Posts Tagged ‘Software’

Open Source for Windows Growing

Reproduced from Open Source Magazine Interesting tidbit from the folks at Geeknet (They are the owners of  SourceForge, Slashdot and Ohloh). OSS projects hosted on SourceForge are increasingly becoming more platform agnostic. Since early 2005, the percentage of projects that are platform agnostic has increased from approximately 50 percent to nearly 70 percent as of [...]

Announcing Project OsmocomBB: Open Source GSM Stack

Reproduced from  LWN.net Announcing project OsmocomBB:  A Free and Open Source software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware. The baseband chipset is the part of a mobile phone that actually communicates directly with the GSM network.  It typically includes a DSP and a microprocessor running some RTOS, drivers for the baseband chipset, the [...]

Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps

Reproduced from Yahoo! News In a blog post this week, Novell VP Miguel de Icaza, who has been in charge of Moonlight and Mono projects, described the release as the first preview of Moonlight 3.0. Capabilities include MP4 demuxer support, although there are no codecs for it yet unless a developer builds them from source [...]

Live blog: Can a student go fully open-source for 48 hours?

2010 has brought me one daring New Year’s resolution: to embrace open-source technology and to break away from the typical Windows environment.Windows is still the major player in the world of academia, with Mac and Linux labs coming in second and third, specifically to serve the minority of students studying specialist subjects.