<b>LinuxLinks:</b> "the focus of this article is to highlight champion Linux books which make an invaluable contribution to learning about Linux, and which are also available to download without charge."
Michelle Megna reports that Google developers have been very busy, rolling out a new royalty-free, open-source video/media format, and baking up fresh hot Android releases full of tasty new features.
<b>StreamingMedia:</b> "VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself."
<b>Developer.com: </b>"Like many technologies, Git's shallow learning curve encourages adoption, yet it offers so many features and options that it can easily overwhelm beginners."
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced the release of CrossOver 9.0.1 for both Mac and Linux."
<b>Amarok:</b> "Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players)."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Both the code and its development model are seen as conforming much more closely to the Linux way of doing things than the alternatives; KVM is expected to be the long-term virtualization solution for Linux. So, one might well wonder, why has KVM been the topic of one of the more massive and less pleasant linux-kernel discussions in some time?"
<b>Postfix Mail:</b> "One great alternative client is Thunderbird, Icedove if you are on Debian. Here is a step by step approach to setting up the Thunderbird client for TLS and SMTP AUTH."
Check out handy marketing tips on the latest Web TV episode of 'Help! My Business Sucks.' This week's topics: copywriting, improving productivity and customer research.
The former Compaq CEO will serve as the point man for Acadia, the new joint venture designed to help enterprise customers run virtualization software throughout their data centers.
<b>Developer.com: </b>"The open source R language has been in use by statisticians to do data analysis, predictive modeling and visualization for over a decade. This week, R is set to undergo a revolution of sorts with a revamped commercial effort."
It looks like Palm's webOS software won't just go into phones and tablets. HP is looking to use the lightweight OS in one of the products it's most famous for producing: laser printers.
<b>Australian IT:</b> "OPEN source software is seen by some as akin to religion. However, Ingres chief executive Roger Burkhardt insists he is not on a crusade to convert the Microsoft and Oracle faithful."