Linuxlookup Weekly Wrap-up
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Sysopendigia demonstrates Linux based 3G Smartphone
- Ubuntu 7.10…
Donation Drive To Buy A New Server
A donation drive is now underway to fund the purchase of a new server.
From our humble beginning in 1999, to the last major upgrade in 2003, Linuxlookup has always been chugging along on…
PulseAudio to bring earcandy to Linux
PulseAudio is a cross-platform, open source sound server that supports advanced software mixing capabilities and network transparency. PulseAudio is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the…
Creating business cards with OpenOffice.org Writer
Exchanging business cards is a rudimentary form of networking (the people, not the server kind). However, to get the most out of the exchange, you need a card that attracts attention and reflects…
Linux Will Be Worth $1 Billion In 1st 100 Days of 2009
What's Linux worth? The question has been a favorite of technology groups and cocktail party conversations ever since a character named Jeff V. Merkey offered $50,000 for a copy of Linux. The…
SUSE Arrives with a Special Opposition - Says Bankruptcy Ct. Has no Jurisdiction
SUSE has arrived, filing a "special opposition" [PDF] to SCO's motion to stay the arbitration in Europe. That isn't what SCO called the motion technically, but that is what SCO wants. SUSE says…
Fedora Project Leader Takes Dig at Shuttleworth, Questions Ubuntu Numbers
There are no good independent measurements of market share between the various distributions of desktop Linux, and that is leading to a continued back-and-forth between rivals.
In the…
phpMyAdmin 2.11.1.2 Released
phpMyAdmin, the popular web based MySQL management software has just released version 2.11.1.2
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-6
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies
Microsoft's detente with the open-source world is growing stronger by the minute. Steve Ballmer said today that he wouldn't consider an open-source-based business model a deterrent to buying a…
GNOME 2.20.1 Stable Released
This is the first update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown crashers, even for those modules which haven't released a new version (AKA gnome-terminal). The next development…