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Myth: Linux Doesn't Need a Registry Cleaner

Some say Linux's .rpm and .deb installation packages uninstall cleanly, so there is no need for any registry cleaners like CCleaner for Windows. Here are a few counterexamples to the myth and the application to remedy the situation.

How To/Roundup: Getting Widgets on Ubuntu

It seems like every other operating system and desktop environment has some form of widgets, except Ubuntu. Luckily, you can change that quite easily.

Big Shifts Expected for Enterprise Linux, Green Networks in '09

The past year has seen strides in open source's place in the industry, cementing its role as a major force in the enterprise — with several key players and stakeholders rising to the top. Just what do they have planned for the next twelve months? Also this year, the breakneck pace of development in networking technology continued apace. With concerns about security and energy consumption at an all-time high, there's still a great deal of work that must get done. And quickly.

Time for a Tablet

There isn't much mystery to why a little-marketed computer known as the Eee PC has lately seized the top spot on Amazon's laptop best-seller list. The machine, a three-pound ugly duckling made by the Taiwanese company Asus, has a 10-inch screen, a nearly full-size keyboard, and offers what almost everyone wants in a portable computer: It's tiny and, at $390, very cheap. Of course, the Eee PC is missing some other things people tend to like in laptops—an attractive design, a DVD drive, a fully full-size keyboard, and enough processing power to run multiple demanding applications at the same time. But hey, these are tough times, and did I mention you can buy this machine for less than you're planning to blow on New Year's Eve?

Gurlz Just Wanna Be Geex

  • fixedbylinux.com; By Ken Starks (Posted by helios on Dec 30, 2008 8:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
I sat down with Brenda and began writing out some things she needed to know and asked her about any particular filters she might want on the system. It wasn't five minutes into our talk when Arlene pulled at my sleeve. "Which one is the DVD burner?" I looked at her then over at the computer. Evelyn had already found K3b and had hooked her Ipod to the machine, using Songbird to manage the sync. The computer had been on less than ten minutes. What many adults must go into forums and ask, these kids figured out in minutes and without a bit of help. And some wonder why we do this thing we do...Pictures of this family can be seen on this blog.

Unix And Linux Easter Eggs For The Wrong Holiday

These Easter eggs are all pretty cool, but the bunny's staying home ;) Today, since it's just past Christmas and almost New Year's, I figured this would be a great time to trot out some Linux and/or Unix Easter eggs. Actually, it doesn't make sense at all, but if you can put aside your burnt-in sense of the chronological order of the holidays, these can still be fun.

Will 2009 Be Open or Closed?

As the end of 2008 approaches, people's thoughts naturally turn to 2009, and what it might hold. The dire economic situation means that many will be wondering what the year will bring in terms of employment and their financial situation. This is not the place to ponder such things, nor am I qualified to do so. Instead, I'd like to discuss a matter that is related to these larger questions, but which focusses on issues particularly germane to Linux Journal: will 2009 be a year in which openness thrives, or one in which closed thinking re-asserts itself?

Sun Responds — Gently — to Novell’s OpenOffice.org FUD

Sun explains the importance of quality assurance in OpenOffice.org

What flavor is your smartphone OS?

When you buy a new computer, you may first think about its operating system — is it PC, Mac, Linux? Smartphones have those same operating systems and others. But the OS isn’t likely to be the No. 1 issue for many consumers even though it’s playing an increasingly important role. Smartphones — which can handle e-mail, Web browsing as well as audio and video in many cases — have seen strong growth this year as more consumers opt to have their cell phones do double and triple duty.

Ted Ts'o: Debian Can Learn from Ubuntu

  • Linux Pro Magazine; By Britta Wuelfing (Posted by brittaw on Dec 30, 2008 2:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Newly appointed CTO of the Linux Foundation and kernel developer Ted Ts'o is appealing to the Debian project to adopt a more pragmatic attitude about its Linux distro. The provocation for his advice is the current controversy over Debian's next 5.0 "Lenny" release.

WFTL Bytes! for Dec 29, 2008

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, December 29, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 41. In today's stories, we get to speculate about the coming year (that would be 2009) for Linux and FOSS, make lists of things we thought were pretty cool (or will be), and look back on where we went wrong, and reflect on just how pointless it is to make predictions.

Orinoco WaveLAN Silver card works in Power Mac G4 with Debian Etch

I had no expectation that it would work, but I decided to shove my trusty Orinoco WaveLAN Silver PCMCIA 802.11b wireless networking card into the meant-for-Airport-only slot in my Power Macintosh G4/466 running Debian Etch. I connected the antenna wire. I booted Debian. I opened the Desktop -- Administration -- Networking tool. There it was, eth2, my wireless card. One problem: Since the Orinoco WaveLAN Silver card is quite a bit longer than the Airport card this slot was meant for, there's no way I can even close the case of the G4 while using the Wi-Fi card.

Securely Wiping Disks With DBAN

Juliet Kemp introduces DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke), a self-contained boot disk (floppy, CD, USB) that securely wipes hard disks. It is operating system independent and meets a number of government security standards; read on to learn more.

10 Linux Predictions for 2009

  • DaniWeb; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Dec 29, 2008 11:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Everyone wants to know what's going to happen in the new year as if anyone can accurately predict these things. However, one can deduce, with reasonable accuracy, that there will be innovations that are designed to get our attention. This is my list of Linux-oriented predictions for 2009. The keyword for 2009 is Innovation.

Sabayon Linux 4 Screenshots

  • The Coding Studio (Posted by lqsh on Dec 29, 2008 10:47 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Bringing a more accessible, easy-to-use and fast way of doing business and home computing in a web 2.0 flavour is what we are going to achieve by the beginning of the new year. Sabayon Linux 4 offers an easy-to-use and attractive desktop coming with thousands of tools and applications.

AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by phoronix on Dec 29, 2008 9:50 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Since earlier this year we have been waiting for AMD to release documentation and/or code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. It has taken longer than expected for AMD to complete and release this information, but it's now available. AMD has released the fundamental Linux code needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. Furthermore, this code also concerns the latest R700 series of graphics processors! The microcode for the newest GPUs has also been released.

Cussing and Praising Kubuntu

I have never had a successful Ubuntu dist-upgrade, so I had low expectations. Amazingly, it was successful on my computer... ...which surprised me because the poor thing gets thrashed in all kinds of ways. I'm forever installing weird software and hardware, and doing source builds and backports and you name it, and it keeps on chugging anyway. I gave it a good housecleaning first to give it a fighting chance and deleted all the weird junk, and it went fine except for one thing-- those dratted NVidia drivers. We hatess Nvidia.

Windows 7, the KDE 3.5 Wannabe?

  • Internetling.com; By Greg Bocic (Posted by dpkgregor on Dec 29, 2008 8:19 PM EDT)
Aside from the removal of some annoying Vista bells and whistles and the new Peek and Snap window-management enhancements, it is difficult not to notice the resemblance between Microsoft’s much-touted revamped Aero and the excellent, now 3-years old, KDE 3.5.x.

First look: Linux kernel 2.6.28 officially released

Lead kernel developer Linus Torvalds announced the official release of Linux 2.6.28 on Wednesday. The new version introduces some noteworthy changes that will put the kernel in a strong position for growth and advancement in the coming year. This latest release follows a few months after version 2.6.27, which was released in October.

Big Blue urged to open Notes and Domino

Ian Tree, the chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has some free advice for IBM's Software Group: Take the Notes/Domino groupware stack open source with a community-developed programming model. The idea is to keep the Notes client and the Domino server relevant in a world becoming more accustomed to open source products.

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