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I am describing here a method to install Linux without using a DVD ROM or CD Drive; I have checked it myself. There are many ways to do so. You can install Linux by 1) booting from the network; 2) having an ISO image on your hard disk; 3) booting from USB; 4) installing a linux system from scratch by building your own.

Linux vendor Red Hat is out this week with the second major milestone for the next generation of its enterprise Linux release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), as the Linux player ramps up development for its flagship operating system. The development of RHEL 6 has been closely watched as Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) seeks to grow its already sizable share of the enterprise Linux market, though the company remains cagey over an exact release date. When it ships, RHEL 6 will provide new performance, virtualization and hardware enablement for Red Hat's enterprise users.

According to recent reports the Android operating system has an impressive 19.9% share of the US mobile web market. That's still some way behind Apple iOS on 58.8% but the iPhone has been around for a lot longer. It should come as no surprise, then, that Yahoo! wants to get a piece of that Android action. Which is why it has now announced the continuing expansion of its reach with the immediate availability of the long awaited Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android.

Tech sites are abuzz with rumors that Android 3.0, Google's follow-up to the recently released Android 2.2, could see a release as soon as October. Additional rumors suggest a minimum processor requirement of 1 GHz and a minimum RAM requirement of 512MB. These specs would make Android 3.0 a natural fit for high-end smartphones and tablet PCs.

The Ubuntu development team have announced that the next Ubuntu Developer Week will take place from the 12th to the 16th of July. Several online workshops will take place during the week, run by a variety of Ubuntu contributors and community members.

http://envb.sapphirewillow.com/writings/2010/07/migrating-fr... CyanogenMod is an independent 3rd party effort by a group of volunteers to produce an enhanced Android ROM that mirrors the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) relatively faithfully. This is just my record of how I migrated from a stock rooted installation of Android Froyo FRF85B on my Nexus One to CyanogenMod 6 Alpha 1 which was just released to the wild.

Rember "letters to the editor"? They're so 20th century. These days we talk back to the media using multimedia pieces created with screencasting and other programs. I used Camtasia Studio, on Windows, to create this multimedia. Today, I'd use OpenShot and Inkscape (or GIMP.)

Several companies apparently have bid to acquire Novell. Some pundits think VMware is among the bidders. Why’s that? The short answer involves a mutual enemy called, um, Red Hat (assuming you believe the rumor).

Once again, Microsoft has a product that failed miserably. The Microsoft phone "KIN" has already been pulled from the US market, and will not be making its European launch as had been planned. The reality here is that Microsoft's only money maker is Office. Windows sells well only because of its being pre-installed on most PCs. Linux would likely do just as well were MS Office available for it. Likewise, if people did some research and found out that iWork and MS Office were available on Macintosh machines, I am willing to bet that Mac sales would escalate even higher. This isn't the first Microsoft product to fall flat on its face (the KIN sold, by some reports, only 500 devices).

Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" will be a high-end format supporting 1280 × 760 resolution and requiring a 1GHz processor, essentially splitting the operating system into two platforms, says UnwiredView. Meanwhile, HTC and Sprint are readying an Android smartphone with a 2GHz processor and 1080p video recording, says OzcarGuide, while TmoNews says HTC is prepping an Android phone for T-Mobile with dual 800MHz processors.

There are no changes to the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat artwork: no new Light Themes version, wallpaper, no new icons or anything like that - those usually come very late in the development cycle. But there are still some changes since Alpha 1 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 worth mentioning. Read on!

In order to accommodate its steady growth over the past few years, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) will move to its new home, the Hilton Los Angeles Airport, starting with SCALE 9X in 2011. The new venue – larger than SCALE’s former home for the last four years at the Westin Los Angeles Airport – will allow SCALE to expand its offerings at SCALE 9X, slated for Feb. 18-20, 2011.

We live in a new world. We can change things through technology. We can change things through social interaction. I write this entry so you have some idea of where things are with me and with kane|box. I also write this so you know where my head is at and (hopefully) realize I have not gone raving mad. You see, kane|box is not like other products or technologies or companies. It is open source software. It is inexpensive, custom, bad-guy-ass-kicking hardware. It is the result of 20+ years of me thinking about network security problems and how to solve them. It is a big, fat, fiery comet raining down from the sky and smashing into the network security space, knocking everyone else on their collective fat, lazy asses. It is cheaper than any "similar" solution, by tens of thousands of dollars. It does things that it takes 10 other products combined to do -- and it does those things better and faster. In other words, I am starting a revolution.

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

Opera 10.60 was released today and this time it includes Linux too, besides the Windows and MacOS X builds. Opera 10.60 comes with a new version of Opera's rendering engine: Presto 2.6.30 and includes HTML5 fixes such as Geolocation and Offline Applications as well as WebM support. Opera 10.60 is the first final version of a browser that comes with WebM support by default (that's what the Opera devs say, but I don't agree since Epiphany had WebM with no modifications to the browser whatsoever).

This month we take a look at a number of small form factor PCs that either come with Linux or would make a perfect fit for your favorite Linux distro. Each of the computers mentioned takes up very little space, but all deliver plenty of computing performance to handle everything from basic web browsing to watching videos. They make nice little firewalls, basic file/web/print servers, and quiet, low-power media servers. All of these units typically consume a fraction of the power of a conventional desktop and less than many traditional laptops.

Microsoft, the company least-likely to be associated with open source software, has made good on earlier promises to contribute to open source projects. The company first started its slow move to acceptance of open source in March and April of 2008 when the company announced a series of interoperability plans. Among these were document interoperability commitments which were largely overshadowed by a vicious document format fight over OOXML and the OpenDocument Format.

The MeeGo Project released the baseline source code for the handset version of the Linux-based mobile OS to the development community. This code is being developed as MeeGo 1.1, which is slated for an October release. The MeeGo team also released the MeeGo UI design principles and interaction guidelines.

Pr09studio guys are also actively contributing for bisigi themes project and they really do have some stunning wallpapers to showcase. Here, I have deliberately tried to avoid wallpapers with branding for most part, but some wallpapers with branding are worth mentioning. So here it goes, 16 beautiful Linux wallpapers for desktop.

Rockbox has been chugging along for years offering an open source firmware replacement for MP3 players. But how relevant is a firmware replacement for a type of device that's slowly going extinct? With the release of Rockbox 3.6 on June 3, now is a good time to check in on the state of Rockbox and the future of the project. Rockbox is considered stable for a range of more than 20 MP3 players from Apple, Archos, Cowon, iRiver, Olympus, SanDisk, Toshiba, and several others. The project also offers unstable ports for a number of other players, and ports are in progress (but largely non-functional) for another dozen or so.