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News Linux News for Feb 12, 2009:
Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR4
(2009-02-12 00:01:21)
Phoronix: "Overall, this RV730-based graphics card had performed well under Linux and not a bad investment with it retailing for about $80 USD. Sapphire Technology though has now introduced a new version of the Radeon HD 4670 that sports 512MB of GDDR4 memory. Will switching out the GDDR3 for GDDR4 memory have much of an overall impact on this graphics card?"
Storing Decades of Bureaucratic Data
(2009-02-12 01:31:21)
Enteprise Storage Forum: "In a state-of-the-art building in Rockville, Maryland, rests our nation's bureaucratic history in electronic record form."
Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Wallpapers
(2009-02-12 03:01:21)
Tech Source From Bohol: "First there were Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" mock-up designs, now showing up are tons of user-created wallpapers dedicated to the next major release version of this popular Linux distribution."
Sweet home 3D interior home designer -- design your home without architects
(2009-02-12 04:31:21)
Detector Pro: "Sweet Home 3D is powerful and easy to learn open source cross platform 3D software tool. It's a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a 2D house plan, with a 3D preview! Install it and be your own architect who can create the perfect house plan that will exactly fit all your needs and preferences."
Volume 3 Of The Linux/Unix SysAdmin Covert File Storage Method
(2009-02-12 06:01:21)
The Linux and Menagerie: "Today, we're going to be looking at the tip discussed in volume 57, but with respect, specifically, to the ZFS filesystem."
Follow up: How to write a Linux virus
(2009-02-12 07:31:21)
Foobar: "Yesterday I published an article about How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps. There has been quite an overwhelming response for this. Within just a few hours this article became my most visited blog post ever. Wow!"
The hairy state of Linux filesystems
(2009-02-12 09:01:21)
But Not Yet: "Slashdot was reporting yesterday that OSes are sliming down. The post was talking about userland stuff like MySQL or CUPS but an obvious question is: how about the internals? Do they get better?"
New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir (Reading aloud is illegal)
(2009-02-12 10:31:21)
Wall Street Journal: ""They don't have the right to read a book out loud," said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. "That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.""
Linux, Windows Seek Strength in Competition
(2009-02-12 12:01:21)
ServerWatch: "When you look at the operating systems markets, it's pretty clear that the market for Linux is a competitive one. There are dozens of desktop Linux distros, and a good number of server ones, too. Red Hat and Novell have a large share of the enterprise market, but there are others, such as Ubuntu Server, with their own unique selling propositions to attract customers."
Is Linux Cheaper on the Desktop Than Windows?
(2009-02-12 13:01:21)
ServerWatch: "Yes, Linux is free, but that doesn't give it an unfair advantage on the desktop because most computers arrive preloaded with Windows -- so to the buyer it appears Windows is also free."
Is Microsoft out to kill, rather than conquer netbooks?
(2009-02-12 13:31:21)
Raiden's Realm: "If the return rates are high, will that encourage OEM's to switch over to selling a majority of their netbooks with Linux, or will it instead cause them to abandon netbooks all together?"
Real-time Linux gains accelerated graphics
(2009-02-12 14:01:21)
LinuxDevices: "The PREEMPT_RT patches provide guarantees for hard timing deadlines, as required by many mission critical applications in industries like telecom, military, healthcare, music recording, and financial trading. Sometimes referred to as the "RT Preempt" patch, PREEMPT_RT was originally developed by Ingo Molnar and Thomas Gleixner..."
Why "open source" is not "free software"
(2009-02-12 14:31:21)
Free Software Magazine: "Choosing to release a piece of software under the terms of a free software license is an important step through which many programmers and writers first approach the free software community. However, the myriad of licenses available can sometimes confuse and disorient the user, sometimes making this first step much harder than it should be. Let's try and make things clearer."
Netbooks: A Curse or a Blessing in an Imploding PC Market?
(2009-02-12 15:01:21)
New York Times: "What are we to make of these netbooks, which are either saving the PC industry during desperate days or dragging it down one low-profit laptop at a time?"
The BoxeeBox Cookbook
(2009-02-12 15:31:21)
DeviceGuru: "Inspired by Roku's awesome Netflix video download box and impressed with Boxee's free A/V media center platform, it was merely a matter of time before I'd create the BoxeeBox, an Ubuntu-powered HTPC that I call my "one box to rule them all." Here's how it's done."
Best Netbook OS: Ubuntu vs. XP vs. Windows 7
(2009-02-12 16:01:21)
Datamation: "What's the best OS for use on the new ultra-portable netbook systems? I used a Samsung NC10 netbook and three operating systems to try to find out the answer."
