December 2004

SCALE 3x Expands Speaker and Exhibitor Lineup Posted Sunday, December 26, 2004 @ 1:39 PM by mayhem

Anonymous writes "The 2005 Southern California Linux Expo has added many new speakers to its lineup including: *Norman McEntire - Servin Corporation: Linux Internals and Device Drivers *Paul Von Stamwitz- AMCC: Building Storage Systems with Commodity Hardware *Daryll Strauss - Digital Ordnance: Open Source TEvelphony Using Asterisk and VOIP *Cecil Watson - KnoppMyth: Remastering Knoppix *Ted Gould - Inkscape / Gnome: The SVG Standard and Open Source Desktops *John Ousterhout - Electric Cloud, Inc.: Faster Software Rebuilds *Gideon Romm - Symbio Technologies: Diskless Client Networks and Server-Centric Computing with LTSP *Kim Brand - Computer Experts, Inc.: Open Source Opportunities for Schools *David Uhlman - Uversa Inc *Sumitra Srinivasan - Georgia State University: Social Impacts of Open Source Adoption *Denis Rex: Wireless Tools Using Linux These sponsors are newly signed with the Linux Expo: LinuxQuestions.org - media sponsor Usenix Association- media sponsor ObjectWeb - media sponsor Yosemite Technologies - registration sponsor 21st Century Software - basic sponsor TOLIS Group - basic sponsor Barracuda Networks - basic sponsor New Avenue Systems - basic sponsor Pyx Technologies - basic sponsor Petta Technology - basic sponsor The following LUGs or non-profit groups have signed up to man a booth at SCALE 3X: Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Free Software Foundation, Gentoo, GNOME, KDE, KnoppMyth, LAMPSIG, Linux Astronomy, Linux Terminal Server Project, LinuxChix of LA, Santa Barbara Linux Users Group, Socal Wireless Users Group, ObjectWeb Foundation, Global Education Link, and WikiPedia Foundation. If your LUG, or other non-profit Open Source organization would like to be represented at SCALE 3X, please contact gareth@socallinuxexpo.org for a booth. Don't delay; booths are being assigned to LUGs and other ORGs steadily. SCALE 3X will be held February 12th and 13th, 2005, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Linux Expo of Southern California was established in 2001. Our mission is to evangelize the advantages of Open Source software. For more information, see http://socallinuxexpo.com, or email info@socallinuxexpo.com. For a free exhibit hall pass use the promotional code 'FREE'. For discounts on a full access pass use the promo code 'NEWSP'"

Boot Process Visualization Posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 @ 1:52 PM by mayhem

The time needed to boot desktop Linux systems is becoming an issue. That's why I recently took the challenge posted by Red Hat's Owen Taylor on the Fedora developers list and came up with a tool for visualization of the boot process. It collects performance data during the boot up and then renders an SVG or PNG performance chart. It immediately helped Red Hat developers solve some issues and I have since received boot charts from other GNU/Linux developers as well. Solaris kernel developers reported success in improving their boot process too. (Source: Slashdot)

Poll Results: Have you tried the new Fedora Core 1? Posted Saturday, December 11, 2004 @ 3:08 PM by mayhem

Well the time has come for a new poll, so the old "Have you tried the new Fedora Core 1? ?" poll has been retired, some interesting results (below) can be seen. Overall result seems to indicate Fedora Core 1 having 50/50 support, hopefully the new Fedora Core 3 is better. Have you tried the new Fedora Core 1? 37.1% - Yes, Its OK 23.5% - Yes, Its Great 15.8% - Don't Want To 13.4% - No, Not Yet 10.0% - Whats Fedora Core? Total Votes: 417 The new poll "How long have you used Linux for?" is now up and running, so please feel free to vote when you can.

TheOpenCD 2.0 Released Posted Saturday, December 11, 2004 @ 2:44 PM by mayhem

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0. The disc contains old favorites like Mozilla, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Gimp in updated versions, but also has some noteable additions like Firefox, Thunderbird, Blender and Gaim. The CD browser technology is also new this time, and is based on Gecko (see screenshots). This approach should make it simpler to make derivatives, including localized versions, some of which will be out shortly. We have timed the release to be out just before the holidays so you can fill the stockings of friends and family with Free and useful software. Read more or get a copy from one of our FTP mirrors or on Bittorrent. (Source: Slashdot)

Linux Kernel 2.6.10-rc3 Now Available For Download Posted Saturday, December 11, 2004 @ 2:34 PM by mayhem

You can now download the 2.6.10-rc3 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here.

Linux Kernel 2.6.9 Now Available For Download Posted Saturday, December 11, 2004 @ 2:34 PM by mayhem

You can now download the 2.6.9 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here.

Linux Kernel 2.4.29-pre1 Now Available For Download Posted Saturday, December 11, 2004 @ 2:33 PM by mayhem

You can now download the 2.4.29-pre1 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here.

Linux Kernel 2.4.28 Now Available For Download Posted Saturday, December 11, 2004 @ 2:32 PM by mayhem

You can now download the 2.4.28 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here.