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Connecting with the Do'ers...Here's Your Shot.

I thought that I needed to stop talking with strangers on planes, trains, and buses. It just wasn't working. People don't trust strangers. In the US, people trust TV. If it is on TV, it is real. Or at least is socially real. It's accepted. It's mainstream. So I decided that I needed to stop saying the same thing over and over again to people on planes, trains, and buses, and I needed to get backing from famous people.

Attention Linux Shoppers: The $275 Laptop

  • The VAR Guy (Posted by thevarguy on Jun 26, 2008 7:43 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Older Eee PC models running Linux are going on sale as retailers gear up for the newer 9-inch model. The VAR Guy spotted this $275 deal for this Eee PC with a 7-inch screen. Here's the scoop.

Alfresco-Adobe Pact Pushes Open Source Toward the Mainstream

  • Daniweb; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Jun 26, 2008 6:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last week Adobe surprised a few people--well, at least it surprised me--with the announcement that it was including Alfresco content management services as part of its LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Update 1 package.

Review: The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk

  • certforums.co.uk; By Karen Stansel (Posted by tripwire45 on Jun 26, 2008 5:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews

I know the book states CS2, and since the only version of Photoshop that I own is CS3, I was a little leery of buying a book that was written specifically for another version of this software. Was I going to end up with a book that made no sense to me? After all, I am a newbie to Photoshop and everything he is talking about may have been changed in the newer version. Well, I 'm here to tell you â??noâ??, that is not the case at all. This book isnâ??t just for CS2 users. It goes great with CS3, too.

Don't forget the text editor

Text editors are important for many tasks, from editing configuration files, nudging cron jobs, and manipulating XML files to quickly pushing out a README. Luckily, there are a number of interesting editors available. Here's a brief introduction to nine intriguing choices. While some may be better suited to certain tasks, it's no one tool is better than another for all tasks. Try them all and use the ones you like best.

No Vista Inside for Intel

It looks like Microsoft may have shot itself in both feet by announcing Windows 7 so soon, as 'Wintel' decides not to bother upgrading to Vista because there is, and I quote here: "no compelling case." ROFL. Perhaps they should skip Windows 7 as well and just opt for 80,000 Linux installs?

sidux 2008-02 final adds XFCE-variant

  • sidux.com; By Chris Hildebrandt (Posted by slam on Jun 26, 2008 3:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements; Groups: Debian
A little later than planned sidux announced the immediate availability of sidux 2008-02 "Erebos" for amd64 and i686. Enhancing the sidux family, a roughly 420 MB large XFCE variant has been added for both architectures for the first time.

How to save time and traffic upgrading with apt-proxy

June is Bandwidth Conservation Month (well, not officially, but let's say that it is), so if you have multiple machines running an APT-powered Linux distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu, you should take a look at apt-proxy, a utility that caches package downloads in a shared pool for all interested parties on your LAN. This saves you both the time and the bandwidth it costs to download the same updates for more than one computer.

Pushing the Glacier

In this article, I ask some very difficult questions concerning the promotion of Free and Open Source Software.

The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 5 Elyssa R1

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Jun 26, 2008 12:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: GNOME, Linux
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 5 Elyssa R1 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 5 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 8.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.

Mobile Linux Groups Join Forces

After steadily losing membership this year, one of the earliest mobile Linux groups will close and join another faster growing initiative. On Thursday, the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum plans to announce that its activities will be folded into the LiMo Foundation starting in July. The groups had slightly different activities although for a time many companies were members in both. The loss of one such group is likely good for the overall mobile Linux market, which has been criticized for being fragmented.

Red Hat expects steady growth

Red Hat Inc (RHT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's largest publicly traded provider of Linux software, reported on Wednesday a quarterly profit that met Wall Street expectations as its revenue grew 32 percent. Net income rose 7 percent to $17.3 million, or 8 cents per share, in its fiscal first quarter, from $16.2 million, or 8 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

We need German translators to promote Linux! And others are welcome too

  • Gustavo on Information Technology; By Gustavo Narea (Posted by Gustavo on Jun 26, 2008 10:33 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU, Linux; Story Type: News Story
Please help the GNU/Linux Matters non-profit spread the word about GNU/Linux and Freedomware in all possible languages. German translators are urgently needed!

VectorLinux releases 5.9-SOHO final

  • VectorLinux; By Robert Lange (Posted by vec7 on Jun 26, 2008 9:36 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release; Groups: Linux
We have released SOHO-5.9-DELUXE! It has been a year since our last SOHO release and from all reports this is our best yet. Starting from the ground up with our 5.9 standard release we have taken VectorLinux to a new high. This is absolutely the fastest KDE 3.5.9 desktop you will find anywhere with a optional fluxbox desktop for power users. The eye candy is amazing with four special themes to select from at installation time to a launch bar you have to try to believe.

Mirroring Your Boot Disk Using Veritas On Sun Without Encapsulation

  • The Linux and Unix Menagerie; By Mike Tremell (Posted by eggi on Jun 26, 2008 8:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Sun
Using the Trantham/Howard Method to setup your boot disks using Veritas Volume Manager on Solaris without encapsulation.

A Cutting Edge Sugar User Interface Demo

While thinking about some of the recent stories on the over-hyped Windows XP on the XO I realized how ridiculous it seems for anyone to get excited about an operating system released in 2001. An operating system that is the successor of Windows ME! So instead of going down memory lane and mocking Microsoft I decided to compile a little overview of a cutting edge Sugar demo that I was shown when I was at OLPC HQ in Cambridge, MA some weekends ago. The demo setup was prepared by Alex, an intern at OLPC, and its goal is to show off some of the cool features that you can get to use on your XO when you spend some time tweaking the thing.

Enterprise Unix Roundup: HP Gifts AdvFS, Big Bow on Small Box

First thing out of the gate on Monday's news cycle was the announcement from HP that it is committing its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) code to an open source license. Not just any open source license, either; AdvFS is now under the GNU General Public License (v2), which officially makes AdvFS free software.

The new wave of Linux Lite – lean, mean and green

Linux is coming to an ultraportable near you! Sure, the oft-touted “year of the Linux desktop” is seen in the same light as such notable phrases like “the cheque’s in the mail”, “I’ll respect you in the morning” and “Duke Nukem Forever is being released” but there’s no denying the smash-hit success Linux is enjoying in the budget price ultraportable market. These are the Linux desktops that will catch on and here’s why.

Dear Microsoft, thanks for the help, Linux

You gotta love it. Microsoft has decided that it will ho ahead and kill off easy access to XP on June 30th. On behalf of desktop Linux users everywhere, and our first cousins, the Mac fans, thanks. You've given us the best shot we'll ever have of taking the desktop. But it gets even better! Microsoft has also announced that it will be releasing Windows 7 on January 2010. They'll blow that ship date. Microsoft has never set a shipping date it could meet. But, who in their right mind would now buy Vista?

Will the internet really improve the way we think?

  • Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond (Posted by scrubs on Jun 26, 2008 4:19 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
In a recent interview with the British Sunday Observer, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, claimed that “it’s the next billion [internet users] who will change the way we think”. Such a big claim deserves some critical house room. Will the internet really change the way we think? Or are we just getting carried away? Gary Richmond explores the implications of the Wikipedia open source/free software knowledge paradigm and what it might mean for the way we think. You can read the full story at Freesoftware Magazine

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