I haven't kept this as up to date as I'd like but the stuff that is here is good to know. I'm going to modify it so other people can add sections to it and it can be a living document, but until then this is all you get.
Palm has released the PDK for the webOS, which allows developers to code in C and C++, while also providing access to, for instance, the 3D chip. "The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit, letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK and mix them seamlessly within a single app. The PDK enables new functionality, including immersive 3D graphics, and gives developers who have built games for other platforms an easy way to bring their titles to the webOS platform. Developers can download the beta PDK and start developing today, but distribution of games built with the beta PDK will require functionality provided in an upcoming Palm webOS update."
"Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior performance. Firefox now lags behind Safari, Chrome, and Opera in common JavaScript benchmarks. In an effort to bring Firefox back to the front of the pack, Mozilla is building a new JavaScript engine called JaegerMonkey."
"Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavor that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career. Four product managers had already tried and failed to ship Windows before him, and he initially thought that he was being assigned an impossible task. In this follow-up to yesterday's story on the future of Windows, Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released."
Cisco Systems today introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. "The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate," Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said during a webcast announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, which was introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said.
In response to Apple's lawsuit against HTC, Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has written a very intriguing blog post providing an insight into how major companies like Apple and Microsoft treat patents. He recounts two occasions on which Apple and Microsoft threatened to sue Sun - and how Sun retorted.
We have some very, very good news for Europeans (which happens to include myself): we have the European Parliament on our sides when it comes to battling ACTA. If you may recall, ACTA is basically an attempt by the US to impose upon the rest of the world draconian measures like three strikes laws and the DMCA. All parties within the European Parliament have together put forth a resolution that would effectively tackle ACTA.
So have you actually read the iPhone Developer Program[me] License Agreement? The EFF, using a freedom of information act to shrewdly get a copy legally off of NASA, look into the details and don't like what they find. As well as trying to prevent anybody from so much as mentioning the existence of these terms, Apple owe you no more than $50 if they sink your company by removing your apps for any reason they so please. It makes for scary reading, that is--if you think the terms are enforceable in court. I hope to see this very thing challenged as soon as possible.
Damien Miller (djm@) posted to announce@ with the announcement of OpenSSH 5.4. Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new 'netcat mode', many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.
Please read on for the full release announcement:
Read more...
Cisco Systems says it will make a major announcement on Tuesday, news that the technology giant says "will forever change the Internet". Shares of Cisco gained 3.65% to close at $26.13 Monday, hitting a new 52-week high of $26.36 intraday, as some analysts speculated that the tech giant is rolling out new gear to help wireless phone companies cope with rising video Web traffic. Cisco had sent out invitations to analysts and the media for a "significant announcement" that it says "will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments". Let the speculation begin!
You know what's fun? Making claims on the internet about how something or someone was first with something or someone - if you catch my drift. You know what's also a lot of fun? QNX, the microkernel realtime operating system that powers just about any possible piece of kit you can think of. As it turns out, QNX was the first operating system to support a hard drive on a PC. On a related note, a new pre-release has been released of QNX 6.5.0.
"Want better games on your Android phone? They may be coming sooner now, at least for Android 2.0 models. Google has let programmers tap directly into mobile phone graphics power by releasing a third version of its Android Native Developer Kit on Monday."
"It's officially official: Valve will bring its Steam online distribution service and titles from its massive library of hit games to the Mac this April, the company confirmed Monday. The successful content-delivery service will bring Valve titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2, as well as games from other publishers, to Apple computers for the first time. The move was telegraphed last week in a series of teaser posters that mashed characters from Valve games into retro Apple ads." The big thing: native! Native! No emulation! Great news for Mac fans, and hopefully, a Linux version is on the way too.
"Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the W3C. Jaffe will work alongside Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who will remain the organization's director. While Berners-Lee will concentrate primarily on the direction of the W3C's standards, Jaffe will look to streamline the W3C process of working with members."
"Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and ecommerce servers.RSA authentication is susceptible, they say, to changes in the voltage supply to a private key holder. The researchers - Andrea Pellegrini, Valeria Bertacco and Todd Austin - outline their findings in a paper titled "Fault-based attack of RSA authentication", to be presented 10 March at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference."
We're probably a little off-topic here, but with the renewed interest in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the proper title), due to the Tim Burton film, people are starting to pick up Lewis Carroll's books again, which I can only see as a good thing (being an Alice fan myself and all). The New York Times is running an interesting article about an aspect of the Alice books you won't see in most adaptations: the mathematical one.
Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has released Origyn Web Browser 1.7 for MorphOS. HTML5 video and audio is provided through FFMpeg, supporting a wide range of codecs (Ogg/Theora/Vorbis, MPEG4, H264, AAC, MP3, Wav). Highlights of the change log follow.
Some time ago, we featured an
article
with a request for hardware. Specifically, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
(jasper@) was looking for a
Lemote
Yeeloong and Otto Moerbeek (otto@) had recently received one from
a donor to work on the Loongson port. Jasper had his Yeelong sponsored by two donors and received
his machine less than two weeks after the article was posted.
Quite a few commits have hit the tree (eg.
here,
here, and
here)
since then, mostly from otto and miod for src/ and jasper for ports/
and it looks like the 4.7 release will feature an OpenBSD/Loongson port that
should work on the Lemote Yeeloong, the Lemote Fuloong and the EMTEC Gdium.
Undeadly followed up on the donations and asked Miod Vallat (miod@), Otto and
Jasper about the porting efforts, please read on for their story:
Read more...
Update (Tue Feb 23 20:11:00 CEST 2010): Jasper has unlocked the ports tree for a select group of people for "a bit longer".
On January 12, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) announced that the ports tree has switched in softlock mode, meaning that users were welcome to test and report bugs. Now, on February 17, he announced on the ports@ mailing-list that the ports tree has been locked for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.7 release.
Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 8x conference in Los Angeles, that is happening at this moment:
OpenBSD will be represented again this year at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles.
Stop the exhibitor booth and say hi if you're attending, buy some merch, or perhaps ogle our fully clothed booth babe. (or celebrate the fact that we at least have one).
If you live near LA and covet a last minute opportunity to attend the conference, I've got some extra passes to dole out if you'd like to help staff the booth for at least 4 hours on Saturday or Sunday.
Am 16.09 und 17.09.2006 findet in Essen der LinuxTag Essen, Com2Linux, statt. Auch hier wird allBSD wieder zugegen sein um die BSD-Systeme zu präsentieren. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.
Das allBSD Projekt hat neue Flyer rund um die BSDs erstellt und stellt diese als PDF Dokument zum download bereit. Auf dem Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden werden diese Flyer auf dem BSD-Stand ausgeteilt werden.
Der LinuxTag berichtet in einer News auch über das Engagement der BSDs auf dem diesjährigen Linuxtag.
In der neusten Ausgabe des freeX Magazins (http://www.freex-online.de/) wird über das allBSD Projekt berichtet. Desweiteren gibt es in dieser Ausgabe eine Reihe weiterer BSD-Artikel:
- FreeBSD auf dem IBM-Blade Center - DSL Multihoming mit NetBSD - Bluetooth unter FreeBSD - Lazarus und FreeBSD
Seite heute steht das Vortragsprogramm für den LinuxTag 2006 fest. Am Freitag dem 05.05.2006 wird es in Saal 6.2 den ganzen Tag Vorträge über BSD geben. Mehr Informationen zu den Vorträgen entnehmen Sie bitte hier und hier.
allBSD ist auf der CeBIT von 12.-15.März 2006 im Bereich LinuxPark und teilt sich den Stand mit anderen Open Source Projekten. Siehe hierzu: http://www.allbsd.de/events/cebit/index.html
Dru Lavigne, bekannt durch ihre Kolumnen bei O´Reilly, das Buch "BSD Hacks" und Ihr Engagement für eine BSD-Zertifizierung, hat ein online Diskussion mit Daniel Seuffert, Wilhelm Bühler und Axel S. Gruner geführt. Dabei geht es um die Ambitionen von allBSD.de, was der Slogan "push it, dont hype" zu bedeuten hat und wie man allBSD unterstützen kann.
Jürgen Dankoweit ist nun auch Mitglied bei allBSD.de. Er hat in der Vergangenheit viele FreeBSD Flyern erstellt und arbeitet nun aktiv bei allBSD.de mit.
Seit heute haben Sie die Möglichkeit in Ihren Kalender die hier angekündigten Events automatisch eintragen zu lassen. Hier können Sie die ICS-Datei abonnieren.
allbsd-announce - als Ankündigungsliste (Newsletter) allbsd-events - zur internen Organisation von Events (öffentlich) allbsd-misc - für sonstige Themen rund um allBSD.de (öffentlich)
Zur Bündelung der Aktivitäten zum Cebit-Stand 2006 der BSD-Projekte geht die Domain allBSD.de online. Geplant ist, bis Weihnachten 2006 eine Mailinglliste und ein Grundgerüst der Webseiten zu BSD aufzusetzen.
