New GPL Draft Due Wednesday

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The third discussion draft of GPL version 3 is scheduled for release at 7 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, Brett Smith, a licensing compliance engineer for the Free Software Foundation said in a mailing list posting Monday. The current GPL 2 governs the rights and restrictions of many open-source and free-software projects, including high-profile ones such as the Linux kernel, Java and MySQL database. A 'last-call' draft is due 60 days after the third discussion draft, and the final GPL 3 will arrive 30 days after that, Smith said.

New GPL Draft Due Wednesday

RaveHD uses Linux to help movie studios process raw video

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SpecSoft's Linux-powered RaveHD DDR-VTR system is not a video editing tool for home users or small-time professionals. It's a system that stores, manipulates, and plays back uncompressed video that can be turned into film clear enough to fill a Hollywood movie theater's wide screen. It's what you need when the file size of each frame in your video is measured in gigabytes and your whole project takes up multiple terabytes of storage, and you have not just one or two but 100 or 200 animators and post-production people working for you. At this level of video and film production, says SpecSoft co-founder Ramona Howard, the question isn't why you develop your utility programs in Linux, but why you would even consider using a proprietary operating system.

RaveHD uses Linux to help movie studios process raw video

CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101

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When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system. Knowing about these tools, and how to effectively use them, can help you overcome many of the common problems on your system. Here's a list of some of the weapons in your arsenal against Linux problems.

CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101

OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidation

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After a five year journey that included a suspended validation last year, the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) has announced that OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation and is now available for download.

OpenSSL is an open source toolkit that allows programs to securely exchange data in the same fashion as proprietary versions of Secure Sockets Layer encryption.

Developers are currently working on a user's guide and plan to make it available in the upcoming weeks.

OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidation

Announcing CompatDB.org 1.0

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I announced 16 months ago the first phase of a transformation to turn both NT Compatible and Linux Compatible user submitted compatibility lists into a free (as in the freedom) compatibility database. All submissions since them are licensed under the terms of the free GNU Lesser General Public License that allows the use of that data in both open source and commercial products/services for free. The launch of Mac OS Compatible last month was the last piece that was necessary for the project that I announce today, which is called the CompatDB.org project.

Raymond, Nelson critical of new planned license for open source peripherals

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Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) is sponsoring a plan to encourage and popularize the idea of open source -- for hardware components. The organization released a draft of an open source license for computer hardware this month, and issued a public call for comments on the draft. The new license is already drawing criticism from prominent members of the open source community.

Raymond, Nelson critical of new planned license for open source peripherals

ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE

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The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. It's performance is reminiscent of IceWM, and it's noticeably faster opening programs than GNOME or KDE. However, its speed comes at the expense of a needlessly redundant default configuration, and some users may balk at some of the assumptions its design makes about how they prefer to work.

ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE

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