Summary: http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 52:04 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 1:30 Release Candidate: None Mainline: 3.3-rc6 Stable Updates: On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:09:11 Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Kernel 2.6.32.58 Greg had this to say about this kernel release: Kernel Quote: "This is the last 2.6.32 kernel I will be releasing. The 2.6.32 kernel is now in "extended-longterm" maintenance, with no set release schedule from now on. I STRONGLY encourage any users of the 2.6.32 kernel series to move to the 3.0 series at this point in time." Distro Talk: Tony Time: 3:50 Distrowatch.com 3-09 - Linux Mint 12 "LXDE" - fast and lightweight variant of the popular Ubuntu-based distribution 3-08 - CentOS 5.8 - 3-07 - IPFire 2.11 Core 57 - the latest update of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1512 CentOS - 1653 Fedora - 1753 Ubuntu - 2306 Mint - 4265 Tech News: Time: 11:31 Microsoft Contributes "Mayhem" to Open Source No not literal mayhem all though they have done enough of that in the past. The point and click scripting "language". It is billed as a simple scripting system for non-programmers. Outercurve is going to be the organization trying to drive its use and development. Outercurve promotes collaborative software development within open source communities. Mayhem is licensed under the Microsoft Public License, which according to GNU.org is not GPL compatible. You can read the license in its entirety here (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/licenses.aspx). Mayhem is supposed to allow regular users to have different services and devices interact with each other. Mayhem connects graphical programs in a way that is similar to how batch files string together programs in the Windows command-line environment. Like connecting an alarm clock to a coffee maker so your brew is ready for you in the morning. In fact just about any device or service within Windows ecosystem can be used to add events and reactions to Mayhem. Paul Dietz, who is Microsoft's project leader for Mayhem, said this about Mayhem: “Any interconnected device could communicate with any other through simple trigger events (if the alarm clock rings) and reactions (then start the coffee maker.) Unlike writing a program, the user simply selects an event and a reaction, and then turns on the connection between the devices. No code, app or programming required,” Mayhem takes instructions of the form "when this event happens, do this reaction" and an event could be for example: pressing a key on a game saying a verbal command or using an interface on your mobile phone Mayhem will also react to network-based events that use data from the Internet such as for example: stock prices or exchange rates weather social networking updates To aid in creating more Add-Ons to increase the power of Mayhem, the Outercurve Foundation is hosting the "Make Your Own Mayhem" Contest 2012. Developers are invited to submit any number of creative add-ons to Mayhem by midnight (Pacific Time), April 30, 2012. Submissions will be evaluated by judges Johnny Chung Lee, Rapid Evaluator, Google; IBM Fellow John Cohn, and MK Haley, Associate Executive Producer – Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. Awards include Honorable Mention, Most Awesome Add-on, People's Choice (most 'Likes' on entry video) and the Mayhem Master's Award 2012, awarded to the developer of the best collection of Mayhem add-ons. Over US$5000 in prizes will be awarded. Microsoft spun the not-for-profit open-source Codeplex Foundation group off in 2009. In 2010, they renamed themselves the “Outercurve Foundation.” Kernel 2.6.
