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Report: Linux as a Hypervisor
07/21/2008 
It's quite fascinating how many virtualization designs there are out there. Even in Linux itself there are so many different approaches. To reduce the ... 
The power of cross-platform synchronization
07/21/2008
These days there are plenty of ways to back up your computer files. The options are easy when you're dealing with one computer -- just back up your fi ...
SFLC Files GPL Violation Lawsuit Against Extreme Networks, Inc.
07/21/2008
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Extreme Networks, Inc. on behalf of ...
Linux-powered CherryPal uses just 2W
07/21/2008
As the battle for ultra-slim PCs heats up, a US company has released the Linux-based CherryPal, a PC that the company claims uses just 2W of power at ...
Firefox add-on Glubble too clunky and restrictive as a children's Internet filter
07/21/2008
Glubble is a free proprietary Firefox add-on from Glaxstar that limits the activity your child can perform online by blocking access to Web sites and ...
Study: OSS Communities Are Often Slackers in Security
07/21/2008
The most widely used open source software packages for the enterprise are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risks, according to a ...
Is open source software bad for business?
07/21/2008
The Open Source Security Study has just been published and reveals that some of the most widely-used open source software used within the business env ...
The Importance of Purity on the Linux Desktop
07/21/2008
Well, the dog days of summer have begun to set in, so it's not too surprising that the Linux blogs were relatively quiet last week. Linux geeks across ...
Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn
07/21/2008
Yahoo! Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annua ...
KDE-Bindings / Kross Meeting
07/21/2008
Last weekend we hosted the KDE-Bindings and Kross meeting here at the KDAB Office in Berlin/Kreuzberg with the goal of organising, community building ...
FSF organizes against Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
07/21/2008
Nobody knows yet what the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will consist of, but the few available indications are so ominous that the Free S ...
Critical Week for Canonical and Ubuntu Linux
07/21/2008
Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux backer Mark Shuttleworth will step into the spotlight July 22, when he keynotes OSCON (Open Source Convention) in Portl ...
VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption
07/21/2008
A bug in Mac OS X can cause loss of data in VMware Fusion virtual machines, company officials have warned. Fusion is VMware's virtualisation product f ...
Doing The Good Thing
07/21/2008
But listen...you might want to reconsider your stand on being my exact opposite. You know a small bit of moderation goes a long way. You may want to p ...
Alitheia Online Demo Available
07/21/2008
The SQO-OSS project aims at developing a software quality assessment platform to Free Software developers. SQO-OSS is a project funded through the Eur ...
Using Perltidy To Beautify Ugly Perl Scripts
07/21/2008
Using the perltidy program to create readable Perl scripts from working, but messy and convoluted, existing ones. ...
LXer Weekly Roundup for 20-Jul-2008
07/21/2008
LXer Feature: 20-Jul-2008In this weeks Roundup, the judge in the SCO v. Novell suit finally hands down a ruling, a member of the Brazilian group that ...
ASUS' Big Development
07/21/2008
The most interesting story the media is downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip on all its motherboards, which will boo ...
Editor's Note: Farewell, Hello, the Journey Continues
07/21/2008
I like the word"farewell". It carries a lot more meaning than plain old"good-bye". Wikipedia defines it as"...a wish of happiness or welfare at partin ...
X Devs Drop NVIDIA Auto-Config Support
07/21/2008
Sparking a heated Sunday afternoon debate, NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner had commited a trivial change to the X Server that resulted in several key open-sou ...
NetworkManager 0.7 Nears Release
07/21/2008
The wonderful Red Hat software project for easily managing wired and wireless networks on Linux, NetworkManager, is preparing for its first major rele ...
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