http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:33:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-024-35-NW-HW-HE <b>Serverwatch:</b> "Intel launched what will be its largest server and storage refresh beginning Monday with the introduction of the Itanium 9300 line, the long-delayed "Tukwila" family of quad-core Itanium processors." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-024-35-NW-HW-HE Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-023-35-OS-BZ <b>Baablogic:</b> "Let me start off by saying hats off to Dell for giving us Ubuntu as an option. Any company that supports and contributes back to the community is always a good thing. With all that said I found the ordering experience to be quite frustrating." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-023-35-OS-BZ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:33:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-022-35-OS-DT <b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Windowing interfaces to Linux have lots of advantages. Once you find the programs you need, the menus and dialog boxes list your choices, and there's often not much else to know about the interface." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-022-35-OS-DT Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-021-35-NW-BZ-DP <b>Computerworld:</b> "Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-021-35-NW-BZ-DP Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:33:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-020-35-NW-HW-HE <b>Hardware Central:</b> "During an event late last month celebrating the completion of Oracle's merger with Sun, the company's outspoken chief executive took repeated shots at IBM (NYSE: IBM), saying that Big Blue's systems couldn't scale." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-020-35-NW-HW-HE Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-019-35-NW-KE <b>KDE.news:</b> "The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation. The redesign is the result of many hours of work by artists, coders, writers and testers." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-019-35-NW-KE Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:33:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-018-35-OP-BZ <b>The Open Road:</b> "If you're a Google Nexus One user, you experienced a bit of magic last week. In one click of an over-the-air update, your Nexus One became an iPhone--offering the ability to pinch and expand the screen to zoom in or out." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-018-35-OP-BZ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-017-35-OS-DT-MO <b>Jim Zemlin's blog:</b> "His main message about the iPad was “a magical device at a breakthrough price.” He repeated this many times throughout the pitch and twice at the end. This phrase demands an honest response: how will Linux-based devices compete with the iPad?" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-017-35-OS-DT-MO Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:33:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-016-35-OS-CY <b>Blog of Helios:</b> "As we've written about this week, The Christo Rey Catholic Church houses a 25 computer learning center for the residents of East Austin. The HeliOS Project provided the computers and manpower to make this place a reality." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-016-35-OS-CY Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-015-35-OS-GN-SW <b>Datamation:</b> "Less than a year old, Anjal is a light interface for Evolution, GNOME's default mail reader, and one of free software's main answers to Microsoft Outlook." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-015-35-OS-GN-SW Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:33:42 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-015-35-RV-SW-RL <b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "I'm still more of a Gnome desktop user than KDE, but as KDE 4 gets better and better, and combined with the excellent integration with Linux Mint, this one is a real alternative for me." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-015-35-RV-SW-RL Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:03:42 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-014-35-OS-BZ <b>Computerworld:</b> "Proprietary vendors are using "anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-014-35-OS-BZ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:03:42 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-011-35-OS-NT-UB <b>Ubuntu Geek:</b> "Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn&#8217;t use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-011-35-OS-NT-UB Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:33:42 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-010-35-NW-BZ <b>Computerworld:</b> "What were the best Super Bowl ads from tech companies in years past? Wading through four decades' worth of Super Bowl ads was entertaining, educational (who knew that Exxon once had an office products division?)" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-010-35-NW-BZ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:03:42 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-009-35-NW-MS-SD <b>Good Gear Guide:</b> "Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI)." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-02-09-009-35-NW-MS-SD