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Getting a job in open source development can mean getting a pay-cheque for working on your favourite hobby. But the equation is more complicated than just adding money, according to OpenLogic Director of Community and Partner Programs, Stormy Peters.

Companies seeking to employ programmers to work on open source projects need to maintain the non-financial benefits of open source programming to ensure the success of their commercial projects, keynote speaker Stormy Peters told Linux.conf.au this morning.

"Open source developers work on open source software for a number of reasons; from scratching an itch, to gaining a reputation, to building a resume, to contributing to a good cause. You need to know what the developer's motivation was to begin with and how the company changes that software development model," she said.

A study called, "Why hackers do what they do", found around 40 percent of open source developers are paid contributors.

"Another 10 or 15 percent work on open source software but their manager doesn't know it," Peters said.

Moving from working as a volunteer on an open source project to becoming an employee of a company changes the game, even if the developer is working on exactly the same project, she said.

"The open source development model itself changes. A company paying for that development influences the project, whether you like it or not,” Peters said.

"The open source community is very open - discussions happen on mailing lists or on IRC. In the workplace, decisions are made in meetings that you missed, or at a meeting you weren't invited to because it was for project managers. The problem is that design gets left out. All of a sudden you're not being creative, you're just writing code to spec."

"Open source software isn't yet integrated into how companies do business - the people writing the code need to be involved through the whole process. Companies should be looking at how design discussions evolve in the open source community and take that on board to ensure that programmers are involved in the process,” she said.

Stormy Peters founded and managed HP's open source program and is now the Director of Community and Partner Programs at OpenLogic.

I am a fan of affordable technology. I like relatively cheap gadgets, and I like open source. When I heard about Asus’ Eee PC, I took it with a certain grain of salt. I thought that maybe it was just another company trying to take a piece of the pie from the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

Then the more I read about the OLPC, the more I realized that the two gadgets may have been created for different purposes. The OLPC is a non-profit, educational-social project, while the Eee PC is an affordable subnotebook being sold with the intent for profit.

The Eee PC’s price range varies from approximately $300 to $500; within that range you can get a configuration with a 2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB solid state drive, and for the 4 GB and 8 GB models, you can opt for an embedded webcam as well. All models come with 3 USB ports, 1 MMC/SD port, and a VGA port for an external display, which can display up to 1600×1280 resolution.

By default, the Eee PC comes with a slightly modified version of Xandros Linux with KDE as its window manager. The Linux layman will most likely not realize that it is indeed running KDE because of a feature called ”Easy Mode” that hides the KDE desktop and gives the user only icons to the main apps in the system.

Note: The Xandros install uses unionfs for its filesystem, which is very common for Live CD installations. However, one of its features is that the space used by an application cannot be freed once that application is uninstalled. So, if you tried to uninstall OpenOffice to free up a few megabytes on your file system, unionfs would still report the same amount of used megabytes on your system.

Because the Eee PC is a full-blown Intel-based computer, there is absolutely nothing stopping us from installing other Linux distributions on it. At first glance, the only catch is the fact that the Eee PC doesn’t have a built-in CD/DVD-ROM, but by using open source tools like livecd-iso-to-disk from the Fedora distribution, we can install live images onto a USB thumb drive and boot the Eee PC from it. That’s where Eeedora comes in.
What’s Eeedora?

Eeedora is a Fedora-based live distribution created and maintained by Martin Andrews. Martin decided to create the distribution for power users who are more comfortable in the Red Hat-based environment rather than Xandros, which is Debian-based.

Eeedora is based on the most current version of Fedora (8); it uses XFCE as the window manager; the live image download is currently less than 350 MB; and it gives the user full access to the yum repos for the Fedora distribution, allowing you to install the larger packages like Gimp, OpenOffice, and Thunderbird.

Eeedora in its current state works flawlessly with most of the hardware available under the Eee PC, coming up a little short still with webcam support and resume issues after a suspend. Yet it has been my experience so far that it works very well on the Eee PC.

Also of note–Eeedora doesn’t use ext3. It uses ext2 to minimize disk use, so you should be aware that if devices are not unmounted properly, suspend/resume and hard shutdown could damage your install more frequently than if it was running ext3.
Installing Eeedora on the Eee PC

The following instructions will work on any of the models of the Eee PC:

1. Download the Eeedora ISO image file.

2. On your Fedora desktop (or laptop), install the livecd-iso-to-disk script.

# yum install livecd-tools

3. Plug your USB thumbdrive into the computer. The haldaemon should automatically mount it, and you will see an icon for the thumbdrive show up on your desktop.

