Компания Oracle опубликовала первый подкаст из серии "Oracle Solaris: In A Class By Itself".
В этом подкасте Дэн Робертс, Билл Нешайм и Крис Армс рассказывают о том, что происходило в последние несколько месяцев, о поддержке новых процессоров Intel в Oracle Solaris, а также о поддержке Oracle Solaris на оборудовании производства сторонних компаний.
В следующих выпусках, которые будут выходить примерно раз в месяц, планируется рассмотреть такие темы, как оптимизации для платформы SPARC, виртуализация в Oracle Solaris, обновления Solaris и многие другие.
P.S. По всей видимости, Oracle начинает всё больше и больше говорить о настоящем и будущем Oracle Solaris, так что можно ожидать новых интересных анонсов на Oracle Open World уже в сентябре.
Организация «Центр защиты свободного ПО» (Software Freedom Law Center) сообщила об успешном завершении судебного разбирательства, связанного с нарушением условий лицензии GPL компанией Westinghouse Digital Electronics, включившей в состав прошивки HDTV-устройств свободный пакет BusyBox без открытия сопутствующих исходных текстов.
Суд признал компанию Westinghouse виновной и постановил запретить распространять телевизоры высокой чёткости, в которых содержится программа BusyBox, с передачей уже выпущенных экземпляров на благотворительность. Кроме того, суд обязал выплатить компенсацию разработчикам в размере 90 тыс. долларов, плюс оплатить 48 тыс. долларов издержек, связанных с оплатой работы юристов, привлечённых Центром защиты свободного ПО. Событие немного омрачил факт нахождения компании Westinghouse на стадии банкротства, которая практически прекратила своё существование и вынуждена распродавать свои активы для возвращения долгов кредиторам. Шансы получить предписанное судом имущество в свете банкротства невелики, но решение суда может послужить хорошим уроком для всех нарушителей лицензии GPL.
Whether you are attending VMworld 2010 or following the conference from afar, social media will thrive at VMworld 2010. Be sure you get connected, know the key URLs, follow the VMworld channels and watch for daily announcements, highlights and activities.
The VMware Social Media team will be collaborating with social media teams from various sponsors, partners and attendees to bring everyone the best expereince possible and expand the messages and experiences from the conference - both in San Francisco and Copenhagen.
We have created a social media overview to highlight the following: - Contacts & Key URLs - Collaboration tools for contributors & gatherings - Details of the Social Media & Blogger Lounge - Blog, Twitter, Facebook and Video/Photo resources - Discussion Forums - Other social media options
Whether you are attending VMworld 2010 or following the conference from afar, social media will thrive at VMworld 2010. Be sure you get connected, know the key URLs, follow the VMworld channels and watch for daily announcements, highlights and activities.
The VMware Social Media team will be collaborating with social media teams from various sponsors, partners and attendees to bring everyone the best expereince possible and expand the messages and experiences from the conference - both in San Francisco and Copenhagen.
We have created a social media overview to highlight the following: - Contacts & Key URLs - Collaboration tools for contributors & gatherings - Details of the Social Media & Blogger Lounge - Blog, Twitter, Facebook and Video/Photo resources - Discussion Forums - Other social media options
The release train keeps rolling on… In one week both Muon and QApt 1.0 will be released. Until then, here’s one last pre-release to iron out any remaining issues before the stable release. Packages are in the normal place, and sources for QApt 0.5.0 can be found here. (Muon 0.5.0 sources will be uploaded in the usual place once I get back to the hotel… unfortunately I cannot do the GPG signing of the tarball on my grandparent’s computer) Here’s what’s new since last week:
QApt 0.5.0
No coding changes, but there are now a weeks worth more translations for the qapt-batch utility. Go, go kde-i18n!
Muon 0.5.0
A teeny new feature, but I added a nice little busy indicator overlay on the changelog viewing tab while it fetches the changelog. This improves usability, so that you can tell when it is really working, etc. Try it out.
Fixed a bug where an error such as an authentication error or download error would not ...read more...
Here’s a guideline for you: If your library uses exceptions, and you intend users of your library to catch them, don’t implement them inline in the header.
Example:
class LIB_EXPORT MyException : public std::exception { public: explicit MyException( ... ); // ... (but no dtor) };
Here, the compiler will generate a MyException destructor for you, since you didn’t provide one. Compiler-synthesised destructors are public, inline, have an empty body, and the same exception specification as the base class’ destructor. So, the above is equivalent to:
class LIB_EXPORT MyException : public std::exception { public: explicit MyException( ... ); ~MyException() throw() {} // ... };
Unfortunately (well, actually fortunately, but not for our scenario), the destructor of std::exception is virtual, so ~MyException() throw() {} (explicitly written by you or synthesised by the compiler) is the definition (as opposed to declaration) of the first virtual function of the class MyException. Most C++ compilers take that as a cue to emit the MyException virtual function table, as well as its RTTI information at that point.
