<b>OLPC news:</b> "I was in the Peace Corps in Cape Verde as an ICT volunteer from 2006 to 2008, and while I was there, the One Laptop Per Child project came on my radar and I became pretty enamored of the prospect of bringing some XOs to the country, or at least raising awareness of the idea within the government."
<b>Mark Shuttleworth:</b> "The Ayatana Indicators work has given us a crisp, clean basis for indicators in the panel. We've said they will all look a particular way, and behave a particular way. And we've said they will be placed on the right of the panel. But why limit indicators to the panel? Let's make it possible for applications to use indicators themselves, for all the things that indicators are good at:"
<b>DaniWeb: </b>"I've run across ten new Linux distributions inspired by current news stories. Some, of course, are better than others and a few just have no practical use or purpose whatsoever but still are worth a mention."
HP's new $150 inkjet puts the emphasis on convenience with an extra-friendly touch-screen interface and separate letter and photo paper trays, plus output quality good enough to satisfy business users.
Too hot makes for better reliability than too cold, brand new disks should be kept away from disks already in production and three other tips that may surprise you.
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"CIITIX-WiFi is a turnkey solution to your WiFi hotspot needs. Built onto the rock solid stable debian linux, setting up a secure (TTLS) WiFi hotspot is just a minute away."
There is more to graphics and photo editing in Linux than the wonderful Gimp. Paul Ferrill rounds up a raft of excellent Linux image editors and paint programs for all ability levels.
Too hot makes for better reliability than too cold, brand new disks should be kept away from disks already in production and three other tips that may surprise you.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Hot on the heels of acquiring Sun, Oracle has changed the license for Solaris making it non-free once again. In a time like this, such a move can only be fatal and of course ultimately beneficial to Linux."
<b>Martin's Blog:</b> "as you wanted to have a mail with all my concerns about client-side-window-decorations (CSD), here is a very long mail presenting all my concerns what will not be possible any more with CSD and why I think that these particular features will be impossible."
<b>Begin Linux:</b> "There are several categories of zones that must be configured. You need to have forward lookup zones, which allow the nameserver to match names to IP Addresses. You’ll define these zones in the /etc/bind directory, in files with the “db” prefix."
When Apple dispatched an elite police unit to conduct a literal door-busting raid on a Gizmodo editor's house to confiscate his computers, it seemed a clear case of heavy-handed corporate abuse. But a surprising number of people think it's OK.
<b>Huffington Post:</b> "And while no two DIYers are alike, in general they're an upbeat and friendly group that shares a special trait: the courage to screw up."
<b>Enterprise Mobile Today:</b> "MeeGo combines elements of Intel's Moblin Linux with Nokia's Maemo Linux effort into a new mobile operating system that can be used for netbooks, handheld devices and other mobile applications. The initial MeeGo 1.0 release is only available for netbooks, with a MeeGoo handset version planned for a June release."
New technology from Maven backers Sonatype is designed to make open source Java build management technology more consumable to Eclipse and enterprise users.
<b>LXer.com:</b> "Document Freedom Day is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general"