by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at
11:11 pm ·
Categorized by Misc / Related
Information I agree with the use of OGG, but FLAC?
Eh, it’s a little much for a portable player if you ask me.
I had the idea for an iPod liberation event several months ago.
The idea is something similar to a GNU/Linux install-fest but for
Digital Audio Players with RockBox and iPodLinux. Installers gain the
ability to play Vorbis and FLAC (among many other things) and lose the
ability to do DRM. I would never recommend buying an iPod but we need
to face the fact that there are millions of these things now. A good
reinstall with a free and open platform seems like a good
start…. Source: copyrighteous
by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at
11:06 pm ·
Categorized by Talk / Related
Information Generally not something that I would
think to ask myself, but this person asks what I consider to be a
fascinating question: Can someone run a TV station on Linux?
“I217;m working with a low-power television station to
update their playback system. Currently they’;re using tape and
I̵7;ve been tasked to move them to computerized playback (MPEG-2,
etc.) There are proprietary solutions (very expensive) and there are
companies that bundle software with Windows and standard x86 hardware.
Overall, they are generally unimpressive and won’t sell the
software without bundling it with their own hardware…
[Source: Slashdot]
by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at
11:00 pm ·
Categorized by Linux / Related
Information In reality, this is not all
that shocking as Red Hat frankly needs a little of the IBM magic. Red
Hat is a good company, but this latest recruitment will only prove to
serve them well.
Red Hat has hired Mark Enzweiler, a
Lenovo executive who spent 25 years at IBM, to be its vice president
of North American channel sales, the Linux seller said Wednesday.
Channel sales are directed toward business partners that typically
build products into broader or customized products of their own or
sell them to a particular market such as small businesses.
He
was vice president of global channel strategy and sales at Lenovo and
held several posts at IBM, including vice president of North American
channel sales and director of global sales. Enzweiler will report to
Ed Boyajian, Red Hat’s vice president of strategic alliances. Source: CNET
by Matt Hartley on October 5, 2006 at
10:58 pm ·
Categorized by Linux / Related
Information Things are changing. And with the growth
of Linux powered handheld devices and the fact that they are being
built by the truckload overseas, I suspect that we are in for a real
shift in the portable market very soon.
Internet-related
investments in Linux servers, PDAs, digital storage and new portable
consumer products will be the highest growth areas in the global IT
market in the next year, according to the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The OECD’;s biennial
IT Outlook report predicts the worldwide IT sector to grow at six per
cent in 2006, with growth fairly evenly-balanced across the
world’s industrialised nations.
The report said:
R20;Overall the prospects for continuing balanced and sustained
growth at a relatively high rate are good but a return to the
unsustainable annual rates of 20 to 30 per cent growth of the late
1990s is unlikely.”̷0;. Source: Silicon.com
by Matt Hartley on October 3, 2006 at
11:11 pm ·
Categorized by Misc / Related
Information For once, I am really impressed with
Novells corporate actions. Ripping on SCOs lifeline ought to help shut
them up for a little while, anyway.
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by Matt Hartley on October 3, 2006 at
11:06 pm ·
Categorized by Linux / Related
Information I say let’s give them a hand, or
even a few bucks should this be a browser project that you happen to
believe in.
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by Matt Hartley on October 3, 2006 at
11:05 pm ·
Categorized by Misc / Related
Information It just needs a good push, we swear. Yes,
OpenSparc receives a hardy push from the likes of Sun.
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by Matt Hartley on October 3, 2006 at
10:30 pm ·
Categorized by
Linux / Related
Information I don’t believe that there is any
question that Mandriva has a long way to go with regard to
understanding the needs of their users, but hey, there is always Red
Hat.
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by Matt Hartley on October 2, 2006 at
11:21 pm ·
Categorized by Talk / Related
Information What would Linus do? Ah, this may be a
question that a number of Linux users have these days. But in the end,
it217;s his reaction to Bayesian filtering that is the hot topic of
the day.
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by Matt Hartley on October 2, 2006 at
11:16 pm ·
Categorized by Misc / Related
Information I suppose we might see this in other
traditions as well, but for the time being, it looks like Christians
have an Ubuntu distro of their very own
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