So for the last months we have been working really hard to, port our great PIM software to the mobile world, and I must say it is a challenge, the rules all change and most of what you know does not fit the specificities of the interaction methods, the size and dpi of the screens, or even how something as simple as a gradient does not work as you expect. Had that, to learning new exiting technologies like QML and starting to do working mock-ups with them that developers can interpret much better, and in some cases implement directly. (ok this was only a problem for me, but hey if I can do it any one can :) )
And wen you try do a no compromise, solution for the software, meaning that no major feature is removed, you find your self with a monumental challenge.
The good part is that so far we managed to overcome all major problems with what I believe in some cases are really innovative, new interaction paradigms, example the folder selection ...read more...
The VMworld 2010 Schedule Builder has been published – Get yourself organized by building a personal conference schedule. Once you register for VMworld 2010, you can plan your schedule with the specific Sessions and Labs you don’t want to miss.
Important Note: This year there is no pre-registration for sessions and labs, but we highly recommend building your personal schedule to keep you organized. Adding sessions to your personal agenda DOES NOT reserve you a seat in that session. Seating at all sessions will be on a first come, first serve basis.
The VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been updated with a new format offering filters, search options, dates and times along with details about sessions, labs and speakers. View or filter sessions and labs by day, track, type or speaker -- or search by specific title, topic or ...read more...
as the pencils down for this years GSOC is approaching I thought it’s time to write another blog entry to notify the world about my current status.
These past weeks (boy, the time flies…) I’ve mostly spent on hardcore KDevplatform internals. Especially getting multiple languages in a single document working was not easy. I knew it would be the most time consuming and most demanding aspect during these three months, but also by far the most important. I’m confident to say now: I’m nearly there. All projects we put into the KDevelop repository have now a multilang branch in their team clones. And if you look at e.g. the KDevplatform multilang branch or the Quanta multilang branch you hopefully agree that I didn’t slack off too much. I just wasted some time to find the right approach, often by implementing one just to find out it was not practicable.
Thanks (once again) to the help of David Nolden I’m now on the right track. Finally :)
As I mentioned in two earlier blogs now, within openSUSE a strategic discussion is going on - what direction should we, as a distribution community, take?
I would like to address a few things in this post. First of all, why a strategy, and what will it and won't it do? Second, there is one strategy I'd like to mention specifically, as I think it's disrupting but as a community proposal it deserves to be discussed as any other strategy. That's about the KDE strategy for openSUSE.
Strategy
But first about the idea of a strategy in the first place. The strategy portal page talks about it plenty and I won't repeat that. I only want to stress what a strategy does and doesn't do.
It does:
help make project wide decisions; for example say we choose the home for developers proposal and the liveCD is full. Do we remove the second media player or the second debug tool? The first it is...
Hey there my Ubuntu and KDE people! I am still around. I have my daughter for most of the month of August so I am currently AFK. I will be back in a couple of weeks full-time again. In the mean time if you need to get in touch with me, hit me up on Twitter @nixternal, or if you have my phone number you can call me there.
When I come back, I have a great review in the pipeline of a new ZaReason laptop that runs Kubuntu out of the box!
My daughter and I have been having a blast these past couple of weeks. We have enjoyed the weather, watched a lot of bike racing, and she got groovy with Ubuntu. She likes Kubuntu’s look better, but I hooked her up with some Ubuntu to play around with. She wasn’t down with the default look, so we found some themes, colors, and fonts, that she likes, and thus far she has been happy. I need ...read more...
Технологический сайт Phoronix, занимающийся обзором дистрибутивов Linux и их компонентов, произвёл сравнительный анализ производительности Calculate Linux Desktop 10.4 c другими популярными Linux-дистрибутивами (Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Sabayon 5.3). В 12 тестах (OpenArena, 7-Zip, LAME MP3, FFmpeg, x264, OpenSSL, GraphicsMagick, Himeno, NAS Parallel Benchmark, C-Ray, GZip, BZip2) производительность оказалась примерно одинаковой.
