News Linux News for Jul 06, 2009:

Ultimate Firefox Productivity Tips: For the Geeks.
(2009-07-06 00:03:41)
Priyank Bolia: "Instead of typing http:// prefix and .com, .net, or .org suffix in the Firefox address bar, you can just type the name of the website like slashdot and press CTRL+SHIFT+Enter to automatically append .org..."

Linux Tips & Tricks: Converting PDF-s to pictures in Linux
(2009-07-06 04:03:41)
Dr. Ivan's Blog: "Ever wondered how to render PDF-s into individual pictures page by page? It is really simple."

Open Source Incentives
(2009-07-06 08:02:59)
Open Source Initiative: "...the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is basically telling governments: if you want contributions/investments from us, then you'll give Microsoft cabinet-level access to inform policy, and you'll use Microsoft products."

Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: KDE and Gnome Formulate Common Goals
(2009-07-06 12:02:59)
Linux Magazine: "On the first day of the joint developer conference on Grand Canary, representatives of the desktop projects Gnome and KDE formulated common goals for their future development."

A Root-less X Server Nears Reality
(2009-07-06 12:32:59)
A Root-less X Server Nears Reality: "By doing so, this of course improves the security since this very large chunk of code is no longer running with all of these high-privileged rights. "

Gnome-Colors: Elegant, consistent and colourful GNOME desktop themes
(2009-07-06 13:02:59)
Sprayfly: "The truth is, getting a nice colourful desktop theme with matching wallpaper, icons and GDM doesn’t have to be this complicated. It turns out that there is a brilliant project called Gnome-Colours that has set itself the task of dealing with this problem."

Linux Netbooks: 3 paths to a bright future
(2009-07-06 13:32:59)
Tech-No-Media: "They can reach a bright future and a significant market presence through 3 different paths: the smartbook path, the cheap path and the power path. I will explain how each path will lead the Linux netbook to market dominance in a specific niche."

Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now!
(2009-07-06 14:02:59)
The Linuxologist: "Well at least according to Dell's website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft's latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!"

Identifying and removing Microsoft patented ideas from Linux: A Patent A Day Project
(2009-07-06 14:32:59)
Linux Patents: "A-patent-a-day, a service to help the community identify Microsoft patents that Linux infringes and help them organize development efforts to remove their dependency."

CDLinux 0.9.2 Community Edition Review
(2009-07-06 15:02:59)
DistroWatch Weekly: "Rather than cram as many application as possible onto a mini (3"/8cm) CD, the CDLinux Community Edition aims for excellent support of half a dozen languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Russian), support for a wide variety of filesystems and excellent hardware support, including CUPS and XSane for printers and scanners, all of which are included in the 204MB iso."

Turn Your Old Laptop into a Powerful Linux Workhorse
(2009-07-06 15:32:59)
Worldlabel blog: "If your laptop is getting long in the tooth, there is no reason to rush out to buy a new one. Instead, you can relegate the most demanding computer tasks to your desktop machine and use your laptop to run applications remotely."

Welcome to iPod Nano Linux!
(2009-07-06 16:02:59)
iPod Nano Linux: "This is an open source venture into porting Linux onto the iPod Nano and all other iPod devices. So far, a customized uClinux kernel has been successfully ported to several iPods by iPodLinux Project."

Nokia turning to Android for new phone?
(2009-07-06 16:32:59)
Electronista: "Nokia is breaking from Symbian and about to use Android for one of its next smartphones, according to industry sources."

As The TOYA Boy Turns
(2009-07-06 17:02:59)
Blog of Helios: "You were dumb enough to click on a program given to you by a complete stranger so welcome to the world of social engineering Dilbert."

Are Contentious Debates Derailing FOSS?
(2009-07-06 17:32:59)
Linux Blog Safari: "The idea of shutting down debate may be anathema to a community that has the words "free" and "open" in its very name. On the other hand, discussions without any type of boundaries may be destructive to forward progress, with the community chasing its own tail and ultimately devouring itself."

Correction regarding the "tomboy / mono in default installation" thingy
(2009-07-06 18:02:59)
Tolimar's blog: "First of all: What I have written and what I'm writing at this moment is the current state. That doesn't mean it will change in one way or the other before Squeeze is released."

Firefox 3.5 downloaded 5 million times in first 24 hours
(2009-07-06 18:32:59)
ars Technica: "Firefox 3.5, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, was downloaded 5 million times within the first 24 hours after its release. The total number of Firefox downloads could exceed one billion by the end of August."

Apache attacked by a "slow loris"
(2009-07-06 19:02:59)
LWN.net: "Slowloris was released to the public by security researcher "RSnake" on June 17. Unlike previously utilized DoS methods, slowloris works silently. Still, it results in a quick and complete halt of the victim's Apache web server."

How to install OpenTyrian in Ubuntu Jaunty
(2009-07-06 19:32:59)
Tips4Linux.com: "OpenTyrian is a project aimed at bringing the Tyrian game to other platforms. Since the source code was released and the official Tyrian data files made available in 2004, the game started to show up from Linux to iPhones"

My First FreeBSD Fling
(2009-07-06 20:02:59)
Tux Turbo: "The elusive *nix. Nobody knows about it yet it is one of the most widely used server operating systems. The wikipedia entry mentions it as the unknown giant of the internet. Huge internet portals like Yahoo! run on it. Why is it that no one knows about this widely used OS?"

Thunar File Manager Review - Good, Lightweight Alternative to Nautilus
(2009-07-06 20:32:59)
TuxArena: "So, what are the features which come with Thunar, and what makes it a viable alternative to Nautilus?"

Software SmackDown: SoftMaker Comes Out on Top
(2009-07-06 21:02:59)
The Standards Blog: "If a 17 employee company can gain a favorable review not only against an open source product supported by 100 paid developers, but against Microsoft Office and its thousands of engineers, then surely there is still room for innovation and opportunity in the marketplace..."

So long CompuServe, nice to have known you
(2009-07-06 21:32:59)
Cyber Cynic: "For most of us though the only way we had to go online was via an online service like CompuServe. Recently, after 30-years of service, CompuServe closed down. I'll miss it."

Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book
(2009-07-06 22:02:59)
Forbes: "Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story."

"Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu"
(2009-07-06 22:32:59)
ZDNet Education: "Obviously, this isn’t true. Their underlying architectures are quite a bit different, Gnome looks different than the 7 UI, etc., but to an average 17-year-old, there just wasn’t any meaningful difference between the two operating systems."

Miguel: You, the man! - Open letter to Miguel de Icaza
(2009-07-06 23:02:59)
Technology FLOSS: "We have seen that when you are asked on it, you point at ECMA and when they are asked they do an HTTP redirect to Microsoft instead."

6 of the Best Free Linux Documentation Generators
(2009-07-06 23:32:59)
LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 advanced Linux documentation generators. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to generate documentation."

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