News Linux News for Aug 06, 2009:

Buttering Up Linux File Systems
(2009-08-06 00:04:42)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Not surprisingly, all this development effort has stimulated work in open source communities to come up with higher performance file systems for Linux. Enter a couple of developments on the Linux front: the BTR File System — known as Butter FS or B-tree FS — and ext4."

Tech Tip: View Config Files Without Comments
(2009-08-06 01:34:42)
Linux Journal: "I've been using this grep invocation for years to trim comments out of config files. Comments are great but can get in your way if you just want to see the currently running configuration."

Kernel Log: X server 1.7 delayed; Compiz runs on newer Radeon GPUs; DRBD in kernel soon
(2009-08-06 03:04:42)
Kernel Log: "Although some X.org drivers have been updated for X server 1.7, development work is running behind schedule. New drivers from AMD, Intel and Nvidia and new Linux versions mean a number of corrections and enhancements in the graphics system."

Vendors increasingly control leading open-source projects
(2009-08-06 04:34:42)
The Open Road: "What is perhaps surprising, however, is how early in the open-source project lifecycle that commercialization is emerging, as Gartner indicates in a December 2008 report ("Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open-Source Software Model")."

Shuttleworth: On cadence and collaboration
(2009-08-06 06:04:42)
LWN.net: "Ironically, someone suggested that the fact that I was talking publicly about something in Debian implied there was a secret cabal."

Wikimedia event seeks to open up Australian culture
(2009-08-06 07:34:42)
Computerworld: "More than 170 executives from Australia's significant cultural institutions will be meeting with advocates of new media and wiki projects in a world-first event this week in Canberra to discuss ways that they can more effectively work together."

Unrar and combine multiple RAR files in Ubuntu
(2009-08-06 09:04:42)
Zyxware: "Rar used to be a favorite compression format when the compressed files were to be split into multiple pieces to fit into legacy external storage devices like Floppy, Zip disk, CD etc."

Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
(2009-08-06 10:34:42)
ZDNet: "A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers."

Get Your Chrome Experience On Linux
(2009-08-06 12:04:42)
Linux.com: "Next to all of its competition Google Chrome looks as if it is running in a completely different gear all together."

OpenSUSE Users Wish Return of KDE
(2009-08-06 12:34:42)
Linux Magazine: "Up to Novell's takeover of the Suse Linux AG, KDE was without doubt the preferred default for the German distribution. Now openSUSE users are increasingly demanding the return of KDE as default desktop."

Whole Foods Recognized for Innovative Deployment of Linux Solutions
(2009-08-06 13:04:42)
Progressive Grocer: "Whole Foods Market was named a finalist in open-source solution provider Red Hat’s Third Annual Innovation Awards, which recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open-source community."

Microsoft blames open source for revenue fall
(2009-08-06 13:34:42)
IT Wire: "Microsoft has listed companies such as Red Hat and Canonical, both sellers of GNU/Linux, among the reasons for the 17 percent fall in revenue for the fourth quarter, year on year."

Oiling the digital society
(2009-08-06 14:04:42)
BBC News: "But the US-based computing industry is one of the bastions of free-market capitalism and we should expect companies to undermine each other, attack each other, use dirty tricks to try to obtain monopolies and ally together in anti-competitive cartels which keep prices up, reduce choice and limit consumer freedom."

New Linux-based technology to make ‘smarter’ GPS
(2009-08-06 14:34:42)
Computerworld AU: "Sick of having your GPS tell you to turn the wrong way up a one-way street or lead you to a dead end? Fear not: Linux-based technology developed at NICTA is on its way to help make personal navigation systems more accurate."

Slackware 13.0 RC2 Brings Updated X Server and Video Drivers
(2009-08-06 15:04:42)
Softpedia: "This update brings numerous new base packages, like the Linux kernel version 2.6.29.6, X.Org Server 1.6.3 and the K Desktop Environment 4.2.4."

Hands-on: KDE 4.3 delivers a Social Desktop
(2009-08-06 15:34:42)
ars Technica: "KDE 4.3 was released this week with a number of intriguing improvements. Ars test the new version, which introduces KDE's Social Desktop initiative, an effort to bring social networking integration to the popular desktop environment."

