Linux News and Updates
Android 2.0 Makes The Phone		Mon, Nov 9 09:00 PM
The first phone to use Version 2.0 of Google's Android mobile operating system hit the shelves over the weekend in the form of the Motorola Droid, being peddled by Verizon Wireless. Android, as usual, wowed customers with a wide variety of new and exciting features — the handset housing it, however, did not. read more		Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
Microsoft, Novell say alliance still bearing fruit		Mon, Nov 9 05:25 PM
The alliance between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Corp. continues to bear fruit three years after it was first signed, say the two companies, one the world's largest proprietary software vendor and the other one of the largest of open-source software.		Computerworld Linux News
Firefox at 5: What We Love and Hate About You (PC World)		Mon, Nov 9 01:40 PM
PC World - Mozilla's Firefox Web browser turned five years old today, and as I took it for a celebratory spin (I'm a recent Chrome convert), it was easy to notice how similar all the major browsers have become in terms of basic functionality.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
Firefox: Five Years In The Open Source Hen House (PC World)		Mon, Nov 9 12:06 PM
PC World - On its fifth birthday, Firefox must be considered both an incredible success and somewhat of a failure. The open source Web browser is a great product and quite an achievement, but has not tremendously advanced the cause of "free" software.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
Firefox Turns 5: Happy Birthday Firefox! (PC World)		Mon, Nov 9 08:25 AM
PC World - On November 9, 2004, Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 debuted and quickly became a serious contender in the ongoing browser wars. At the time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominated the market with a 99 percent market share. Five years later, Internet Explorer still reigns at 65 percent, but Firefox comes in second with an impressive 23 percent.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
Let's Act on ACTA Before it's Too Late		Mon, Nov 9 08:19 AM
It was over a year ago that I wrote about the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (ACTA), a new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. Since then, the secret negotiations have been continuing, and the threats it poses to the Internet as we know it grow ever larger. read more		Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
Mozilla's Firefox Turns Five (PC Magazine)		Mon, Nov 9 04:26 AM
PC Magazine - Firefox celebrated a milestone birthday Monday. Five years ago today, Mozilla shipped version 1.0 of the open-source browser.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
OpenOffice Introduce Multi-Button Confusion With New Mouse (PC World)		Fri, Nov 6 06:21 PM
PC World - WarMouse, in collaboration with the OpenOffice.org community, revealed on Friday a new open-source mouse developed specifically for users of the OpenOffice suite.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
OpenOffice Introduces Multi-Button Confusion With New Mouse (PC World)		Fri, Nov 6 06:21 PM
PC World - WarMouse, in collaboration with the OpenOffice.org community, revealed on Friday a new open-source mouse developed specifically for users of the OpenOffice suite.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
Play Almost Any Music File With Jaangle		Fri, Nov 6 07:24 AM
I've got spurs that jingle, Jaangle, jingle... And my boots smell a lot like Teen Spirit. Okay, if you didn't follow that, Teen Spirit--a free music organizer, player, and tag editor--is now known as Jaangle. Let's hear it for snappy names...and for programming that won't jangle your nerves in the least. Jaangle has found a home on my system simply because of its wide format support which includes MP3, AAC, WMA, 16-, 24-, 32-bit wave files at all resolutions, OGG, Flac, and even Apple Lossless--a rarity outside of iTunes.		Computerworld Linux News
Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war (AFP)		Thu, Nov 5 06:15 PM
AFP - A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google.		Yahoo! News: Linux/Open Source
PeerBlock Helps You Surf the Web in Secret		Thu, Nov 5 09:09 AM
They're lurking out there--sleazy spyware companies, unscrupulous advertisers, and just people you don't want looking at what your computer is doing. PeerBlock (free), an open source program, offers part of a solution--low level blocking of packets coming from, or going to, a long list of hosts.		Computerworld Linux News
Package Management With Zypper		Thu, Nov 5 07:05 AM
As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprice (and SuSE before them) are usually associated with YaST (and yes, I'm still waiting for them to upper case the "a"). YaST works well but it's a bit verbose for installing a single package, and of course that's just more fodder for the apt-getters with all their apt-get install this and their apt-get install thats. And you can't argue with them, but there are other options with openSUSE: yum and apt4rpm come to mind, but the preferred solution is zypper. read more		Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst		Wed, Nov 4 11:42 AM
Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm.		Computerworld Linux News
Application whitelisting review: McAfee Application Control		Wed, Nov 4 03:13 AM
McAfee's whitelisting protection for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is short on shortcomings		Computerworld Linux News
Image gallery: 3 alternative OSes for your netbook		Tue, Nov 3 03:00 AM
Netbook fans who feel that Windows 7 Starter edition is too limited for their liking might want to try one of the Linux distros made especially for netbooks. We review three.		Computerworld Linux News