4. Open Terminal and become root:

# su -

5. Find out which Linux device your USB thumbdrive is mapped as:

# mount

You will see a few lines on your terminal, and one of them will look like this:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk1 vfat (rw)

Haldaemon will mount your USB thumbdrive using the same label it identified the device with on your desktop when the icon showed up. In the case of this example “/dev/sdb1″ is my device.

6. Install the image onto your USB thumbdrive:

# livecd-iso-to-disk the-file-you-downloaded.iso /dev/sdb1

Note: You don’t need to format your USB thumbdrive; livecd-iso-to-disk will install the image without destroying your existing data (assuming it has enough space on the drive). But it never hurts to have a backup copy.

7. Unmount your USB thumbdrive and plug it into your Eee PC.

8. Boot up your Eee PC. Press F2 to go into the BIOS, and make sure you make your USB thumbdrive the first hard disk the BIOS sees. Press F10 to save, and the Eeedora grub screen should start up.

9. Once you are into the system, there will be an install icon on the desktop that you can use to install the OS on the actual SSD.
Known issues

As I’ve mentioned before, Eeedora is a work in progress, and Martin is always welcoming feedback from the community. I’ve had the chance to report a few bugs on it and got almost instant return from him.

Read about more of the outstanding issues in Eeedora.
Conclusion

You might be asking why would anyone be interested in getting a notebook like the Eee PC. The keyboard is small, the screen is small (7 inches at 800×480), and the storage is minimal. Personally, I see the Eee PC as a tool that makes me a bit more mobile than before. Its dimensions could been seen as a disadvantage, although for my purposes it is an advantage. I even sold my iPod, because now I use the Eee PC as my media player in the car while going back and forth from work. I don’t necessarily recommend it to anyone who uses their MP3 player while exercising, but for a drive, it is pretty great.

The Eee PC has also become a tool in which I started discovering applications in the open source world that I’ve never had the chance or desire to try. Most of us have plenty of storage space install everything from a Fedora DVD and use the “big apps” in our community like Gnome, KDE, Thunderbird, etc. Now with a very limited amount of space (in my case 2 GB), I’ve started playing with XFCE, Wifi-radar, and Sylpheed, among others.

You get a chance to use Linux with a different mindset, from a different perspective.

I tend to hammer my Ubuntu laptop. Running a website like Tectonic means I am constantly installing new applications to try them out. Many of which I later have to remove or lie forgotten on the hard disk until I start to wonder where the +40GB of free hard disk space went to. And when that happens I tend to back up the essentials - email, documents and website backups - format my hard disk and install a clean version of Ubuntu. Doing this every few months means that a few times a year I get to really consider what the most important applications on my desktop are.

My most recent re-install was this weekend. I was running short of hard disk space and things were slowing down noticeably. I could have spent a good few hours cleaning out my hard disk but I don’t really want to. Sometimes a good clean-install is what is required.

The essential tools
So, having re-installed a brand new copy of Ubuntu and required updates, there are a few applications that I immediately download because, without them, I would not be able to do most of my day-to-day work. Here, in no particular order, are the five application or tools I have to have but aren’t included in a default Ubuntu install. If you work in media or website development many of these might sound familiar.

gFTP
gFTP has been around since the early days of Linux and while not flashy and full of features it does the job at hand, which is upload and download files for the sites I manage. gFTP’s clear interface and simple navigation make it an essential part of my desktop arsenal. I know that Ubuntu has the ability to connect to FTP sites using the nautilus file manager but I still find the side-by-side arrangement of gFTP, and the ability to compare a local development site with a live hosted one, essential. gFTP is also lightweight and quick, which makes it essential.
Install gFTP:
sudo apt-get install gftp

Inkscape
For most graphic and drawing needs Inkscape is the best possible application. I use it every day for simple logos, icons and pictures for the websites I manage. There are many other, sometimes more feature-full, graphics alternatives available but I find that Inkscape is straighforward to use and the many features it does have don’t get in the way of doing simple graphics tasks. Combined with the Gimp, which is included in the Ubuntu default install, pretty much any graphics task is easy to do.
Install Inkscape:
sudo apt-get install inkscape

Apache, MySQL and PHP
I’ve put these together because there really is no point in having one but not the others. If you do any web development you’ll want to install the lot. Running a webserver on your own machine is the only way to develop and test websites. There was a time when installing these three and getting them to work together was something of a headache. In Ubuntu now it’s pretty much taken care of. To install MySQL you need to:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0
During the install you will be prompted for a root password. Make sure to give one so you can log into MySQL when you’re done.
Installing PHP and Apache next is equally simple:
sudo aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5
Once you’ve done that restart the Apache server:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Point your browser to http://localhost to test if it works.

