Ubuntu or Fedora?
(Dec 4, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (340 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
MyBroadband: "Last week Fedora Linux released its latest version, Fedora 10. We take a look at how it stacks up against Ubuntu 8.10, released a month before."

WFTL Bytes! for Dec 3, 2008: Now Open Source Is Broken, Viruses Eat Army, Microsoft Buys Friends
(Dec 4, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (386 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, December 3, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. In today's news, not only is Linux apparently broken, so is the open source business model. Mandriva falls on hard times again, viruses cripple US military base, Microsoft pays for recommending them, OpenSUSE throws out the EULA, the costs of piracy, and a new browser war."

Firefox Nightly Beats Chrome in Speed And Webkit Nightly Eats Them For Breakfast.
(Dec 4, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (767 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxHaxor: "We already knew that Firefox nightly beats Chrome in speed, the gap is getting wider with the latest Firefox builds (3.2a1pre)."

Saving the Intellectual Commons with Open Source
(Dec 4, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (248 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Enterprise: "Despite that, I strongly recommend a new book from someone who not only approves of the term "intellectual property", but of its fundamental ideas. I do so, however, because this avowed fan also has serious reservations:"

Linux Comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
(Dec 4, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (723 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Neowin: "I have toyed around with Linux on and off for the last few years, mostly with Ubuntu. My first experience of Linux was Ubuntu. At first it was a bit scary, with me wondering if my CPU would implode should I type the wrong command. The more I used Linux though, the more I learnt about my computer."

What is trackerd and Why Is It Running?
(Dec 4, 2008, 15:41 UTC) (881 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The How-To Geek: "If you've looked at the running processes on your Ubuntu box and wondered why there's a process named "trackerd" that is overusing the CPU, you are in luck, because that's exactly the topic we'll cover today. Tracker is a search tool built into Ubuntu, and by default seems to be configured to maximize CPU while indexing."

Dell Customer Awarded Windows Refund
(Dec 4, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (1237 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ynet: "Zvi Devir from Haifa was recently able to do the impossible: He held Dell to the fine print in its end-user license agreement."

World's Second Android Phone Unveiled
(Dec 4, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (919 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
APC Magazine: "Australian-based tech importer Kogan has revealed the first Google Android-based phone that will ship in Australia -- and only the second that will ship worldwide."

Android Phone Launches in China
(Dec 4, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (481 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
17Lamp.net: "TechFaith Wireless and Qigi Future Technology announced a smartphone that runs the Google Android mobile Linux stack. The i6-Goal is only the second Android phone to launch, and reportedly includes a 2.8-inch touchscreen, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and a two-megapixel camera."

Fedora Project Taking Ideas For Next Release Name
(Dec 4, 2008, 13:33 UTC) (530 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic:"Distribution naming schemes are one of the more humorous aspects of the open source community. Ubuntu uses an adjective followed by an animal name (Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope), while Debian names releases after characters in the movie "Toy Story" (Sarge, Etch, Lenny). Fedora's method is a bit more obscure, but no less clever."

How Windows Users Are Changing Linux And What We Should Do About It
(Dec 4, 2008, 11:33 UTC) (2426 reads) (9 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Canuck's Weblog: "There is no doubt that people are leaving Windows, many going to the Mac and some are turning to Linux. This is partly due in part to dissatisfaction with Vista. The reason isn't important. What is happening to the Linux community is."

Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC
(Dec 4, 2008, 10:03 UTC) (534 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Sapphire though manufactures a Radeon HD 4650 graphics card that operates well beyond the reference core and memory frequencies for the RV730PRO and sells it at a very affordable price. In this article we are seeing how well the Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC graphics card can perform under Linux."

Installing Cherokee Web Server With PHP 5 & MySQL 5 Support On Ubuntu 8.10
(Dec 4, 2008, 08:33 UTC) (622 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more."

Bash Script To Find Free Online Fiction and Non-Fiction Books
(Dec 4, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (991 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script we're going to do the (almost) exact opposite of what we've been doing for the past few weeks. Today, we're going to find free books on the Internet and, possibly, read them ;)"

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Looking for Artistic Ninjas
(Dec 4, 2008, 00:04 UTC) (4 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Ubuntu has once again opened up a call for submissions to anyone interested in being a part of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. If you're a musician, artist, photographer, or all-around creative genius and would like to enter your work in the current competition, you've got until February 9, 2009 to submit something to the judges."

Using Spawner To Populate SQL Database
(Dec 3, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (829 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxHaxor: "There are many reasons why you would want to generate bogus data for your database. Perhaps you'd like to know how well your databases will perform when filled with data, or maybe you just need some data so that you can start creating a front end for the database."

WiMAX Deal "Clears" Linux for Takeoff
(Dec 3, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (789 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
DesktopLinux: "Clearwire Corp. announced that it has completed a $14.5 billion transaction with Sprint Nextel to combine their Mobile WiMAX broadband services. The merger of the two largest WiMAX services may accelerate deployments crucial to the success of Linux MIDs, netbooks, and other devices."

Nitrogen: A Background Setter For Lightweight Desktop Manager
(Dec 3, 2008, 22:33 UTC) (823 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
MakeTechEasier: "Gnome, KDE and XFCE users will have no problem changing the wallpaper on their desktop. However, if you are using a lightweight desktop manager such Openbox or Fluxbox, you will find that there is no way that you can set the wallpaper for your desktop. In this case, Nitrogen will come in handy."

Technology, Innovation and the Challenge of the Missing Standards
(Dec 3, 2008, 22:17 UTC) (486 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Standards Blog: "Barack Obama promises to be the most technologically attuned U.S. president ever. More than a year ago, he released a policy statement on technology and innovation that detailed his plans to employ state of the art technology to pursue a broad spectrum of goals...In pursuit of these goals, he also promised to appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer."

10 of the Best Songbird Add-ons
(Dec 3, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (1162 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Source From Bohol: "At the moment, there are probably hundreds of add-ons, so as a guide to new Songbird users, let me share to you a few of my favorites:"

Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu
(Dec 3, 2008, 18:03 UTC) (1406 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Geek: "MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs."

Compiz? Emerald? Metacity? What's the Difference?
(Dec 3, 2008, 16:33 UTC) (1882 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: "I found myself the other night explaining on IRC how the window manager and window decorator parts fit together. There seems to be a misconception that Compiz requires Emerald. That is far from true. There also seems to be confusion regarding what different kinds of themes do. So let's start at the basics."

KDE 4 Video Editor Kdenlive Released
(Dec 3, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (1332 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
KDE.News: "The promising nonlinear video editor Kdenlive has made its first non beta for KDE 4, version 0.7 is on us. This closes another gap of the free desktop world: a usable open source video editor."

IE Share Slips Under 70%; Firefox Surges Past 20%
(Dec 3, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (1580 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "The market share of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer dropped under the 70% mark last month for the first time since Web metrics vendor Net Applications Inc. started keeping tabs on browsers, the company said today."

Hands-on: KDE 4.2 beta 1 Brings Impressive Improvements
(Dec 3, 2008, 13:33 UTC) (2365 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ars Technica: "Thousands of bugs have been fixed since the 4.1 release and many aspects of the environment are starting to feel very smooth and polished. Although it still lacks stability and has some noticeable bugs, the new beta provides a much stronger desktop experience than 4.1."

A Visual Desktop Tour of 10 Fedora Releases
(Dec 3, 2008, 13:03 UTC) (1267 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Let's take a trip down memory lane and have a visual desktop tour of this wonderful distro starting from its inaugural version that was released on November 6, 2003 until its most recent version that was out just a few days ago."

10 Ways to Reduce Removable Media Headaches in Linux
(Dec 3, 2008, 05:33 UTC) (2039 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechRepublic: "For many new Linux users, removable media can be a deal-breaker. Anyone coming over from Windows knows you simply insert the CD, use it, and eject it. With Linux, it isn't always that simple. In fact, with Linux, removable media has always held a completely different philosophy."

Why Netbooks Aren't There Yet
(Dec 3, 2008, 00:31 UTC) (1736 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "At the same time, today's netbooks aren't perfect. Many suffer cramped keyboards and track pads; neither is fun to use during marathon typing sessions. Some netbooks are more comfortable than others, but nearly all sport keys that are less than full size. There's also the lack of screen real estate..."

