News Linux News for Mar 07, 2009:

Editor's Note: Proprietary Ideology: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results
(2009-03-07 00:01:15)
None of these problems have anything to do with "This country's going to heck in a handbasket, so it's the country's fault!" and everything to do with the kind of world these titans of tech have created for themselves. It's a swampy bureaucratic wasteland full of legal minefields, and creepy little wild-eyed paranoid people scuttling around clutching secrets to their chests and croaking "Mine! Mine!"

PHP tops new survey for developer satisfaction
(2009-03-07 01:33:15)
Netstat --vat: "There are some devs out there that don't like PHP, then there are those that do. A new survey from Evans Data of over 500 developers, asked questions in 12 different categories to see which dynamic languages they like best."

Power Management: ATI Catalyst vs. Open-Source ATI Driver
(2009-03-07 03:03:15)
Phoronix: "Yesterday we broke the news that AMD will stop supporting the R300-500 GPUs in the Catalyst driver. There have been well over one hundred posts in the Phoronix Forums from ATI customers upset with this decision, but fortunately, there is first-rate open-source support available."

How to Install KDE 4.2 on Ubuntu 8.10
(2009-03-07 06:03:15)
Softpedia: "As everybody knows, KDE 4.2 was released this year at the end of January and it brings lots of improvements and new features/applications over previous versions. Today's tutorial will teach you, step by step, how to install KDE 4.2 on your existing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) installation."

Taking Ubuntu 9.04 Out For A Spin
(2009-03-07 10:03:15)
IT News Today: "Earlier this week, I previewed Kubuntu 9.04, so I thought it would be a logical next step to preview Ubuntu 9.04 as well."

Live Streaming MozCamp Utrecht 6 March
(2009-03-07 12:03:15)
MozCamp Utrecht: The first event MozCamp Utrecht is currently taking place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Our host, SURFnet Foundation, has been so kind to offer a live stream of the event.

Driver comparison Linux vs. Vista (Chrome 400/500 Series)
(2009-03-07 14:03:15)
Chrome Center: "After two released Linux drivers, I decided to compare those drivers to the current Windows Vista driver. Here are the first results, there are more to come!"

Simple Code To Implement C's stat() function On Linux And Unix
(2009-03-07 16:03:15)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I've often been bashed for my C programming skills (the "bash" in that sentence wasn't meant to be a pun), and, although I've come to expect the vicious backlash, I still like to come back to C every once in a while to look at some of the things you can do with it and to keep me awake ;)"

HP Unix 'Vigilant' in the Face of Linux
(2009-03-07 18:03:15)
InternetNews: "But the latest enhancements to the venerable operating system will come as it faces the mounting threat from a more recent arrival: Linux."

Linux high-performance cluster monitoring with Ganglia
(2009-03-07 20:03:15)
IBM Developerworks: "This is the first article in a two-part series that looks at a hands-on approach to monitoring a data center using the open source tools Ganglia and Nagios. In Part 1, see how to install and configure Ganglia, the scalable, distributed monitoring system for high-performance clusters based on a hierarchical design. Also learn how to add more monitoring capability by writing Ganglia plug-ins and by enabling external-source spoofing."

Free 3D Video Drivers needed to spread the Linux Desktop
(2009-03-07 22:03:15)
lefty.crupps' GNUski bacon: "However, to get these effects on a KDE or Gnome desktop, you must* use a 3D-accelerating hardware driver for your video card. Most video cards are produced by NVidia, ATi, and Intel, but of these three, currently only Intel has advanced Free/Libre/OpenSource drivers, used by Xorg in your system the moment X is installed."

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