Infrastructure Linux News for Sep 09, 2008:

Linux Performance Hunting Tips - Take Copious Notes (Save Everything)
(2008-09-09 01:31:19)
Computing Tech: "A well-organized set of notes allows you to test a theory about the cause of a performance problem by simply looking at your notes rather than rerunning tests."

Discovering Mozilla Firefox: an Introduction
(2008-09-09 03:01:19)
IT Wire: "He said that learning something new was all too difficult and he'd just stick with Internet Explorer. "

Linux Wi-Fi Works With wicd
(2008-09-09 06:01:19)
LinuxPlanet: "Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users...wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive."

Firefox Suffers Chrome's Bite
(2008-09-09 09:01:19)
Tectonic: "Launched last week, Google’s Chrome web browser is already making inroads into Firefox’s popularity, something that we feared."

Ad Danger to Open Source
(2008-09-09 10:31:19)
ZDNet: "But open source has not grown through branding. Tux is a cute penguin, but the primary way open source has gained power is through values."

Three Typing Tutors and a Boy
(2008-09-09 12:01:19)
Linux.com "I recently sat down with my 12-year-old son Ian, who agreed to sit still long enough to try a few typing teacher applications on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Ian has a lot of experience on the computer but, until now, he has subscribed to the hunt and peck typing philosophy."

Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong: Player Piano Rolls
(2008-09-09 13:31:19)
Linux Magazine: "Maddog finds out that copyright prevents preserving paper player piano rolls."

Announcing the Ubuntu Manpage Repository: manpages.ubuntu.com
(2008-09-09 14:31:19)
:-Dustin: "It occurred to me that there may well be a contingent of Ubuntu users who are entirely disconnected from the wealth of resources so many developers have poured into manpage-based documentation."

Lenovo Denies Ditching Linux [updated]
(2008-09-09 14:46:04)
Desktop Linux: "Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBM's personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company's 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models -- nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops -- can currently be ordered with Linux."

Linux Mint 5 XFCE Edition Is Out
(2008-09-09 15:01:19)
Softpedia: "Today is a happy day for Linux Mint fans as the developers of one of the most popular Linux distributions decided to please us with yet another release."

Windows Vista: The OS About Nothing
(2008-09-09 15:31:19)
Information Week: "The background: Windows is losing market share to Apple's Mac OS and even Linux. And Vista, the latest version, has been a big fat dud."

40 Reasons to Lose Linux and Vote Vista!
(2008-09-09 16:01:19)
IT Wire: "4. Vista has the most advanced and widest range of security software available."

What is So Great About Linux
(2008-09-09 19:31:19)
Computing Tech: "The culture of sharing in the open source community and adoption of a wide array of tools for communicating on the Internet have helped Linux move quickly through infancy and adolescence to become a mature operating system."

Frugalware Linux 0.9 Introduces an Abundance of Changes
(2008-09-09 20:01:19)
Softpedia: "Frugalware 0.9 (codename Solaria) is now available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures, and brings 6,400 changes, among which there are 2,279 updated packages, 568 new ones and 926 closed tasks, as well as numerous bug fixes."

Kernel Tuning With Sysctl
(2008-09-09 20:31:19)
Linux.com: "Sysctl provides an interface that allows you to examine and change several hundred kernel parameters in Linux or BSD. Changes take effect immediately, and there's even a way to make them persist after a reboot."

What Xandros Has Up Its Sleeve
(2008-09-09 23:01:19)
TechNewsWorld: "Xandros, which bought Linspire in July, won't release a new commercial version of the Linspire Linux distribution. Furthermore, Freespire, the free version of Linspire, will be based on the Debian code base rather than Ubuntu, as it has been in the past."

Installing Games On Ubuntu With Playdeb
(2008-09-09 23:31:19)
HowtoForge: "Playdeb is a repository for Ubuntu games that makes it easy to install games that are available on getdeb.net. This article shows how you can install games using Playdeb on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop."

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