Once or twice a week my personal server had some weird trouble with httpd, spamassasin or named suddenly crashing. It seemed impossible to replicate but in recent weeks the problem became worse. First I thought it was some software problem. So I decided to upgrade to CentOS 5. But in the middle of the upgrade […]
Bruno Souza is the NetBeans Community Manager for Sun these days. And he had an interesting suggestion for a new license model for NetBeans 6.0: We are considering releasing a future early access version of NetBeans 6.0 under a dual licensing scheme of CDDL and GPL v2 with Classpath exception. Whoa! From the NetBeans Why […]
Reading Harald Welte‘s blog (who is sometimes painfully honest about the Neo1973 and OpenMoko developments) I got a happy surprise reading under the heading Progress with the new OpenMoko and FIC Mobility office: Our internal software team finally has proper leadership and guidance from somebody who is both Taiwanese and has a thorough understanding of […]
This is a public service announcement: DON’T FORGET TO RENEW YOUR DOMAINS IN TIME! Thanks to Brian for getting classpath.org back online.
The 2006 OLS paper Perfmon2: A flexible performance monitoring interface for Linux by Stéphane Eranian gives an overview of designing a generic interface for hardware monitoring for a diverse test of processors. Modern processors have all kinds of support to collect information about cpu cycles used, instruction pipelines, on-chip caches, etc. Since the Performance Monitoring […]
From Lillian on the OpenJDK distro-pkg-dev mailinglist about IcedTea 1.1 We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.1. This release represents the stabilization of Crypto and SSL support. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the […]
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote an interesting paper for OLS: The 7 dwarves: debugging information beyond gdb. Dwarves is a DWARF debugging information library and a set of tools that uses the DWARF information inserted in ELF binaries. The tools can help you understand DWARF and the debug information available in programs (and the kernel) […]
Fun for the whole family! GNU GPLv3 Launch. And Luis Villa finished his 4-part GPLv3, The Q/A: part 1 – the license part 2 – developers part 3 – companies part 4 – odds and ends Update: GNU-Linux Software License Revision Praised By SIFMA. Wow. Interesting move by the large financial and securities companies. It […]
At the end of this month the long awaited version 3 of the GNU General Public License will finally be released and slowly but surely various projects will adopt this new license upgrade. If you have only followed the public drafting process that has gone on since November 2005 from a distance or if you […]
Since I wanted to look a bit at the history and changes made to OpenJDK over time, but was going to be offline for a while (and the subversion server of openjdk seems a little slow even if I were online) I decided to create a read-only openjdk mercurial mirror so I could carry the […]