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Linux Foundation Newsletter, February 2009
From the Linux Foundation
In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter:
- Collaboration Summit Agenda Announced
- LinuxCon Call for Papers
- New Style Connects Foundation Web Sites
- "We're Linux" Video Contest Still Going Strong
- Linux Foundation in the News
- From The Director
Upgrading a C# Mono Application on Gentoo Linux, Pt 3
By Kevin Farnham
In the first and second articles in this series, I described how I installed and configured Mono on my Gentoo Linux workstation, and how I added Gtk-sharp controls to the user interface of my stock market analysis and plotting application. In this article, I'll show how I wired the Gtk-sharp widgets into the functions that use the settings that the widgets define, and I'll conclude by talking about where Mono stands today.
Manage Your Open Source Projects with Trac
By Dee-Ann LeBlanc
Whether you're a team of one or of massive proportions, consider using a tool such as Trac to keep everything neatly together and organized. The less time your project team has to spend digging through old emails, the more time they can spend actually coding.
The Business of Open Source Development, Part 3
By Robert LeBlanc
Last time around we explored a number of different business models for open source software development, from support services and training to membership and sponsorship models, donation-based schemes and custom development consultancies, to name a few. This time I want to focus on perhaps the most popular of these--the support contract--and take a more detailed look at what's involved in that kind of model.
Linux Foundation Blogs
Opera, All Prettied Up with Nowhere to Go
By David Goemans
Anyone who has read a few of my posts, or even looked at my blog page will know that i am an Opera user. In general i find Opera to be a far superior browsing experience to any other browser at the moment, however, its failures are a reflection of the current market in which it is fighting. It has been a while since i have made significant comment on Opera, or the state of the web, and so i felt it was about time to throw something out there. In a way, this is an open letter to Opera Software, and a comment on the "browser wars."
Aligning Filesystems to an SSD’s Erase Block Size
By Ted Ts'o
I recently purchased a new toy, an Intel X25-M SSD, and when I was setting it up initially, I decided I wanted to make sure the file system was aligned on an erase block boundary. This is a generally considered to be a Very Good Thing to do for most SSD’s available today, although there’s some question about how important this really is for Intel SSD’s — more on that in a moment.
How to Evaluate Open Source Projects?
By Amanda McPherson
If you’re in the open source world, you probably don’t need a lot of convincing about the high quality software that results from the open source development model. Mass collaboration coupled with vociferous peer review makes for better code and products. It just does. No matter how much of a monopoly might exist today, this collaboration cannot be duplicated within the proprietary software model.
Congratulations to IBM and Red Hat on their 10th Anniversary
By Jim Zemlin
I’ve written on Red Hat before and the confidence I feel in their operational strengths. It is one of the best run companies I’ve seen. Red Hat’s leadership in the Linux space and its steadfast belief in open source software has been a key factor in Linux adoption in the enterprise. This year’s numbers with Linux capturing greater than 20% of server shipments, a major success, are due in large part to Red Hat’s competitiveness and hard work.
Do Not Adjust Your Screens...
By Brian Proffitt
The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed a few... changes to the Linux Developer Network site that happened overnight.
These style changes are part of an ongoing effort to unify the look and feel of all of the Linux Foundation's web properties.
How Linux Helped Adopt My New Daughter
By Brian Proffitt
Did Linux really save the day? Maybe not completely. But it was good to have solid technology (and a darn cute logo) on our side.
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Combining GPL and Proprietary Software
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Periodic Table of the [Perl] Operators
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Secure Linux Containers Cookbook
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How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need?
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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Released
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Another Desktop Test for Linux
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HP and Canonical Work Towards Ubuntu Certification on Servers
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