Intel and Nokia partner on open source mobile computing.
The two companies announced plans to create devices, Nokia calls “the next wave of mobile technology”; a new mobile device platform based on Linux and a range of open source technologies using Intel x86 Architecture chips and Nokia HSPA chipsets. more...

Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features.
Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it's just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release. more... and Firefox 3.5 RC Review and Firefox 3.5 Release May Accelerate IE's Downfall.

Cisco offers Linksys 802.11n router with Linux.
Cisco today aimed its Linksys routers at the open-source community with its first modern-era, 802.11n Wi-Fi router using Linux. The WRT160NL gives power users more control over the operating system driving the network device without having to resort to hacked firmware. more...

Amazon Kindle powered by Linux, FSF not impressed.
Amazon is now making new source code available for its Amazon Kindle. Basically what it represents is, Amazon's responsibility to make the GPL licenced source code that is used in the Kindle available to others. more...

Clutter 1.0 Reaches RC1 Milestone.
Clutter, the open-source toolkit designed to develop rich user interfaces with OpenGL and OpenGL ES but without the complexity of programming to such APIs, is nearing version 1.0. This toolkit, which was used to create the very impressive Moblin V2 interface, is backed by Intel and continues to gain steam. more...

Installing Sonar in a Linux environment.
If you are serious about Code Quality management, you should know about Sonar. Sonar is a one-stop shop for code quality metrics. If you are using Maven to generate code quality metrics with tools like Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs, Cobertura, and/or Clover, forget the standard Maven reports - use Sonar instead! Sonar gives you a dynamic view of both snapshot and historical data coming from all of these tools. more...

Misc.
T-Mobile Phones Home, Again.
Chris Mason on BTRfs: the next generation file system for Linux.
Valve To Launch Native Linux Game In July?
EFF busts bogus Internet subdomain patent.

How To Tips.

Linux 2.6.30 gets new filesystems.
Linus Torvalds announced Linux kernel 2.6.30, adding several new filesystems, including the NILFS2 log-structured filesystem. Linux 2.6.30 enhancements include a local caching layer for NFS data, the RDS server cluster communications protocol, the Tomoyo security module, and support for LZMA and BZIP2 compression algorithms. more... and Linux 2.6.30 Gets Faster Boot and The 2.6.30 kernel is out.

Palm's Linux phone "exceptional," says reviewer.
The reviews appear to be largely positive for the Palm Pre, with eWEEK lauding its "exceptional design, aesthetics and usability." Both the smartphone and the Linux-based WebOS stack live up to their billing for ease of use, but battery life is a problem more... and Palm Pre and Palm Pre Is Beautiful.

Opera Launches Unite.
A few days ago Opera launched a placeholder website which said they were going to "reinvent" the web, on June 16. Well, it's June 16, and Opera has announced Opera Unite, a technology which allows individual Opera users to connect to one another, turning every machine running Opera Unite into a web server. more... and Opera Unite.

Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04.
The growing adoption of the Linux operating system on netbook devices has compelled Linux distributors to focus on improving startup performance. Ubuntu 9.04, which was released last month, is one distribution where these improvements are particularly noticeable. more...

Firefox 3.5 Allows Watch Videos Without Adobe Flash Plugin.
Firefox 3.5, which is now a very stable beta, is faster than earlier versions, and most importantly, it embraces open-source video standards and treats videos like web pages (you can’t do any of that with Flash). If this takes off, Flash video could become history. more...

Ex-Borland's Delphi owner re-ignites cross-platform dream.
Embarcadero Technologies, having itself been been bought by private capital in 2006, acquired Borland Software's CodeGear division just over a year ago. CodeGear's developer products include Delphi, a RAD tool that creates native code Windows executables, and the JBuilder Java IDE now based on Eclipse. more...

Wikipedia begins content licence migration.
The free internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia is beginning its licence migration today. In the future, the content of Wikipedia will be dual licensed, under the current GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) and under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA). more...

PR disaster alert: Asus attacks on Linux.
So ASUS decided to part way with Linux, the operating system that made the brand famous, to join forces with Microsoft. And they decided to make it in a very public way by stating a nice 'better with Windows campaign'. Well, sorry to disappoint you ASUS, but this is turning into a Public relation disaster! more... and Netbook Interest is Here to Stay, Manufacturers Say.

Misc.
Fedora Desktop Course.
Showmedo video tutorials.
SquashFS: Not Just for Embedded Systems.
Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be Free.
Filmaster.com – Film Meets Freedom.
Mac4Lin Gives Linux Desktops the Complete Mac Look.

How To Tips.