Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 20.07.2009

Linux

Think you own your Kindle books

Cyber Cynic: "During the night of July 16th, while Amazon Kindle owners sle (...)

Linux

Who Needs GIMP and Inkscape When You Can Use CSS

Cherrysave: "You might make a rounded corner or shadowed text in Photoshop, (...)

Linux

PCLinuxOS 20092 fits like an old pair of jeans

Bitburners: "Something has gone south in the recent developments of the Lin (...)

Linux

State of the KDE Union

Peace,Love, and C++: "KDE is a second class citizen in the world of debian (...)

Linux

Course: Bash Shell Basics

BeginLinux: "This course is a series of courses to help you with Bash Shell (...)

Linux

Mesa 75 Finally Released w/ New Features

Phoronix: "After being in development for a number of months and being chal (...)

Multimedia

Major League Gaming and EA Sports Partner to Launch A New Era of Competitive Sports Video Gaming (PR

Electronic Arts Inc. and Major League Gaming today announced a collaboratio (...)

Linux

VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 30 On A Headless Ubuntu

Howtoforge: "Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual mac (...)

Linux

Commenting Policy to Change Due to Abuse and Intimidation from Trolls

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Change is needed as attempts to harass this Web s (...)

Linux

Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code

All About Microsoft: "Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linu (...)

Linux

Sidux 2009-2 Review

Desktop Linux Reviews: "Sidux is based on Debian and you can download a ver (...)

Linux

FSF: FOSS developers still should not write software that depends on Mono

Groklaw: "Is it safe to go back in the water now, as so many have been sayi (...)

Linux

Richard Stallman, Leadership, and Sexism

Datamation: "What happened at a recent desktop conference points out unreso (...)

Linux

Red Hat joins SP 500 - a sign of Linux maturity

Netstat -vat: "As of Friday July 24, Red Hat will join the S&P 500 index. (...)

Linux

ACLs: Extended file-permissions

Nuxified: "Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we al (...)

Linux

Claws Mail: What an email client SHOULD be like

Linux and Open Source: "In its place was a powerful, flexible, fast, reliab (...)

Linux

Amazon Shows Need for Open eBook Standards

Tech Treasures: "Last week Amazon did something despicable. They violated t (...)

Linux

Skrooge: Personal finance management +1

Tom Albers's blog: "I ran out of money last month quite early (in NL you us (...)

Multimedia

Call of Duty(R): World at War Map Pack 3 Locked and Loaded to Release Four New Maps This August (PR

Reinforcements are scheduled to arrive for one of the most-played online mu (...)

Multimedia

Award Winning Guitarist Carlos Santana to Lend Smooth Grooves and Trademark Moves to Guitar Hero(R)

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and 11-time Grammy Award winner, Carlos Santana (...)

Multimedia

[$$] Vivendi Ends Talks With Zain (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

Vivendi Ends Talks With Zain Vivendi said it has halted talks with Kuwait-b (...)