Bordeaux is a Wine GUI configuration manager that
runs winelib applications. It aims to support
installation of third party utilities,
installation of applications and games, and the
ability to use custom configurations.

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License: Free for non-commercial use

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Changes:
The Application Manger and Winetricks manager were
merged into a single UI. Many small bugs were
fixed in the UI.

libmemcached is a C client library for interfacing
to a memcached server. It has been designed to be
light on memory usage, thread safe and to provide
full access to server side methods. It also
implements several command line tools: memcat,
memflush, memrm, memstat, and memslap (for load
generation). The library has been designed to
allow for different hashing methods on keys,
partitioning by keys, and to use consistent
hashing for distribution.

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License: BSD License (revised)

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Changes:
More work was done on the C++ API. Bugs were fixed
around block corner cases. A slight performance
increase was made in both read() and write().

Gengetopt Eclipse is an Eclipse plugin that
provides an editor for GNU Gengetopt input files.

Ramaze is a simple, light, and modular Web
application framework for use with Ruby. Ramaze
aims to adhere to the KISS and POLS principles.
Ramaze has minimal dependencies, and is very
modular, allowing you to use your own choice of
ORM (DB interface and modelling library),
JavaScript library, and templating library. Ramaze
is thoroughly documented, with plenty of examples
and helpers, and is developed with Behavior Driven
Design (BDD), with a complete set of code
specifications.

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License: OSI Approved

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Changes:
Support was added for ETag and If-Modified-Since in Dispatcher::File. An adapter for the LiteSpeed Web server was added. Support was added for Content-Language based localization and gettext. Support was added for passing in locals to render_template. A builder templating engine was added to produce XML. The RedCloth templating engine was added. The Amrita2 templating engine was updated to the latest release. A simple EmailHelper was added. MarukuHelper was added. A simple file upload example was added. A fix was applied for running Ramaze apps within IDEs on Windows.

Is this the first Linux based mobile phone complete with fully over the air customizable software capability?

“OSS Discovery can be used to discover which open source packages are installed on your machines (providing package names and versions), regardless of license. FOSSology can be used to search for open source licenses in a set of source or binary code.”

Hewlett-Packard’s announcement of open source FOSSology and FOSSBazaar projects unfairly downplays participation of other companies, OpenLogic CEO says Hewlett-Packard’s recent announcement regarding a pair of … via Infoworld

The folks at LinuxHow2.com are pushing the envelope. Here’s an interesting article on how Linux and Jesus are both socialist, and thus very good for the world.

…Why not start with a computer loaded with basic stuff that works 100 percent of the time? Then, give us the option of adding the bells and whistles. There’s another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there’s no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills…

Matt Asay thinks so.

He’s certain of it in fact. (Picture from Learn-Shiatsu of the UK.)

Matt says Trend Micro is making claims for its patent (number 5,623,600 if you’re scoring at home) that make open source anti-virals illegal.

He may be right. He also may be wrong. But if he is right, he says, everyone with open source anti-virals on their network will lose them, or face bills they can’t afford.

Think of the children!

The dispute is between Trend Micro and a company called Barracuda Networks, but this is really about ClamAV, the open source anti-viral which Barracuda (and lots of other companies) use in their products.

Trend Micro says ClamAV infringes on their patent, so they’re going after the companies which use the software at issue.

Barracuda says there is a lot of prior art here and the patent is overly broad. Trend Micro, however, notes that its commercial rivals license the  patent.

The Register derides Barracuda’s call to arms as “playing the hippie card” but there are, in fact, many examples of an open source process finding prior art to invalidate a patent claim. (Also, calling the open source movement “hippies” is so 1980s.)

So what we have here, it seems, is a legal dispute and not a 12-alarm fire. At worst it’s a case illustrating the need for patent reform, specifically for testing claims of prior-art, and the breadth of claims, before a patent is granted.

Trend Micro isn’t just saying it has a better mousetrap. They’re saying they have a patent on all mousetraps. That sounds like the very definition of overly-broad to me.

But fortunately, courts move slowly. There is plenty of time for discovery to proceed, on both of Barracuda’s defense claims. We’ll have legal and political answers on the use of patents to deny innovation long before any verdict here.

So rather than running about like our hair’s on fire let’s just get to work. Or use the text link to the left of the picture for some healing meditation.

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users as well as businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more attractive to potential users.