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  <title>Linux News Highlights of the Week</title>
  <subtitle>
    Linux news items that caught my eye while researching Loads of Linux
    Links.
  </subtitle>
  <link 
    rel="self" 
    href="http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/highlights.atom"/>
  <author>
    <name>Barbara E. Irwin</name>
  </author>
  <id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2007-01:highlights</id>
  <updated>2012-04-10T23:30:00Z</updated>

<entry>
<title>
A turning point for GNU libc
</title>
<link href="https://lwn.net/Articles/488847/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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<p>
Jonathan Corbet writes: "The kernel may be the core of a Linux system, but neither users nor applications deal with the kernel directly. Instead, almost all interactions with the kernel are moderated through the C library, which is charged with providing a standards-compliant interface to the kernel's functionality. There are a number of C library implementations available, but, outside of the embedded sphere, most Linux systems use the GNU C library, often just called "glibc." The development project behind glibc has a long and interesting history which took a new turn with the dissolution of its steering committee on March 26."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-04-10:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-04-10T23:22:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
A Billion Dollar Reason Why Linux Works
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/news/a-billion-dollar-reason-why-linux-works.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Money is not what makes the Linux Planet go around, but it sure doesn't hurt. This past week the Linux Plant celebrated its first billion dollar company as Red Hat reported its fiscal 2012 results. While the Red Hat milestone is significant, work continued on the mainline kernel and at rival distribution Ubuntu."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-04-10:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-04-10T23:14:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Kernel report: it's all good
</title>
<link href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/53914-kernel-report-its-all-good"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Linux developers and management people have little in common. Yet the latter would find plenty of which to approve in the latest kernel report - it is a dream come true as far as work practices go."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-04-10:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-04-10T23:10:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Interview: Richard Stallman
</title>
<link href="http://www.osnews.com/story/25724/Interview_Richard_Stallman"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"It's been a while since we caught up with Stallman. But a couple months ago we took a look around at what's happening with law, politics and technology and realized that he maybe perhaps his extremism and paranoia were warranted all along."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights08</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T22:50:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Linux Setup - Jon “maddog” Hall, Linux International
</title>
<link href="http://www.mylinuxrig.com/post/19511715022/the-linux-setup-jon-maddog-hall-linux"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
An interview with Jon "maddog" Hall, a legend in the Linux community.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights07</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T22:45:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
GCC Turns 25 Years Old, GCC 4.7 Released
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA3NTE"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"After nearly one year in development, GCC 4.7 is out in the wild.  This also celebrates the 25 year anniversary of the GNU Compiler Collection."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T22:17:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Carla Schroder: Whoever controls technology controls society
</title>
<link href="http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/03/carla-schroder-whoever-controls.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
An interview with Carla Schroder, a Linux guru.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T22:09:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
What's new in Linux 3.3
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-3-1466872.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Thorsten Leemhuis writes: "Linux 3.3 fixes problems that resulted in freezes when writing to slow disks. Hot replace support for software RAIDs removes the element of risk when hot swapping disks in RAID arrays. The network subsystem now includes teaming support, a virtual switch and infrastructure for avoiding "bufferbloat"."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T22:01:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Kernel Log: Drivers for new Radeon GPUs
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Drivers-for-new-Radeon-GPUs-1478009.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Thorsten Leemhuis writes: "Soon, the kernel will support several AMD graphics cores that are used in recent Radeon graphics cards and in various upcoming processors. In systems with Intel graphics, using hibernation can cause memory corruption. The development of Linux 3.4 has started."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T21:55:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Enforcing the GPL with Judo moves
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Enforcing-the-GPL-with-Judo-moves-1471698.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The GPL promotes the rights of the user, but the defenders of those rights are the copyright holders, who may be the original coder(s) or any body to which ownership of the copyright has been assigned. The benefit for the copyright holder is that changes to the code are made available and can be fed back upstream."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T21:48:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
How the FSF approaches licence compliance
</title>
<link href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/53442-how-the-fsf-approaches-licence-compliance"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The Free Software Foundation wants people to distribute its software. It wants people to install it on their devices and sell those devices and make money. And it wants to encourage them to do this. That's the message that Brett Smith, a licence compliance engineer at the FSF, would like others to understand."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-29:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-03-29T21:36:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Cutting Off The Root: The Future Of Community Developed Android
</title>
<link href="http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/03/cutting-off-the-root-the-future-of-community-developed-android/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The CyanogenMod team made news last week when they announced that future versions of their venerable Android build would no longer include root-level access by default, a massive departure from essentially every other custom Android ROM. Some have questioned the move, claiming that removing root undermines the very idea of running a custom ROM."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-20:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-03-20T23:12:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Linux Kernel 3.3 released by Linus Torvalds
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/linux-3-3-kernel-released-by-linus-torvalds/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"After seven release candidates, the Linux kernel 3.3 has been declared stable. The major update to the kernel is the inclusion of Android support, however there are plenty of other new features."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-20:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-03-20T23:07:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Interview with Ken Starks
</title>
<link href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/163839/index.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The HeliOS Project's Ken Starks, who is currently battling neck and throat cancer, gives an interview to update folks on his condition and how it affects the project, which provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-20:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-03-20T22:40:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Look at Linux, the operating system that is an universal platform
</title>
<link href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxuniversal/index.html?ca=drs-"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Linux is everywhere. If you peer into the smallest smart phone, to the virtual backbone of the Internet, or the largest and most powerful supercomputer, you'll find Linux. That's no simple feat given the range of capabilities expected from these platforms."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-03-20:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-03-20T22:27:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Lawful Access Signals Canada Is Open to 'Big Brother Inc.'
