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Most Firefox users are familiar with the Greasemonkey extension, a powerful tool that lets you enhance your browsing experience by rewriting HTML pages and JavaScript on the client side. The Stylish extension gives you that same level of control over Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unlike JavaScript, altering a page's CSS cannot change its functionality -- but it can greatly enrich its usability.

The 2.6 Linux kernel has been one amazing roller-coaster ride of excellent new features and changes coming faster than you can say "git along now, little patchies." Hardware detection and management, and removable media management are probably the most obvious changes to users.

Dell responds to customer demand for greater interoperability and intellectual property assurance between Windows and Linux.

[Why is this not surprising? - Scott]

A typical Linux desktop user is a guy in his twenties who's computer savvy but may very well not be an IT professional. Those are some of the conclusions you can draw from the just-released openSUSE survey results.

RAID-based NAS Products for SMB, SOHO and Home to Expand NETGEAR's Storage Solutions

ZDNet Australia is running a brief article about Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker, written by the Australian Associated Press at the CeBIT Australia 2007 conference in Sydney. In the report, Mitchell is quoted as saying that Mozilla Firefox helps to promote an open and innovative Web and describes how the user-focused Web has re-emerged after a period of dominance by large corporations.

Avi Kivity announced significant performance improvements and support for running 32-bit Windows Vista as a guest within the latest release ofKVM. Originally merged into the 2.6.20 mainline Linux kernel, KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine,"a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions". Regarding the new release, Avi announced:"The happy theme of today's kvm is the significant performance improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I've clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also introduces support for 32-bit Windows Vista."read more

The official Netscape Blog has announced that the next Netscape browser release will be called Netscape Navigator 9, reviving the name used for Netscape's earliest browser releases at the height of its popularity.

LXer Feature: 29-Apr-2007

A weekly recap of the big stories concerning Linux and Open Source.

Starting next week, the Mozilla Corporation will be hosting twice-weekly meetings to discuss the future of customer support for Mozilla products. Several different support mediums will be discussed in the conferences, including knowledge bases, forums and real-time chat. The meetings, which are open to all, will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the next three weeks. Notes will be published afterwards for those unable to make it.

Con Kolivas continues to maintain the performance oriented -ck patchset that he started in early 2004, "this patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default -ck patch is aimed at the desktop and -cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace." In Con's latest release, 2.6.21-ck1, he notes that he has updated the patchset to include his improved SD cpu scheduler, "the staircase-deadline cpu scheduler has replaced the old staircase design in this version."

A former lover of the missing wife of Linux programmer and accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, prosecutors informed the defense last week.

[jimf brought this to my attention and I thought it might be of interest to others. - Scott]

At first glance, the story of the Tux500 project doesn't look too unusual. A couple of devoted Linux advocates were looking for a cool way to promote the operating system they love. Advertising on a race car is a great way to get open source noticed, says Ken "helios" Starks, one of the men working to raise enough money to enter a Linux-sponsored car in the 2007 Indianapolis 500 race. It's the kind of grass-roots effort for which the open source community is known: grab a domain name, put up a site, and submit the link to Digg. But Starks and IT consultant Bob Moore, the organizers of the Tux500 effort, added an extra step that is raising some eyebrows in the community: they opened a PayPal account and are asking Linux fans for more than a quarter of a million dollars.

On May 1st, the KDE games developer community held its monthly IRC meeting. This time the major topic was discussing which games would stay in the kdegames module for KDE 4 and which ones would have to be removed because they don't meet our self-imposed quality standards.

The GoblinX team earlier this week released its Standard 2.0 (2007.1) edition, a bootable live CD based on Slackware Linux that features a 2.6.18 kernel and a default Xfce desktop. This release kicks off the second generation of the GoblinX distro for i486 machines, a team member said.

A lone hobbyist programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux. He tells the INQUIRER about this often unknown and unrecognized achievement.

I have just completed a preliminary version of an (OpenEMR + CK-ERP) connector. A demo of CK-ERP operating within OpenEMR 2.8.2 is availablehere.

Dell won't include open-source software such as Wine with its Ubuntu Linux machines, according to Mark Shuttleworth.

Skype, the well-known VoIP (voice over IP) software provider, has never been known for its quickness in getting Linux releases out, but about a year after the company started work on Skype 1.3, it has announced the release of the alpha for Skype 1.4.

Metasploit LLC released version 3.0 of the Metasploit Framework (MSF), the popular penetration testing project, late last month. Version 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the previous tools using primarily the Ruby programming language; versions 1 and 2 were written primarily in Perl. Also new are an experimental GUI, and perhaps the crowning jewel of the release, the db_autopwn module, which automates exploit discovery and execution.