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| DATE | 2011-01-29 |
| FROM | From: "Ron Guerin"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Round Table Sat (TONIGHT) at 10:00 PM live, streaming
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The Free Software Round Table will be broadcasting on WUSB 90.1 FM (SUNY
Stony Brook) and streaming live at
http://stream.wusb.stonybrook.edu:8090/listen.pls this Saturday night at
10:00 PM EST. RSS at
http://freesoftwareroundtable.org/index.php?option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw
You can join in on the discussion via IRC on Freenode in channel #fsrt
which can be reached via a web app here:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fsrt
Among the topics to be discussed:
Debian Squeeze set for Stable release on Feb. 5 or 6
A truly free kernel?
http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2011/01/debian-squeeze-set-for-stable.html
Linux app store
http://www.osnews.com/story/24330/Major_Linux_Distributions_Collaborating_on_Application_Store
Ubuntu QT
http://www.osnews.com/story/24278/Ubuntu_To_Include_Qt_Applications
2.6.38 BKL/RCU performance improvement
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/01/linux-2638-eliminates-last-mai.html
Japan Prize
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/japan_prize_ritchie_thompson/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012611-inventors-unix-japan-prize.html?hpg1=bn
Versionless standard HTML5
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/HTML5-to-become-a-living-standard-called-HTML-1172982.html
SCALE9X keynote
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/146994/
Linux unified installer
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/cross-distro-unified-installer-is-on.html
FFmpeg new management
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Development-of-FFmpeg-under-new-management-1172919.html
KDE4.6
http://dot.kde.org/2011/01/26/kde-puts-you-control-new-workspaces-applications-and-platform
Internet being shut off in Egypt?
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=EG&l=WEBSEARCH&csd=1293661633291&ced=1296340033291
SourceForge hacked (again)
http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/sourceforge/2011/01/27/service-downtime/
BBC wants to close H2G2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F77636?thread=8018187#p105550329
Knuth publishes 4th volume of the Art of Computer Programming
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1417207/Volume-4A-of-Knuths-TAOCP-Finally-In-Print?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
Android code does not necessarily infringe Java copyright after all
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/android-source-code-java-and-copyright-infringement-whats-go/
4th Amendment and cell phone searches
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/guides/2011/01/why-you-should-always-encrypt-your-smartphone.ars
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