Infrastructure Linux News for Sep 11, 2008:

Faster Application Launching With GNOME-Do and GNOME Deskbar
(2008-09-11 00:01:19)
Linux.com: "GNOME enthusiasts have a couple of good options when it comes to searching, launching, and otherwise manipulating and accessing files, applications, and information right from the desktop: GNOME-Do, and the GNOME Deskbar applet."

Lenovo Blows the Linux Desktop Off
(2008-09-11 04:33:25)
Cyber Cynic: "I suspect the decision was made by the same home-office executives that decided to partner with Microsoft for the Beijing Olympics that resulted in the biggest Windows Blue Screen of Death in history."

How to Backup MySQL and Recovery Using Zmanda Recovery Manager
(2008-09-11 09:03:25)
Only Ubuntu Linux: "Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL serve."

Lawsuit Claims Nvidia Hid Serious Flaw in Graphics Chips
(2008-09-11 13:03:25)
InfoWorld: "A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics-chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public.""

Aspire One: Victorian Education Discriminating Against Linux?
(2008-09-11 13:33:25)
Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Somehow it seems that the Acer Aspire One loaded with Linux, a freely available operating system for which no licence fee is payable is $156* (ex GST) more expensive than exactly the same machine loaded with Windows XP..."

Design, User Experience and Development at Canonical
(2008-09-11 15:33:25)
Mark Shuttleworth: "When I laid out the goal of "delivering a user experience that can compete with Apple in two years" at OSCON, I had many questions afterwards about how on earth we could achieve that."

8 Essential Applications Included by Default in Kubuntu 8.04
(2008-09-11 17:33:25)
Linux Weekly: "This article intends to select and briefly review 8 of the most useful applications which come by default with Kubuntu 8.04 'Hardy Heron' (the LTS release which comes with KDE 3.5.9), as included on the Live CD."

Survey: 96 Percent of Enterprises Not Deploying Ubuntu Server
(2008-09-11 18:03:25)
The Open Road: "Goldman Sachs September 2008 IT spending survey delivers a sobering blow to suggestions of the rise of Ubuntu: The enterprise isn't seeing it yet."

5 Best Free and Open-source Real-time Strategy Games for Linux
(2008-09-11 19:03:25)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Recently, I have tried a few free and open-source RTS games and was really impressed with some of them. The best thing is that I can play them instantly on my Linux box without the need for Wine and without having to spend a single dime."

Ubuntu to Work More With Larger Linux Community
(2008-09-11 20:03:25)
Cyber Cynic: "Some people hate Ubuntu. I know, I know, far, far more people love Ubuntu, but that doesn't change the fact that others really dislike it. Hate is not too strong a word."

10 Interesting Open Source Software Forks and Why They Happened
(2008-09-11 20:33:25)
Royal Pingdom: "We looked at the WHY because software forking is often seen as somewhat of a waste of development resources and isn’t considered a good thing. Sometimes the results can be great, though, as many of the examples below clearly show."

Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part II: Visit the Planets With XEphem
(2008-09-11 21:03:25)
LinuxPlanet: "For viewing closeups of planets, monitoring the motion of the planets, getting precise predictions of events like eclipses, and other such information, you'll do better with a more powerful tool: XEphem."

Why Mobile-Sync Options for Linux Are Lacking
(2008-09-11 22:03:25)
Intranet Journal: "So where is the problem then? Well, I had to take this on myself rather than seeing anyone from either the Linux desktop or mobile industry providing a solution that, honestly, should have been made more readily available to their users interested in migrating to desktop Linux without diving into an enterprise-level service."

Lies, Damn Lies, and Retail Linux
(2008-09-11 23:02:53)
Linux Today Blog: "Lenovo caused a small furor when it announced that it was no longer selling Linux on Thinkpads to us unwashed masses. Though it was news to me that they had ever started..."

Netbooks Fuel Good PC Market News
(2008-09-11 23:32:53)
OStatic: "Significant numbers of these (often, though not always Linux-based) machines are moving, and changing usage habits."

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