And in the name of more open communication.. linuxNUS brings to you.. the linuxNUS Forums!

Do check it out and let us know if you have any feedback!

And here’s the aftermath!

Thanks again to Harish for making time to come give us a talk.

We did try to record the session, but the audio quality’s quite bad at the moment, so we’ll try to clean it up a bit before posting it here.

Slides from Harish’s presentation

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Announcing linuxNUS’ first meetup of 2008!

Details as follows:

Date: 25 Jan, Friday
Time: 630pm
Venue: NUS, School of Computing 1, #03-17 [map]

Topic: Facebook Application Development with Django

Speaker:

- Harish Mallipeddi

One of our very own linuxNUS alumni, Harish will speak about developing Facebook apps with Django. Harish currently works with Circos.com, developing mainly in Django. He is also currently developing a Facebook application for the company using the same platform.

Links:
Django:
http://djangoproject.org

Circos:
http://circos.com

RSVP (Facebook)

See you there!

Wee~

It’s been a busy week with midterms and all, hope everybody’s been doing well?

We’re pleased to announce our first social meetup session next Tuesday, 9 Oct, at 6pm , at the linuxNUS Clubroom at SoC #03-19.

Do feel free to come by, after all, the Clubroom is where it all happens for linuxNUS! As members, you’ll also have access to the linuxNUS Library, a collection of technical manuals contributed by members of our community. There is also spare hardware on which you can use to test various software packages if you so wish.

Hope to see you there on Tuesday!

Cheers
linuxNUS Coreteam

Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the leading Linux kernel hackers has announced on his blog that his employer, Novell, has moved him to work full-time on a project he announced back in January this year to help device manufacturers write free Linux drivers for their devices, so long as they provided the device specifications.

As Kroah-Hartman noted, after putting up his offer,

It turns out that there were two large groups of people who responded to the announcement, companies wanting drivers, and developers wanting to help out.

He was unable to cope with the workload, trying to juggle a full-time job and hacking the kernel on the side.

However, Novell recently modified his postion at work to allow Kroah-Hartman to work full time on the project, which will hopefully lead to more drivers being developed for Linux. Kroah-Hartman is the kernel maintainer for the PCI, USB, I²C, driver core and the sysfs kernel subsystems, according to his Wikipedia entry.

For more information, check out the official kick-off announcement and the Linux Driver Project Wiki.

We say, “Well Done, Novell!”, and all the best Greg!

(original article from Wired)

Here’s a step forward in the European Union.

In a recent submission to the European Commission, an European thinktank claimed that computer operating systems were “not a natual monopoly”, and that “Windows monopoly imposes an extra cost on virtually every EU business, as the price of operating systems would drop in a more competitive market”.

After exploring several alternatives, the paper concludes that the easiest way around these problems would be to unbundle Windows from the hardware, and require all desktop machines and laptops sold within the EU to be sold without operating systems in order to “foster a competitive market, increase consumer choice and reduce prices”.

Last week, AMD released register specifications for the RV630 and M56 parts into open source, thus allowing the OSS community to develop 2D (and theoretically 3D) drivers, given time. Current documentation for the project is available over at X.Org.

Hit the article for further details.

The specifications for ATI graphics hardware are finally open sourced and Novell has been quick to release an alpha-quality driver for the R6XX and R5XX series of cards.

Let’s hope this will be end of the frustration that many Linux users with ATI cards have been facing.

You sure?

We like strategy games..


ChanServ MODE +o rey
rey KICK elfgoh - rey
<rey> so fun
<ramkumar> lol
<rey> long time nv hijack irc channel liao
<tianyao> OMG ./KICKTOTHEMOON elfgoh


… and counting games..


<elfgoh> 1
<elfgoh> 01
<elfgoh> 010
<elfgoh> 1010
<elfgoh> 10101


So do join us on #linuxNUS on irc.freenode.net if you want to be in on the action =)

Was just checking out our Google Analytics stats the other day and found a very interesting trend. Second to Singapore (of course), the highest number of incoming visitors to our Opensource Wiki are from…. USA!

The proof (darker areas show higher hits)

So anyway, just a big wave to our friends from the US! =D