Submitted by LWN on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:48.
Before he leaves on vacation, Linus has one more -rc release for us... "It's been pretty quiet, and I'm hoping it will continue to be so, because I'm off for my yearly scuba-diving trip. And so, before I go away (no under-water email), here's a new -rc. "It's really CIFS and mips updates, with some updates and code movement in drivers/net, and simply a fair number of small fixes here and there." [Read more]... [more]
Submitted by developerWorks on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:45.
In-depth article on how to optimize GCC when hacking the kernel... "GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization. This article explores many of these important extensions and shows you how they're used w... [more]
Submitted by Community Manager on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:39.
A look at Gael Duval's Ulteo startup..."Whatever happened to the founder of Mandrake Linux? He's back on the scene with a new open source startup and looking to break some ground with its first offering called a Virtual Desktop solution.
Submitted by OpenRoad on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:38.
A further examination of Adobe's open source choices..."Adobe actually does a lot of work around open source, though it generally gets (and takes) little credit for that work. But so does every big company, with few exceptions. No, the real question is in what Adobe chooses not to open source, and why.
Submitted by Community Manager on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 14:31.
Jono Bacon addresses a topic not usually covered in Linux communities: diversity..."In the past I have talked quite a bit about diversity in this blog. Diversity is critical to the future development and growth of communities, and the strongest communities are ones with a strong sense of equality and diversity, and a governance infrastructure that supports and celebrates that diversity.
The fact that the Linux kernel now has an estimated development value of $1.4 billion is an intriguing development—it certainly represents a significant milestone for the Linux kernel community. After we published the "Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution" whitepaper, out of curiosity I wondered where in the overall development history of the Linux kernel the $1 billion number was actually reached.
Submitted by Community Manager on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 16:53.
Flash is opening up to C and C++ code..."Welcome the preview release of codename 'Alchemy.' Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2). The purpose of this preview is to assess the level of community interest in reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Web applications that run on Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.
Submitted by LinuxToday on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 16:53.
Carla Schroder gives her usual honest take on the state of Linux printing today...
Submitted by Community Manager on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 16:46.
How the KDE developers approach upstream and downstream bugs...
Submitted by LSB List on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 17:30.
Kraft, Brian Proffitt, Kay Tate, Russ Herrold, Jiri Dluhos, Alexey
Khoroshilov, Ron Hale-Evans, Ted Tso.
LSB 4.0 beta 2. Jeff: Decided on doing a beta 2, had autobuilder issues
Monday and Tuesday which are now cleared up. Will be doing the push of
SDK, tests, appbat today. Spec pushed to betaspecs. The SI will be
available for more architectures this weekend; should have all but ia64
by Monday.
Issues. Mats: azov test suites were segfaulting. May have been related
to Xvfb, but sometimes works, too. Jeff: bugs? Mats: yes.
P1 bugs. Jeff: #!, vtable, stack checker bugs still open.
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