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First Mobile Firefox enters home stretch

Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence. "Our goal is to have a release candidate next week," said Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of mobile. "If things go smoothly, we'll have a (final) version out in the next few weeks," with the debut planned for this year, he added.

10 Netbook-oriented Linux Distributions... and Counting

I can say that Linux on netbook is gaining momentum right now contrary to what others believe. Just take a look at the growing number of Linux distributions that are optimized for netbooks so that you will know what I mean. For those of you who are interested, I've compiled a list of well-known, netbook-oriented Linux distributions.

Tasktop, ThoughtWorks Studio Team Up on Connector

Connector integrates development activities performed in Eclipse IDE with project management in Mingle 3.0

Gift Ideas for Linux Geeks

  • Productivity Sauce; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Dec 10, 2009 2:56 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The holiday season is approaching fast, but there is still time to buy a nice gift for the Linux geek in your life. Not sure what to give? Here are a couple of gift ideas.

IBM's newest mainframe is all Linux

IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems. The new system uses IBM's specialty Linux processor and runs either Novell SUSE or Red Hat systems. It does not use the mainframe operating system z/OS but includes mainframe management software as well as IBM's z/Virtual Machine system. Together, they constitute the company's latest "solutions edition," or what IBM says are lower-cost, integrated stacks for the mainframe.

Google Chrome for Linux goes beta

Google Chrome for Linux is finally ready for beta. Chrome is a fast Internet Browser who was already available for Mac & Windows.

Free Software Foundation Drums Up Community Team

Richard Stallman's free software organization seeks to assemble a loose and open group of supporters on a voluntary basis to distribute information on the Web and promote free software.

Open source media centre Boxee hits beta phase

A downloadable beta of a fundamentally re-jigged version of open source media centre Boxee has recently been made available to a closed circle of users. As well as sprucing up the user interface with a tidier home view, the media library has been revised and now also lists internet, in addition to local, content. Multi-episode TV series, as offered by US service Hulu, for example, can now be sorted by series and episode.

IP set-top runs Boxee

D-Link is readying a Linux-based IP set-top box (STB) based on the open source Boxee home entertainment stack. The singularly styled "Boxee Box DM-380" incorporates WiFi, Ethernet, USB, and HDMI out, as well as analog and digital audio outputs, says the company.

Review: Thunderbird 3 takes flight with tabs, enhanced search

Mozilla Messaging has announced the official release of Thunderbird 3. Ars takes a hands-on look at the improvements in the new version—including tabbed messaging and enhanced search—and finds a lot to be excited about.

Openofficeorg- Play starwars galaxy easter egg in calc

There is a hidden game in the Openoffice Spreadsheet program Calc, the game is an Easter Egg that let’s you play a simple version of Space Invaders, titled StarWars Galaxy, so if you are working with openoffice and you need a break, you know what to do ;).

D-Link new Boxee box runs Linux

D-Link unveiled its soon-to-be-released “Boxee Box” at Boxee’s preview of Boxee Beta in New York last night. Few details have been disclosed other than that it runs Boxee on Linux, provides HDMI and both analog and digital audio outputs, and hooks up to the Internet via either WiFi or Ethernet.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Features

Mozilla has announced the availability of version 3 of its popular open source Thunderbird email and news client for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla Thunderbird 3 brings awesome features like:

Why ChromeOS is a Smartbook OS

  • Tech-no-media; By Eric Van Haesendonck (Posted by Erlik on Dec 9, 2009 7:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups:
Now that Google's Linux based ChromeOS has been fully revealed and is actually available for some machines, one thing appears clearly: ChromeOS is more like a Smartbook OS than a Netbook OS. Let's sum up what ChromeOS is about: it is the Chrome Browser as an operating system. Remember a few years ago when people said that the browser would become the OS? That's what Google did! Let's look at what this means...

Learn how to monitor your projects with GanttProject

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by russb78 on Dec 9, 2009 6:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Even the simplest project can quickly get out of hand if you don’t keep tabs on it. That’s why an application that can help you to deal with various aspects of managing your projects can prove indispensable…

Postfix Virtual Hosting With LDAP Backend And With Dovecot As IMAP/POP3 Server On Ubuntu Kamic Koala 9.10

  • HowtoForge; By Miguel Brams (Posted by falko on Dec 9, 2009 5:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This how to will allow you step by to configure a Postfix mail server with with virtual hosting. Virtual hosting means that you can add as many mail domains as you want and sub sequentially as many mailboxes for these domains as you want. Here we we use an LDAP backend for both the MTA (Postfix) and POP3/IMAP server (Dovecot), and a web based management interface. Optional in this how to is the use of Roundcube webmail and proftpd.

RFID passport identity theft made simple

  • Robin Harris; By zdnet (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 9, 2009 5:15 PM EDT)
You’re confident your RFID passport is safe in its signal-blocking wallet as you pass through immigration. What you don’t know is that the man behind you is recording the data sent by your passport’s RFID chip as it is scanned.

This week at LWN: The 2009 Linux and free software timeline - Q1

Here is LWN's twelfth annual timeline of significant events in the Linux and free software world for the year. 2009 offered few surprises to those that have been following Linux and free software for as long as we have. As expected, there were new releases of many of the tools and underlying infrastructure that we use on a daily basis. There were also lawsuits over software patents, arguments over licensing, and various security flaws found and fixed. Distributions were packaged up and released, more phones and other devices with Linux and free software were sold, and so forth. All part of the march to "world domination". We look forward to 2010—and beyond.

From Open Source to Open Hardware

  • Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody (Posted by glynmoody on Dec 9, 2009 3:50 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
How do you apply the principles behind open source to open hardware? It's not easy, but early examples are beginning to emerge, including not one but *two* open source car projects. As ever, a big problem is finding the right kind of licence.

Ubuntu 10.04 Is Off To A Poor Performance Start

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by phoronix on Dec 9, 2009 3:15 PM EDT)
Tomorrow will mark the first alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, and while there is still a long journey ahead for this Long-Term Support release before it officially makes its debut in April, we could not pass up the opportunity to provide some early benchmarks of the Lucid Lynx. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has already pulled in X.Org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 and other updated graphics packages along with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel that it will be using in the final build, which already presents some core differences from the current stable release, Ubuntu 9.10.

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