OpenSolaris 2009.06 Released.
The OpenSolaris 2009.06 release presents network virtualization support with Crossbow, SPARC support, Intel Xeon 5500 series hardware support, MySQL and PHP DTrace probes, improved usability with its package management system, and much more. more... and Sun adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris and Sun Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS and OpenSolaris: Foreshadowing Next Solaris?

Bilski case going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Bilski case will be reviewed by the US Supreme Court. "Not since 1981 has the Supreme Court undertaken to spell out the kinds of inventions that are eligible for patent rights — that is, the right to produce or use an invented device or process, or to license it to others for royalties. Much has changed since the Court’s decision in Diamond v. Diehr in 1981, not least the digital revolution." more...

Acer to make first-ever Android netbooks.
Acer at Computex today said it would be the first to produce netbooks using Google's Android platform. Company IT product president Jim Wong expects the systems to appear in the summer and that the Linux-based systems will still use Intel Atom processors. more... and Aspire ONE Android confirmed.

Companies to show several ARM netbooks at Computex.
Netbooks made with the processors required to run Google's Android software will be on show at Computex Taipei 2009 this week from at least five or six companies, an executive from Arm Holdings said Monday. The company does not expect to take a significant share of the central processing share of the netbook market this year, but growing interest in its processing cores should lead to greater gains next year. more... and The MIPS Processor and the $150 Linux Netbook.

SanDisk releases faster netbook solid state disk drives.
SanDisk Corp. today announced the general availability of two new solid state disk (SSD) drives for netbooks that it said increase random read/write rates by as much as nine times over its first generation netbook SSDs. The new SSDs are about twice as fast as a typical netbook hard disk drive. more...

Mozilla Jetpack Could Speed Firefox Efforts.
One of the reasons the Mozilla Firefox Web browser is used by more than 270 million people is its extensive ecosystem of browser add-ons. With the new Mozilla Labs Jetpack project, Mozilla hopes to make it easier for developers to build add-ons and for users to manage them. more... and Mozilla and Google Announce HTML-Based Extensions.

Testing Out The SSD Mode In Btrfs.
One month ago we provided benchmarks of the Btrfs file-system and found that while it contained many features to make it a next-generation Linux file-system, its disk performance was rather displeasing. We had found the EXT4 file-system ran faster in a number of the tests and even EXT3 and XFS had their own advantages. more...

Bing is not Google, but it is a spin engine.
Microsoft is at the beginning of a major product launch, called Bing, in an attempt to catch up to Google in search, following the collapse of Microsoft's take-over attempt of Yahoo. While Bing is a re-branding of Microsoft's clunky distant third place "Live Search" search service, Bing is also an attempt to add new features to search. more... and Bashing Bing, whacking Wave.

Using MoMA to Port from Windows .NET to Mono on Linux.
The Mono Migration Analyzer tool, or MoMA, helps users port Microsoft .NET programs to Mono, with the ultimate goal of porting Windows software to Linux. more... and MoMA page.

Spice up your LUG!
Do you attend or run a Linux User Group (LUG)? Looking for some fresh ideas to give it a new lease of life? Read on and discover how your LUG meetings can be more than a general Linux-related chit-chat down the local pub... more...

Misc.
Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 available.
60 Beautiful Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers.
ngPlant - Open Source plant modeling package.
Open Movie Editor - a simple non-linear video editor.
MyBB is a discussion board that has been around for a while; it has evolved from other bulletin boards into the forum package it is today.
Reading up on SQL.
savannah.gnu.org status.

How To Tips.

How To Export Mysql Database into a CSV File.
How To Mysql Database backup using AutoMySQLBackup.
How To Copy files over the network and preserve file permissions and informations with ssh and rsync.
How To Apache2 authentication using MySQL backend.
How To Enable Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace in Ubuntu Jaunty.
How To Delete Unnecessary Files From Your Desktop With BleachBit On Ubuntu 9.04.
How To fspot-to-picasa script.
How To Dig into your system with HardInfo.
How To Getting Started with URL Rewriting with Apache.

See you next Thursday 7 P.M. at Dooley's Pub, 442 Water Street, Eau Claire, WI.

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