If Google's New Browser Isn't Even Available on Linux, Why is This Great News For Linux?
Zemlin's Blog: "In particular in makes a LOT less sense for people to PAY for a heavy and bloated operating system."
Citibank Infuriating its Customers With Linux-Hostile Site
The Inquirer: "But when you start using that credit card and want to check you card usage on-line, the system won't work when accessed with Linux."
Debian Distro Named for Little Green Man
Desktop Linux: "With "Lenny" in the final stages of preparation, Project Maintainer Luk Claes has announced that Lenny's successor will be named for "squeeze," a three-eyed space alien."
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Strip Mining of Open Source
IT Pro: "...Fleury claimed that "IBM reacted negatively to the Sun announcement" that Java would be released under the GPL "because IBM's approach to open source is what we call 'strip mining'..."
Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Strings
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Our Objective: Given a Number Pool of "x through y," create the maximum possible Fixed String Length variations of our Fixed String that contain some variation of our Guaranteed Combination, without any duplication (i.e. 1, 2, 3 is equal to 2, 3, 1 and would only count as one match), and return the results."
Finnix: Compact Linux Distribution for System Administrators
Linux.com: "Finnix is a live CD distribution designed to assist system administrators in such tasks as system recovery and network monitoring. Based on Debian testing and Linux kernel 2.6, Finnix helps with filesystem and partition manipulation as well as with data recovery, installation of other operating systems, and boot record repair."
Using 'find' to unrar Files Recursively
volatile int: "Sometimes when I've downloaded something, it is compressed into several small rar files, divided into lots of subfolders. This can be handy to keep track of files, but at the same time a pain in the ass when uncompressing them."
Getting Started With CodeIgniter
IBM Developerworks: "If you're a PHP developer, it doesn't take long to make a profound discovery when it comes to your programming language of choice: Large projects can get messy."
Exaile Music Player - Music Player for GTK+ in openSUSE
SUSE & openSUSE: "Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support"
Actor/Author Stephen Fry Endorses Free Software
Linux.com: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off a month-long celebration of the GNU Project's 25th anniversary with a video in which British actor and comedian Stephen Fry expresses his support for free software."
Convert a Linksys NSLU2 to an RTorrent Appliance
JBCobb.net: "In this story I will show you how I converted a mild-mannered Linksys NSLU2 into an RTorrent Appliance. I can park this on a bookshelf someplace and anytime from anywhere I can scp a torrent file to that machine which will then download the requested file to the attached storage."
Why Lifehacker Readers Switched to Linux
Lifehacker: "We asked the devoted Linux users, the dual-Windows-and-Linux-booters, and the newer converts to the open-source operating system last week why they made the switch to Linux, and received over 330 responses as of this posting."
Novell SUSE Linux Scores Big Retail Deal
The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy was strolling through his local BJs Wholesale Club over the holiday weekend, when he spotted a Hewlett-Packard 2133 Mini-Note PC (pictured) with Novell SUSE Linux preloaded. Sweet ... but not perfect."
Tomboy - Desktop Note Taking in openSUSE Linux
SUSE & openSUSE: "Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day."
Furius ISO Mount - Mount and Unmount ISO Images With GUI Tool in Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Geek: "An ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image management utility for the Gnome Desktop Environment."
Fluxbox 1.1.0 Released
Fluxbox 1.1.0 has been released. "Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. It is built using C++ and licensed under the MIT-License." There's no official release announcement yet, but the code is on Sourceforge, as well as the release notes.
* Google Chrome Considered Harmful *
It appears that Google scored a PR success with their Chrome browser. In short, the promise is a web experience where web pages are allowed to behave more like desktop applications. This is done by boosting the abilities of common web pages in terms of performance, while also allowing 'plugins' to enrich the user experience of certain other pages. As it seems, the announcement shot at the heads of people who've been holding their breath for the fabled Google Operating System. However in the following text I will demonstrate that Chrome [based on what we are allowed to know] puts strain on the Designer and Developer communities, is not innovative (save for one feature), and copies ideas liberally from Google's worst enemy. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
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