http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-NW-RH <b>InternetNews:</b> "That's no typo: A Linux vendor is requiring its users to run one of its key new products on the rival, closed source Windows operating system." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-NW-RH Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:04:32 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-001-35-OS-DT-SW <b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "There are plenty of places on the Web where you can find ebooks in the EPUB format, but what if you need to create an ebook yourself? Sigil can help you with that." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-001-35-OS-DT-SW Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-MM-HW This column is a bit premature because I haven't had time to set things up and test them yet. But I'm excited about getting started, so here are some preliminary notes on multi-track recording in Linux using a Firewire device. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-07-006-35-MM-HW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-030-35-OS-SW <b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver. During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-030-35-OS-SW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-029-35-NW-MS-UB <b>PC World:</b> "But Apple isn't the only competition Microsoft has to worry about. Ubuntu, one of the world's more popular Linux distributions, recently launched its latest version, Ubuntu 9.10, and impressions about the new OS are largely positive." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-029-35-NW-MS-UB Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-028-35-RV-HW <b>Raiden's Realm:</b> "I'm told that the i7 920 Quad Core is really a i7 940 clock locked by Intel @ 2.65GHz. The target is the CPU, MOBO and CORSAIR 3 channel DDR3 and the goal is to bring it up to 4GHz a49% higher clock and you should take the time and locate you BIOS reset Mother Board jumper." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-028-35-RV-HW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-027-35-NW-BZ-NV <b>Business Tech:</b> "Linux jobs in the United States are booming, up 6 percent since January, according to data from Dice.com. This will come as small consolation to Novell employees, however, which weathered another round of layoffs at the Waltham, Mass.-based company." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-027-35-NW-BZ-NV Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-026-35-SC-BZ <b>Businesswire:</b> "Second, while many believe that Linux is a more secure software platform, in fact, Linux isn&#8217;t significantly more secure than the other uncertified systems that are currently on the market." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-026-35-SC-BZ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-025-35-OS-HW <b>Treehugger:</b> ""Laptop on Wheels": Has an On-Board Web Server, USB Ports, and Wifi Connectivity" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-025-35-OS-HW Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-024-35-NW-MR <b>ars Technica:</b> "At this point in time, Windows continues to dominate with more than 90 percent of the market, Mac OS is above the five percent mark, and Linux is just under one percent. In October, Windows was the only operating system not to show positive growth." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-024-35-NW-MR Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-023-35-NW-KN-EV <b>The H Open:</b> "Among the topics were the advantages of Ext4 and Btrfs, fast Ext4 filesystem checks, and kernel and userspace tricks for minimising the time-consuming movements of read/write heads, all of which can speed up some tasks by several orders of magnitude!" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-023-35-NW-KN-EV Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-022-35-OP-BZ <b>The Open Road:</b> "Google's biggest threat is no longer Microsoft. It is itself. As the company harvests copious quantities of personal data, it becomes dramatically better at serving customer needs... ...and at freaking them out over privacy concerns." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-022-35-OP-BZ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-021-35-NW-BZ <b>Frugal Friday podcast:</b> "Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the new Verizon DROID smartphone, the recent antitrust charges filed against Intel by the New York Attorney General..." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-021-35-NW-BZ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:32:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-020-35-MM-LL <b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Sita Sings The Blues&#8221; by self-taught animator Nina Paley, may be the first feature-length animated film released under a free license (the Creative Commons By-SA)." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-020-35-MM-LL Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:02:59 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-019-35-OS-BZ-NT <b>Michael Zimmer:</b> "Google describes Dashboard as a simple way to view “the data associated with your account”, and that it will provide users “greater transparency and control over their own data.” ...Unfortunately, Google Dashboard is none of these things." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-11-06-019-35-OS-BZ-NT