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Missing 'Spam King' Kills Self, Family Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:05:53 GMT Denver Post: "Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, "Spam King" Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself." (Full Story).
Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:53 GMT Linux.com: "The tenth annual Ottawa Linux Symposium kicked off Wednesday in Canada's capital, just a few blocks from the country's parliament building, in a conference centre in the midst of being torn down. The symposium started with the traditional State of the Kernel address, this year by Matthew Wilcox. Among the dozens of talks and plenaries held the first day was kernel wireless maintainer John Linville's Tux on the Air: the State of Linux Wireless Networking." (Full Story).
Linux Users: Why So Serious? Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:53 GMT Linux Haxor: "Despite coming from a very rich and early history, linux OS consumer market share is less than 1%; and the community more divided than ever. What are we doing wrong?" (Full Story).
Richard's Dream and Institutionalized Mental Illness Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:35:53 GMT Linux Today Blog: "Way back in the very olden days, or so the story goes, Richard M. Stallman was motivated to launch the Free Software movement because of something that afflicts us to this day- crappy binary-only printer drivers. How's that for innovation? 38 years later and we still have sucky printer drivers..." (Full Story).
Introduction to Linux: Desktop Environments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:35:53 GMT TechWare Labs: "You undoubtedly notice that, although the functionality seems to overall be similar (with a few minor exceptions), everything seems to use a different name and/or is in a different place. If you've explored more than one distribution, this may even seem to be the case between Linux distributions. I'll be covering the more mainstream desktop environments, as well as suggested programs to replace the ones you've come to rely on in Windows." (Full Story).
30 Gnome Themes to Enhance Your Ubuntu Experience Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:05:53 GMT Cats Who Code: "To be honest, I never really liked Human, Ubuntu’s default theme, and seems that many other people don’t. Happilly, on GNU/Linux systems it is easy to customize everything, even the buttons aspect or the windows borders. Here’s a list of 30 Gnome themes of all styles, from the Windows XP look-a-like to the very original skin, to enhance your Ubuntu experience." (Full Story).
Crowd-sourcing the E-car Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:35:53 GMT Washington Post: "After the wikipedia, the wikicar. "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year." (Full Story).
When Is Open Source Not That Open Source? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:05:53 GMT DevX: "License alone doesn't determine open source. The degree and ease of individual participation in the development process are equally important determining factors." (Full Story).
Lighten up Your Desktop Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:35:53 GMT IT Toolbox: "LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies." (Full Story).
The Mess That is Linux Volume Management Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:05:53 GMT LXer: "The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linx Volume Management, or LVM in short, however, it can almost only be used from the command line. Also, it doesn't integrate software RAID - except for striping. I was quite optimistic when I started using volume management some four years ago, but not anymore. Let me explain why I'm disappointed." (Full Story).