Bluefish
This is another of those applications that have been around since the early days of Linux and I have grown to feel quite attached to it. Bluefish is a programming tool ideal for HTML and PHP work but equally at home with other languages. Syntax highlighting and a collection of pre-built HTML and PHP elements make Bluefish an everyday tool of mine. Like many of my other favourite and most-used applications Bluefish hides a great number of features behind a seemingly simple interface. One of these is Bluefish’s colour dropper feature which picks colours from anywhere on your screen and converts to HTML-friendly codes. It’s ideal for colour-matching for website designs.
Install Bluefish:
sudo apt-get install bluefish

Firefox extensions
The only other thing I need to install on a clean install of Ubuntu is a handful of Firefox extensions: Firebug, TinyURL Creator and Web Developer. I find Firebug is fantastic at pinpointing weaknesses in the wbsites I am working on. It can isolate elements that are slowing down the site or just not working correctly. Web developer does similar things but I find that it is better for collecting amazing amounts of information about any website, from the size of the website to embedded images and styles. On a daily basis I use both.The other extension I always have is the TinyURL Creator. I spend a lot of my day sending or storing links to information I want to share. 300-character URLs are ugly and cumbersome.

Got favourite applications you can’t live without? Tell us in the comments.

A new laptop computer for just £99 sounds like the kind of offer found in a spam e-mail or on a dodgy auction website. But the British company Elonex is launching the country’s first sub £100 computer later this month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the summer. It will be aimed at schoolchildren and teenagers, and looks set to throw the market for budget laptops wide open.

Called the One, it can be used as a traditional notebook computer or, with the screen detached from the keyboard, as a portable “tablet” – albeit without the planned touchscreen that Elonex had to abandon to hit its £99 price tag. Wi-fi technology lets users access the internet or swap music (and homework) files between computers wirelessly.

Personal files can be stored on the laptop’s 1GB of built-in memory or on a tough digital wristband (1-8GB, from £10) that children can plug into the USB socket of whichever computer they happen to be using, be it the One, a PC at school or their parents’ laptop.

So how can Elonex make a computer for so little? After all, UK consumers paid an average of £477 for a new laptop in 2007, according to the retail analyst GfK.

The secret is simple: open-source software. The One runs on Linux, which is a rival to Windows but completely free to use. Open-source software can be freely swapped or modified by anyone who wants it. In the past such operating systems (there are several of them) have been outgunned by the more sophisticated Windows programs. However, an open-source operating system is ideal for low-cost devices as it performs well on less powerful, cheaper hardware.

Naturally, the One is more basic than all-singing, all-dancing notebooks. Nonetheless, it includes a free word processor and spreadsheet, a free web browser and free e-mail software. It has a 7in screen, a rubbery little keyboard and no CD drive. And it all runs on an ageing chip that was designed before its target audience of seven-year-olds were even born.

InGear had an exclusive hands-on look at a preproduction One. The keyboard was slow and spongy and the built-in speakers could be louder but the screen was bright and the software package impressively varied (if rather sluggish) on this prototype.

Preloaded programs ranged from instant messaging software and a photo editor to games and an MP3 player. Moving files to and from the USB wristband was easy enough – and there’s a Bluetooth version with 2GB of memory (£120) that lets you swap files with mobile phones too.

Elonex will be launching the computer at the Education Show at the NEC in Birmingham at the end of this month, and is targeting schools as potential buyers.

The Elonex One isn’t the only low-cost educational laptop out there, however. Asus launched an open-source laptop in the run-up to Christmas last year. The Eee PC (about £200) has proved popular with adults as well as children, with its first shipment selling out nationwide within hours of its November release.

The One Laptop per Child initiative, which began in America, hopes to offer a “Give one, get one” event this year in Britain, where consumers can buy two computers – one for themselves and one for a child abroad – for about £200.

But open-source software has its problems. If no one owns it, there’s no one to complain to when things go wrong – and the One has no antivirus or firewall software built in. The old-fashioned feel of the One’s programs could also flummox modern cyber-kids used to the slick menus, wizards and plug-and-play simplicity of Windows.

Of course, in the context of laptops costing more than £1,000 – and even copies of Microsoft Office software retailing at as much as £120 – paying £99 for a fully functional, internet-ready laptop packed with software isn’t a huge risk to take.

And it’s this magic price that is the One’s biggest asset. The more that parents choose to buy Ones, the more music and games their kids will share, and the more sought after it will become. A laptop as the coolest thing in the playground? Stranger things have happened.

If you've always been itching to launch a startup but just couldn't come up with a killer idea, well, your ship is about to come in. No, it won't be quite as good as the Internet Bubble years, when any fool could raise a few million (hell, $30 or $40 million) to sell dog food online - no, really - but not bad, either.

When things are more or less steady state, you have to do something new and original to have a viable business plan in the tech space. But when times and technology really change (one of those paradigm shifty things), then you don't actually have to come up with something new to do at all - you just have to be the first to do something old in a new way. If you look back, that's what 95% of the Bubble companies tried.

