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Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "We've seen the driver add support for AMD's 780G Chipset and most notably it has adopted AtomBIOS to be used on the Radeon HD 4800 series and newer. There have also been numerous other improvements to this driver that currently competes with the xf86-video-ati driver."
Source: Linux Today Indigo Jo Blogs: "Eric Raymond, author of the [Computer] Jargon File, The Cathedral and The Bazaar and a number of well-used but little-known pieces of software, is working on a book, putatively titled Why C++ Is Not Our Favorite Programming Language. In his recent announcement, he lays out why he wants to "harpoon the Great White Whale of programming languages""
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "T-Mobile sold out its first 1.5 million pre-orders of HTC's G1 phone, the first handset based on the Google Android Java/Linux stack, says The Motley Fool. The wireless carrier also plans to have several million handsets available for the Oct. 22 retail launch, says the story."
Source: Linux Today Mirabilis.ca: "Why I wanted a Dell
1. Linux comes pre-installed.
Now that's the sort of thing I want to support! I am not a Windows user, and I'm tired of paying for Windows when I buy a new computer."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "That means that even though we may be Open Source advocates at heart, we may find ourselves doing some less than palatable work, and there’s no Bagels to be found. No singing, no Manischewitz, no nothing. And sorry Penguins, no smoked fish."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "I put a desktop PC in there because it's also going to be my recording studio. The problem was getting on my local network-- I didn't want to run 75 feet of cable, and it was going to take a few days to order a wireless NIC. So I came up with a quick slick hack to get connected using a wireless laptop."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "It's not that I don't like Ubuntu. I do. I just stayed focused on the full question, which was: "If an SMB wants to upgrade from XP, what Linux variants would you recommend? Consider this would be for an SMB with limited in-house tech expertise.""
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Microsoft is funding a French open-source project to build tools that would enable programmers to use the popular open-source Eclipse framework to write Silverlight applications."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Mandriva Linux 2009 is jam-packed with exciting new features and innovations that will try to cater everyone's desktop needs. I had fun with Mandriva 2008, so I was really looking forward to this latest release."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat : "But I won't be there to hear any of them in person. The Linux Foundation has decided to keep the End User Collaboration event as a closed event without press."
Source: Linux Today Wall Street Journal: "How is it that sensible people, people no doubt educated at some of the best universities and law schools in the country, would come to think it a sane use of corporate resources to threaten the mother of a dancing 13-month-old?"
Source: Linux Today Debian Admin: "Xubuntu is a complete GNU/Linux based operating system with an Ubuntu base. It is lighter on system requirements and tends to be more efficient than Ubuntu with GNOME or KDE, since it uses the Xfce Desktop environment, which makes it ideal for old or low-end machines, thin-client networks, or for those who would like to get more performance out of their hardware."
Source: Linux Today The Register: " it is a fair reminder of Linus' hands-on role, which continues to the present day. Indeed, however touchy-feely one may consider the world of open source to be, the secret of its success can often be ascribed to a level of centralised control. "Normally the people you find at the core know how to run software projects," said Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, recently."
Source: Linux Today Linux Dynasty: "The other day I had to come up with a way to transfer a Solaris Express nv97 DVD 3G image to remote locations while not using the network. The reason for this is, I needed to perform a LiveUpgrade on over 700 boxes and each being at a different locations. So I said to myself I guess I can put this image on a custom LiveDVD But then I said to myself, which Linux LiveCD/DVD distro will I use?"
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "It's been a while since we last looked in on the IP Innovation LLC v. Red Hat et al patent litigation. In fact, it's been exactly a year. The parties are deep in discovery, with trial set for April 12, 2010[PDF]. That could change, of course. But that's the date set. IP Innovation thinks the trial will take 3 days while Red Hat and Novell estimate between 7 and 10. It takes longer to defend yourself from a patent infringement accusation than to just throw one out there."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "Mac users might less vulnerable to Internet security threats than those who take the Windows route to computing nirvana, but 'less' is not the same as 'not at all' and that's why the world's first miniature hardware Internet security devices for the Mac have been announced today with a little help from Linux."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "It's one small step for Dell and consumer Linux - and one giant leap for Canonical's Ubuntu Linux efforts. Specifically, Dell is spending advertising dollars to promote PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. The move has significant implications for the business world as well."
Source: Linux Today Techworld: "I love it when people jump to conclusions about the economic implications of using open source software. They almost always spark a fiery debate about how many people will be left homeless as a result of businesses not needing to pony up a single penny for software."
Source: Linux Today SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Although computers get bigger, run faster and accomplish more amazing feats all the time, they still store data in a 1970s-era file system. But that may be about to change."
Source: Linux Today Open Enterprise: "Therefore the idea of passing laws that say some kinds of algorithms belong to mathematics and some do not strikes me as absurd as the 19th century attempts of the Indiana legislature to pass a law that the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is exactly 3 "
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Quiz time. Get out your No. 2 computers and answer the following question: For the fastest and most reliable high-end computing for your enterprise, will your operating system be 1) Linux, 2) Solaris, 3) OpenVMS or 4) Windows?"
Source: Linux Today Adam's Tech Talk: "Following on from the previous article, I’ve written some scripts which you’ll find in the /root/scripts/ directory of the prebuilt image. I've attached and commented them here, as they could also be useful elsewhere."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Distillery: "If you're a Linux user you have no doubt heard of GNOME and KDE. These popular desktop environments are really the pinnacle of a deep iceberg of technology with the X-Windows graphical interface underpinning it all. Here are a couple of ways to tame X, kicking off a journey of unlimited ability to change the Linux look-and-feel."
Source: Linux Today KDE.News: "The KDE Community today launches the new KDE Forum. The new forum uses the bulletin board software MyBB offering users, developers and people interested in KDE a place to help each other, discuss KDE-related topics and exchange ideas."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "The Fedora Project has updated the "beta" or testing edition of version 10 of its Linux distribution over the weekend, with a final release to the public scheduled for 25 November."
Source: Linux Today The Small Box Admin: "I've been getting requests on how to dual boot Vista and Linux or requests to install Linux on someones recently purchased computer. If the goal is to try out Linux or a few of the many Linux distributions, then I suggest running Linux virtually. That way one can a) decide which distribution they prefer, and b) decide of Linux will be their primary operating system."
Source: Linux Today Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "I've had several people ask me what I think the best, top, most user friendly, ultimate, and so on distribution is--so now I'm publishing my Top 10 Linux Distributions in reverse order of preference."
Source: Linux Today Tech Broiler: "If an SMB wants to upgrade from XP, what Linux variants would you recommend?"
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Geek: "It’s a step-by-step guide to installing Ubuntu for complete and utter beginners. If you have a relative, or friend, who would like to try Ubuntu, but who is frankly scared of the prospect, then send them a link to this posting! It assumes zero prior knowledge."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want with features like extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP, advanced search module, an internal viewer/editor, directory synchronisation, file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming "
Source: Linux Today Echoes: "Some things which don't work as they are supposed to, or some things which may be annoying - Linux forever, I love it, but sometimes it's not so funny fun as it should be."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""These MP3 users are taking money straight from my client's pocket," said Metallica's lawyer in an exclusive interview with Humorix reporters. As he lit up a Cuban cigar with a hundred dollar bill and puffed leisurely into the air, he continued, "I will make sure these actions against my client are stopped, even if it means suing every single person who ever downloaded a Metallica song over the internet. If necessary, I'll work on this case continuously for the next twenty years, 365 days a year, 8 hours a day, $200 an hour."
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