 24. And to celebrate their second birthday, issue 24 boats a more colourful layout and more pages. The 43 page PDF has articles on cron, programming in C, installing and configuring MAME and a new series of articles on Inkscape. You could also win one of three copies of Ubuntu Unleashed!
Submission + - Google funds Wine to improve Photoshop use
Justin-the-computer-goon writes: FROM Tectonic.co.za
In an email to the Wine mailing list late last week, Google software engineer Dan Kegel described how Google has been contracting the CodeWeavers Wine team to improve support for PhotoshopCS on Linux and how Google employees are using their free time to fix Wine bugs.
Kegel writes:
"Google uses Wine primarily as the basis for the Linux port of our photo management software, Picasa. In fact, the Linux version is exactly the Windows build of Picasa, bundled with a lightly patched version of Wine. Most of the work in that port was to improve Wine so it could handle Picasa, and that work is still going on. Codeweavers did the initial port, and Googlers Lei Zhang, Nigel Liang, and Michael Moss are improving Wine further for Picasa 2.7."
In a survey a year ago Photoshop was the application voted to be the most important application to port to Linux. Wine is an emulation application tat allows users to run Windows software on Linux.
"Google also sponsored some work by Codeweavers to improve support for Photoshop ('cause so many people want it) and for Dragon Naturally Speaking ('cause even Linux users get RSI). While not yet perfect, those apps are a lot more usable now as a result. In particular, Photoshop CS and CS2 are quite usable indeed. (See http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobePhotoshop for details.)," Kegel writes.
Kegel also points out that he and other Google employees are using their 20% time to work on and fix Wine bugs. Google famously allows its employees to use 20 percent of their time to work on projects of their own interest.
More details on Google's work on Wine can be found here.
Comment Re:Secure? Sure. (Score 1) 175
I've had much better experiences installing Linux than with Windows. And I started out with dos 3.3. The most significant advantage is that these days usually all the drivers for your hardware are included in the kernel.
Installing Windows is easy enough. Its the hours of tracking down drivers and applications after installing that is a pain in the backside.
Comment Re:For How Long? (Score 1) 289
Yup. I'm proud to belong to the 0.000000001% of ordinary users who buy PCs without an OS.
We are growing in number to! Last year it was at 0.0000000001%
