10.12.08

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Links 12/10/2008: KDE4 and Mandriva 2009 Raves Arrive

Posted in News Roundup at 5:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

Cartika Offers Linux Cloud Hosting
First ALP Linux smartphone?

On its website, Emblaze Mobile offers only a spinning 3D Flash image of the Edelweiss, along with a “coming soon” teaser. However, a number of sites have reported that the phone will go on sale in Russia by November. The rumor may have originated on the Russian mobile news site, Mobile Review, which has apparently taken down its initial story about the phone.
The Second Great Depression
The 10 Best Linux Distributions
Benefits of linux from a user point of view
Who Uses Linux?
Linux Distro ‘User Levels’
KDE
- Learning to like KDE again
  
  It was only a short matter of time after making that announcement before KDE 4.1 was released. And with that release have come new releases of distributions that use it. An excellent example of a KDE 4.1 DE/distribution release is, in my opinion, Mandriva 2009. The more I work with the latest version of Mandriva and KDE 4.1.2 the more comfortable I am with the entire distribution. I honestly haven’t felt this good about a Linux distribution using KDE since openSUSE 10.2 and KDE 3.
- Last.fm Player for Linux
- MySQL in Amarok 2 – The Reality
Mandriva
- Mandriva 2009: Is It Better Than Mac Or Windows!
  
  PC users have never had so many choices ever before. All you are stuck with is Microsoft’s Windows XP, which is almost a decade old. Well, not a decade, but almost. And latest Vista — it’s just not working. So what should you do?
- Living with Mandriva
- Shiny New Mandriva Linux 2009 Walkthrough and First Impressions
Fedora
- Fedora at Ohio Linux Fest, Day 0.
- Fedora 10 Snapshot 1 Released
  
  As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of Rawhide in Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we apologize for the inconvenience.
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 8.10 Has a Brand New Wallpaper
- Wubi-ing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Beta
Screenshots
Kernel Space
- Kernel Developers, Wall Street to Come Together
  
  The Linux Foundation is holding its first End User Summit beginning Monday in New York, in an effort to bring Linux kernel developers in closer contact with users at Wall Street institutions and other major companies.
- The Linux Plumbers Conference: a summary
A baby named Linux

Reader Christian Nielsen wrote from Sweden to tell us he and his girlfriend have named their baby Linux, after the operating system, and attached this darling photo.
The joy of X – master the Linux GUI

If you’re a Linux user you have no doubt heard of GNOME and KDE. These popular desktop environments are really the pinnacle of a deep iceberg of technology with the X-Windows graphical interface underpinning it all. Here are a couple of ways to tame X, kicking off a journey of unlimited ability to change the Linux look-and-feel.
Events/Linuxfests
- NOOSS @ OLF
- Ontario Linux Fest on October 25
- Linux-Kongress: Corbet Presents New Kernel 2.6.27
  
  In the second keynote of the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany, cofounder of LWN.net and kernel developer Jonathan Corbet presented details on yesterday’s released Kernel 2.6.27, but also described some of the work Linux Torvalds and his group of hackers have been up to.