Open Source Pixels

Just stop and think for a minute…think about how outsiders perceive the Linux infrastructure. It is foreign enough with the file system, not to mention the application names….to associate any application or data in Linux as "Restricted" isn’t helping our cause. Of course, some of you could not care less.

Media reports last week indicated that the government plans to introduce its long-awaited copyright reform bill within the next few days. The bill is sure to spark widespread debate since all Canadians — whether consumers, creators, businesses, or educators — have a significant stake in the outcome.

NetworkWorld takes a look at
the Appleseed Project. “After I wrote about the Diaspora project a
few weeks ago, I was contacted by Michael Chisari of the Appleseed Project,
which is basically the same thing and predates Diaspora by several
years. Reason virtually no one had heard of it was because Chisari had
spent months developing the entire project himself and had to put it on
hold because he, well, reached the point where he couldn’t finish it alone
with no one really interested in it.” (Thanks to Martin Jeppesen)

The Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe has an interview
with David Reyes Samblas Martinez. “David Reyes Samblas Martinez is the founder of Spanish Copyleft Hardware store Tuxbrain, and attended the famous Open University of Catalunya. He’s also the subject of this month’s Fellowship interview, in which he answers questions on hardware manufacturing, e-learning and Free Software politics.“

DVD authoring can be a deceptively tricky business. Though it can take some time to convert source video to the proper MPEG format, the technical requirements for the various regions are standardized, so it is at least possible to configure the conversion tools and do it right, once and for all. What cannot be automated is building the disc structure that distinguishes a user-friendly disc with chapters, eye-pleasing menus, and a file hierarchy that makes sense from a down-and-dirty, technically-it-plays-but-it-looks-awful amateur job.

ITWire looks
at the top 500 supercomputer list. “Of the 187 new entrants, all but one are running some variant of Linux and in fact 470 of the Top 500 run Linux, 25 some other Unix (mostly AIX) and the remaining 5 run Windows HPC 2008.“

“Mainstream microprocessors have been 64-bit for years. Operating systems have followed suit. Now it’s time for a program used by hundreds of millions of people to make the leap: Firefox. Programmer Armen Zambrano Gasparnian announced the first 64-bit Firefox builds for Windows on Friday, offering an FTP site for those who want to download it. But the software isn’t for mainstream users yet.”

Fedora has updated perl-POE-Component-IRC (F12, F13:
arbitrary IRC command execution), F12:
liboggz (multiple vulnerabilities), F12:
httpd (multiple vulnerabilities), and F13:
kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

NetworkWorld takes a look at the Appleseed Project. "After I wrote about the Diaspora project a few weeks ago, I was contacted by Michael Chisari of the Appleseed Project, which…

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