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Last Update: Tue Jun 10 02:32:37 2008

+ Linux is greener than Windows, test shows + For this test, the reviewers examined power consumption as a way to judge whether Windows Server 2008 or Linux is, in fact, the ...

+ Linux is bad juju. People have died from using it. (COMIC) + Linux is bad juju. People have died from using it. (COMIC) ...

+ How to order pizza from Domino's by using the command line + Only in *NIX could you order pizzas from Domino's Pizza with any topping, any size, any crust using only the command ...

+ Wine 1.0 RC4 Released! + The popular Windows implementation for Unix has reached a new milestone with their 1.0 RC4 release. This brings them even closer to ...

+ Ubuntu: Worst Game Ever? + Ubuntu: Worst Game ...

+ ASUS' Eee Monitor iMac-beater to hit $500 using Linux + ASUS today has given us its first glimpse of its Eee Monitor all-in-one PC and is promising to one-up the iMac: thanks to using Linux ...

+ Google Gadgets open-sourced for Linux + Google has announced the availability of Desktop Gadgets support for Linux and has released the full source code. We tested it on ...

+ Acer bets big on Linux + Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks. The company is already heavily promoting Linux ...

+ Hands on with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix + Canonical, the company behind the highly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, unveiled its Ubuntu Netbook Remix yesterday at the ...

+ Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex + Hailed as a "reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable internet-centric devices," the ...

+ The Mobile Linux War + A recent report from ABI Research highlights the rise of mobile Linux, estimating that 23 percent of the world’s smartphones will ...

+ Unix is the devil's work + A sad, but true tale of ...

+ What Makes Sony's Online Games Work? Linux! + The Systems Management News takes a look behind the curtains at what it really takes to run a network of massively multiplayer games. ...

+ ASUS Eee Box: $269, mid-July, with Linux + ASUS is finally getting official with the Eee Box, and it should be one of the most feature-rich basic Linux systems yet: a $269 [...] Atom chip, and an 80GB hard drive. Look for it in mid-July... shortly after Microsoft drops Windows XP support for most systems.

+ What Joost Really Plans for Linux... + For all of you Linux users who've been demanding a version of Joost, demand no more. This is what Joost really thinks of ...

+ Dropbox Linux Screenshot Leaked [Exclusive] + Exclusive client screenshot ...

+ The New Default Plasma Desktop Theme for KDE 4.1 + Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1. You can see the new applet [...] items that once upon a time weren't themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar. The theming support is now even more extensive.

+ Valve Source Engine to hit Linux soon...? + This has probably been dugg before, but I've made a few unique observations in my article that I haven't seen anywhere else (namely ...

+ Wine 1.0 RC3 Released + This is release 1.0-rc3 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on ...

+ Second Blender open movie + Big Buck Bunny, the second open movie created with the open source 3D content creation suite Blender, is now available as free ...

+ Announcing openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 + The first release candidate of the hotly-anticipated openSUSE 11.0 is here! Help give 11.0 the all-important last minute ...

+ Making The Simpsons with Red Hat Enterprise Linux + Joel Cohen tells Red Hat Magazine about how The Simpsons use Linux to speed up their animation process. Shrek, Ratatouille, The ...

+ Dell + Ubuntu+ sub$500 mini computer = EEEpc killer ? + Thinking of a new Eee PC or maybe Wind laptop? Hold up, Dell's about to loose this baby on the sub-$500 mini-laptop ...

+ Is OpenOffice.org Getting Faster? + Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individual performance improvements, but [...] OpenOffice.org larger and may slow things down. What is the net effect on performance? This benchmark measures versions 1.1.5 to 3.0

+ What Digg does to Servers [1016% Server Load!] + This is a screenshot of the output from running the Top command on my CentOS box before it completely crashed due to the traffic from [...] and was allowing far too many apache processes to spawn which ate up all the memory so the box switched to Swap memory (kswapd).

+ GNOME file manager gets tabbed file browsing + Support for a tabbed user interface in the Nautilus file manager is a feature frequently requested by users of the GNOME desktop ...

+ Rock out on Linux with the Banshee 1.0 beta 2 media player + Ars tests the latest beta release of Banshee 1.0, an open source media player for Linux. This version adds support for video content, ...

+ KDE Project Ships First Beta of KDE 4.1 + The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts ...

+ OLPC software maker splits from X0 hardware, goes solo + One Laptop Per Child's former president of software is forming a new foundation that will focus on developing open source education ...

+ Clarification about Firefox 3 system-killing performance + A couple of articles have now been written about the unpleasant behaviour that people encounter with Firefox 3 in certain Linux [...] and so it’s not surprising that there’s a fair bit of misunderstanding, though some of it seems less well-meaning that others.

+ ASUS Eee desktop named EBOX: still has Linux, intros in June + ASUS' E-DT desktop take on the Eee PC has been given a final name, launch date, and specs, according to a new leak. Now just called ...

+ Works with ... Ubuntu + Ubuntu acceptance into the UK consumer market ... ...

+ Amarok 2: Visual Changelog + Another great review from ...

+ Linux May Power New Nokia Phones + The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the ...

+ The website is down because someone removed the X-Box + What happens when the boss mistakes an Xbox running as linux server for a xbox to play games ...

+ Linux Brings Open-Source to the .car Era + Wind River is joining Intel to develop an open-source Linux platform to your car and shake up the auto industry by bringing greater ...

+ Wine 1.0-rc2 Released + What's new in this release: bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.123 bugs fixed since ...

+ US plots "Pirate Bay killer" multi-lateral trade agreement + "Wikileaks has revealed that the United States is plotting a "Pirate Bay killing" multi-lateral trade agreement. The proposal includes [...] of copyrighted information exchange on the internet, rapidly expose ISP's customers and ban the use of various anonymization tools.

+ OpenMoko Linux mobile phone ditches GTK+, gets Qt and E17 + OpenMoko has issued a very early alpha release of its software platform which has been radically reinvented in a quest to bring more ...

+ QGtkStyle makes KDE apps fit in with GNOME + A Trolltech developer has implemented a new Qt style that uses the GTK+ theming API. It will enable Qt and KDE applications to share ...