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LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 10/12/07 Featured video: The X Window System Ed Cashin, driver developer for Coraid, explains how the company works with the kernel community, to make sure that both "bleeding edge" kernel testers and production customers using enterprise kernels have well-tested device drivers. Visit the LinuxWorld.com video page for this exclusive video, plus more sessions from FreedomHEC, including an update on the Linux Driver Project, a talk on the Portland State Aerospace Society's Linux-controlled rocket program and James Bottomley's tips for how to use "git" and "quilt" to coordinate software development among far-flung users. | Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve Get real-world advice on how to best deal with the explosion of data across nearly every enterprise today. This informative executive guide offers IT professionals detailed information on new technologies such as ILM and FANs, specific pitfalls to avoid when deploying ILM, as well as solid case studies. Download This Executive Guide
| | LinuxWorld.com Feature Story Free Your Mind with Freemind October 11, 2007
When planning a project, whether it's an essay or software, there's a tendency to try to capture ideas in a linear fashion, organizing them as you draw them forth from your mind. The classic example of this is attempting to write an orderly outline as the first step of composing an essay.
The problem with this approach is that combining brainstorming and structuring can actually hinder both processes. On the one hand, without the raw ideas visualized, you can become trapped in structural dead ends. And on the other hand, adhering to a prematurely conceived structure makes it harder to call forth all the ideas efficiently. Anyone who has been stuck partway through a stubbornly dysfunctional outline knows this dilemma all too well.
In other words, it's often better to to separate the two processes: get all the ideas down first in a non-linear way, then organize.
Mind mapping is great for this kind of two step brainstorming. A mind map is a diagram that represents ideas arranged around a central concept. It's a non-linear way to organize and visualize ideas. (Read more) More Linux news Mobile Firefox out to break industry hold on device apps October 11, 2007
By developing a version of its open source desktop Firefox Web browser to run on mobile devices, Mozilla hopes to break the hold some handset makers and carriers have on what mobile applications consumers can use, an executive of the company says.
People don’t want restrictions or differences between what their mobile device can do and what their laptop can do," said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla Corp.’s vice president of engineering, in a Network World interview following his widely reported blog posting of Mozilla’s plans to introduce Firefox Mobile, possibly later next year. (Read more) Consultant: Microsoft responds to Open Source leadership October 11, 2007
By opening its .Net Framework libraries Microsoft is again responding to the leadership of the Open Source community, according to industry consultants and developers, but remaining on the back foot.
The software giant last week released its .Net framework library under a Microsoft Reference License, which means the code can be viewed but not modified or redistributed. (Read more) Corporate open source policies: Doug Small October 10, 2007
Open source is great -- any programmer in the middle of a project can grab a software component and use it, instead of reinventing the wheel. Not so fast, says HP's Doug Small. Getting the licensing wrong can cause problems later on for the resulting product. And how should you handle open source that might be integrated into the work that a contract development house does for you? (podcast, 18:01) Listen Oracle fixes glitch in PHP Web applications October 10, 2007
Oracle has released a database driver free to the open source community that improves retrieval of data from Oracle databases for Web applications developed using PHP.
Oracle released Oracle Call Interface (OCI8), and the code used to write it, Tuesday to a PHP community conference in San Francisco hosted by Zend Technologies, a developer of Web applications based on the PHP script.
The new driver fixes a problem faced by PHP-based Web applications trying to access Oracle databases, overwhelming the databases with requests, says Mark de Visser, chief marketing officer for Zend. (Read more) LinuxWorld.com Community Online communities, offline? October 11, 2007
What if the idea of membership was not defined by whether a server somewhere has your email address and password on it, but by whether the other members of the group know to pull from you, using a distributed revision control system? To join a group, you would get the URL for someone else's repository, clone it, edit, add a user page that contains a URL for your own repository, and ask someone to pull. Groups that wanted to automate joining could run "pull bots", and groups that didn't could require out-of-group introductions, or require one user to "sponsor" another by linking to the new user's repository URL from his or her user page. (Read more) |
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