Samsung: Galaxy Tab has leg up on Apple iPad
Cnet: "When Samsung debuted its Galaxy Tab on Thursday, it made a bold claim: the device is at least as good as today's dominant tablet, Apple's iPad."
Webcam server on Linux
Linuxaria: "In these days all the new netbooks and most laptops have built-in webcam, or at least add one external costs very little, apart from the traditional use in video calls you can use our Linux box to create a monitoring device"
Editor's Note: Holiday Tech Fun
What to do on a long weekend? Digikam, Ardour, Drupal, new computers....
Mint 9: Minty fresh Linux
Cyber Cynic: "I currently use OpenSUSE on my servers, and Ubuntu, Fedora, and MEPIS on my desktops and laptops. Now, I have a new resident on my desktops: Mint 9."
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo Released!
Linux Gaming News: "Today Frictional Games, the makers of the Penumbra series, has released a demo for their upcoming first person survival horror ?Amnesia: The Dark Descent?. Players with Windows, Mac or Linux all get a chance to experience a small slice of the dread and terror contained in the full game."
Android: the return of the Unix wars?
LWN.net: "Your editor was recently amused to encounter this ZDNet article on "Android's dirty little secret." According to that article, the openness of Android has led to an increase in the control held by handset manufacturers and wireless carriers and the fragmentation of the platform."
Songbird 1.8.0 adds support for more devices
The H Open: "Nearly three months after the last update, the Songbird developers have released version 1.8.0 of their open source media player, code named "Orbital"."
ZaReason Terra HD
Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: "Jono wrote about his new ZaReason Strata, and Rich wrote about his new ZaReason something-else, so I figured I'd let you all know about the ZaReason Terra HD I said I wanted to order, now that I've had it about a month."
Ubuntu 10.10 beta ? an insider?s view
Linux User and Developer: "Ubuntu 10.10 has strived to build on the choices of Lucid, bringing bleeding edge versions of software whilst maintaining the stability that Lucid provided. Join Ubuntu developer, Dave Walker, as he takes an insiders look at Maverick Meerkat"
Open Source: No one is working for free
Network World: "People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It?s dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free, or why developers are working for free."
Tech Comics: "Unfriending"
Tech Comics: "The process of ending a friendship is far more complicated than it once was."
Video Interviews from GUADEC
I did a series of video interviews with participants. Several have now been published here:"
A Good Reason to Use PCLinuxOS 2010
machines."
GPU vs. CPU Computing
Desktop Engineering: "GPUs are now powerful enough to do more than just move images across the screen. They are capable of performing high-end computations that are the staple of many engineering activities."
Beleaguered Novell Buoyed by VMware Linux Deal
eWeek: "Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware."
How To: Get Linux Power on Your Windows PC with Cygwin
Maximum PC: "In this guide, we?ll show you how to get Cygwin set up, the basics of how to navigate a Unix file system, and how to find more information as you need it."
WeTab is based on MeeGo
The H Open: "At a press conference held yesterday, Intel and the WeTab developers, 4tiitoo, announced that the upcoming WeTab internet tablet, scheduled to arrive in September, will run the Linux-based MeeGo"
Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' enters beta
CIO: "The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October."
Help Test the Next Generation of KDE's Kontact
KDE.news: "The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications"
Strong early sales of $140 Android tablet surprise retailer
Linux Devices: "Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet."
Dell Studio 1747 Laptop: One Fatal Flaw Away from Linux Perfection
Linux Magazine: "Dell?s 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw."
GNOME 2.32 Beta 2 Has Been Released
and more translation work has been done."
Linux: A Double Edged Sword for Open Source
Network World: "For better and sometimes for worse, Linux is the poster child for the open source movement. And why shouldn't it be"
OpenOffice.org Conference 2010: preparing the next ten years
Zona-M: "The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field."
Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown
conceivably Tech: "Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down."
Finally We Get to Read the Mobility Assets Sale Agreement with Darl McBride
Groklaw: "Darl's purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement."
8 of the Best Free Linux Personal Information Managers
LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 8 PIM tools tools at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."
ApacheCon 2010 is Open for Registration
Linux Pro Magazine: "ApacheCon organizers have opened registration for ApacheCon 2010. The event is scheduled for November 3-5 at the Westin Peachtree hotel in Atlanta, Ga. The theme for this year's ApacheCon is "Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation.""
CodeWeavers open invitation to Wine-Doors and other closed projects users
Wine-Reviews: "A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message "Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it""
No Need Get Excited About Steam On Linux Again!
Digitizor: "The Steam on Linux rumor is up and running again."
Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed?
Enterprise Networking Planet: "That scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home
Linux.com: "Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back."
Use Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop as Alarm Clock
as alarm clock."
Oracle Squelches Open Source Spirit
Serverwatch: "Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems. Now it seems Oracle has taken over software hell."
Samsung unveils Android tablet with 3G telephony
Linux Devices: "
Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera..."
Linux machines with no rebooting?? Is this what we want?
Standalone Sysadmin: "The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I?d be a wiseguy and I replied ?Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it?s available for for RHEL?. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me."
SECURITY: Best Practices with sudo on Linux
Linux Planet: "Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo."
ArtistX 0.9 Screenshots
Easy Linux CDs: "ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more."
Three locks for your SSH door
IBM Developerworks: "Summary: Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists."
KDE 4.5: KDE 3.5's Stability + KDE 4.0's Promised Features
Das U-Blog: "My last review of KDE 4.X was a bitter disappointment, as KDE 4.4 refused to work. Period. Follow the jump to see if this version of KDE works out any better."