</title>
<link href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/02/28/Big-Brother-Inc/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: "Privacy International, one of the world's leading privacy organizations, last year released the results of a multi-year investigation into the shadowy world of the commercial surveillance industry. Dubbed "Big Brother Inc.," the investigation placed the spotlight on dozens of companies that specialize in covert surveillance technologies that are typically sold directly to governments and law enforcement agencies."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-29:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-03-01T02:23:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/if-android-is-a-stolen-product-then-so-was-the-iphone.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Innovation within multitouch and smartphone technology goes back decades—the first multitouch devices were created in the 1980s—and spans a large number of researchers and commercial firms. It wouldn't have been possible to create the iPhone without copying the ideas of these other researchers. And since the release of Android, Apple has incorporated some Google ideas into iOS."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-29:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-03-01T02:17:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/how-red-hat-killed-its-core-productand-became-a-billion-dollar-business.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-29:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-03-01T02:13:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Raspberry Pi sells out within one hour
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/raspberry-pi-sells-out-within-one-hour/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Earlier this morning, the highly anticipated Raspberry Pi system-on-a-chip was put on sale. The team had been teasing a big announcement regarding the release of the system on their Twitter account for the past few days, and the response for what some might have assumed was a niche device has overwhelmed them."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-29:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-03-01T02:05:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/raspberry-pi-interview-eban-upton-reveals-all/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"We spend time with Eben Upton, the man at heart of the $25 computer project known as Raspberry Pi. We learn all about the hardware, the dev board pricing scandal and – amazingly – why Ubuntu doesn’t want anything to do with it."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-29:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-03-01T02:00:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
WURFL: a cautionary tale
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/WURFL-a-cautionary-tale-1443427.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"At the beginning of this year a DMCA takedown notice was used against the open source project OpenDDR. Glyn Moody looks at the background to this story and the issues that it raises."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights07</id>
<updated>2012-02-29T01:34:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs? Let’s not Forget Foxconn’s Bleak Scene!
</title>
<link href="http://technonstop.com/foxconn-working-conditions"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"For those eulogizing Jobs, and flaunting gleaming Apple logos, it’s important not to ignore the plight of the exploited workers at Foxconn, a top supplier for Apple products. Apple has been in the spotlight for this cruelty for quite a while, and there are no clear signs of abatement in the reported abuses."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-02-29T01:26:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/02/science-code-should-be-open-source-according-to-editorial.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavily on computer programs, which analyze experimental data and run simulations. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outside of pure theory) that didn’t involve code in some way. Unfortunately, most code written for research remains closed, even if the code itself is the subject of a published scientific paper. According to an editorial in Nature, this hinders reproducibility, a fundamental principle of the scientific method."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-02-29T01:22:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Why Linux Is a Model Citizen of Quality Code
</title>
<link href="https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/548766-why-linux-is-a-model-citizen-of-quality-code"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Riki Endsley writes: "Coverity's 2011 Open Source Integrity Report gives kudos to Linux for its high-quality code."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-02-29T01:16:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Schneier: government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/schneier-gov-big-data-pose-bigger-net-threat-than-criminals.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"As Bruce Schneier spent the past decade watching the growing rash of phishers, malware attacks, and identity theft, a new Internet threat has emerged that poses even greater risks, the security expert said."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-02-29T01:00:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The KDE Death Watch
</title>
<link href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-kde-death-watch-1.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Bruce Byfield writes: "Is KDE dying? This question, or variants of it, have been asked with increasing frequency in the two weeks since Jonathan Riddell announced that, after the next release, Canonical would no longer pay him for his work on Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu.
But is the question valid? Or simply unsupported panic?"
