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try Google Chrome!

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Published on Friday, 05 September 2008 00:00

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Google Chrome is the latest answer from Google to the market of browser. I plan to use it at the moment for its privacy feature (you should be able to browse without leaving any cookie or trace) fro my e-banking. After 2 days of usage, I still feel not ready to give away my other browser: Firefox (at work) targeted for development: Firebug, web developer, tamper data, fast dial, http fox, fire gesture Opera (at home) as I always keep 25 windows open and refresh them when needed all together! I like Google chrome, as it work perfectly and always give the best search result. I will switch if any engine is able to deliver better results, but since 9 years, I am still waiting... http://www.google.com/chrome

 

XBMC: maybe the best media center

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Published on Friday, 19 September 2008 00:00

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XBMC is a cross-platform software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows operating-system, as well as the original Xbox game-console. I am using it since 2003 on my XBOX

 

XBMC is currently available for Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS X (Intel-based Leopard and Tiger), Microsoft Windows, and the original (first-generation) Xbox. We are currently at Beta 1 for our upcoming release code named Atlantis. It should be noted that XBMC requires OpenGL 1.4 support, at a minimum, to function. We do however recommend OpenGL 2.0 to fully experience XBMC. Check your graphics drivers to see what version of OpenGL your GPU (graphics processing unit) supports.

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" Released

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Published on Sunday, 15 February 2009 00:00

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Debian will powered for sure my next Internet root server, and I am currently giving it a try for my Monster NAS (instead of OpenSuse, Opensuse being still in use on a HP NW9440)

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. With 12 supported computer architectures, more than 23,000 packages built from over 12,000 source packages and 63 languages for the new graphical installer, this release sets new records, once again. Software available in 5.0 includes Linux 2.6.26, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.22.2, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6, Apache 2.2.9, Xen 3.2.1 and GCC 4.3.2.  More...

Official torrents for the stable release

• CD:
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• DVD:
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Enterprise Open Source Directory Establishes Advisory Board

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Category: What I am doing for Open Source

Published on Thursday, 18 June 2009 00:00

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I am really glad to announce that I am now officially in the EOS Directory Advisory and Expert Board of the EOS directory.

The EOS directory is the leading online platform to help enterprises and organizations identify and evaluate Open Source technologies.

Initially launched by Optaros, about two years ago, the platform has been recently handed over Bruno von Rotz, initial sponsor of the initiative and well known Open Source specialist (follow Bruno on Twitter: accelIT).

In support to strengthen the neutral approach to ratings and selection of the technologies, the new EOS Directory Advisory and Expert Board has been established over the last weeks and announced today.

The Advisory and Expert Board will be both instrumental in guiding the future development of the EOS Directory Platform as well as in making sure that the content is accurate, relevant and fairly represented. (Source: EOS Directory Blog)

The initial member list of the EOS Directory Advisory and Expert Board – representing user and provider communities as well as international expert audiences – includes Aleksander Farstad, Cédric Walter, David Nüscheler, Gianugo Rabellino, Roberto Galoppini, Hannes Gassert, Hans Waarle, Joel Gardet, Matt Asay, Matthias Geisler, Michael Hanisch, Olivier Pépin, Raju Bitter, Ralf Hauser, Seth Gottlieb, Stephen Walli and Tiberiu Fustos.

During the next months the EOS Directory Platform will also be rejuvenated and updated to even better support Enterprises and Organizations in need for Open Source technologies’ selection and evaluation help. (Source: EOS Directory Blog

Read more at the official EOS Directory Blog)

VLC (Videolan) reach version 1.0

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Published on Tuesday, 07 July 2009 00:00

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The BEST player that play anything out of the box without hassle. If it can be played then it is was not a video! May look ugly for some people but I wont read any video without it. Best of all it is FREE, open source and run on nearly any platforms and has a lot of features (it play DVD, H264 and and and..)

VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye

• Free, Open Source and cross-platform
• Independent of systems codec to support most video types
• Live recording
• Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
• Finer speed controls
• New HD codec (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
• New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
• New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
• Video scaling in full screen
• RTSP Trick play support
• Zipped file playback
• Customizable toolbars
• Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
• Better integration in GTK environments
• MTP devices on Linux
• AirTunes streaming
• New skin for the skins2 interface

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A lot of binary GPL/open source data

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Category: Templates

Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2005 00:00

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A lot of binary GPL/open source data stuff for Mambo....

