Infrastructure Linux News for Nov 11, 2008:

Bilski - What It Means, Part 3 - The Mayer Dissent & Some Intangibility Questions
(2008-11-11 00:04:54)
Groklaw: "Continuing our series on the In Re Bilski ruling [PDF], here is Judge Mayer's dissenting opinion as text, the one that points out how utterly damaging all business methods patents are."

Cheap laptop batteries: Good Deal or Risky Business?
(2008-11-11 00:34:54)
Computerworld: "We all want to save money, but not if it puts our notebooks at risk. Buying an aftermarket battery often goes against the advice of laptop manufacturers, and in some cases can even void the warranty. Is it worth it to save a few bucks?"

Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Linux Computers Using Shortcuts
(2008-11-11 01:04:54)
Makeuseof: "Or if nothing works you can hit the power button may be? But before you head towards that power button there is one last magical way to get back your system, and I am going to talk about it in this article."

OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release, The year of the laptop?!
(2008-11-11 04:04:54)
FOSS Boss: "I've always been a Unix junkie, of course mostly running Linux for a decade now, but Solaris is starting to look more and more like a real modern option."

New Laptop Based Chinese Loongson CPU is Announced
(2008-11-11 07:04:54)
17lamp.net: "On Nov,8 more than 20 fans attended the China Internaltional Industry Fair in the ShangHai New International Expo Centre to look and test the new box based Chinese Loongson CPU although it's rain."

GravityZoo Goes Open Source With MediaZoo
(2008-11-11 10:04:54)
GravityBlog: "MediaZoo is an online media library & player. It streams uploaded music to any device where a GravityZoo client is installed, and allows users to invite close friends to their "Music Room"."

Shuttleworth: There's More to Linux Development Than Kernel Hacks
(2008-11-11 13:34:54)
The Open Road: "As I've noted before, there is more to open-source development than lines of code written, important though that activity is. There is, for example, the critical work done by Canonical, the company behind the ubiquitous Ubuntu Linux distribution, which tends to involve more ease-of-use development than core kernel development."

Songbird Plus Mozilla, the Ultimate Media Mashup for Your Music
(2008-11-11 14:34:54)
Free Software Magazine: "But Songbird has one unique feature. It has a built-in browser, Mozilla, which allows it to extract maximum mileage from your music collection. Web integration leverages your music and allows you to do some really great stuff. This article will look at the features of Songbird that make it an essential addition to any installation."

OpenOffice 3.0 Downloads Reach 10 Million
(2008-11-11 15:34:54)
Linux Magazine: "At the 6th Annual OpenOffice.org Convention in Peking November 5-7, the project could celebrate a new milestone in their 3.0 release: downloads of their office package have reached 10 million."

Intel High Definition Audio in Linux
(2008-11-11 16:04:54)
bekir serifoglu: "A great number of laptops produced after 2004, including my vaio fz 190, come with an Intel® High Definition Audio chipset. Interestingly, these chipsets has problems in both Linux and Windows."

KDEs Big Mistake
(2008-11-11 16:34:54)
TechRepublic: "In the migration from 3.x to 4.x, the KDE developers decided to make a rather bold move: replace KDE's file browsing function with Dolphin. Now before I get into this rant, I want to say that Dolphin isn’t horrible, it's just that Konqueror was probably one of the finest file managers available — on any platform. That being said..."

Go-oo: A Lighter, Faster OpenOffice, With Extras
(2008-11-11 17:04:54)
OStatic: "...the applications are slow compared to the sleeker standalone alternatives, and even slower than the comparable Microsoft Office apps. If you've run into this problem, and if you use OpenOffice but occasionally run into compatibility problems in sharing files with the Microsoft Office applications, try Go-oo."

Linux Smartphone Shipments up 49 Percent
(2008-11-11 18:04:54)
LinuxDevices: "Symbian was the only major operating system (OS) to lose share over the last year in a smartphone market that grew 28 percent, says a Canalys study. Other findings include big gains for Apple and RIM, and a 49 percent increase in sales of Linux smartphones."

The Big Windows 7 Lie
(2008-11-11 20:39:51)
Cyber Cynic: "When I said recently that early Windows 7 reviews based on handpicked bribes, ah high-end laptops, to reviewers and bloggers could only give results that were not a lot different from those of a rigged demo I was more right than I knew."

"Custom Debian Distributions" Renamed "Debian Pure Blends"
(2008-11-11 22:34:26)
OStatic: "On Monday, the Debian project announced that it was renaming the former "Custom Debian Distribution" concept (the umbrella term under which Debian projects such as Debian Junior, Debian Med, and DebiChem were collectively known) to the more accurate (and catchier) name "Debian Pure Blends."

Automated Processing Tools for Better Digital Pictures
(2008-11-11 23:34:26)
Linux.com: "When you return from a trip and copy your digital pictures over to your file server, you might like to rename the image files or (losslessly) rotate them to their correct orientation to make finding and viewing them simpler. You might even want to embed comments right into the image files in such a way that all image viewing tools should be able to harvest and share this metadata. In this article we'll take a look at some command-line tools to help you with these tasks."

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