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News Linux News for Sep 04, 2008:
Book Review: Ubuntu for Non-Geeks
(2008-09-04 00:01:56)
Linux.com "Ubuntu for Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook, by Rickford Grant, introduces non-Linux users to the world of Linux and shows them how to be productive in a complete Linux environment."
Amarok, the Music Player That Does it All
(2008-09-04 01:31:56)
Free Software Magazine: "He started thinking about how cool it would be if someone merged the Midnight Commander interface with an XMMS backend. Since no one else seemed to be doing it, Kretschmann threw his own app together and called it amaroK, after the album by Mike Oldfield."
Displaying RSS And Atom Feeds On Your Web Site With SimplePie
(2008-09-04 03:01:56)
HowtoForge: "SimplePie is a PHP library that can fetch, cache, parse, and normalize RSS and Atom feeds. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. This guide shows how you can set it up for your own web site."
Marching Penguins: Monitoring Your HPC Cluster
(2008-09-04 04:31:56)
Linux Magazine: "Then you get an email: “Why are my jobs slow?” Or a project manager comes by and wants to know if the expensive new hardware is actually being used. Perhaps you are trying to plan for the coming year and need to know the recent usage trends. Monitoring your systems to establish a set of baseline figures and current performance information can help with each of these problems."
Managing Active Directory Accounts From Ubuntu (And Monitoring WMI)
(2008-09-04 06:01:56)
An Irishman's (IT) Diary: "Last week I found a truly excellent tool for adding, modifying and managing user in Active Directory from Linux...adtool."
zim - a Desktop Wiki for Ubuntu Linux
(2008-09-04 07:31:56)
Ubuntu Geek: "Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to your desktop. For example every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically."
Burned by Chrome
(2008-09-04 09:01:56)
The Register: "Astute Reg readers have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome without paying you a cent."
Google: Chrome Browser Will Make Money
(2008-09-04 10:31:56)
Internet News: "The Incognito window, which is Google Chrome's privacy mode, is also a key feature that Goodger explained was meant to keep stuff off a user's computer so sites won't appear in history and cookies aren't saved."
ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns
(2008-09-04 12:01:56)
Wired: "Online privacy scored a small victory this week as the CEO for controversial net eavesdropping firm NebuAD resigned just months after Congress successfully scared the country's ISPs into abandoning dreams of windfall profits from tracking their customers around the web."
Dell's Ubuntu-Powered Mini-Laptop Arrives Today
(2008-09-04 12:31:56)
Cyber Cynic: "...whoops they changed the name on me, it's the Inspiron Mini 9 -- mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04."
Google on Chrome EULA Controversy: Our Bad, We'll Change It
(2008-09-04 13:01:56)
ars Technica: "Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appears to give Google a nonexclusive right to display and distribute every bit of content transmitted through the browser."
ATI to Show Linux Some Love
(2008-09-04 13:31:56)
Softpedia: "According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS."
On Stupid Mascots and Closed Source Browser Plugins
(2008-09-04 14:01:56)
Tech Broiler: "Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I’m going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out."
Novell: Desktop Linux Losses Trigger Server Gains
(2008-09-04 14:31:56)
The VAR Guy: "Novell is losing money in the desktop Linux market, but those desktop deals are driving big wins in the server arena, according to Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon."
IBM Ditches i and AIX in U.S. Open Systems for Linux
(2008-09-04 15:01:56)
The Four Hundred: "The one big change at this year's tennis tournament is that IBM is not only consolidating servers, but has ported all the applications, which do scoring and provide Web applications, to Linux."
Ubuntu Linux Now Has 8 Million Users
(2008-09-04 15:31:56)
The VAR Guy: "Sure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical’s marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users."
Dell Bets on a Small Laptop
(2008-09-04 16:01:56)
Fortune: "Asus has one. Hewlett-Packard has one. And now, Dell has one, too."
Fonality, Backed By Intel, Plans Open Source Acquisitions
(2008-09-04 16:31:56)
The VAR Guy: "Move over, Digium. You’re not the only poster child for Asterisk and open source PBXes. Rival Fonality has scored another $12 million in financing from Intel Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson..."
City University of New York to form New York City Open Source Solutions Lab
(2008-09-04 17:01:56)
ZDNet Asia: "Red Hat and Intel are collaborating with City University of New York (CUNY) to form the New York Open Source Solutions Lab for software design and development."
What's Coming in Ubuntu 8.10?
(2008-09-04 17:31:56)
Polish Linux: "Alpha 4 has a new version of X.org server and Linux kernel. There is also a new Network Manager. It has one of my long waited features, namely 3G network support."
Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance?
(2008-09-04 18:01:56)
Datamation: "Software alternatives are just not available for Linux."
Microsoft's IE Market Share Drops Again
(2008-09-04 18:31:56)
Computerworld: "Internet Explorer lost nearly a full percentage point in market share during August, the browser's biggest drop in three months, a Web metrics firm said today."
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 w/ Linux
(2008-09-04 19:01:56)
Laptop: "Dell enters the mini-notebook market with its long-anticipated Inspiron Mini 9. Dell took its time releasing its own netbook, and it is clear they spent the extra days and hours getting (nearly) everything just right."
Beta Debian 5.0 Live Version Available
(2008-09-04 19:31:56)
Practical Technology: "Debian 5, Lenny, is getting closer to delivery and as part of that, the Debian Live Team has released the first official version of Debian Live."
GNOME Debian Package Finder: Rough and Ready Package Search For the Desktop
(2008-09-04 20:01:56)
Linux.com: "Now, the GNOME Debian Package Finder (gpfind) is in the process of bring much of the command-line search capacity to the desktop -- although, at version 0.1.6, it is still too rough to replace its command-line equivalents for most users."
Red Hat Bets on Startup to Shake Up Virtualization
(2008-09-04 20:31:56)
Internet News: "The acquisition brings Qumranet's SolidICE virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) under the Red Hat banner, giving the Linux vendor a claim to end-to-end platform virtualization -- thanks to its existing role in the OS."
ZaReason (and Other Independents) Outshine the Big Boys
(2008-09-04 21:01:56)
Linux Today Blog: "But let's not forget that these Linux-come-lately party-crashers are very late to the party, and have been whining and foot-dragging and making excuses for years why they couldn't sell Linux PCs..."
Remember Figlets? They're Back With Zend
(2008-09-04 21:31:56)
Internet News: "Who knew they would work well to tell humans from bots on Web sites? You can now use them as part of the PHP framework, too."
Wasted on an Idiot
(2008-09-04 22:01:56)
Blog of Helios: "Seven letters that make up your last name. You have no idea how I've agonized over typing those seven letters in this blog.
I so dearly want to.
You sanctimonious piece of trash."
Power Monitoring and Logging With Apcupsd and Cacti
(2008-09-04 22:31:56)
Linux.com: "Available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris 10, Apcupsd reliably warns me when the power goes out and gives me time to get my box properly shut down before data is lost, or does so automatically if I am not there to supervise."
KDE's Office Suite Running on Nokia's Mobile Internet Device
(2008-09-04 23:01:56)
KDEdevelopers: "As KOffice is supposed to be a lightweight office suite, I figured it would be nice to see how well it would run on maemo based devices."
Do You Want a Notebook With That Order?
(2008-09-04 23:31:56)
Cyber Cynic: "I know some of you really, really wanted Dell's first mini-notebook to have a price-tag of $299 and you're down because the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 starts at $349 with Ubuntu Linux or $399 with Windows XP. Well, just wait, you're soon going to be able to get it for even cheaper with a 3G or Wi-Fi contract."
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