• MIT students show power of open cell phone systems

• Ubuntu and Windows compared SIDE BY SIDE, literally
• Defending the oppressed and the forsaken (i.e. KDE3)
• Google Desktop for Linux
• The best desktop OS is...
• Open-Source Software: How the Stock Market Views It
• Control Your TiVo With Your Ubuntu Machine
• Radio Free Software: Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and OpenSolaris Community Managers
• Give Linux a chance
• optimize/improve internet connection speed and responsiveness
• Fix Firefox and epiphany Flash Crash
• Novell to Sun: Here’s an offer you can’t refuse

arstechnica.com: The OpenSolaris project, which has been slowly gaining momentum over the past year, issued its first official release last week. Designed with an emphasis on usability and easy installation, OpenSolaris aims to provide a complete desktop platform for users and developers built on top of Sun's Solaris kernel. We have been testing OpenSolaris 2008.05 in order to see how it compares to modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE.

practical-tech.com: Recently there were some rumors that Wal-Mart was once more selling Everex PCs with gOS Linux. Well, they got it about a third right.

• Fedora 9 promises better eyecandy, networking

• Fedora 9: Linux Desktop Alive and Well at Red Hat
• Rawhide moving on to Fedora 10
• Paul W. Frields on Fedora 9
• Fedora 9 - Why it’s so awesome

aseigo: thomasz just posted a link to this email from a KDE-on-Kubuntu user. Honest and heartfelt, it's one of the most beautiful things I've read in a while. Who knows what the people of the world will do tomorrow because of what we are doing today.

osweekly.com: As long as there are choices in computing platforms, there will be those that claim that their OS is the best over all others. In this article, I will work to put my own preferences aside, examine my years of experience with past clients who have used all three major platforms and why each made the most sense for them.

• What UUIDs Are and How To Use Them in Ubuntu

• Installing WeatherBug For Linux
• 5 Steps for resetting a forgotten password
• How to improve KDE4
• How to disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace from restarting X
• Preventing Debian Package Upgrades
• Connect a Motorola cellular phone to Linux
• Killing Zombie Processes In Linux And Unix
• Samba to Vista after SP1
• Check your rootkits at the door with rkhunter
• Stop GNOME from Asking to Import Photos

czessi.de: Jos Poortvliet present some movies, which show some new features in KDE 4.1, especially in Plasma, Kwin, Dolphin, Gweniview and some other applications. This movies show imposingly the proceedings of KDE 4.1.

linuxworld.com: All communities develop rituals over time. One of the enduring linux-kernel rituals is the regular heated discussion on development processes and kernel quality. To an outside observer, these events can give the impression that the whole enterprise is about to come crashing down.

theregister.co.uk: Fedora 9, the latest release from the Fedora Project, goes up for download on Tuesday. The ninth release of Fedora ushers in a number of changes aimed at making the venerable distribution a more newbie-friendly desktop, but longtime users needn't fear a great dumbing down; version 9 packs plenty of power user punch as well.

ostatic.com: Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page. I've been thinking about what life would be like without open source software.

blogs.ittoolbox: In part 2 of the "Get rid of your Linux bloat" series I talked about removing excess packages from your chosen distribution and only having installed what you actually need. In this final part we are going to go into territory that, if it were a store bought item, would void your guarantee.

linux.com: After I reviewed Alien Arena last year, some readers criticized my choice of that first-person shooter (FPS) as the best free software game I had played. Several suggested Nexuiz would have been a better choice. At the time, I had not played it. Now that I have tried Nexuiz 2.4, it has become my favorite free software FPS.

Also: Top 10 Linux Games

techradar.com: I’ve been using the Windows OS ever since version 3.0. I also own a MacBook running OS X, so I know how intuitive Apple's OS is in comparison. I'm intrigued to see if 2008 is really the year when Linux is ready for prime-time.

itwire.com: Used in the right context, statistics can often illuminate and point the way. On the other hand, these days, given the degree of spin around, they are more often used to confuse and blur an issue.

laptopmag.com: This $549 mini-notebook addresses its predecessor’s drawbacks by including a larger, higher-resolution 8.9-inch screen and more storage space. We tested the Linux-based version, which comes with a 20GB solid state drive. Add in an improved 1.3-megapixel webcam and a multi-touch capable touchpad, and you have the makings of a successful, albeit more expensive sequel.

• Iptables rules on timely basis

• Log Linux services with runit
• Disable Apparmor in Ubuntu
• How To Show Line Numbers In vi / vim Text Editor
• Recover a MySQL Table with Zmanda Recovery Manager
• Make Your Scripts User Friendly with Zenity
• Connect OpenOffice.org to Zoho Writer and Google Docs
• Audacity Tutorial part 1 – Recording audio tracks
• Copying only the unique values from a set of cells in OOo
• An Introduction to Routers, Switches, and Hubs

penguinpetes.com: In "Does Microsoft impose a prisoner mentality?", I speculated that years of using Windows seems to do something to people. Something kind of creepy. It seems as if it steals their intelligence, or their will to learn, or... In many cases, the person is scared. And fear is an emotion! Not something you can cure with a man page.

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:

• Reviews: First impressions of Fedora 9 with KDE 4

• News: Fedora 9 arrives early, Ubuntu prepares for Intrepid Ibex, Attila Craciun introduces Bluewhite64, PC-BSD 7 delivers new artwork, Oracle EL and OpenSolaris updates, new BSD forum
• Released last week: OpenSolaris 2008.05, Parted Magic 2.2
• Upcoming releases: Fedora 9, openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
• Reader comments

Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

bit-tech.net: The next version of the Fedora Linux distribution, Fedora 9 “Sulphur”, has been leaked into the public domain due to a misconfiguration in one of the European download mirrors.

Also: Fedora 9 promises better eyecandy, networking