IntelliJ IDEA has been open sourced: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/10/intellij-idea-open-sourced/
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kahwee
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kahwee
In a surprising move, Apple goes open source on Grand Central Dispatch:
Despite being a unique, key marketing feature of Snow Leopard, Apple has decided to open the code behind Grand Central Dispatch under the liberal Apache 2.0 license.
Snow Leopard’s new Grand Central Dispatch feature, which serves as a system-wide mechanism for managing parallel task execution across multiple processor cores for developers, involves multiple components in the operating system.
The user-space implementation of the Grand Central Dispatch services API, called libdispatch, has been delivered as its own open source project, joining with other components that are part of projects Apple has already designated as open, including the kernel components in the Darwin OS XNU kernel and the blocks runtime that is part of the LLVM project.
Apple’s code giveaway was “something of a surprise,” according to MacResearch, a website covering the use of Apple technologies in the scientific research community, because the new feature of Snow Leopard “could be seen to give Apple a competitive edge in the new world of multi-core.” (Source: Apple Insider)
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kahwee
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
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uzyn
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 HughesOpen letter republished from centos.org.
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kahwee
I am presently surprised that http://sourceforge.net/ changed its layout this morning. It looks so much better. Good job!
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kahwee
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.
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uzyn
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.
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kahwee
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.
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kahwee
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec due to opposition from Apple: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-318208.html
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kahwee
User gets fed up with bug in Skype, cracks program to fix it.
SkypeMate.exe crashes immediately after picking up the phone.
I am so fed up with work-arounds for stupid errors on Yealink’s part, I decided to patch the problem myself. The problem resides at SkypeMate.dll+0×4525 where the program de-references a pointer returned by SkypeMate.dll+0×4450 (aka “GetAudioNameByID”) which is passed an invalid ID, -1, for whatever reason. The function then returns a null pointer which crashes the program.
By inserting a null reference check before the pointer is de-referenced, the program now runs great. If you also experience the problem with the program crashing right after you pick up the phone, I have attached the cracked dll.
From Skype Forums
Another reason for open source?
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kahwee
Open source software used in Palm Pre (as seen in http://newcome.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/list-of-open-source-software-used-in-the-pre/ ):
- Apache
- Prototype JavaScript Framework
- Flex
- Bzip2
- Openssl
- Curl
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: