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Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Celestia provides photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe and has become a valuable tool for education in Astronomy."
Source: Linux Today Notes on ScopePort: "I just read that the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that started it first “live” runs today is using KDE for at least some parts of the projects software. This screenshot of a KDE at CERN/LHC looks like a monitoring program (with a knote ;)):"
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "The even better news if you're open-source vendor Red Hat? Shrinking IT budgets are your friend."
Source: Linux Today jeffanderson.us|Blog: "Among these is the availability of twice as many CPU registers as 32-bit hardware. This allows twice as much data to be processed without having to hit the caches or RAM."
Source: Linux Today volatile int: "Sourceforge has done some huge updates and changes during the last couple of months
Today when I was doing some updates and fixes, I tried to call it a night and did the final touch: a commit. But for some reason I kept getting a '403' error, which means there is some security issue."
Source: Linux Today KDE Dot News: "It has been a couple of weeks since Akademy 2008 finished. KDE's contributors are now back home, more enthusiastic than ever about our future. If you missed the talks videos are now online. This article covers what happened during the week and outlines some of the results."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Significant numbers of these (often, though not always Linux-based) machines are moving, and changing usage habits."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "Lenovo caused a small furor when it announced that it was no longer selling Linux on Thinkpads to us unwashed masses. Though it was news to me that they had ever started "
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "So you’ve heard all the hype and promises before about desktop virtualization and you’re not buying into it? It might be time take another look. With Qumranet’s solution you can view bi-directional streaming video and audio at 30+fps "
Source: Linux Today Intranet Journal: "So where is the problem then? Well, I had to take this on myself rather than seeing anyone from either the Linux desktop or mobile industry providing a solution that, honestly, should have been made more readily available to their users interested in migrating to desktop Linux without diving into an enterprise-level service."
Source: Linux Today Network World: " city officials say they are searching for a mysterious networking device hidden somewhere on the network.
The device, referred to as a "terminal server" in court documents, appears to be a router that was installed to provide remote access to the city's Fiber WAN network "
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "For viewing closeups of planets, monitoring the motion of the planets, getting precise predictions of events like eclipses, and other such information, you'll do better with a more powerful tool: XEphem."
Source: Linux Today Royal Pingdom: "We looked at the WHY because software forking is often seen as somewhat of a waste of development resources and isn’t considered a good thing. Sometimes the results can be great, though, as many of the examples below clearly show."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Some people hate Ubuntu. I know, I know, far, far more people love Ubuntu, but that doesn't change the fact that others really dislike it. Hate is not too strong a word."
Source: Linux Today Maximum PC: "Instead of a revolutionary next-generation OS that was chock-full of new features, the Windows community got an underwhelming rehash with very little going for it."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Recently, I have tried a few free and open-source RTS games and was really impressed with some of them. The best thing is that I can play them instantly on my Linux box without the need for Wine and without having to spend a single dime."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld UK: "The LSE absolved its core TradElect platform from blame. The system, designed and built by Accenture, runs on HP ProLiant Servers and Microsoft .Net and SQL Server 2000 systems."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Goldman Sachs September 2008 IT spending survey delivers a sobering blow to suggestions of the rise of Ubuntu:
The enterprise isn't seeing it yet."
Source: Linux Today Linux Weekly: "This article intends to select and briefly review 8 of the most useful applications which come by default with Kubuntu 8.04 'Hardy Heron' (the LTS release which comes with KDE 3.5.9), as included on the Live CD."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: ""We really want to be the optimized Linux for the Windows environment.""
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "A conversion calculator can save you a lot of time and unnecessary mouse clicks when you need to convert values in a document from the imperial to the metric system (or vice versa). Although OpenOffice.org doesn't have a built-in calculator, you can easily create your own one using OpenOffice.org Basic."
Source: Linux Today Linux Format: "A lazy sysadmin is a good sysadmin. Time spent in finding more-efficient shortcuts is time saved later on for that ongoing project of "reading the whole of the internet", so try Juliet Kemp's 10 handy tips to make your admin life easier "
Source: Linux Today Mark Shuttleworth: "When I laid out the goal of "delivering a user experience that can compete with Apple in two years" at OSCON, I had many questions afterwards about how on earth we could achieve that."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "It's puzzling, then, that the adoption of open source software has been relatively slow, even in higher education."
Source: Linux Today Search Enterprise Linux: "While most computer science students learn skills on x86 servers, their counterparts at the University of Arkansas will now get hands-on experience on a new IBM system z900 running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise."
Source: Linux Today Government Computer News: "When the two halves of Congress come together, will the open source language survive in the resulting authorization?"
Source: Linux Today Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Somehow it seems that the Acer Aspire One loaded with Linux, a freely available operating system for which no licence fee is payable is $156* (ex GST) more expensive than exactly the same machine loaded with Windows XP "
Source: Linux Today InfoWorld: "A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics-chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public.""
Source: Linux Today Open Source Days 2008: "Open Source Days is the largest open source conference in the nordic area. It's your opportunity to meet, share, experience and learn from professional open source experts."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Jeff Elkner teaches high school students in Arlington, Va., about Linux and other Free Software. He's serious about helping budding computer scientists understand what FOSS is and what it can do for them, and he's one of those guys who always seems to be sharing his knowledge with others."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "We're just about done with this series of somewhat disjointed posts on number pools and guaranteed matches. Hopefully, each post in the series has been somewhat entertaining and far enough removed from the starting post that we kept up some sense of originality."
Source: Linux Today Only Ubuntu Linux: "Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL serve."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Citadel is a great choice for the majority of users who need a groupware and messaging server. It's easy to fling up a working server in a few minutes for a small home network, and it scales up nicely for business."
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