Infrastructure Linux News for Jan 13, 2009:

The New Year Linux Resolution: Day 3
(2009-01-13 04:33:15)
Zmogo: "Riding on the high of clicking on my updater and seeing that it will be finished downloading roughly next millennium, I decide I'll try to figure out Ubuntu's keyboard shortcuts. Luckily Linux still runs perfectly smoothly with the updater running in the background, so I get to work."

Docky - the newest awesome
(2009-01-13 06:03:15)
The Fledgling User: "Ever wanted a linux dock that did parabolic zoom (the fisheye effect that mac's have)? Ever wanted a dock that did was more stable then rm? Ever wanted a dock that actually made sense? Ever want a dock that actually knew what to populate it with? Well the waits out with newest release of gnome-do and docky!"
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Features of Phoronix Test Suite 1.6 "Tydal"
(2009-01-13 07:33:15)
Phoronix: "We are preparing to release Phoronix Test Suite 1.6 "Tydal" later this month, which is our largest and most significant update to date. Phoronix Test Suite 1.6 has quite a few changes internally as well as a number of new features and added tests. While there are over 200 changes making up this release codenamed Tydal, in this article we are sharing some of the most significant work in this forthcoming release"

Sony DSC-G3 Camera Has Wi-Fi and Linux
(2009-01-13 09:03:15)
Linux Magazine: "Outwardly Sony's DSC-G3 is a 10-megapixel camera with Wi-Fi, but inside lurks the Busybox Linux system. "

12 Amazing and Essential Linux Books To Enrich Your Brain and Library
(2009-01-13 12:03:15)
The Geek Stuff: "The 12 Linux books mentioned here by no means are comprehensive or authoritative list. But, these 12 Books are few of my favorites that I enjoyed reading over the years and I strongly believe will enhance your technical abilities on Linux, if you have not read them yet."

FreeBSD 7.1 Gets a Little Help from Sun
(2009-01-13 13:03:15)
InternetNews: "FreeBSD 7.1 includes numerous improvements over its predecessor FreeBSD 7.0, including Sun Microsystem-developed Dtrace technology as well as new boot options and scalability improvements"

Linux games - First Person Shooters - Part Three
(2009-01-13 13:33:15)
Dedoimedo: "Alien Arena is similar to OpenArena and Nexuiz in blending futuristic, high-tech weapons with alien-like characters. Compared to the other titles, Alien Arena has a more somber look and better graphics, resulting in more polished, professional looks and a definite edge to the projected atmosphere. On the other hand, the closed and richly detailed map layouts combined with the dark setting can be (too) oppressive sometimes."

How to create a virtual cd/dvd drive in Linux
(2009-01-13 14:33:15)
my-guides.net: "Many times you want to see the contents of a cd/dvd image file but you don't have or you don't want to spare a cd/dvd disk to burn it. In those cases a virtual cd/dvd drive is very helpful. Windows users have software such as Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%. However creating a virtual cd/dvd in Linux is also possible and very easy to do as you will see."

IE continues losing market share to open source browsers
(2009-01-13 15:03:15)
ars Technica: "Internet Explorer, notorious for its many security holes and being slow to patch them, continues to be one of the top choices for web browsing. Recently published Market Share statistics show the browser down almost 7% from the beginning of last year, continuing to slide down as time goes on."
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How Can Linux Fit in a Cellphone?
(2009-01-13 15:33:15)
Steaming Open Cup: "To develop a visual representation in your mind, imagine your newly installed Ubuntu 8.10 with all its fascinating features. Now, try to imagine installing all that functionality into your phone. Is that possible? No. Not by a long shot."

More Kudos To J&R Music World (The Ongoing Netbook Saga)
(2009-01-13 17:33:15)
Ever Increasing Entropy: "In my last post I wrote about the premature failure of my Sylvania g Netbook. I also noted that the dealer, J&R Music World of New York City, offered an immediate exchange."

Dell Inspiron 1525 Notebook
(2009-01-13 18:03:15)
Phoronix: "As we shared last month, at Phoronix we will begin delivering reviews of retail netbooks and notebooks with all testing (of course) being done under Linux. Earlier this month we looked at the Samsung NC10 Netbook and are in the process of working on a few other reviews currently, but in this review we are looking at Dell's Inspiron 1525 notebook."

"World's Lightest" 8-inch Netbook is embedded with Linux
(2009-01-13 18:33:15)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Weighing in at exactly 1.4 pounds, there's no doubt that the Sony VAIO P is currently the lightest 8-inch notebook computer on the planet. However, its Windows Vista operating system can be anything but light. Thankfully, the Sony VAIO P also comes with a super-fast Linux-based environment called Xross."

5 Linux Podcasts You Should Be Listening To
(2009-01-13 19:03:15)
Royal HeHe2-ness! "Here are 5 podcasts that made an unknown blogger from Saudi Arabia jump out of bed at 4 in the morning to write about them! now thats sticking out of the clutter! So without further ado, I give you 5 podcast that you should be listening to:"

Interview with Non-Sun OpenOffice.org Contributor, Charles-H. Schulz
(2009-01-13 20:03:15)
Boycott Novell: "Novell's promotion of Go-OO has earned it a lot of attention recently because Novell ridicules OpenOffice.org and harms the brand [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. There is a lot more to OpenOffice.org than just the software; there are translations, ISVs, support firms and so on."

Linux is the Engine Under the Hood of Instant On
(2009-01-13 20:33:15)
LinuxPlanet: "Paul Ferrill reports that Linux-powered "instant-on" environments are the new hot technology. ASUS and DeviceVM led the way with Splashtop, and now the venerable BIOS vendor Phoenix has released Hyperspace, which has some significant differences."

A Collection of XChat Tips and Tricks, Part 1
(2009-01-13 21:03:15)
TuxArena: "XChat is a GTK client for IRC, available on both Linux and Windows. It is one of the most popular and feature-rich IRC clients on the Linux platform, together with Konversation and KVirc. Of course, there are very good clients like Irssi too, but I'm talking only about graphical clients here."

Coyote Point Builds on FreeBSD to Accelerate
(2009-01-13 21:33:15)
InternetNews: "While Coyote Point includes its share of proprietary development and features into its Equalizer GX platform, the core platform sits on top of an open source FreeBSD operating system."

7 Great Free/Open-source Platform Games for Linux
(2009-01-13 22:33:15)
Tech Source From Bohol: "If you are exhausted from playing your favorite FPS games like Urban Terror or Alien Arena, how about you relax a little and play some good old "platform games" on your Linux box. I have here a list of some great free and open source platform games that you may enjoy."

Mr Uptime now available for Firefox 3
(2009-01-13 23:33:15)
Royal Pingdom: "For those of you not familiar with Mr Uptime, it’s a Firefox extension (from us here at Pingdom) that will make sure you don’t miss cool content online just because a website is temporarily down."

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