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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Will Include a New Event the Mobile Linux Conference |
Conference offers in-depth technical training, strategic insights and hands-on experience in mobile Linux and open source opportunities and solutions
 FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events around the globe has announced that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo ® will include a new event, the Mobile Linux Conference, to address the increasing penetration of Linux into the mobile handset marketplace. During the conference, attendees will receive in-depth technical training, strategic insights, and hands-on experience in mobile Linux from industry experts covering topics including application development and deployment, power management, mobile initiatives, best practices, and more. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is scheduled to take place August 4-7, 2008 at the Moscone Center.
“The timing of this conference is perfect because it compliments the success of the mobile Linux focus that LinuxWorld® 2007 featured. This conference expands on that successful content, the audience, and the sponsor participation,” said Bill Weinberg, Conference Chair and independent analyst and consultant, Linuxpundit.com. “Linux has quietly been making inroads in embedded and mobile marketplace for some time now, and it has the potential to achieve end-to-end acceptance with a unified code base and development paradigm.”
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Google sponsors Linux users Codeweavers as they work on Wine improvements for Photoshop |
 Google software engineer Dan Kegel posted a message to the Wine mailing list last week describing some of the improvements to Wine that Google has sponsored in the past year. These improvements, says Kegel, have substantially improved the Linux compatibility of several popular commercial software applications, including Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking.
"We hired CodeWeavers (photo credit) to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine," Dan Kegel, of Google's software engineering team and the Wine 1.0 release manager, said on Google's open-source blog. "Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now...We look forward to further improvements in this area."
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LiMo Rolls Out World’s First Globally Competitive, Linux-based Software Platform for Mobile Devices |
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LiMo Platform and APIs Open Market Access for Technology Vendors and Application Developers
 LONDON, England, and TOKYO, Japan, — LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole industry, announced on February 4, the on-schedule availability in March 2008 of the first release of the LiMo Platform—the first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile handsets—together with the immediate public availability of the application programming interface (API) specifications.
“The LiMo Platform is being readied by mobile leaders working in unison to deliver an open handset platform for use by the whole industry,” said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. “The first release of the LiMo Platform combines technologies already extensively market proven within an array of leading handsets. This will enable initial LiMo handsets to register in the marketplace far more rapidly than handsets based on unproven technology. In addition, we are now making the platform APIs freely available to the public in order to begin the widespread engagement of developer talent and innovation that will shape the new mobile consumer experiences of tomorrow.”
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SYSOPENDIGIA Contributes Source Code of Its 3G Linux Smartphone to Open-Source |
HELSINKI, Finland, - SYSOPENDIGIA announced on Feb. 7 that it will contribute to open-source the software created and modified for the 3G Linux smartphone.
 The SYSOPENDIGIA 3G Linux smartphone has been created using Linux operating system and other open-source software components, as well as commercially licensed Qtopia application platform and user interface from Trolltech.
"We see that the only way for the mobile industry to answer the rapidly growing need for new functionality and services is increased re-use of existing software asset. Leveraging open-source software is a good way to avoid re-implementing such functionality that is not important for differentiation," says Tuukka Turunen, Director, Special Projects from SYSOPENDIGIA.
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Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free |
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Linux isn't very popular on the desktop. It's a far third behind OS X, which is a very far second behind Windows. Most people cite pre-installed operating systems as the reason. But as a student of psychology, I see something most people don't. According to the author, the reason is simple; There's one big factor in why Linux isn't popular on the desktop. Linux is free. I know this sounds like complete dog's bollocks, but hear me out before judging my sanity.
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Critical System Call Vulnerabilities Found in Linux Kernel |
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, and gain escalated privileges. The problems are within three functions in the system call fs/splice.c, according to an advisory from Secunia.
The three bugs allow unauthorized users to read or write to kernel memory locations or to access certain resources in certain servers, according to a SecurityFocus advisory. They could be exploited by malicious, local users to cause denial of service attacks, disclose potentially sensitive information or gain "root" privileges, according to security experts.
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