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Combining Flexibility with Control: Managing the ''Complexity Hell'' of Customized Linux Platforms (source: Internetnews) November 25, 2009 at 12:11 am Linux Magazine Webinar: "OS groups are under pressure to tailor off-the-shelf Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other OS platforms — but, today, it’s flexibility at the expense of control." (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse. (source: Internetnews) November 25, 2009 at 12:11 am Boing Boing: "The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry..." (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Some Reasonable Defaults for MySQL Settings (source: Internetnews) November 25, 2009 at 12:11 am Linux Magazine: "Out of the box, MySQL isn’t exactly tuned for resilience on a busy network where things occasionally go haywire." (source: Internetnews) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Learn to use Git version control for added flexibility (source: Internetnews) November 25, 2009 at 12:11 am Techrepublic: "Vincent Danen introduces Git, a distributed version control system that gains extra flexibility from being free of a central server, like Subversion or CVS. Here are some of the features that set it apart." (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 6:32 pm DeepTech: "Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead." (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Linux Got Game: Blob Wars ( Blob And Conquer) (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 6:02 pm Tech Source From Bohol: "Blob And Conquer is the latest version of Blob Wars and is a sequel to Metal Blob Solid. It is interesting to note that the new version is a 3D action adventure game while the old one is a 2D platform game." (source: Linux Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Exhibits to Microsoft's Cross Motion for Summary Judgment in Novell WordPerfect Case (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 5:32 pm Groklaw: "We finally find out what Microsoft paid Caldera to settle the DrDOS litigation back in 2000: $280 million. We even get to read the settlement agreement. It's attached as an exhibit. Can you imagine? I'm so surprised." (source: Linux Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com The open road (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 5:02 pm Telecoms: "At the recent Symbian Exchange and Expo (SEE) held in London, telecoms.com talked to John Forsyth, leadership team, Symbian Foundation, about the organisation’s new direction and the threat from Linux and Android." (source: Linux Today) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com What is ChromeOS. Really. (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am Always Right: "All this fuss about Google ChromeOS. Is it a threat to Microsoft ? Is it a threat to the Ubuntu ? (funny nobody wonders if that’s a threat to Apple...)" (source: Linux Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com 5 open source VoIP softphones to watch (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am CIO: "Open source softphones can be deployed on as many devices as required throughout the enterprise -- without additional licence fees." (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Dell Shows Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Some Love (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am WorksWithU: "As Canonical prepares to launch Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) in April 2010, there are signs Dell will show considerable love to the Long Term Support (LTS) release. Here are some preliminary details about Dell’s look at Ubuntu 10.04." (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com More Fun With Bash Quoting (source: Linux Today) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am Linux Journal: "I've written about bash quoting before, and yes, it's about as exciting as watching paint dry or listening to the corn grow. It can also be extremely frustrating when it doesn't do what you want..." (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com External Linux Monitor Adventures (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am Linux.com: "I'm a notebook kind of guy and haven't used a traditional desktop machine in the last 13 years. I do occasionally hook my notebook or Netbook up to an external monitor or projector." (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects lik... (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Insurer slashes $1m from costs with move to Linux (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 9:49 am The Australian: "INSURANCE giant Allianz Australia expects to save more than $1 million by switching from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Linux for key applications." (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Is Google's Chrome OS Waiting for a Strong ARM? (source: LinuxInsider) November 24, 2009 at 6:00 am It's not every brand new operating system that gets open sourced a year before it hits the retail shelves. Then again, Chrome OS isn't just any OS, and Google isn't just any company. Indeed, that's just what Google did last week, making its brand new Chrom... (source: LinuxInsider) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite (source: About) November 24, 2009 at 6:00 am The high-performance web browser Opera has been released in version 10.10, which now includes Opera Unite, a tool for sharing files and other content. ...Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite originally appeared on About.com Focus on Linux on Tuesday, November 24t... (source: About) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Google Widens the Road for Android Nav App (source: LinuxInsider) November 24, 2009 at 6:00 am Google has rolled out a new version of its free Google Maps Navigation application that's compatible with smartphones running the Android 1.6 operating system, such as T-Mobile's myTouch 3G and its G1. When the app was introduced last month in beta, it cou... (source: LinuxInsider) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Who’s afraid of Ubuntu Women? (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 5:02 am We'll see: "The focus seemed to be on reviewing the group’s objectives and agreeing who would take the next steps. The objectives were as follows: Clarify the purpose of the #ubuntu-women channel" (source: Internetnews) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Review: Kahel OS (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 5:02 am Raiden's Realm: "To start off, Kahel OS is based on Arch Linux. Therefore, Kahel OS embodies most of the ideals that Arch Linux has. On top of that, Kahel OS does simplify the installation process that may stumble new Linux users." (source: Internetnews) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Up Close and Personal with LXDE (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 5:02 am The Linux Critic: "After evaluating several environments and window managers, the testers and I agreed that LXDE provided the best balance between responsiveness and usability for the non-technical user." (source: Internetnews) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it. (source: Internetnews) November 24, 2009 at 2:32 am Tech Sanity Check: "Linux has failed to win either mind share or market share on the desktop. Google’s Chrome OS will do little to change that. Learn why." (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Polygon Modeling of a Handgun using Blender 3D 2.49 (source: Internetnews) November 23, 2009 at 8:32 pm Packt: "This article by Allan Brito guides you through the first steps of the modeling by using concept drawings to create a base model in Blender. The base model is very important to add details and upgrade the first flat surfaces into something more comp... (source: Internetnews) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Where Google Chrome security fails: the password (source: Linux Today) November 23, 2009 at 7:02 pm Sure, It's Secure: "Google promises that Chrome will be a much more secure than Windows. Well, yes, but it also has one big problem as well." (source: Linux Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Weekly Ten: Toyota on the moon, Chip in Your Skull, Large Hadron Collider Success, Moving Molecules (source: Linux Today) November 23, 2009 at 6:33 pm Tech Source From Bohol: "8. Toyota Partner Robots heading to the moon, offworld colonies inevitable" (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Eyewitness Report From Today's SCO Bankruptcy Hearing Re Wayne Gray and AutoZone (source: Linux Today) November 23, 2009 at 6:03 pm Groklaw: "I'm happy to tell you that we did have a reporter, MikeD, at today's SCO bankruptcy hearing. He says Bonnie Glantz Fatell is an awesome attorney. She represents SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee, Edward Cahn. We have the minutes from the hearing too, so w... (source: Linux Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Nouveau To Enter The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Kernel (source: Linux Today) November 23, 2009 at 5:33 pm Phoronix: "The Nouveau driver, the X.Org project designed to provide a open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux with 2D/3D/Video acceleration that's developed by cleanly reverse-engineering NVIDIA's binary driver, is about to get promoted in Ubuntu 10.... (source: Linux Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com