● 06.22.10

● Links 22/6/2010: Dell in GNU/Linux Talks, Loads of Red Hat Press

Posted in News Roundup at 1:58 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzContentsGNU/LinuxGNU/Linux

Desktop

↺ You Want Linux to Run What?
↺ And now, for something totally different: EveryDesk!

Dell

↺ Dell backtracks on Linux being safer than Windows
↺ Dell and M$, Sitting in a Tree, KISSING

Google

↺ Dell in talks with Google over Chrome OS
↺ Toshiba AC100 video demo

Server

↺ What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

Ballnux

↺ Samsung posts firmware source bundle for BD-C5500 Blu Ray player, some wonder if it is real…
↺ Augmented reality in openSUSE 11.2

Applications

↺ WYSIWYG music app makes a score
↺ Linux Odyssey 2010 – Logging Software

Instructionals

↺ Linuxables: Intro to Linux Command Line
↺ Blender 2.49 Scripting
↺ Two tips for meeting survival in an entrenched bureaucracy
↺ Prevent brute force attacks using fail2ban
↺ How to install webmin in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
↺ noCD? |boot from usb| Sabayon Linux
↺ How to Hide Desktop Icons in Ubuntu
↺ Guake: Hide-able terminal goodness
↺ Guide to dual-booting
↺ 6 Bash Conditional Expression Examples ( -e, -eq, -z, !=, [, [[ ..)
↺ 4 Bash If Statement Examples ( If then fi, If then else fi, If elif else fi, Nested if )
↺ Getting rid of the blanks in a spreadsheet column or row, and more
↺ GRUB 2 boot problems

Games

↺ Cute Knight Kingdom For GNU/Linux Released !

Desktop Environments

K Desktop Environment (KDE SC)

↺ KDE 4.5 2nd Beta: The End of an Era

Krita

↺ Last Week in Krita — Week 24
↺ Week 24: Photoshop brush support in Krita

Distributions

↺ The Reg guide to Linux, part 1: Picking a distro
↺ 8 Linux-based Live CD/DVD and USB Distros For All Occasions

Reviews

↺ Review – Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Netbook Remix – With Screenshots

Red Hat Family

↺ SAS ranks No. 6 in Computerworld ‘Best Places to Work’ list; Red Hat is 95th
↺ SAS, Red Hat among 100 best places to work in IT
↺ Hanging Our Hats at One of the Best Companies to Work
↺ AcrossWorld eyes global access to free college courses
↺ NYSE Euronext Fuels Performance, Integration and Cost Savings With Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Middleware
↺ Nyse Euronext taps Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware
↺ Red Hat Looking At Systems Management Market?
↺ Red Hat Recognizes 2010 Red Hat Certified Engineers of the Year
↺ Red Hat Enables and Empowers Global Business Partners with Center for Resources on Cloud, Virtualization and Middleware Computing
↺ Red Hat Ahead of Earnings

Canonical/Ubuntu

↺ New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
↺ The Spirit of Ubuntu
↺ Meet Steve Kowalik
↺ Ubuntu on TV: The IT Crowd

Mint

↺ Isadora KDE Development Report

Devices/Embedded

E-Readers

↺ Kindle vs. Nook: The price war is on; E-reader shipments to surge?
↺ Dedicated E-Readers: They’re History

Free Software/Open Source

VLC

↺ VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision
↺ Press Release about Shoutcast Removal in VLC
↺ AOL sucks, forces VLC to remove SHOUTCast, AOL sucks…hard.