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-29T00:47:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Research Works Act (RWA): why Scientific Publishing needs FOSS Methods
</title>
<link href="http://fsmsh.com/3721"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Gary Richmond writes: "I'm sure I don't need to explain SOPA or ACTA to regular readers of Free Software Magazine. They're toxic. End of. But RWA? It stands for Research Works Act. It's not the big sexy beast of the other two but it is, in its way, just as insidious and as harmful to the freedom of scientific publishing as SOPA and ACTA are to internet freedom and it's all interconnected."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-28:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-28T23:29:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
On the Economics of Spark
</title>
<link href="http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-economics-of-spark.html"/>
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<p>
Aaron Seigo writes: "The economics around Spark have, as you might expect, been a focus point for us from the very start of project planning. To state the obvious: if the economics weren't workable then the project wouldn't be viable. So that was where we started."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-21:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-22T01:35:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
How to Kickstart an Open Source Music Revolution with CASH Music
</title>
<link href="https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/547241:how-to-kickstart-an-open-source-music-revolution-with-cash-music"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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<p>
"On February 10, 2012, CASH Music launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than 70% of their $30,000 goal in about 24 hours. What is CASH Music? And why does it already have vocal support from musicians, Firefox, and even Neil Gaiman? Jesse von Doom, Co-Executive Director of CASH Music, explains the inspiration behind the project and the big role Linux plays in it."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-21:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-22T00:25:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
How the CRTC Helped Stifle Internet Throttling
</title>
<link href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/02/15/CRTC-Internet-Throttling/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: "Hockey may be Canada's national pastime, but criticizing the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) surely ranks as a close second. From the substitution of Canadian commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast to Canada's middling performance on broadband Internet services, the CRTC is seemingly always viewed as the target for blame."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights08</id>
<updated>2012-02-21T00:08:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
From open source to sourcing openly
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/From-open-source-to-sourcing-openly-1434057.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Glyn Moody writes: "One of the talks at this year's linux.conf.au that really seems to have struck a chord with people is the keynote by Karen Sandler, the current executive director of the GNOME Foundation. That's probably in part because it came from the heart – literally, in the sense that she spoke about her own heart condition, and issues that implanting a pacemaker device raised. These were principally to do with the fact that the software running the devices was closed source."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights07</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T23:35:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Wayland - Beyond X
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-1432046.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Richard Hillesley writes: "Although current discussion of the Linux desktop tends to focus on the disharmony around Unity and the GNOME shell, the true revolution on the desktop is taking place out of sight of users. The Wayland display server is expected to reach version 1.0 later this year, and is seen by many as the long term replacement for the X Window System, with real potential to improve and transform the performance of the desktop for Linux users."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T23:18:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
RSA keys not as random as they should be
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/RSA-keys-not-as-random-as-they-should-be-1435474.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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<p>
From The H: "A team of cryptographic experts has analysed more than 10 million public keys and discovered serious problems in some of the X509 certificates it collected. This is because some keys were far less random than they should have been – more than 12,000 were easily crackable."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T22:50:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Soapbox: The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware
</title>
<link href="http://blog.makezine.com/2012/02/14/soapbox-the-unspoken-rules-of-open-source-hardware/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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<p>
Phillip Torrone writes: "I truly believe open source hardware is here to stay, It has established itself as a great community, a great effort, and for many, a great business. I spend most of my days working on open source hardware in some way, and I wanted to talk about some of the {unspoken} rules we all, well, many, seem to follow."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T22:43:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
XBMC 11 "Eden"
</title>
<link href="https://lwn.net/Articles/479950/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Nathan Willis writes: "XBMC, the open source media center, has steadily grown from its humble origins as an X-Box only replacement environment into the cross-platform, de facto playback front-end for multimedia content. It merges the file-centric approach taken by traditional video players with an add-on scripting environment that handles remote web content."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T20:30:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
GPL use in Debian on the rise: study
</title>
<link href="http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/52838-gpl-use-in-debian-on-the-rise-study"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"A recent study by a free software advocate has found that the use of the GNU General Public Licence family in the Debian GNU/Linux Project has been growing over the last seven years."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T20:10:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Accessibility Leaders in Linux
</title>
<link href="https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/546389-accessibility-leaders-in-linux"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Carla Schroder writes: "Accessibility to computers for people with vision, hearing, or physical impairments needs to be a part of fundamental design, and not an afterthought."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-20:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-20T20:05:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Could SOPA Pervade Canadian Copyright Law?
</title>
<link href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/02/07/Canadian-SOPA/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: "The battle over the Stop Online Piracy Act in the United States may have concluded with millions of Internet users successfully protesting against the bill, but many Canadians are buzzing about the possibility that some of its provisions could make their way into a copyright bill currently before the House of Commons."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-08:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-09T02:37:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Unsung Heroes of Linux, Part One
</title>
<link href="https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/543893:unsung-heroes-of-linux-part-one"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Carla Schroder writes: "Everyone knows and loves Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, the creator of Ubuntu Linux, is pretty famous. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GPL, is equal parts famous and infamous. But surely there is more to Linux and Free/Open Source software than these three. And indeed there are thousands upon thousands of people toiling away fueling the mighty FOSS engine; here is a small sampling of these important contributors who make the FOSS world go 'round."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-08:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-09T02:24:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Five open source hardware projects that could change the world
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Five-open-source-hardware-projects-that-could-change-the-world-1428043.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Andrew Back writes: "...it is important to note that these projects are real, they exist and most of them have been around for some years. This is not about the future – it's about what's happening right now, bubbling away just under the surface, and with the potential to change our relationship with technology, our lives or even the world."  Cool article.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights08</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T23:38:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/479710/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Riddell writes: "Today I bring the disappointing news that
Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04.
Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other
community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support
the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu
of course and KDE as well."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights07</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T23:24:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Porting office suites to mobile platforms
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/476955/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Bruce Byfield writes: "At first, office suites might seem out of place on tablets and smart phones. Word processors and spreadsheets might seem more at home on workstations, or at least laptops. Yet free office suites are being ported to mobile devices — often belatedly, and usually with reduced feature sets as projects start to develop for these increasingly important platforms."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T23:15:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
SCALE: The road ahead for automotive Linux and open source
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/477145/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Nathan Willis writes: "At SCALE 10X in Los Angeles, Alison Chaiken presented on the short-term future of automotive computing, and how open source is well-positioned to make a big impact on the direction that the carmakers take."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T23:11:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
XFS: the filesystem of the future?
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/476263/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Corbet (LWN) writes: "Linux has a lot of filesystems, but two of them (ext4 and btrfs) tend to get most of the attention. In his 2012 linux.conf.au talk, XFS developer Dave Chinner served notice that he thinks more users should be considering XFS. His talk covered work that has been done to resolve the biggest scalability problems in XFS and where he thinks things will go in the future. If he has his way, we will see a lot more XFS around in the coming years."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T23:04:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Robots rampage (in a friendly way) at SCALE 10X
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/477030/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Nathan Willis writes: ""World domination" is a less prevalent theme in Linux and open source discussions these days than it was some time ago, but it still comes up regularly in one field of study: robots."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T22:56:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
An LCA 2012 summary
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/477155/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From LWN: "In summary, LCA remains unique in its combination of strongly technical talks, freedom-oriented and hands-on orientation, wide variety of topics covered, and infectious Australian humor. There is a reason some of us seem to end up there every year despite the painful air-travel experiences required."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T22:34:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
LCA: Jacob Appelbaum on surveillance and censorship
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/477032/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Corbet (LWN) writes: "Talks at linux.conf.au often cover a wider range of topics than those held at many other Linux-related events, and LCA 2012 was no exception. The final keynote at this conference was from Jacob Appelbaum, a lead developer of the Tor project. This no-holds-barred session took an uncompromising look at surveillance and censorship and the people behind them. It was a strong call for action - and for more free software - from a courageous man who clearly lives by the words written on his T-shirt: "be the trouble you want to see in the world.""
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-07:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T22:30:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Piracy and the value of freedom
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/piracy-and-the-value-of-freedom/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"I think you’ve heard about the piracy happening in the waters surrounding Somalia. Entire ships are captured, and their passengers are often hurt and sometimes even killed.  Interestingly enough, the term often associated with this kind of kidnapping and killing is also frequently used in computing terms for something quite different."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-06:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T02:01:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Death of File Sharing
</title>
<link href="http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-death-of-file-sharing/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Last week’s violent government attack on the hugely popular site Megaupload — the U.S. government arresting Belgian citizens in New Zealand, of all places, and stealing at gunpoint servers bank accounts and property — has sent shock waves through the entire digital world."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-06:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T01:54:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Intel's Brewing New Linux Graphics Driver Features
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA1MzE"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Eric Anholt of Intel spoke on Saturday at FOSDEM 2012 in Belgium about the state of the Intel Linux graphics driver user-space and some of their future plans."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-06:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T01:49:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Piers Anthony: An Ogre and a Penguin
</title>
<link href="http://www.thepowerbase.com/2011/11/piers-anthony-an-ogre-and-a-penguin/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Piers Anthony is one of my favorite authors.  I got the notion to interview him about a month ago.  Since this is a technology site and Piers is a fiction novelist, the was only one way to make that possible.  Exploit his use of Linux!"
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-06:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-07T01:45:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Heads Up for Linux
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/news/heads-up-for-linux.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Sean Kerner writes: "It's beginning to look a whole lot like 2012 will be the year of the Linux Desktop on the Linux Planet. Well, if not the year, then at least this past week, which saw tremendous activity on desktop efforts new and old."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-02:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-02T16:25:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
DUCK DUCK GO! A PRIVACY RESPECTING SEARCH ENGINE WITH FEATURES ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU NOT EVEN CARE!
</title>
<link href="http://www.ainer.org/duck-duck-go-a-privacy-respecting-search-engine-with-features-enough-to-make-you-not-even-care"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"A month or so back I went on one of my little quests to find a piece of software that I don’t currently have buttoned down. This time around I was not looking for another handy-dandy media related application nor another operating system."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-02-02:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-02T16:21:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Open Beyond Licensing
</title>
<link href="http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/open-beyond-licensing.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Aaron Seigo writes: "When I first let the world in on our "little" project to create an open tablet there were some who wondered openly about the licensing of the software. It's an important question that deserves a clarifying answer:We are not using the OS (Android, in this case) provided by the hardware manufacturer. We are also well aware that some of the people in the hardware supply chain are violating the terms of the GPL."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-31:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-02-01T01:44:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Battle For Wesnoth 1.10 Released With New Campaign, Features And Improvements
</title>
<link href="http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/01/battle-for-wesnoth-110-released-with.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Good news for all the Wesnoth fans.  :-)
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-31:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-02-01T01:35:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
SCaLE 10x: Onward and Upward
</title>
<link href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/161642/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Scott Ruecker (LXer) writes: "As I walked into the Hilton on Saturday morning I knew something was up. I saw lots pf people wearing lanyards with a silhouette of a Penguin, it seemed SCaLE 10x was upon me already in full swing. I walked right onto the exhibitor floor and 'did a loop' through the Expo as it were..  The first thing I noticed was the noticeable up-tick in attendance."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-30:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-31T01:33:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The future calculus of memory management
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/475681/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Over the last fifty years, thousands of very bright system software engineers, including many of you reading this today, have invested large parts of their careers trying to solve a single problem: How to divide up a fixed amount of physical RAM to maximize a machine's performance across a wide variety of workloads. We can call this "the MM problem.""
