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News Linux News for Jul 10, 2009:
Red Hat: From manic acquisitions to focused execution
(2009-07-10 00:04:59)
The Open Road: "Despite a meteoric initial public offering in 1999, Red Hat spent years fumbling about for a winning game plan, dabbling in technologies that took it far beyond its core competence in operating systems."
What is Google's Goal with its Chrome OS?
(2009-07-10 01:34:59)
Linux.com: "...just what is Google’s aim in building another OS? Why wouldn’t they just leave that nasty business to Microsoft, Apple and existing Linux distribution vendors?"
How-To: Install FrostWire 4.18.0 in Debian Lenny
(2009-07-10 03:04:59)
TuxArena: "FrostWire is an open-source, free Java-based peer-to-peer client with support for the BitTorrent protocol, skins and iTunes. The latest release, 4.18.0, contains many improvements, bug fixes and several changes."
LinuxPR: Florida Linux Show 2009 Orlando Teams Up
(2009-07-10 04:34:59)
Florida Linux Show press release: "The Florida Linux Show and Florida Linux Alliance Group team up to present the the Florida Linux Show 2009 Orlando."
Scripting the Vim editor, Part 2: User-defined functions
(2009-07-10 06:04:59)
IBM Developerworks: " This article (the second in a series) explains how to create and deploy new functions in the Vimscript language, giving several practical examples of why you might want to."
Does Microsoft Blackmail Sub-notebooks Vendors?
(2009-07-10 07:34:59)
Boycott Novell: "Is there no regulatory body that can get Microsoft’s fat fanny off of Linux so it can get some air? Instead the DOJ are investigating *Google*?"
An Interview With A Linux Game Porter
(2009-07-10 09:04:59)
Phoronix: "Recently on our forums, Frank Earl (who goes by the synonym Svartalf), has been seeking the input of Linux gamers as to what games they would like to see ported to Linux. Frank has been working for Linux Game Publishing for a few years..."
Linux Knows the Way to Sesame Street
(2009-07-10 10:34:59)
Linux.com: "Looking for a long-term solution to their IT needs, Sesame Workshop selected Novell ZENworks Asset Management to streamline its inventory processes, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the open platform for its Web architecture."
Of Monopolies and Mono
(2009-07-10 11:34:59)
LinuxPlanet: "Mono, the open-source development environment based on Microsoft's .NET, has really gotten people ticked off lately. The long and short of the argument is that Mono is a Trojan-horse that will introduce Microsoft poisoned patents into Linux."
Linux kernel design patterns - part 3
(2009-07-10 12:04:59)
LWN.net: "In this final article we will be looking at just one design pattern. We started with the fine details of reference counting, zoomed out to look at whole data structures, and now move to the even larger perspective of designing subsystems."
Interview with Amanda McPherson of LinuxCon in Portland
(2009-07-10 12:34:59)
Free Software Magazine: "We have a pretty small staff at the Linux Foundation, and because of that a big event like Linuxcon involves virtually everyone. (Even Linus is helping!) Primarily the team that will take all the credit (I won’t even mention blame) is Angela Brown, Craig Ross and yours truly."
AutoKey Does Customized Text Replacement for Linux
(2009-07-10 13:04:59)
Lifehacker: "Looking to get the kind of text substitution powers of Texter or TextExpander on Linux, but don't know where to look? AutoKey, an automatic, tray-sitting text expander, is a good place to start."
How to Record Skype Calls in Linux
(2009-07-10 13:34:59)
MakeTechEasier: "Skype is a proprietary voice over Internet application that allows you to call other Skype users or real telephone lines. If you happen to use Skype for business or some other important calls that you might want to record, you will need additional software."
Linux Foundation Welcomes New Director Overseas
(2009-07-10 14:04:59)
OSTatic: "The Linux Foundation announced today it has chosen technology expert Axel Petrak to be the new Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa."
Four Firefox Annoyances to Fix for 4.0
(2009-07-10 14:34:59)
Linux Magazine: "Firefox is the perfect browser, right? Well, it’s probably the best on the market — but that doesn’t mean that it’s perfect. Firefox has several annoyances — some large, some small — that we’d like to see fixed for 4.0."
What? Can't take a bit of competition?
(2009-07-10 15:04:59)
The Educated New Village Boy: "There seems to be this presumption that having something that’s OpenSource means you must “work with the community”."
