15 most influential people in the world of open software by eWeek

The edition eweek.com has defined 15 most influential people in the business connected with the open software:

• Linus Torvalds – originally developed the Linux kernel
• Mitchell Baker – Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation and leader of Mozilla Foundation
• Mike Milinkovich – director of Eclipse Foundation
• Tim Golden – Vice President of the Bank of America, advocate the introduction of open software in the corporate sector
• Jim Zemlin – executive director Linux Foundation
• Peter Fenton – promoted attraction of investments into projects JBoss, XenSource and Zimbra
• Larry Augustin – founder of the VA Linux company that created SourceForge.net
• Jim Jagielski – one of the founders and head of Apache Software Foundation
• Michael Tiemann – the president of Open Source Initiative
• Marten Mickos – former head of MySQL AB, is a member of the Sun Microsystems
• Marc Fleury – the former head of the company JBoss, Red Hat bought for 350 mln dollars
• Rod Johnson – head of the company SpringSource, which develops Java-tools Spring Framework
• Jonathan Schwartz – President and CEO of Sun Microsystems
• Mark Shuttleworth – founder of the company and Canonical Ubuntu Foundation
• John Roberts – one of the founders and current head of the company SugarCRM

eWeek

Knoppix 5.3.1 LiveDVD

Knoppix it’s popular distribution GNU/Linux by Klaus Knopper based on Debian. The current release includes Linux Kernel 2.6.24.4 with the support of the “suspend” KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice 2.3.1, and more. In new distribution there was an experimental opportunity of use KDE 4.
Knoppix official site.

OpenOffice 2.4

March 27, project OpenOffice.org officially announced a new version of OpenOffice.

• The new version has improved the overall usability generator PDF files
• In Writer became easier to choose language for spell-checking, improved dialogue “Find and Replace”, new hot keys are added
• Base Support MS Access 2007
• Changed the site design

New Features OpenOffice 2.4

Wget-1.11.1

Changes in the new version of GNU utilities to download files:

• Interrupted downloads does not result in renaming the file
• Progress Indicator correctly displayed in non english locals
• Made many of corrections to documentation

Download wget.

Linker ld will be replaced by linker gold

Ian Taylor presented a new linker “gold” working to 5 times faster linker “ld”. The code has been added to GNU binutils, but is still in beta status, as tested only within Google. Linker gold still supports the x86 architecture, x86_64 and ELF format.
Linker gold.

Teeworlds 0.41 (Teewars)

Teeworlds is 2D action game with original design. Monsters destroy each other through 5 c weapons. Supported by a network game, the regimes DM, TDM, and the capture of the flag (CTF). No single player.

• The game is now called Teeworlds
• Altered old maps
• Added new weapons
• Automatic loading of cards

Teeworlds official site.

Video Disc Recorder 1.6.0

Finally, Klaus Schmidinger released a stable version of VDR. Among the large number of changes have support DVB-subtitles, full support for UTF-8, changes in the code for Conditional Access. Video Disc Recorder allows you to build on your computer with Linux a powerful Linux mediacenter (home cinema) with a lot of opportunities that are provided by plugins (more than 250 plug-ins).
Video Disc Recorder official site.

Lustre File System

Lustre is a cluster file system, the main features of which are high reliability and scalability. The speed of data transmission from the file system that can reach hundreds of gigabits per second. The theoretical maximum of available disk space is measured in petabytes.
Lustre official site.

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