Linux in Cars, or Why Toyota Chose Freedom
LINUX BLOG SAFARI Linux in Cars, or Why Toyota Chose Freedom It’s hard to keep up with all the companies joining The Linux Foundation these days, but recently one jumped on board whose name threw a collective hush over the Linux blogosphere. Toyota, that is — none other than the planet’s largest automobile manufacturer in terms of both sales and production. Is there really anything else to say? Li
FOSS Hopes for Novell Patents Spark, Then Quickly Fade
FOSS Hopes for Novell Patents Spark, Then Quickly Fade A consortium set up by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC to acquire hundreds of Novell patents appears to have inadvertently faked out the open source community with its withdrawal of its proposal from the German Federal Cartel Office. News reports on Tuesday noted the event and alluded to possible success of the lobbying efforts by such organi
Android Sharpens Its NFC Chops With Gingerbread Bump
Google has added new near-field communications (NFC) capabilities to Android 2.3, aka “Gingerbread,” via a small feature release, version 2.3.3. NFC lets consumers use their mobile devices make purchases and exchange data with other devices, among other things. The new features include a comprehensive NFC read/write API that lets apps read and write to most standard NFC tags in use today. It also
LibreOffice: Meet the New Office, (Almost) Same as the Old Office
LINUX PICKS AND PANS LibreOffice: Meet the New Office, (Almost) Same as the Old Office For some Linux adopters, exchanging Microsoft Office in Windows for the OpenOffice suite is a radical change in computing behavior. Swapping out OpenOffice for the LibreOffice suite may be a lot less traumatic. LibreOffice is a near clone of the OpenOffice modules. Yet it provides the potential for more bells an
Firefox's Linuxy Hardware Acceleration Problem
LINUX BLOG SAFARI Firefox’s Linuxy Hardware Acceleration Problem Linux and Firefox have long been a winning combination, but recently a snag came up that threw their future into question. The problem arose with the release of the ninth beta version of Firefox 4, whose hardware acceleration features have been widely anticipated. Those capabilities were evident in the ninth beta, sure enough — but n
FBReader Has Encyclopedic Knowledge of E-Book Formats
LINUX PICKS AND PANS FBReader Has Encyclopedic Knowledge of E-Book Formats The concept of reading literature — except for technical documentation — on a computer screen has come a long way in the last few years. No doubt the growing popularity of EBRs, or e(lectronic)-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook are having a big impact on our reading habits. Being able to ext
Java Lives
What does the future of Java look like? Many say Java is reaching the end of its life, while others go so far as to say Java is dead. Will Java become Cobol, an antique enterprise platform too entrenched to get rid of, but no longer relevant? Will Oracle’s takeover of Java prove to be the final nail in the Java coffin? Does it still make sense to build new-generation Web applications on Java? The
2010's Biggest Linux Thing
Well another year is drawing to a close, and that means it’s time to begin taking stock of all that has passed in 2010. It was an eventful year for those of us in the Linux community, that’s for sure — so eventful, in fact, that it’s almost difficult to remember all the many significant things that happened. Fortunately, the team at TuxRadar have been on hand to help. A recent Open Ballot on the s
LG B Could Make the iPhone Look Fat and Dull
Hot on the heels of its announcement of the Optimus 2X smartphone this week, LG is reported to be working on yet another Android mobile phone. An purported photo of an LG B between what appears to be an iPhone 4 (left) and a Samsung Galaxy S (photo courtesy of Phandroid). The new, ulta-thin phone will be known as the “B,” according to Phandroid. LG itself has been somewhat coy regarding the smartp
Choosing Computer Tools for Tiny Geeks
For some children, it may be their two front teeth that sit atop this year’s Christmas list. For others, however, it’s items of a more technological sort. Those lucky enough to be receiving the latter type of present this year have been the focus of a lengthy discussion in the Linux blogosphere of late, in fact — one that has revealed sharp divisions in the Linux-loving masses, not just with respe
The Tablet OS Wars: There Will Be Blood
In terms of tablet market share, Android tablets will be running a close second to the iPad within two years, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. While the iPad will have 44 percent of the market, Android tablets will have 39 percent, Munster reportedly predicted. More Android tablets will be launched in 2011, including one from Motorola that will possibly run an upcoming version of t
Why Richard Stallman Takes No Shine to Chrome
If anyone had doubts that Richard Stallman dislikes Google’s new Chrome OS, he laid them to rest in an interview with the Guardian Tuesday. The Chrome OS will push people into careless computing by forcing them to store their data in the cloud, said Stallman, who’s the founder and president of the Free Software Foundation. Further, users don’t have a legal right to their data if it’s stored on a c
The Next New Year of Linux on the Desktop: 2011?
LINUX BLOG SAFARI The Next New Year of Linux on the Desktop: 2011? Those of us who have been part of the FOSS community for more than, oh, say 10 minutes, are no doubt already familiar with the recurring “Year of Linux on the Desktop” debate. It’s a topic that comes up again and again in the Linux blogosphere, typically fueled by some new success or promising advance in our favorite desktop operat
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