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Source: Linux Today Rudd-O: "In the olden days, to change the sound card used to play back music or movies, you had to reconfigure your music or movie player."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "In 1999, "Desktop Linux" was a joke. GNOME was a two-year old project, and Ximan and Eazel -- both of which were only to survive in the short term but who's contributions to the Desktop would be huge -- had not been founded yet."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This Monday's script is actually a web-page frontend (CGI, to be exact) to make use of another script. That script can be any you want, but, if you like, we published an Expect script some time ago to do network wide updates from a single source that can be modified to restrict it to password changing only."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Today, photos are appearing of Lenovo's Ophone, which is an Android phone that it has slated for delivery in China. Does this thing look exactamundo like the iPhone or what?"
Source: Linux Today Liliputing: "It's based on Ubuntu Linux, but it's not an official Ubuntu project and so developer Jon Ramvi has been searching for a new name for the Ubuntu Eee for the last few months to avoid trademark issues. Today he's announced the new name: Easy Peasy."
Source: Linux Today LWN.net: "Recently, an update of D-Bus software package in Fedora 10 caused the
substantial breakage of some applications, including PackageKit. This
change left people using the distribution's default set of graphical
tools unable to update their systems properly to fix the problem."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "However, even within the Normal view, you have options that you may not have noticed. Go into other views, and the options increase. For most of them, all you need to do is to select a view from the tabs in the middle of the screen, or select an option from the top of the View menu. And now, there is even a special view for when you are actually presenting a slide show, thanks to a recently-released extension."
Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "Unlike the standard /dev/hda1, /dev/sda2 notation, it is linked specifically to a particular piece of hardware (whereas /dev/ notation can shift between disks depending on how they're plugged in). This means you don't have the risk of a system reconfiguration causing disks to be renamed, and thus causing knock-on breakage of things that reference that disk."
Source: Linux Today It Toolbox: "I have become concerned about some actions and thoughts that people have started taking and expressing. The latest was some guy at a French sounding blog who wrote a rambling contradictory hissy fit trying to validate his reasons for leaving Linux."
Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "And oddly, despite all those who've repeatedly done it wrong, people are switching, and doing so in droves. But something else is happening because of that: Linux and FOSS are changing. People coming over from Windows are bringing their old habits and mentalities "
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "openSUSE 11.1, the next major version of the company's community-driven Linux distribution, is scheduled for release on December 18. The new version will include updated software and some important new features that enhance the quality of the distribution."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Newb: "The arena of finance is no exception. Plenty of outstanding financial applications are available for the Linux operating system. From personal finance to business finance, there is an application for nearly every need. Let’s take a look at the top Linux financial applications."
Source: Linux Today eWeek: "Robert Duffner has taken over the role of senior director of Platform and Open Source Software strategy at Microsoft. Sam Ramji held that role for awhile until relinquishing it to Duffner. Ramji has moved up to take a broader role in Microsoft's overall approach to open source."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "For the first time since Bill Gates strong-armed PC vendors into installing Windows, the operating system has dropped below a 90% market share, according to a Net Applications' survey of Internet users' operating systems."
Source: Linux Today An alien's viewpoint: "There is currently a very bad security problem in Internet Explorer that is actively being exploited by the bad guys and that threatens to make the Internet even more infested with compromised machines that the bad guys can then use for their nefarious purposes. "
Source: Linux Today Lunduke: "It's been a rather interesting year for Linux, with just enough ups and downs to keep us on our toes. And, being as it is the heart of December, I figured now is a good time to scour through the Linux Action Shows of the past year and find, what I consider to be, the top moments from 2008."
Source: Linux Today Adventures In Open Source: "Regular readers will know that earlier in the year I bought a Dell M1330 laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed, it's only ever had Linux or OpenSolaris (very briefly) installed on it and yet it still has a key on the keyboard proudly displaying the Windows logo. All machines do these days it seems but this has never had Windows on it and it NEVER will."
Source: Linux Today Polish Linux: "KDE 4.2 is now officially frozen, which means that no new features are allowed to be added. Before the freeze however, Plasma got one new feature: while zooming out of the desktop, we are given a handy panel underneath, which offers us several options:"
Source: Linux Today LWN.net: "Currently proposed for inclusion in the mainline kernel, KSM implements a potentially useful--but not particularly new--mechanism. Unfortunately, before it can be examined on its technical merits, it may run afoul of what is essentially a political problem: software patents."
Source: Linux Today The Geekess: "In the beginning, there was USB 1.1, with the "low speed" and "full speed" devices (at 1 Mbps and 12 Mbps, respectively). Then USB 2.0 came along with "high speed" devices that ran at 480 Mbps. Now the new USB 3.0 bus specification defines "SuperSpeed" devices that run at 5 Gbps (5,120 Mbps)."
Source: Linux Today Silicon.com: "A scientific project that will help govern how the European Commission tackles climate change is relying on Linux and the Geant academic grid to complete its vital work."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Armchair activists hit the streets across capital cities to rally against national Internet content filtering."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "The voluntary trials will test the efficiency of ISP-level Internet content filtering which, if successful, will be implemented across all Australian Web connections at an estimated cost of $70 million."
Source: Linux Today Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM: "I am frequently asked by family and friends why there are so many Linux distributions, and how one should go about making an informed choice between them."
Source: Linux Today How Software is Built: "The bottom line is that, when I first found Linux, it was too rough around the edges for me. That represented the possibility of opportunity, not that I was really looking for work. This will piss off a few people, but there was a certain amateur quality about it."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "And with that theme in place, this article will examine the benefits of making room for open source solutions this holiday season in the place of dropping a ton of money -- cash that many of us may not have this year in the first place."
Source: Linux Today TechRadar: "Jeremy Allison's contributions to the free software world are legion, and yet the project he's best known for continues to be Samba, the open implementation of some of Microsoft's most important networking protocols."
Source: Linux Today The KOffice Project: "The KOffice team releases a fourth beta version today, in line with the monthly releases leading up to the 2.0 final release of the innovative office suite KOffice2."
Source: Linux Today Eee PC: "Eeebuntu 8.10 has been released. Eeebuntu is a custom version of Ubuntu Linux that supports all drivers for most Eee PC models out of the box."
Source: Linux Today Cooking With Linux: "People all around planet Earth are chatting about this story, online, in blogs, IRC . . . even over at UDS I heard it mentioned.
Firstly, is it really a story? I don't think so."
Source: Linux Today Economist: "Much advice on offer online suggests souping up the specification of a netbook so it can run Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, rather than the free, open-source Linux system that is offered as standard on many netbooks."
Source: Linux Today Rudd-O: "Web servers (especially Plone, by default) work wonders in combination with an HTTP accelerator such as Varnish or Squid. But your iPhone readers are out of luck because of a grave bug on MobileSafari -- Plone sites are especially slow like molasses on the iPhone. Don't worry, here's a trick that will solve it."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Two years ago the development team of the popular Amarok audio player for KDE put themselves to work. A few days ago they released version 2 to rock the world."
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