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Source: Linux Today Packet: "When users do not find a way out from a specific problem in our application, it is the help section they turn to. Hence it is important that the help feature is well maintained and without any errors. In this article by Tim Lavers and Lindsay Peters, we will see the errors that can occur in our help section and how to test the help section."
Source: Linux Today IT World: "Linux took the title for "Most Likely to Change the World," prompting me to wonder whether it's really fair to give a "most likely" award to something that has already done what it's "most likely" to do."
Source: Linux Today Wine Reviews: "I am happy to announce that we have now released version 7.1.0 of CrossOver Games, for both the Mac and for Linux."
Source: Linux Today Linuxator: "Recently Greg Kroah Hartman showed some very interesting Linux kernel development stats. I decided to do some too and the result are 5 cool things you probably didn’t know about the kernel code ;-)
These aren’t anything I’ve seen so far about the kernel."
Source: Linux Today Maketecheasier: "For Linux users those who like to impress their friends with the the awesome Compiz eye candy and desktop effects, here is another new trick that you can show: make your desktop rotate as a cylinder or sphere."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "While I am a die-hard Linux and OO.org user, I must admit that I have been using Microsoft Office 2007 frequently - and I like it. That is, I like its features but dislike its closed nature."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Since VIA announced their open-source strategy earlier this year, all they had provided was a simple kernel frame-buffer driver. However, VIA has now made available three programming guides that cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 products. In total these three documents amount to about 800 (PDF) pages."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Professional Template Pack I and II by Sun Microsystems are just two of the many add-ons or extensions you can download from the OpenOffice.org Extensions site. You may also want to use the Calendar Template extension to create calendars."
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: " the A8 core is claimed to deliver 1200 DMIPS, putting it theoretically alongside Intel's Pentium III in performance. Unlike the P-III, though, the 3530 adds a powerful Imagination SGX 2D/3D graphics processor supporting dual independent displays, and a TMS320C64x DSP core clocked at 430MHz."
Source: Linux Today Royal Pingdom: "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "In Information Technology, in most cases, if there is a system failure, someone will not die (yes, yes, those of you who work in health care have a completely different level of requirements) but that does not mean that we should not make sure that our plans do not take into account that there is risk in everything we do, more so if we are managing systems responsible for running other systems."
Source: Linux Today Linux Links: "Email is arguably one of the most popular and useful functions of a Linux system. Fortunately, there is a wide selection of free email software available on the Linux platform which is stable, feature laden, and ideal for personal and business environments. Send and receive emails, run a mail server, filter spam, administer a mailing list are just some of the options explored in this article."
Source: Linux Today Blog of Helios: " trying to get thousands of people in one small town to change to Linux IS news. At least it should be. It would seem that some of the premiere Linux News sources didn't think so."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "While video card BIOS flashing isn't recommended for the inexperienced computer users, ECS does provide a BIOS update for this graphics card that enables the faster performance out of this 256MB graphics card. Prior to these tests we had flashed the BIOS. Once flashing the BIOS we had experienced on average a boost of two to six FPS under Linux with our OpenGL tests."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "With openSUSE 11.0 Compiz-Fusion comes pre-installed and any system with reasonable performance level should be able to benifit from the Compiz-Fusion desktop experience. Needless to say, better the hardware better is the experience."
Source: Linux Today Builder AU: "Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of open source software's biggest supporters."
Source: Linux Today KDE Dot News: "The family of KDE websites has got a new member, the site for the fine utilities applications from the module kdeutils. Despite being one of the first modules, kdeutils has always been without its own website. No longer. At utils.kde.org you can now find a lot of information about the KDE Utilities."
Source: Linux Today Tech Broiler: "Given the pace of technology reporting, I knew that I had to get it running on my test equipment right away What I didn’t realize, however, what a pain in the neck it was going to be getting it to run on commodity PC and Server hardware."
Source: Linux Today Greg Laden's Blog: "Why am I asking if Gnome and Ubuntu are ruining the Linux Desktop? Because they are."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "The Everest model is an all-in-one industrial computer deployed into harsh environments containing extremes of temperature, vibration, shock, or moisture. The most common installations are on forklifts, dock doors, manufacturing floors, and construction vehicles."
Source: Linux Today One Laptop Per Child News: "Did you watch it closely, while taking copious notes about XP on the XO performance? Well, I'm enough of a geek that I did. And the results are not pretty."
Source: Linux Today Polish Linux: "How does the system startup look like? This question usually does not come into mind of a normal computer user. Oh, he presses the power button, goes to the kitchen to make a coffee and when he comes back, the password can be entered on the screen in the prepared field. Sometimes however, in the minds of a bit more keen computer enthusiasts, the question is born “how does it actually work?”"
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "Last week I put Windows Vista Ultimate and Fedora Linux 9 to a test. The article hit the front page of Digg but received a lot of criticism by those disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer. So, let's dig deeper and use Firefox to see if Internet Explorer's memory footprint is actually a Windows Vista "feature" or not. It's time for the ultimate smackdown: Internet Explorer vs Firefox on Vista."
Source: Linux Today Tech Broiler: "SSDs perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly. Veteran Linux hacker Geoff “Mandrake” Harrison was happy to provide me with some insight from a recent O’Reilly MySQL conference in which he and his colleagues presented on how to make your MySQL machines fly using SSDs."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "While many Wi-Fi cards and chipsets were Linux friendly, two major Wi-Fi chipset vendors, Atheros and Broadcom, kept their drivers proprietary. Now, things are changing. Atheros has released a true open-source driver for its latest 802.11n chipsets."
Source: Linux Today derStandard: "one of the sad things we see at them moment is the decreasing amount of interest in investing in OpenOffice.org. So we see Sun cutting back their developer count on OpenOffice.org, while we still see them demand ownership for all of the code, which kinda retards other people investing in it."
Source: Linux Today E-Commerce Guide: "Those Magento boys and girls are at it again, kicking butt and taking names by releasing a brand-new, expanded 1.1 release of their already feature-rich open source e-commerce program. The company claims to already be the fastest growing e-commerce platform on the market – and not just open source e-commerce — with over 400,000 production downloads in only 16 weeks."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "For most areas of enterprise open source, there is one clear leader. The business intelligence (BI) space is unusual in that there are two strong players: JasperSoft and Pentaho.
Here Doug Moran, one of Pentaho's founders, offers a fascinating description of how the company was created "
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