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New Features in Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition are listed below: Virtualisation Building on the Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) version launched last year, Ubuntu 8.10 ships with a Virtual Machine builder. It allows complete Virtual Machines to be built from the command line in less than five minutes. Developers and system administrators can script the creation of custom virtual images. Vm-builder provides a key component to a dynamic provisioning process for businesses using virtualisation environments. JeOS has been merged into the Server CD and is now available as an option at installation time. Ubuntu 8.10 officially supports running as a paravirtualized guest on Xen hypervisors. KVM has also been updated to allow more flexible memory management. Administrators can reduce or increase the memory allocated to any virtual machine without having to reboot it. Complete Java Stack Apache Tomcat 6.0 and OpenJDK are now fully supported options that make Ubuntu a great choice for developing...

Yes, CodeWeavers Pro Products are available for Free Trial link is h3r3 For those who don't know CodeWeavers, pleae read below CodeWeavers is a company that sells a proprietary version of Wine called CrossOver, for running Windows applications on Mac OS X and Linux. The company was founded in 1996 as a consultancy, eventually moving entirely over to Wine development and support.

BMW will be the first Car manufacture that I know off that goes Open Source. BMW is developing an open-source platform for vehicle electronics. By taking the open-source approach, rather than using proprietary software, BMW aims to allow providers of infotainment services to develop plug-and-play applications. BMW is asking other automakers to join in its effort. But four other automakers that along with BMW took part in a panel discussion Tuesday at Convergence 2008, a conference on automotive electronics, are not as far along in their consideration of an open-source platform. Of the five panelists, only BMW's said that his company would have an open-source platform in a vehicle of 200,000 or more units in the next five to seven years. Electrical and electronics engineers from BMW, Chrysler, Ford Motor, General Motors and Honda R&D participated on the panel. The open-source Linux system was created by BMW, Wind River Systems Inc. and Intel Corp. for the in-vehicle infotainment...

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) developers announced today a new release of their XO Software, a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the XO laptop. The new version is based on the popular Sugar graphical interface, Fedora 9 operating system, and includes some core software customizations for wireless drivers, Open Firmware, power management, and the NAND flash filesystem. Among the new features in XO Software 8.2.0, we can notice some usability and GUI (graphical user interface) improvements, backup and restore functions, new and updated languages, automatic updates and longer battery life. With this release, the developers also included a complete user manual, which is also available here. As we mentioned, XO Software 8.2.0 brings a few interesting features and some bug fixes. Let's take a detailed look at the most important ones: · The Home view and Journal were updated with some new options. For example, you will be able to find and organize stuff; · In order to easily ...

Today, the latest edition of the Wikipedia school edition has been released by SOS Children’s Villages, a charity organization that aims to help orphans and vulnerable children worldwide. The 08/09 edition can be downloaded for free, via BitTorrent only, and comprises over 5500 hand-picked educational articles aimed at helping schools to enhance their curriculum. This year’s Wikipedia edition for schools is the largest since the project started back in 2006. With 34,000 images and 20 million words, it is comparable to a twenty volume encyclopedia captured on a single DVD. Without a doubt, it is the most successful “checked content” project based on the English Wikipedia, used by hundreds of schools in first and third world countries. The project was originally aimed at schools in developing countries, but because of the high quality articles - all based around the UK curriculum with...

New in this release (see below for details): - Improved device management for DOS drives. - Many Richedit fixes. - Various installer fixes, particularly for IE 7. - First steps of Direct3D 10 implementation. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.7.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.7.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/site/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

Google officially open Source Andriod. The preferred licensing for working with the Android platform is the Apache 2.0 license. For people wanting to contribute directly to the platform you will need to complete and send in a signed Individual Contributor License Grant and for corporations that are assigning people to work with and contribute to the Android project, they must complete the Corporate Contributor License Grant; I imagine this is very similar to how the Eclipse Foundation works as well. For those who want to get their hands on Andriod ASAP, here are the important links: Google Code Project Page Download the Source Documentation Mailing Lists Report Bugs Known Issues Code Reviews / Patch History

Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. It's compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle . Following Linux norms, this project is open-sourced under the Apache License. An important area where Google Desktop for Linux is different from its siblings on other operating systems is support for gadgets. Now, the Linux version of Google Gadgets will extend the gadgets platform to Linux users. By enabling cross-platform gadgets, a large library of existing gadgets are immediately available to Linux users. In addition, gadget developers will benefit from a much larger potential user base without having to learn a new API. There's two main components to the application: one is a common gadget library responsible for running and presenting a gadget, and the other is a host program that allows the user to choose gadgets and run the...

