Attention: As of Ubuntu Heron this article is no longer an issue, you DO NOT need to blacklist rt2500usb any longer. Just plugin the rt73usb device, give it a few minutes for networkmanager to find it and go - that is it. But remember, its first use might take a bit for NM to see [...]

Gnomie NvidiaX from our live chat room writes: Hello, Chris! I’m NvidiaX from the chat room. You may remember me as the one that got the idea of paying you to Rick roll yourself with an iTunes certificate. I know you love Open Source software, so you may be interested in this. As you know most [...]

gOS, the Linux OS known for its debut in the $199 Wal-Mart gPC and NetBooks, today announced the details of the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers, called gOS 3 Gadgets. gOS is demonstrating a beta version of the OS on a variety of NetBooks and NetTops at LinuxWorld and online here. gOS [...]

Not too long back, I had a reader ask me whether or not it was worth it to try one of the Linux distributions released for 64bit architecture vs that of 32bit. I thought the question was rather timely, as I had recent purchased a new notebook from System76.com that happens to run Ubuntu 8.04 64bit [...]

Independent game developer KarjaSoft announces the Linux version of Spandex Force, a tongue-in-cheek puzzle game with RPG elements. Spandex Force is a superhero-themed puzzle game that lets the player create his or her own hero to clean up the crime-infested town of Vigilance Valley. The game features many different kinds of minigames including, but not limited [...]

The Kingston 8GB Class 4 Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card offers larger-volume data storage and optimized recording performance with support for FAT 32 file formats. In addition, this card complies with Kingston’s Class 4 speed rating, which means that the card provides a minimum data transfer rate of 4MB/sec. for optimum performance in [...]

Gnomie Cassiel Angelus writes: Here are a few links I thought might interest you or your show’s Linux-savvy viewers! Ext2 Installable File System: This Web site contains a download that will allow NT4.0 / 2k / XP / 2003 / Vista users to be able to write and read Ext2 formatted partitions. It could be very handy [...]

Gnomie Bryan Tidwell writes: Use Ubuntu. Debian is too hard, especially for a beginner (take it from me)! If you’re not afraid to install codecs, you are golden. Use forums — they are there for your benefit! Don’t be afraid to post multiple threads — if anything, this just puts more documentation out there for other people. Upgrade, [...]

“Just in time for the holidays, NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver, which is a stable version of their previous 169.04 beta last month. In addition, the new NVIDIA 169.07 Linux driver has a few changes, while most of the release highlights were already found in the 169.04 release. We are preparing additional [...]

nbsp;Linux.com is running this story explaining why the KOffice stance against OOXML isn’t political, it’s practical: “In the recent accusations that the GNOME Foundation has been supporting Microsoft’s OOXML format at the expense of ODF, KDE has been presented as a counter-example. Based on a KDE News article, Richard Stallman suggested that “major KDE developers” had [...]

nbsp;DesktopLinux.com is reporting that Dell will now be offering DVD Playback with their Ubuntu 7.10 PCs: “Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing later today, Dec. 19, that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs. According [...]

LifeHacker is carrying a story on how you can slim down and speed up your link installation: “While Linux is pretty efficient with a computer’s resources out of the box, there are still ways you can make it run leaner and meaner on your desktop. Using a little bit of know-how, a willingness to run [...]

Look, SVN is a step up from CVS, but it’s still a pain in the ass to manage large projects through SVN. In steps GNOME Developer Kit, which is supposedly better than SVN: “The difficulty and frustration of building GNOME from source is a major impediment for many new contributors. Installing the dependencies, getting the tools [...]

Just a few days after exposing that Iran has built an AMD-based supercomputer, they’re now trying to cover up this little fact: “The Iranian computing research center that says it built a supercomputer with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processors has removed from its Web site photographs showing a possible link to the United Arab Emirates [...]

Andrea Cimitan implimented transparent widgets in the GTK theme engine. Finally. OK, well, maybe not finally, but it’s about time GTK caught up with 2004: “GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop. Cimitan used RGBA colormaps [...]

Open Source Society has put up an extensive interview with Ken Breback, author of two books and multiple articles covering Linux. In this interview Ken discusses what the future holds for Linux: “Recently I had the unique pleasure of communicating with Kim Brebach. You may recognize him as the author of “13 Reasons Why Linux Won’t [...]

CarloTheMan at the Ubuntu Forums on how you can get Veoh Player working in Ubuntu. The trick is setting Wine up properly (and that’s always the trick, isn’t it?). “As we know, Veoh Networks is a great place to trade productivity for entertainment, but usually, we as Linux users, feel a bit left out after five [...]

ArsTechnica is reporting that Verizon has been hit with a copyright lawsuit for violating portions of the GNU General Public License, for using an open source package in a wireless router: “Open-source software is very attractive for companies looking to expand their services or quickly get new offerings to market, in part because it’s free. Unfortunately, [...]

Howto Forge has a great article up on how you can make your own custom Ubuntu LiveCD with Remastersys: “This guide shows how you can create a Live-CD from your Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Linux Mint 4.0 system with a tool called remastersys. Remastersys is available in the Linux Mint romeo repository. You can customize your [...]

TechWorld is reporting that red Hat has launched a real-time version of Linux, aimed at mission-critical applications that require a near real-time, predictable responses called Red Hat enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid). “Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid) includes features such as high-speed inter-application messaging based on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), whose performance [...]