An interesting article on using Windows 7 for an HTPC, especially the use of the Xonar sound card to transmit uncompressed sound through the HDMI interface…

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-htpc,2349.html

http://www.db4o.com/about/

Etonnant versant editeur de base de données objet releases an embedded object database OPEN SOURCE!

It smells like a marketing stunt!

In any case, the product looks interesting… its only flaw is that being used in an embedded way, i.e. in the form of a library, and being GPL (and not LGPL), if you want to use it to develop a commercial product, you’ll have to use the commercial license…

http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/o3d/

Too cool, Google!

They deliver an open source plugin available on Windows, Mac and Linux, for most browsers (including Firefox)!

Allowing 3D in JavaScript!

The beach demo is too cool…

Thanks juju for the info!

http://kohanaphp.com/

C’est un fork de codeigniter!

Kohana est un framework OO PHP 5 qui utilise le design patern “Model View Controller”.

la v3 de gallery utilise ce framework: http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3.0_alpha_3_released

Low Level Virtual Machine (en français : machine virtuelle de bas niveau), plus connu sous l’abréviation LLVM, est une infrastructure de compilateur conçue pour optimiser la compilation, l’édition de liens, l’exécution et les temps morts dans un programme écrit dans un langage arbitraire.

un peu comme le projet “parrot” pour perl6 mais la plus génrérique on dirait! focuser pour le moment sur l’objectif de remplacer le compilateur GCC!

• http://llvm.org/
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Level_Virtual_Machine

clang est la premiere application de ce projet, c’est un front end de compilation c, objective c et c++ de llvm soit un projet de remplacement de gcc par clang+llvm

Since Sun acquired VirtualBox, it has been advancing at full speed!!

• OVF (Open Virtualization Format) support for import and export… this allows importing virtual appliances for VMware notably… it also supports VMware’s VMDK/VHD!
• it supports vt-x and amd-v optimizations
• it supports 64bit guest OS on a 32bit host OS if the CPU is 64bit!
• it supports “OpenGL 3D” hardware acceleration for Windows and Linux guest machines! this allows playing 3D games using video hardware acceleration even in a virtual machine… for now no directx 3D support but that seems to be planned… but there are opengl to directx wrappers… http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap
• iSCSI support
• USB support
• RDP support to access the virtual machine screen
• available on Linux and Windows, but also on OpenSolaris and Mac OS X
• PAE support for 32-bit guest OS with more than 3.6GB of memory!

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

nLite is a tool for packaging Windows with drivers, patches, programs…

And also for removing certain default Windows components…

Features:

• Service Pack Integration
• Component Removal
• Unattended Setup
• Driver Integration
• Hotfixes Integration
• Tweaks
• Services Configuration
• Patches
• Bootable ISO creation

For my part, it’s not working yet… Windows still can’t find my disks… well, we’ll see after the BIOS update.

http://www.nliteos.com

There aren’t 36 SSH implementations in Java…

http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/java.html

I was looking for a nas-type distribution…

I found two distributions:

http://www.openfiler.com/products/feature-summary/feature-summary

based on linux and seems to be quite advanced and up to date…

http://www.freenas.org/index.php?lang=fr

a fork of the monowall project, and therefore in freebsd! uses the advanced raid/volume and file system functions of bsd!!!!

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php

a nice little graphical tool called WICD that manages network configurations under Linux!