LinuxBIOS is no more. coreboot is the next thing. · 16 January 2008 by Alex Beregszaszi
Ironically, in my LinuxBIOS speech I mentioned my thoughts about the name itself: outdated.
Now the group had chosen to change the name, to reflect the projects plans better. LinuxBIOS v3 does not contains any Linux code, nor its purpose is to boot a Linux kernel, it is just a core to boot specific payloads, hence the name coreboot.
The new webpage is at coreboot.org, and the Subversion repositories are renamed aswell.
HPCSW: LinuxBIOS · 28 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
High Performance Computer Science Week spans between 31st March and 5th April next year. The last two days will include a LinuxBIOS summit,
LinuxBIOS presentation follow up · 23 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
The origanizers just made the recorded video and the slides of the presentation is available. Both is in Hungarian though.
LinuxBIOS @ Budapest NewTech Meetup · 3 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
The Budapest New Technology Meetup (look at the group number) is a monthly event, each time with about five 5 minute presentations.
Really interesting themes are presented. In August we had a long introduction to Gomboc.
Now at the next event on wednesday, the 7th november I will talk about LinuxBIOS and BIOSes alltogether. As much as one can fit into a 5 minutes talk plus a 5 minutes QA session.
Motorola goes opensource · 18 May 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
Motorola’s opensource portal went live! It is like a mini Sourceforge, even projects can have wiki pages.
As a first try, I downloaded the kernel for the A1200: it’s a zip package, which contains a tar.gzipped (another compression) Linux kernel version 2.4.17. Nice. Hopefully they wil even open source own written code..
Interesting is the arch/arm/mach-ezx/ directory, which contains machine specific code for the EZX platform. Motorola calls its Linux based phone platform EZX. Maybe the OpenEZX has to do something with the release of these sources?
Added this to my ever growing coporate open source portal list.
Update: Harald Welte, the guy behind OpenEZX already analyzed released sources.
NTFS to ISO9660 under Linux · 3 April 2006 by
I had faced a problem when trying to make backup DVDs of an NTFS partition under Linux. The partition was using Hungarian characters, like the á.
After some search, I found the solution:
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 -o nls=iso8859-2
While NTFS uses UTF16 (?) internally, it is easy to convert to other character sets.
The second job, making an ISO out of it was easy:
mkisofs -J—joliet-long -input-charset iso-8859-2 -r -o backup.iso /mnt/hdb1
A notable site explaining Unicode under Linux.
Corporate open source portals · 3 November 2005 by
I am really interested in the possibilities of cooperation and coexistence between free software, open source, corporations and proprietary software. This page is devoted for links on these topics, it will grow with time. Feel free to add your links in comments.
Corporate open source portals (in ABC order):
Linux portals:
Related:
Not strictly related: