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Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Running Lightsmark 2008 on Linux with a modern graphics card is able to deliver stunning results. Among the individual areas tested within this benchmark are real-time radiosity, global illumination, infinite light bounces, High Dynamic Range, color bleeding, indirect lighting, area lighting, hard shadows, soft shadows, and penumbra shadows."
Source: Linux Today SUSE and OpenSUSE: "gDesklets is another great tool like Google Gadgets for bringing mini programs called desklets such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "The meeting will be held on October 13 and 14th at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York City. The idea is to get end users and community developers together to try to co-ordinate what users want and what developers plan on delivering."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: " she e-mailed photos of herself in a bikini to a married cable sports anchor. His wife -- who had access to the e-mail Learn how you can enhance your email marketing program today. Free Trial - Click Here. account -- mailed back what she thought of the pictures, and somehow it all ended up on Page Six of the New York Post."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "One of the best ways to speed up your Linux desktop is to utilize an ultra-lightweight window manager. To all speed-conscious techies, minimalist lovers, and to those who are still hoping to revive their ageing computer hardware, let me introduce you to the 20 most nimble and simple X window managers for Linux."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "In my last article I talked about working with shortcuts in Ubuntu Linux. In this article I want to explain the basics of the Linux file system and where you can expect to find things. Once again, I am basing this on Ubuntu Linux."
Source: Linux Today Boycott Novell: "One of the bigger developments last week was Mozilla's decision to add native Ogg Vorbis and Theora support to the build of Firefox 3.1, which is still buggy at this early alpha stage. Watch what they heroically said on the issue of patents."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "Untangle is scheduled to host an Ubuntu Linux Installfest from Aug. 4 to 7 at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. This latest Installfest, coupled with recent moves by Canonical and Intel made The VAR Guy wonder: Can Ubuntu Linux close the digital divide?"
Source: Linux Today Matthew Paul Thomas: "The best open source applications and operating systems are more usable now than they were then. But this is largely from slow incremental improvements, and low-level competition between projects and distributors. Major problems with the design process itself remain largely unfixed."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Fedora 7 installs on the PS3 out of the box, with the most challenging parts being selecting the PS3 storage driver so it can find the install DVD, and remembering to specify a video mode on the initial install command line so you'll be able to see the installer."
Source: Linux Today Cats Who Code: "Some days ago, I wrote a post about 30 gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu desktop. In order to make one more step in Linux desktop customization, here is a list of 10 very cool icons sets for your Linux desktop."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "If you watch it, you'll find out why fair use matters, what it makes possible, and how big media is endangering it with their closed and restricted concept of what fair use allows. Actually, they'd prefer to kill fair use altogether. It's only fair if *they* do it. Yoo hoo, Disney, where did you get the idea for Mickey Mouse? Or Cinderella? Or Snow White?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Haxor: "We all fill up our hard-drives from time to time, but thanks to Gnome GParted, rearranging disk partitions isn't as terrifying as it used to be. In fact, armed with a GParted Live CD, there's a swathe of disk space fiddling jobs I can tackle without gnawing my fingers to the bone."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "While crime fighters are buzzing about malware, SQL injections, phishing and other similarly fascinating acts by cybercriminals, the really bad guys are within the corporate firewalls."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to Redmond. I'm also shocked by just how ill-informed the company continues to be with regard to open source as a business strategy."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "If advanced calendar applications like Evolution and Sunbird are overkill for your needs, try Day Planner, a simple yet efficient calendaring utility. If you want to view your calendar as a timeline, check out Calizo instead."
Source: Linux Today Adventures in Switching to Linux: "Personally, I am most concerned with the Compiz plugins that add functionality to my desktop. There are plenty of those too. I am going to outline some of my favorites and most useful."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "After installing a new Netgear Wireless-N Dual Band Router (review), I was anxious to test Linux with it. So far the results are well mixed."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "Having spent a good part of the last year struggling with a variety of video chat and IM programs, I have decided to write a few things down and see what other people have to say about them."
Source: Linux Today Linux Insider: "This is August -- a month of transition and new beginnings, after all -- so what better time for geeks who have been lost on the dark side to come over to the Light that is Linux?
Read on, then, for a starter kit, of sorts, that will show the way to Linuxy salvation "
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "While he hasn't described it as a bunch of "tubes," that honor belongs to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, McCain is an analog kind of guy in a digital world. Still, no one really expects McCain to be a techno geek. On the other hand, we do expect Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, to at least have a clue about technology. Whoops. Turns out we were wrong."
Source: Linux Today Wired: "A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations."
Source: Linux Today Manila Bulletin: "Citing incompatibility and difficulty in its use, an exclusive girls school in Pasig City has ditched its Linux-based OS and replaced it with Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office system."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "What started as wondering how to contribute to my 5 year old son's pre-school lead to the discovery of some absolutely terrific open source software that really aids the educational process. Here's why even in this Microsoft world Linux is the best platform for early childhood education."
Source: Linux Today Linux Insider: "Techies may be born in this day of PC ubiquity, but columnist Mike Himowitz is one of those who was made. He stumbled his way into the computer world out of necessity and found himself smack in the middle of a new era. Now, as the newspaper publishing world lays dying, he's striking out for new adventures -- with plenty of tech tools in his back pocket."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "In essence, he said that today's Java-savvy college grad is tomorrow's pizza delivery man. Their skills are so easily outsourced that they're heading for near-term obsolescence."
Source: Linux Today InfoWorld: "Lost in all the drama is what actually happened. How could a large city government apparently lose control of its network, and how could its own characterizations of the system be so questionable?"
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "But it's an essay from the ever-interesting Tim O'Reilly that brings together the cloud and the future of open source - and some of his conclusions may distress those who are firmly convinced that open source licenses are the only way forward."
Source: Linux Today derStandard: " last September Microsoft signed an agreement which results in Microsoft endorsing Moonlight - our own free implementation of Silverlight. So they are providing us with specifications, they are providing us with tech contacts, so whenever any specification is not clear, we have access to their engineers."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "I use Ubuntu, and the colorblind applet is part of the gnome-mag package, but for some reason (and I have no idea why) the developers didn't include it in the distro. So, basically, we’re gonna recompile the gnome-mag package, with the colorblind panel applet."
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