True, 95% of those companies also failed. But that's not likely to happen this time around. This time, things will be a lot different, because while the platform is new, almost all of the trial and error on the business models has already occurred, the users are already trained to eat the dog food (as it were), the money is primed to flow, the standards are in place - and here's the really new twist - open source software has made the scene.

So where exactly is this grand opportunity to be found? I expounded on it in my monthly column for MHT (formerly MassHighTech), the New England high tech paper, last week in a piece that reads in part as follows:

The market segment in question is the mobile sector, where 2008 will usher in a multiyear period of opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors. The dynamics will echo two boom periods of the past -- the rapid expansion of the PC marketplace in the early 1980s, and the Internet explosion of the late 1990s. The device that will most robustly deliver on these antecedents is the smart phone, initially deployed (like the first personal computers) with many competing operating systems, and now able (like the PCs of the Internet boom) to satisfactorily access the Internet and the web.

In many ways, however, this boom will be better. Unlike the early, anemic, expensive PCs that people had never used before, a smart phone is simply a much more versatile telephone -- something a billion people already own. With a decade of Internet and web experience behind us, there will be far fewer failed efforts to determine what people really will and won't do online. And these mobile devices will be able to perform new tricks, using as many as nine separate on-board radios to interact with an ever-expanding "Internet of things," such as ATMs, film kiosks, movie posters and much more.

Best of all, the underlying technology is far less proprietary than it was during either the PC or the Internet boom. Various flavors of Linux now power the majority of mobile devices, and the Google Android project aims to provide developers with platform independence as well. The final part of the equation fell into place in just the last few months, as dominant telecommunications carriers grudgingly came to realize that they are better served (assuming they still have a choice) by opening their phones to independent software vendors than by shutting them out.

The result is a wonderful convergence of factors creating rapidly accessible opportunities for startups -- an abundance of empty open standards and open-source-based niches, alignment with the strategic direction of giants such as Google Inc. and Motorola Inc., and a coincident industry shift toward provisioning software as a service. Hundreds of opportunities -- many obvious -- offer all types of services to mobile, locationally aware platforms, from social networking, to push advertising to financial services.

Do I really believe all that? Yes I do. I don't expect that it will reach full flower in 2008, but I definitely expect the bus to leave the station and pick up real speed this year. It's going to be a very big bus, and most of the seats are still empty.

Just don't try and sell Kibble (R) to Smartphone users. We already know that dog won't hunt.

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This guide explains how you can enable a remote desktop on an Ubuntu desktop so that you can access and control it remotely. This makes sense for example if you have customers that are not very tech-savvy. If they have a problem, you can log in to their desktops without the need to drive to their location. I will also show how to access the remote Ubuntu desktop from a Windows XP client and an Ubuntu client.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

I have tested this on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop.

2 Enabling The Remote Desktop

We don't have to install anything to enable the remote desktop on Ubuntu. All we have to do is go to System > Preferences > Remote Desktop:

In the Remote Desktop Preferences window, you can configure the remote desktop connection. If you want others to just see your desktop, but not be able to make changes, enable Allow other users to view your desktop only. If they should be able to change settings (e.g. repair your system if there are problems), enable Allow other users to control your desktop as well. Then you should write down the command that you can use on other Linux clients to connect to your desktop; in my case it's:

vncviewer falko-desktop:0

Then there are the security settings. If someone connects to your desktop and you want to be able to block or allow that connection, enable Ask you for confirmation. This makes sense only if someone is actually sitting in front of the system. If you want to connect to your office desktop or any other sysem that only you have access to, then don't enable this option.

But what you should do is set a password for your remote desktop (without a password anyone who happens to find out your system's address - e.g. by scanning the network - can access your desktop):

That's it - the remote desktop can now be used!

You've noticed that the command to connect to the desktop contains the computer name and not the IP address (vncviewer falko-desktop:0). To avoid problems when the computer name (falko-desktop) cannot be resolved in the network, it's a good idea to find out the system's IP address and use that one instead in the vncviewer command. Right-click on the network icon (the two monitors) in the upper right corner and select Connection Information:

A window with details about your current network configuration opens. In it you can find your IP address (192.168.0.217 in my case) - write it down somewhere:

Instead of

vncviewer falko-desktop:0

we can now use

vncviewer 192.168.0.217:0

as well to connect to the remote desktop.

If you want to connect to your desktop from outside your network, you must use your router's public IP address (or get yourself a free hostname from dyndns.org pointing to your router's public IP address). Port 5900 (which is used by the remote desktop) must be open in the firewall, and your router must forward port 5900 to the Ubuntu desktop.