Linux Journal - Breaking News

Mandriva 2009 Released Into the Wild

Justin Ryan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:54:42 -0700

Mandriva Linux — the seventh most-popular Linux distribution¹ — has just provided as good a reason as any for a popularity-push, with the unveiling of their latest release, Mandriva Linux 2009.

MySQL Founding Father Sails Into the Sunset

Justin Ryan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:01:22 -0700

It's commonplace, perhaps even de rigueur, for company executives to say their goodbyes when someone snatches up their firm mdsah indeed, if we sold our share for eleventy-billion dollars, we'd probably be inclined to take a long vacation too. This wasn't so, however, for MySQL, where the company execs kept right on going post-sale — at least until recently.

LinuxWorld Sheds Its Conference Cocoon

Justin Ryan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:58:35 -0700

The annual LinuxWorld conference is always a blast and a half for those who attend, especially the crew here at Linux Journal. Sadly, those halcyon days are over, as the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is no more. Weep not, however, as in its place has appeared a new event, the freshly-christened OpenSource World.

Beware What is Hiding in Your Laptop – And Who Wants to Look at It

Justin Ryan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:16:25 -0700

As many readers will likely know, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — for whom we're sure we could find many a fitting and unflattering nickname, if it wouldn't land us a all-expenses-paid visit to Gitmo — recently released guidelines for the U.S. Customs Service giving agents carte blanche to search and seize travelers' laptops without probable cause, including U.S. citizens, who once upon a time were protected from such things by the Fourth Amendment. After much — well-deserved — outrage, someone is finally doing something about it, in the persons of Senators Russ Feingold & Maria Cantwell, who introduced legislation last week to put the brakes on DHS's searchmobile.

GIMPs Are Popping Out All Over the Place

Justin Ryan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:26:05 -0700

It was just days ago that we learned that a UCLA sysadmin has discovered the largest known prime number — we'll spare a visual, as it's 13 million digits long — and possibly won $100,000 being offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Now today comes the release of version 2.6 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) — the follow-up to the 2.4 series, first released last October.

Linux Foundation Offers Up a Conference For Us All

Justin Ryan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0700

There are plenty of Linux & Open Source conferences each year for the enthused enthusiast to choose from — LinuxWorld, OSCON, Linux.conf.au to name just a few — but curiously, nothing open to the average user from the bastion of Linux advocacy, the Linux Foundation. That is until now, as the LF has recently announced it will be sponsoring an open-attendance conference of it's own starting next year.

Mama Mia – Italian Blogs Just Got a Lot Hotter

Justin Ryan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:23:28 -0700

Blogging is nothing new these days — it seems as if everyone and their grandma has a blog and is sharing whatever it is that winds them up with the world.

Linux Foundation Takes a Bite Out of Sun

Justin Ryan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:26:02 -0700

If you thought the Linux Foundation was just about spreading Linux Love and giving Linus a place to hack, fasten your seatbelt, because the gloves have come off and they're sharing just what they think.

New GNOME in the Open Source Garden

Justin Ryan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:29:05 -0700

It's that time again — yes, indeed the development cycle is up, and the good people behind the GNOME Desktop have just released a fresh version into the wild.

Android Walks Out of the Mist

Justin Ryan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:07:07 -0700

The first phone to implement Google's Open Source Android mobile platform — the eagerly-anticipated T-Mobile G1 — made its maiden voyage today, launching to the expected fanfare and with the surprise appearance of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin — on rollerblades.

Linux Foundation to Embrace Individuals With Open Arms

Justin Ryan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:42:44 -0700

If you've ever thought about becoming a member of the Linux Foundation — the not-for-profit organization responsible, among other things, for keeping Lead Penguin Linux Torvalds a'coding — then you might know it's been a bit of an expensive proposition in the past. The door has been opened a bit wider for individuals, however, as the Foundation is now offering an individual affiliate membership for the low, low price of just one easy payment of $49 per year.

Cisco Buddys Up to Jabber

Justin Ryan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:04:53 -0700

Cisco — rulers of all things network — have set their sights on something new, and they've gone out and gotten it. The it in this particular case is Jabber, Inc., the company responsible for building an enterprise offering around XMPP — the "Jabber" protocol — and the go out and getting happened yesterday, as Cisco announced that it intends to buy the 54-employee company before the end of next summer.

Linux a Loser, Says Symbian

Justin Ryan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:19:03 -0700

The mobile phone industry is nothing if not cutthroat, with each manufacturer — not to mention provider — doing everything they can to show up and stomp out its competition. What isn't usually seen, though, is an old-fashioned public call-out.

Breaking: Wikileaks Missing

Justin Ryan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:52:54 -0700

Breaking News has just learned that Wikileaks — the website utilized to post materials obtained from Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo mail account — is, for undisclosed reasons, no longer available online.

Anonymous Hacks Vice Presidential Candidate

Justin Ryan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:30:50 -0700

It must be Hacker Day here at Breaking News — as though the Large Hadron Collider being hacked wasn't enough, it has now been revealed that the group known as Anonymous has successfully hacked into the Yahoo email account of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and released at least some of its contents into the wild.