<b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "I got a good illustration yesterday of how easy things can be on Linux, especially compared with kicking a dead whale down the beach (using Windows)."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "ChinaGrabber is selling an unlocked, quadband GSM cellphone that runs Linux on a 624MHz Marvell PXA310. The $570 BPhone features a 5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen with 180-degree rotation, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and up to 16GB flash expansion."
Cliff interviews Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, about why Oracle decided to support Linux, what the different levels of support will be, how this benefits Oracle applications customers, and whether Oracle will continue to support other operating systems.
<b>Kotaku:</b> "On April 1, Sony removed one of the PlayStation 3’s original features, the option to install an alternate operating system such as Linux, with its latest firmware (version 3.21). Today, one man claims to have reinstated that feature."
<b>LinuxCommand.org:</b> "Over the next few weeks, I will show you how to take an old, slow computer and make it into a text-only Linux workstation with surprising capabilities, including document production, email, instant messaging, audio playback, USENET news, calendaring, and, yes, even web browsing."
<b>Montana Linux:</b> "I recorded them with a Samsung SC-MX20 which is a very inexpensive / budget rig. The sound quality is fair to good considering the camera does not have the ability to use an external mic. The video quality is fair to good considering that most of the rooms had the lights turned off for viewing projected presentation slides."
<b>IT World:</b> "Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser. But there's also another way to watch Hulu and that's to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "One of the most beautiful aspects of LinuxLand is that, in its chaos, a wild creativity can spawn sweet and enduring projects. One of those projects, Compiz Fusion, was sparky enough to help me enter LinuxLand which in turn helped me build a hardware company."
Take a small box. Add a 64-bit CPU, two SATA hard drives, a Compact Flash slot, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and quiet operation, and what do you have? The VIA M'SERV mini-server. Could this be the perfect Linux box?
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "With Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many people are testing the feasibility of switching small and home office software to their open source equivalents."
<b>DaniWeb: </b>"I've run across ten new Linux distributions inspired by current news stories. Some, of course, are better than others and a few just have no practical use or purpose whatsoever but still are worth a mention."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "The forthcoming version of Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx, has just gone beta and it's going to be the most important Ubuntu release in years. "
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "I have accounts on a number of Linux machines that I ssh into from my MacBook, using Terminal. On some -- but not all -- of them, I've found that if I run screen after connection, the backspace key is interpreted as a delete..."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "In what may have been Google's worst kept secret in years, Google, along with its partners, Intel, Logitech and Sony, is on its way to delivering the Web to your television. What will they be using to do this? Why, they'll be using Google's Android Linux, of course."
<b>Linux Tech.net:</b> "Uoti Urpala, one of the core developers of mplayer, maintains a forked branch of mplayer that contains a lot of interesting patches that are not (yet) included in the main svn repository"
<b>Phoronix:</b> "Our friends over at Unigine Corp love to push the bounds of graphics realism in their Unigine Engine, which continues to be one of the most advanced commercial game engines, and right now is certainly the most advanced game engine for Linux."
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "One of the important things to remember with Fedora Linux is that it is a platform on which solutions can be built. One such solution is the Sugar On A Stick"
Linux Today archives go all the way back to the very beginning in 1998. Here are a few choice stories to share, from the funniest to the most expensive LT story ever to the most popular story, which also gives a prescient peek into Apple's turn towards extreme control-freakdom.
<b>The Register:</b> "Dell has told a Linux-loving Reg reader that he can't receive a refund on the copy of Windows 7 that shipped with his new Dell netbook because it was bundled with the machine for "free""
<b>Holy Crap My Hair is on Fire:</b> "Linux saved me and the company I sub contract to, a large fast food giant, from near-total disaster. Last month McAfee posted a virus definition update that flagged SVCHOST.EXE as a virus. This is my story of what happened."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Tiny wall wart computers are everywhere, providing useful services, ease of use, and using little power. Paul Ferrill reviews the CloudPlug, a cross-platform, expandable backup server for both local and offsite storage"
Linux : Microsoft et SUSE renforcent leur partenariat
Pour l'optimisation des datacenters et l'interopérabilité
A l'occasion de la 5ème édition de l'Open World Forum, Microsoft et SUSE ont annoncé le renforcement de leur partenariat avec le lancement d'une plateforme d'évaluation conjointe.
« Depuis plus de 10 ans, Microsoft travaille à l'ouverture et l'interopérabilité de ses technologies. A travers cet engagement de long terme, notre objectif est d'offrir de véritables solutions d'optimisation des investissements et des compétences pour les environnements hétérogènes en Cloud privé comme en Cloud public », explique Frédéric Aatz, Directeur de la stratégie interopérabilité de Mic...
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox:"
<b>Ubuntuland:</b> "Puredyne is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution aimed at creative people. It provides a number of creative applications, alongside a solid set of graphic, audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package."