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We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting concept–and it still is–but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end motherboards like the P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP. So if you wanted to drop $300 on a motherboard you could get Express Gate (Asus-branded Splashtop), but everyone else was left out in the cold. Despite lots of initial interest, we have not heard a lot about Splashtop since then.

I have been asked this over and again - which hardware should be avoided before installing Linux? The list is actually smaller than you might expect, but it is helpful if you would like to remain in a headache-free zone.

Have you ever wished your computer had the balls to tell you to STFU? Have you every wished it T4LK3D L1K3 7H1S? Have you ever dreamt of saying STFU every time you tell people about your HOT new distro? Have you ever dreamt of having sex with a rodent?

Yeah, yeah. Haven't we all?

Well, now's your chance!

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio (NPR) news station WBUR Boston has begun worldwide webcasting in the free audio format Ogg Vorbis.

You may have heard of it: I’m speaking about DSA-1571-1. Read more about it on the pages “Key Rollover“, or “SSLkeys“. It's NOT only affecting Debian.

On Wednesday LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most significant being the Mozilla Foundation, which is currently developing a mobile version of its popular Firefox browser. However, the head of LiMo claimed the third quarter of this year could also see the addition of two major open source enterprise vendors. However, he was not yet prepared to name the companies, as they are still in talks.

In the swarming Indian metropolis Mumbai, it can be a gymnastic exercise just to fish in your pocket on the packed city buses and stretch out your paying hand to the conductor. Many commuters have opted instead for a 'smart' and cashless way to pay, provided, in part, by Linux. Named Go Mumbai, it is a prepaid smart card for BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport) bus journeys.

Exactly a year after releasing the first preview of version 11g of its JDeveloper Java integrated development environment (IDE), Oracle has quietly slipped out preview number four - yes, count 'em - four. But despite a significant number of updated and new features Oracle has still to reveal a date for the first full production version.

Install Ubuntu 8.04 Xen Server (amd64) as was recently advised by Todd Deshane in his notes @LiveJournal.com. To configure startup profile for Solaris Nevada build 87 at Ubuntu 8.04 Server Dom0 perform losetup of ISO image of Solaris DVD and change disk entry ....

Fedora 9 will include KDE 4.0.3 by default, so this is a look at the progress of one of the major free desktop environments. KDE 4.0 was released January 11, 2008 after a couple of years of discussions and hype. The initial release was followed by a succession of minor releases that fixed many of the glaring bugs. The project that was initiated on October 14, 1996, so its developers have nearly a decade of experience now. While a lot of things have changed, there is still a familiar feel from its initial days. So what has changed?

Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the "preferred" software on its network. It's the first U.S. carrier to join the LiMo Foundation, which aims to unite handset makers, software companies and carriers on a software platform that will make it easier and cheaper to create a wide variety of phones.

In a sense, the desktop is the best thing that ever happened to the command line. Because a virtual terminal runs in a graphical environment, it boasts all sorts of enhancements that the unadorned shell lacks -- everything from multiple tabs to easy selection of display fonts and background and foreground colors. Perhaps the resulting power and convenience explains why, even at a time when the emphasis is on giving every application a graphical interface -- no matter how inappropriately -- people still write useful utilities for virtual terminals. A good example is Terminator, a program designed to perform one simple function: displaying multiple instances of the GNOME terminal within the same window.

Open source and Java developers are calling on Java's governing body - the Java Community Process - to open up beyond the big players. Members of a JavaOne panel on the JCP, open source and standards have expressed their frustrations with a process they believe puts corporate interests first when it comes to Java. For once, it wasn't just Spring Framework creator and evangelist Rod Johnson calling for change.

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.1 Simplifies the Unattended Deployment of Systems and Virtual Machines on New Platforms, adds “Green” Features and Innovative Provisioning Business Rules

It has been more than two years since the Yin and Yang article was published on LinuxPlanet, a long time in the information and communications technology world. The purpose of that article was to highlight the opportunity for greater entrepreneurial focus to gain broad, fast adoption of Linux and open source computing solutions. Absent significant market uptake on the personal computer (desktop and laptop) of Linux and/or open source products, goods, or services, those who measure market share will continue to ignore these as irrelevant to most users.

Bug Day 4 will take place on Sunday 18th May from 0:00 UTC - 23:59 UTC. (That's a start time of 02:00 CEST, or 17:00 PDT). For this Bug Day, we will be sorting and testing bugs reported against Konqueror.

Matthew Dillon sent out a series of updates about his developing HAMMER filesystem, noting that he is currently focusing on the reblocking and pruning code, tracking down a number of bugs resulting in B-Tree corruption. He also noted that previously HAMMER was comprised of three components: B-Tree nodes, records, and data. In his latest cleanups, he has entirely removed the record structure, "this will seriously improve the performance of directory and inode access." This change did require an on-media format change, "I know I have said this before, but there's a very good chance that no more on-media changes will be made after this point. The official freeze of the on-media format will not occur until the 2.0 release, however."

The Fedora Project announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution. Highlights include PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution; GNOME 2.22; KDE desktop 4.0.3. Screenshots by The Coding Studio

This is a disection of the FreeBSD BootCD. To learn how it all works and how to modify things. The cd that I'm going to be using is 7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso

It's unfortunate that Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth doesn't blog more often, because when he does, it's invariably insightful. As a case in point, Mark's post about the superiority of open source at hitting release dates is wonderful.