Infrastructure Linux News for Aug 06, 2008:

Screenlets - Desktop Applications, Widgets and Screen Addons for openSUSE
(2008-08-06 01:30:05)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, youtube, gmail and more. Screenlets are free opensource software released under GPL License."

Dragonfly BSD and the Hammer Filesystem
(2008-08-06 07:30:05)
Tip of the Trade: "Dragonfly BSD v2.0 has recently been released. It's a fork from FreeBSD, and it's ultimate goal is to provide native clustering support in the kernel."

Shuttle PC With Foresight Linux- $199.99
(2008-08-06 09:00:05)
Shuttle: "SLK4500 -- Starting at $299.99 -- Foresight Linux;
SYK4500 -- Starting at $429.00 -- Windows Vista Home Basic 32Bit"
I thought this might be interesting to LT readers- no pricing games, just a straightforward comparison on identical hardware -- ed.

The Technophobe Sister and Xubuntu Project
(2008-08-06 13:30:05)
Tux Training: "She’s had the same computer since she was a freshman in college, and she graduated 3 years ago. And boy did she mess it up royally, regularly. Viruses, spyware, you name it. Eventually she got a boyfriend who knew even less that she did except he loves the computer...between the two of them, they’d screw up Windows XP SP2 so badly that it was more timely to re-install the OS and start from scratch each time."

Lenovo Launches Ideapad S10
(2008-08-06 14:00:05)
The Inquirer: "Lenovo's Ideapad S10 joins a growing list of small, low-powered and low-priced miniature laptops that typically weigh less than three pounds and sell for under $500. Other ultralight machines in this less-is-more category include MIT's OLPC, the Asus Eee PC, Acer's Aspire, MSI's Wind and HP's Mini-Note."

Linux Commands I Never Knew Existed: Pipe Viewer
(2008-08-06 14:30:05)
Slashzero: "This is where Pipe Viewer came in handy. Quite simply this app reports the bitrate that the data is sent over a unix pipe. Brilliant."

Fedora on a Stick
(2008-08-06 15:30:05)
Linux.com: "Fedora 9 now lets you create a bootable Linux distribution on a flash drive with persistence. In other words, you can not only boot any PC that will accept USB drive booting into Linux, you can even boot into your own personal desktop."

LinuxWorld 2008 Thoughts and Pictures
(2008-08-06 16:00:05)
LXer: "LinuxWorld 2008 is being held at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. After getting inside and getting my badge, it was time to go down the escalator and get this party started."

The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation
(2008-08-06 17:05:12)
Internet News: "...but anything that's free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source software. Enterprises using open source are being sued for not complying with the multitude of licenses the software comes with."

Rants and Laughs
(2008-08-06 17:30:05)
Linux Hater's Blog: "I'm getting way behind on these things, so I'm combining the Rants and Laughs posts into one series. I can feel that we're getting closer and closer to becoming the anti-slashdot. Perhaps ~/. is an appropriate way to refer to this site."

Ask the Wi-Fi Guru, Episode VI
(2008-08-06 18:00:05)
WiFi Planet: "Q: In your January 2007 article, DD-WRT Tutorial 5: Wireless Repeater, you say: "At the time of this writing, wireless repeater mode does not yet function in bridged mode. This means that...clients connected to your DD-WRT repeater must be inside their own subnet, preventing them from seeing clients connected to the host AP." Do you know with the release of v24 Final, if this has changed?"

New 1394 Over Coax Standard Introduced
(2008-08-06 18:30:05)
Ultrawideband Planet: "According to a Pulse~Link press release issued today, "the new 1394 Over Coax standard is designed to enable the industry’s fastest whole-home network in a multi-supplier ecosystem featuring protected high-definition and multimedia content.""

The OOXML Appeals: What Next?
(2008-08-06 20:50:16)
Redmond Developer News: "The Office Open XML (OOXML) file format is probably destined to be an international standard under International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). And Andy Updegrove, for one, is not happy about it."

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