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Peek Wants Linux

The folks behind the slick little Peek email device are asking for help — with Linux. "I'm hoping one or more of you out there in the world can get Linux running on the Peek," Dan Morel writes on the company's blog . "Feel free to post here on how far you get....

T-Mobile USA Launches myTouch 3G Android Phone

T-Mobile USA today announced the start of the pre-sale period (from July 8-28, for current subscribers only) for the $200 myTouch 3G , the company's newest Android-based mobile device. Retail availability of the device will begin on August 5th. "The MyTouch 3G is very similar to ...

Anticipating the CrunchPad

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is promising to introduce a Linux-based tablet, the CrunchPad , before the end of the month. "The purpose of the CrunchPad will be very simple: surfing the Web," writes the NYT's Claire Cain Miller . "Turn it on and up comes a brows...

Study Anticipates Increasing Use of Linux on Mainframes

© scriptingnews A new study commissioned by CA (and executed by TheInfoPro ) has found that large enterprises are increasingly deploying Linux on mainframes to maximize value and minimize costs. "Linux on the mainframe is clearly a very attractive platform choice for IT organizat...

Looking at 2.6.30

© phauly The newest version of the Linux kernel has arrived , and with it a host of new features . "One of the most noticeable elements in the new release is the kernel inclusion of fastboot, an enhancement designed to speed startup for Linux-based systems," writes LinuxPlanet...

Introducing Fedora 11

The Fedora Project this week released Fedora 11 , which adds a number of attractive new features to the Linux OS. "Fedora 11, which was code named Leonidas, includes virtualization console improvements that ease the task of moving between the host operating system and the guest operat...

You @ Linux Dot Com

The Linux Foundation this week launched a new individual membership program which provides users with a wide range of benefits for a $99 fee — including, most notably, an @linux.com email address. Other benefits include the following: A weekly Linux.com 'Briefing Book' wi...

Dude, You're Getting Ubuntu

Dell this week introduced a new Ubuntu netbook, the Latitude 2100 , which is designed specifically for use by schoolchildren. "Dell has designed the system with school-friendly features, such as bright primary colors and a more rugged, rubberized design to withstand rough handling ...

Linpus GM: Linux Netbooks to Hit 50 Percent Market Share This Year

Earlier this month, The Taipei Times' Elizabeth Tchii reported that Linpus Technologies general manager Stephen Lim "expects Linux-based netbooks to reach 50 percent market share by next year, on a par with Microsoft Inc.'s Windows platform." "As competition in the...

Lenovo Says Linux Won't Dominate Netbook Market

In a recent interview with TECH.BLORGE's John Pospisil , Lenovo 's Matt Kohut suggested that Linux is unlikely to dominate Windows in the netbook market. "You know, there were a lot of netbooks loaded with Linux, which saves $50 or $100 or whatever it happens to be, based on Mi...

OIN Seeks Prior Art in TomTom Patent Suit

© Elliot Moore The Open Invention Network (OIN) this week announced an effort to find prior art for Microsoft's FAT patents as used in its lawsuit against TomTom . "The OIN's new FAT-busting project is a response to a lawsuit that Microsoft settled earlier this year with n...

Linux Users Recall Their First Time

© John Vetterli On LinuxInsider yesterday , Katherine Noyes took a look at Linux users' recollections of their "first time," a topic discussed at this month's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and later on Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' blog at Computerworld as ...

Jaunty Jackalope Released

The final pre-production code for Ubuntu 9.04 , codenamed Jaunty Jackalope, was released this week. "The Ubuntu team behind it has reported that the release candidate is 'complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user,' but that it does provide the caveat that there are...

IDC Sez Linux Market Will Reach $35.5 Billion by 2013

© 4_EveR_YounG A new report from research firm IDC entitled The Opportunity for Linux in a New Economy [PDF file] anticipates that the global market for Linux will grow to $35.5 billion by 2013. "This compound annual growth rate of 23.6 percent will far exceed the 5 percent that I...

HP Considering Android Netbooks

© yaph The WSJ's Justin Scheck and Nick Wingfield yesterday broke the news that HP and other PC makers are considering using Google's Linux-based Android OS to run netbooks. "HP, the largest maker of PCs and a major Windows partner, has programmers testing Android for a ...

Novell Intros SLE 11

Novell this week launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 . "SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) 11, which was released on March 24, stands above its competitors because it works and plays well with existing Windows business networks, data files and application servers," writes Compu...

Welcome, Tuz!

