Can AMQP break IBM's MOM monopoly?
July 30, 2008
Interop Systems: “IBM and Tibco between them control a whopping 93% of the MOM market, which the research firm estimates will be worth around $725 million this year. With a market share like that, IBM and Tibco can pretty much charge whatever they like (using IBM’s arcane “processor value unit” pricing scheme, WebSphere MQ will cost you tens of thousands of dollars per processor).”
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SplashTop "Instant-On Linux" Gets Hacked
July 30, 2008
Phoronix: “…members of the Phoronix Forums have hacked SplashTop. They have been able to run SplashTop from a USB stick on non-ASUS motherboards, boot SplashTop within a virtual machine, run custom applications, and launch a terminal within this proprietary Linux environment.”
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Microsoft Funds Apache
July 29, 2008
Builder AU: “Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of open source software’s biggest supporters.”
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CrossOver Games 7.1.0 Released
July 29, 2008
Wine Reviews: “I am happy to announce that we have now released version 7.1.0 of CrossOver Games, for both the Mac and for Linux.”
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Linux-friendly Beagle Fetches $150
July 29, 2008
Linux Devices: “…the A8 core is claimed to deliver 1200 DMIPS, putting it theoretically alongside Intel’s Pentium III in performance. Unlike the P-III, though, the 3530 adds a powerful Imagination SGX 2D/3D graphics processor supporting dual independent displays, and a TMS320C64x DSP core clocked at 430MHz.”
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ECS GeForce 8800GT 256MB Linux Review
July 29, 2008
Phoronix: “While video card BIOS flashing isn’t recommended for the inexperienced computer users, ECS does provide a BIOS update for this graphics card that enables the faster performance out of this 256MB graphics card. Prior to these tests we had flashed the BIOS. Once flashing the BIOS we had experienced on average a boost of two to six FPS under Linux with our OpenGL tests.”
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Compiz Fusion in openSUSE 11.0
July 29, 2008
SUSE & openSUSE: “With openSUSE 11.0 Compiz-Fusion comes pre-installed and any system with reasonable performance level should be able to benifit from the Compiz-Fusion desktop experience. Needless to say, better the hardware better is the experience.”
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"Handheld recording studio" Mixes With Linux
July 28, 2008
Linux Devices: “Trinity Audio Group is taking orders for a handheld multi-track recording device that runs Linux. The Indamixx integrates the 64Studio Linux music distribution with an off-the-shelf Samsung handheld, so audio producers can record, edit, equalize, audition, and mix audio at up to 32-bit/96Khz rates on-the-go, the company says.”
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ASUS Speaks on the EEE PC
July 28, 2008
Techtree: “Benson Lin: Comparatively SSD-based EEE PCs are lighter than those with hard drives. We believe that Indian users would like to have bigger storage so we came up with 80GB Hard Drive option. We didn’t think the SSD solution would work here. Thus we changed the strategy for India and launched the Hard Drive solution. In future, we will offer SSD-based solution and the solution will cost almost the same vis-a-vis hard drive solution.”
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OLS: Kernel Documentation, and Submitting Kernel Patches
July 28, 2008
Linux.com: “Where, asked Landley, is kernel documentation? It’s in the kernel tarball, on the Web, in magazines, in recordings from conferences like OLS, in man pages, on list archives, on developers’ blogs, and “that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” The major problem is not a lack of documentation, he said, but that what is out there is not indexed.”
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