New Chrome stable 5.0.375.55 released, marking the first time Windows, Mac and Linux releases for stable have been made, but it's still not quite what beta users have had.
<b>Phoronix:</b> "The press release announcing this new driver was titled "Application Performance Increases By Up To 20 Percent with Latest ATI FirePro Graphics Driver," so we decided to see if this proprietary driver really lives up to its claims under Linux."
<b>Linux Admin Zone:</b> "You might know that beginning with MySQL 5.1.24, support for the NDBCLUSTER storage engine was removed from the standard MySQL server binaries built by MySQL. Therefore, here I’m using MySQL Cluster edition instead of MySQL Community edition."
<b>Linux.com:</b> "There's no question about whether to deploy virtualization; the real question is what virtualization solutions to look at and what workloads to virtualize. We'll help cut through the complexity and help set the options straight."
<b>Ubuntu Geek: </b>"DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 (though now it also runs in plain console without X, in FreeBSD, and in OpenSolaris)."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "It always grates me when the discussion gets down to how rotten Windows is because of all the viruses etc. when it seems obvious, at least to Windows users, that most of that crap is written by Linux devotees."
<b>PC World:</b> "Kubuntu 10.4 ("Lucid Lynx") hit the servers late last week so I thought I'd upgrade. Plenty of people appear to have had a great upgrade experience. Mine was a nightmare. But few Linux disasters are unrecoverable. Here's how I got through mine ... albeit with a few outstanding issues."
<b>WDVL:</b> "In this article, I'll introduce you to 10 indispensable Linux commands that can make your web development work much easier and even more enjoyable"
<b>eWeek:</b> "A new cloud-focused Linux flavor launched recently; known as Peppermint, the operating system is currently a small, private beta and will open up to more testers over the next two to four weeks."
<b>Symantec press release:</b> "In the current spam climate, this index shows that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "In part one we made a basic movie with kdenlive. Pretty easy! But we can make a better movie by adding some effects, so Akkana Peck shows us how to add transitions between scenes, music and titles"
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "If you’re a Linux user, you’ve likely been asked at some point if you want Ext3, Ext4, XFS, ReiserFS, Btrfs, or one of many other filesystem acronyms. This choice confuses new and old users alike, and like all software, the options change as technology improves."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Recently, there have been a number of reports that Linux is not ready to work with these drives; kernel developer Tejun Heo even posted an extensive, worth-reading summary stating that "4 KiB logical sector support is broken in both the kernel and partitioners.""
<b>nixCraft:</b> "My xorg.conf file is missing as I deleted accidentally for some reason. Now, Xorg try to probe my hardware on every startup. How do I configure Xorg under Debian or any Linux distro / operating systems?"
<b>Click:</b> "It's not usually a big deal, getting sound working in Linux or BSD. In my case, however, my laptop's internal sound module is dead, and I've substituted a USB sound module from DealExtreme.com that costs about $2."
The latest smartphone sales figures from NPD Group show Google's Linux-based Android OS blowing the iPhone and Windows Mobile clean out of the water. Where is Microsoft in the booming mobile market?
<b>Information Week:</b> "Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux on why he thinks Ubuntu will succeed on the desktop, where other equally famed competitors have failed "
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Pandora, the Linux-based handheld game console that is aimed to take advantage of free and open source software is finally shipping."
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have changed the Bordeux UI from a GTKDialog to a GTKWindow, the "OK" button has also been re-named to "Install"."
<b>Venture Beat:</b> "Encouraged by early results on Windows, Intel said today it will add a beta test version of popular Intel AppUp Center for Linux"
<b>IT News Today:</b> "Linux is full of some amazing tweaks that go far and beyond other operating systems. Last week I wrote about using scripts to simplify shell commands, and today I'm going to take that a step further, but it takes a little bit more leg work"