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News Linux News for May 09, 2009:
Editor's Note: Who Will Remember You?
(2009-05-09 00:03:42) Is the history of you and your family going to survive beyond the latest fad file format or storage widget?
Taking Joomla! to new heights
(2009-05-09 01:33:55) Open Sauce: "Joomla! is a fork of a project named Mambo; it split off in 2005. Joomla!, which literally means "all together", has been remarkably successful and is estimated to run millions of websites. It has won numerous awards as well."
Fellowship interview with Timo Jyrinki
(2009-05-09 03:03:55) Fellowship of FSFE: "In addition to being the friendly media face of Wikipedia Finland, the team contact for Ubuntu Finland and founder of local advocacy project Vapaa Suomi (Libre Finland), Timo Jyrinki has been involved as an active developer and translator for a wide range of Free Software organisations such as FSFE, Debian, GNOME and Openmoko."
Auto Update To The Latest Builds Of Firefox Minefield
(2009-05-09 04:33:55) LinuxHaxor: "Firefox Minefield is a daily build that has the latest bug-fixes, enhancements and test options that are not yet available on the stable release or might never end up being on future Firefox stable releases."
OpenOffice 3.1: The new features
(2009-05-09 06:03:55) The H Open: "Instant eye catchers are the improved anti-aliasing for graphics, better chart functionality, and the new text highlighting in Writer. However, inconspicuous new features like custom document property fields and the OpenOffice User Feedback Program are just as interesting."
Thunderbird visual refresh on Linux
(2009-05-09 10:03:55) Random pixels: "Been working on the appearance of Thunderbird for the last two months now and as things are starting to land in the Nightly builds, things are indeed starting to look quite nice. As always, Lapo have been of great help in the icon department."
Review: Linux Mint 6 KDE
(2009-05-09 14:03:55) Raiden's Realm: "Now some might point to Ubuntu for all the credit I'm giving to Linux Mint, saying that it was Ubuntu who made all that possible. Maybe so, but there's a lot more beyond what Ubuntu started that Linux Mint has added to their distribution to make it better. Hence why I always say that Linux Mint is Ubuntu done right."
Linux netbooks expected to reach 50% market share
(2009-05-09 16:07:39) Taipei: "Linpus Technologies Inc, a local Linux operating system (OS) developer, expects Linux-based netbooks to reach 50 percent market share by next year, on a par with Microsoft Inc's Windows platform, company general manager Stephen Lim said yesterday."
Get Ready for openSUSE Community Week!
(2009-05-09 18:03:55) openSUSE News: "The first openSUSE Community Week is just around the corner. May 11 through May 17 we’ll be hosting live sessions in IRC to help grow the openSUSE Community.
Community week is all about helping new contributors get started with openSUSE and getting existing contributors together to mentor new contributors, and working together on major projects."
How to Get The Most Out Of KDE4's Folderview Widget
(2009-05-09 22:03:55) MakeTechEasier: "One of the most innovative and simultaneously controversial features of KDE 4 is the Plasma widget, Folderview. Simply put, it allows a user to display the contents of a file system folder within a widget on the desktop."
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