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

blogalinux — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:02:28 +0000

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

Knoppix 5.3.1 LiveDVD

blogalinux — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:03:02 +0000

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

blogalinux — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:50:49 +0000

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

blogalinux — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:06:52 +0000

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

blogalinux — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:41:44 +0000

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)

blogalinux — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:52:20 +0000

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

blogalinux — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:46:18 +0000

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

blogalinux — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:46:45 +0000

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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blogalinux — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:47:36 +0000

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