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-29:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-30T01:17:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Privacy Clashes with Data Collection Capability in Cloud
</title>
<link href="http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mobile-cloud-view/privacy-clashes-with-data-collection-capability-in-cloud/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Never let it be said that we don’t live in interesting times. Just this week the European Union proposed new data protection rules that would among other things give users the right to be forgotten."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-29:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-30T01:00:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do
</title>
<link href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6269/125/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: "The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SOPA-like rules), but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention this week."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-27:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T18:08:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Real Linux Girl: Friends Told Me That My Place Was in the Kitchen.
</title>
<link href="http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/12/real-linux-girl-friends-told-me-that-my.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
An interview with Irina Sikach, the editor of the UserAndLINUX magazine.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-27:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T18:01:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Geek-in-Pink: When I installed Mandrake on my computer, my boyfriend was not happy at all. 
</title>
<link href="http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/12/geek-in-pink-when-i-installed-mandrake.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
An interview with Jonquil McDaniel, an avid Linux user.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-27:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T17:56:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Katherine Noyes: I'm a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront
</title>
<link href="http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/01/katherine-noyes-im-linux-fan-and-i.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
An interview with Katherine Noyes, a writer specializing in Linux and open source software.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-27:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T17:52:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
LCA: Addressing the failure of open source
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/475742/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Corbet (LWN) writes: "Bruce Perens wore a suit and tie for his linux.conf.au 2012 keynote for a reason, he said: it reflects our community's need to think more about how it appears to the rest of the world. Despite our many successes, he said, we have failed to achieve the goals that our community set for itself many years ago."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-26:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T01:06:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Release 4.8: Features, Stability, Performance
</title>
<link href="http://dot.kde.org/2012/01/25/release-48-features-stability-performance"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The latest set of KDE releases has been announced. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-26:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T00:49:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
LCA 2012 Bruce Perens on Status of Open Source and James Applebaum on Anonymity
</title>
<link href="http://www.unixmen.com/lca-2012-bruce-perens-on-status-of-open-source-by-and-james-applebaum-on-anonymity/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"At the just concluded Linux Conference Australia (LCA 12), open source was under the limelight as some powerful presenters left behind a lot to be thought about."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-26:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-27T00:46:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Meet the Gentlemen Behind Gentlemint
</title>
<link href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/gentlemint"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p> Rikki Endsley writes: "Developer Brian McKinney explains the inspiration and open source technology behind Gentlemint, a new online "mint of manly things.""
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-26:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-26T16:38:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Ownership Mentality: Art Gallery Prohibits Sketching
</title>
<link href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120107/01360417314/ownership-mentality-art-gallery-prohibits-sketching.shtml"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"I've always been a bit baffled by No Photography signs in museums and art galleries. Presumably they exist to make the exhibits more exclusive and attractive, but that misses the point of why people visit museums: they want to see these things in person, which is a vastly different experience from simply knowing what they look like."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-26:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-26T16:35:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
KDE vs. Windows 7
</title>
<link href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/kde-vs.-windows-7-1.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Bruce Byfield writes: "For several years, I've been saying that KDE is no longer trying to catch up with Windows, but surpassed it several years ago. However, last week a reader challenged me to prove it."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-25:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-26T01:31:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Moving Away from Menus: Is Ubuntu's HUD Change We Can Believe In?
