Infrastructure Linux News for Oct 02, 2008:

Linux - Is It For You?
(2008-10-02 01:37:13)
Preacherpen: "Do any of you use Linux as your primary operating system? I have been dual-booting Linux and Windows for about five years now, though it’s a rare thing, indeed, for me to use the latter for anything. I know whatever you decide to use is entirely up to you, unless you are stuck using someone else’s computer."

GIMP Gets an Interface Makeover in New Version 2.6
(2008-10-02 03:07:13)
OStatic: "The application has had a robust community of developers behind it for years, and now a new version 2.6 is downloadable. Here's what's under the hood in the update, including a whole slew of interface enhancements."

Introduction to Tomato Firmware
(2008-10-02 12:05:23)
Wi-Fi Planet: "In the annals of computer software with bizarre and seemingly random names, "Tomato" is probably one of the less weird examples as these things go. But whether you say tomay-toe or tomah-toe, this one is neither a fruit nor a vegetable—it is a firmware for wireless routers, including the popular WRT54G family."

RealNetworks' Software Lands in Court
(2008-10-02 13:35:23)
NY Times: "The digital media pioneer RealNetworks and Hollywood’s top studios are suing one another in California federal court over Real’s new DVD copying program, RealDVD."

Creating Bootable USB Stick Linux Systems On The Easy
(2008-10-02 14:35:23)
Bauer-Power: "One of the coolest things ever invented was the OS on the stick. Whoever was smart enough to think of putting an operating system on a portable USB key was simply brilliant! I mean, seriously! How convenient is that?"

In Gimp We Trust
(2008-10-02 15:05:23)
LinuxHaxor: "The latest Gimp is not just an incremental release, but a major one in terms of development. Apart from major changes in user interface and tool sets, under the hood Gimp has a new powerful graph based image processing framework called GEGL. One of the many advantage of CEGL is the ability to do "on the fly" image processing (like Gaussian Blur) with preview."

Go Forward the Message
(2008-10-02 15:35:23)
Blog of Helios: "Often, you never know who is reaching out to you to take the baton. So focused are you on the race, the ones relaying the prize are not important at the time."

Ubuntu vs. Windows: 2 - 1
(2008-10-02 16:04:17)
Roy Tanck's Weblog: "Some bloggers have wondered whether the netbook hype that's currently going on will popularize Linux among (former) Windows users. For me personally, I can aswer that question with a firm 'yes'. Not only did I opt to install Ubuntu on my netbook, I've also set it up on my 'TV-PC'."

Google's Knol: It's a Wikipedia Jim But Not As We Know It
(2008-10-02 17:47:29)
Free Software Magazine: "Shall I compare thee to a Knol? Hmm, perhaps not. Wikipedia sounds just right. Memorable and serious but not too serious. Of course Wikipedia is now an established "brand" and it has a big headstart on any competitor."

Wonderful Linux Terminal-10 Powerful Commands
(2008-10-02 19:32:29)
Quick Tweaks: "Enough said about Linux being free. You shouldn’t use anything just for the reason that it’s free. This post is for those Linux users who underestimate the power of Linux Terminal and for those Windows users who thinks that Linux is useless."

Konqueror, The Powerful KDE Browser
(2008-10-02 20:02:29)
Free Software Magazine: "So far, all of the browsers that I reviewed for this book have been Gnome-based browsers. Epiphany is a Gnome-sponsored project, and Firefox is rapidly moving towards Gnomeization (though at the time of this writing, a Qt port of Firefox is under heavy development). What’s a good KDE user to do? Simple: use the conqueror of the browser market, Konqueror."

Audio Rippers and Encoders in Ubuntu Linux
(2008-10-02 21:17:29)
Computing Technology: "Other simpler-to-use rippers, however, have surfaced more recently, such as RipperX, Goobox, and the one that comes bundled with Ubuntu: Sound Juicer."

HowTo: Install Configure KVM Virtualization & Run Guest OSes in openSUSE
(2008-10-02 21:32:29)
SUSE & openSUSE: "KVM is a free opensource virtualization software and is included in Linux Kernel version 2.6.20 and above. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images."

10 Must-Have Linux Office Applications
(2008-10-02 22:02:29)
10 Things: "Does Linux have what it takes to meet the needs of the corporate desktop? Jack Wallen thinks so. Here’s his list of office apps that can handle everything from word processing to project management to data backups."

The Perfect Desktop - gOS 3.0 Gadgets
(2008-10-02 22:32:29)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 3.0 Gadgets desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge."

How Often do we Need GNU/Linux Releases?
(2008-10-02 23:02:29)
IT Wire: "Of what use is an operating system if all it does is to make you look forward to the next release - simply because umpteen bugs have been introduced by all the new features in the current version?"

Linux Rooted in Fiction: ParanoidLinux
(2008-10-02 23:32:29)
OStatic: "If the fact that the ParanoidLinux distribution (now in an "alpha-alpha stage") is based on a work of science fiction isn't unsettling, consider two key peripheral issues."

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