News Linux News for May 08, 2009:

8 Beautiful Conky Desktop Monitor Setup
(2009-05-08 00:03:42)
LinuxHaxor: "Conky is a highly customizable desktop monitor for X Window System. Think of it as KDE4 desktop widgets on crack."

Windows 7 makes me laugh
(2009-05-08 01:33:42)
The Beez Speaks: "I happen to be Dutch and if you're into Linux that is a major disadvantage. If countries were shops, The Netherlands would be a Windows-only shop."

Windows and Viruses - Made for each other
(2009-05-08 03:03:42)
PlanetOSS: "This is the screenshot of the cnet's download.com which shows the most popular downloads for windows. The first five positions are taken by anti-virus software :-)."

Top 5 Firefox Security Add-ons
(2009-05-08 04:33:42)
Auslogics Blog: "Ensuring browsing safety is one of the major concerns of equally users and browser developers these days. And it's understandable because let's face it - a lot of people practically live online."

10 reasons why Linux will oust Windows
(2009-05-08 06:03:42)
ZDNet Asia: "Despite the positive buzz generated by Windows 7, it is only a matter of time before Linux takes its rightful place at the top of the operating-system pile."

Ubuntu: Two Ways to Keep A Clean Desktop Without Affecting Your Efficiency
(2009-05-08 07:33:42)
MakeTechEasier: "I love placing all the shortcut icons and files on my Desktop because it allows me to access to my data quickly and save me the trouble of searching for it in Nautilus. On the other hand, I also have a passion for clean desktop."

Is Internet access a 'fundamental right'?
(2009-05-08 09:03:42)
The Open Road: "We live in a world that demands entitlements for just about everything. While the framers of the U.S. Constitution talked about the rights of assembly, speech, and religion, our modern world has crowned new rights. Universal health care is a hot one. But now the European Commission's Viviane Reding has suggested Internet access as a fundamental human right."

Ubuntu Intel Performance Still In Bad Shape
(2009-05-08 12:03:42)
Phoronix: "We had found that using some of the latest kernel code had improved the performance some, but still there were major regressions within Intel's new Linux driver stack."

Hedgewars - The Worms redesigned
(2009-05-08 12:33:42)
Polish Linux: "It was a time of the Worms series reign, a reign that we all enjoyed. Though the initial release hit the skies in 1994, I have never forgotten the past, and it was one of the most wanted Linux games when it happened to convert to it."

UC Berkeley Extension Offers Open Source Fundamentals Course
(2009-05-08 13:03:42)
Linux Journal: "UC Berkeley Extension will start offering a course (1 credit) titled "Open Source Fundamentals and Strategies". LJ contributing editor Ibrahim Haddad developed the course for UCB and will be teaching it."

Ubuntu Now Available for Mini 10 Customers in the United States and Canada
(2009-05-08 13:33:42)
Dell Community: "Over the last few weeks. we've been adding more features and options to the Inspiron Mini 10, which will allow folks to personalize the popular companion device even more like a 720p HD edge-to-edge display, a bigger battery option and five Design Studio choices from Tristan Eaton."

The Ubuntu and ATI Blues
(2009-05-08 14:03:42)
Cyber Cynic: "...for a while there, ATI was working hand-in-glove with Linux and even ATI's proprietary drivers worked well with Linux. ATI has stopped keeping up with Linux though and the result is mediocre graphics performance."

Understanding Home Networking
(2009-05-08 14:33:42)
MakeTechEasier: "To my surprise, it didn’t work. Each one could get online when they were the only computer connected, but as soon as I tried connecting both through a hub, it failed. It was then that I began learning the world of IP addresses."

Electronic voting: Free Software and transparency are not enough
(2009-05-08 15:03:42)
The H Open: "The report came to the conclusion that the use of open source software for democratic elections is probably a bad thing - although the reasons given were less than convincing."

iPlayer uncovered: What powers the BBC's epic creation?
(2009-05-08 15:33:42)
CNet UK: "But ultimately we chose Adobe Air for two key reasons: number one, it had a system that allowed our seven-day or 30-day playback to be enabled and controlled on PC, Mac and Linux. That's a requirement of a DRM, not that we want to use DRM, but we're forced to because we make content available for download."

Teeny weeny Linux SBCs
(2009-05-08 16:03:42)
LinuxDevices: "Typically, you can get all the functions of a full computer system -- including CPU, program memory, "solid-state disk", serial and parallel ports, display interface, and network interface -- in less than a dozen square inches of space. A few even manage to cram an embedded Linux computer into under three square inches!"