Linux has a new mascot... at least temporarily. "With a commit introduced on Tuesday evening into the main development tree, Linus Torvalds granted the Linux mascot a three-month sabbatical," The H Open Source reports . " Tuz , an image of a Tasmanian devil wearing a false y...

The Great OS Debate

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 2946603 The Linux Foundation this week announced that, at next month's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit , representatives of the Linux Foundation, Microsoft , and Sun Microsystems will debate the future of their respective operating system...

MontaVista Software Launches Meld Developer Community

MontaVista Software this week launched Meld , a networking site for embedded Linux developers. "Meld provides a forum for developers of all skill levels to connect and share information, ideas and software around embedded Linux designs," writes eWeek's Darryl K. Taft . &quo...

Marvell Intros $99 SheevaPlug Reference Design

Marvell this week introduced its new SheevaPlug development platform, a reference design for the company's plug computing concept. "The idea is that you'll have an ultra-small computer plugged into an electrical socket: it'll be about the size of the socket itself, and y...

ACCESS Demos Linux Platform 3.0

ACCESS demonstrated the newest version of its Linux mobile software platform, the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) 3.0 , this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "Hardware advancements and more powerful chips, such as TI's OMAP3 series, make it possible to create inter...

Cuba Launches Nova Linux

The Cuban government this week launched its own Linux distribution, called Nova . "The Cuban government, under the auspices of the Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas (UCI), created Nova by spinning its own rev on the Gentoo variant of Linux," writes The Register's T...

HP Drops Linux from Netbooks in the UK

ZDNet UK broke the news this week that HP has decided against releasing any Linux-based netbooks in the UK - its Mini 1000 PC will be available only with Windows in England. "The reason for this anti-Linux stance? Well, it seems that manufacturers think consumers are wary of an oper...

Intel Releases Moblin 2 OS for Netbooks

Intel this week announced the alpha release of Moblin v2 , its new Linux distro optimized for Atom processors. "Moblin is based largely on Fedora , and it's still a work in progress, but its main goal is to optimise performance for Atom and Core 2 processors running on small...

Introducing RHEL 5.3

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3935200 Red Hat, Inc. this week announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (RHEL 5.3). "On the hardware front, RHEL 5.3 supports Intel's new Nehalem chip architecture," writes InternetNews' Sean Michael Ke...

Linux vs. Windows 7

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1861766 There's been quite a bit of debate online this week about the arrival of Windows 7 , and what it means for the future of Linux. "Given the advantages of using Windows, particularly if you use open source software to do your office fun...

Vietnam Mandates Open Source

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4179502 The Vietnamese government has announced that it will require the use of open source applications by the end of the year. "Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has mandated that applications such as the OpenOffice.org...

Linux in 2009: It's Good to Be Free

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3411173 As a new year dawns, InternetNews' Bruce Byfield has written an excellent article looking at the world of Linux in 2009. "The consensus seems to be that 2009 presents more opportunities than difficulties for FOSS (free and open sourc...

Linux Foundation Launches "I'm Linux" Video Contest

The Linux Foundation this week leapt into the advertising wars with the launch of the 'I'm Linux' video contest . "The Linux Foundation saw those successful I'm a Mac commercials, and Jerry Seinfeld playing with Bill Gates , and they wanted in," writes Gizmod...

Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux

Adobe Systems today announced the general availability of Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux . "Adobe AIR allows you to seamlessly run Flash and Javascript-based applications on the desktop," writes Wired's Scott Gilbertson . "Like regular desktop apps, AIR applications are downl...

HP and Novell Partner on $519 Linux PC

HP and Novell this week announced plans to offer Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on HP's $519 Compaq dc5850 PC, starting December 15th. "The suite provides a number of applications, including a web browser, Open Office , multimedia tools and e-mail software,"...

Good OS Unveils the Cloud

Good OS this week announced Cloud , a new Linux-based operating system that boots into a browser. "Good OS's Cloud system integrates a compressed version of the Linux operating system with the company's homegrown Web browser," writes InformationWeek's Paul McDougall...

Introducing Fedora 10

The Fedora Project this week announced the release of Fedora 10 . "If you've never given Fedora a try, now is a great time," writes Channel Register's Scott Gilbertson . "The tenth revision [is] slick and stable and it has a rock solid feel to it that, for our mone...

Canonical to Put Ubuntu on ARM Netbooks

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto Canonical has announced plans to build a version of Ubuntu for ARM 's v7 processors. "The ARM version of the Linux-based desktop operating system is expected to be released in April," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves . "AR...

Hacker Installs Debian on a T-Mobile G1

Jay Freeman, a.k.a. saurik , has managed (and it ain't easy...) to install Debian on a T-Mobile G1 smartphone. "If you persevere through the required steps, you'll be rewarded with a device which is capable of running both Google's Android and the Debian install, ...

