Infrastructure Linux News for Oct 06, 2008:

Linux Turns 17
(2008-10-06 12:03:17)
Linux Journal: "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just for you :-)"

Hibernating a Linux Laptop...FINALLY!
(2008-10-06 13:03:17)
TechRepublic: "This quest had me digging through nearly every configuration file and every package I could find in an attempt to get an off-brand laptop (Everex Zonbook) running Mandriva Spring 2008 to either suspend or hibernate."

A Disturbing Trend
(2008-10-06 13:33:17)
Linux Journal: "Lawyers in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft want a federal judge to force the company to use Windows Update to notify potential class members of the suit, according to court documents." This is the opening paragraph in an article in ComputerWorld. A number of people, including myself think this is a bad idea."

The Many Faces of Linux and the Humble EEE
(2008-10-06 14:03:17)
JBCobb: "You see Windows zealots flaming it because you can’t play game X on it. You see some flaming it because it comes with Xandros; others use it to complain about distro proliferation. They are all right yet still about as wrong as people can be."

gOS 3.0 Gadgets ScreenShots
(2008-10-06 14:33:17)
Linux Dynasty: "So I said why not let me give it a try. Let me tell you I am glad I did! This distro is amazingly fast and extremely easy to use. This distro is perfect for the Asus EEEpc, especially for newbies just joining Linux or for users who are just tired of Microsoft Windows."

Rebuilding a Laptop Battery
(2008-10-06 16:33:17)
Linux Journal: "When your laptop battery is about to give up the ghost, you are probably thinking of the typical three alternatives. The most obvious, of course, is "wow, what a great justification for buying a new laptop". With laptop prices falling and no such luck with battery prices, this almost makes sense."

BIOS Settings Demystified
(2008-10-06 17:03:17)
Hardware 2.0: "I find that when it comes to people building their own PCs (or tweaking their existing rig) then the mysteries that lay within the BIOS settings are scarier to most people than anything hardware related. Let's do something about that!"

How to Make Twitter Keep Track of Everything You Install/Remove in Ubuntu
(2008-10-06 19:03:17)
Quick Tweaks: "If you are like me who often likes to test one of the thousand applications available for Ubuntu and like to keep track of whatever you install or remove, here is a script for you. This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove or perform other operations with 'apt-get' in Ubuntu to your Tweeter account."

A New Puppy Is Born
(2008-10-06 20:33:17)
Linux Magazine: "Although the Productivity Sauce blog is all about, well, productivity, I'm willing to make an exception and mention the newly released Puppy Linux 4.1. I've been using this lightweight Linux distro on my ASUS Eee PC 701 for quite some time, and it helped me to be productive wherever I went."

OpenStreetMaps: Free Software's Answer to Google Commercially-Restricted Geo-Data
(2008-10-06 21:33:17)
Free Software Magazine: "Just like Wikipedia, on which it is loosely modelled, OpenStreetMaps is resolutely free software. It is an attempt, by community participation, to map the Earth."

Tomato Firmware Turns Your Cheap Wireless Router Into a Powerhouse
(2008-10-06 22:03:17)
LinuxPlanet: "Like DD-WRT and OpenWRT, Tomato is an excellent Linux-based replacement for your stock WRT54G wireless router family firmware. Unlike DD-WRT and OpenWRT, it presents a well-organized interface that appeals to both novices and advanced users."

Free software history was made at CONSEGI
(2008-10-06 23:33:17)
Free Software in Latin America: "CONSEGI 2008 was history being made — we spoke with people from the Latin American Free Software Foundation, public officials from Brazil to South Africa, free software activists struggling to convince their governments to adopt the path forged by Brazil and Venezuela. "

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