Using Linux to Overcome Comcast's Policy of FUD
(Dec 2, 2008, 22:31 UTC) (1722 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Matt Shipman's blog: "Why can't they just tell customers how much bandwidth they've used recently?!?!?!...Anyhow, after fuming for a few days, I set off to overcome the intimidation that now comes packaged with Comcast's service."

Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live
(Dec 2, 2008, 22:01 UTC) (1455 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live. CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and can be transferred to a Samba-, SSH-, or NFS server or to a local hard drive or USB drive."

Three Graphical Mount Managers
(Dec 2, 2008, 21:31 UTC) (1057 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Mounting and unmounting filesystems used to be straightforward in GNU/Linux. A basic knowledge of the mount command or some editing of /etc/fstab in a text editor and you were done. However, with the addition of udev in the 2.6 kernel for autoplugging, and the demand for hotswapping USB devices, along with the increased use of logical volume managers and other complications, the process is now more complicated -- perhaps too complicated for many among the growing number of desktop users. That is where graphical mount managers such as Forelex Mount Manager, PySDM, and MountManager find their niche."

Netbooks: Small, Cheap -- and Fast?
(Dec 2, 2008, 21:01 UTC) (1621 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC World: "For Good OS, the browser is the operating system -- or at least, all you're going to see of it."

Dealing With "Argument list too long" Errors on Linux and Unix
(Dec 2, 2008, 20:31 UTC) (1082 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Here's a question that gets asked a lot (and, consequently, answered a lot ;) on the boards. How do you go about dealing with a situation in which you're trying to take care of some business on your Linux or Unix box and you get stopped with the "Argument list too long" error message?"

iPhone Linux Hack: What It Means
(Dec 2, 2008, 20:01 UTC) (1307 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Business Week: "iPhone hackers have just managed to replace Apple’s own operating system that comes with the device with Linux software. That could be the beginning of a seismic shift for smartphone software. It opens the door for open-source operating systems to jump onto devices not built specifically for them."

Keeping Tabs on Your Network Traffic
(Dec 2, 2008, 19:01 UTC) (848 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "One of the first things I do upon installing a Linux distribution is put the Network Monitor applet on my GNOME panel. Watching the blue lights twinkle on and off makes me aware of network traffic. But if you want more details about what's happening on your network, such as which application is hogging bandwidth or what each network interface is up to, you can turn to specialty tools like NetHogs and IPTraf. While NetHogs is a unique tool altogether, IPTraf can be used on a server as well as by a home user."

Testing Fedora 10 KDE Edition
(Dec 2, 2008, 18:01 UTC) (1534 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
An alien's viewpoint: "My experience with Fedora has not been bad at all. I think a big reason for that is that my laptop has practically no need for proprietary drivers...So, that leaves me free to compare distros by their features and ease of use. So what have I found in using Fedora 10 KDE version?"

Non-Free "Blobs" in the Linux Kernel?
(Dec 2, 2008, 16:31 UTC) (1118 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechRepublic: "Jack Wallen comments on the debate that’s broken out about the use of proprietary "blobs" in the "free" Linux kernel. How much "free" deserves the seal of approval from the Free Software Foundation? Does the expectation of 100-percent free software make sense?"

Keeping It Light
(Dec 2, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (956 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
New York Times: "THE netbook could be considered the Honda Fit of computing: manageable in size, light of weight, handsome in an understated way, efficient and affordable."

Recent Firefox Extensions for Tab Addicts
(Dec 2, 2008, 15:31 UTC) (947 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Now, despite the need to rewrite many extensions to make them compatible with Firefox 3.0, the number is over 190, and the choice is greater than ever. Basic functionality, coloring options, positioning of the tab bar, automatic opening of tabs at startup -- whatever your need, you can probably find it on the Firefox add-ons site."

Vibuntu 1.0: A Customized Version of Ubuntu for Visually Impaired Users
(Dec 2, 2008, 14:31 UTC) (1005 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Softpedia: " Vibuntu is a Linux distribution based on of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), designed especially for visually impaired users."

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