Различия в производительности наблюдались в трёх тестах:
В игровом приложении World of Padman, основанном на движке ioquake3, дистрибутив Calculate Linux показал наилучшие результаты с 23 FPS (Ubuntu — 18, Sabayon — 13, Fedora — 11), при том, что по сравнению с другими участниками тестирования, в Calculate Linux была наиболее старая версия Mesa 3D;
В тесте Apache benchmark дистрибутив Calculate Linux обогнал Ubuntu и Sabayon на 33%;
В тесте PostMark дистрибутив Calculate Linux оказался на 14% быстрее Sabayon и Ubuntu, и на 34% быстрее Fedora.
Наилучшей платформой для Calculate Linux оказалась система на базе Intel Atom.
Вердикт: если хотите попробовать систему на базе Gentoo Linux, но не желаете тратить большое количество времени и испытывать головную боль, предлагаем вам попробовать Calculate Linux.
P.S. Замечу, что это первое тестирование производительности Calculate Linux. В статье ...read more...
In a few hours KDE 4.5 will be released. And together with it the new version of our Virtual Globe and Map Widget Marble. The new release Marble 0.10.0 will bring lots of additional features (Routing, Tile-Bulk-Download, Multiple Layers, initial WMS support and a lot more) - many of them related to OpenStreetMap. Of course development on the next release has started already: Dennis Nienh
...and the winner is...Berlin. It will be the "star of our system" for a week during the summer of 2011.
The II Desktop Summit has location, a good one. I'm excited about this event for several reasons. The first one is because, somehow, it gives credit to all the hard work done to celebrate the I Desktop Summit (Gran Canaria Desktop Summit). But above that, I'm excited because, after breaking the ice during that first approach, this event can be a huge oportunity to takes steps forward in joining efforts between GNOME and KDE to develop better technologies, better solutions for more devices and more exciting applications.
Beside pure technical issues, there is a lot of work we can do together in areas like marketing/promotion, usability, internationalization, education, etc. This is a great chance to begin.
So, do you want to know why Software Libre makes a difference? Come and live it by getting involved in decisions that matter. ...read more...
While going through openFATE (the feature tracking tool openSUSE uses), I bumped into one asking for "Present Windows" effect as mouse button shortcut. In essence, this user has one of those million-button-mouses, and wants to use them.
I've heard that tune before, and last time I checked, linux users were still out of luck. Now I never had any idea what to use these 'extra' buttons for, until I bumped into this request. Having a button to triger an expose-like effect: great idea. Sure, I go with my mouse to the top-left of my screen and I can see all my apps just fine.
Still, I have only 4 corners on my screen (yes, it is square, as most computer screens) and 3 are in use already (app launcher, close window and clock). So I'd love such flexibility...
Now I don't know where the limiting factor is right now - what is needed to make it possible to assign actions to mousebuttons other than the left, right and middle one? Anyone who knows? Anyone up ...read more...
KDE e.V. и GNOME Foundation договорились провести в 2011-м году крупнейшую встречу разработчиков свободных десктопов — Desktop Summit 2011. Основываясь на успехе Desktop Summit 2009, было решено провести GUADEC и Akademy в рамках Desktop Summit 2011 одновременно в Берлине.
Это будет грандиозная встреча более 1000 разработчиков GNOME и KDE из более чем 50 стран. Кроме них, на Desktop Summit будут приглашены участники других проектов и прочие люди, поддерживающие FLOSS.
Converting a virtual disk to pre-allocated (1021565)
This article provides the steps to change a virtual disk type from sparse to pre-allocated To change the virtual disk type from sparse to pre-allocated: Note: Before proceeding, ensure that you
Linux user, how many different Internet browsers do you have on your system? You have Konqueror if you use KDE, Iceweasel or Epiphany if you use GNOME, and optionally, you might have Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
Today, on the 3rd day of the month, 333 days since the initial announcement, it's my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of a new release of Trojit
The KDE/Telepathy project has gained a lot of momentum in the last few months, and many of the basic components we planned to build have started to take shape. As a result, it’s time to start thinking about getting some of that code out there for testing. So, we’re planning to make a preview release some time this autumn. This release will be installable on top of KDE Platform 4.5, and will be suitable for power-users and testers who don’t mind a bit of breakage. We haven’t got a date set yet, but you can track the progress towards this release by looking at the dependency tree of the release bug.
Developer Sprints
In order to get all the separate Telepathy components we’re writing nailed down and working nicely together, and to allow API and Nepomuk usage review, we’ll be having a developer sprint. It will take place from 17th-20th September in Cambridge, UK (venue kindly provided by Collabora). More information about this sprint can be seen on its ...read more...
This year, there is no session pre-registration, so you can just show up at the sessions that work best for you. More than 170 unique breakout sessions will be offered across 10 tracks. Most sessions will be repeated at least once to provide opportunity to attend your top choices. Here are some session highlights by track:
Go, go kde-i18n!
