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News Linux News for Jan 06, 2009:
Samsung NC10 Netbook
(2009-01-06 00:04:14)
Phoronix: "However, one of the latest companies to join the netbook bandwagon here in the United States has been Samsung with the introduction of the NC10. Is there anything special about this 10.2-inch Atom-powered netbook? We will tell you in this Linux review of the Samsung NC10."
Parallel Processing Shell Script Released
(2009-01-06 01:34:14)
Google Code: "PPSS is a shell script that processes files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make full use of current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core. It will also use hyper threading if specified. Please note that you can start any number of processes in parallel if you like."
Linux And Unix Gallows Humor - The Great Save
(2009-01-06 03:04:14)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's post was found on LinuxNut.org. They actually have funnier stuff on that site, if you want to check it out at your leisure, but I found the below story of recovery more moving than every episode of "Celebrity Rehab" ever aired. Actually, that isn't saying much since I hate reality television."
WFTL Bytes! for Jan 5, 2009: Linux Rules 2009, MadTux Croaks, Living la Vida NadaDRM
(2009-01-06 04:34:14)
WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, January 5, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 42. Today's stories are brought to you by the number 7 (hey, 7 x 6 = 42), reasons why Linux will rule in 09, influential distributions, MadTux no more, living la vida nadaDRM, and Google Linux (aka Android) is coming to a netbook near you."
MadTux Closes Its Doors
(2009-01-06 06:04:14)
O'Reilly Blogs: "After eight years in business California-based MadTux, an online retailer specializing in systems preloaded with Linux, has closed."
'Australia's Contribution to Linux and Open Source' Quiz
(2009-01-06 08:34:14)
Computerworld: "How much do you know about Australia's open source contributors? Take our 15 question quiz to find out."
Bordeaux 1.6 Released for Linux and BSD
(2009-01-06 10:04:14)
The Bordeaux Technology Group: "Priced at $20, the software is a low cost add-on to the Free Software package known as Wine. Wine enables BSD users to run many Windows applications on non-windows systems, but until now, a low cost easy to configure version was not available. This new version adds support for Office 2003 based applications as well as offers many improvements over the previous beta release."
Building A Linux Computer: Part 4 - Installing The OS
(2009-01-06 11:34:14)
LinuxEdit: "So you have bought the parts, built it and set up the BIOS. Know you are on to the fun part, installing the operating system. Since this article is obviously about building a Linux based system, I was torn between what Linux distribution to use to install on your new computer. After some personal deliberation, I chose Ubuntu Linux for the task."
How On Earth Do You Make A Dime Out Of Linux And Open Source Software?
(2009-01-06 13:04:14)
The Linux Distillery: "Software piracy is a scourge on the world of computing. Yet it's a problem the open source community doesn't have. That makes sense; it's all freely available. But this raises the question: if it's free how do the developers make any money?"
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III
(2009-01-06 13:34:14)
Catonmat: "This is the third and final part of a three-part article on the famous Awk one-liners. This part will explain Awk one-liners for selective printing and deletion of certain lines."
Cisco Lawsuit: A Test for the GPL?
(2009-01-06 14:04:14)
Internet news: "The lawsuit between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco may be critical in shaping the future of the open source ecosystem, according to legal experts closely watching the saga's next stages."
Games As an Alternative Linux Desktop Strategy
(2009-01-06 14:34:14)
The Open Road: "Somehow, I missed that. Vaughan-Nichols points to HP shipping Linux, Dell shipping Linux, etc., but come on: a trickle of retail activity does not a "Year of the Linux Desktop" make."
LCA2009: the Leader of the Band
(2009-01-06 15:04:14)
IT Wire: "Leah Duncan loves cheese and salami. And given that fact, the Australian Linux community is probably lucky that she didn't like the micro-organisms used in the making of such foods enough to complete a degree in Microbiology some years ago."
Acer Aspire One Linpus Linux Lite Recovery DVD Online
(2009-01-06 15:34:14)
EeePC: "If you want to recover your Acer Aspire One netbook to its default state, Acer uploaded a disc image on its FTP server from the default Linpus Linux installation."
Next Netbook - Thinner, Cheaper, Better, Linux
(2009-01-06 16:04:14)
451 CAOS Theory: "From Freescale’s perspective, and from a Linux fan's, the future looks nice: thinner, cheaper netbooks, many of which will be based on Linux, that run as long as eight hours on a charge."
