Infrastructure Linux News for Oct 10, 2008:

Where Open Source Will be Sucked Into the Downdraft
(2008-10-10 01:35:17)
ZDNet: "No use denying it. Parts of the open source industry are going to be sucked into Wall Street’s downdraft.:"

Multi-Head, Multi-User Killer GNU/Linux App Languishes
(2008-10-10 04:35:17)
LinuxMedNews: "While fast-booting Splashtop desktops look promising, one killer application boldly going where Windows cannot go is languishing. That killer application is...Multi-head, multi-user systems running off a single PC."

KOffice 2.0 Beta Hints at Improved Capabilities
(2008-10-10 10:35:17)
Linux.com: "KOffice has been trailing the office application leaders for a long time. Despite years of development, it has yet to match OpenOffice.org feature for feature, although its features are complete enough that they have attracted a loyal community. Judging from the first beta, KOffice 2.0 will still not rival OpenOffice.org or other free software rivals, but it should be a major step in that direction."

Twin POS Systems for Linux
(2008-10-10 12:35:17)
LinuxDevices: "NEC announced two new POS (point-of-sales/service) computers that run Linux. The TwinPOS 5500 and 3500 feature integrated flat panel touchscreens, resistance against dust and liquids, and optional MSRs (magnetic stripe readers) and customer-facing displays, says the company."

Linux For The Masses: Are We There Yet?
(2008-10-10 13:05:17)
LinuxHaxor: "As another year is coming to an end, and another major distribution is around the corner; this might be a good time to remind everyone how next year will not be much different from this year."

Hackles: Funniest Comic Strip About Hacking and Linux
(2008-10-10 13:35:17)
Tech Source From Bohol: "I bumped into this old and stagnant website which featured a funny comic strip entitled Hackles. The main character named Hackles is a dog programmer who is clearly into Linux and open source. He is joined by two tux-looking penguins, a web-developer cat, and some other other cool characters."

BoycottNovell Goes Shopping for Mono Patent 'Protection'
(2008-10-10 14:05:17)
Boycott Novell: "We made a start by asking for our protection as we might wish to install the GNOME desktop environment in the future and it's already extremely hard to get it preinstalled without Mono these days. Here is the message we sent last night."

Debian Postpones Lenny, Calls for Help
(2008-10-10 15:05:17)
Tectonic: "It seems the Debian team is battling "too many release critical bugs" to make Lenny viable. And now the team is calling for help from the community to squash the remainder of these bugs."

It's... Linux kernel 2.6.27
(2008-10-10 15:17:17)
Linux Format: "Crank up your compiler -- kernel 2.6.27 has arrived, including (deep breath): a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for "pure" flash-based storage devices;"

A (New) Bash Script to Download Entire PicasaWeb Albums
(2008-10-10 15:35:17)
Blue GNU: "Although Picasa is now available on GNU/Linux, it is still proprietary and, as such, unethical. One year ago, I wrote a simple Bash script that handles a very rapid download of entire PicasaWeb albums/galleries. During the last weeks, Google changed twice the format of the related Web pages and my script could not fetch any picture. Here is an updated script that does even more than the previous one."

Bash Extended Globbing
(2008-10-10 16:05:17)
Linux Journal: "A subtle point about pathname expansion that is not often understood is that it is done by bash and not by the operating system or by the program that is being run. The program never sees the wildcards, bash substitutes the expansion into the command line before running the program."

Life on the Cutting Edge - ArchLinux
(2008-10-10 16:35:17)
The Smaller Bang: "After a few months of using it, I finally feel I am confident enough to write a piece about one of the best, and I MEAN best, linux distros ever, archlinux. This distro is rather unique, and several things in it make it the ideal distro for the intermediate level linux user."

The Lenovo S10 Netbook is Here, Count Me In
(2008-10-10 18:05:17)
Defensive Computing: "The S10 is here, I ordered one yesterday and I'm psyched. The IdeaPad S10 is Lenovo's just-released entry in the Netbook market. "Netbook" is a new term that's applied to cheap small laptops that run either Windows XP Home Edition or Linux. No Vista or OS X here (neither is cheap)."

On the Linux Laptop the Bundle is All
(2008-10-10 19:35:17)
Linux and Open Source: "Our review of the latest Linux laptop, the Asus EeePC 1000, has not begun auspiciously but with an important lesson. In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all."

The KOffice 2.0 Beta, Part 2: Graphical and Charting Programs
(2008-10-10 21:05:17)
Linux.com: "Now it's the turn of the rest of the beta: The KPlato project manager, KChart, the vector graphics editor Karbon, and the raster graphics editor Krita. These four graphical and charting programs have always been among the best-regarded of the KOffice programs. All of them have matured much faster than the traditional office applications KWord, KSpread, and KPresenter."

File Format Brouhaha Pits FOSS Against Proprietary
(2008-10-10 21:35:17)
OStatic: "Thomson is seeking $10 million in damages annually from GMU, according to the report, and open source software and file formats are at the heart of the conflict."

Video: From Zero to Samba in Six Minutes
(2008-10-10 22:05:17)
LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting's video tutorial shows you how to set up a Samba server on Ubuntu, and test it from a Windows PC, all in just a few minutes."

Editors' Note: Happy 10th Birthday Linux Today!
(2008-10-10 23:05:17)
September 28th was Linux Today's 10th birthday. I missed it because I was gallivanting about the countryside on an out-of-town trip, so today is official Happy Birthday Linux Today day!

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