Apple's touch-screen patent
(2009-02-12 16:31:21)
LWN.net: "This patent potentially has the power to make life difficult for anybody developing hardware or software involving touch screens. It could also bring about an unwelcome repeat of some twenty-year-old history. But any attempt to enforce this patent risks repeating a twenty-year-old conclusion."
Cuba rolls its own Linux cigar
(2009-02-12 17:01:21)
Netsat -vat: "The gist of the story is that Cuba is now going to produce their own Linux distro called 'Nova' in some sort of attempt to not have to use American software."
Announcing Moonshine, the project never formerly known as Pornilus
(2009-02-12 17:31:21)
aaronbockover: "Moonshine is a project based on Moonlight that leverages the built-in Windows Media capabilities of Silverlight to bring Windows Media playback to Linux in a fully legitimate way, without forcing the end user worry about what a codec is."
ABC.com limits video content to Windows and Mac users
(2009-02-12 18:06:30)
Doug Roberts: "I recently saw a story on Slashdot.com about how CBS.com has placed all of the original Star Trek series up for on-line viewing. Note was made that their flash-based viewer works well with Linux."
The first dual Windows/Linux PCs arrive
(2009-02-12 18:31:21)
Cyber Cynic: "You won't find a word about it on Dell's sales site for the Dell Latitude E4200 laptop or the Latitude E4300, but these Windows Vista, or optionally XP, notebooks come not only with Windows but with an embedded Linux desktop as well."
Track time with Klok
(2009-02-12 19:01:21)
Linux Magazine: "If you are looking for an excuse to install and test Adobe AIR, here is one -- Klok, a sleek and easy to use time tracking tool designed for freelancers and small businesses. Despite being a lightweight application, Klok is packed with useful features that can help you to track the time you spend on your projects with utmost efficiency."
India Fights Patents with Huge Prior Art Database
(2009-02-12 19:31:21)
Opendotdotdpt: "One of the many problems with the patent offices around the world is that they are often unaware of prior art, granting patents for so-called inventions that are, in fact, common knowledge."
Linux 101 Hacks - Download Free eBook
(2009-02-12 20:01:21)
The Geek Stuff: "I'm happy to announce the release of my first Free eBook -- Linux 101 Hacks. There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book are explained with appropriate Linux command examples that are easy to follow."
How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?
(2009-02-12 20:31:21)
Slashdot: "Lately there has been a huge push by Certified Microsoft Professionals and their companies to call (potential) clients and warn them of the dangers of open source."
A few Linux terminal commands to spice it up
(2009-02-12 21:01:21)
Ruckman.net: "MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses)."
Run OpenVPN on Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix
(2009-02-12 21:31:21)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "OpenVPN is famously difficult to get up and running, but the truth is that it needn't be. In this second and concluding OpenVPN article I am going to go through what it takes to get an OpenVPN Ethernet tunnel set up between a laptop computer and an office or home machine acting as an OpenVPN server."
Another FileZilla Fan
(2009-02-12 22:01:21)
Datamation: "So I was quite pleased to find this article from a couple of weeks ago in WinPlanet that shouts the praises of FileZilla, an open source-based file transfer protocol (FTP) client I've used for a year or so."
Open-Xchange Nears 10 Million Paid Users
(2009-02-12 22:31:21)
The VAR Guy: "Yes, you can make money by blending open source applications with software as a service (SaaS). In fact, Open-Xchange is nearing 10 million paid users, and the company has a few surprises in store for 2009. Here's the scoop."
Advanced MySQL Replication - Improving Performance
(2009-02-12 23:01:21)
Database Journal: "But what of sites who are experiencing enormous load on the primary server, which is overloading the slave server. Are there ways to speed up performance, so the slave can keep up? As it turns out there are quite a number of ways to do this. We'll discuss a number of them."
WFTL Bytes! for Feb 11, 2009: Firefox Rejects Windows, Happy Birthday LJ, Money Myths
(2009-02-12 23:11:04)
WFTL Bytes!: "On today's newscast . . . we with Linux Journal a musical happy birthday, look at open source financial myths, bundle Firefox with some bad ideas, examine Microsoft's open source software, and try to find that same Microsoft a spy."
S3 Graphics Still Talks Up Linux Support, But Fails
(2009-02-12 23:31:21)
Phoronix: "In the press release announcing the S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX they once again mention Linux support... But is there any Linux support?"
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