Routing around the desktop
(2009-07-10 15:34:59)
The H Open: "Microsoft's dominance of the desktop "is being chipped away from this side, from that side, and from underneath with embedded Linux, led by different players with different strengths, chipping away at the front door, the back door, the side doors, and the roof.""
The Desktop is to be Dapper No More
(2009-07-10 16:04:59)
Linux Journal: ""All Things have an End," said Jonathan Swift, "and a Pudden has two." Such is the case for Ubuntu as well, and later this month the first of the ends will come due for its longstanding legacy, the Dapper Drake."
Internet Keeps Growing - And Getting Faster, Too
(2009-07-10 16:34:59)
InternetNews: "Latest Akamai report shows that the economic slowdown isn't slowing down people's migration to the Net -- and to broadband."
ASRock NetTop ION 330
(2009-07-10 17:04:59)
Phoronix: "Over the years we have looked at dozens of ASRock motherboards, and as we have noted in recent reviews, over the past year or so they have really ramped up their efforts on providing feature-rich motherboards while still delivering them at very low prices, as they have long been known for their budget status."
Dell is sticking with Ubuntu
(2009-07-10 17:34:59)
Cyber Cynic: "I really don't know how this rumor got started, but there are people talking about Dell no longer shipping Ubuntu-powered PCs. Nothing could be further from the truth."
Competition Spurs Innovation (Browser battles make better browsers!)
(2009-07-10 18:04:59)
Join The Revolution!: "The competition apparently keeps the software vendors honest and innovative, each looking to grab some more market share. Even though Opera invented tabbed browsing, it was Firefox which made it popular."
Free O'Reilly Webcast: An Introduction to Hadoop
(2009-07-10 18:34:59)
O'Reilly Media press release: "Join us for this free, live webcast:
An Introduction to Hadoop
Presented by Christophe Bisciglia, founder of Cloudera and Tom White, author of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide"
Windows of mass destruction
(2009-07-10 19:04:59)
Cyber Cynic: "At times, these assaults have knocked out multiple major sites. North Korea has been taking the blame for these attacks, but no one has any proof yet. What we do know is that the weapon that's doing this damage is compromised Windows PCs."
Fedora 9 is dead. Long Live Fedora 10 and 11?
(2009-07-10 19:34:59)
Netstat -vat: "Officially speaking, this is the end of life for Fedora 9, which was released in May of 2008. Fedora 9 was an important release for Fedora and Red Hat as it helped to re-affirm Red Hat's commitment to the Linux desktop, following some communication earlier that year that seemed to imply that Red Hat was getting out of the desktop business."
London Paper cuts costs by 66% with open source website
(2009-07-10 20:04:59)
Computerworld UK: "The News International-owned publication, which is read by over one million people in the capital each day, claims it is the first newspaper to run its website on an open source platform."
How to Advocate for Linux (Without Coming Across as a Lunatic)
(2009-07-10 20:34:59)
Linux Blog Safari: "Take Linux, for example. So numerous are its virtues and so brilliant its shine that many of us get completely caught up in adoring it -- sometimes to the detriment of any efforts to advance it in the world."
Generating Graphs with gnuplot, Part 3
(2009-07-10 21:04:59)
Linux Developer Network: "In this final part of this three-part series, I'll start out using SQLite as the relational database and graph data from there before moving on to using PostgreSQL and pivot tables to transform relational data into column format for gnuplot."
USPS goes open-source with tracking system
(2009-07-10 21:34:59)
Government Computer News: "If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and confirm delivery of a letter or package, you’ve used the U.S. Postal Service’s Product Tracking System (PTS) and probably not known it. And you might not have noticed either when USPS moved the system to open source."
Datawind Announces the PocketSurfer3
(2009-07-10 22:04:59)
Softpedia: "Datawind, a company that specializes in providing end-users with wireless, web-access products and services, has recently announced the introduction of its new PocketSurfer3 and PocketSurfer3 Lite, third-generation devices that are meant to provide them with support for easily connecting to the Internet."
A Ruritania of the Mind
(2009-07-10 22:34:59)
Tux Deluxe: "I gave up on the mainstream media in 2002-2003, in the run up to the Iraq war. Every single channel in the USA was selling the prospect of war like a product, a new soap powder."
Editor's Note: Linux, FOSS, and the Time-Honored Tradition of Charging More for Less
(2009-07-10 23:04:59)
And that is how netbooks went from inexpensive, inventive, and endlessly flexible, to restricted, micro-managed, over-priced, over-sized, and under-featured. Sure, you still get the traditional fluffy padding-- in the form of useless trialware, nagware, and junkware.
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