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Developer Linux News for Nov 06, 2009

  • Mavizen's 130 MPH TTX02 Electric Motorcycle Runs on Linux (Nov 06, 2009, 21:02)
    Treehugger: ""Laptop on Wheels": Has an On-Board Web Server, USB Ports, and Wifi Connectivity"

  • Linux-Kongress 2009: New filesystems, optimised programming (Nov 06, 2009, 20:02)
    The H Open: "Among the topics were the advantages of Ext4 and Btrfs, fast Ext4 filesystem checks, and kernel and userspace tricks for minimising the time-consuming movements of read/write heads, all of which can speed up some tasks by several orders of magnitude!"

  • Has Google Become a Good Open Source Citizen? (Nov 06, 2009, 17:32)
    Seeking Alpha:: "With its open source release Thursday of its Closure JavaScript tools, Google (GOOG) is starting to suggest that it may eventually become a good open source citizen."

  • Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu (Nov 06, 2009, 16:32)
    Howtoforge: "This article is part one of a two part series that covers setting up a hosting server using gitosis for your central repository, and in the next article, taking an existing SVN repository and running the appropriate scripts and commands necessary to migrate it into something git can work with."

  • Open Source: More than a License (Nov 06, 2009, 14:17)
    OStatic: "For the first time, there seems to be a growing concensus that an OSI-compliant license alone is not enough to define one's position on the openness spectrum."

  • Q&A: Ubuntu 9.10 security (Nov 06, 2009, 07:34)
    HelpNet Security: "What are the most notable security features introduced with Ubuntu 9.10? The widest-reaching change was the introduction of non-executable memory emulation for Ubuntu systems that lack non-exec hardware."

  • Checking in on CodePlex (Nov 06, 2009, 03:04)
    Standards Blog: "In this blog entry, I'll give my impressions of how the CodePlex Foundation is developing, and (as before) my opinions on how effective the decisions being made are likely to be in achieving the Foundation's goals."