Jabir is an application that implements a Point Of Sale for bars, restaurants, pizzerias, and similar establishments. It includes both a Swing-based interface and a Web-based interface.

Changes: The db path was reviewed to support Windows Vista/7. Some important bugs were fixed.

Tags: Office/Business, Financial, Point-Of-Sale

Licenses: Other

From the Owning What's Yours dept.:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: first, to "jailbreak" a mobile device, such as an iPhone, where DRM is used to prevent phone owners from running software of their own choosing; second, to allow video remix artists to break the DRM on DVDs in order to take short excerpts for mashups posted to YouTube and other sharing sites; finally EFF got the Copyright Office to renew its ruling that made it illegal to unlock cellphones so that they can be used with any carrier.

SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure OpenSolaris environment. SchilliX tries to be as Sun Solaris compatible as possible and to be the optimum development platform for Solaris and OpenSolaris.

Changes: This release was updated to OpenSolaris Nevada Build 130. The schily tools (like star and cdrtools) have been updated to recent versions. The history editor in the Bourne shell now supports multi-byte locales.

Tags: Software Development, Operating Systems

Licenses: CDDL

Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented. Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.

Changes: Fixes were made for check constraints. An admin extension was added to set up a log manager via the command line.

Tags: Database, Front-Ends, Database Engines/Servers

Licenses: GPL

One of the best references for Linux and UNIX system administrators over the years has been the "Handbooks" (either Linux Administration Handbook (LAH) or UNIX System Administration Handbook (USAH) at various points). But the last edition was published in 2000 (as USAH), and included information on then-current Red Hat Linux 6.2 and FreeBSD 3.4. A new, updated version, UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fourth Edition (ULSAH), is due out any day now, and the principal authors, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, and Ben Whaley, agreed to answer some questions for LWN readers. Below are their answers on the book, the impact of Linux, the future for UNIX and Linux, and more.

FB4Linux is an Eclipse plugin that provides Flash development capabilities in Linux. Getting it installed can be tricky though, as there are a few undocumented steps you'll have to complete. This article takes a look at how FB4Linux can be installed in Eclipse 3.5.2.

From the Buy Once, Get Reamed Everywhere dept.:
Mom-and-pop repair shops in Massachusetts are pushing a bill that would require auto manufacturers to provide, at a price, all the diagnostic and software information they make available to their dealerships.

Massachusetts would become the first state to approve the so-called auto right-to-repair law. The Senate recently passed it, and it's pending in the House. Industry observers say passage of the bill in Massachusetts could drive similar legislative efforts in other states.

Linux: We've featured one way to mount your Google Docs library as a drive in Windows, but blogger Martin Owens has created an application to do the same in Ubuntu, so you can edit and save to Google Docs from your desktop.

GNU ed is an 8-bit clean implementation of the POSIX line-oriented text editor. Ed is the "standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.

Changes: Some tests have been improved and obsolete POSIX tests have been removed from the test suite. A small error in the manual has been fixed.

Release Tags: Development

Tags: Text Editors

Licenses: GPLv3

Open source is everywhere today and there is growing awareness that companies have to meet certain obligations when distributing open source software. Here are some useful resources to learn more about open source compliance.

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