http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Better Living Through Emerging Technologies en-us kbennett@utk.edu 2005-10-19T13:51:51-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/10/000198-lams.html LAMS Learning Activity Management System Educause 2005, October 19, 2005 Lams Foundation Lams International James Dalziel, from Macquarie ELearning Centre of Excellence(MELCOE), Macquarie University in Australia, began by noting that e-learning has thus far been too content centric. And it... 198@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2005-10-19T13:51:51-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/10/000197-open_source_electronic_publishing.html Open Source Electronic Publishing System from Cornell University Center for Innovative Publishing Summary of a conference presentation at Educause 2005, October 19, 2005 Math and Statistics Journals Online Project Euclid was created as a Mellon Foundation-supported initiative that utilizes mutually... 197@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2005-10-19T13:47:55-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000164-netware_rewritten_merged_with_linux_and_released_under_cherokee_open_source_license.html      Jeff Merkey, a former chief scientist of Novell, has rewritten Netware and merged it with Linux. The new operating system will be known as GaDuGi, a Cherokee word for the work crews that used to engage in what we might... 164@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2005-01-11T10:57:32-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000159-security_windows_vs_linux.html      Koetzle, L. (2004). Is Linux More Secure Than Windows? Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass.      Petreley, N. (2004). Security Report: Windows vs. Linux. The Register. (Published October 22, 2004 and retrieved January 5, 2005.)      Koetzle's paper was published in March 2004 and... 159@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2005-01-05T16:08:41-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000157-the_economics_of_open_source.html      Dalle, J.-M. et al. (2004). Advancing Economic Research in the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production. Forthcoming in Building Our Digital Future: Future Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios Based On Open Standards, edited by Marleen Wynants and Jan... 157@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2005-01-04T16:14:51-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000147-5_challenges_for_open_source.html From the September 24 Chronicle of Higher Education. And they are: Building a Community Agreeing on What Open Source Means Securing Budgets for 'Free' Software Getting Colleges to Switch Working With Companies, Not Against Them... 147@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-09-29T17:15:38-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000145-the_kde_accessibility_project.html The KDE Accessibility Project (also by way of slashdot): "Our goal is to make the entirety of the K Desktop Environment and (by necessity) its underlying technologies usable by and as efficient as possible for disabled users of all types.... 145@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-09-29T13:18:50-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000144-sphinx.html Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer under Berkeley's style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition system. Sphinx 4 (beta) was released September... 144@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-09-29T13:13:43-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000142-k12_linux_terminal_server_project.html SunSITE is now an official mirror for the K12 Linux Terminal Server (K12LTSP) software (ftp or http). K12LTSP is based on RedHat Fedora Linux — also mirrored on SunSITE (ftp or http) — and the LTSP terminal server packages, and... 142@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-09-29T10:31:29-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000132-interview_with_linus_torvalds.html Interview in last week's Business Week with Linus Torvalds. "Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding... 132@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-08-24T10:50:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000125-eldk_30_now_available_from_sunsite.html SunSITE is now mirroring (via http or ftp) the 3.0 release of the Embedded Linux Development Kit. ELDK 3.0 features include: Linux kernel version 2.4.24 New tools: GCC 3.2.2, GDB 5.2.1, binutils 2.13.90.0.18, glibc 2.3.1 Support for all recent Linux... 125@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-07-21T10:59:12-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000115-fedora_mandrake_and_suse_compared.html Flexbeta has a comparison of Fedora, Mandrake and Suse — installation, system configuration, available software, desktop environments, multimedia, and support. ".....if you like a system that has a good base and aren't afraid to use the command line to administer... 115@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-07-06T13:35:19-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000077-why_open_source_works.html Worth reading: Steven Weber, whose new book, The Success of Open Source, was just published by Harvard University Press, gives an interview to ACM's magazine Ubiquity.... 77@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-05-20T11:15:42-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000066-renowned_linuxopen_source_evangelist_complains_about_poor_ui.html In this tremendous post, John Gruber comments on an article Eric S. Raymond wrote regarding his trouble connecting to a network printer through Linux. The writing is entertaining, but the underlying implications for Open Source UI development, as well as... 66@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ General 2004-05-06T11:30:36-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000060-introduction_to_linux_introduction_to_open_source.html Okay, so the jury's still out on whether the use of Linux and tendencies toward open source in general are genetically inherited or simply a lifestyle choice. In the meantime, however, there is probably not enough being done in the... 60@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Open Source 2004-05-05T11:55:27-05:00