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Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Phoromatic has been a huge success, but today we are announcing that Phoromatic has reached a 1.0 status and additionally we are providing the Ubuntu Linux community with a new performance tracker in collaboration with Canonical."
Source: Linux Today Serious Eats: "Carve Steve's head out of a block of mozzerella, add some black pepper for hair, stick on a pair of glasses, and you've got the perfect centerpiece for your iPad launch party."
Source: Linux Today Serverwatch: "As cloud computing deployments ramp up, so too does the competitive battle for the cloud infrastructure technology supporting those deployments."
Source: Linux Today PC World: "We’ve identified eight species of “fanboys”--people who revere one tech platform above all others. Here’s what makes them tick."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says."
Source: Linux Today Amarok: "Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)."
Source: Linux Today Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Summary: The paper explains how computer software is protected and the relationship between open source software and copyright."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) is still six weeks away from release. However, on the eve of the first beta release, the daily builds and news releases suggest that Lucid will be one of the most innovative versions of Ubuntu for several years."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "In what may have been Google's worst kept secret in years, Google, along with its partners, Intel, Logitech and Sony, is on its way to delivering the Web to your television. What will they be using to do this? Why, they'll be using Google's Android Linux, of course."
Source: Linux Today Linux Pro Magazine: "The activity I like the most is fixing bugs. It's one of the great things of open source and the one that I enjoy the most: by having the code available, I'm able to fix a program and make it do what I want without having to go through the original developer."
Source: Linux Today Click: "I put a lot of stock on the ability to do an in-place upgrade of my Linux/Unix desktops. And regarding upgrades from one distribution to another, Debian is supposedly one of the best."
Source: Linux Today Ghacks: "Recently (in my Pardus Linux article) Ghacks reader PeterB mentioned one of his favorite distributions Greenie Linux. Of course I had to give this a whirl and see what it was all about."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Common wisdom says that Linux lacks applications. Fortunately, the common wisdom is dead wrong on this, especially when it comes to productivity applications."
Source: Linux Today Linux Planet: "Novell partners with database vendor Ingres to make it easier to build and deploy software appliances -- but what about MySQL?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Pro: "The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours."
Source: Linux Today The Register: "Dell has told a Linux-loving Reg reader that he can't receive a refund on the copy of Windows 7 that shipped with his new Dell netbook because it was bundled with the machine for "free""
Source: Linux Today Comment 167 for bug 532633: "This is not a democracy. Good feedback, good data, are welcome. But
we are not voting on design decisions."
Source: Linux Today Handle With Linux: "Measuring at just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches this is the smallest Desktop PC. And it's running Linux, one more point for Linux coolness."
Source: Linux Today Thoughts on Technology: "All I have to say is: Man was I blown away.
What proceeded to run on my computer was quite possibly the most seamless non-distro specific package installation I have ever experienced."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source: "Already, various thinkers about the future have proposed a number of candidates for the designation "twenty-first-century literacy." That is, what are the key skills humans must possess in order to be considered literate?"
Source: Linux Today Not 403: "But it's sad to see how Oracle after Sun acquisition, is slowly shutting down this amazing open source project, marking it as "not strategic" and dismembering the few parts they think are worth for their own SSO product."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "Berry Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution based on Fedora and aimed mostly at the Japanese market."
Source: Linux Today Linux Planet: "In a keynote address, Jim Whitehurst explains why open source has become more valuable as an enabler of innovation in the enterprise than a means to cheaper software."
Source: Linux Today Wired: "More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are."
Source: Linux Today Linux Pro Magazine: "Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Critic: "Ever since I got up close and personal with LXDE a few months ago, I’ve had my eye out for a distro that had a solid instance of LXDE as its default desktop environment. LXDE is getting more press and more attention, but the number of distros that rely on LXDE is still pretty small."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "Chris Brown was in the courtroom for us today. It was all Darl McBride today, and there also was some sparring over SCO expert, Christine Botosan, he reports. It looks like the jury will be hearing about Judge Dale Kimball's ruling after all, because Novell intends to ask her about what happened to the stock when he issued his rulings."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "In a Globe and Mail report, the insurance industry wants to use sites such as Facebook to collect and use background information collected to contradict any evidence you have used in your claim for damages."
Source: Linux Today Infoworld: "MonoDroid, which will enable deployment of .Net-based applications on Google Android phones, is in development at Novell, with a preview release planned for August, the head of the project said."
Source: Linux Today Howtoforge: "This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Ubuntu 9.10."
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