News Linux News for Sep 11, 2008:

Faster Application Launching With GNOME-Do and GNOME Deskbar
(2008-09-11 00:01:19)
Linux.com: "GNOME enthusiasts have a couple of good options when it comes to searching, launching, and otherwise manipulating and accessing files, applications, and information right from the desktop: GNOME-Do, and the GNOME Deskbar applet."

How Linux is Keeping Microsoft Honest (and Why SBS Sucks)
(2008-09-11 01:31:19)
ITWire: "But more strikingly, there wouldn't be the modern powerful tools that Windows systems administrators have come to love. That's right; Linux is keeping Microsoft honest and I'm going to expose the new Windows Small Business Server for what it is, along with those who resell it."

Second Life Recognizes Open Source Community With 2008 Awards
(2008-09-11 03:01:19)
Linux.com: "Linden Lab, creator of the online virtual space Second Life, recognized the accomplishments of outstanding individuals in its open source community this week at its Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Seven winners were announced at a "mixed reality" ceremony held both at a convention center in Florida and simultaneously within the Second Life system."

Lenovo Blows the Linux Desktop Off
(2008-09-11 04:33:25)
Cyber Cynic: "I suspect the decision was made by the same home-office executives that decided to partner with Microsoft for the Beijing Olympics that resulted in the biggest Windows Blue Screen of Death in history."

Enhancing Multi-Screen User Interfaces Using Ghosd and Synergy
(2008-09-11 06:03:25)
IBM Developerworks: "Few modifications to your work environment can create a productivity change as dramatic as adding an additional monitor. The open source Synergy package provides an excellent method of linking many displays without purchasing additional hardware."

Set Up Basic Groupware With Citadel
(2008-09-11 07:33:25)
LinuxPlanet: "Citadel is a great choice for the majority of users who need a groupware and messaging server. It's easy to fling up a working server in a few minutes for a small home network, and it scales up nicely for business."

How to Backup MySQL and Recovery Using Zmanda Recovery Manager
(2008-09-11 09:03:25)
Only Ubuntu Linux: "Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL serve."

Brain Teaser: Seemingly Random Number List Selection
(2008-09-11 10:33:25)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "We're just about done with this series of somewhat disjointed posts on number pools and guaranteed matches. Hopefully, each post in the series has been somewhat entertaining and far enough removed from the starting post that we kept up some sense of originality."

Portrait: Jeff Elkner, Free Software Activist and Teacher
(2008-09-11 12:03:25)
Linux.com: "Jeff Elkner teaches high school students in Arlington, Va., about Linux and other Free Software. He's serious about helping budding computer scientists understand what FOSS is and what it can do for them, and he's one of those guys who always seems to be sharing his knowledge with others."

Open Source Days 2008 in Copenhagen
(2008-09-11 12:33:25)
Open Source Days 2008: "Open Source Days is the largest open source conference in the nordic area. It's your opportunity to meet, share, experience and learn from professional open source experts."

Lawsuit Claims Nvidia Hid Serious Flaw in Graphics Chips
(2008-09-11 13:03:25)
InfoWorld: "A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics-chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public.""

Aspire One: Victorian Education Discriminating Against Linux?
(2008-09-11 13:33:25)
Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Somehow it seems that the Acer Aspire One loaded with Linux, a freely available operating system for which no licence fee is payable is $156* (ex GST) more expensive than exactly the same machine loaded with Windows XP..."

Can Open Source Survive Congress?
(2008-09-11 14:03:25)
Government Computer News: "When the two halves of Congress come together, will the open source language survive in the resulting authorization?"

SUSE-Linux-on-IBM-Loaned Mainframe Becomes Teaching Ground
(2008-09-11 14:33:25)
Search Enterprise Linux: "While most computer science students learn skills on x86 servers, their counterparts at the University of Arkansas will now get hands-on experience on a new IBM system z900 running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise."

Open Source Course Management Systems Get a Shot at Tenure
(2008-09-11 15:03:25)
OStatic: "It's puzzling, then, that the adoption of open source software has been relatively slow, even in higher education."

Design, User Experience and Development at Canonical
(2008-09-11 15:33:25)
Mark Shuttleworth: "When I laid out the goal of "delivering a user experience that can compete with Apple in two years" at OSCON, I had many questions afterwards about how on earth we could achieve that."

