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This month we welcome Jose Marchesi as maintainer of the new package recutils, Mike Gran as maintainer of the new package guile-ncurses, and long-time maintainers Bruno Haible, Jim Meyering, and Simon Josefsson adding the new package vc-changelog to their duties.

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Daniel Eran Dilger Everybody is talking about the expected new release of Apple TV 4.0, running iOS apps, streaming shows, and perhaps sporting a new iTV name. But the most interesting new potential of the device isn’t even being mentioned: FaceTime. Sure, an iPod touch without a screen would make a great replacement for the existing Apple [...]

昨天受邀去內湖某公司作簡報，因為 OpenOffice 產生的 PDF 檔案稍大，用 evince 播放時，略為停頓一下，致使跟不上預定的節奏，有些細節就不慎忽略。回辦公室後，認真思考改良 PDF 簡報放映的方式，歸納以下軟體需求： 避免太多相依性或執行時期的檔案 -- 讓任何一台裝有 GNU/Linux 的電腦都能作簡報與程式展示 快速 -- 就算播放幾十 MBytes 的 PDF 檔案也順暢 流暢鍵盤操作 -- 快速 zooming, 切換視角, 切換頁面，標注重點等等 open source -- 這還要說嗎？這年頭好多 closed source PDF viewer 根本就是 spy/ad-ware [MuPDF] 是目前最符合上述需求的軟體，輕薄短小，而且相當快速，但缺乏最重要的功能，也就是全螢幕播放，只好自己動手改。初步的 patch...

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應 ICOS 2010 之邀，小弟將在該研討會在九月 18 日 (週六) 的議程中，以「沒有政府補助，照樣寫自己的作業系統 -- 如何善用開放原始碼工具，加速作業系統的開發」之名，作為演說分享。詳情可參考 [ICOS 2010 網站] 與 [議程資訊]。 作為一位沒受過高等教育、社會最低階的軟體開發者，小弟每年練習寫一套不同的作業系統，期許自己能提昇資訊素養，雖稱不上有什麼成果，但這段歷程著實讓我體驗到開放原始碼工具的重要性，於是藉這個議程，野人獻曝一番。一如往常，每年都要發表一個 (玩具) 作業系統，今年則是將 [Orz Microkernel] 用 C 語言重寫，同樣是具體而微的系統，可作為教學研究使用。在 ICOS 2010 的議程中，小弟會探討發展這樣一個 microkernel，如何在相當有限的開發資源，善用 GNU Toolchain 搭配如 QEMU 這類強悍的工具，快速從 prototyping 到系統驗證，即便只用下班後寶貴的時間，還是能搭建一個小而美的 microkernel。 以往，我們總能以既有的資源去解決軟硬體問題，但今日我們面對五花八門的技術、日新月異的技術，許多人都亂了方寸，一味盲從，卻忘了資訊技術的提出，就是要解決既有的問題。我一直認為，唯有親身體驗一個完整系統的設計，才得以獲得成長，也才可創造更廣泛且深入的應用，無論是奠基於既有的架構抑或是重起爐灶皆是，這就是小弟這幾年多場技術演講的核心概念。期待您的參與指教，謝謝！...

Daniel Eran Dilger Another major war is exploding in the tech world, but alliances have shifted in interesting enough ways to ensure that this will be one of the most fascinating events ever to hit the technology world. . At issue is Oracle’s patent lawsuit against Google’s Android. Unless you look closely, this might sound like either a [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger After a couple years of collecting little more than hobbyist shareware supported primarily by ads rather than commercially viable software, Google’s Android platform is finally engaging the interest of a major developer. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of interest Google wants. . The developer is Oracle, among the software world’s largest. And the problem here [...]