Linux Today

Tech Drive-in: "Radio Tray is the probably the simplest of radio streaming application I have ever seen. It is so minimal that it occupies only a tiny little space in your system tray."

Linux Journal: "I've been working as a freelancer for almost a year now, and I cannot help noticing how free software helps making this possible."

Digitizor: "The long wait is over and Linux users can finally use the Gmail Videochat! The GMail team recently announced the availability of voice and video chat on Linux."

Network World: "The big news in tech today is of course Intel buying McAfee, in a deal valued at about 7.7 billion dollars. Hey, we are all friends here, lets round it off at an even 8b."

OSS Watch team blog: "The complaint concerns the use of Java-related technologies in Google's Android mobile Linux platform, and the details are ugly indeed."

Opensource.com: "I had a chance to talk with Matthew Burton, the former intelligence analyst turned open source cause celebre who just launched a tool that helps frame and understand arguments with imperfect evidence."

Phoronix: "LLVMpipe is an especially interesting Gallium3D driver since it allows accelerating the state trackers atop any modern CPU, but for any close to decent level of performance when using OpenGL you need a hefty multi-core CPU"

LinuxDevices: "Worldwide PC microprocessor units and revenue showed uncharacteristic growth during the second quarter of 2010, according to IDC. Mobile units rose while desktops fell, and Intel dominated all categories."

Groklaw: "Oracle, as well as Novell, have both filed a Reservation of Rights objecting to SCO's Motion in bankruptcy court to sell off all the assets, all but the litigation and whatever is on the list of excluded assets."

Linux User and Developer: "Does Peppermint Ice, the new cloud-oriented desktop distro, have what it takes to do for desktops what Jolicloud and Google Chrome OS are doing for netbooks?"

Ubuntu User: "This collection of words is a bit of a rant, I'm afraid. It's about what some call preaching to the choir or more specifically, not preaching to the choir."

Open Attitude: "Such is the power of the Internet that I can actually feel you wincing as you read that title."

LWN.net: "The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of this new scheduler, describe its features and how it can be practically used, provide a few details about the implemented algorithms, and gathering feedback by the community about possible improvements."

The H Open: "Adobe has confirmed that it will deliver its cross-platform Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) environment for Google's open source Android mobile operating system by the end of this year."

LWN.net: "Debian and Ubuntu have a set of official membership roles that can be granted to regular contributors. Those roles come with rights that enable the contributors to do their work and to participate in the project governance (elections and other official decision-making processes). It's also a way for the distributions to acknowledge the work done: most contributors are proud of the status they reached."

Tips4Linux.com: "Say you just bought an Amazon Kindle or a Barnes and Noble Nook. You want to convert your eBook collection to .EPUB or .MOBI format."

Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "The most recent pvops kernel 2.6.32.19 allows to enable kernel modesetting (KMS) under Xen 4.0.1-rc6 on top of Ubuntu Lucid Server and Fedora 13."

Tech Drive-in: "Hope you guys are familiar with Elementary and Ambiance GTK themes. Now they have these stunning GNOME Shell variants which are absolutely beautiful. First of all you need to download these themes."

Technologizer: "Microsoft, Firefox, Facebook, the Mac--they live on in our hearts."

Linux Planet: "A critical, years-old flaw is found and patched in the main Linux kernel. But all distros have yet to follow suit"