Linux Today

Desktop Engineering: "GPUs are now powerful enough to do more than just move images across the screen. They are capable of performing high-end computations that are the staple of many engineering activities."

eWeek: "Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware."

Maximum PC: "In this guide, we'll show you how to get Cygwin set up, the basics of how to navigate a Unix file system, and how to find more information as you need it."

The H Open: "At a press conference held yesterday, Intel and the WeTab developers, 4tiitoo, announced that the upcoming WeTab internet tablet, scheduled to arrive in September, will run the Linux-based MeeGo"

CIO: "The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October."

KDE.news: "The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications"

Linux Devices: "Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet."

Linux Magazine: "Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw."

Softpedia: "The second beta of the next GNOME release has arrived full of bug fixes and updates. Many of the standard packages have been updated for GNOME 2.32 Beta 2 (2.31.91) and more translation work has been done."

Network World: "For better and sometimes for worse, Linux is the poster child for the open source movement. And why shouldn't it be"

Zona-M: "The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field."

conceivably Tech: "Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down."

Groklaw: "Darl's purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement."

LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 8 PIM tools tools at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

Linux Pro Magazine: "ApacheCon organizers have opened registration for ApacheCon 2010. The event is scheduled for November 3-5 at the Westin Peachtree hotel in Atlanta, Ga. The theme for this year's ApacheCon is "Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation.""

Wine-Reviews: "A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message "Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it""

Digitizor: "The Steam on Linux rumor is up and running again."

Enterprise Networking Planet: "That scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"

Linux.com: "Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back."

Tech Source: "You may find our Python alarm clock too geeky or complicated, so I thought I should share with you an easier way to use your Linux desktop (particularly Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions) as alarm clock."