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FossNews Weekly
Issue : 25
Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )
Date : 06082009
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Contents
1. Boxee Will Blow You Away
2. Intel and Nokia join forces for open source
3. 10 tools to connect to wireless networks in Linux
4. BBC begins work on open source documentary series
5. Turn Ordinary Webcam into a Security Spy Camera on Ubuntu Linux
6. Howto migrate to Linux
7. Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio
8. Canonical Releases Launchpad Source Code
9. Get Ready for PHP 6
10. 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities
11. 50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp
1. Boxee Will Blow You Away
Boxee is a crossplatform freeware media center software with promising new social networking
features. Boxee is based on XBMC media center, an award winning open source project.
• Boxee provides support for a wide range of multimedia formats and includes features like
playlists, stunning audio visualisations, slideshows, and even live weather forcasting.
• An ever increasing list of third party apps is another important but obvious charteristic of
boxee, being an Open Source application.
• Boxee can play most audio and video file formats, as well as display images from almost all
kind of sources like CD/DVD's, flash drives and so on. More info on feature list here in
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boxee.tv
http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/196/boxeewillblowyouaway
2. Intel and Nokia join forces for open source
Nokia and Intel have announced a new strategic partnership for mobile development. This is big
news for open source, since both Intel and Nokia rely on Linux (and open source) for their
respective mobile platforms.
Intel has Moblin, Nokia has Maemo both are Linux based mobile operating systems. Now the two
efforts will benefit from a coordinated joint effort on
some key open source mobile applications including :
oFono, ConnMan, Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, DBUS,
Tracker, GStreamer and PulseAudio.
It's likely the mobile Linux and open source communities
as a whole will continue to benefit as organizations come
together and partner on Linux and open source
technologies.
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/06/intelandnokiajoinforcesfo.html
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3. 10 tools to connect to wireless networks in Linux
I spend much of my time on wireless networks. The distribution of Linux I’m using and the
hardware I’m using will dictate which application I use to connect to any given access point. Some
of these tools are distribution independent. Some are not. Some were created for a specific desktop
but will still work with other desktops.
For many mobile Linux users, being able to connect via wireless is just a matter of finding the right
tool. Here are 10 of them that will help you connect your Linux laptop to a wireless access point. If
one doesn’t work (or install), try another. Eventually you’ll get connected.
•GNOME Network Manager
•Wicd
•Wifiwiz
•YaST2
•getwifi
•Wireless Tools
•Wireless Assistant
•wifiradar
•GTKWifi
•Wavemon
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=873
4. BBC begins work on open source documentary series
The BBC has begun working on a series of four onehour documentaries for its BBC Two channel
about how the web has, and still is, changing our lives. The current working title for the open and
collaborative documentary series is the "Digital Revolution". According to a post on the Digital
Revolution Blog, the goal of the project is to open up the production process as much as possible by
asking for advice and stories from online users and by sharing as many of the production teams
thoughts and ideas as possible. The documentary will take a look at the World Wide Web, created
by Sir Tim BernersLee over twenty years ago, and focus on how it has changed our lives, including
how we communicate, disseminate knowledge and share information.
http://www.honline.com/open/BBCbeginsworkonopen
sourcedocumentaryseries/news/113750
5. Turn Ordinary Webcam into a Security Spy Camera on Ubuntu Linux
Do you want to turn your ordinary webcam into a motiondetecting security spy camera? Do you
want to automatically upload the captured images or videos from your webcam to a remote server?
Do you want to know who has been stealing your chickens? If you answered yes to any of the
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questions above, then you should read on.
But first, you will need these: a Linux box; a supported webcam; and a few free and open source
software packages that I'm going to specify later on.
http://www.junauza.com/2009/07/turnordinarywebcamintosecurityspy.html
6. Howto migrate to Linux
Rentalia.com was a small company when I migrated it to Linux. But it
had the typical problems that a small or medium company may have
when migrating to Linux. This guide tries to help to avoid these
problems, and you can learn how we did it at Rentalia.com.
http://knol.google.com/k/rubenrubiorey/howtomigrateto
linux/2zt8z36uq2soj/2#
7. Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio
Novell has launched a new Web service called SUSE Studio that simplifies the process of building
Linuxbased software appliances. It provides a convenient interface for creating custom versions of
Novell's SUSE Linux distribution with specialized configurations. The service is part of Novell's
broader SUSE Appliance Program initiative.
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http://arstechnica.com/opensource/reviews/2009/07/handsonlinuxappliancesmadeeasywith
susestudio.ars
8. Canonical Releases Launchpad Source Code
A major advantage of open source software development is the communication between the
members of any given project. But what happens when communication must take place between
projects? That's where a webbased collaboration service like Launchpad comes in.
Today, over two years after it was launched as a public beta,
Canonical, Ltd. has released the source code for Launchpad,
which will allow the development community to work on the
Launchpad tool itself.
Launchpad not only allows project teams to work with each
other, but also facilitates upstream and downstream
communications between different projects. The service helps
projects collaborate through a set of six integrated tools: team
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management, bug tracking, code hosting, translating, blueprint tracking, and answer tracking. The
service can be examined and used at Launchpad.net.
http://linux.com/news/software/developer/29342canonicalreleaseslaunchpadsourcecode
9. Get Ready for PHP 6
PHP 6, the next major revision of the popular Web application
development language, looms on the horizon and promises many
changes. Learn what’s new and what’s obsolete and how to prepare
your code for tomorrow.
Although PHP 6 isn’t yet available as a prebuilt package, you can download and install a
development snapshot of PHP 6 now to check out the new features and verify your scripts remain
functional. Since PHP 6 removes some backwardscompatibility features (which, in the long term, is
a good thing), you should test your existing code thoroughly.
http://www.linuxmag.com/cache/7433/1.html
10. 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities
A dependable backup tool is not a luxury everyone needs to have one. But that doesn’t mean you
need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Jack Wallen introduces some
great Linux backup solutions, including a few that are cross platform.
Whether you’re in the IT industry or you’re a computer power user, you need to have a backup tool
at the ready. With this tool, you will need scheduled backups, onetime backups, local backups,
remote backups, and many other features.
Plenty of proprietary solutions are out there. Some of them are minimal and cost effective, while
others are featurerich and costly. The open source community is no stranger to the world of
backups. Here are 10 excellent backup solutions for the Linux operating system. In fact, some of
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these are actually cross platform and will back up Linux, Windows, and/or Mac.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895
11. 50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp
Gimp has been famously known as the “poor man’s Photoshop”, and perhaps rightfully so. That’s a
complement Gimp won’t mind taking. While it would be an unfair comparison to make between
Gimp and Photoshop, Gimp can easily meet needs of most amateur image editors out there and then
some. Since its release in 1995 Gimp has come a long way in to being the most powerful image
editing tool freely available out there. With these tutorials we hope to vanish some of the doubts you
might have had about Gimp’s ability as a powerful image editor.
Here is the 50 Tutorials for GIMP
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/09/50tutorialstogetyoustartedwithgimp/
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