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The future of climate change is in Linux's hands (465 diggs) The Millennium Simulations, an earth modeling venture at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, will allow scientists to model the changes in the world's climate over the last millennium as well as centuries into the future.

USB 3.0 and Linux (1,148 diggs) Now that the bus specification is public, I can start pushing the patches for the USB core changes. They will need to be reviewed and possibly changed before they make it into the mainline kernel. Once the changes make it into the mainline kernel, they'll be picked up by Linux Operating System Vendors like RedHat, Novell, and Ubuntu.

Is Linux ready for the average user? My wife thinks so. (878 diggs) In the beginning, as we all know, Linux was an OS that was limited to those of us who had the time and patience to spend all night getting things to work. As the OS has progressed the user friendliness of the OS has increased dramatically.

Ubuntu & Songbird, sitting in a tree... (571 diggs) It’s a pretty common request from our Ubuntu users to get a Songbird .deb into Ubuntu ’s repositories so users can easily ‘apt-get install songbird’. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as simply taking the GetDeb.net Songbird package and plopping that into an apt repo.

6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP (614 diggs) GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a long-standing and hugely respected open source graphics program, and many readers probably already use it.

OpenSolaris now on Toshiba laptops (389 diggs) Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops.

The CherryPal does Exist, Not Vaporware afterall (433 diggs) I have my CherryPal, and here is the first look.

The Big Push 2009 -- Free Software Foundation Appeal (657 diggs) Support "The Big Push" for free software adoption in 2009: "Why does this school accept corporate donations of proprietary software that come with handcuffs on my child's education, rather than use free software that will give my child the opportunity to be in control of the technology she is learning to use?"

Teacher threatens to call the cops over Linux (6,460 diggs) A teacher has threatened to call the police after finding students using Linux in her classroom. She went mad in a letter to the HeliOS Project threatening to report it to the police for distributing illegal software. "I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you made are grossly over-stated."

Setting up Sun VirtualBox 6 under Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid (403 diggs) I’ve been happily using VMWare ’s VMWorkstation to test software setups in virtual machines for about a year. With my new Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid test setup, I decided to try Sun’s VirtualBox virtualization system. I chose Sun’s distribution over the OSE version primarily because of its improved USB support. Both are free, but Sun’s version sports some

I do it with Ubuntu.WTF (879 diggs) Worst Promotional Campaign Ever!

Apple's Take On Mobile Unix (392 diggs) The Mac community was buzzing in late November when the director of Apple ’s Unix group showed a slide at the LISA (Large System Adminstration) conference that predicted that the Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X would ship in the first quarter of 2009. In presentation they offered some interesting bits of their own.

With HP in, all OEMs now ship desktop Linux (986 diggs) Lord knows it took HP long enough, but the PC giant has finally started shipping a pre-configured Linux on a desktop Linux. Hallelujah! Now, all the major PC OEMs are shipping at least one Linux desktop.

Group launches 'LinuxDefenders' to fend off patent trolls (365 diggs) Open Invention Network, which buys patents related to the Linux operating system and licenses them royalty-free, today launched a program aimed at encouraging open-source developers to document information about their work so that it can be easily read and used by patent offices and lawyers.

How to Create A Minimal And Beautiful Desktop With Conky (684 diggs) Conky is a simple, lightweight system monitor application that can display information on your desktop and allows you to monitor several processes simultaneously. For those who like to keep a minimal desktop, but still want to have quick access to various information such as emails, weather, memory usage etc...

OpenCL 1.0 Specification Completed in Time for Snow Leopard (444 diggs) The Khronos group announced the ratification and public release of the OpenCL 1.0 specification described as the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices.

Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC (844 diggs) Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like MythTV and Boxee, but we ’re going to use XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center).

Webkit Still The Best And Rips Opera 10 Alpha A New One (546 diggs) Opera took more than double the time of webkit to finish this benchmark, not to be left behind; IE 8 Beta 2 took double the time of Opera to finish the benchmark.

Linux version of Prey released, air sickness bags required (542 diggs) A few weeks ago, we reported on the news that a programmer was nearing completion on a Linux port of 3D Realms' popular title Prey. Ryan "icculus" Gordon was working to push out the full retail version of the game's binaries. After months of work, he has finally succeeded in bringing the full version of the game to the Linux platform.

How To Install Microsoft Core Fonts In Ubuntu Linux | MakeUs (492 diggs) Ubuntu, by default, does not include the commonly used Microsoft core fonts in its installation. The set of fonts that it uses is not supported in Windows or Mac. This means that if you create a document and send to your partner for editing, he/she will not be able to view it in the way that it was originally formatted.

Prey Linux Retail Client Released (533 diggs) Back in October Ryan Gordon surprised the Linux community by releasing a Linux game demo of Prey two-years after the game began shipping on Windows. A month later an updated Prey demo for Linux was released. This afternoon Ryan has now released the binaries that allow the retail game to be used on Linux.

10 Things Songbird Does That iTunes Can’t (2,104 diggs) Songbird turned 1.0 this week, and aims to do to iTunes what Firefox did to Internet Explorer. That is, it aims to take the basic design of something closed and proprietary, and turn it into something open and extensible and fun. Songbird aims to give the power back to the people.

Our guide to building your own online distro (427 diggs) You don't have to put up with someone else's vision of Linux Wouldn't it be great if you could just click your way to a custom distro? After all, most of the packages you will need are sitting on a well-connected web server somewhere, so it makes sense to build ISO images and repositories directly on that server. And since that server has a HTTP

The Macbook Experiment: Fedora 10 for Two Days (648 diggs) After trying Ubuntu 8.10 for two days on my Macbook, which proved to be a success, I now take Fedora 10 for a spin. Read on to see how my two days experience with this Linux distro were like.