Ohio Linux Fest [September 25-27] Back to the Future of Linux!
Registration has been lighter than past years please forward this release to friends in the Ohio and surrounding areas. Columbus, Ohio The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio. more...

The 2.6.31 kernel is out.
Linus has released the 2.6.31 kernel. A few of the major features in 2.6.31 include performance counter support, the "fsnotify" notification infrastructure, kernel mode setting for ATI Radeon chipsets, the kmemleak tool, char drivers in user space support, USB 3 support, and much more. As always, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.31 page for a much more exhaustive list. more...

Quick Previews In Gnome & Ubuntu With Gloobus.
Gloobus is an extension of Gnome designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. Gloobus currently supports the following files: TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF. Finally I can preview PSD and XCF files. more...

IBM punts free enterprise language tools.
IBM has begun offering a free version of its Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) tools, so developers can build dynamic web applications without getting their hands dirty using HTML or JavaScript. more...

Texas Judge Bans Microsoft From Selling Word in the U.S.
Microsoft also faces more damages over willful infringement Microsoft's Office 2003 and 2007 wove XML into Word, with the introduction of .docx, otherwise known as Office Open XML, as the format of choice. The new format brought an open standard and better storage to the application. Unfortunately, it also turned into one of the company's biggest legal headaches. more...

Dell Looks to Linux to Expand Netbook Presence.
In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday. more...

MonoTouch 1.0 goes live.
MonoTouch is a commercial product based on Mono. The MonoTouch API is documented on the Mono site. The MonoTouch API is a combination of the core of .NET 3.5 and the iPhone APIs. We have created some tutorials on how to use MonoTouch and you can read the design documentation on the MonoTouch framework. more...

Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age.
People who enjoy digital photography as a creative outlet are very familiar with software products from companies like Adobe, Corel, ACD Systems, Bibble Labs, Light Crafts, and even Google. Most of them are also likely familiar with what until recently was the premier open source photo editor, the Gimp. more...

Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch.
Apple has decided to open the code behind Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch feature. "The user-space implementation of the Grand Central Dispatch services API, called libdispatch, has been delivered as its own open source project, more... and Apple open source Grand Central.

Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans.
Oracle Corp. ended its silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms. more... and Oracle-Sun Plans Missing MySQL.

Microsoft launches open source foundation.
Microsoft has launched the open source CodePlex Foundation. "The goals of the CodePlex Foundation are spelled out on the website as enabling the "exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities," as well as "increasing participation in open source community projects." more... and The CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions.

Misc.
Some pics from the new GNOME Activity Journal.
ClearOS (formerly ClarkConnect) 5.1 announced.
Chess Tactics Server.
Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems.
Facebook releases the "Tornado" web server.
Boxee Will Blow You Away.

How To Tips.

How To Firefox Hotkeys.
How To CPIO command to backup and restore in Linux.
How To Port Forwarding in Virtualbox with VBoxManage.
How To Easy Installation of LASP (Linux, Apache, SQLite and PHP) on Ubuntu.
How To Create A Mobile Ubuntu Repository With APTonCD.
How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu).
How To Create a Web-based Photo Gallery in a Jiffy with GMFoto.

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

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