To God be the Glory

GNOME roadmap updated, version 3 pushed back to late 2010

Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:29 PM EST (Ars Technica)

The GNOME desktop environment will get its first major version update since 2002 with the upcoming release of GNOME 3.0. Although the 3.0 release was previously planned for March, it has been pushed back to September 2010.

technology, gnome, desktop-environment, linux, open-source

Red Hat takes on VMware with server virtualization solution

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 4:24 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Red Hat has announced the general availability of its new Enterprise Server Virtualization solution. It includes virtualization management tools and a standalone hypervisor based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and KVM.

technology, red-hat, virtualization, linux, kvm, vmware

Landscape 1.4 Adds UEC Support

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 12:03 PM EST (Canonical)

Cloud management dominates the theme for Landscape 1.4 with new features that allow you to manage your private Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as easily as you manage your instances on Amazon EC2.

technology, linux, ubuntu, server, amazon, ec2, uec

Video: Open source government

Seeded on Tue May 19, 2009 6:17 PM EDT (Red Hat Magazine)

Open source is answering the call at government agencies on all levels as they look for opportunities to carve out costs and improve security, transparency, public participation, and collaboration.

technology, open-source, linux, red-hat, government

Keeper sent off after clashing with ball boy

Seeded on Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:03 AM EDT (ESPN.com)

Gimnasia-Jujuy goalkeeper Gaston Pezzutti was sent off after an altercation with a ball boy during his team's 1-0 defeat at River Plate in the Argentina championship at the weekend.

sports, soccer, football, ball-boy, gimnasia, red-card

Barcelona 4-0 Bayern Munich: Messi stars in rout

Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:50 PM EDT (ESPN.com)

Barcelona took a giant step towards the semi-finals of the Champions League as they thrashed Bayern Munich 4-0 at the Nou Camp. Barca's rampant strikeforce did the damage in a completely one-sided first half.

sports, bayern-munich, barcelona, soccer, football, uefa, champions-league

Liverpool 1-3 Chelsea: Blues stun Anfield

Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:47 PM EDT (ESPN.com)

Liverpool were hammered in their own back-yard in the Champions League as Chelsea took a huge step on the road to a possible Champions League final in Rome with a 3-1 win.

sports, chelsea, liverpool, soccer, football, champions-league, uefa

OLPC Jamaica: Getting Together To Mesh, Alright - OLPC News

Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:32 AM EDT (OLPC News)

OLPC and F/LOSS enthusiast Dr.

technology, olpc, open-source, jamaica, uwi, mona, university-of-the-west-indies, sameer-verma, xo, ict4d

At least 19 dead in Ivory Coast tragedy

Seeded on Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:12 PM EDT (ESPN.com)

At least 19 supporters have died after a wall collapsed before Ivory Coast's World Cup qualifier against Malawi.

sports, world-cup, qualifier, ivory-coast, malawi, death, abidjan

Red Hat Celebrates Ten Years of Red Hat Certified Engineers

Seeded on Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:43 PM EDT (Red Hat)

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today marked a decade since the introduction of its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.

technology, red-hat, certification, engineers, linux

Gayle shines - West Indies defeat England in third ODI

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:37 PM EDT (Jamaica Gleaner)

Chris Gayle marauded 80 from 43 balls to lead West Indies to an eight-wicket victory over England in the rain-affected third one-day international yesterday at Kensington Oval.

sports, west-indies, cricket, england, odi, chris-gayle

Loss was humiliating and embarrassing - Strauss

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:33 PM EDT (Cricinfo)

Andrew Strauss , the England captain, has said his team's defeat in the third ODI against West Indies in Barbados was "pretty humiliating and fundamentally pretty embarrassing".

sports, cricket, england, west-indies, barbados, odi

Gov't responds to pleas from centre for the deaf - JamaicaObserver.com

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:28 PM EDT (Jamaica Observer)

MINISTER of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security Andrew Gallimore Thursday pledged assistance for the cash-strapped Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf (CCCD).

world-news, jamaica-observer, deaf, caribbean, government

Fla. congresswoman fought cancer in secret

Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:30 AM EDT

By Brendan Farrington, Associated Press Writer (Clipped by Yannick Lyn Fatt)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz hated relying too much on her staff, but she needed them to keep up appearances during her undercover battle against cancer.

