The Linux Heart Archive
This is the earlier Linux Heart: technical discoveries, short news items, personal opinions and the occasional detour. They belong to the story of this blog, even where the product, service or debate has long since moved on.
The original dates and addresses are preserved. Technical posts have English translations; some personal entries remain in their original language. A revisited guide keeps the original account alongside a separately dated follow-up. The archive is available for reading without advertising.
For practical walkthroughs, start with the selected engineering guides. For current product and marketing stories, return to the journal.
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- Linux holds 30% of China’s fast-growing smartphone market
Linux currently holds 30.3% of China’s smartphone market, trailing only Symbian, which has a substantial lead at 63.2%. Windows Mobile has just 5.4 percent.
- Sharon Machlis’s Linux migration diary
Sharon Machlis has written a full account of her attempt to replace a Windows desktop with Linux. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop was the guinea pig.…
- Motorola licenses FOTA for Linux phones
Red Bend Software says Motorola has licensed its firmware over-the-air (FOTA) client for use in its Linux-Java devices.
- Skype chooses Qtopia
Skype has named Qtopia, the mobile platform developed by Norway’s Trolltech, as its preferred platform for Skype-certified mobile handsets. This is not the first sign…
- Debian’s founder joins Sun
Ian Murdock, the founder of the popular Debian distribution, is joining Sun as head of its operating platforms division. Before this, Murdock worked at the…
- Gentoo: a bug in LSAT
A temporary-file creation bug lets an attacker overwrite any data on the system with administrator privileges. Versions up to and including 0.9.2 are affected. LSAT…
- A WordPress plugin for inserting images
I finally dug up a WP plugin that inserts images into posts, creates thumbnails, resizes them, links to the larger picture and does plenty of…
- Symmetric multiprocessing in Linux
IBM's website recently published a substantial article on developing applications for systems with symmetric multiprocessing: Linux and symmetric multiprocessing. It covers working with threads, configuring…
- la Mobile releases a new Linux platform for phones
La Mobile has released a platform for dual-mode WiFi/GSM smartphones. The software supports both ordinary GSM calls and Voice over IP (VoIP) over WiFi. The…
- Taiwanese laptops and Linux
Following Dell’s lead, Taiwan’s leading manufacturers have also asked whether there is demand for Linux on laptops. Their research found that installing Windows on each…
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is out
After two years of work, a new version of one of the most popular distributions is out: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Its main new…
- IBM and Red Hat will develop the Linux kernel
Leading Linux distribution producers IBM and Red Hat are setting up a worldwide network of laboratories to improve the Linux kernel. More than 600 people…
- eSys to distribute Turbolinux products
eSys has signed an agreement to distribute Turbolinux's Linux software. India and Southeast Asia will be the main markets. According to Noriaki Fukuyasu, president of…
- The French parliament chooses Ubuntu
From June 2007, 1,154 PCs in the French parliament will run the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. Staff will also have to use applications including Firefox,…
- A Linux Live CD from Remote-Exploit.org
A Swiss community of security specialists has brought together the best of two distributions (Auditor security collection and Whax) to create BackTrack, a security-focused disc-based…
- HP won’t offer PCs with Linux preinstalled
After a quick analysis, company specialists said that "the good news is that the buzz around Linux has almost reached critical mass; the bad news…
- Hewlett-Packard follows Dell’s lead
HP representatives said on Thursday that the company is ready to launch a range of Linux PCs. It just needs to establish whether users are…
- Dell pays more attention to Linux
After more than 100,000 online requests to offer Linux as a preinstalled OS, Dell plans to give users what they want. First, though, it wants…
- Japanese schools may switch to Linux
More than 400,000 computers in Japanese schools run Windows 98 & Windows ME, which Microsoft no longer supports. Japan's trade ministry is therefore considering installing…
- Foresight Linux 1.0.1
A new version of Foresight Linux is out, this time 1.0.1. It uses kernel 2.6.19.2 and the GNOME 2.16.3 desktop. Just over a month has…