Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 01.05.2009

Linux

Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2009: registration started

LVEE 2009: "The 5th International conference of developers and users of fre (...)

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Command Line vs GUI Reality Check

Realeyes: "I was reading Kyle Rankin and Bill Childer's Point/Counterpoint (...)

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Btrfs Is Not Yet The Performance King

Phoronix: "While Btrfs does perform well in some areas, it is not yet the p (...)

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Connect Remotely to Your Linux Machine Graphically

TuxArena: "Free NX is a client/server application which allows you to login (...)

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Group test: netbook distros

TuxRadar: "Our test machine was an Eee PC 701, featuring 4GB of internal st (...)

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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 904 (Jaunty Jackalope)

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty (...)

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NetBSD 5 speeds up kernel, drops HP-UX support

Netstat -vat: "NetBSD 5.0 is out, introducing a long list of new features t (...)

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Spreading Digital Freedom with The Whuffie Factor

WorldLabel: "We in the FOSS world are really good at writing game-changing (...)

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Mini HOWTO: Tiny Core Linux 14 LiveUSB home web server

Raiden's Realm: "Tiny Core Linux (TCL) is a great distro. My Apache HTTP s (...)

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Ubuntu, Now More Popular than Windows XP!

Tech Source From Bohol: "Ubuntu has finally eclipsed Windows XP in terms of (...)

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Oracle and Sun: Match Made in Hades

Linux Blog Safari: "Does Oracle+Sun spell dream come true or disaster for t (...)

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The Tiny Unix And Linux Shell Crash Course For Beginners

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I came up with a little something to help a (...)

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Several powerful console music players for Linux

TuxArena: "These players are among the top audio players for console availa (...)

Multimedia

Activision Unleashes X-Men Origins: Wolverine Video Game on Retail Stores Worldwide (PR Newswire)

The X-Men's fiercest hero digs his claws into retail stores globally with t (...)

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Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features to the masses

ars Technica: "The latest version of Ubuntu includes some nifty embellishme (...)

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The sad case of technology education in the United States

Free Software in Latin America: "It might be arguable that Spain and France (...)

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Sun Updates Solaris 10 Performance, Security

InternetNews: "With the Oracle acquisition looming, new Solaris update show (...)

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Open source app puts the squeeze on network traffic

LinuxDevices: "A group called the Traffic Squeezer project released an open (...)

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In Depth: LinuxFest Northwest 2009 (video)

Jupiter Broadcasting: "We made our yearly trip up to LinuxFest Northwest an (...)

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3 Tweaks to Speed Up Firefox and Free Some Memory

TuxArena: "Sometimes Firefox can become a real memory hog, especially if yo (...)

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Spanish Government to Hand Schools Over to Microsoft

Linux Magazine: "It's not the first time Microsoft has tried to wrestle awa (...)

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Solving the ext3 latency problem

LWN.net: "One might think that the ext3 filesystem, by virtue of being stan (...)