● 10.01.08

● Links 01/10/2008: New Ubuntu Theme, Fedora 10 Beta

Posted in News Roundup at 8:13 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzGNU/LinuxGerman Pension Fund Moves to Linux on the Mainframe Using Clerity’s UniKix SoftwareHow Brazil has put an ‘e’ in vote [on Linux machines]Adding a new hard disk to Linux, and why the Linux filesystem trounces Windows’ buttSimply Mepis 8 is Looking GoodYou should give Linux a try. If you are currently using MS Windows, you should download the .iso image, burn it to a CD, stick it in your optical drive and reboot the computer. You won’t have to install right away, unless you want. This way you can look at Linux and see what it’s all about. There’s more information here. Give it a shot and you’ll probably like what you see.Fedora 10 Cambridge BetaLinux for Older PCs : From Ubuntu to Vector LinuxAltera and SLS Offer Commercially Supported Pre-Packaged uCLinux for Nios II Embedded ProcessorTop 5 Least Popular Linux Distributions That CouldI love almost every vital part of Pardus. The system installer, the package manager, and the control center among others are all wonderfully crafted. I can tell that the developers took their time to really buff up this distro. I’m sorry to say though that Pardus is still pretty much underrated, because many distros are far more popular but are not as good as Pardus. I would highly recommend Pardus to just about anyone who is still searching for a fully featured, easy-to-use, and quality Linux distro.Agilingua, LLC Announces New ATOM Spoken Dialogue SDK With Digital Signal Processing (DSP) FrameworkOpengear Console Manager Brings Out-of-Band Ease to Voxel dot NetPandora targeting Wiz in open-source gaming handheld warSensational and regrettable: Zemlin on NYT Solaris claimsA few days back, the New York Times online ran what was, for many, a sensational headline about Sun’s Solaris: “Is Sun’s Solaris on its deathbed?” While the piece was not written by its own staff, the fact that what many still consider to be a newspaper with some credibility ran with such a story did evoke plenty of reaction.FinanceFinancial Crisis Offers Opportunity for Linux, Open SourceKeep tabs on your finances with HomeBankGnuCash 2.2.7 releasedArmyCongress: Open-source for U.S. militaryConcurrent RedHawk Linux Powers Real-Time Data Acquisition for Japanese DefenseUbuntuUbuntu 8.10 Intrepid’s ThemeUbuntu users were promised a radical new desktop theme with Ubuntu 8.04 and then that ended up getting postponed to the upcoming 8.10 release (a.k.a. the Intrepid Ibex). There was a new brown theme that had appeared early on in Intrepid but many users were dissatisfied with this work and Canonical ended up reverting the theme to that of Ubuntu 8.04 and earlier. Though with the Intrepid artwork final deadline passing last week, what does the desktop look like in the Ubuntu 8.10 Beta release due out this week? Here are some screenshots.Gmail+Weather+Beauty right on your Ubuntu desktopThree Little Things To Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Beautiful and ProductiveVirtual Worlds/Open SourcerealXtend Open Source Virtual Reality Platform Accelerates With Growing EcosystemThe university of tomorrow could be in a virtual world.VoIPGlintech integrates Asterisk, Jabber for open source UC platformOpen source office phones get SkypeDigium(R) and Telrex Announce Partnership and Interoperability CertificationAstriCon 2008 – Future Asterisk Delivery and SupportKernel SpaceLinux 2.6.27-rc8 [Released]The State of Kernel Mode-SettingLooking Forward To UVD On Linux?InterviewsInterview: aria2, for Flexible DownloadsQ&A with Stuart Cohen, CEO of Collaborative Software InitiativeRWW Interviews David Tosh of Elgg, The Open Source Social Networking PlatformPhonesSmartphones are opening – but just a crackOpen Kernel Labs Embedded Hypervisor Enriches First Android PhoneVisa to develop applications for Android, Nokia phonesF/OSSThree Free, Open-Source Wonders for Web WorkersVideo tour: Bluefish editorOpportunities for Open Source in IndiaOpen source software ‘the way to go’OrangeHRM Releases Version 2.4 of the Open-Source HR Management SystemFuture of FirebirdCommunity Live – Google Open Source JamWebKit browser engine aces Acid3 test, stakes claim to No. 1Opening HardwareICT winners, losers and also-ransGhana: Expert Appeals for ‘Open Source’ Software UsageOpening new doors with Open SourceOpen source business benefits ‘outweigh’ potential problemsOSU Open Source Lab Announces Advisory CouncilSun launches open source OpenSSO EnterpriseHealthDoes HIMSS hate open source?Are open source EMRs a threat to HIMSS?Will Open Source Breathe New Life Into Health Care Cost Savings?FSFHow To Avoid Becoming a Defendant in a BusyBox or Any GPL-Related LawsuitUpdates from the Free Software Foundation EuropeLeftoversXP Software Solutions Launches Online Collaboration, Project Management and Document Versioning Application on the Etelos MarketplaceATMAIL ANNOUNCES AVAILABLITY OF ATMAIL OPEN VIA FREE BSD PORTSDigital Tipping Point: Clip of the DayCharles Kalil, IT Manager for the City of Garden Grove 03 (2004)Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. 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