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Fedora 13 released.
I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat. more... and Seven Reasons to Upgrade to Fedora 13.

Linux 2.6.34 Kernel Debuts With New Filesystems.
The Linux 2.6.34 kernel is now available, delivering new filesystems to the open source operating system. Among the big new items included in the 2.6.34 release is the Ceph distributed filesystem and LogFS, a filesystem geared toward flash media devices. The update comes as the second major Linux kernel development of 2010 and follows the Linux 2.6.33 kernel release by just under three months. more... and Thoughts on 2.6.34.

Google open sources $124.6m video codec.
Google has taken a swashbuckling step towards open and license-free web video by open sourcing the leading codec from On2 Technologies, the video-compression outfit it acquired earlier this year for $124.6 million. more... and Flash embraces Google's open video codec and Vorbis is not Theora.

Google rolls out encrypted Web search option.
Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use the more secure search option can type "https://www.google.com" into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on, and the results that Google displays, will be protected from interception. more...

Database daddy goes non-relational on NoSQL fanbois.
Postgres and Ingres father Michael Stonebraker is answering NoSQL with a variant of his relational baby for web-scale data — and it breaks some of the rules he helped pioneer. On Tuesday, Stonebraker’s VoltDB company is due to release its eponymous open-source OLTP in-memory database. It ditches just enough DBMS staples to be faster than NoSQL while staying on the right side of the critical ACID database compliance benchmark for atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability of data. more...

News In The Linux Audio World.
There's always something noteworthy happening in Linux audio development. This week's news includes reports about a new Linux audio blog, music made by particle acceleration, how to use a laptop as a virtual music stand, synth emulation from the terminal command prompt, and watching the Linux Audio more...

Keep Your System Clean with BleachBit.
Keeping your system clean can be a time-consuming affair, unless you use specialized tools like BleachBit. With just a few mouse clicks, this nifty little utility can help you to purge all the junk produced by the system and installed applications. more...

Misc.
Django 1.2 released.
MythTV 0.23 released.
Google announces Android 2.2.
Unlock your musical genius.
WaveMaker.
Project Icarus, home of the original $150 near-space launch!
Crontab Code Generator.
Sintel Open Movie Trailer Looks Promising and more....
5 Things You Didn’t Know VLC Could Do.

How To Tips.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx") released.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support). This release incorporates the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition. The Server Edition can be used on physical servers, on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), and on Amazon's EC2 public cloud. more... and Discover the new features in Ubuntu 10.04 and First look at Ubuntu 10.04.

Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit.
The jury verdict last Friday in favor of Red Hat and Novell in a case based on bad software patents owned by "non-practicing entities" is an important victory for the open source community. Those in the business of acquiring bad software patents to coerce payments or bring lawsuits should be worried. more... and Red Hat & Novell Beat IP Innovation.

Symantec buys encryption specialist PGP for $300 million.
Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday. Both are privately held companies. Symantec said the deals are subject to regulatory approval but are expected to close by June. more... and Symantec Acquires PGP, GuardianEdge.

HP buys Palm.
THE LEADING PC BRAND HP has written a $1.2 billion cheque to buy the troubled smartphone maker Palm. While it had been expected that Palm was a ripe target for some one to buy, many pundits expected that it would be Lenovo signing on the dotted line. HP seems to have come out of nowhere to pick up the company. more... and Hewlett-Packard Will Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion.

Microsoft Contributes to Open-Source Joomla Project.
Microsoft is getting involved with another big-time open-source project, having agreed to support the popular Joomla content management system. more...

Amahi 5.3: Storage pooling & replication, UI improvements.
The team has had a busy last few weeks with a small surge in growth from the FLOSS weekly interview and our award from Linux Format magazine, along with new features. We are proud to bring you Amahi 5.3! There are so many new features to this release that this announce should be for a 6.0! more...

Mr. Fixit Goes Open Source With DIY Repair Site.
Manufacturers want you to recycle old gear when you upgrade, but Kyle Wiens would prefer that you keep your old gadgets and fix them yourself. Wiens, CEO of repair company iFixit, has remade his gadget-repair website into a collaborative wiki with the goal of crowdsourcing repair manuals for every type of device imaginable. He calls the movement “Repair 2.0.” more...

Farewell Songbird, We Hardly Knew Ye.
Songbird, the popular open source cross platform music player, has decided to dump support for Linux. Such a move could be fatal and here’s why. Earlier this month it was revealed that open source music player, Songbird, will drop support for Linux and concentrate on Windows and OS X. Needless to say, the Linux community hasn’t received this news very well. more...