</title>
<link href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/01/moving-away-from-menus-is-ubun.php"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Joe Brockmeier writes: "Canonical and the Ubuntu folks have taken a lot of risks in the Unity interface that ships with Ubuntu Linux. One of the things that the company has been leading towards is the Head-Up Display (HUD), a new tool for controlling applications that moves away from the traditional menu interface that debuted decades ago with the Xerox PARC GUI."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-25:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-26T01:26:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops
</title>
<link href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57364330-281/judge-americans-can-be-forced-to-decrypt-their-laptops/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Declan McCullagh write: "American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-24:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-25T00:54:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Life-giving software should be open: GNOME Foundation Chief
</title>
<link href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52315-life-giving-software-should-be-open-gnome-foundation-chief"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Software that controls vital human functions should always be open source, else it could prove to be a danger to one's existence, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation says."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-24:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-25T00:50:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Linux / Open Source For Kids: A Feast of Riches
</title>
<link href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2012/linux-open-source-for-kids-a-feast-of-riches.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Carla Schroeder writes: "Linux and free/open source software are the best computing environments for children because they can get under the hood and learn to control and shape the technology, rather than be trained like lab rats to click buttons and be good little unquestioning consumers."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-24:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-25T00:31:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
A New Design For FUSE File-Systems
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0Njg"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From Phoronix: "At SCALE 10x a new FUSE implementation was presented that while still having the file-system in user-space, the kernel component is now responsible for more of the work."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-24:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-25T00:15:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Where The Linux 3.3 Kernel Will Come Up Short
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0NjE"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From Phoronix: "While there's a lot of improvements in the Linux 3.3 kernel, it's not perfect. Here's some of what's unfortunately missing from this forthcoming kernel."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-22:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T23:44:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
MPlayer2 Is Still Being Actively Developed
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0NjQ"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From Phoronix: "MPlayer2 -- a fork of the popular MPlayer open-source project that's added on several new features -- has been quiet for a few months but is still being actively developed."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-22:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T23:38:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
iPad factory misery leads to suicides
</title>
<link href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1119078--ipad-factory-misery-leads-to-suicides"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Heather Mallick writes: "I finally have an iPad and I’m just sick about it. 
Whose deft hands assembled this? I look at the metal frame, the magical touch-screen, the dots, the filaments thinner than hair, the connectors that make it look like a tidy homemade bomb, the logic board that itself looks like an aerial shot of the massive factory where it was made, with bridges, parking lots, warehouses and silos, a curving gold grounding strip on the left like a highway home. This is a microcosm of industrial hell."  A view from the uncomfortable IT pew.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-22:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T23:29:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Geist: The day the Internet fought back
</title>
<link href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1119151--geist-the-day-the-internet-fought-back"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: "Last week’s Wikipedia-led blackout in protest of U.S. copyright legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act is being hailed by some as the Internet Spring, the day that millions fought back against restrictive legislative proposals that posed a serious threat to an open Internet."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-22:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T23:16:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Kernel Log: Linux 3.3 goes into testing
</title>
<link href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Linux-3-3-goes-into-testing-1418516.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Thorsten Leemhuis writes: "Two weeks after Linux 3.2 was released, Linus Torvalds has announced the first Linux 3.3 release candidate."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-21:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T06:09:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
SOPA, PIPA Shelved, Internet's Defeat Postponed
</title>
<link href="http://www.osnews.com/story/25532/SOPA_PIPA_Shelved_Internet_s_Defeat_Postponed"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Supposedly we've won today. Both the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House of Representatives have been shelved by their respective sponsors.  What did make me happy, though, was Neelie Kroes: the EU commissioner for the digital agenda has unambiguously distanced herself from SOPA, which she calls "bad legislation". Obama, the next time you want to make a statement with teeth, just wait for Kroes to do it for you."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-21:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T05:58:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure
</title>
<link href="http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/two_lessons_from_the_megaupload_seizure/singleton/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"But just as the celebrations began over the saving of Internet Freedom, something else happened: the U.S. Justice Department not only indicted the owners of one of the world’s largest websites, the file-sharing site Megaupload, but also seized and shut down that site, and also seized or froze millions of dollars of its assets — all based on the unproved accusations, set forth in an indictment, that the site deliberately aided copyright infringement."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-21:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T05:54:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Linux Foundation Report Shows Growing Linux Adoption Rates in the Enterprise
</title>
<link href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/linuxfoundation2012report"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"New survey shows Linux as the preferred platform for Big Data, virtualization, and cloud computing trends."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-21:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-22T03:32:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Michael Geist’s website went dark to protest U.S. restrictions on Internet
</title>
<link href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1117818--michael-geist-s-website-went-dark-to-protest-u-s-restrictions-on-internet"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: "Yesterday my website, michaelgeist.ca, went dark for 12 hours with thousands of posts replaced by a single page warning against proposed U.S. legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA)."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights09</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T02:08:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
What's in a Domain Name?
</title>
<link href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/01/17/New-Domain-Names/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"A surprising link between new web address extensions and the future of Internet rule."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights08</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T01:25:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Radeon Gallium3D: A Half-Decade Behind Catalyst?
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=amd_r300g_slow&amp;num=1"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From Phoronix: "What happens when you pull out some vintage computer hardware and run the latest Linux software as well as go back and run some of the oldest software available? Well, in the case of systems with antiquated R300-era ATI Radeon graphics, you are left with a downward slope in performance."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights07</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T01:17:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
World IPv6 Launch: this time it's for real
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/world-ipv6-launch-this-time-its-for-real.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"As happened during last year's World IPv6 Day, the Internet Society is taking the lead in organizing World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012. (Yes, right on the heels of the Venus transit across the disk of the sun.) But unlike last year, after turning on the new version of the Internet Protocol on some of the largest Web properties—and many smaller ones—this year, IPv6 will not be turned off again 24 hours later."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T01:09:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Let's Define Piracy
</title>
<link href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1047&amp;doc_id=237964&amp;"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The fight over SOPA/PIPA legislation seems to be coming to a denouement, but an obvious question has been surprisingly absent from the debate: What constitutes actual content stealing or piracy?"
