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Featured videos: FreedomHEC 2007
Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who founded the Linux Driver Project earlier this year, explains how hardware vendors can get free Linux drivers for their devices, in a talk from this year’s FreedomHEC conference. (watch video)
Visit the LinuxWorld.com video page for more videos from FreedomHEC, including a talk on the Portland State Aerospace Society’s Linux-controlled rocket program and James Bottomley’s tips for how to use “git” and “quilt” to coordinate software development among far-flung users.
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Linux Driver Project reaches 100 developersr September 28, 2007
The project that Greg Kroah-Hartman originally called a “lame publicity stunt”, offering to write device drivers for manufacturers free of charge, has turned into The Linux Driver Project. Greg wrote to the project mailing list, “As of today, Novell is sponsoring me to work on this Linux driver project as my first priority. This means I will have the time and resources to commit to managing the different developers and driver projects as part of my daily job.”
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Kernel space: A tiny Linux for the embedded world October 02, 2007
Linux has the text of 60,000 error and debug messages built-in. With bytes at a premium on phones and other devices, developers are looking for a way to make the kernel smaller and less chatty.
Common AJAX platform seen for devices, desktops October 02, 2007
Anticipating one Web emerging for both mobile and desktop access, dignitaries at a mobile AJAX workshop last Friday also saw a common AJAX platform emerging across both mediums.
Google, Microsoft execs to testify on DoubleClick deal September 27, 2007 03:30 PM
Executives from Google and Microsoft are scheduled to testify before a Senate panel Thursday on the search engine company’s planned $3.1 billion acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick.
MIT officially launches Kerberos Consortium September 27, 2007
Although Kerberos is widely used by enterprises, the MIT Kerberos Consortium still thinks it has some new frontiers to conquer. The consortium, which officially launched Thursday, was founded with “the ambitious mission to create a universal authentication platform to protect the world’s computer networks.” Kerberos is an open source security protocol developed at MIT in the 1980s that uses strong cryptography to authenticate both users and servers.
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IT companies going for corporate welfare again: Don Marti’s blog September 28, 2007
Robert Penn Warren wrote, “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.” And when an IT executive in Raleigh, North Carolina sends a check to a Washington, DC lobbyist, sometimes it seems like I can smell the corruption from here in California.
Jim Harper points out a list of corporate welfare seekers: the IT vendors lobbying for federal spending on the wasteful privacy risk of the REAL ID Act. “I’ve long thought highly of the ITAA – they’ve taken many sensible pro-innovation and anti-regulatory positions over the years – but it’s embrassing to watch their slavish begging for federal dollars – all to build infrastructure that attacks the nation’s values.”