Windows 7 vs. Linux

Computerworld's Preston Gralla has dedicated a series of recent blog posts to the question of whether Windows 7 could be "Microsoft's Linux killer." "At the recent PDC , where Windows 7 was unveiled, Windows and Windows Live senior vice president Steve Sinofsky cl...

Introducing Intrepid Ibex

Canonical this week announced the availability of Ubuntu 8.10 , in both Server and Desktop editions. "Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition, code-named Intrepid Ibex , allows users to move between wired, wireless, and 3G networks, and can automatically detect many popular mobile devices,&qu...

Picasa bumped up to version 3

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Nicolas Loran Google just upgraded its photo editor, Picasa , to version 3. This new version brings the following new features: Sync Picasa 3 with Picasa Web Albums New Retouch tool Add text or watermarks to photo Print captions Manage Picasa Web ...

Broadcom WiFi drivers

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Stephen Morris Since the days of diskette-based installation, Linux on the desktop has grown and matured so fast that in most cases, it is even the desktop of choice, i.e., no more dual-booting with Windows. On the laptop, however, there are still several quirks...

Ubuntu shows its strengths

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Ugur Evirgen In a recent ArsTechnica report , Wikimedia Foundation revealed that it is currently in the process of migrating their servers to Ubuntu . This news stresses the maturity of the Linux distribution as a viable solution for enterprise-grade computing...

Open up your iPod with Rockbox

© nimbu Rockbox , the open source jukebox firmware, just released its latest version, version 3.0. Rockbox adds WMA, Ogg and Flac support for your iPod (and other portable music players) and not to forget, DOOM! Yes, that classic 3D first person shooter game. For a complete list of features,...

Appnr - easy way to install apps

Gone are the days of invoking "configure;make;make install" when one needs to install a single application on Linux. (well, it is still there but mostly used by hard-core geeks hehe). Now, it easy to install software via synaptic or the command-line apt-get. Fast forward some more an...

One Touch Touchpad controls in Kubuntu

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Dori OConnell HowToForge as a quite lengthy feature on how to turn your touchpad on and off with just a single short cut key. This is convenient specially when you also use a mouse once in awhile, like I do. I normally have a mouse when I am on my desk at ho...

Nathive, a new image editor

Nathive , a newcomer in the Linux image editing tools category, is currently on version 0.810. Whilst this has been dominated by Gimp for the longest time, it does not hurt to have an alternative application that may be just as good as Gimp, right? Nathive is a libre software image editor...

Here comes Pandora

Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! NO, it is not the music streaming service but a brand-new, portable gaming device that is based on an open platform. Pandora boasts of a device with the following specs: ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core P...

Switching from Windows the easy way

5993847 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Chris Burt Linux Journal featured an article on how to switch from Windows in 3-easy steps . To summarize, step 1 - introduce open source applications that run on both Windows and Linux, step 2 - dual-boot Windows and Linux and step 3 - weed out Windows...

Using the UCK for a Personalized Ubuntu Distro

If you are not happy with the applications bundled with the Ubuntu distribution, then welcome to the club. I prefer to have a lean, mean computing machine, i.e., without those games but with the multi-media tools. Anyway, here is how you can customize it using the Ubuntu Customization Kit ....

Largest device monitored by Linux?

In what seems to be the largest device monitored (and controlled?) by Linux is the CERN 's Large Hadron Collider, as displayed in this BBC coverage of the experiment. This just proves how Linux can be used in mission-critical systems, debunking claims by others that it is not ready for ...

Tweaking Ubuntu the easy way

I'd say "FINALLY!". A tool that makes it easy for ordinary mortals to tweak their Ubuntu setup is now available for free! I have been helping people switch to Linux but have had some difficulties helping them customize their system the same way they could personalize their Window...

Dell enters the netbook market

In a market that Asus sparked with their Eee PC series, Dell releases their netbook competitor, the Dell Mini 9 . The specs is similar to most netbooks available in the market with models running Linux or Windows. In Dell's mini 9, it uses Ubuntu 8.04 on its 1.6GHz Intel Atom-based ...

Another tip on running Windows apps on Linux

I found another tip on how to run Windows applications on Linux without seeing the entire Windows desktop. However, this tip uses VMWare . The same can be achieved with the open-source and free VirtualBox . This tip, however, is not limited to Linux. You can do the same for Mac OS X, i.e....