Ranking of articles	440 ranking images	Simply copy two pictures: one for Off status to your /templates/{nameofyourtemplates}/images/rating_star_blank.png one for ON status to your /templates/{nameofyourtemplates}/images/rating_star.png
Smileys	128 pachages	use he modified version of AkoComments 2.0 (version unnoficial 2.5)
Templates	345 themes from PHPBB	Attention YOu must convert them to use them under Mambo!!! Ready to use Templates can be freely downloaded at www.mambohut.com

Linux is Not Windows

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Category: Open Your mind

Published on Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:23

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A very good article; worth reading to better understand the difference between Linux and Windows and motivate an eventual switch...

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"Too many people think that migrating from Windows to Linux is like switching from a BMW to a Mercedes. They think that the controls should be the same, their experience should transfer directly, and all differences should be largely cosmetic. They think that "I need a car to use a road, I need an OS to use a computer. Cars all work the same way, therefore OSes should all work the same way." But this is not accurate. "I need a vehicle to use a road, I need an OS to use a computer. I know how to drive a car, I'm ignorant about motorbikes. I know how to use Windows, I'm ignorant about Linux." - this is accurate."

Read more here; also tranlate in 8 languages

Editorial: The open source developer profile

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Category: What I am doing for Open Source

Published on Sunday, 23 April 2006 18:01

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 I see a lot of FUD (FUD is an abbreviation for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative but vague or inaccurate information on a competitor's product. The term originated to describe misinformation tactics in the computer software industry and has since been used more broadly.[WikiPedia])  coming from the biggest company around there, namely Microsoft and Oracle stating that the open source developer, a geek, virtually does not exist. As last year, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) has tagged Linux developer consecutively, ("Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," ), then a bunch of  Communist. A lot of FUD and the reality is as usual in between...

An Open source developer profile?

I presume that a lot of professionals in big companies, when they go back home, have an envy to create code in the same domain of competence or in a new one, maybe it is their hobby, which can be mixed with their computing knowledge, or they use a program to solve, help them in their hobby . It is the case for me.

I am a java developer, working in a swiss insurance company, and doing some PHP code for FUN and because I STILL consider it RELAXING. It has also permit me to learn a new language: PHP and make me a name in the joomla community, the site counter of this page (1.2 Millions visitors and counting), the number of weekly mails is my only salary. I have a well paid job that's true, and it allow me to offer a part of my  free time and code under the GPL license. What would had happen otherwise? I think I would have sell a limited number of user of licenses, and may have stop the support one day...

Reality in a gray zone in huge projects

While I agree that at some point any open source project which has million of lines of code, will require so much professionalism, release management overhead, architecture vision, or manage its internal complexity that it wont be possible to achieve big milestones without a lot of  professionals backing up the project. Eclipse.org (where IBM which has injected 1Bn dollars) is a good example of what big companies can do to help such major project..

Why making my code open?

Open source is different, open source will allow any future maintainer to take my code, reuse or enhance it. My code will or may never die if it is still useful. Something not possible in closed source relationship, where the code may be bought at some time by an evil company, and killed.

Open source has been clearly an advantage in the development model of my Joomla components. Lets take securityimages (a CAPTCHA framework), I've develop the first plugin named core, and integrated 2 other well known open source plugins. FREECAP and HNCaptcha (Both GPL). While using them and looking at their internal code, it has help me improving my core plugin, using existing and well stable code, has pushed the overall quality, stability at a fraction of the cost: no licenses except keeping the copyright header untouch, it has only cost me time to integrate them!

Open Source do not mean that You can take my code away, my code is still copyrighted, You can not remove the GPL header or Credits text, The only way to close this code now, i to take my GPL code away and rewrite this code in Your own way.
I assume nearly every open source developer has its own reasons, but I've mainly develop code because:

• I have had to solve concrete problem on my homepage: fighting spams. Nothing was existing at that time to solve my problem under Mambo and now Joomla,
• Ive learn a lot at looking at someone else code, and I am now receiving some patches by emails from other developer around the world, translation in foreign languages, individual give their time back because they also see the advantage of open source: You can really get in contact with the main developer and influence the list of new features...
• I want to give back something to the community in a whole, Joomla, but also Linux which is powering my 2 PC since 3 years, and so many others tools I daily use and appreciate.

Oracle is a predator company like Microsoft, and I hope they understand that GPL project may be bought but can't totally disappear!

