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"Linux usage in the servers of large companies is continuing to rise. 73% of enterprise companies are running Linux on at least some of their servers. Just six months ago that figure was 67% and a year ago it was 65%, as per Evans Data Corp's latest Enterprise Development Issues Survey."
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"One of the most addictive Linux games, Frozen Bubble, just got updated to version 2.0.0. The new version brings you a new singleplayer game mode (multiplayer training), network (LAN, Internet) game mode (up to 5 players), fully revamped graphics, full joystick support, recording and playback of all games with non-predefined levels and more."
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"The official Ubuntu Guide at ubuntuguide.org for Edgy. Based on the popular, command-driven guide by Chua, this is the latest version for Edgy Eft."
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"A bunch of strongly motivated and skilled open source developers (W. Dittman, F. Pouzols, M. De Boer amongst others) created a fully secure, free VoIP stack ready to be used in applications. Will secure communication apps pop up like mushrooms now?"
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"If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I?m not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity? pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty."
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"Linux leader Red Hat has unveiled an aggressive effort to expand its reach in the telecommunications industry, leveraging its acquired JBoss middleware and open source technology in the space and joining a European community project aimed at fostering an open service telecom infrastructure."
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"I've been using Linux for my personal computer for a few years now, but I've never really been interested in where I actually SHOULD put the applications and which I install. This guide does a pretty good job of briefly explaining what data goes in the various directories: /usr, /opt, /var, /etc etc."
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"Two brothers have implemented the open LCARS standards on the Gnome-based Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. The theme includes Star Trek sounds and a complete LCARS makeover for the interface. LCARS is the computer panel interface used in Star Trek the Next Generation. Best of all, the theme is completely free!"
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"Red Hat Inc., which distributes the open-source Linux operating system, this week raised the annual base salary of its president and chief executive officer by 50 percent to $600,000, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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"The Unix program dd is a disk copying util that you can use at the command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit copy of the drive it's copying, caring nothing about filesystem type, files, or anything else. It's a great way to workaround the need for Norton Ghost."
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"So you want to learn Linux? The best way, the only really good way, is to get a distribution, load it on a computer and give it a try. However, you may need or want to read some materials about Linux to get up to speed. Here are some that will help you out."
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"Tux Games is determined to see all of the major commercial games ported to Linux. Before this can happen, the major game companies must be made aware of the demand. That is where we come in.Tux Games is asking for all of the Linux gaming community to sign our petitions to have games ported."
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"Even though the ext4 file system is still in the early stages of development, it's already showing better performance under some workloads. ReiserFS 4 is also a nice surprise. And both are running stable for development file systems."
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"Find out why Mr. Torvald chose the mighty Penguin, where the name "Tux" originated, background information on the cute penguin and of course it would not be complete without some nice Tux photos."
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"Slackware Linux 11 was released at the beginning of this month, which marks 13 years of continued development. Slackware Linux, while not the first Linux distribution, is the oldest surviving one, and is starting to show signs of aging."
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"In the open source world drivers are available for everyone to see, use, change and improve. If I need a 64-bit driver I can take the 32-bit one and change it to work in the 64-bit environment. If I don't have the skills to do that myself I can find someone who has. But in the closed source world I have no choice and no freedom. I am powerless."
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"What do you get when you combine OpenSolaris, the GNU utilities, and Ubuntu? Nexenta -- a GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime."
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"GNOME is still the best desktop environment for Linux. Here are three reasons why GNOME is the logical choice for the majority of home Linux users."
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"I wondered how well Ubuntu would run on some of my older PCs. Alas, the resulting installations were a little slow, and in one case installation failed completely. But a little research turned up tricks to get Ubuntu sprinting even on antiquated systems. Here are a few basic things I did to adapt Dapper Drake to old hardware."
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""I began dabbling with Linux as early as 1995, but in June of 1996, I began using it for real when I created my first Web site. Today, my Linux desktop takes care of all my personal computing needs, both at work and at play." Here's one man's story of how he and Linux matured together."
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"Unlike Linspire and Xandros, which are both based on Debian, Linux XP is derived from Fedora. It runs an extensively modified version of GNOME to create an environment a Windows user should be comfortable with. Its manifesto claims that Linux XP is not a "cheap copycat product" but rather a mature and stable "ready-to-migrate desktop system.""
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"Andrew Morton released a new -mm patch this morning, it includes, among other things, the new ext4 filesystem patch. The ext4 filesystem promises improved data integrity and performance, among with less limitations."
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"Warning - Spoilers ahead:"All I can say, is, there are many nice features in XP which open source tools lack (especially the NVC's, buffer-overflows and spy and adware), but I'm not yet decided.""
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"At first I thought this was a joke, but these extreme right wing wakos really think Linux is UnAmerican. "This Linux problem is a growing issue, and one that conservative Americans cannot afford to ignore. Fortunately Microsoft have prepared a great deal of information to help computer users get away from this menace.""
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"This interesting article compares the results of installing seven different 1-CD distributions on an IBM ThinkPad 2662-35U. It includes Freespire, Kubuntu, Linspire, Mandriva One, SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, Xandros."
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"After about a year of wait since last release, Skype released new version of its breakthrough product for Linux platform. ALSA support (don't laugh) and overall cleanup, contact list quick filter and many many more small visual and usability improvements make it a great update for Linux users."
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"This site has done a simple remaster of PCLinuxOS MiniMe made specifically for USB flash memory sticks. Also included in the remastered zip is a custom one button syslinux installer that allows you to make the USB drive bootable via Windows XP through a simple one button menu."
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Title says it all.Now if only we could get Apple and Microsoft to Adopt this licence. LOL.By the way its the Third licence, Click it to read it. * Shared Source License for IronPython * Python Software Foundation License Version 2 * Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License * ElementTree License
You can read more about it here.
