Fedora Moving to Unity Too!
"Despite all the negative reaction to Ubuntu's move to Unity, is it possible that another popular distribution is going to walk in its footsteps? Do they want to experience the backlash and exodus of users? Do they want to be subjected to a barrage of criticism? Well, no, not really. But Adam Williamson is working on making some Fedora packages for those that might want to test and run it.
"In a blog post today Williamson announced that he's going to give it the ole college try. But according to him, it's going to be quite the undertaking."
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USA v. Crippen � A Retrospective
USA v. Crippen ? A Retrospective
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"Some readers may be aware that I was called upon to perform as an expert witness in a landmark case, USA v. Crippen, where for the first time an individual, Mr. Crippen, was charged with an alleged violation of the criminal portion of the DMCA statute. There have been numerous civil cases over the same statute, but this is the first time that a felony conviction could result from a court case.
"As reported by numerous sources, the case was dismissed after the first witness? testimony. This would be as if two armies brought all their artillery and troops to a border, fired a single shot, and then one side surrendered, realizing that there is no point incurring casualties for a war they cannot win. And thanks to double-jeopardy provision of the US constitution, Mr. Crippen cannot be tried again, since a jury was assembled for his trial. It is a remarkable victory for Mr. Crippen?s defense: as Sun Tzu said in The Art of War, ?The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities?."
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SimplyMepis celebrates 8th anniversary with release
Warren Woodford, founder of MEPIS has announced 21 eighth time anniversary of MEPIS on November SimplyMepis 11.0 Alpha 3 release. SimplyMepis takes usually quite a while to cook and no final release date has been given.
This release "with Debian squeeze, but with a 2.6.36 kernel continue." "In this version has MEPIS backported the Galbraith latency patch, improved desktop performance." This patch has latency attention, received its inclusion on the Linux kernel mailing list lately, since and offers higher performance for some desktop setups discussed. Some users have reported greatly increased performance while others it really only advantages opened State processes under additional TTY (PTS). Also reported that the patch NULL cause could pointer dereference bugs but Galbraith said it was anyway rewrite. In any case, it is an interesting move by the normally conservative Woodford.
Alpha in this cycle were developmental something more than 800 MB in size, and some say Woodford should just go ahead and add all sorts of additional software and graphic material, (or USB key) because the ISO already requires a DVDrom. More documents the street may arise later.
Alpha 1 had a bug which prevents that the live image on many PCs boot and although Woodford, that said "Some bugs have been fixed, the affected installation and boot from USB key" problems prevent boot-up DVD in alpha 2 continued. So, an alpha 3 released soon to fix it.
So far, 11.0 has a fairly new boot splash, but the login and desktop decorations remain largely unchanged. KDE 4.4.5 is the featured desktop with applications like Firefox 3.5.6, GIMP 2.6.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 provided. Unless no other radical changes are the latency patch is the latest stable version, but it's still very early.
Woodford reflects on MEPIS, "it was launched 8 years the MEPIS Linux project that before today, when Warren Woodford would be decided to create a version of Linux that easily try from CD to install the live environment and easy for everyone to use." "In the course of the years have reported by SimplyMEPIS first OS is one year old children, and the first OS of the 90-year-old adults."
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Android: Too much of a good thing?
Android is everywhere. Really. It runs phones, tablets, and I recently saw it even works on an iPhone. A few years ago would me to no end excited have. It still, but truthfully, I am now more skeptical. See two years ago, Linux was everywhere on Netbooks. I thought it was beaten up a major break - Linux finally the mainstream.
But vendor customization and "dumbing down" Linux that look like an inconsistent kludge rather than a free and powerful choice made. So far, Android looks across quite constant about hardware. So far, many apps regardless of Android version that supports your device work. Suppliers will hopefully made with Netbooks to see the errors and keep, their "branding" to a minimum. It phone many ways providers and wireless carriers could efforts messed up our world domination. Again.
Dear suppliers, please don't try to sell more phones by adding proprietary software up on Android. Adding software you contribute it back to the community. If you want to sell more phones, make better phones than your competition. (Please!)
