Ubuntu Real-Time News: Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes — I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect. See the details below. — Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners-basically any...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Ricky / Digitizor:And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org — We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened – 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. — The History
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity — Orlando, Fla.—Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system …
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Joey Sneddon / OMG!:Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity … If you thought multi-touch merriment was the sole preserve of those with vowel-prefixed devices then think again. — Canonical’s Gerry Carr has posted a neat video demonstration of Ubuntu 10.10′s new multi-touch features in action with the Ubuntu Unity...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Cade Metz / The Register:Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense — Java daddy deprecates Apple cult leader — Steve Jobs has apparently weighed into the debate over Apple’s decision to deprecate Java on the Mac, and his terse explanation was promptly deprecated by Java founder James Gosling.
Ubuntu Real-Time News: The H Open Source:Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” — Canonical and the Ubuntu developers have announced the arrival of version 10.10 of their popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, code named “Maverick Meerkat”. Ubuntu 10.10 is the first standard release to be issued following the latest Long Term Support …
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Ryan Kim / GigaOM:Ubuntu Extends Cloud Service to Smartphones — The latest release of the free Ubuntu Linux operating system scheduled for this Sunday includes an expansion of its personal cloud service to iPhone and Android devices, as well as a new netbook edition made for smaller screens.
Ubuntu Real-Time News: The H Security:Hole in Linux kernel provides root rights — A vulnerability in the 32-bit compatibility mode of the current Linux kernel (and previous versions) for 64-bit systems can be exploited to escalate privileges. For instance, attackers can break into a system and exploit a hole in the web server …
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:Broadcom swims upstream, tackles Linux WiFi woes with new open drivers — Broadcom announced today the initial release of its new open source wireless drivers for Linux. The drivers, which are built using the kernel’s own native SoftMAC framework, are currently in the kernel staging tree …
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Om Malik / GigaOM:Hey iPhone, Meet a Tiny Chip With Superpowers. — I can distinctly remember the day when Intel Corp. launched the Pentium processor. It was the day the desktop computing changed for me and for a lot of others. It was also the day when Intel started to put...