SuSE 10.1 released

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Published on Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:10

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SUSE Linux 10.1 is available for download at the following mirrors. This release is SuSE 10.1 and not different from what you will later be able to buy in a store. The boxed retail comes with 5 CDs for x86 and one DVD9 for x86 and x86_64 and it also includes non-OSS software. It also comes with a nice, thick printed manual and 30 days of support. You won't get that with the free download. The free download comes on 5CDs without non-OSS software and one add-on CD with this non-OSS software. Later (hopefully not much later) there will be two DVD5 releases, one for x86 and one for x86_64 that are almost identical with the retail DVD9 and that include OSS and non-OSS software. TORRENTS http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/ TORRENTS (MIRROR) http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/ http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/ http://keith.hostmatrix.org/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-i386.torrent http://97k.ath.cx/ul/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-x86_64.torrent Product Highlights XGL on SUSE 10.1 For those who prefer the DVD version, You ll have to buy the box version or use a small LINUX utility called 'makeSuseDVD' out. It will take the 5 CD ISOs and build a single DVD iso.

Java is free software

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Published on Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34

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Java Will be release under a GPL licence!

From Joshua Marinacci Blog

"The big announcement today: Java will be open sourced under the GPL. I think it makes a lot of sense because it protects Sun's interest in preventing forks and also the community's interest in knowing that Java will forever be available in the public sphere. The GPL has always provided an option to fork just in case someone takes the code in a bad direction. Historically having this option available ensures that it never needs to actually be used, letting the community grow and thrive.

So what does this actually mean? What is the benefit to open source Java? How will things change? Here's what I think will change and what won't. I say this as my own opinion, not an official statement from Sun. I also say this as someone new to Sun, coming to Sun two years ago from an open source background. I'm sure that engineers with more experience than I will have different opinions. So with that, let's hear it:

How will open source change Java

• Real bugs will be fixed faster and non-bugs will be closed faster than ever.
• Java won't fork. Few developers will have incentive to fork Java. It's a lot of work for little gain. Branches for new features or new platform support: yes. A true fork: no. Not even MS has much to gain from this anymore.
• The JCP will grow and change. As before, big decisions about the future of Java will go through the Java Community Process. However, with more interested developers the ranks of the JCP will grow and change in some very good ways.
• Java will have first class support on Linux, Free-BSD, and other 100% open operating systems. This is huge. Hugely, huge. I'm hoping we'll finally get a KDE look and feel as well.
• NetBeans will open the entire JDK sources all at once. It's true, we're working on it for NetBeans 6. With the new editor infrastructure this will be possible. You might not actually want to do this, but it should be possible if you've got enough memory.
• We will see lots of small crazy experimental versions of Java that add different things. Imagine a JDK with Find Bugs, MySQL, SwingX, JDIC, JInput, JOGL, Java3D, Tritonus MP3, jSDL, KDE-Java, Gnome-Java and a bunch of other cool libraries pre-integrated. We might even see an entire downloadable VMWare virtual harddrive with Ubuntu + Super JDK + NetBeans preinstalled for the ultimate prefab development environment.
• More adoption of Looking Glass. Now that Java can be freely run on Linux desktops out of the box, there is incentive to ship Looking Glass bundled in with the OS. There's a lot of good 3D cards out there. Let's use'em!
• More 3D Java Games for all platforms. I expect that people will start shipping an optimized copy of Java embedded in their applications. The end user will never need to know that Java is involved. JOGL + Java3D is now available for Win, Mac, and any copy of Linux with the right X configuration (which is more common than ever).
• Burnable Java. Imagine a tool that burns a photo slideshow application preloaded with your photos, plus a copy of Java, straight to a CD. Hand the CD to your Mom, she pops it into her computer, and the photo slideshow starts right up. You'll never need to worry about the version of Java because it's shipped with your app. You don't need to worry about the OS because you code against Java, not against native APIs. (hmm. perhaps 'burnable java' isn't the right name for this. :)
• Java will grow to fill every available computing niche and finally achieve the goal of total world domination.

Okay, so maybe that last one is a stretch, but it's true that this will help to bring More Java to More Places."

The licence that Sun have now decided for Java are explained in a document called the "GPL license". Those terms included the most important one, which is that no-one may redistribute a version or derivative of this Sun Java code without making the source code of that version or derivative also come under the GPL.  (Yes Steve Ballmer GPL act like a virus ;-) ).