http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:32:10 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-07-002-35-OS-SW <b>Datamation:</b> "Taking baby steps to become more familiar with a new operating system can be as simple as revamping the OS already in use on your computer. It begins with unlearning Windows-born behavior to free up your mind for a new way of doing things." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-07-002-35-OS-SW Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:02:10 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-07-001-35-OS-NT <b>The VAR Guy:</b> "International Linux developers have flooded Cisco with inquiries about the contest -- forcing the networking giant to push back a competition deadline. Here;s the scoop." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-07-001-35-OS-NT Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-030-35-OS-HL-SW <b>Tip of the Trade:</b> "kill is most often used without an argument or with -9, to kill a process off. But it can also be used to send various other signals to a process. Some are variations on process termination, but you can also get information about or out of processes." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-030-35-OS-HL-SW Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:04:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-029-35-RV-BR-CY <b>LinuxPlanet:</b> "The newly-released book "How to be a Geek Goddess" is supposed to be a helpful, not-condescending computing howto for women. Tina Gasperson, who blatantly admits to being of the female persuasion herself, isn't sure it meets these goals, and suffers from severely mixed feelings." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-029-35-RV-BR-CY Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-028-35-OP-BZ <b>Datamation:</b> "I hate spineless managers -- especially when "executives" make incredibly stupid decisions. I realize that we all have jobs at stake but there's a line that should not be crossed." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-028-35-OP-BZ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:04:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-027-35-NW-HW <b>IT Wire:</b> "Think of the two most popular laptops trends, namely big screens and small screens. Now put them together and what do you get? Yep, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds with one big screen and one small screen. Is this genius or simply the maddest laptop ever?" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-027-35-NW-HW Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-026-35-OS-HL <b>LinuxPlanet:</b> "A typical Linux system comes with all kinds of help documentation built-in, and a lot of users don't even know it's there. Juliet Kemp is your guide to finding man, info, and HTML help pages." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-026-35-OS-HL Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:04:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-025-35-RV-NT <b>KungFu Code Monkey:</b> "The latest feature to really impress me is how easy they've made it to connect to the internet using a 3G mobile broadband connection." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-025-35-RV-NT Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-024-35-SC-SW-NT <b>Tech Republic:</b> "We know, first of all, that the vendors don't have a proper incentive to ship good quality software, because the vendors don't pay the cost of failure; we do." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-024-35-SC-SW-NT Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-023-35-RV-DT <b>IT Toolbox:</b> "For these tests I used a program called x11perf which does massive amounts of screen redraw tests and reports on the results. How long those tests took I do not exactly know because I started them and then went to bed :)." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-023-35-RV-DT Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-022-35-NW-CY <b>BBC News:</b> "Kamal Prasad Sharma, aged 12, a student at Saraswati Secondary School in a small village not far from Kathmandu, was afraid when he saw a computer for the first time." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-022-35-NW-CY Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:04:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-021-35-OS-HW-RL <b>Eee PC:</b> "Ubuntu Eee is dead, long live Easy Peasy! This is a custom Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.10 based), optimized for netbooks, especially the Eee PC series." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-021-35-OS-HW-RL Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-020-35-RV-RL <b>XenStreet:</b> "A few months back I wrote a review about gOS on one of my blogs which received some raving reviews. I did not just review it, but decided to start using it as my default Linux desktop." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-020-35-RV-RL Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:04:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-019-35-NW-CY <b>Linux Magazine:</b> "This year the challenge will be to create a one or two minute video or audio "advertisement", suitable for displaying on the web in sites such as YouTube and others, but captured, edited and otherwise produced using Free Software" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-019-35-NW-CY Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:34:14 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-018-35-OP-MS-LL <b>Chao-Kuei's Notes:</b> "Please say it loudly in your blogs or emails, in as non-technical terms as possible. Then we will turn around and show your opinions to the confused governments and journalists who still believe Microsoft's claim that OOXML is an open format, and put an end to that lie." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-06-018-35-OP-MS-LL