http://www.cfoworld.com.au – In South Korea, James Oh, the new general manager, oversees all aspects of Red Hat sales, marketing and services business in the country. Adding to the strength of the regional team is Jean Chay, regional counsel, who will be responsible for contracts and negotiations and supporting the Red Hat regional office in legal matters. (General)
http://www.informit.com – Evi Nemeth, Ben Whaley, Garth Snyder, and Trent Hein are all experienced sysadmins who bring a deep knowledge of UNIX and Linux to the table. Matthew Helmke recently had the opportunity to ask them some questions about their new book, interacting with readers, and whether after 4 editions they consider themselves sysadmins or authors. (General)
http://www.novell.com – Based on IDC's Linux Server Tracker as of April 2010, Ubuntu has less than a 5% unit share of the Linux market, a number that has remained largely unchanged over the last few years. Novell has over 25% market share. The survey highlighted in the TechTarget article asked if a particular OS is being used, not the extent of the use. (General)
http://www.linuxfordevices.com – The application is said to be compatible with Fedora 11 (32/64bit), Ubuntu 9.04 (32bit), Windows XP SP2/3, and OSX (Leopard) operating systems, says Marvell. The EPI app is supported with step-by-step instructions, and a site will offer EPI-related developments contributed by the open source community, says the company. (General)
http://www.linux-foundation.org – On the fun side, we have also added a new T-shirt that members can now choose from to proclaim their support of Linux. I think this is one of the coolest shirts we’ve offered at the Linux Foundation, either online, at our events or through membership. I hope you think so too. (General)
http://www.linoob.com – The developers behind the GNOME project have gathered in the Netherlands this week for the annual GUADEC conference. During a meeting that took place at the event, the GNOME release team made the difficult decision to delay the launch of GNOME 3, the next major version of the popular open source desktop environment. (Software)
http://www.liliputing.com – As we discovered yesterday, KMart is starting to get into the Android mobile device business. The company is starting to sell a $150 Android tablet from Augen, and while most stores don’t seem to have any units in stock yet a handful are already selling the tablet and more are expected to get it by this weekend. (General)
http://www.sourcefabric.org – A potential XSS vulnerability has been fixed with the latest Campsite release, which also improves session handling to avoid logged user session grabbing via CSRF attack. (Software)
http://www.linuxfordevices.com – Fujitsu announced resistive multitouch screens that may be operated either via fingers or a stylus. To be offered in sizes ranging from 5.6 to 12.1 inches, the devices will target POS (point of sale), kiosk, and banking systems.... (Embedded)
http://www.convirture.com – ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Edition from Convirture brings automation, high-availability and private cloud management to open source virtualization (Software)
http://www.h-online.com – Recently, a Red Hat developer got rid of a flaw in an Intel graphics driver, probably for a special corporate customer. For years, the flaw had been a thorn in the side of numerous users of systems with the 945GM chip-set. Now, Theodore 'tytso' Tso has stated in a discussion on LKML that users have to accept more responsibility for troubleshooting and quality assurance. (General)
http://www.tuxradar.com – Version 2.2 of the suite, which comprises KWord, KPresent, KSpread, KPlato (project manager), Krita (image editor) and the prodigal Kexi (database), comes into a very changed world. Desktop applications now face serious competition from cloud-based offerings, Microsoft no longer seems indomitable, and mobile has become a vital platform. (Software)
http://www.linuxmint.com – The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 KDE. (Distributions)
http://www.thegeekstuff.com – There is not a single task on a Unix / Linux server, that you cannot perform from command line. While there are some user interface available to make some of the sysadmin task easy, you really don’t need them and should be using command line all the time. (HowTos)
http://blog.redmondxp.com – or a long period I used PClinuxOS 2007 with KDE as my main operating system, but many programs I needed where not working and KDE seemed slow on my AMD 3000+ single processor, so I switched back to Windows. After around a year, I had a very nice virus on my USB, which infected all my school and also my home PC. (Distributions)
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