Linux For The Masses? Bet On This Winner
In this interview with Ken "helios" Starks of Lobby4Linux fame, Ryan Sommers tries to find out everythiong about HeliOS Solutions. HeliOS Solutions is Ken's new business venture which was set up to generate money for the Komputers4Kids program. Komputers4Kids refurbishes donated computers and gives them away for free to children who need computers for school.
Incidentally, the HeliOS Solutions website was designed and implemented for free by us, The Lone Wolves Foundation. More about this later in a feature article.
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Sun buys MySQL: Video interviews with Sun's James Gosling and MySQL's Monty Widenius
I don’t think anyone saw this coming: Sun buying MySQL AB for a billion dollars. Linux.com did a nice interview with the people responsible for it:
This morning Sun Microsystems announced that it was purchasing MySQL AB for $1 billion, $800 million of which is supposed to be paid in cash. This is a huge deal in the open source community. Two minutes after I heard the news, I begged an invitation to the “no press” MySQL company meeting at which the announcement had been made, drove two hours to Orlando, and sat down for lunch with Sun vice president (and Java creator) James Gosling and MySQL AB cofounder David Axmark. After lunch I corraled MySQL CTO (and original MySQL creator) Michael “Monty” Widenius and MySQL chief database architect Brian Aker, and got their opinions about how the acquisition might work out and what it means for both companies.
Source: Linux.com
ODF-XSLT Project Announcement
by Sander MarechalLone Wolves is happy to announce the ODF-XSLT project. The ODF-XSLT Document Generator is a library written in PHP 5 that brings the full power of XSLT to your OpenDocument files. It enables you to use ODF files as if they were plain XSLT templates. It also includes a few extra parsing options that allow you to edit the XSLT parts of these ODF from within your favourite office suite. ODF-XSLT is developed by Tribal Internet Marketing and is released by Stichting Lone Wolves as Free Software under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
The first release of ODF-XSLT is odf-xslt-0.4 and can be downloaded from our download section, together with a nightly snapshot of the subversion trunk. You can also check out the latest version directly from our subversion repository. The manual and API documentation are available from the project website.
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