Mozilla

↺ Firefox 4 gets web sockets support

SaaS

↺ Linux: “The Cloud”, Tablets, Desktop PCs and Control
↺ Confessions of a cloud skeptic

Oracle

↺ OpenOffice at the crossroads

Business

↺ Can a FOSS Firm Hit the Billion-Dollar Jackpot?
↺ The Economics of Open Source: Why the Billion Dollar Barrier is Irrelevant
↺ Opscode, Turning Sysadmins into Superheroes

BSD

↺ Dru Lavigne Appointed “Director of Community Development” for PC-BSD Project

FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

↺ Introducing the campaigns interns…

Open Data

↺ Open Geoprocessing Standards and Open Geospatial Data

Leftovers

↺ Why engineers don’t like Twitter
↺ Ex-Massey Miner: Safety Gripes Led To Firing
↺ New “atomic” server: 512 Atom CPUs take on Xeons
↺ Metro Goes On Making Profits
↺ Why Mobile Innovation Is Blowing Away PCs

BCS

↺ BCS trustee threatens rebels with libel action
↺ ✍ BCS Members: Vote Now

Science

↺ Boost to next generation human genetic research
↺ EU sees solar power imported from Sahara in five years
↺ Music of the sun recorded by scientists
↺ Lucy fossil gets jolted upright by Big Man

Security/Aggression

↺ Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security
↺ London Borough sees a way of making some easy green
↺ Government plans new model for Summary Care Record
↺ Budget 2010: Forget being tough, it’s time to get realistic on crime

Environment

↺ NASA: Easily the hottest spring — and Jan-May — in temperature record
↺ Debunking the myth of the internet as energy hog, again: How information technology is good for climate
↺ Whistleblower aims to expose dark side of Japanese whaling
↺ Why anti-whaling campaigners are the bluefin tuna’s last hope
↺ Sea Shepherd activists free hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna off Libya
↺ Lessons from 9/11 for the Gulf oil spill
↺ BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL
↺ BP’s British shareholders to join US class actions over oil spill
↺ BP Disaster: Put the oil spill birds out of their misery
↺ Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
↺ Buncefield fire: Oil storage firm found guilty of safety breaches
↺ Gulf paymaster: People are in ‘desperate’ shape

Finance

↺ Goldman’s Blankfein Suddenly Looks Good, Thanks to BP’s Hayward
↺ Goldman Sachs, AIG to Testify at Derivatives Hearing
↺ Gardy & Notis, LLP Files a Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of All Purchasers of Shares of Common Stock of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — GS
↺ Goldman Sachs, SEC, Agree to Extend Goldman’s Reply
↺ Weber Defies Trichet Over Europe Bond Bailout as ECB Succession Approaches
↺ Business Rallies to Shape Finance Endgame
↺ Lawmakers to tackle toughest issues remaining on Wall Street reform
↺ Bank Lobbyists Make a Run at Reform Measures
↺ Wall Street Reform Could Cost Goldman Sachs BILLIONS
↺ Wall Street reform singes, not burns
↺ Dead On Arrival: Financial Reform Fails
↺ The Undeserving Unemployed
↺ Bank-closure workload leads FDIC to open 3rd satellite office
↺ Saudi gold reserves over twice previous estimate
↺ Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become IT Tax Haven

Censorship/Privacy/Civil Rights

↺ If Your Brother Was Arrested For A Crime, Does It Violate Your Privacy When They Store His DNA?
↺ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but will avoid America
↺ With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblowers of Classified Information
↺ IFJ condemns jailing of Venezuela journalist

Internet/Net Neutrality/DRM

↺ BBC Trust Consultation: On-demand Syndication

Intellectual Monopolies

↺ Supreme Court’s ruling on Monsanto’s GM alfalfa

Meat

↺ Pork Board takes bite out of Unicorn Meat spoof
↺ National Pork Board thinks Canned Unicorn Meat is real
↺ ThinkGeek gets awesome cease-and-desist order for Unicorn Meat
↺ ThinkGeek’s Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter

Copyrights

↺ File-sharing has weakened copyright—and helped society
↺ Copyright Ratchet, Copyright Racket
↺ Director Furious As Lawmakers Watch Pirate Copy of Hit Movie
↺ Britain’s BPI goes after Google
↺ Well This Is Funny…
↺ Major Labels Begin Major Astroturfing Campaign To Get 3 Strikes In The US

ACTA

↺ International Experts Find that Pending Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Threatens Public Interests

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