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This is just a really, really short basic howto for setting up the poulsbo X driver and VAAPI video acceleration on Ubuntu 10.04. I will post more details later.

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes viewed as a significant barrier to the development of open source software. Critics point out that if developers simply collaborated more with each other, instead of creating yet another Linux distribution or programming another text editor, this would help to simplify matters for users, and actually significantly advance the development of established open source projects.

XML is a popular data source used in many applications. JasperReports allows you to generate reports directly from XML data. This first section of the article teaches you how to connect iReport to an XML file stored on your PC. In the second section of this article you will create a report from data stored in an XML file. In order to process an XML file and extract information from it, JasperReports uses XPath, which is a popular query language to filter XML data. So you will also learn how to use XPath expressions for report generation.

GIMP 2.6.9 is released. For newbies, GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. As you can infer from the name, GIMP is completely open source and is also free as in free beer. GIMP is pitched as the open source alternative for Adobe Photoshop. GIMP is cross platform and yes, GIMP has a Windows version also.

Mozilla says it has "no official position" on NPAPI Pepper, the revamped browser plug-in API developed by Google for use with Native Client, a plug-in that runs native code inside its Chrome browser. Google is also using Pepper to integrate Adobe's Flash player and a PDF reader with Chrome, and in announcing its plan to bundle Flash with Chrome, the company seemed to indicate that Mozilla was backing the API. "We are working with Adobe, Mozilla and the broader community to help define the next generation browser plug-in API," Google said in a blog post.

The Ubuntu logo in the top left corner is not for Expose anymore, and it now triggers the Unity launcher which comes with 2 tabs: one for the applications - which you can see in the screenshot above, and another tab for files grouped by day and by type, using the power of Zeitgeist

Wine, the project that lets Linux users run Windows apps within Linux, has released a major update that fixes a number of bugs and includes 64-bit support. Wine 2.1 includes a new set of icons, a number of fixes for video rendering – improving Windows gaming – and better font anti-aliasing and handling of desktop link files. Wine has always been a controversial app in the Linux community with purists claiming Wine is exactly what Linux doesn't need – a Windows crutch that just undermines claims that Linux can do anything Windows can do. Rather than relying on Wine, the argument goes, Linux users should concentrate on improving the Linux apps that cover the same territory.

This is the HP Mini 100e, a netbook which looks are fully customizable. There's an option for SUSE Linux as the operating system. It's nice to see something different in operating system options, too bad the other 2 options are windows versions (XP and 7)

As always, VideoLAN has come up with interesting tweaks, updates and enhancements to its all popular VLC media player with the release of version 1.1.0.

Intel has confirmed that it will create a native version of Android 2.2 that will run on devices sporting the Atom chipsets. Intel's Renee James told APCmag.com that an X86 version of Android 2.2 – codenamed FroYo – would be available for developers this summer. "Our expectation is that (native x86 Android) will be based on the Froyo release and will be available this summer to developers," said James.

Ubuntu, it's been a nice ride, and I fully support what your doing in terms of spreading the full-custom gospel sounds of the free desktop (apologies to the Rev. Horton Heat). I'm OK with the desktop innovation — the "social from the start" initiative, the Ubuntu One integration. It's just not for me. It's mostly not for my hardware, but I'll extend that to me, the user.

This howto describes how to build a standalone BIKA LIMS solution on top of Ubuntu server. Once you have downloaded and installed the basic Ubuntu the whole process of cutting and pasting takes about 15 minutes.

Canonical became the first Associate Member of the Open Inventions Network, a patent organization founded by IBM, Sony, NEC, Novell, Philips and Red Hat to enable royalty-free use of patents to influence collaboration within the Linux community. The weird thing is that in both the press release and website, the actual requirements and commitments of an Associate Member are nowhere to be found.

It's not just Apple that is out to kill off Adobe's Flash. Apple has been fairly vocal over the past month in its opposition to Adobe's Flash player. The company, or at least Steve Jobs, has unequivocally said that it will not be supporting Flash on its iPhone and iPad devices. Not now and not ever.

LinuxTag 2010 is the host of a Debian miniconf; that, in turn, was where relatively new Debian leader Stefano Zacchiroli delivered a relatively high-energy "state of Debian" talk. According to Stefano, Debian is doing great, but can do better yet; he has some ideas for how to make the project better.

CrossOver for Solaris is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of todays most popular office application and games.

N8 will be the last Nokia N-series phone running Symbian operating system. Nokia's Symbian operating system has been dealt a further blow with the cellphone maker announcing it will be dropping it in favour of the Linux MeeGo operating system for its high-end smartphones.

For several years now, Sprint has been in next-to-last place among U.S. wireless network providers. But that might eventually change if Sprint continues to offer smartphones like the HTC EVO 4G ($200 with a new contract), a well-reviewed Android 2.1 handset boasting several firsts and currently a Sprint exclusive in the U.S.

Already reviewed GoogleCL on LinuxNOV on this post for how to use GoogleCL without using Graphical User Interface, but in this post will show simple script for GoogleCL also you... readmore

I found a useful sound effect in an online video from NASA which replaces an earlier temporary sound I used in a scene soundtrack for the Lunatics pilot, “No Children in Space.” I’m going to extract the sound from the video (with VLC), cut out the sound I need, clean it up, and insert it into an existing sound mix (all with Audacity). This should give you some insight into using Audacity and a VLC on a real project. Read the full howto at Free Software Magazine.