The LXF Guide: 10 Tips for Lazy Sysadmins
(2008-09-11 16:03:25)
Linux Format: "A lazy sysadmin is a good sysadmin. Time spent in finding more-efficient shortcuts is time saved later on for that ongoing project of "reading the whole of the internet", so try Juliet Kemp's 10 handy tips to make your admin life easier..."

Adding a Nifty Conversion Calculator to OpenOffice.org
(2008-09-11 16:33:25)
Linux Magazine: "A conversion calculator can save you a lot of time and unnecessary mouse clicks when you need to convert values in a document from the imperial to the metric system (or vice versa). Although OpenOffice.org doesn't have a built-in calculator, you can easily create your own one using OpenOffice.org Basic."

Microsoft, Novell Expand Linux Virtualization
(2008-09-11 17:03:25)
Internet News: ""We really want to be the optimized Linux for the Windows environment.""

8 Essential Applications Included by Default in Kubuntu 8.04
(2008-09-11 17:33:25)
Linux Weekly: "This article intends to select and briefly review 8 of the most useful applications which come by default with Kubuntu 8.04 'Hardy Heron' (the LTS release which comes with KDE 3.5.9), as included on the Live CD."

Survey: 96 Percent of Enterprises Not Deploying Ubuntu Server
(2008-09-11 18:03:25)
The Open Road: "Goldman Sachs September 2008 IT spending survey delivers a sobering blow to suggestions of the rise of Ubuntu: The enterprise isn't seeing it yet."

London Stock Exchange in Denial over System Outage
(2008-09-11 18:33:25)
Computerworld UK: "The LSE absolved its core TradElect platform from blame. The system, designed and built by Accenture, runs on HP ProLiant Servers and Microsoft .Net and SQL Server 2000 systems."

5 Best Free and Open-source Real-time Strategy Games for Linux
(2008-09-11 19:03:25)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Recently, I have tried a few free and open-source RTS games and was really impressed with some of them. The best thing is that I can play them instantly on my Linux box without the need for Wine and without having to spend a single dime."

Exclusive Interview: Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It
(2008-09-11 19:33:25)
Maximum PC: "Instead of a revolutionary next-generation OS that was chock-full of new features, the Windows community got an underwhelming rehash with very little going for it."

Ubuntu to Work More With Larger Linux Community
(2008-09-11 20:03:25)
Cyber Cynic: "Some people hate Ubuntu. I know, I know, far, far more people love Ubuntu, but that doesn't change the fact that others really dislike it. Hate is not too strong a word."

10 Interesting Open Source Software Forks and Why They Happened
(2008-09-11 20:33:25)
Royal Pingdom: "We looked at the WHY because software forking is often seen as somewhat of a waste of development resources and isn’t considered a good thing. Sometimes the results can be great, though, as many of the examples below clearly show."

Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part II: Visit the Planets With XEphem
(2008-09-11 21:03:25)
LinuxPlanet: "For viewing closeups of planets, monitoring the motion of the planets, getting precise predictions of events like eclipses, and other such information, you'll do better with a more powerful tool: XEphem."

San Francisco Hunts for Mystery Device on City Network
(2008-09-11 21:33:25)
Network World: "...city officials say they are searching for a mysterious networking device hidden somewhere on the network. The device, referred to as a "terminal server" in court documents, appears to be a router that was installed to provide remote access to the city's Fiber WAN network..."

Why Mobile-Sync Options for Linux Are Lacking
(2008-09-11 22:03:25)
Intranet Journal: "So where is the problem then? Well, I had to take this on myself rather than seeing anyone from either the Linux desktop or mobile industry providing a solution that, honestly, should have been made more readily available to their users interested in migrating to desktop Linux without diving into an enterprise-level service."

Red Hat's Data Center Desktop
(2008-09-11 22:33:25)
Linux Magazine: "So you’ve heard all the hype and promises before about desktop virtualization and you’re not buying into it? It might be time take another look. With Qumranet’s solution you can view bi-directional streaming video and audio at 30+fps..."

Lies, Damn Lies, and Retail Linux
(2008-09-11 23:02:53)
Linux Today Blog: "Lenovo caused a small furor when it announced that it was no longer selling Linux on Thinkpads to us unwashed masses. Though it was news to me that they had ever started..."

Netbooks Fuel Good PC Market News
(2008-09-11 23:32:53)
OStatic: "Significant numbers of these (often, though not always Linux-based) machines are moving, and changing usage habits."

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