It's no secret to anyone that while Apple sued HTC, the lawsuit is more about Google than HTC itself. Since Android is open source, and owned by no one, it's kind of hard to go after Google itself, and as such, HTC was the prime target, since it is the number one Android smartphone maker. The New York Times has an in-depth article up about the subject, with a whole boatload of quotes from people within the two companies, and it paints a picture of all this being a highly emotional and personal vendetta - especially from Apple's side.

Tak samo, jak w latach poprzednich, tak i w tym roku Haiku zachęca do dołączenia do projektu w ramach programu Google Summer of Code.

Google Summer of Code to program organizowany przez firmę Google polegający na zachęcaniu studentów do brania udziału w rozwoju projektów Open Source poprzez oferowanie im stypendiów za tego typu pracę. Osoby, które wywiążą się z powierzonego im zadania, mogą otrzymać aż pięć tysięcy dolarów.

Studenci mogą zgłaszać się do programu od 29 marca do 9 kwietnia na oficjalnej stronie Google Summer of Code. Więcej na ten temat zgłoszeń do współpracy przy projekcie Haiku w ramach GSoC można uzyskać na stronie projektu.

Również na stronie Haiku można otrzymać informacje na temat tego, czym można zajmować się w ramach projektu. Jedną z takich rzeczy jest rozwój natywnej przeglądarki tego systemu operacyjnego, jaką jest WebPositive, poprawienie wydajności i jakości sterowników innych od BFS systemów plików czy też stworzenie frameworka C++ z prawdziwego zdarzenia.

Więcej informacji na temat terminarza Google Summer of Code 2010 można znaleźć w innym niusie na OSnews.pl.

Michal Čihař, wieloletni współtwórca phpMyAdmin, wdrożył rozwiązanie, na które zdecydowano się na ostatnim spotkaniu FOSDEM – wdrożył system kontroli wersji Git do projektu.

Git został stworzony w 2005 roku przez Linusa Torvaldsa, by usprawnić zarządzanie kodem Linuksa. Git jest przez wielu uznawany za najlepszy system kontroli wersji, z prostej przyczyny, iż gdy był tworzony, starano się unikać błędów koncepcyjnych z innych systemów wersji. Gita używa wiele projektów Open Source takich jak m.in. Gnome, Linux Mint, Maemo, VLC Media Player czy WINE. Każdy zainteresowany Gitem może dowiedzieć się o jego podstawach na blogu Mateusza Marka.

phpMyAdmin pracował wcześniej na systemie kontroli wersji Subversion, dlatego wdrożenie Gita nie było tak łatwe, jak w przypadku nowych projektów. Michal mówi, iż właśnie z tego powodu zajęło to aż tyle czasu (FOSDEM 2010 odbywał się w dniach 6-7 lutego). Dalej podaje, iż na obecną chwilę wszystko wydaje się działać sprawnie, jednak jeśli ktokolwiek dostrzeże jakieś błędy, powinen natychmiast zgłosić mu to. Kolejnym krokiem koncepcyjnym dla phpMyAdmin będzie przeniesienie zarządzania wersjami językowymi na system Gettext, na który przesiadł się niedawno projekt GRUB, o czym już pisałem.

Wszyscy zainteresowani commitami projektu mogą zapisać się na specjalną listę mailingową. Repozytoria dostępne są pod adresem git://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/phpmyadmin/REPONAME, przy czym można je przeglądać za pomocą interfejsu www.

The second alpha build of GeeXboX 2.0, a Linux mini-distribution for Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) and media centres, is available for testing: "It has already been one month since 2.0-alpha1 release so here is alpha2. This release fixes many bugs that have been encountered by our users on....

José Antonio Calvo Fernández has announced the release of eBox Platform 1.4-1, an Ubuntu-based server distribution for small and medium-size businesses: "eBox 1.4-1 installer released. I just wanted to let you know that we've done a lot of bug fixing and small improvements since the release of the....

Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of PC/OS 10.1, a Xubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution: "We are very pleased to announce the delivery of PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 as well as PC/OS WebStation 10.1. With this release we bring many bug fixes and enhancements to the platform. This release is....

Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox: "VortexBox 1.2 released. The VortexBox community has been working hard on this release. We have added a lot of new....

Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to....

Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 13: "The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to....

MCNLive, a Mandriva-based distribution and live CD, has been resurrected by the members of the Dutch Mandriva Club. The first beta of the brand-new MCNLive Kris, is now available for download: "After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive....

The first beta build of PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released: "PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing....

Ian Wells has announced the availability of the fifth beta release of SME Server 8.0, a CentOS-based server distribution: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of....

Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose, community-built distribution for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have....

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And thus, our true colours reveal. Since Obama was the young newcomer, technically savvy, many of us were hoping that he might support patent and/or copyright reform. In case our story earlier on this subject didn't already tip you off, this certainly will: Obama has sided squarely with the RIAA/MPAA lobby, and backs ACTA. No copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens!

LinuxCon Japan, formerly known as the Japan Linux Symposium, has announced its call for participation (CFP). This Linux Foundation sponsored conference will be held in Tokyo September 27-29. The CFP lists a number of topic areas that are of particular interest including desktop Linux, embedded and mobile Linux, Linux adoption, and so on; it closes on May 14. "LinuxCon Japan is the premiere Linux conference in Asia that brings together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts. It is designed not only to encourage collaboration but also to support future interaction between Japan and other Asia Pacific countries and the rest of the global Linux community. The conference includes presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions, keynotes, sponsored mini-summits."

The Linux Foundation has announced the program for the Collaboration Summit to be held April 14-16 in San Francisco. This is an invitation-only event, though invitations can still be requested. Highlights include a full-day session on Meego, the Linux kernel roundtable, keynotes by Josh Berkus, Dr. Daniel Frye, Jim Zemlin, and others, a cloud computing roundtable, and more. "The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only event where a true cross-section of leaders from the Linux developer, industry and end user communities meet face-to-face to tackle today’s most pressing issues facing Linux, including technical development, legal topics, ISV porting and end user requirements."

It's been quiet about the Google-China dispute for a while now, but today, the silence was broken by China's minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, who stated that Google must either obey Chinese law or "pay the consequences", leaving no room for a compromise. With more and more western countries building their own internet filters and internet monitoring schemes, it becomes ever harder to make a strong fist against China.

While we are all busy discussing Apple suing HTC for patent infringement, we're almost forgetting that Nokia and Apple are also embroiled in about ten million lawsuits going either way. The most recent move comes from Nokia, who seeks to dismiss Apple's antritrust claims using pretty much the same arguments Apple used to counter Psystar's antitrust claims.

Version 1.2 of PyPy - an alternative implementation of the Python interpreter - has been released. "This version 1.2 is a major milestone and it is the first release to ship a Just-in-Time compiler that is known to be faster than CPython (and unladen swallow) on some real-world applications (or the best benchmarks we could get for them). The main theme for the 1.2 release is speed." It's still not quite ready for production use, but it appears to be getting a lot closer.