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OStatic Weekend Reader.....

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In case you missed these:

TrueCrypt on-the-fly encryption: Better software for the paranoid.....

Ever heard of R? It's an open source language for statistical analysis, and it packs a serious punch.....

Want to put Linux on your Windows PC or Mac? Try these easy virtualization options.....

Dia: A strong open source answer to Microsoft's Visio.....

iMacros: A visual tour to one of the most powerful Firefox extensions.....



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Should More Employers Subsidize Open Source Development?

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In a post today, Matt Asay considers whether governments could effectively subsidize open source development. I agree with his point that enterprises may come to recognize that their failure to replenish open source communities with either cash or code may come to harm the code commons from which they derive increasing amounts of value. We've also had several people say in OStatic interviews, including Sam Ramji--Microsoft's open source chief--that open source needs better monetization models. In our latest interview,? with FreeNAS' founder, he says that one of the best things for open source would be for our employers to give us time to work on our open source projects. Perhaps more employers should go beyond that.


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Interview: FreeNAS for No-Cost Network Attached Storage

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Few recent trends in storage have had as much momentum as Network Attached Storage (NAS). A NAS device can make a network more efficient and secure by supplying file-based data storage services to networked devices, or it can be used for applications such as streaming media. FreeNAS is free, lightweight, open source network-attached storage server software, based on FreeBSD. You can find a good tutorial on how to set up a free NAS server with it here. We recently caught up with Olivier Cochard-Labbe, FreeNAS founder, and Volker Theile, project administrator.


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Why Switch to Linux?

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In an interesting post on Lifehacker, the editors ask the readers Why did you switch to Linux? The question drew quite a lot of interesting responses, including some very offbeat reasons for why people made the switch. If you're under the impression that people switch solely for rebellious or fight the man reasons, here are some of the more interesting responses and trends that they point to.


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Android to Offer a FOSS-Friendly Marketplace

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Android IconWe've been keeping an eye on Google's Android phone project as it progresses towards release this fall. Yesterday another key piece of the support services behind Android was announced, and this one looks like a win from the open source point of view: anyone will be able to offer Android software via a free Android Market.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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Novell's third-quarter loss widens, but Linux booms by 30 percent.....

Google Code reverses its open source license ban. Mozilla's and Eclipse's Public Licenses get the nod.....

Four Twitter clients for Linux.....

What open sourcers can learn from the French....



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Netbooks: No Threat to Notebooks?

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We've covered the sales momentum that Linux-based netbooks--low-priced subnotebooks featuring lots of open source software--are experiencing before. However, even though millions of these devices are selling this year, Wistron chairman Simon Lin says that the position of traditional notebooks will not be affected by the rising role of netbooks over the next two years, even as many netbooks are showing up running Windows. Our sister blog JKOnTheRun begs to differ. Check out their thoughts on the numbers, what consumers are asking for, and whether profit margins tell the whole story.


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Suing for Open Source

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Open source software use by governments has a rocky history. Some governments have opted firmly for open source (and some of those have later reconsidered); others do everything that they can to avoid it. Now a group of free software advocates in Canada is challenging a lack of open source adoption by head-on attack: a lawsuit aimed at the procurement practices in Quebec.


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Intel Acquires Mobile OSS Firm OpenedHand--Advances Moblin

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Intel is pushing forward with its Moblin mobile Internet and Linux project, focused on mobile and automotive Internet devices based on Atom processors. Its latest move is acquiring OpenedHand, which provides software development and consulting services, in addition to maintaining several ongoing projects focused on mobile and embedded Linux. OpenedHand's team maintains and contributes development efforts to the Matchbox window manager (on Nokia's devices), the Pimlico suite of PIM applications, Poky (an embedded Linux distro), and more. In essence, Intel gets a distributed set of open source applications and Moblin development resources in picking up OpenedHand.


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Preview of YUI 3.0 Shows Many New Features, Little Backward Compatibility

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Development of YUI 3.0, the latest version of Yahoo's User Interface toolset and widgets for Web development, is now available as a preview release. YUI has long been a popular choice for client-side Web development, both because of its liberal BSD license, and because of the number of features that the library includes. YUI 3.0, when it is released, will offer a variety of new JavaScript classes and widgets. However, this will come at a price, namely compatibility with YUI 2.x APIs.



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