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Today, you will learn how to install Ubuntu Gutsy (as a second operating system) on your PlayStation 3 gaming console. For those of you who think for a second (and who are scared) that this will replace their PS3 operating system, well you guys are wrong, because this will NOT erase your PlayStation 3 native operating system (called XMB) and it will run as an alternative OS on your PS3 console. Ready? Are you excited? Let's go!

Wide-screen monitors are great for productivity, but they have a dark side, too: they tempt you into keeping dozens of Firefox tabs open at the same time. Before you know it, the page titles in a long row of tabs become indistinguishable. But the ChromaTabs extension has a novel solution to the problem: it renders each tab in a different color -- a unique color for each site that remains the same on every visit.

Welcome to this year's 50th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! One of the indications of Ubuntu's popularity is the number of derivatives based on Canonical's operating system, available for every taste and purpose. Last week, two such distributions were added to the DistroWatch database - Mythbuntu, a project delivering MythTV in an easy-to-setup package, and Geubuntu, an eye-catching distro featuring the latest Enlightenment window manager. Read our exclusive review of the latter. Also in this edition: openSUSE kickstarts the development of version 11.0 with the first alpha release, a link to article discussing the importance of "libre" distributions, information about a free online RHCE study guide, and some observations about the new ASUS Eee PC. Happy reading!

Thanks to LXer for republishing this. Due to some information that was published in the initial report, we had to pull the blog down until we got legal clarification and that we were sure that a good deed was not going to get punished. This is a tragedy for this family and anything you can do to help is appreciated far beyond this families ability to express it. - h

The Aleutia is a small $1000 Linux based low power consumption computer designed to run on a solar panel in areas were there is no power. The problem is, the Eee PC with a third-party solar panel has better specs and costs less.

I think, that Linux users make no good to Linux saying constantly that Vista or XP are bad Operating Systems, and even worse, fighting about which Linux distribution is better, I think we should focus on showing how Linux do things good, and improving those things Linux is not good at yet. Let the Operating System Battle be a battle between companies Like Canonical, RedHat or Microsoft.

Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, talks to ZDNet U.K. about the security of Firefox and Internet Explorer, online privacy, and the future of open source.

I have a friend in San Antonio, who needs some help with a computer I gave her son for his 9th birthday. It runs Mandriva Linux 2007.1. As I'm in Australia I can't help all that much.

Mark Taylor is best known as President of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) - and as the scourge of the BBC over its Windows-only iPlayer. He talks about the state of open source, the main obstacles to the wider use of free software by companies in the UK and Europe, and what can be done to overcome them.

The Horde Project provides a PHP-based Application Framework. It consists of webmail program IMP, a contact manager Turba, the calendar manager Kronolith, and many others. It also uses a backend-independent interfaces for dealing with preferences, logfiles, MIME, hierarchical data, authentication, data formats, encryption, forms, session handling, file storage and remote procedure calls.

In my last article I introduced the idea of the Geek Ranch. The facility will be more than just a place for geeks to write code. We are going to need a web site to promote the facility to the various audiences. All the pieces of that web site are not yet determined but we do have an initial features list.

LXer Feature: 09-Dec-2007

In this weeks roundup we have several articles concerning the OLPC and Microsoft. Plus the MPAA is forced to take down its university toolkit, Dell may have helped boost Linux's market share, when bad things happen with your good software, a review of Mint 4.0 and the X11 Desktop Environment. I wrap things up with a couple of funny articles about 'someone' dropping support for OOXML and trusting your bartender, enjoy!

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig on Fedora 8. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

Living in Africa we have abundant sun, a power source we rarely consider when we buy yet another gadget. Along comes the Aleutia E1, an ultra low power computer setup that can be run from a roll up solar panel or a car battery and runs Puppy Linux.

Microsoft wants to rule the world, even Third World countries where $100 laptops for children will soon be prevalent. In a move bound to spark controversy, Microsoft announced it wants Windows XP to be installed in the computers for the project One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). The software giant wants to extend its reach by bringing XP to the XO laptop, a low-cost Linux laptop available to developing countries for around $100. Microsoft is requesting XO designers add a port to boost the storage capacity via an SD card so Windows XP can run on the system. The XO can only hold 1GB of flash memory, but Microsoft says XP could run on 2GB total memory.

On a mailing list of its 64-bit Linux web page x86-64.org, AMD has released a first description of the TLB bug which affects all current K10 processors, namely Phenoms and Barcelonas. "Erratum 298" is to be described in detail in the next edition of the Revision Guide for AMD Family 10h Processors. The current version 3.00 does not list the bug.

Right now, setting up a backup system to keep their data safe is easy enough for advanced users, but many people still will not bother to backup unless simple tools are put right in front of them. With Leopard promoting its Time Machine, it is time for Linux distributions to start including an easy to use and pre-configured backup solution.

Ted Ts’o, a Linux kernel file maintainer who works for IBM outside Boston, will spend the next two years with the Linux Foundation as chief platform strategist. Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin is what the Brits call “over the moon” about getting him. “It’s rare to have this level of technical expertise, the ability to engage on any level, and the ability to engage substantively on a business conversation, and conversations about marketing, and about building ecosystems. That’s an ultra-rare skillset.”

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has announced completion of the LiPS Release 1.0 specifications, fulfilling the commitment announced in earlier of this year. With this release, LiPS enables mobile industry players to achieve basic interoperability for applications and services deployed on Linux-based phones, benefiting Linux-based software stack suppliers, mobile device OEMs and regional and global telecom operators.

New Enea Linux Competence Center Established to Address Growing Demand for Reliable Linux Systems and Services.