Archives for Thu Apr 1 2010 - Page 125

Elevate Your PHP Development with PHP 5.3's Powerful New Features

Developer.com: "By typical development conventions, PHP 5.3 only qualifies as a "point release." However, the features packed into this new version are easily the most significant PHP development enhancements since PHP 5.0 was released in 2004."

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GNOME 2.30 has been released

LWN.net: "Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.30, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform."

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Linux Questions Zero Reply Drive

Linux Questions: "One of the main goals of LQ is to help members get questions about Linux answered. One way we help facilitate this is with the "Zero Reply" functionality, which allows you to easily find threads with no replies."

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Gimp for the kids: Debian Junior Art

Ghacks: "If you’ve ever tried your hand at The GIMP, you know that, at first, The GIMP can be a bit challenging to learn. That is coming from an adult. Imagine a younger user attempting to use The GIMP."

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Cool: fastest linux on the road

Handle With Linux: "This is the Mavizen electrical superbike, and it runs a custom Linux operating system!"

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KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

LWN.net: "Both the code and its development model are seen as conforming much more closely to the Linux way of doing things than the alternatives; KVM is expected to be the long-term virtualization solution for Linux. So, one might well wonder, why has KVM been the topic of one of the more massive and less pleasant linux-kernel discussions in some time?"

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Ruby Development Gains Commercial Support on Java as New JRuby Version Looms

Developer.com: "The JRuby language is getting commercial support for developers this week, thanks to Ruby specialist Engine Yard."

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FreeBSD 7.3-release crashes, messes with ext3 and FAT drives ... time for me to move on

Click: "Not only have I been able to crash FreeBSD 7.3-release with GNOME by trying to automount FAT partitions on USB-connected drives, but those crashes rendered both the FAT partitions and the ext3 partitions that otherwise could be mounted automatically on those drives, for lack of a better word, unmountable."

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Solaris Is Dead. Long Live Linux

Linux Magazine: "Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again. In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux."

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EduPunks Say School Yourself!

The Tyee: "Their DIY movement is reinventing how, and why, we learn."

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Alex Brown: "Without action, the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure"

Standards Blog: "Alex thinks that Microsoft has failed to fulfill crucial promises upon which the approval of OOXML was based. He concludes that unless Microsoft reverses course promptly, “the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure.”"

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QA with IBM's Dan Frye: "Everything Has Changed"

Linux.com: "IBM is celebrating more than a decade working with Linux, and Dan Frye was the co-author of the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source."

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Microsoft: Google Chrome doesn't respect your privacy

ars Technica: "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: "Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make..."

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