Linux Cloud Computing For The Masses With Zimory
(2009-05-08 16:33:42)
LinuxPlanet: "The second piece of the puzzle that Zimory provides is what they call their Public Cloud Gateway. This piece makes it possible to extend the compute resources of an enterprise on demand in a dynamic way and then scale back down when needed"

Linux Mint 7 RC1 Videos - Glorious New Features
(2009-05-08 17:03:42)
EasyLinuxCDs: "I decided to download the highly anticipated Linux Mint 7 release candidate and put the much talked about features to the test. I was so impressed I decided to display some of the new Linux Mint 7 features in these 10 simple how to videos."

Zenoss 2.4 is Now Available!
(2009-05-08 17:33:42)
Zenoss: "We are proud to announce the release of Zenoss 2.4. The latest Zenoss version was developed in conjunction with our community of more than 40,000 members who provided product input, monitoring extensions, patches and beta testing."

Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF
(2009-05-08 18:03:42)
Boycott Novell: "Rob Weir said: "Microsoft [is] calling for my removal as Co-Chair of the ODF TC [technical committee]. Evidently I've hurt their feelings.""

Running Ubuntu 9.04 With Older Hardware
(2009-05-08 18:33:42)
Phoronix: "At Phoronix we have tested out Ubuntu 9.04 quite extensively with a variety of different hardware and have delivered numerous benchmarks, but we had not looked closely at running the Jaunty Jackalope with older hardware. In this article though we have done just that and carried out a number of Ubuntu 9.04 tests using an older VIA-based PC."

How I became an Openbox fanatic
(2009-05-08 19:03:42)
jonny dover: "Crunchbang Linux is a really, really fantastic distro. I can't possibly recommend it highly enough. It's clean, thoughtful, and aesthetically pleasing in a minimalist way."

The A-Z of Programming Languages: Tcl
(2009-05-08 19:33:42)
Computerworld: "In this interview Tcl creator John Ousterhout, took some time to tell Computerworld about the extensibility of Tcl, its diverse eco-system and use in NASA's Mars Lander project."

10 Reasons why Ubuntu is a BIG Failure in India
(2009-05-08 20:03:42)
AgniPulse: "Some of them removed Ubuntu and flatly refused to use it again in future.Some of them used it occasionally to download stuff from torrents and to clean infected USB Drives.Based on their feedback ,I figured out why people(especially of India) are not too keen on using Ubuntu even if it is installed on their computers."

AMD Releases R600/700 Programming Guide
(2009-05-08 20:33:42)
Phoronix: "While the open-source 3D support is still emerging for the Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series, AMD has released some more documentation. This time around they have a programming guide for those developers interested in understanding the latest ATI GPUs."

Scripting the Vim editor with Vmscript
(2009-05-08 21:03:42)
IBM Developerworks: "In this series of articles, we'll look at the most popular modern variant of vi, the Vim editor, and at the simple yet extremely powerful scripting language that Vim provides. This first article explores the basic building blocks of Vim scripting: variables, values, expressions, simple flow control, and a few of Vim's numerous utility functions."

A Few Facts As Antidote Against Microsoft's anti-ODF FUD Campaign
(2009-05-08 21:33:42)
Groklaw: "The best antidote against FUD is facts. FUD only works when people don't know any better. So, given some recent anti-ODF FUD in the air, I thought it would be useful to provide some facts."

Interview with Edward Hervey, maintainer of the PiTiVi video editor
(2009-05-08 22:03:42)
FootNotes: "This is the fourth in a series of interviews about open source multimedia, the previous interviews were about Jokosher, Totem and Empathy. For this interview we talk with Edward Hervey who is the maintainer of the PiTiVI video editor. Edward will talk to us about the current status of the PiTiVi video editor and their plans going forward."

Routers use Linux for proximity marketing
(2009-05-08 22:33:42)
LinuxDevices: "The N-Vio routers are aimed at providing retailers with proximity marketing services, allowing them to beam discounts and advertising content to mobile-device users within a 100-meter Bluetooth or 200-meter WiFi radius, says Libelium."

Verizon Wireless USB760 modem
(2009-05-08 23:03:42)
CNet: "The Verizon Wireless USB760 modem offers EV-DO Rev. A data speeds through Verizon's network. It also works with Mac and Linux systems and offers up to 8GB of storage."

Puppet: configuration management made easy
(2009-05-08 23:33:42)
IT Wire: "Turnbull had a look at Cfengine and BCFG2 ; the former he found too complex to implement. "Then I came across Puppet. I was very impressed with the fact that the language was very simple. It was a very simple way of describing configuration. it's really easy to configure."

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