Jun 17, 2008 GMT
If you can't make it to USENIX next week, you can still participate online. We will be broadcasting all talks of the "Invited Talks" track on USENIX '08 via live streaming from June 25 to June 27. It's the next-best thing to... more »
Jun 16, 2008 GMT
Our editor in chief, Joe Casad, and I once had a heated discussion about using he/she, he, she, or 'they' when we were referring to a singular gender-neutral person. I thought that if the article's author is male, we should use he, and if the article author is female, we'd use she. Joe thought that we should use they, even though it's technically plural, because they is now commonly accepted as gender-neutral and singular.
Finally, we agreed that we'd use "they" until the English language miraculously resolves this gender issue, but I... more »
Jun 16, 2008 GMT
Over at technewsworld.com, Katherine Noyes wrote a blog about a recent Newsweek article, "Revenge of the Nerdette." I considered mentioning the Newsweek article last week, but I didn't think it was particularly newsworthy – the concept of "Meet the Nerd Girls: they're smart, they're techie and they're hot" didn't say anything new or revolutionary to me. Basically, it rehashed the stereotype that a... more »
Jun 12, 2008 GMT
The excitement continues – this week, it wasn't enough to send our August issue to the printer and acquire the Linux Magazine assets, we also get to welcome a new blogger. Jon 'maddog' Hall will be posting Paw Prints: Observations, News and Musings on Free Software a couple times a week, so be sure to check back.
Jun 11, 2008 GMT
We've been extra busy around the Linux Pro magazine offices lately. Here's the official press release.
Jun 10, 2008 GMT
I just ran across an article about a Japanese firm that claims to have created the "perfect" robot woman. The two men behind the project claim that the robot can do everything from cooking to massage. Of course, the skeptics say the technology for this robot isn't possible. Some folks are even saying that it's art, "a damning critique of women's roles in relationships."
I, however, am hopeful. Just last night... more »
Jun 10, 2008 GMT
This year the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference includes a hardware track. But wait, there's more: Two women will receive scholarships to attend the conference.
According to the announcement, "In recognition of the introduction of the hardware track at this year’s conference, the VLSI Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories... more »
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.
The new Gnome release includes privacy and sharing settings, allowing more user control over access to personal information.
Mozilla is collaborating with Samsung on a new web browser engine called Servo.