VMware Workstation in Linux – Fantastic!
I am a great fan of virtualization products, VMware in particular. Player, Server, ESXi, they all offer a range of creative, useful solutions to the computer user when it comes to running multiple instances of various operating systems, all at once. more...

Misc.
Mailinator was the first disposable email service for people who want to protect their online identity.
PianoBooster is a free (Open Source) program that plays Standard Midi Files and allows you to change the speed of playback and transpose the music etc.
Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation editing and more.
Announcing the first free software Blu-ray encoder.
Migrate to GRUB 2.
Unleash your inner Old Master with MyPaint (Open Source).

How To Tips.

Open Clip Art Library 2.0 Release!
The Open Clip Art Library grew from a project between Jon Phillips (of Fabricatorz) and Bryce Harrington, in early 2004. From humble beginnings, it has evolved into a massive collection of over 24,000 scalable vector images, all created by 1200+ artists from around the world. more...

Manage your projects with Kplato.
KPlato is one of those tools that could easily get overlooked – but certainly shouldn’t. KPlato is project management tool that offers more features that many similar tools. KPlato was created with the intention of managing moderate to large projects using multiple resources, time constraints, and dependencies. KPlato features various GANTT charts, and tasks can be organized in different ways. Simply put, if you are looking for an outstanding project management tool, KPlato might be the perfect match. more...

Turn your old computer into a music server with VortexBox Linux.
VortexBox is a free, open source, quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox. Once VortexBox has been loaded on an unused PC, it will automatically rip CDs to FLAC and MP3 files, ID3 tag the files , and download the cover art. Vortexbox will then serve the files to network media players such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos, or Linn. more...

Turbocharge OpenOffice.org Writer with AuthorSupportTool.
There are hundreds of nifty extensions available in the official extension repository. Some of them add a feature or two, while others take OpenOffice.org to a whole new level. The AuthorSupportTool (AST) extension belongs to the latter category. AST not just adds some random features to OpenOffice.org Writer, it dramatically enhances the word processor’s functionality, turning it into a powerful tool for working on research papers and complex documents. more...

Extension Watch: Turn Firefox into an Ebook Reader with EPUBReader.
You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension. more... and FBReader - e-book reader for Linux desktops and Lucidor - Simple eBook Reader.

7 cool Linux projects.
Well, we asked our projects expert to rustle up 7 great things you can do on your penguin-powered machine - host a photo album, make sweet music, create stop-frame animations and more. Read on to get cracking! more...

Misc.
Decision in Bilski: Patent Absurdity, the movie.
gThumb Finally Gets Flickr Support.
Nautilus Image Converter.

How To Tips.

15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.
The ASF's first project became the world's most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million Websites world-wide.A triumph for the all-volunteer Foundation, the Apache HTTP Server reliably delivers petabytes of data across the world’s most demanding uses, including real-time news sources, Fortune 100 enterprise portals, cloud computing clusters, financial services platforms, mission-critical military intelligence applications, aerospace communications networks, and more. The server software can be downloaded, modified and installed by anyone free of charge. more...

Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives.
Popular Science magazine has scanned every issue they've ever produced, and posted the archives at their website, at no charge. 'We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. more... and Search the PopSci Archives.

Elive 2.0 "Topaz" - A Linux distribution that combine the stability, speed and beauty.
After 2 years of of development, Elive 2.0 landed under the codename "Topaz". The new release comes with many improvments. Elive "Topaz" is based on debian and use Enlightenment 17 as a default desktop .The authors of Elive claim that it offers great visual appear even with minimal hardware resources. more...

RabbitVCS.
RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Currently, it is integrated into the Nautilus file manager and only supports Subversion, but our goal is to incorporate other version control systems as well as other file managers. It is primarily inspired by TortoiseSVN. more...

Kate Puts Other Text Editors to Shame.
Kate is a multi-document editor that grew from a rewritten version of the KWrite editing widget of the KDE desktop. It's runnable on both Gnome and KDE desktops. Kate's feature set goes above and beyond that of most text editors. It can display an index of files on a sidebar, check a document's spelling, and perform robust search-and-find tasks. more...

Mistelix, a DVD authoring and Slideshow creating application for Linux.
Mistelix is an open source DVD authoring application with also Theora slideshow creation capabilities for GNU/Linux systems. So, using this you can create DVD projects with videos and slideshows that can be played on DVD players. Because of its slideshow feature you can even create a slideshow out of a collection of pics that can be played in your PC. more...

Misc.
Google Acquires Online Image Editing Tool Picnik.
Crash Plan backup.
Ubuntu Lucid Makes Scanning Simple.

