Links 19/11/2009: Chromium OS, Lots of Fedora 12 Coverage

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GNU/Linux

Intel Divulges Information on TRIM for Linux

Since that post, I got in contact with Intel who clarified a few of the points surrounding the issue of using TRIM under Linux. Sure, this is a topic that bores most people, but as a full-time user of the OS, I care about it quite a bit, and ...

I’m sure a lot of others out there are in a similar situation as me. And as frustrating as I’ve found tracking down the information to be, I’m hoping this investigative sleuthing will affect a lot more than just me.

Time to compile the naughty list: Who isn’t playing nice with Linux?

Here are just a few of the miscreants mentioned, who either clearly stated they don’t support Linux or any browser other than Internet Explorer; whose services can be used, but not necessarily initiated by any other than a Windows system; or who are just generally difficult to get along with:

* Citibank

* AT&T

* Illinois government sites

* Verizon DSL

* EarthLink DSL

* Juno/NetZero

* Juniper Networks

* UPS CampusShip

* Department of Defense systems (U.S.)

Linux Outlaws 122 – In a Gnome Shell

This week on the show: Source for Android 2.0 has been released, Microsoft admits GPL violation, SAP disses Sun, Microsoft patents sudo?, Windows 7 runs bad on netbooks, Fab tries out Gnome Shell and much more.

Desktop

Doctors All, Car Crashes, and Insurance

When I got this drive, I formatted as an ext3 drive but that’s not 100% necessary if you are going to dump compressed backup files on that disk. Modern distributions like Ubuntu/Kubuntu should just see the drive and give you an opportunity to mount the drive. Clicking on the drive icon lets me open up a file manager. Using the file manager, I can just drag and drop into that folder. Easy.

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For the curious among you, the Buffalo LinkStation runs a version of Linux called Fahrenheit.

Head to Head: Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 9.10

Windows 7 turns to face its latest challenger in the form of Ubuntu 9.10, the latest and greatest flavour of Linux to be released.

Google

Google Chrome operating system’s first appearance scheduled

While Google is remaining mum about all the details, I’ve learned that they will be demonstrating the new Linux-based Chrome desktop operating system on Thursday, November 19th.

Google open sources flash-happy Chrome OS

Today, via webcast from its Mountain View headquarters, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai and Engineering Director Matthew Papakipos unveiled an early version of Chrome OS, the much-discussed browser-based operating system the company first announced this past summer. This initial build has been open-sourced as the Chromium OS, with Pichai saying that outside developers will be able to work hand-in-hand with internal Google coders on the same code tree.

Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.

Google Chrome OS Source Code Now Available For Download

5 Expectations for Google’s Chrome OS Event

Google will finally take the wrapper off its highly-anticipated Chrome operating system during a presentation at Google HQ on Thursday. The event will include a complete overview of the product featuring a Chrome OS demonstration and Q&A session. Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, Google engineering director for Google Chrome OS, will speak at the event, according to TechCrunch.

Google Chrome OS: What to look for this week

Real Chrome OS developer preview screenshot

Chromium OS

OMG! CHROMEOS LIVE BLOG!

Google Chrome First Official Screenshots

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

While the software does not currently appear to be in an easily installable state, requiring developers to build their own Chrome OS environments for the time being, the OS does look quite promising and Google’s “Stateless” objective where all user data resides in the cloud reflects an extremely modern concept in OS design.

7 Google Chrome Extensions You Must Have

Google Chrome Extensions are here and really doing great. If you are thinking about what is Google Chrome extension and how to install then (eligibility), then read our coverage on Google Chrome Extension launch. There are loads of extensions released by different parties but here we are going to take 7 extensions which you should install on your google chrome to make your life much easier.

Server

New Aussie Supercomputer Runs Linux

The fact that a new supercomputer runs Linux should hardly come as a surprise to anyone. What else would it run? W7? ROFL. Well, if it did run W7 I’m pretty sure someone would have been all over the reporters for the Sydney Morning Herald making sure that they mentioned it in their article “Australia’s new supercomputer outflops the lot“. However, since it isn’t, the reporter had a discretion on what to report, and they didn’t mention what operating system it ran. I had to look the thing up on Wikipedia, where it told me that it runs Linux – Centos actually.

