Fossnews 17
Fossnews 17
Fossnews 17
FossNews Weekly
Issue : 17
Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )
Date : 01122008
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Contents
1. Fedora 10 released, brimming with new features
2. Cisco Offers $100,000 Bounty to Linux Application Developers
3. 10 Amazing Linux Desktop Themes
4. The Twelve Top Myths of Free/Open Source Software
5. OpenStreetMap grows, spawns ecosystem
6. One billion Mozilla addons downloads
7. Disabled Boy Creates Art With Gimp
1. Fedora 10 released, brimming with new features
The Fedora developer community has announced the official
release of Fedora 10, a new version of the popular open source
Linux distribution. This release is a promising step forward for
Fedora and it introduces some important new features and
technologies that bring more robustness and usability to the
desktop user experience.
Here is a review
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081125fedora10releasedbrimmingwithnew
features.html
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2. Cisco Offers $100,000 Bounty to Linux Application Developers
Cisco is offering $100,000 in prize money to Linux application developers that
help the networking giant defeat Microsoft in the unified communications market.
The initiative focuses on networkaware applications written for Cisco’s AXP (Application
Extension Platform) and Integrated Services Routers (ISRs).
http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/11/26/ciscooffers100000bountytolinuxapplicationdevelopers/
www.cisco.com/go/thinkinside
3. Amazing Linux Desktop Themes
Linux Desktops are getting more eyecandy. We can bet that it is so much beautiful than anu other
operating system.
See a sample here.
For some more screenshots,
http://www.mydigilife.net/10amazinglinuxdesktopthemes/
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For more collections,
Collection of 50 Best Looking Linux Gnome/Ubuntu Themes
http://www.techiesouls.com/2008/11/27/collectionof50bestlookinglinuxgnomeubuntuthemes
todownload/
4. The Twelve Top Myths of Free/Open Source Software
By now, you'd think that anyone who owns a computer knows about free and open source software
(FOSS). However, once you move beyond techie circles, you'll find that, for many people, the
concept is unknown. Even worse, when people have heard of it, they have alarming and rather
discouraging misconceptions of what it involves.
Here are the twelve most common misconceptions of FOSS, and why they're distorted, exaggerated,
outdated, or just plain wrong:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6597/1/
5. OpenStreetMap grows, spawns ecosystem
OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world
map. What began as a few geogeeks wandering the streets with their GPS’s has turned into a global
movement with over 75,000 registered contributors. The database has improved rapidly in quality
and comprehensiveness, as have the tools and services around it. OSM is becoming a viable
datasource for complex projects.
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http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/11/27/openstreetmapgrowsspawnsecosystem/
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
6. One billion Mozilla addons downloads
The Mozilla addons team this past week announced that it had seen its billionth addon
downloaded since it started tracking in 2005.
This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, so the number may in fact be a lot
higher as addons are also distributed through other channels.
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3706
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2008/11/19/1billionaddondownloads/
7. Disabled Boy Creates Art With Gimp
This young man “Mani” never ceases to amaze me. He attended a screencast introducing free
software image manipulation software 'Gimp' at the C³ Community Computing Center in
Bangalore and loved it. Now he raises money by selling the artwork produced using Gimp on
gnu/Linux operating system to buy new computers for his community center. Talk about free
software empowering people!
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The story is also covered in The Hindu recently
http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/23/stories/2008112354831000.htm
http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/11/disabledboycreatesartwithgimp.html
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