How To Tips.

Major legal victory for open source in US.
The long running case of Jacobsen v. Katzer has been settled on terms favourable to Jacobsen, a developer of the Java Model Railroad Interface project. The case came about when Katzer incorporated Jacobsen's code into it's proprietary model trail software, after deleting the copyright notices that existed in the code. more... and Inside Open Source's Historic Victory.

Chuck Norris botnet karate-chops routers hard.
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, you may be in for an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris -- the Chuck Norris botnet, that is. Discovered by Czech researchers, the botnet has been spreading by taking advantage of poorly configured routers and DSL modems, according to Jan Vykopal, the head of the network security department with Masaryk University's Institute of Computer Science in Brno, Czech Republic. more... and Chuck Norris Botnet Karate-chops Routers Hard.

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube.
With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec. more...

LTSP 5.2 is out !
After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, I'm proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. more... and After two years of development, LTSP 5.2 is out.

Ubuntu One Music Store Pushed In Rhythmbox.
One of the features that was talked about and proposed a few months back was a music store for Ubuntu where one could easily purchase music and somewhat fits in with Canonical's plans for the Ubuntu Software Store (or the "Ubuntu Software Center" as it's now called). Plans were laid out for an Ubuntu One Music Store and the first packages to support this in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are now available. more... and Ubuntu One Music Store Sneak Peek and U1 Music Store – Store Music in U1?

New attempt to integrate AppArmor into Linux.
John Johansen, a developer with commercial Ubuntu sponsor Canonical, has submitted an updated version of the AppArmor security framework to the Linux kernel developers for inspection. Johansen writes that, like the SELinux and Tomoyo solutions already integrated into the kernel, this fourth general posting of AppArmor uses Linux Security Modules (LSM) to hook into the kernel. more...

How to get started with Linux.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that we all had to start somewhere with Linux. When you're not used to the way it works, or the kind of concepts involved, Linux can seem like a foreign language. If you're struggling with free software, or if you know someone who needs help making the switch to Linux, we hope this feature will help. more... and Advice on building a Linux box.

Ultra-compact PC targets digital signage.
Habey USA announced an ultra-compact PC with a choice of Intel Atom processors. The BIS-6620 has a 4.7 x 4.7-inch footprint, runs at 1.1 or 1.6GHz, comes with CompactFlash and SD expansion slots, and uses just nine Watts, the company says. more...

Element dedicated media PC for HD TV.
Element is an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers featuring a ten-foot user interface and designed to be connected to a HDTV for a digital media and Internet experience within the comforts of a living room or entertainment area. more...

Misc.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.
Free info society.
dd_rescue.
The Five Best Linux Video Players.
Google gets go-ahead to buy, sell energy.
LemonPOS: Your Open Source Point of Sale.
Make Your Personal Linux Cloud With Tonido.
Samba with Active Directory: getting closer.
CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name.

How To Tips.

KDE 4.4.0 Released.
KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features more...

MeeGo: Maemo and Moblin merged by Linux Foundation.
The Linux Foundation has announced MeeGo, a merger of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects as a single project under the leadership of the Foundation. The news came in a posting by Linux Foundation's CEO Jim Zemlin who called MeeGo "a next generation mobile operating system designed for the next generation of mobile devices". more... and Moblin and Maemo to merge.

OpenOffice 3.2: more stability, more speed.
The OpenOffice team have made version 3.2 of the open source office suite for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris available to download. It offers numerous enhancements over its predecessor which offer both stability and speed benefits. Writer and Calc, for example, should now start twice as fast as in version 3.1.1. more... and IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up.

Symbian source released.
The Symbian Foundation has announced that the source code release for Symbian is now complete. "All 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform can now be downloaded from Symbian's developer web site (tiny.symbian.org/open), under the terms of the Eclipse Public License and other open source licenses. more...

Video editing in Linux: a look at PiTiVi and Kdenlive.
Video editing on Linux has long gotten a bad rap. A few years ago, the only real options for video editing were either deeply limited in features and polish, or incredibly complex to set up and use. more...

Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 4) - Architecture and virtualisation.
Several changes to the X86 and KVM code are to speed up the kernel's own hypervisor. The kernel developers once again revised and considerably extended the still emerging tracing infrastructure. The Power and PowerPC code now also supports the Gamecube and Wii games consoles. more...

Who Is Developing KVM Linux Virtualization?
Five years ago, the open source Xen hypervisor was the primary technology that big vendors like IBM and Red Hat were adopting and pushing. In 2010, that's no longer the case as the rival KVM effort is now getting the attention of both IBM and Red Hat , as well as many others in the Linux ecosystem. more...