HP Adds ProCurve One Partners, Apps

HP expands its app blade switch effort with new partners and programs. And does the fact ONE is Linux-based matter?

SSDs Take Center Stage

Solid state drives (SSDs) — also known as flash — are everywhere. In fact, they may even have done a great service to mankind by diverting messaging away from green IT. The big server and storage OEMs seem to have gotten over their fixation with green IT, courtesy of their enthusiasm for SSD.

The Best Free Linux Music Servers

A home computer makes an ideal appliance to store and stream music. The purpose of a music server is to deliver tracks when requested by a client. The server can deliver music to machines over a local area network as well as computers connected over the internet.

Kernel Space

How The X Stack In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS May Look

Canonical’s Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (codenamed Lucid Lynx) is taking place this week in Texas, but happening right now on the Ubuntu-X mailing list is a discussion about what the X.Org plans are for Ubuntu Lucid.

Benchmark Your System With PTS Desktop Live [Linux]

One of my favorite activities is to compare new hardware with old after an upgrade. One of yours might be to show your best friend how much better your machine rocks than his (or vice versa). Remember, the best feature of the Phoronix Test Suite Desktop is the FUN!

Applications

Goggles Music Manager For Linux

Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing.

Top Backup Solutions for Linux

For years I have watched in amazement as most articles highlighting various Linux backup solutions merely point out the same old list. While their authors enjoy their “FoSS-ness,” they fail to realize that, in the real world, not all of the solutions provided make sense for the casual user. Half of them are really enterprise only.

Backup your data with Grsync

Gnome Music Player Client (GMPC) + MPD – Just WOW [Linux]

GMPC is a GTK2 client for Music Player Daemon. I’m not going to talk about Music Player Daemon again, because we covered it when we talked about Sonata (including how to configure Music Player Daemon – MPD).

Open Source Email Archiving Software

Email archiving is an application that accumulates, index and provide quick, searchable access to email messages independent of the users of the system using a couple of different technical methods of implementation. The primary function of email archiving software is to capture and maintain all email traffic flowing into and out of the email server so it can be accessed immediately at a later date from a centrally managed location. If you are looking for an open source email archiving software, then read on.

Scribble Notes with SimpleText

Here is a genuinely useful Web-based application — SimpleText. It is, indeed, a rather simple online note-taking application that is positively light on features. It doesn’t offer any fancy text formatting tools, and you won’t find any advanced sharing capabilities in it either. So what’s so “genuinely useful” about it, then? Again, it’s simplicity.

Proprietary

Fluendo S.A. Announces The Codec Pack Release 10

Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions working with multiple formats and platforms.

CodeWeavers releases CrossOver Games 8.1 for MAC and Linux

Despite a crazed assault of zombie playtesters on their headquarters, CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced the release of CrossOver Games 8.1 for both Mac and Linux, available immediately.

7 Must Have Linux iPhone Applications

Linux Command Reference (FREE) – This iPhone app is a handy command reference for the Linux Terminal. Perfect for situations when you need to reference a command but you’re in the server room without your computer.

Games

5 More Free Linux Apps You Can’t Do Without

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won’t know how you ever did without them

Desktop Environments

Making your mixed KDE and GNOME desktop look cool

KDE

We are still alive! summary of the last weeks in kamoso land.

We have been quite quiet the last weeks on blog posting, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not working on kamoso. So if you are one of those who think that kamoso is “yet another dead kde webcam project” you’re wrong

Here we have some heads up.

GNOME

The Second GNOME 2.30 Development Release

While GNOME 2.30 will not be the release that goes on to become GNOME 3.0 (instead it will be GNOME 2.32 in September that grabs the “3.0″ tag), the second development release for the 2.30 series is now available.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Zeitgeist

There is a tangible confusion around as to what Zeitgeist is and what it isn’t; what it can do and what it can’t do. This is partly our own fault because we could have communicated this whole thing better, for instance we have some very outdated wiki pages lying around that you should probably stay away from until we updated them. In this post I aim to give a semi technical run down of the core Zeitgeist functionality and how we expose it for you to work with. This should hopefully clear out some confusion.

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