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openSUSE 11.2 on the test bench (source: Internetnews) November 14, 2009 at 2:50 pm The H Open: "A whole series of changes awaits users in openSUSE 11.2, including Ext4 as the default file system, boot loader Grub2 and a big move towards the KDE 4 desktop" (source: Internetnews) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is really nice (source: Internetnews) November 14, 2009 at 7:03 am Dedoimedo: "If you have read my Ubuntu 9.10 review last week, you must have noticed my reaction to the latest Ubuntu release was rather lukewarm. This makes today's Kubuntu review all the more intriguing." (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Another Linux device company acquired (source: Internetnews) November 14, 2009 at 5:31 am Moblin Zone: "An up-and-coming networking chip company is buying one of the first companies to commercialize embedded Linux. Cavium has agreed to pay $50M for MontaVista, which has operated independently for ten years." (source: Internetnews) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP (source: Internetnews) November 13, 2009 at 11:03 pm ars Technica: "Google isn't content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers. The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://." (source: Internetnews) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Editor's Note: Cloud is Just Another Word for ''Sucker'' (source: Internetnews) November 13, 2009 at 7:03 pm We might warn about privacy, security, and reliability problems in cloud computing, but it's coming and we can't stop it. So do we join the cloud party? Heck no. (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Smart Power Monitoring with Network UPS Tools (source: Internetnews) November 13, 2009 at 6:34 pm Linux.com: "For added protection, you can run a power-monitoring utility that will read status information from the UPS and perform a clean shutdown of the connected machine (or machines), preserving data and stopping processes in the proper state." (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Drupal Wins First Inaugural Packt Hall of Fame Award (source: Linux Today) November 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm CMW Wire: "This week Packt is announcing one new award winner a day. Already they've revealed that Drupal won Best Open Source PHP CMS " (source: Linux Today) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com The PC Privacy Battle at the Border (source: Linux Today) November 13, 2009 at 5:34 pm LinuxInsider: "Border protection agents have extensive rights to search electronic devices that travelers take with them through U.S. ports of entry. However, relatively few searches are actually conducted." (source: Linux Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Reviewed: Parallels Desktop 4 for Linux (source: Linux Today) November 13, 2009 at 5:04 pm TuxRadar: "After conquering the desktop virtualisation space on the Mac, Parallels has decided to take the fight to VMware with a client for Windows and Linux desktops...So, what does Parallels Desktop 4 for Linux (let's just call it PD4) have over the com... (source: Linux Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Fedora 12 Linux Tackles Virtualization (source: Linux Today) November 13, 2009 at 4:34 pm InternetNews: "Virtualization has been a big push this year for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). It's also a big area of focus for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux 12 release, which is due out next week." (source: Linux Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com