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Source: Linux Today OStatic: "jkOnTheRun reasons that this isn't terribly surprising. Considering the low price of Linux netbooks, and their rarity at larger retailers that might allow new users to "kick the tires," it seems that many new users leap, then look."
 
Source: Linux Today Linux Robot: "The device will initially have few inputs and outputs. It will support miniPCI, USB, Serial Console, CF card, GPIO or some other good method for controlling a relay board and some motors. The device will have 4 small wheels, maybe rubber [old mouse] balls instead and some ultrasonic sensors, 4, 6 or 8."
Source: Linux Today YouTube: "This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux
kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a
large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Many audio, video, and graphics professionals would like to make the switch to Linux, but don't want to deal with the hassle of figuring out multimedia on Linux or are scared off by the purported lack of such tools. I created Vector Linux Multimedia Bonus Disc (MMBD) to address this problem and perception. It's a complete multimedia creation and production system that contains hundreds of the best multimedia applications available on Linux."
Source: Linux Today NetworkWorld: "We tend to think that everybody who's anybody in the tech world has a blog, right? Well, Linus Torvalds didn't have a blog, at least not until dipping his toe into the waters with this one -- "Linus' Blog" -- which launched last Thursday."
Source: Linux Today Network World: "Asustek Computer's Japanese arm has alerted owners of its new Eee Box low-cost desktop PC that the machine shipped with a virus."
Source: Linux Today Free Software in Latin America: "The agreement includes the creation of a factory in Venezuela to build the computers. The Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology, Socorro Hernandez, reported that Portugal will deliver 500,000 computers during the first and second quarter of 2009."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Now though AMD's top-end IGP is 790GX Chipset with Radeon HD 3300 graphics. We have been testing an AMD 790GX motherboard from Elitegroup Computer Systems for the past several weeks and today we are delivering our Linux benchmarks of this newest AMD integrated graphics processor."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "As I had predicted earlier this year LinuxWorld is no more. Well not quite. LinuxWorld the big Linux show that occurs ever year in San Francisco is morphing into a new show called OpenSource World."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "If you were to ask people of a technically inclined nature who 'invented' the window, or where it first appeared, I'm sure you would get a lot of answers along the lines of Xerox PARC or Apple, and some might even be educated enough to come up with Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse, and one of the driving forces behind the Online System (NLS). I will get to Englebart later, but I want to focus on someone else first."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "He claimed that the unfamiliarity of people with Linux was the culprit. This claim sparked some serious discussion around the net, but now MSI's statement is being repeated by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Rob Reilly introduces us to the revolutionary and accessible new world of inexpensive microcontrollers, open hardware, and development environments that run on Linux. Unleash your inner mad scientist with these inexpensive yet sophisticated tools."
Source: Linux Today Grid Computing Planet "The grid combines the computing resources of more than 100,000 processors from 140 institutions in 33 countries, creating a massive distributed supercomputer that will provide more than 7,000 physicists around the world with near real-time access to LHC data and the power to process it, CERN said."
Source: Linux Today InfoWorld: "how can you be certain that the power-saving strategies your company has adopted are, in fact, the best ones? After all, there are plenty of myths out there about saving energy that are patently false. In this report, we examine 10 such myths and bring the truth to light."
Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: "It's been four days now since I got my Dell XPS M1530 pre-installed with Ubuntu. You can see the unboxing pictures here. While I am not ready for a full review, I am ready to give some first impressions. Here is what I have noticed so far:"
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "Most Windows users are quite happy to find out about some software that they want, go to a website, download it and install it. Or buy it on a CD/DVD and install it from that media. However, this approach usually doesn't work that well in Linux."
Source: Linux Today Royal HeHe2-ness: "Metal music may not be exactly everyone's cup of tea but if there's anything we could all agree on, it's an extremely intense, technically complex and physically demanding style of music -- A perfect guinea pig for pushing an audio production suite to its limits."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Even though Mono 2.0 is compatible with Microsoft's .NET 2.0, it's not in full compliance with the latest .NET releases from Microsoft. The Mono effort is important as it is intended to enable .NET (define) applications to run on Linux."
Source: Linux Today LinuxHaxor: "But if you are looking to make your server monitoring a lot more interesting (besides using woopra), you should definitely try out "logstalgia". Also known as "ApachePong", it displays apache access log as a retro arcade game-like simulation in real time."
Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: "Today, I have a tutorial for anyone new to Ubuntu who has just gotten a machine with Ubuntu, either from Dell or from any other manufacturer. These are the things I would consider doing as a new user getting his or her first PC with Ubuntu"
Source: Linux Today reHASHplus: "The problem with Linux is that the backers of Linux distributions tend to be small little companies or at least not really famous ones. Funny names like Red Hat, Mandrake and Ubuntu don't help, either, not to mention "difficult to understand" business and profit models."
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "These betas, which offer users an opportunity to get an early look at the functionality that will be included in the next major versions, are already highly polished and showcase the growing maturity of the desktop Linux software ecosystem."
Source: Linux Today Standards Blog: "The purpose of the award is to recognize the contribution of individuals or entities in promoting ODF adoption, the mission of the ODF Alliance. Here's how you can help! Nominate an individual or entity you work with closely or someone you have observed who stands out as a leader in the ODF community."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "I recently got the chance to talk with Gentoo Catalyst/Genkernel Release Engineering Lead Andrew Gaffney and developer/council member Donnie Berkholz about Gentoo Linux, the challenges it is facing, and the work that is being done by the community -- from veteran developers to new users -- to overcome them."
Source: Linux Today Serverwatch: "LDAP allows you to have a master+slave server setup, with automatic failover in case of problems or just to spread the load. This has obvious advantages, but it can hide problems with the master server."
Source: Linux Today The Daily Artisan: "Conduit is an awesome syncing application for GNOME. It can help you synchronize your personal information like files, photos, notes, emails, contacts, calendar data among many other things. You can also use Conduit to synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic gadget."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "The way I see it, Wall Street could learn a few other lessons from FOSS, lessons that will help in the long term, lessons that will avoid a repeat of the crisis."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Distillery: "In our modern, and busy, world the separation between home computers and home entertainment systems is fast fading. Linux makes it a cinch to build your own PVR, allowing you to watch, pause and record live TV broadcasts."
Source: Linux Today Eye of the Needle: "Stories about Steve Jobs invariably tag him with words like mercurial, feisty, secretive and charismatic. Kallasvuo is none of those."
Source: Linux Today Intranet Journal: "An organization's choice of either an open source or proprietary intranet software solution must be based on its own specific needs and resources -- not on what others are doing or saying. What worked for one company might not necessarily work for yours "
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Over time you might start getting multiple copies of the same file, soft links that point to files that no longer exist, temporary files that have been hanging around longer than they should, and binaries that have been installed and not had their debugging information stripped out. fslint can help you find these troublesome files so you can clean up your filesystem."
Source: Linux Today Quick Tweaks: "No more discussion on the new wallpaper that is probably going to be ported with the next version of our favorite OS that is going to be released on 30th October, 2008. Everyone agrees that the default wallpaper sucks!"
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "Adobe AIR is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop. With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications."
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