Tag: opensource

Who wrote 2.6.20?

at least 65% of the code which went into 2.6.20 was created by people working for companies.

libb

We have been developing a triple store called B, a very low level C library. One of its uses is as a backend store for redland. It’s quite a bit faster than the current backends

GRL Laser Tag

There are a bunch of things you need to do to get Laser Tag up and running so here follows the required equipment and setup instructions.

the next “OMG terrorism” project. write on walls with a laser, use laptop + projector for persistence

Ensembl Genome Browser

a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes

Open Solutions Alliance

collabnet and sourceforge working together.. curious

Open source economy?

it could be theoretically envisaged that most economic value would eventually be produced under an open-access system.

Open Source Prizes

Prizes are the new grants. in this case, by Branson and Gore, $25m, to help eliminate CO2 emissions

Mapreduce for dummies

We use map-reduce at Joost to process usage data

cool!

libsecondlife

This thread over at the libsecondlife forums describes a Second Life server built by a user, a single sim that can be accessed using the standard client software. As near as I can figure, the server was built by examining the client code (and/or reverse-engineering it) along with the information that is passed between client and server in order to get an idea of what the server code would need to look like. What’s more, an early version of the server code has already been made available as an open-source project.

a tiny tiny step towards a distributed metaverse

Terrible Open Source

It’s not lack of awareness that’s blocking OpenOffice.org (do they really have to call the product “OpenOffice.org”? What’s wrong with just “Open Office”?) and The Gimp (do they really have to call it “The Gimp”? I can’t think of a more un-appealing and self-denigrating name for a piece of software.) What’s blocking these 2 apps is that they are simply not better than the commercial alternatives.