Everyone's free Linux: DeviceVM's Splashtop
(2009-01-06 16:34:14)
Cyber Cynic: "One of the neat things about Linux has always been that you can run it on just about anything: iPhones, xBoxes, PS3, you name it, you can run Linux on it. So, why not, the good people at DeviceVM thought, make a desktop Linux that came bundled in a PC's motherboard: Splashtop."
An Inside Look at How Microsoft Got XP on the XO
(2009-01-06 17:04:14)
OLPC News: "As part of a small personal project, I've been reading through the court exhibits presented in Comes V Microsoft. One of those exhibits is a chain of internal Microsoft emails discussing how to get Windows XP on the OLPC."
Destined Incompatibility of OO.o's OOXML Implementation
(2009-01-06 17:34:14)
Chao-Kuei's Notes: "Please say it loudly in your blogs or emails, in as non-technical terms as possible. Then we will turn around and show your opinions to the confused governments and journalists who still believe Microsoft's claim that OOXML is an open format, and put an end to that lie."
Campus Party Brazil - Maddog's Challenge - Multimedia and Free Software
(2009-01-06 18:04:14)
Linux Magazine: "This year the challenge will be to create a one or two minute video or audio "advertisement", suitable for displaying on the web in sites such as YouTube and others, but captured, edited and otherwise produced using Free Software"
GOS 3 is Still the Best Linux OS
(2009-01-06 18:34:14)
XenStreet: "A few months back I wrote a review about gOS on one of my blogs which received some raving reviews. I did not just review it, but decided to start using it as my default Linux desktop."
Easy Peasy Linux Released for Netbooks
(2009-01-06 19:04:14)
Eee PC: "Ubuntu Eee is dead, long live Easy Peasy! This is a custom Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.10 based), optimized for netbooks, especially the Eee PC series."
Pupils Conquer Fear of Computers
(2009-01-06 19:34:14)
BBC News: "Kamal Prasad Sharma, aged 12, a student at Saraswati Secondary School in a small village not far from Kathmandu, was afraid when he saw a computer for the first time."
The Great Window Manager Speed Test
(2009-01-06 20:04:14)
IT Toolbox: "For these tests I used a program called x11perf which does massive amounts of screen redraw tests and reports on the results. How long those tests took I do not exactly know because I started them and then went to bed :)."
Security and Your Mother's Linux Box
(2009-01-06 20:34:14)
Tech Republic: "We know, first of all, that the vendors don't have a proper incentive to ship good quality software, because the vendors don't pay the cost of failure; we do."
3G Mobile Broadband on Fedora Core 10
(2009-01-06 21:04:14)
KungFu Code Monkey: "The latest feature to really impress me is how easy they've made it to connect to the internet using a 3G mobile broadband connection."
Linux Command Line For Beginners: Finding Help Documents
(2009-01-06 21:34:14)
LinuxPlanet: "A typical Linux system comes with all kinds of help documentation built-in, and a lot of users don't even know it's there. Juliet Kemp is your guide to finding man, info, and HTML help pages."
Dual-Screen Laptop Madness From Lenovo
(2009-01-06 22:04:14)
IT Wire: "Think of the two most popular laptops trends, namely big screens and small screens. Now put them together and what do you get? Yep, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds with one big screen and one small screen. Is this genius or simply the maddest laptop ever?"
Tech Execs: Can We Stop the Stupidity?
(2009-01-06 22:34:14)
Datamation: "I hate spineless managers -- especially when "executives" make incredibly stupid decisions. I realize that we all have jobs at stake but there's a line that should not be crossed."
How to be a Geek Goddess
(2009-01-06 23:04:14)
LinuxPlanet: "The newly-released book "How to be a Geek Goddess" is supposed to be a helpful, not-condescending computing howto for women. Tina Gasperson, who blatantly admits to being of the female persuasion herself, isn't sure it meets these goals, and suffers from severely mixed feelings."
Things to Do With 'kill'
(2009-01-06 23:34:14)
Tip of the Trade: "kill is most often used without an argument or with -9, to kill a process off. But it can also be used to send various other signals to a process. Some are variations on process termination, but you can also get information about or out of processes."
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