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Source: Linux Today TuxArena: "Google Chrome is an open-source web browser from Google, currently available only for the Windows platform. It aims to have a minimal and easy to use interface. Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine, which was developed from KHTML, and it is used in various browsers like Konqueror on KDE4 or Safari (on Mac OS X).
Source: Linux Today Packt: "When you think about a JavaScript object, think a hash. That's all there is to objects - they are just collections of name-value pairs, where the values can be anything including other objects and functions. When an object's property is a function, you can also call it a method."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "Here, in no particular order, are five ways that choosing a free operating system will make system maintenance a lot easier and simpler. In short they are ways that -- when it comes to system updates -- GNU/Linux beats Windows."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "Mozilla, well known as the open source group behind the popular desktop Firefox Web browser, is now hoping to move to the mobile browsing realm with the Fennec browser."
Source: Linux Today Linux Dynasty: "I had to create a script that will output every host that has went down in the past day and how many times that host went down and at what times did that host go down and when it came back up in a nice readable format ( Executives who do not know what they are looking at ). Now this is the first release of my script "
Source: Linux Today LinuxHaxor: "While there are other very pressing and more important issues to help you make a decision in choosing a candidate; I think it is important to look at where each candidate stands in terms of technology, which most of the readers in this site is passionate about."
Source: Linux Today Heise Online: "Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches prepared by (Ext) filesystem developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) into the main development branch of Linux. It contains a patch for Ext4 which allows it to present itself as ext4 instead of ext4dev."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Want to get rid of the evil caps lock key without mutilating your keyboard? Want to give those silly Windows keys useful jobs, or put all those extra multi-media keys to work? Want to become a powerhouse keyboarding commando? With Linux you can do all of these things."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "I do have a few songs that are broken and that I can't get somewhere else and can't buy however they are on YouTube.
I know, quality is not the best on YouTube but for some stuff you have it might be better. Question is, how could I put those flash videos onto my music player?"
Source: Linux Today DesktopLinux: "Only ten days after the release of Linux 2.6.27, the SimplyMEPIS project has decided to work the new kernel into its next release. The project today used the kernel in both 32- and 64-bit versions of the third beta release of SimplyMEPIS 8."
Source: Linux Today LAMPComputing.com: "We discussed how to install LAMP in one of our previous articles. Some of you may be wondering how to create databases, users and tables on your newly installed MySQL server. This blog post introduces the preliminary steps to work with your new LAMP server."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "Microsoft is now spending $300 million to counter Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads. Does Linux need its own ad campaign?"
Source: Linux Today Royal HeHe2-ness!: "Microsoft's baby may be holding 90% of the market due in part to their brute-force approach to marketing and business practices, but there's also the little fact that Windows, in its current days, really isn't all that bad of an OS."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "The fact is that Microsoft has yet to find a way to call out its intellectual property (IP) in things like Linux without stumbling over all of the IP that it, in turn, has "borrowed" from others, including the open-source world."
Source: Linux Today Tech Broiler: "That CompUSA is taking a stand and promoting the Ubuntu Netbook Remix version rather than the more expensive Windows XP model is also a position I respect."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "After more than four months of development, Clement Lefebvre proudly announced the day before yesterday, on his blog, the immediate availability of the Linux Mint 5 x64 Edition, for 64-bit processors. Linux Mint 5 (32-bit edition) was officially released this year on June 9th."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "The co-founder of IT security company Kaspersky Labs said Linux and Mac users will be "easy targets" for hackers and malware writers over the next few years."
Source: Linux Today That Grumpy BSD Guy: "The potential for conflict between greylisting and sites with large pools of outgoing SMTP senders is well known and in need of resolution. Why does the SMTP RFC moving along the standards track fail to address this?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "The Sockso personal music server lets users distribute digital tracks over a network. Sockso comes with a server and a neat front end that gives users easy access to audio data."
Source: Linux Today Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "As some of you know that I've taken up the development of the ultra-cool xwinwrap tool that allows you to use movies, screensavers etc as wallpapers for you linux desktops."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: " the nonprofit organization enthusiastically welcomed participants from the financial arena, despite the current crisis on Wall Street, among them Merrill-Lynch, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Credit Suisse."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion. The $25 billion figure is one that I'm surprised at because its lower than other forecasts I've seen over the years."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "Linux was created by IBM, HP (HPQ) and other former IT systems monopolists that realized that Microsoft was taking their systems monopoly away from them. IBM, HP, Digital Equipment (now part of HP), etc. had banded together for this purpose in the early 1980s while Linus Torvalds, the nominal creator of Linux and who now works for one of the groups IBM, HP, etc. put together for its trust-like purposes, was still in short pants."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "Open source businesspeople are frustrated that their business models is not bringing them enormous returns. Microsoft perceives the threat of open source and wants to neutralize it.
Let the dance begin."
Source: Linux Today FOSSBazaar: "I found the results incredibly interesting. In particular, they found that 75% of responding firms use open source software in some way. This figure is up from approximately 13% in the year 2000, which is a major increase in just a few years."
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Geek: "Foremost and Scalpel are not interested in the underlying filesystem. They simply expect the data blocks of the files to reside sequentially in the image under investigation. The tools will find images in dd dumps, RAM dumps, or swap files."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Distillery: "One commonly-stated barrier to Linux adoption is that it looks different to the regular computer environment people are used to. Yet, one of the strengths of Linux over other operating systems is that its user interface can be totally replaced to suit any occasion. Here is how to trick it out like MacOS's Leopard, and trick your friends."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet Asia: "Speaking at a forum here Friday, Whitehurst said the proprietary, "top-down, planned" software development model characteristic of closed source companies is coming to an end--one which is demonstrated by the number of bugs in Vista, he said."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: " once more I was reminded about the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman: the used car salesman knows when he's lying."
Source: Linux Today Blog of helios: "One of the Panel Suits told me as I stood in front of 400 people, that they don't take an interest in advertising Linux because
"We offer solutions, not systems.""
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "Ina Fried has an interview with "Microsoft's top intellectual property lawyer", Horacio Gutierrez, and Gutierrez directly threatens to sue any company, like Red Hat, that refuses to sell out and do a patent deal like the one Novell signed up for"
Source: Linux Today CNet News: "In case you were wondering, Microsoft thinks the battle of open source vs. proprietary software is basically over.
"Today, but increasingly in the future, we are all going to be 'mixed source'," Microsoft's top intellectual property lawyer said in a lunchtime interview "
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Version 7.20 of Alien Arena 2008 was released this week and a few features had caught our attention. In addition to a number of game-play improvements, Alien Arena 2008 has received a number of improvements to its graphics renderer with GLSL program management, parallax mapping, new lighting, new shaders, and other work."
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