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Comment fuuu (Score 0) 640

by kallisti5 (#34137836) Attached to: Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland
The first time I ' ssh -X ' and have it not work I will be seeking new desktop choices. Pretty much all Linux apps are written with X11 or Xorg in mind... since 99% of the apps will be running in *compatibility mode* I tend to wonder if GUI performance will drop like a rock. Go Go Ubuntu, your beginning to u-turn from my favorite os... Debian anyone?

Submission + - Clearwire throttling home users at 8GB (clear.com)

Submitted by kallisti5
kallisti5 writes: There are massive numbers of users reporting Clearwire/Clear throttling their WiMax/4G home users down to ridiculously slow 0.25Mbit Down speeds after their transfers for the month reach the lowly download limit of 8GB. Clearwire states they offer 3-6Mbit down Unlimited, however has recently clarified this to be "6-8Mbit down Unlimited up to 8GB". You can check out the reports here, here, here, here, and here.

Submission + - Rumblings in OpenSolaris land. (fork?) (illumos.org)

Submitted by kallisti5
kallisti5 writes: It looks as though an *official* fork of OpenSolaris may be under way, no details have been announced yet except for the following email...

"
Subject: [osol-announce] The Illumos Project
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:54:58 -0700
From: "Garrett D'Amore"
To: opensolaris-announce
Reply-To: mailer@opensolaris.org

A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have
been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we're
just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general
participation of, the general public.

We believe that everyone who is interested in OpenSolaris should be
interested in what we have to say, and so we invite the entire
OpenSolaris community to join us for a presentation on at 1PM EDT on
August 3, 2010.

You can find out the full details of how to listen in to our conference,
or attend in person (we will be announcing from New York City) by
visiting http://www.illumos.org/announce (The final details shall be
posted there not later than 1PM EDT Aug 1, 2010.)

We look forward to seeing you there!

— Garrett D'Amore & the rest of the Illumos Cast
"

Comment This is it folks, the sh*t's hitting the fan. (Score 0) 467

by kallisti5 (#32240816) Attached to: Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive
IPv6, Hard drives, multiple cpu cores... just too many Hz and bits. Who sees more then 2TB on a drive as a requirement at the moment? Drive manufactures are growing sizes faster then ever, do you REALLY want to trust 2TB of information to a single drive? Driver makers: Take a pause, catch your breath and work on access times, reliability, and pushing reforming drive technologies like GPT.
Canada

Canadian Libraries Want $300,000 To Buy Games 229

Posted by timothy from the but-nothing-that-can't-get-past-the-border dept.
AirborneGamer writes "The Toronto Public Library is asking for $300K to build up a collection of video games. They have not said if they will buy all types of games, or leave out the M-rated ones. As the City Councilor of Toronto said about the project, 'It may be the only time a young person comes in. It can act as a magnet to attract people. Once we get them in there, you can be darn sure that our librarians will be hard at work to introduce them to everything else the library can offer.' This is a good plan actually, and besides bringing kids into the library it will bring in parents and or guardians who otherwise may not visit the library on their own."
Open Source

Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! 650

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the and-proud-of-it dept.
superapecommando writes "There's a fantastic little story in the Guardian today that says a US lobby group is trying to get the US government to consider open source as the equivalent to piracy. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), an umbrella group for American publishing, software, film, television and music associations, has asked the US Trade Representative (USTR) to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and India for its 'Special 301 watchlist' because they encourage the use of open source software. A Special 301, according to Guardian's Bobbie Johnson is: 'a report that examines the "adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights" around the planet — effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure — often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods — to try and force governments to change their behaviors.'"

Comment Go for OpenSolaris as a dev machine. (Score 0) 405

by kallisti5 (#30255580) Attached to: OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD?
I'd say go for OpenSolaris.

The plus to learning OpenSolaris is that Solaris has a massive business market share compared to FreeBSD, working as a tech supporting an "enterprise" monitoring application which supports Solaris, FreeBSD, and others I can say this confidently. The most common use of Solaris right now is NFS file servers and Oracle database servers. Working with OpenSolaris will make it easy to get experience in both.

If your looking for something to replace your Debian box... don't do it, OpenSolaris is not Linux and you will find the learning curve and lack of software too much to handle on your primary box. If you are looking to learn a new non-linux os and have an extra moderately powered system to play with which is not your primary rig.. go for OpenSolaris. If you find bugs, be sure to report them to Sun.. they will usually respond within 2 days! I recommend using the latest and greatest image from genunix.org.
Google

Google Releases Chrome V2.0 381

Posted by timothy from the windows-only-tut-mir-leid dept.
RadiusK writes "Google has released the second major version of the Chrome browser. This version features more speed improvements thanks to a newer version of V8 JavaScript engine and WebKit. JavaScript-heavy web pages will now run about 30% faster. Other new features include form autofill, fullscreen mode, and improved New Tab page. If you're already using Google Chrome, you'll be automatically updated with these new features soon. If you haven't downloaded Google Chrome, you can get the latest version at google.com/chrome." A version for Linux or OS X would be nice.

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