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We need to give up the notion that such computer users can be rescued by Linux-- we don't WANT them using Linux. "It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are ingenious".

If you thought installing Linux on a laptop was a fun discussion, have I got a new one for you. This comes straight out of the really, it should not be this hard category…the server side.

Do you need 10 reasons to use Linux-based virtualization? Linux is the chosen virtualization platform for Cloud vendors, virtualization software companies and the largest IT companies in the world. What do they know that you don't?

As these words are being written, the US Congress is debating the final terms of a stimulus bill that will result in the expenditure of almost $800 billion of public funds on a wide array of initiatives intended to address an equally challenging goal: resurrecting an economy that seems inexorably headed towards its worst performance since the Great Depression. Whether that fortune gets spent wisely or not will depend a lot on open source, and open standards.

Bruce Perens reports that Linux is a natural for embedded systems. That's why it's popping up in more cell phones, often without the customer even realizing it's there. But cell phone manufacturers, and the broader sector of embedded systems, must cope with the problem of how to combine the GPL Linux kernel, and software that isn't Open Source. How does one do that legally?

S3 Graphics has announced this afternoon the release of the Chrome 540 GTX, which they advertise as "The World's Most Connected Hi-Def Card" with its HDMI, DisplayPort, and DVI connections. The Chrome 540 GTX runs at 850MHz, uses GDDR3 memory, and shares other features to the Chrome 530 GT that was introduced in the fourth quarter of 2008. In the press release announcing the S3 Graphics Chrome 540 GTX they once again mention Linux support... But is there any Linux support?

This posting is targeting install stubdom binaries at Xen-Unstable Dom0 with pv_ops enabled kernel and testing pv-grub and virtual frame buffer functionality in mentioned environment. Setup VNC at Dom0 exactly as on Ubuntu Intrepid Server with Ubuntu Desktop installed via “tasksel” to manage Dom0 remotely via Gnome Desktop interface.

Jeff Soble, Neil Cowles, and Edmund Billings have a response reproduced after the break to HIMSS "Call to Action". This is a sobering look at the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which looks poised to result in the demise of real competition, medical data in the hands of a cartel or monopoly for a few wealthy corporations, loss of privacy and the loss of the physician as the traditional custodian of medical data.

From the 'what? Linux isn't American??' files: Reuters has an interesting story today titled, "Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S." The gist of the story is that Cuba is now going to produce their own Linux distro called 'Nova' in some sort of attempt to not have to use American software. Nonsense.

Company Offers Partners E-mail, Calendaring and Contact Infrastructure. Qualifying partners such as web hosting providers, telcos, ISPs, as well as academic institutions and non-profit organizations can take advantage of a fully-maintained webmail module, which includes installation and configuration support of the Open-Xchange software.

GNOME-Shell is an experimental new desktop environment for GNOME bringing together a lot of new user interface ideas and new technologies in hopes of bringing desktop users something more intuitive.

The beta release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Margaux) is now available. This beta version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.0, GNOME 2.25.90, Xfce 4.6 RC1, X.org server 1.5, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0 (RC1)

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, February 11, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 50. On today's newscast . . . we with Linux Journal a musical happy birthday, look at open source financial myths, bundle Firefox with some bad ideas, examine Microsoft's open source software, and try to find that same Microsoft a spy.

The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travellers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in the business world?

Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level. We are feature complete, we pass all the Microsoft regression test suites and we shipped support for Microsoft's Media Pack for x86 and x86-64 architectures.

Sun Microsystems has released version 1.1 of their rich internet technology JavaFX, which now includes the JavaFX Mobile runtime component to better support mobile devices. The runtime also includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developing JavaFX mobile applications. Sun will demonstrate the technology next week in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. Companies, including Sony Ericsson, LG, Orange and Sprint have already confirmed their support for the technology.

In this article we will see how Taxonomy makes Drupal's classification system so powerful. The method of categorizing content in Drupal makes it one of the most sophisticated content management systems around. Take the time to master working with taxonomy in Drupal, because not only will this help you to work out how to manage content better, but it will also really set your site apart from others because of the flexible and intuitive manner in which the content is organized. These attributes allow you to manage a site of pretty much any size imaginable (just in case what you are working on is "the next big thing").

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 3.3.1 on a Debian Etch (4.0) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware.

Gedit is one of the most widely-used GUI text editors available in Linux. Every GNOME user resorts to using Gedit if not working in the command line because the editor is not only fast, but also extensible via a series of plugins. This article discusses some of the most useful such plugins and how they can make your text editing easier.