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Infrastructure Linux News for Nov 30, 2009
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Last Call: ZaReason's Ubuntu PC Cyber Monday Sale (Nov 30, 2009, 23:14)
WorksWithU: "One good sale deserves another.
That’s one way to think of the Ubuntu PC market, where
ZaReason is the latest company to offer special Cyber Monday sales
to Ubuntu desktop and notebook shoppers"
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Power to the People (Nov 30, 2009, 22:34)
Linux Pro Magazine: " In today’s world,
we have a “digital divide,” wherein some people have
the means and tools to exploit technology and others do not. In
most developing countries, people still pirate software because
they cannot afford to pay for it."
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KDE Plasma desktop: A failure that just won't go away (Nov 30, 2009, 21:34)
TechRepublic: "I want to like KDE 4.3. I really
do. But I don’t. I want to keep an open mind about where
“Plasma” is heading. But I can’t. Hear me out,
before you log me off."
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Ubuntu, Google, and the Future of Linux. And rsync too. (Nov 30, 2009, 20:04)
Ubuntu User: "There's a provocatively titled
article by Robert Strohmeyer over at PC World that professes "The
Future of Linux is Google". It waxes prophetically about how Google
will eventually dominate all that is Linux and Open Source, and
that "it's time for the Linux world to rally"."
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5 of the Best Free and Open Source CD/DVD Writing Software for Linux (Nov 30, 2009, 19:34)
Tech Source From Bohol: "If you are using
Linux, there are plenty of optical disc-authoring programs to
choose from. Here are some of those that I like:"
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First look at Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 Technology Preview and the KDE Plasma (Nov 30, 2009, 19:04)
Distrowatch: "By the time Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid
Lynx" is released next April netbook users will have three Ubuntu
variants customized for their smaller systems."
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Google chart shows which netbooks run Chrome OS best (Nov 30, 2009, 18:34)
Lilliputing: "The chart details which systems
have been “officially” tested by developers and reveals
what hardware works and what doesn’t."
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Linux: Freedom or Freakdom? (Nov 30, 2009, 17:17)
Daniweb: "What is it about free software that
makes you crazy?"
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Linux Mint 8 final released (Nov 30, 2009, 17:04)
ItRunsOnLinux: "Just 2 weeks after Release
Candidate 1 was released, Linux Mint 8 final dubbed Helena version
is available. This release comes with a lot of improvements &
numerous bug fixes."
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Photo Compositing with The GIMP: Part 1 (Nov 30, 2009, 16:34)
Packt: "In line with that, I'm following it
with a new article very much related to the concepts discussed
therein but we'll raise the bar a bit by having a glimpse on
compositing, where we'll use an existing image or photograph and
later add in our 2-dimensional element seamlessly with the said
picture."
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FreeBSD 8.0 Benchmarked Against Linux, OpenSolaris (Nov 30, 2009, 16:04)
Phoronix: "With the stable release of FreeBSD
8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the
test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test
Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the
earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on
the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on
the Sun OS side."
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System76 Ubuntu PCs: Cyber Monday Sale (Nov 30, 2009, 15:34)
WorksWithU: "System76, the Ubuntu PC maker,
continues to offer special holiday pricing on selected systems
through Monday evening, November 30. Here's a look at System76's
Ubuntu PC and notebook discounts, which are part of an ongoing
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales promotion."
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And Now for Something Completely Different � The N900 and its Killer Feature (Nov 30, 2009, 14:34)
The Maemo: "Nokia has created a huge amount of
anticipation with the N900, although they refuse to call it a
"Smart Phone", preferring instead the term "mobile computer". It is
important for prospective buyers to understand why. Otherwise, some
users may purchase it expecting it to be something it is not."
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Remix Linux: how to customise your install (Nov 30, 2009, 13:34)
TechRadar: "Why should you have to live with
community decisions when you can make Linux work your way?"
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Lenovo IdeaPad S12
(Nov 30, 2009, 12:34)
Linux User: "Lenovo is cranking out the
netbooks so fast, it's hard to keep pace. Recently, this major
manufacturer (the fourth biggest PC maker in the world) released
the IdeaPad S10 netbook, and now the company has birthed the
updated S12."
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Interstellar overdrive - Linux and astronomy (Nov 30, 2009, 03:04)
The H Open: "At a more prosaic level, anyone
with an appropriately enabled smart phone can sit beneath the stars
and view a labelled Google Sky Map that uses Android, GPS, compass
data, date and time to fix your place on earth, and learn the names
of the stars. "
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