News Linux News for Aug 10, 2009:

Exploring Ubuntu Recovery Mode
(2009-08-10 03:01:03)
Experimenting with GNU/Linux: "But sudo was preventing me because of the error. Then, I remembered about the recovery mode. Rebooted the machine and I pressed escape to get the standard grub screen as shown below."

First Psystar, now Quo, but what about Linux? Enter Mond Computers.
(2009-08-10 07:01:03)
Nuxified: "It may be quite the jump to make, but what if a Linux-based OS could be spiced up to play the role of just such an OS in this picture?"

KDE 4.3 on a MacBook Pro
(2009-08-10 11:01:03)
Linux And Other Rants: "Recently, KDE 4.2 had become my default system on this machine, after I got it set up exactly how I wanted."

Cube 2: Sauerbraten - Awesome First-Person Shooter for Linux
(2009-08-10 12:01:03)
Tuxarena: "In this article I'll overview Cube 2: Sauerbraten, an open-source shooter running on Linux, which also provides a gaming engine for developing FPS games."

Samba News And New Team Blog
(2009-08-10 12:31:03)
Samba Team Blog: "Starting today, we're going to try and create semi-regular updates on what is going on in the fast moving world of Samba development, what we're all up to, and where the code is going in the future. This will be a technical blog, with details on the internal changes in Samba code. We hope you enjoy it !"

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Alpha, Codenamed 'Namoroka'
(2009-08-10 13:01:03)
Tuxarena: "Firefox 3.6 is scheduled for release as a stable version in November 2009, so this release is just a preview, the starting point for development of Firefox 3.6."

Map your network with Zenmap
(2009-08-10 13:31:03)
GHacks: "For Nmap you can use the user-friend Zenmap. And how can you get up to speed quickly with Zenmap? Easy...you read this tutorial on how to run a scan on your entire LAN and then read the results."

Impressions of C#
(2009-08-10 14:01:03)
Linux/FLOSS Blog: "The biggest thing C# has over Java for me is events. Events suck in Java. Most of the time you end up having to define a whole extra class to handle one."

42 Hot Free Linux Games (Part 1 of 3)
(2009-08-10 14:31:03)
LinuxLinks: "For each of the 14 games listed below we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth summary of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

ARM netbooks may lack hardware-accelerated graphics
(2009-08-10 15:01:03)
Moblin Zone: "In announcing its newly shipping touchscreen-equipped "Touchbook," Start-up Always Innovating said that "over time, in 2009," it will support "interesting projects such as Moblin.""

Install Educational Suite for Children aged 2 to 10 : GCompris in Ubuntu / Debian
(2009-08-10 15:31:03)
Linux and Microcontroller Tips: "GCompris is a excellent educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10. Most of the activities are game orientated educational."

How Wrong Can One Man Be?
(2009-08-10 16:01:03)
Blog of Helios: "OK, for $10.000.00 and the grand prize, who is responsible for this quote?: "There is no Linux Community...the best we've achieved is a large group of warring factions who use the vast real estate of the Internet to wage bloody war against each other.""

How to save the Internet from Windows
(2009-08-10 16:31:03)
Cyber Cynic: "After last week's near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here's how we can do it."

The Linux Desktop's Next Challenge: Layer 8
(2009-08-10 17:01:03)
Linux Journal: "But I am also convinced that Linux has a lot to offer people as a desktop solution, especially on some of the new, less powerful netbooks that are beginning to be marketed as the next wave in laptops."

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
(2009-08-10 17:31:03)
Geek Sheet: "The LinuxICs for Hyper-V, which are in Release Candidate status and are available for download from Microsoft’s Connect site, provide synthetic device drivers that enhance I/O and networking performance when Linux OSes are virtualized under Hyper-V."

Nagios: Monitor Cisco Routers Course
(2009-08-10 18:01:03)
Begin Linux: "This course will show you how to set up Nagios and specifically how to locate the information you want to monitor with SNMP on a Cisco router. This is a Free Course available to anyone."

From Windows to Linux... Is it that hard to adapt?
(2009-08-10 18:31:03)
Que Pasa?: "And in all honesty it does require a bit of effort and willingness to adapt to a new Operating System and its applications. But in reality, it is no more difficult than learning to use a computer for the 1st time."

Netbooks, Microsoft, a Turning Point
(2009-08-10 19:01:03)
Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Far from showing strength, the wide availability of Windows on netbooks is a sign of weakness."

OLPC Australia trying to burnish its image
(2009-08-10 19:31:03)
IT Wire: "Following my last piece about OLPC, wherein I made reference to the fact that it seemed impossible to get a response to media queries sent to the Australian arm, I was approached by one of the many personable young women who dot the PR landscape and asked if I would have a chat with Srikhanta."

IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing
(2009-08-10 20:01:03)
Community-cation: "The new question should be: how long will it take for Linux to supplant Unix's place in the enterprise?"

Linux Weather Forecast
(2009-08-10 20:31:03)
Linux.com: "Current conditions: the 2.6.30 kernel was released on June 9. The 2.6.30 development cycle saw the addition of almost 12,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing some 200 different companies. 2.6.30 has 624,000 more lines of code than 2.6.29."

Microsoft vs. Linux: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em?
(2009-08-10 21:01:03)
Matt Hartley: "In each case, however, it is impossible not to get the sense that Microsoft is beginning to take open source software on the desktop a lot more seriously than it once had."

Personal Supercomputers Promise Teraflops on Your Desk
(2009-08-10 21:31:03)
Gadget Lab: "Stone’s team got “personal supercomputers,” compact machines with a stack of graphics processors that together pack quite a punch and can be used to run complex simulations."

OpenOffice.org: Cross-References Revisited
(2009-08-10 22:01:03)
Linux Journal: "Over the last few releases, cross-references have improved immensely in OpenOffice.org. In particular, you can now create cross-references from headings, numbered items, and bookmarks, all of which users were requesting four years ago."

A Perfect Illustration of Why I Now Choose Scientific Linux Over CentOS
(2009-08-10 22:31:03)
Ever Increasing Entropy: "I started becoming concerned during the protracted period that it took to get 5.3 out. Not about the "lateness" in getting 5.3 out, but the complete lack of security updates in the interim for my 5.2 system."

SUSE Studio: Too Good To Be True?
(2009-08-10 23:01:03)
IT News Today: "No, you did read that correctly. I actually used Firefox to build my own SUSE-based distro. Sometimes technology throws curveballs at us that are so unbelievable you’d have to read the statement several times to realize that you aren’t hallucinating."

GTK+2: Let the Application Follow You!
(2009-08-10 23:31:03)
Linux Developer's Network: "Applications that use the GTK+2 library to provide their user interface have some very powerful user interface migration functionality at their disposal. With just a few API calls, an application can migrate its entire user interface to a different screen on a multi display host, or even to another X Server entirely."

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