How to Make Windows Faster than Linux Tech Source: "I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:" (Jul 16, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux Slashdot: "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux." (Jul 12, 2010)
Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The Social Web (Jul 29, 2010, 20:06 UTC) (47 reads)
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(feedback) New York Times: "Surprisingly, tech news community Slashdot was not in the list of top referrers. In fact, according to Woopra CEO John Pozadzides, Slashdot "drives close to 0% of traffic to the sites Woopra measures.""
Digital Copywrongs (Jul 29, 2010, 19:06 UTC) (230 reads)
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(feedback) The American Prospect: "New DMCA exemptions are an improvement, but the basic paradox of telling consumers how they may use electronics remains unaddressed."
Toshiba NB300 netbook review (Jul 29, 2010, 17:36 UTC) (534 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "Pros: It’s a pleasing design with some of the best netbook technology on the market"
Basket – A Multi-Purpose Note Pad For KDE (Jul 29, 2010, 16:36 UTC) (466 reads)
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(feedback) MakeTechEasier: "Basket Note Pads is a multipurpose note-taking application for KDE. Business people can use it to keep track of important tasks and notes. Writers can use it to organize their thoughts."
Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x (Jul 29, 2010, 15:36 UTC) (500 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the inspiration for many of the easy-to-use distributions available today."
Linux is dough, windows is glass. (Jul 29, 2010, 14:36 UTC) (1483 reads)
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(feedback) Technology & Life Integration: "What happens? It goes splat, and flattens out but is still in one piece. That is what happens when Linux crashes."
Android vs iPhone vs Palm Pre vs Maemo: which is best? (Jul 29, 2010, 12:06 UTC) (1859 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "We've looked at three Linux-based phones that give the iPhone a run for its money. There's the Palm Pre, running WebOS; Nokia's Maemo 5-based N900, and the HTC Legend, running Android. Each is a strong challenger to Apple's device, and they beat it today in significant areas. So, which is best for you?"
Apple iPad's rivals are coming (Jul 29, 2010, 10:36 UTC) (2055 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "I get that Apple's iPad is hotter than hot with over three million sold so far, but to say "Apple has won the battle for tablet computing already" is really overreaching."
Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Open Core (Jul 29, 2010, 07:36 UTC) (1063 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "I've been taking some shots at open core lately, because I've come to the realization there are inherent flaws in this business model as it relates to open source."
Irssi - A Really Good Terminal Based IRC Client For Linux (Jul 29, 2010, 00:06 UTC) (978 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "The only IRC client I ever used was XChat. I decided to try something different and Irssi client was a great find. Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for Unix systems and is probably the best I have used till now"
Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux (Jul 28, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (2190 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs."
Sunbird: Your Calendar, Your Way (Jul 28, 2010, 23:04 UTC) (1645 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "Mozilla's Sunbird gives you customization options for the interface as well as a rich set of under-the-hood controls for setting up where, how and when the application gets its information."
Using ALSA to Control Linux Audio
(Jul 28, 2010, 20:34 UTC) (1388 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Planet: "ALSA has been the default Linux sound system for many years, and it is a perfectly capable audio subsystem even in this modern era of fancy new things. Carla Schroder shows us how to to control Linux audio with ALSA."
Linux Format wallpapers (Jul 28, 2010, 20:04 UTC) (1949 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "We've had a number of reader requests to make available some of the imagery we use in Linux Format magazine. Naturally we're happy to share with you all, so we've put this page online where we'll upload artwork as it's requested."
Linux-based hybrid video server supports 40 channels (Jul 28, 2010, 18:04 UTC) (956 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Exacq Technologies is shipping a line of Linux-based hybrid video surveillance appliances with Intel Atom processors. The ExacqVision EL-S systems offer eight or 16 analog inputs and up to 24 IP inputs, allowing creation of systems with up to 40 channels overall, says the company."
The Gallium3D R600 Driver Now Has Texture Support (Jul 28, 2010, 17:34 UTC) (983 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "There's good news for those interested in the open-source Gallium3D driver for the ATI R600/R700 (Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series) graphics cards: the R600g driver is beginning to work."
Going fast with DWM (Jul 28, 2010, 16:34 UTC) (1328 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "If there was any justice in this world, there would be two cars parked in my driveway. One would be a 1977 Ferrari 308 GTS. The other would be a midnight blue BMW M3 convertible with all the amenities."
AMD Ups The Workstation Ante With A New FirePro Driver (Jul 28, 2010, 15:04 UTC) (1022 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Whether you are an owner of an ATI FirePro V3800 that retails for just over $100 USD, the proud owner of an ATI FirePro V8800 that goes for over $1,300 USD, or any of the FirePro products in-between, you will want to update your graphics driver when AMD puts out their next stable software update"
Linux Music Players: Amarok vs. Clementine (Jul 28, 2010, 14:34 UTC) (1938 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "The recent history of the Amarok music player is like a scaled-down version of KDE's recent past. Like KDE 4, the Amarok 2 series was greeted with a user revolt that has only gradually quieted. And just like KDE 4 inspired Trinity KDE for those who preferred KDE 3, so Amarok 2 inspired Clementine, a fork of Amarok 1.4."
Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings (Jul 28, 2010, 13:04 UTC) (2066 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "The latest panic in desktop-Linux-land was that Dell would no longer be selling Ubuntu pre-installed on laptops and netbooks. Alas, for those who love drama, it wasn't true. In fact, Dell is expanding its Ubuntu desktop offerings."
No Operating System is Replaceable (Jul 28, 2010, 12:04 UTC) (2202 reads)
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(feedback) Eleven is Louder: "So many people out there just love to talk about how Linux is now a "drop in replacement" for Microsoft Windows or Macintosh OSX. This isn't the case. The sad truth is that there are no "drop in replacements" for most software, and especially so for operating systems."
Kmart touts $150 Android tablet (Jul 28, 2010, 09:04 UTC) (3336 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Devices: "Kmart has begun touting a seven-inch "Gentouch78" Android 2.1 tablet for $150, as well as a Linux-based seven-inch color e-reader called "TheBook eReader," both from Augen. Meanwhile, TheStreet quotes analyst Ashok Kumar as saying Motorola will release a 10-inch tablet this November running Android 3.0."
So What DMCA Exemption Requests Got Rejected? (Jul 28, 2010, 07:34 UTC) (2006 reads)
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(feedback) TechDirt: "Like many others yesterday, we covered the news that (surprisingly) the US Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress granted some consumer friendly DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions for things like jailbreaking smartphones. But, very little coverage has been paid to what exemptions were requested and rejected. First up?"
Has Dell’s Marketing Team Lost Their Marbles? (Jul 28, 2010, 06:04 UTC) (2074 reads)
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(feedback) IT News Today: "One of the most amazing things about the IT industry is some of the braindead things some companies publish on their public blogs. Recently, Dell has went back and forth from basically saying that Ubuntu is a better choice than Windows, and then saying the opposite."
Court: breaking DRM for a "fair use" is legal (Jul 28, 2010, 04:34 UTC) (1725 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "A federal appeals court has just ruled that breaking through a digital security system to access software doesn't trigger the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act"
Prettier Fonts Coming Your Way (Jul 28, 2010, 03:04 UTC) (3032 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "There was a time when Linux was notorious for having what was called "fugly" fonts. Things improved a bit over the years, but thanks to expiring patents things are about to get even better."
Why Ubuntu Linux Is a Good Business Choice (Jul 28, 2010, 01:34 UTC) (2355 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "But, did you know that you have a choice of something other than Windows for that computer on your desk, and that you have the same choice for the servers in your data center?"
Bordeaux 2.0.6 for Linux Released (Jul 28, 2010, 00:04 UTC) (1671 reads)
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(feedback) Wine-Reviews: "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features."
Reviewed: KOffice 2.2 (Jul 27, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (1924 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "Over the last 12 years KOffice has grown in scope and ambition pushing out both good and bad iterations and occasionally suffering from hyperbolic claims that it had no chance in hell of satisfying.
Version 2.2 of the suite, which comprises KWord, KPresent, KSpread, KPlato (project manager), Krita (image editor) and the prodigal Kexi (database), comes into a very changed world."
Some Really Interesting Gwibber Mockups For Ubuntu! (Jul 27, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1199 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "Neil Patel is the Technical lead for Ubuntu Netbook Edition and Unity at Canonical Ltd. With the current drawbacks with Gwibber's UI in mind, Neil have created some really good looking Gwibber UI mockups."
The 75 "Funnest" Open Source Downloads (Jul 27, 2010, 22:03 UTC) (2990 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "It's summer. And frankly, that means no one's all that excited about working. Oh goodness no.
In honor of the season of laziness, we've put together a list of some of the most fun open source downloads you can find"
Linuxables: Meet Kate, the KDE Text Editor (Jul 27, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (1420 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "We conclude our whimsical jaunt down text editor lane with a look at the KDE take on that always-necessary tool - the text editor. The KDE version is called Kate. Kate takes a different approach to the simplicity most of these tools take."
IBM in EU Antitrust Probe Over Mainframes (Jul 27, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (990 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "IBM is facing regulatory scrutiny from the European Commission, which launched two separate antitrust investigations into Big Blue's mainframe business."
If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company... (Jul 27, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (1769 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "Recently, there was an interesting rumour circulating that Oracle had a war chest of some $70 billion, and was going on an acquisition spree."
Dell Prepares Ubuntu 10.04 Systems (Jul 27, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (2145 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Plenty of folks are confused about Dell’s commitment to Ubuntu, the Linux distribution promoted by Canonical."
