http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-005-35-NW-KE <b>KDE.news:</b> "Today at 4pm CET at the Center for Economics, Technology and Women's Issues at the Berlin Senate, KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-005-35-NW-KE Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-004-35-OP-MS <b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> " Fill in the blank: Using Windows is like kicking a ________ down the beach.<br> The correct answer is dead whale." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-004-35-OP-MS Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-003-35-OS-UB <b>Softpedia:</b> "We've created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal computer. Therefore, it is addressed to people who have just heard about Ubuntu, those who have never installed Ubuntu before and want to test it, but don't know how." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-003-35-OS-UB Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-002-35-OS-HW <b>ars Technica:</b> "Ars takes a hands-on look at OpenMoko's WikiReader, a handheld device that provides convenient offline access to millions of Wikipedia entries." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-002-35-OS-HW Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:03:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-001-35-OS-DV <b>Pingdom:</b> "Everyone seems to be talking about trendier languages like PHP, Python and Ruby, with Perl left in the back as a neglected, not-so-hip cousin. That might lead you to think that Perl is dying, but as it turns out, it&#8217;s still used by plenty of websites out there, including some pretty big hitters." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-08-001-35-OS-DV Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-005-35-RV-SV-SW <b>MyBroadband News:</b> "Microsoft Exchange may be one of the most used groupware products on the market but there are also many open source alternatives available." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-005-35-RV-SV-SW Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-004-35-RV-UB <b>IT News Today:</b> "Right on schedule, the newest iteration of the popular KDE distribution &#8220;Kubuntu&#8221; has reached version 9.10 and was unleashed into the wild last week. When I checked out the previous version (9.04) I found it to be the worst Kubuntu release since the distribution&#8217;s inception." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-004-35-RV-UB Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-003-35-OP-BZ-MS <b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "...Microsoft's future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux that he's a Linux fan. Wrong, this prophet of Windows doom and gloom was Keith Curtis, a former Microsoft Research staffer. Could he be right? I think the answer is yes and no." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-003-35-OP-BZ-MS Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-NW-RH <b>InternetNews:</b> "That's no typo: A Linux vendor is requiring its users to run one of its key new products on the rival, closed source Windows operating system." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-NW-RH Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-001-35-OS-DT-SW <b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "There are plenty of places on the Web where you can find ebooks in the EPUB format, but what if you need to create an ebook yourself? Sigil can help you with that." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-001-35-OS-DT-SW Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-MM-HW This column is a bit premature because I haven't had time to set things up and test them yet. But I'm excited about getting started, so here are some preliminary notes on multi-track recording in Linux using a Firewire device. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-MM-HW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-030-35-OS-SW <b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver. During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-030-35-OS-SW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-029-35-NW-MS-UB <b>PC World:</b> "But Apple isn't the only competition Microsoft has to worry about. Ubuntu, one of the world's more popular Linux distributions, recently launched its latest version, Ubuntu 9.10, and impressions about the new OS are largely positive." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-029-35-NW-MS-UB Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-028-35-RV-HW <b>Raiden's Realm:</b> "I'm told that the i7 920 Quad Core is really a i7 940 clock locked by Intel @ 2.65GHz. The target is the CPU, MOBO and CORSAIR 3 channel DDR3 and the goal is to bring it up to 4GHz a49% higher clock and you should take the time and locate you BIOS reset Mother Board jumper." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-028-35-RV-HW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-027-35-NW-BZ-NV <b>Business Tech:</b> "Linux jobs in the United States are booming, up 6 percent since January, according to data from Dice.com. This will come as small consolation to Novell employees, however, which weathered another round of layoffs at the Waltham, Mass.-based company." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-027-35-NW-BZ-NV