Google Code now accepts MPL licenses and EPL- August 31, 2008 Google reversed its earlier decision to ban the use of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for projects hosted on your site Google Code. The reason is a change in the attitude of Google regarding the licensing of open source software, as explained Chris Dibona, team leader of the Open Source company, in his blog: Google before trying to discourage the proliferation of licenses for software open source, to reduce potential legal costs and problems of using a draft code in another with a different...http://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/google-code-now-accepts-mpl-licenses-and-epl.html Ecomorph: Compiz in Enlightenment- August 31, 2008 The next video shows Enlightenment 0.17 with three-dimensional effects of Ecomorph, a "composite manager" who also works in other environments desks light as Fluxbox or Window Maker. And best of all, Ecomorph is a hack of Compiz, and therefore also compatible with most of its plugins. read morehttp://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/ecomorph-compiz-enlightenment.html SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Beta 1- August 29, 2008 Already available is the first of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Beta, distribution ever called "a Kubuntu better than Kubuntu", and is now based on "Lenny", the next version of Debian stable. SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Beta 1 includes Kernel 2.6.26.2, X. Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2, Firefox 3.0.1, Sun Java 6.0, Amarok 1.4.10, MPlayer 1.0 RC2, GTK + 2.12.11 and Qt 4.4.0. The announcement of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Beta 1 said little more than that, but its final version could arrive very shortly after the...http://www.linuxinet.com/free-linux-software/simplymepis-8-0-beta-1.html Wiz: portable console Open Source- August 29, 2008 The Korean company GPH introduced her Wiz, a new portable game console based on its own Linux distribution, GP2X, and an ARM9 processor of 533 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1 Gb NAND flash memory, a slot for an SD card and a USB 2.0. The small console includes a 320x240 screen (QVGA) and a Lithium-Ion battery that promises up to 5 hours of fun. But perhaps most attractive of the Wiz, in addition to the games written especially for her by independent developers, their ability to run at least 130 emulators...http://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/wiz-portable-console-open-source.html LiveCDs Debian Lenny Beta 1- August 28, 2008 The project team Debian Live announced in a message on their mailing list the availability of its first images as a LiveCD Beta 1 of the next Debian GNU Linux 5.0 "Lenny". The images are available for i386 and AMD64 architectures, independent CDs for Gnome desktop, KDE and XFCE. Also available is a small image without any standard graphical environment. read morehttp://www.linuxinet.com/free-linux-software/livecds-debian-lenny-beta-1.html Winners Extend Firefox 3- August 25, 2008 Over 100 people participated in the contest Extend Firefox 3 Mozilla organized to reward the best and most innovative extensions to our favorite browser, and today has come to an end by announcing the winners. The categories and their respective winners below: Best new Completion An Dng Thnh by Pencil. Pencil allows Firefox 3 is a tool to create sketches and prototypes of user interfaces using SVG. read morehttp://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/winners-extend-firefox-3.html The popularity of Linux around the world- August 25, 2008 In what is part of the world's most popular Linux Where are most popular different Linux distributions A BLOGGER to answer these two questions proposed using the new Google Insight and its results, although approximate and relative, are quite revealing, for example: Globally, interest in Linux is stronger in India, Cuba and Russia, with Germany being the first country in western europe to appear on that list, but only in the tenth position. At the level of distributions private data are also...http://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/popularity-linux-around-world.html Playbuntu is Playdeb- August 25, 2008 The new draft repository of games for Ubuntu announced as Playbuntu posted a message on his blog saying that change name to "Playdeb". The reason is that Canonical decided to implement its policy of trademark and denying permission and support for using the name "Playbuntu." Apparently this would be to avoid the confusion that users would have to believe that Playbuntu is another version of Ubuntu. The good news is that an initial Beta Playdeb repository will be available from next September 1.http://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/playbuntu-playdeb.html Download Free Linux Ebooks Mastering IPtables- August 21, 2008 When Linux 2.4 was released, most people focused on what it would do to help the average Linux user and talked about the USB support, firewire, PCMCIA and DRI. While these are great additions to the kernel for the majority of people, often one of the major improvements over 2.2 was overlooked, even though it applies almost as much to Joe (and of course Jane) User as it does to a hardened network engineer. This is, of course, the inclusion of the netfilter system into the kernel, which provides..http://www.linuxinet.com/free-linux-ebooks/download-free-linux-ebooks-mastering-iptables.h... Houston: Fedora has a problem- August 21, 2008 The next day 14 past Team Infrastructure Project Fedora sent a message to his mailing list of announcements saying they were investigating "a matter" mysterious in their systems and that this process could result in a disruption in several of its services. At the same time also announced that its users do not download or update any additional packages on their computers with Fedora. read morehttp://www.linuxinet.com/linux-news/houston-fedora-has-problem.html |