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T00:59:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
School Leverages Sun Hardware, Switches to LTSP Thin Clients
</title>
<link href="http://www.disklessworkstations.com/blog/school-leverages-sun-hardware-switches-to-ltsp-thin-clients/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"The School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor deployed their first network of diskless thin clients in August of 1987. Since then, the CS school has progressed through three operating systems, four thin client devices, and seven Sun server configurations. In the summer of 2011, UWindsor switched from Solaris and Sun Ray clients to Ubuntu and LTSP Thin Clients."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T00:55:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-regulation-and-the-economics-of-piracy.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"In short, piracy is certainly one problem in a world filled with problems. But politicians and journalists seem to have been persuaded to take it largely on faith that it's a uniquely dire and pressing problem that demands dramatic remedies with little time for deliberation. On the data available so far, though, reports of the death of the industry seem much exaggerated."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T00:44:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Red Hat stakes its position on SOPA/PIPA
</title>
<link href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/161181/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>Today the Red Hat legal team published its stance on the SOPA and PIPA bills currently pending in the US Congress. Here is the full text of their release."
"
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T00:36:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Freedom for the masses: plug servers from FreedomBox
</title>
<link href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52252-freedom-for-the-masses-plug-servers-from-freedombox"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Proprietary social media platforms are used heavily even by those attending a conference meant for free and open source software users and Bdale Garbee used this fact to kick off his talk on FreedomBox at the 13th Australian national Linux conference in Ballarat today."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-19:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-20T00:33:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The logger meets linux-kernel
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/473999/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Corbet writes: "Toward the end of December, LWN looked at the new push to move various subsystems specific to Android kernels into the mainline. There seems to be broad agreement that merging this code makes sense, but that agreement becomes rather less clear once the discussion moves to the merging of specific subsystems."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-18:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T20:05:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/473940/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Corbet writes: "Welcome to 2012. This is the first LWN Weekly Edition of the year, and that can only mean one thing: it is time for your editor to go out on a limb and make a number of predictions for the coming year that, by the end of the year, will look thoroughly clueless and misguided. Even your editor can foresee, though, that it is going to be an interesting and highly political year."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-18:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T19:49:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Google's disappearing Android GPL compliance opportunity
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/474198/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jonathan Corbet writes: "All versions of the GNU General Public License require that anybody shipping GPL-licensed software in binary form make the associated source code available, either as an accompaniment to the binary distribution or, failing that, to anybody who asks for it later. Getting companies to actually comply with the GPL's requirements has always been a challenge, especially in the embedded systems world. The recent proliferation of Android-based devices has brought with it a whole new set of GPL compliance failures."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-18:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T19:44:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
ownCloud moves ahead
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/474049/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Jake Edge writes: "There are lots of cloud services out there these days—many of them free in the "beer" sense—but privacy-sensitive and free-software-oriented users have long been looking for alternatives. One of the few "free as in freedom" choices is ownCloud, which is the brainchild of KDE developer Frank Karlitschek."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-18:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T19:37:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
XAA In X.Org Has Finally Met Its Executioner
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0NDg"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From Phoronix: "The XAA 2D acceleration architecture is finally set to be stripped out of X.Org Server 1.13 and upstream open-source X.Org drivers."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-18:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T19:15:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Intel Sandy Bridge Shines With Mesa 8.0
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article;&amp;item=mesa_80_sandy&amp;num=1"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
From Phoronix: "The open-source Sandy Bridge Linux graphics support is shining with Mesa 8.0 thanks to OpenGL 3.0 support and measurable performance improvements. Intel Ivy Bridge is also ready to run under Linux."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-18:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T19:10:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism
</title>
<link href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424659"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"A "church" whose central tenet is the right to file-share has been formally recognised by the Swedish government.
The Church of Kopimism claims that "kopyacting" - sharing information through copying - is akin to a religious service."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-17:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T00:12:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Wikipedia joins web blackout in Sopa protest
</title>
<link href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Wikipedia plans to take its English-language site offline on Wednesday as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-17:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-18T00:01:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Libraries are the best counter to piracy
</title>
<link href="http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/?p=9031"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Instead of heeding Tim O’Reilly’s 10 year old lesson that making content available in desirable places under terms that users accept is the most profitable path, publishing has implicitly decided to attempt to control something they have no adequate understanding of, and can never really control: computing and the internet. They’ve shot themselves in the foot."  In fact, read the article to find out how the publishers have shot themselves in the other foot.