Continue reading this entry ...

wasserman-schultz, schultz, cancer, debbie-wasserman-schultz, us-news, politics

Liverpool draw Chelsea, holders handed Porto

Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:01 AM EDT (ESPN.com)

Liverpool will continue their annual European rivalry with Chelsea after Friday's Champions League quarter-final draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, pitted the Premier League duo against each other yet again.

sports, liverpool, chelsea, manchester-united, arsenal, football, soccer, uefa, champions-league

Discouraging Software Patent Lawsuits

Seeded on Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:06 PM EDT (Red Hat)

Recently we've seen some surprising comments about Red Hat's stand on software patents and, in particular, about one of its patent applications related to the AMQP specification. It looks like clarification is called for.

technology, red-hat, patent, lawsuits, software, amqp, linux, open-source, foss

Cory Doctorow -- Linux Guru?

Seeded on Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:01 AM EDT (linuxjournal.com)

Cory Doctorow has "open sourced" every one of his books, so to us, he seems like the perfect candidate to use Linux. He agrees, and tells us about it.

technology, cory-doctorow, linux, open-source

Jose: I can be next Man United manager

Seeded on Sun Mar 8, 2009 2:44 PM EDT (ESPN.com)

Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho has, in true style, stirred the pot ahead of his team's Champions League second round return leg against Manchester United on Wednesday by saying he could take over as manager at Old Trafford when Sir Alex Ferguson finally decides to retire.

sports, jose-mourinho, sir-alex-ferguson, manchester-united, manager, football, soccer

Linux Foundation to Build New Linux.com Community

Seeded on Wed Mar 4, 2009 11:35 AM EST (Linux Foundation)

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, and SourceForge, a leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, (NASDAQ: LNUX) today announced that the Linux Foundation will be the new host for Linux.com, taking over the editorial …

technology, linux-foundation, linux, linux-com, community, website

Video: Spotlight on FUNC

Seeded on Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:26 AM EST (Red Hat Magazine)

FUNC is the brainchild of Michael DeHaan, Adrian Likins, Seth Vidal, and Greg DeKoenigsberg.

technology, func, fedora, network, system-admin, linux, red-hat

Video: FUDCon F11

Seeded on Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:20 AM EST (Red Hat Magazine)

In this video presentation, the Fedora Project's contributors get together in Boston in January to make plans, hack on code, brainstorm ideas, hear about bold new projects, and just have fun.

technology, linux, fedora, fudcon, red-hat, video

IDE in the cloud: Mozilla Labs' browser-based IDE prototype

Seeded on Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:17 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Mozilla Labs has launched a new open source project called Bespin that aims to build an interactive Web-based code editor.

technology, mozilla, firefox, ide, open-source, bespin, editor

Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux

Seeded on Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:09 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Novell developer Aaron Bockover has developed a Firefox plugin called Moonshine that leverages Moonlight's media codecs to play conventional streaming Windows Media content at websites like C-SPAN.

technology, linux, moonshine, moonlight, silverlight, novell, firefox, windows-media

Linux Community...Prepare to get Goo'ed.

Seeded on Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:31 PM EST (Blog of helios)

Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel are Indie Game Developers. They've both spent some time "in the trenches" with companies such as EA...they made fairly good money and had steady work, but something ate at them...something uncomfortable and nagging.

technology, linux, world-of-goo, video-games, helios

Nigeria 0 - 0 Jamaica: Barnes almost nets shock

Seeded on Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:18 AM EST (ESPN.com)

John Barnes' Jamaica came close to recording an upset over Nigeria but were left to rue missed chances by Middlesbrough's Marlon King and former Sheffield United striker Luton Shelton at Millwall's New Den.

sports, jamaica, nigeria, football, soccer, friendly, john-barnes

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