http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:04:30 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-14-002-35-OS-SW <b>CertCities:</b> "Linux comes with a number of utilities that can be used to monitor one or more of these performance parameters. The following sections introduce a few of these utilities and show how to understand the information presented by them" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-14-002-35-OS-SW Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:04:30 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-14-001-35-OS-DT-SW <b>Handle With Linux:</b> "Linux is cool, Linux users know that much. There are a lot of cool things Linux, and to kick off, here is one of them: A linux beer machine." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-14-001-35-OS-DT-SW Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:02:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-005-35-OS-LL <b>IT World:</b> "The OSI has been one of those organizations that seemed to fall short of its true potential, which is always a source of frustration; you want them to succeed, and don't understand when things go awry." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-005-35-OS-LL Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:02:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-004-35-NW-BZ <b>DevX:</b> "Forbes released its annual list of the world's billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-004-35-NW-BZ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:02:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-003-35-MM-SW <b>Phoronix:</b> "David's goals with Prime are to allow a second GPU to render 3D applications onto the screen of the first GPU, with it being configurable by the client, and just to handle the rendering side." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-003-35-MM-SW Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:02:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-002-35-OS-KN <b>TuxRadar:</b> "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-002-35-OS-KN Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:55 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-005-35-OS-CD-LL <b>Groklaw:</b> "SCO's attorney Stuart Singer may have gotten carried away with his theatrical indignation. And when a party slips like this, what lawyers call opening the door, it can indeed have consequences. Novell was just waiting for a moment like this." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-005-35-OS-CD-LL Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:04:21 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-006-35-NW-LL <b>Groklaw:</b> "So. Now I know. Now we all know. Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-13-006-35-NW-LL Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:32:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-032-35-NW-HW <b>Serverwatch:</b> "Stating it believes server sales are being underestimated by Wall Street, Broadpoint AmTech's latest report predicts both Intel and AMD will post better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-032-35-NW-HW Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:02:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-030-35-NW-HE <b>Datamation:</b> "Social networking and voting site Digg is rewriting its underlying software infrastructure in an effort to improve performance and scalability. Part of that effort involves moving away from the MySQL database that has helped to power Digg since its creation." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-030-35-NW-HE Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:32:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-029-35-OP-BZ-NV <b>The VAR Guy:</b> "Elliott Associates, the hedge fund that's seeking to acquire Novell and SUSE Linux, is denying a report that it plans to break up Novell and sell off the pieces. Hmmm…" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-029-35-OP-BZ-NV Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:02:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-028-35-MM-SW <b>Tech Source:</b> "If you've been looking for a free speech synthesizer for Linux, the one that I can highly recommend is a program called Festival." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-028-35-MM-SW Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:32:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-027-35-NW-DT-SW <b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "Today I thought I would show everyone just how easy it is to install and use Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03 with Bordeaux for Solaris. I have installed Office 2007 on both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-027-35-NW-DT-SW Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:02:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-031-35-OP-AP-MO <b>Computerworld:</b> "You can pre-order an Apple iPad starting today, March 12th, but seriously, do you really want to?" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-031-35-OP-AP-MO Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:32:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-025-35-NW-HU <b>Tech Comics:</b> "Men are sometimes not too communicative, yet Facebook helps with that. Sort of." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-03-12-025-35-NW-HU