Losses at Mandriva
(Dec 4, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (1 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN.net: "Two Mandriva contractors - Adam Williamson and Oden Eriksson have announced that their contracts are being terminated. These two developers are responsible for a great deal of the work which goes into the Mandriva distribution; as Oden notes: "Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain."

Saving the Intellectual Commons with Open Source
(Dec 4, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (30 reads) (0 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:"

Slicing up Sun
(Dec 4, 2008, 16:33 UTC) (162 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Broiler: "One of those companies that has been front and center in the middle of this crisis is Sun Microsystems, which incurred massive losses last quarter, just cut 6000 jobs, and has been steadily hemorrhaging money for years, particularly in their enterprise server business."

Linux Comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
(Dec 4, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (383 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) (530 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."

Speaking UNIX: Go Fish! The Friendly Interactive Shell
(Dec 4, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (373 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "The Friendly Interactive Shell, or fish, is a joy to use. Its syntax, context-sensitive help, and color-coded command-line interface (CLI) greatly simplify the use of UNIX and ease the burdens of scripting."

Dell Customer Awarded Windows Refund
(Dec 4, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (874 reads) (0 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) (730 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) (366 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) (419 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."

Replacing Linux with Windows saves £1 million
(Dec 4, 2008, 13:03 UTC) (2042 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Wire: "A UK company says its switch from Linux to Windows will save it £1 million (almost $A2.3 million). How does that work?"

How Windows Users Are Changing Linux And What We Should Do About It
(Dec 4, 2008, 11:33 UTC) (2046 reads) (6 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) (488 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) (562 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."

Why Does Microsoft Always Get A Free Pass? Why Does Big Business Reek So Badly?
(Dec 4, 2008, 07:03 UTC) (1256 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "John Gilmore, one of the founders of Electronic Frontier Foundation and all-around awesome geek and activist, is often quoted as saying "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." But does it? The Internet is under the control of the companies who own the wires, which ain't us peons out here in the world."

A Ride With Hessian
(Dec 4, 2008, 05:33 UTC) (719 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Noor: "Today, I came across what I call a deep-sea pearl. I came to know Hessian, the binary web service protocol."

Bash Script To Find Free Online Fiction and Non-Fiction Books
(Dec 4, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (901 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 ;)"

Public Key Crypto for Enterprise Users
(Dec 4, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (635 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Its strength lies in the fact that it can be used to exchange encrypted information between two parties that have never communicated together before and have therefore never agreed on a secure way of exchanging messages."

Analyzing TCP Disconnects On Linux Or Unix
(Dec 4, 2008, 01:03 UTC) (1045 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "One question that I get asked a lot (and used to ask a lot ;) has to do with the TCP protocol. More specifically, with how an established connection goes about graciously ending. And, if you haven't guessed, the reason the question gets asked so often is that, with all the different states a graceful TCP disconnect goes through, lots of folks (involved in troubleshooting) are curious as to whether the output they're pouring over is "good" or "bad.""

Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon
(Dec 4, 2008, 00:33 UTC) (1557 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Physorg.com: "Zipf's law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, when he noticed that the distribution of words in a newspaper, book, or other literary article always followed the same pattern."

A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source
(Dec 4, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (1509 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
New York Times: "That in itself isn't unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world's largest software company, believes deeply that open source is the future of software."

Using Spawner To Populate SQL Database
(Dec 3, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (724 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) (754 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) (786 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) (465 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."

Red Hat Chief: 'Cheaper Generally Wins'
(Dec 3, 2008, 22:03 UTC) (732 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: ""At times like this, cheaper generally wins," Whitehurst said as he spoke to journalists on Monday about his thoughts on the Linux market and the immediate future for Red Hat."

How Comcast Controls Sony's Internet TV Plans
(Dec 3, 2008, 21:33 UTC) (819 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
New York Times: "Why should cable companies have anything to say about what I watch that is not on their system?"

Growth in Internet Crime Calls for Growth in Punishment
(Dec 3, 2008, 21:17 UTC) (460 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Help Net Security: "F-Secure's detection count tripled in one year, which means that the total amount of malware accumulated over the previous 21 years increased by 200% in the course of just one year."

10 of the Best Songbird Add-ons
(Dec 3, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (1114 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:"

The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource
(Dec 3, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (1151 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Security: "But although Ubuntu is billed as the ultra-secure solution, you should know that even though Ubuntu's default install has its flaws, like every other operating system. To combat these weaknesses, IT Security has prepared a guide to help you close your system's backdoors and protect you from some of the common Ubuntu exploits."

Another tale of Open Sourcery
(Dec 3, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (703 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Sourcerer: "Our former parent company was running a character based ERP system called MAX on Unix and a Windows file serving network. So day 1 (ish!) we set up two RH servers and installed samba, sendmail, apache etc on one for file print intranet and email and the Linux port of MAX on the other."

Today's YouTube: US v. Microsoft 10 Years Later
(Dec 3, 2008, 19:33 UTC) (919 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Groklaw: "I found a treasure on YouTube. Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has a channel on YouTube now. And they held a conference in September on the US antitrust trial against Microsoft, collecting many of the players in that famous litigation, including David Boies. So it's your opportunity to see him in action. As usual, he's impressive."

The World's Worst Way to Market Linux
(Dec 3, 2008, 19:18 UTC) (1273 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "Getting businesses to go legal with a native Chinese Linux sounded like a win to me. Until, I saw the Red Flag Linux price tag: 5,000 yuan, that's $725 U.S."

Chinese Ordered to Stop Using Pirate Software
(Dec 3, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (986 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Inquirer: "A CITY IN CHINA has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated software with legitimate versions -- the officials primarily pushing Linux."

Lessons from Open Source - SmartCause.org in Public Beta
(Dec 3, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (572 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
SmartCause Blog: "For several years, I worked at a Linux software company. For those of you who don't know, Linux is an operating system, like Windows or Mac. But while Windows is made by people in cubicles at Microsoft and Mac is made by people in more stylish cubicles at Apple, Linux is developed by thousands of volunteers all over the world."

Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu
(Dec 3, 2008, 18:03 UTC) (1367 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."

Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
(Dec 3, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (1693 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "With the EXT4 file-system being marked as stable in the forthcoming Linux 2.6.28 kernel, and some Linux distributions potentially switching to it as an interim step until the btrfs file-system is ready, we decided it was time to benchmark this journaled file-system for ourselves"

Why Ubuntu Now Beats Vista
(Dec 3, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (3233 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ChannelWeb: "...what is becoming increasingly clear is that the free, downloadable operating system has in many critical ways caught or surpassed Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system -- and poses a significant threat to the software giant if the market catches on."

Compiz? Emerald? Metacity? What's the Difference?
(Dec 3, 2008, 16:33 UTC) (1843 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) (1307 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."

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