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  • kahwee 2:42 am on August 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: alan cox, , linux, , tty   

    Alan Cox leaves Linux as TTY maintainer: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26635/1231/

    He got pissed off with Linus Travolds.

    I’ve been working on fixing it. I have spent a huge amount of time
    working on the tty stuff trying to gradually get it sane without breaking
    anything and fixing security holes along the way as they came up. I spent
    the past two evenings working on the tty regressions.

    However I’ve had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix
    it.

    Have fun.

    I’ve zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer
    can send them to the new maintainer.

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/375

     

  • uzyn 11:52 pm on July 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: centos, lance david, linux, , oss   

    CentOS founder, Lance Davis, gone AWOL:

    July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC

    This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers

    It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left with no other options. For some time now we have been attempting to resolve these problems:

    You seem to have crawled into a hole … and this is not acceptable.

    You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date this has not appeared.

    You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is not proper.

    You have, it seems, sole ‘Founders’ rights in the IRC channels with no deputy ; this is not proper.

    When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you individually, I get a telco intercept ‘Lines are temporarily busy’ for the last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice picked up, and I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir also reports calling and leaving messages without your reply.

    Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project.

    Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away.

    Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange for the required information to keep the project alive at the ‘centos.org’ domain.

    Sincerely,

    Russ Herrold
    Ralph Angenendt
    Karanbir Singh
    Jim Perrin
    Donavan Nelson
    Tim Verhoeven
    Tru Huynh
    Johnny Hughes

    Open letter republished from centos.org.

     

    • kahwee 2:52 pm on July 31, 2009 Permalink

      I wanted to post this too. Well, they could always fork CentOS or something although it’s a big deal in the branding aspect.

    • kahwee 3:27 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      The CentOS admin has resurfaced. Meanwhile another developer opens up and talks about CentOS’s problems: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private

    • kahwee 7:39 pm on August 2, 2009 Permalink

      From CentOS:

      The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward.

      The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions.

      We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues.

  • uzyn 12:43 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , linux,   

    If your idol says hating Microsoft is uncool, you had better listen.

    Slashdot: Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred “a Disease”

     

    • kahwee 11:54 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink

      Smart asked Torvalds if Microsoft was contributing the code to benefit the Linux community or Microsoft. ‘I agree that it’s driven by selfish reasons, but that’s how all open source code gets written! We all “scratch our own itches.”

      …

      ‘So complaining about the fact that Microsoft picked a selfish area to work on is just silly. Of course they picked an area that helps them. That’s the point of open source — the ability to make the code better for your particular needs, whoever the “your” in question happens to be.’”

      Selfish? I don’t really selfishness here. For the first time something is being shared, calling the landmark move “selfish” is not appropriate.

      I don’t think Linus is happy about it, deep down he’s probably hating it but he can’t do a thing. Not accepting the code would be a major boo-boo for open source, they have to accept it anyway.

      Linus is like a baker who ate someone else’s piece of cake and insists a little more milk would be better.

  • kahwee 1:43 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: driver, linux, , , oscon, source code   

    Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel :

    In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.

    “Obviously we are tickled about it,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “Hell has frozen over, the seas have parted,” he said with a chuckle.

    Microsoft made the announcement at the annual OSCON open source conference that opened Monday in San Jose.

    Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux driver project lead and a Novell fellow, said he accepted 22,000 lines of Microsoft’s code at 9 a.m.PST Monday. Kroah-Hartman said the Microsoft code will be available as part of the next Linux public tree release in the next 24 hours. The code will become part of the 2.6.30.1 stable release.

    http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html

    All I can say is that this is a good sign.

     

    • uzyn 5:14 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink

      OK you beat me to this. Wanted to blog about this too and since you’ve done it, I’ll just add my comment I originally wished to append here:

      Could we be seeing a new UNIX-based OS from Microsoft? Just like how Apple did with the transition from OS 9 to OS X.

    • kahwee 2:47 pm on July 25, 2009 Permalink

      I think it’s likely Microsoft would come out with it’s own Linux-variant but it’s unlikely Microsoft would move Windows from what it already is today. Windows can still remain Windows and Microsoft can still move into Linux the Red Hat way.

      I can imagine it’s an option that they’re evaluating since many governments are moving into open source operating system and Microsoft is most eligible for a share in the open source enterprise business. They’ve almost got nothing to lose here and can advertise greater interoperability and still place their commercial titles into the open source Linux. Nothing but pride is preventing Microsoft from forking Ubuntu as a base to create Microsoft Open Source Operating System 2010 Enterprise Edition.

      So I say why not? Haha, the GNU fans would curse and swear though.

  • uzyn 4:08 pm on July 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 3d, direct3d, linux, opengl, , parallels, virtualbox, ,   

    Just as Kah Wee and I were talking about the lack of 3D support in Parallels yesterday, looks like the open source alternative, Virtual Box, has outdone the commercial counterpart in this area.

    VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support

    The VirtualBox developers have gradually been adding support for accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox 3 has relatively solid support for OpenGL on Windows and Linux guests. It also has gained experimental support for Direct3D 8 and 9 on Windows. These advancements could make VirtualBox a viable solution for 3D gaming.

    Via http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/virtualbox-3-brings-3d-graphics-support.ars

     

  • kahwee 8:41 am on July 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: coca cola, linux, , pepsi, public relations,   

    Microsoft and Linux holds peaceful tweets as reported by Techcrunch

    Linux: Welcome to Twitter, @Microsoft #
    Mirosoft: @Linux thanks, nice to be here #

    Meanwhile in Twitter, you can also find Coca Cola and Pepsi following each other.

     

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