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-17:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-17T22:56:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Copyright Wars escalate: Britain to extradite student to US over link site
</title>
<link href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/copyright-wars-escalate-britain-to-extradite-student-to-us-over-link-site.ars"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Richard O'Dwyer, the 23-year-old British college student who operated the TVShack link site, can be extradited to the United States, ruled Judge Quentin Purdy of the Westminster Magistrates Court today. O'Dwyer's attorney says he will appeal the ruling."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-17:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-17T22:42:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Perens: the FOSS fire still burns
</title>
<link href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52154-perens-the-foss-fire-still-burns"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Sam Varghese writes: Perens talks freely and with authority about FOSS. But then he has been around for something like 20 years in these circles."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-15:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-15T20:28:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Four Horsemen of the General Purpose Computing Apocalypse
</title>
<link href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/01/the-four-horsemen-of-the-gener.php"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Joe Brockmeier writes: "The threat to general purpose computing goes beyond legislation. As I see it, we have at least four major threats to general purpose computing - legislation, cloud computing, computing appliances, and consumer indifference."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-15:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-15T20:15:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The common goose
</title>
<link href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/the-common-goose/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Unlike the media that preceded it, the internet is interactive. We can determine what we read, and how we read it. We are the editors and the filters. The internet is hard to police, and harder to censor. Technology is redefining the possibilities for information exchange and the dissemination of ideas."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-13:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-01-14T04:13:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
The Mystery of KDE Activities
</title>
<link href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-mystery-of-kde-activities-1.html"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Bruce Byfield writes: "No feature defines the KDE 4 release series more than Activities. At the same time, no feature is so little understood -- Fedora even has a package for removing the desktop toolkit, which provides mouse access to Activities.
But, when you take the time to learn about Activities, you'll find them a natural extension of the desktop metaphor that just might help you to work more efficiently."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-13:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-01-14T04:06:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Are Canada's Digital Laws Unconstitutional?
</title>
<link href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/01/10/Unconstitutional-Digital-Law/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
Michael Geist writes: Why a recent Supreme Court decision may spur challenges to e-privacy laws."  This puts the cat amongst the pigeons.
</p>
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</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-13:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-14T01:43:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Mesa 8.0 LLVMpipe: Fine For Desktop, Not For Gaming
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0MjU"/>
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"Continuing in the coverage of the soon-to-be-out Mesa 8.0, here are some benchmarks of the CPU-based LLVMpipe software driver for Gallium3D."
</p>
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</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-13:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T05:58:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
High-quality scientific graphics with MathGL: An interview with Alexey Balakin
</title>
<link href="http://www.floss4science.com/interview-mathgl/"/>
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<p>
"This week we have for you an interview with Alexey Balakin the lead developer of MathGL a library to render high-quality scientific graphics and manage big data arrays."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-13:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T05:48:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Astronomer Captures Enormous True-Color Photo of Night Sky
</title>
<link href="http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2011/11/09/astronomer-captures-enormous-true-color-photo-of-night-sky"/>
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"On his way to snapping 37,440 digital photos, Nick Risinger never once asked anyone to look at his camera and smile.
Risinger's subjects were the millions upon millions of stars and solar systems and galaxies filling the night sky. The single astounding panoramic image he has created -- stitched together into a seamless 5,000-megapixel shot -- is riveting astronomers and sky watchers worldwide."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-13:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T05:37:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Linux 3.2 Kernel Benchmarks
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=linux_32_kernel&amp;num=1"/>
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"Following last week's release of the Linux 3.2 kernel, here is a round-up of Linux 3.2 kernel benchmarks. Also included are a new set of kernel benchmarks comparing the 3.2 kernel to older releases while running Intel's blazing fast Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition CPU."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-12:highlights06</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T00:35:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
2D Color Tiling Patches Hit For Radeon R600+
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0MTk"/>
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From Phoronix: "Minutes after publishing the Mesa 8.0 Radeon Gallium3D benchmarks against Catalyst, first-stage patches were posted for proper 2D color tiling support for modern Radeon hardware from, which can result in double-digit performance gains."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-12:highlights05</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T00:30:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Latest kernel stable/longterm status
</title>
<link href="http://lwn.net/Articles/474872/"/>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Greg Kroah-Hartman has posted an update on his plans for long-term kernel maintenance."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-12:highlights04</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T00:26:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Organizing Open Source Efforts at NASA
</title>
<link href="https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/535755:organizing-open-source-efforts-at-nasa"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"Over at Linux.com, Rikki Endsley interviews two NASA workers who are responsible for organizing and expanding the US space agency's open source efforts."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-12:highlights03</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T00:21:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Finding the Fastest Filesystem, 2012 Edition
</title>
<link href="http://mindplusplus.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/finding-the-fastest-filesystem-2012-edition/"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
<p>
"A new year, and Linux gets a new major kernel version. It’s time for a new filesystem test!"
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-12:highlights02</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T00:10:00Z</updated>
</entry>

<entry>
<title>
Where Things Fall Short: Eight Shortcomings Of Mesa 8.0
</title>
<link href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTA0MTI"/>
<summary type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
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From Phoronix: "While Mesa 8.0 has a lot to like about it from advertised OpenGL 3.0 support to performance improvements and new Gallium3D features, there are also several shortcomings of this major Mesa release for open-source graphics drivers."
</p>
</div>
</summary>
<id>tag:loll.sourceforge.net,2012-01-12:highlights01</id>
<updated>2012-01-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
</entry>



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