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Infrastructure Linux News for Sep 23, 2008
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What Android Could Bring to Your Phone (Sep 23, 2008, 22:56)
Lifehacker: "It's probably not that surprising
that Google apps—Gmail, Google Calendar, Maps, and the
like—sit close to Android's heart. In fact, activating the
phone requires a Google account."
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Wubi Tuesday (Sep 23, 2008, 17:33)
IT PRO Blogs: "There's nothing more through the
looking glass than writing complex pattern recognition statements
in awk. There's also nothing quite as much fun as rolling your own
Linux distribution from scratch."
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Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part III: Stellarium and Celestia Take You There (Sep 23, 2008, 17:01)
LinuxPlanet: "But they don't really give you
the feeling of being there like a couple of newer entries on the
Linux astronomy scene: Stellarium and Celestia."
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Let's Talk Cheap Software (Sep 23, 2008, 16:32)
ComputerWorld Blogs: "Want to know one of the
things I really like about open-source software? The price."
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OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks: Harmonizing With MS Office, Managing Large Complex Documents (Sep 23, 2008, 16:02)
LinuxPlanet: "... we learn how to harmoniously
swap documents between OOo and MS Office. And we explore OOo's
wonderful Navigator tool, which is a powerful time-saving tool for
managing large complex documents such as books and long
reports."
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Today is G-Day (Sep 23, 2008, 13:02)
Crunch Gear: "CG will be at the event in force
with a liveblog and images but before we walk to the well of hype
and drink deep and hearty droughts of orgasmic praise, let’s
talk about what Android is and isn't."
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Android Jumps to General Consumer Electronics in 2009? (Sep 23, 2008, 12:18)
Engadget: "While the world waits to see the
first Android cellphone revealed in New York later today, others
are hard at work extending the reach of the open-source OS beyond
just handsets."
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Famous Quotations Script For Linux And Unix (Sep 23, 2008, 10:32)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's
Linux/Unix bash shell script is yet another follow up to a whole
cavalcade of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap at
reference.com, although this one is grabbing its material from
QuotationsPage.com."
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DIRECTV Scores Points in the Linux Community (Sep 23, 2008, 09:02)
OStatic: "Unlike NBC's coverage of the 2008
Olympic Games, DIRECTV customers who have the NFL Sunday Ticket
SuperFan viewing package can now watch live football games on
computers running Linux."
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Google Touts Open Source Cred (Sep 23, 2008, 06:02)
OStatic: "Who's the first company you think of
when the words "open source" come up in conversation?...if Google
co-founder Larry Page is to be taken seriously, apparently it ought
to be Google."
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13 Terminal Emulators for Linux (Sep 23, 2008, 04:32)
TuxArena: "ROXTerm is a GTK terminal
application with an interface similar to the one of GNOME-Terminal,
supporting backgrounds, desktop transparency effects, profiles,
colour schemes and many more."
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Rhythmbox, Gnome Music Awesomeness (Sep 23, 2008, 01:32)
Free Software Magazine: "Amarok sure inspires a
lot of KDE-envy for Gnome users. Unfortunately, it doesn’t
fit in well in Gnome: it’s written for a different desktop
environment, uses a whole different toolkit, and requires a lot of
extra libraries to run. Luckily, there’s a great Gnome-based
alternative: Rhythmbox."
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10 Command-Line Applications I Use in Debian and Ubuntu (Sep 23, 2008, 00:02)
TuxArea: "cmus-- My personal favourite for
listening to music while in command-line, cmus is a ncurses-based
audio player which supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA and
several more."
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