The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business Distribution
(2009-08-06 16:04:42)
O'Reilly Broadcast: "Over the past week or so CentOS has received a lot of press, much of it rather unflattering."

Tiny Core: The Little Distro That Could
(2009-08-06 16:34:42)
Linux Magazine: "Every now and again there comes along an amazing piece of technology that is really quite impressive. Tiny Core is a tiny live Linux system and one such marvel. What makes it so special is the way it works and how it treats the system that it loads."

How-To: Install Miro 2.5.1 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
(2009-08-06 17:04:42)
TuxArena: "Miro is a great application for watching videos and high-definition TV podcasts in Linux. The latest release is 2.5.1, a bug fix release for the 2.5 series, which has a faster start-up time, a new, revamped library interface, new keyboard shortcuts, a refined interface and lots of bug fixes."

Shuttleworth wants Debian/Ubuntu co-operation
(2009-08-06 17:34:42)
Cyber Cynic: "Many Debian developers, one of the oldest of the Linux distributions, still have trouble dealing with Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions and also a Debian descendant."

US firm sues Twitter over patents
(2009-08-06 18:04:42)
BBC News: "The three patents outline an "author interface" for distributing alerts and messages from a single sender to many recipients. "

AMD FirePro V8750 2GB
(2009-08-06 18:34:42)
Phoronix: "How well though does this $1,800 USD graphics card work with Linux? Well, we have all of the benchmarks in this article."

MIPS opens Android port under Apache license
(2009-08-06 19:04:42)
451 CAOS Theory: "The action continues around Linux and open source in the embedded software space, where this week we are hearing that MIPS Technologies, a provider of processor technology for a range of networking, mobile, consumer and other devices, is open sourcing its port of the Linux-based Android OS software."

Can Anyone make the White House streaming work?
(2009-08-06 19:34:42)
Groklaw: "I go to the url for the White House meeting going on right now, and nothing I own will do the live streaming. I can get the text running at the bottom, but no video. Can you guys figure out if it is possible? If it's just me, that's one thing. But if it is everyone who isn't using Microsoft products, that is something else."

Linux Mint 7 (KDE) Review
(2009-08-06 20:04:42)
Desktop Linux Reviews: "I’ve been patiently waiting for the KDE version to be finished and now it’s finally here. So I snagged a copy and gave it a whirl."

How Twitter was killed
(2009-08-06 20:17:42)
Cyber Cynic: "Thanks to Windows' security weaknesses, botnets are now commonplace and we can only expect to see more DDoS attacks in the future."

Quran Study Tool for Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Zekr
(2009-08-06 20:34:42)
Linux and Microcontroller Tips: "Quran Study Now Available in Linux, Arabic Quotes and English Translation."

Mind Mapping With XMind on Ubuntu
(2009-08-06 21:04:42)
BeginLinux: "This is a Mini-Course that focuses on the basics of the XMind mind mapping application. This is a Free course that is available to anyone."

Netscape redux: Google's Chrome browser now an OS
(2009-08-06 21:34:42)
Embedded.com: "The day that Microsoft has dreaded since the mid-1990s is at hand: Google Inc. is rolling out a new browser-based PC OS that stands a good chance of dislodging the software giant's Windows."

Open Source: many advantages beyond price
(2009-08-06 22:04:42)
Tech-no-Media: "What a lot of people fail to consider is that there are a lot of other advantages to Open Source that can be much more important than the price factor. Let's have a look at a few of them:"

Interview: Clutter maintainer Emmanuele Bassi
(2009-08-06 22:34:42)
Moblin Zone: "Bassi discusses Clutter history, the recent 1.0 release, and what lies ahead for this key Moblin and GNOME technology."

Ubuntu: Patent Policy and Private Support
(2009-08-06 23:04:42)
Linux Magazine: "Ubuntu has introduced a new Patent Policy to help developers and rights holders deal with software patent issues."

Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick
(2009-08-06 23:34:42)
Howtoforge: "Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size)."

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