Archive for July, 2010

Posted on July 30, 2010 - by admin

[Phoronix] NVIDIA's Dead Open-Source Driver Gets Updated

The xf86-video-nv driver really didn’t provide much of a feature set and was far behind the Nouveau KMS and Gallium3D drivers even though these were reverse-engineered by the open – source , so NVIDIA announced they would be discontinuing …

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Posted on July 30, 2010 - by admin

Picasa Web Albums Swivel Viewer: An open source embeddable photo …

Swivel viewers are fundamentally simple, but tricky to communicate to end user what they can do. Google added a feature to Picasa Web Albums that.

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Posted on July 30, 2010 - by admin

NVIDIA's Dead Open-Source Driver Gets Updated | Linux.com

Back in March an announcement came out of NVIDIA as they were getting ready to launch the GeForce GTX 400 Fermi graphics cards that they would be dropping support for the xf86-video-nv driver.

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Motorola releases open-source portions of the Droid X source code …

Motorola Droid X Not to be outdone by the competition, Motorola has released the open – source portions of the source code for the Droid X, too! All this open – source licensing agreement following is getting me teared up a little bit, …

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Posted on July 30, 2010 - by admin

Samsung Captivate Code Goes Open Source

Developers anxious for the full open source coding of the Samsung Captivate were joyous today as they received the following message in their inboxes: Dear ______, You can download the source code of SGH-I897 on this site in Mobile …

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OnePeople – Open Source Pork

The adorably named “Snort” project has been the mainstay of open source intrusion detection systems for as long as I can remember. The success of Snort and its commercial wing, SourceFire, is one of the early successes of open source , …

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Posted on July 30, 2010 - by admin

Puffbox.com » Archive » Open source policy: back where we started

It’s good to see the coordinated publication of departments’ responses to the Programme For Government exercise – including the Cabinet Office’s reponse on government transparency, which also covered the use of open source software: …

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Trust, transparency, and WikiLeaks: Who gets to have control …

Generally when we talk about the benefits of the open source way, we talk about how transparency increases trust. What’s implied, assumed, and sometimes forgotten is that that means voluntary transparency. I’m not willing to argue that …

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Adobe, Day and Open Source: a dream and a nightmare « bertrand's …

…we are very excited for Day’s considerable “ open source savvy” to expand Adobe’s already significant open source efforts and expertise. That is a strategic benefit of the combination of the two companies.

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Convirture Targets KVM, Xen Open Source Virtualization Mgmt | The …

Convirture says its ConVirt 2.0 offering helps VARs and end-customers to manage Xen and KVM open source hypervisors. Here’s how.

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