Just last month, the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs announced that they had merged. That union brought together two of the most important resources supporting the Linux ecosystem, and promoting the growth of Linux operating system in the marketplace. Today, the product of that merger – called the Linux Foundation – announced the members of its first, diverse Board of Directors, fulfilling a promise to give a voice on the Board to all key stakeholders in the Linux ecosystem, including the kernel, legal, user, distro and vendor communities.

Source: The Linux Foundation has a First, Diverse Board of Directors

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is changing the final process of writing the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF, says that the reasons for the change are the extensive revisions in the next draft and the need “to get the community back involved in the process” as it reaches a climax. The revisions deal with issues raised by the recent Novell-Microsoft deal, and by the community about language in the license about patents and digital rights management (DRM).

Source: FSF changes GPLv3 endgame

I have heard that I am a jerk because I am not allowing comments here on the site. Well first lots of folks call me a jerk that is nothing new, however I do allow comments, it is just that if you are not signed up on the board or not the first comment is always held for moderation. And why is that you ask? One word Spammers. I welcome comments I really do and I know that LinuxChick loves to get them also. And no I do not censor them good or bad they will show up if they are not flat out spam folks so feel free to comment away, they will show up.

BERKELEY, Calif.–Intel has come up with a form of Wi-Fi that would let a laptop in San Francisco connect to the Internet from a base station in San Jose, Calif.

And there would still be about 10 miles of wiggle room to spare.

Academics and researchers from the company’s labs have created a system that lets Wi-Fi signals, which ordinarily carry a few hundred feet, to carry 100 kilometers, or more than 60 miles, said Eric Brewer, director of Intel Research Berkeley, a lab owned by the company that cooperates on research projects with UC Berkeley.

“It is regular Wi-Fi hardware but with modified software,” he said.

To show it works, Intel set up a link between its labs in downtown Berkeley and the University’s Space Science Lab, about 1,200 feet up and about 1.5 miles away on Grizzly Peak Boulevard. The receiver in the office consists of a directional antenna linked to a modified–but otherwise standard–wireless access point.

The system isn’t designed for the U.S. or Europe. Instead, it is part of the chip giant’s efforts to bring computing technologies to people in emerging markets. The communications infrastructure in most of these countries is fairly anemic and most of it is concentrated in the cities. Villages, where a large portion of the population lives, are effectively cut off from the outside world except by car, bus or footpath.

Ok, now this is what I need!!! “cut off from the outside world except by car, bus or footpath”… YEP, that’s me! lol

Source: ZDNet

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With a virtual drum roll, online video-sharing Web site YouTube on Monday announced the winners of its inaugural awards, paying tribute to the wannabe stars who have used the site as a launching pad to fast fame.

The winners ranged from the Chicago band OK Go dancing across treadmills, to a Sydney man who hugged strangers in the street, to an animated video about a kiwi bird trying to fly.

YouTube, which has dominated the user-generated online video market since it was founded in February last year, said the winners of its 2007 Video Awards helped to foster the online video phenomenon.

Source: ZDNet

~LC

In a move that I can not condone, Robert Scoble has decided to not blog for a week in protest of the death threats that Kathy Sierra, over at her blog Passionate has gotten recently. Now I have heard this gal speak and I have visited her blog and while she has the knack of getting conversations started, there is no reason for the morons of the internet to decide that they have to send death threats to her. Don’t get me wrong I agree totally that these morons do have to be shutdown, however to not blog is to say hey you win.

Yes I have gotten told what a idiot I am and that I should not be writing let alone be on the web, but I let those run off my back I guess it is part of the way of life you can not make everyone happy all of the time. However when the threats turn to death and torture that person has crossed the line and is now treading on Kathy’s civil rights, not to mention legal rights, and I hope that the police move in and take these pondscum off the web and into a nice cell for a long time.

So Robert come up with another form of protest, maybe a week of posting items on the Cyber Angels or other anti stalker related articles. Remember if the good folks are all quiet only the idiots will be heard. Think about it.

Baldy

Last time, I gave a users’ perspective overview of the OpenID decentralized single sign-on system, and described how to take the first step: getting your own OpenID identity. Once you are comfortable with OpenID as a login method for the sites that you visit, you can look at implementing it for the sites that you run. Plugins for WordPress make the process easy to understand.

Source: OpenID-enable your WordPress blog

kdenlive is a video editor that doesn’t have the same profile as other editors on Linux. However, it is a credible application for consumer level video editing for Linux. It has a nice intuitive interface, is stable and fast, incredibly versatile in terms of file formats, and has some great editing tools and effects. With a bit more polish, it could easily become the “iMovie” of Linux. This article has a quick look at kdenlive, its installation, features and usage.

Source: kdenlive – the iMovie of linux?

Welcome to the first MEPIS Podcast.

Click here to play – 55:46 minutes (12.77 MB)

Meet Warren Woodford and Matt Melbert and find out what’s new in MEPIS 6.5. Other topics include Beryl, WPA and Wirless in general, MEPIS Assistants and contributing to MEPIS

Not too bad, for a first Podcast guys!

Source: Mepis.org

~LC

A few tweaks can boost performance
Level: Intermediate

A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux® performance. In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example.

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