Waste plenty of time with Frozen Bubble and gnubik.
Let’s face it, we sit at our computers for hours on end. Be it administrating, working, or just plain killing time. Everyone knows that the interwebs is a sure-fire time killer. But what happens, gasp, when those interwebs are down and you’ve no way to pass time? You shrivel up and die right? No! You waste your time coding, writing, or playing games! more...

Misc.
Android first to host Adobe's AIR for smartphones.
Android angling toward multi-touch.
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk.
KTechlab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics.
Musix is 100% free multimedia operating system intended for music production, graphic design, audio and video edition, and all kind of tasks.
Solid State Drives Get Faster with TRIM.
5 Useful and Fun GIMP Plug-ins.
Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy.

How To Tips.

EU Gives Oracle Approval on Sun Acquisition.
The saga of Oracle's $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which started back in April 2009, is near its end. Oracle today announced that the European Commission has finally provided it with unconditional regulatory approval to acquire Sun. The Europeans had held up the acquisition for months over concerns about how the open source MySQL database owned by Sun would exist under Oracle ownership. European regulators formally made their objections known back in November. more... and EU Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Deal With No Conditions.

Google's Chrome OS to include a media player.
Google has confirmed that its upcoming lightweight, browser-centric Chrome OS operating system will include a built-in media player. more... and YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5 and HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web and Better video quality with html 5.

Enna – A New and Exciting Linux Media Center.
These days, buying a decent plasma is often a lot more expensive than building your own media center. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, a media center is basically a PC that’s focused solely on media playback. Check out our PDF guide on how to set up your own media center more...

Yahoobuntu!!!
Ubuntu is switching the default search from Google to Yahoo! Those of you testing out the development version of Ubuntu Lucid should notice a change in Firefox very soon. The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and upgrades will be Yahoo! and not Google. Canonical have struck a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! which generates income for the company. more...

High-end NAS device runs Linux on dual-core Pineview Atom.
Synology announced it is shipping a Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) device called the DiskStation DS1010+, offering a dual-core Intel Atom D510 and up to 10 drive bays. Earlier this month, the company also shipped a single-bay (2TB) DS110j NAS aimed at SOHO customers. more...

VirtualBox’s Little Secret: The Command Line.
Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI). The most obvious question is, “Why work at the command line when you have a perfectly good GUI?” The answer is power. more...

Misc.
Is Your Password among the 20 Most Popular (and Hackable)?
What's new in Banshee 1.5.3? Folder watching, Smart-sync, Cover-art Editor.
CoolIris for Linux.
VoxForge was set up to collect transcribed speech
SkyChart Free software to draw sky charts.
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company.
UTHSCSA ImageTool Version 3.0 Final is Here.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review.
YouTube Videos With Linux: Part 3.
Inkscape Class Day 3 and Inkscape Class Day 4.
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing audio files.

How To Tips.

Yahoo sells Zimbra to Vmware.
Yahoo has finally offloaded its open source enterprise e-mail division, Zimbra, to VMware. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the sales price is believed to be far less than the US$350 million Yahoo paid for the company in September 2007. Kara Swisher at Boomtown reported that the sales price was "well below" the acquisition price, but didn't specify an amount. more...

5 Special Devices from CES 2010 that Run on Linux.
Lots of fascinating new devices were showcased during past week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In addition to marketing new products events like the CES serve as an opportunity to demonstrate what technology can do. Naturally, some of those feats may not prove particularly useful, but they are fun to watch anyway. more...

The Disney Ptex library has been released as open source under the BSD license.
The Disney Ptex library is now available to the public community of texture artists, lighters and modelers. The new open source library supports Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces (including quad and non-quad faces), Loop subdivision surfaces and polymeshes (either all-quad or all-triangle). Also, several data types are supported including 8 or 16-bit integer, float, and half-precision float. more...

GenoCAD Goes Open Source.
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, an affiliated corporation of Virginia Tech, has announced that it has licensed the source code of GenoCAD to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). This agreement will facilitate the open source development of GenoCAD (an experimental software tool that allows users to build and verify complex genetic constructs derived from a library of standard genetic parts) by the synthetic biology community. more...

Amahi 5.1 released.
Only one month after the 5.0 release, Amahi 5.1 is already released. Amahi Linux Home Server is a server targeted for home and home office environments. more...

OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09.2 for network routers.
OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09.2 is released. This is a Linux distribution for network routers, like the Linksys WRT54G, or the Asus WL-500g and a lot of other routers. This distribution adds a lot of new functionality to routers, like improved ipv6 functionality. more...

Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 Removes HAL.
The development of Ubuntu 10.04 is taking another turn. Lucid Lynx now has a second alpha version that gets rid of HAL. more...

German government warns against using MS Explorer.
The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. more... and French Government Also Warns Against Using Internet Explorer.

Misc.
HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format.
Google Chrome vs Chromium.
Testing Chromium on Ubuntu.
The FBI's Newest Tool — Google Images.
7 Best Linux Apps for Ripping CDs and DVDs.
Linux 101 Hacks eBook Goes Online – HTML Version.

How To Tips.

The next generation of Linux notebooks arrives at CES.
After Dell broke the ice for pre-installing Linux on desktops and netbooks in 2007, the other major OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) reluctantly tried it out. Some, like Lenovo, backed right out of the Linux desktop market again. As 2010 dawns though, Lenovo and HP are both back in the pre-installed desktop Linux game. more...

Big Shot: OpenShot Video Editor Version 1.0 Released.
Video clip editors have been in short supply under Linux. Jonathan Thomas is now trying to fill that gap with the first stable version of the OpenShot Video Editor. more... and OpenShot 1.0 Has Arrived! and Install OpenShot Video Editor 1.0 in Ubuntu Karmic.

OpenMovieEditor And Blender: More NLE Delights.
We're getting close to the last stops on our tour of non-linear video editors (a.k.a. NLEs) for Linux. This week I've focused my attention on two editors, both of which surprised me in many ways. OpenMovieEditor "... designed for basic movie making capabilities... [and] to be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use". In fact I found OpenMovieEditor to be a surprisingly capable NLE, modest in its stated goals yet possessing some features not commonly found in Linux NLEs. more...

YouTube Videos With Linux.
My brother wanted to put a short business video on YouTube to pull in British clients. We produced the video using Linux-based tools, half a day or so of work, and a minimum of additional equipment. Not only can you make your own videos for business, similar techniques can be used for creating video tutorials, including screen-casts, and voice-over narration. Part1... and Part2...

The best Linux games for kids.
The best collection of Linux educational software for all ages that I know of is the openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) Live DVD. This is a Live DVD - you simply place the DVD in the computer's DVD drive and reboot the machine from it. When the machine comes up, you will be running Linux. Normally, the software won't write to your computer's hard drive unless you specifically ask it to. more... and Learning is Childsplay.

Nightshade Forks From Stellarium, Designs Open Source Software for Planetariums.
Stellarium is a great astronomy application for helping you learn about the skies overhead, but it's aimed mainly at astronomy buffs and casual users. Nightshade is a newly-launched fork of Stellarium designed exclusively for use for planetarium, teaching, and educational settings. more...

Free Therapy: RawTherapee as of Version 3.0 Under GPLv3.
RawTherapee is undisputedly the number one Linux program for reworking digital images into RAW format. With the license change the program becomes free software. more... and RawTherapee 3.0 alpha 1 and license changes.

Do you know which more things vlc mediaplayer can do?
VLC is the favorite media player for most people because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. so lets see together which more things vlc mediaplayer can do. more...

Lenovo unveils ARM-based smartbooks.
Lenovo announced two "smartbooks" that run Linux on an ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. The Skylight is a 10.1-inch netbook, while the IdeaPad U1 is hybrid mini-notebook that runs Windows 7 on an Intel Core 2 Duo and -- when its tablet/display is detached -- Linux on a Qualcomm Snapdragon. more...

AMD Does RAID On a Chip.
AMD is adding RAID data protection to its server chips, thanks to an OEM deal with Dot Hill. Dot Hill's RAIDCore virtual RAID adapter technology will be embedded into platforms based on the AMD SR5690/SP5100 server chipset. more...

Complete database administration package MySQL Workbench.
Recently I covered the MySQL GUI tool MySQL Administrator (see the article “Create a database with MySQL Administrator“). However, this tool was just given the official EOL (End of Life) announcement by the MySQL dev team. Although this is sad news for a tool that had recently become my standard for working with databases, this death knoll has lead me to another, even better, tool MySQL Workbench more...

Misc.
GCompris Release 9.0.
Blu-Ray Comes to Linux, Finally!
Silicon - auto image mounter for KDE 4.
Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature.
WiiCan: Easy Wii remote control on Linux.
Inkscape Class Day 1 and Inkscape Class Day 2.
DivX Converter 2.0 released.
Four Open Source Apps for Your iPhone.

How To Tips.