10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. At 17, Is Linux Still Wet Behind the Ears?
Linux turned 17 this week, just short of adulthood in most places. However, is it mature enough for the mass market? It's a question often asked on the Linux blogs, but the answers still keep coming: Sure it is; no it isn't; it doesn't matter.
More @ LinuxInsider
2. Apple's New Notebooks: What We Should Expect
Tomorrow sees the unveiling of Apple’s new notebooks. What can we expect?
More @ WiredBlog
3. Mafiaboy grows up; a hacker seeks redemption
The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.
More @ PCWorld
Linux turned 17 this week, just short of adulthood in most places. However, is it mature enough for the mass market? It's a question often asked on the Linux blogs, but the answers still keep coming: Sure it is; no it isn't; it doesn't matter.
More @ LinuxInsider
2. Apple's New Notebooks: What We Should Expect
Tomorrow sees the unveiling of Apple’s new notebooks. What can we expect?
More @ WiredBlog
3. Mafiaboy grows up; a hacker seeks redemption
The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.
More @ PCWorld
4. Playstation tank controller
5. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is an incremental improvement
OpenOffice.org 3.0, which is being released today, is not the great leap forward in look and feel that version 2.0 represented, but it justifies its label as a major release with dozens of changes, some major, some minor, but in all more than can be easily summarized.
More @ Linux.com
6. Android’s Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure?
Unlike other phones, which require a four digit number for unlocking, the Android simply puts nine dots arranged in a square on the touch screen, along with the words “draw pattern to unlock.”
More @ TechCrunch
7. Foresight Kid's can inspire young minds
Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become known as your child's favorite distro.
More @ Linux.com
OpenOffice.org 3.0, which is being released today, is not the great leap forward in look and feel that version 2.0 represented, but it justifies its label as a major release with dozens of changes, some major, some minor, but in all more than can be easily summarized.
More @ Linux.com
6. Android’s Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure?
Unlike other phones, which require a four digit number for unlocking, the Android simply puts nine dots arranged in a square on the touch screen, along with the words “draw pattern to unlock.”
More @ TechCrunch
7. Foresight Kid's can inspire young minds
Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become known as your child's favorite distro.
More @ Linux.com
8. MDI's Airpod runs on compressed air, challenges Segway for dork gold
9. How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?
Just when the Windows marketing team thought things probably couldn’t get much worse, there’s word that Apple may be gearing up to launch a new Macbook with a low-end $800 price point.
More @ ZDNetBlog
10. DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 274, 13 October 2008
And while most other distributions have been quietly fixing the bugs in their own development trees, DistroWatch has compiled another package management cheatsheet - now incorporating two distro-agnostic tools, as well as source-based distributions.
More @ Distrowatch
Just when the Windows marketing team thought things probably couldn’t get much worse, there’s word that Apple may be gearing up to launch a new Macbook with a low-end $800 price point.
More @ ZDNetBlog
10. DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 274, 13 October 2008
And while most other distributions have been quietly fixing the bugs in their own development trees, DistroWatch has compiled another package management cheatsheet - now incorporating two distro-agnostic tools, as well as source-based distributions.
More @ Distrowatch
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