XPGnome

I will be speaking at the Youth for IT Congress in the Philippines tomorrow to present various operating systems, including Linux. However, since majority of the audience are familiar with Windows so I planned on presenting Ubuntu but looking like Windows. In a hurry, I quickly stumbled up...

Using Hamachi on Linux

LogMeIn's Hamachi is " a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection ." This is the easiest way to create a VPN network between computers and networks. If you have tried setting ...

Linux Devices

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dan Chippendale Don't you just love the TOP X lists? Well, we almost always like having our own batch of top X list for almost everything we do. Let's consider the 10 Coolest Devices running Linux with the Large Hadron Collider (which, incidentally al...

Using future Ubuntu technology on Hardy Heron

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo Ubuntu's next generation of Linux distribution includes eCryptfs , a kernel-based cryptographic file system. This new feature provides users with the ability to have encrypted subdirectories, giving them the much needed boost in se...

gOS 3 beta launches

Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! gOS releases beta of their latest version, gOS 3. This new one comes with full instant access to the large suite of Google and iGoogle gadgets, offline access to online services such as Google Docs and Mail, and also comes with WINE pre-installed. gOS i...

USB-powered Linux on a tiny form factor

I never heard of this tiny critter until my uncle sent me an e-mail asking me if I can help him develop software for it. Being unfamiliar with this new device, I searched for it and found the website, Beagleboard.org . Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! It is best described as " a...

Webcam Drivers

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Leo Blanchette Webcams on Linux are like robots with a mind of their own, i.e., they just won't cooperate! Unfortunately, webcams are a staple for notebooks and for desktops these days - thanks to fast broadband speeds, public wifi hotspots, etc. It is even...

Linux isn't bad for school kids

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6659932 I wrote about GCompris early last year and whilst it continues to enhance my kids' education, I find it refreshing to read another parent use GCompris for his child as well. IT Wire's David Williams (I wonder if he is related to my gradu...

Using a Layer 7 Packet Classifier

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Günter Jurczik You may think that this is of no use to ordinary users but I will disagree. Imagine having limited broadband connectivity, it is smart to be able to prioritize traffic according to the type and also according to IP address (you always want your c...

Freeing up some space from your apt cache

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Roman Sigaev In a constrained space provided by the current netbooks , such as the Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, etc., space is a premium. However, it is also important that you keep the OS updated with the latest patches. On the desktop, whilst having more HDD ...

Get familiar with Ubuntu

Get on the Ubuntu bandwagon. Touted as the best free open source operating system it pays to take a look. This book, Ubuntu for non-geeks 3rd edition, might be just what you need as an introduction to Ubuntu. It isn't a geeky book but instead a drawn-out, sometimes too drawn-out explain...

Make desktop Linux better than Apple

Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! At OSCON last week, Mark Shuttleworth, of the Ubuntu fame, was quoted as saying " Can we not only emulate, but can we blow right past Apple? " Whilst this may seem to be a very tall order, it is not impossible to do. Apple announces Mac OS ...

JavaFX SDK not available on Linux

Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! Two years in the making and Sun Microsystems finally unwrapped a preview version of the JavaFX SDK to allow developers to start playing with it and developing cool applications. Some folks say that this is too late considering that players such as ...

SlashTop hacked

I mentioned SplashTop before and whilst it looked like it was safely locked to the motherboard, the folks at Phoronix just demonstrated that it can be hacked . This is both a good and a bad thing. Good because you might be able to customize applications that will be available on SplashTo...

Linux goodness in just 2W of power

Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! CherryPal just announced their CherryPal Desktop C100, a small book-sized desktop computer that runs on just 2W of power at peak performance. This Linux-running device is spec'd as follows: Freescale's MPC5121e mobileGT processor, 800 MIPS ...

10 Admin Tips

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Paul Vasarhelyi Tips are often little hacks that are passed on from one user to another. In this case, it is passed on from one admin to another, with hopes that it will make life easier for system administrators. BTW, have you shown appreciation to your admini...

Ditching Microsoft

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Dan Moore A very nice read out on Linux.com about a veteran developer, often with and for Microsoft products, decides to totally drop all ties to Microsoft products. And doing very nicely he might add. Take a read at Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for ope...

Linux in the future

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Geoffrey Holman What do you think Linux, your computer, your life will look like in the year 2016? I really haven't given it much thought. Will you rely on Windows, Linux, or something in-between? An article 2016: You're watching the Linux channel t...

Make your Linux run faster at boot time

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jozsef Szasz-Fabian We all hate waiting for systems to boot. I have grown acustom to either keeping my systems on 24x7 (not very green) or making my pot of tea AFTER I turn on my systems. There are some simple things though that you can do to help the boot proc...