Touchscreen ASUS EEE is due on Novebmer, it has very sleek design. Behind the screen sit all the usual Small, Cheap Computer components: 1.6GHz Atom CPU, Intel 945GSE integrated chipset and 1GB of 667MHz DDR memory. This model comes with a 160GB 3Gb/s SATA hard drive on which Windows XP is pre-installed!!!!!!. The Eee has on-board 802.11n Wi-FI and Gigabit Ethernet. there are six USB ports - two on the side, four at the back - audio socketry and a multi-format memory card reader. Despite the touchscreen, the Eee comes with a mouse. A keyboard is bundled too. it is for around £400 , WOW you can place your order now h3r3

Hope that this may reduce the number of terrorists being raised. One of OLPC's partners in Afghanistan, PAIWASTOON, is looking for in-country volunteers to help with university outreach and software/tool development. They especially need two software developers to help build their team. OLPC in Afghanistan have over 10,000 XOs to work with in the coming months, and PAIWASTOON can offer basic travel and living stipends. Below is the original call for assistance from Svetla, one of their program organizers, and a leaflet they have made. You can contact her directly (svetla >at paiwastoon.com.af ) for more information, or follow up on the grassroots mailing list. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested!

Picture of the HTC handset, said to be called the HTC T829, have leaked out and, unless some good-quality Photoshop trickery’s involved, a series of pictures online show the device connected to a wireless network at 13.8Mb/s. This is a wireless speed that far surpasses the connection capabilities of HSDPA 3G, which top out at no more than 7.2Mb/s. Various icons on the mysterious HTC device also appear to show it connected to a network called Yota, Russia’s 802.16 WiMax network that – as of early October – covered central Moscow. Another picture shows how the phone’s WiMax connection can be switched on and off at will. In addition to WiMax connectivity, the T8290 is also rumoured to be able to connect over 802.11g Wi-Fi networks. Although it would be disappointing if the device couldn’t connect over 802.11n. The phone’s said to have a 3.8in, 800 x 480 display and sport Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity too. Please don't mix this HTX with Nokia N80 WiMax capable series , as the Nokia N770/...

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Asus has admitted that some of the its Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus. But while the company has only admitted the infection was present in machines shipped to Japan, Register Hardware can confirm that other territories may be affected too. According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive's D: partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates and attempts to infect the C: drive and an removable drives connected to the system. According to Symantec, the malware is likely to be the W32/Usbalex worm, which creates an autorun.inf file to trigger recycled.exe from D:. Fortunately, the infection was spotted and removed by Microsoft's most recent malware removal tool update. Coincidence? That seems likely, given the different virus and the fact that the disk image used to prepare the Japanese Eee Boxes will almost certainly be different from the one used to imag...

Orange Egypt (Commerical Name Mobinil) has introduced Asus EEEPC with GSM Modem in Egypt. The Deal Details: a) Package (1) ASUS EEEPC C701 Windows XP 3G USB Modem for the Cost of 1399 L.E. b) Package (2) ASUS H900 Windows XP 3G USB Modem for the Cost of 1899 L.E.

Abu Dhabi will pay $700 million for a stake in a new company that will own two plants in Germany and build a factory in New York, newswire Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The new company, which will assume $1.2 billion of AMD's debt, will receive as much as $6 billion from Abu Dhabi to expand plants and get $1.4 billion in operating capital. Abu Dhabi will also pay $314 million to double its stake in AMD to 19%, AMD said today in an e-mailed statement. The cash infusion is a lifeline for AMD, which is forecast to report a third straight annual loss this year and is falling behind on investments needed to keep up.

The Knight News Challenge www.newschallenge.org , which is a US-based foundation giving away $5 million a year for grants in digital, open-source innovation. With the slogan “You Invent It. We Fund It!” the contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from open source designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Deadline is on 1 Nov. 2008 Applications must follow three simple rules: 1. Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base. 2. Serve the public interest. 3. Benefit one or more specific geographic communities. While the foundation is based here in the U.S., the contest is international, with past winners reaching all around the globe. And this year, we'd like to encourage more applicants from Asia before the rapidly-approaching application deadline of November 1st. Details Are below : Chinese. http://newschallenge.org/ chinese Korean, http://newschallenge.org/ korean Japanese, http://newschallenge.org/ japanese Spanish,...

This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in hardware support and speed from the update to FreeBSD 7-Stable. PC-BSD 7 also offers a large and growing library of self-contained PBI files available for installation, and improvments for other locales on our PBI Directory website. This release also offers new methods of installation, including a DVD, USB and Internet/network install. PC-BSD 7.0 Screenshots are h3r3 Note: Here is an interview with the lead developer of PC-BSD. FreeBsd HandBook is h3r3 Spread BSD Campaign link is h3r3 PC-BSD is a Unix-Like desktop-oriented Operating System based on FreeBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE as the default, pre-installed graphical user interface. PC-...