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Google’s Android code deleted from Linux kernel
‘Go fork yourself!’ After removing Google’s Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project’s main tree.…
Continue reading »Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE
Sponsored by Novell, openSUSE is a free and Open Source operating system, based on Linux. Following in the footsteps of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE recently decided to include Transmission as the default BitTorrent client. However, the addition of Transmission to openSUSE was not straightforward.
Continue reading »P2P GUI: Remotely control all your transfers in one place
This one could be interesting for really obsessive P2P users: P2P GUI makes it possible to remotely control MLdonkey, aMule, rTorrent, Transmission and giFT all through one web interface. p2p gui It’s based on an executable that starts up a web server on your system and then offers access to three different interface styles. Here’s a list of some of its features, taken straight form the P2P GUI website : “Highly configurable (CSS/JS/HTML/D).
Continue reading »At last! A computer for the elderly!
Oh goody !!! Soon I’ll be “emailing” and “chatting away to family and friends”. That’s what the BBC’s Valerie Singleton (right) promises, having gone from one extreme to the other. She was once one of the presenters of the Beeb’s Blue Peter program for kids.
Continue reading »GoalBit: P2P Streaming Goes Open Source
Bandwidth-conscious broadcasters have a new way to distribute their live video streams. A group of Uruguay-based P2P researchers recently released the first English-language version of their open-source P2P streaming application, GoalBit. The application, which is based on a BitTorrent-like architecture, aims to compete with P2P streaming services like PPLive and PPStream by giving anyone looking to distribute their own live video programming a way to do so.
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