Information freedom for open source users.

OStatic: “It’s a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times…”

Linux User and Developer: “Pros: It’s a pleasing design with some of the best netbook technology on the market”

Lifehacker: “You need root access to edit a lot of files in Linux, but Terminal work can get tedious. Here”s a simple way to add a shortcut to your applications menu for a root-enabled Nautilus.”

Tech Source: “In 2008, I speculated about the future of distributed security cracking. That future has arrived, in the form of a $17 cloud based service provided through the efforts of a security researcher known as Moxie Marlinspike.”

The Geek Stuff: “When I drafted this article, I really came-up with 7 sysadmin habits. But, out of those 7 habits, three really stood out for me.”

Linux User and Developer: “Mostly seen as a scripting language for system administrators, it is actually capable of doing almost everything and beyond the limitations of regular programming languages. Python started its life as a time-saver programming language.”

Advogato: “Experts do not agree about open source security in terms of whether there is an advantage or disadvantage to its use in the business world”

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Tech Drive-in: “The only IRC client I ever used was XChat. I decided to try something different and Irssi client was a great find. Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for Unix systems and is probably the best I have used till now”

Phoronix: “ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs.”

LinuxInsider: “Mozilla’s Sunbird gives you customization options for the interface as well as a rich set of under-the-hood controls for setting up where, how and when the application gets its information.”

PC World: “But, is the Linux operating system just another flavor of the Unix operating system? Yes. But, it’s also much more.”

Linux.com: “We’re pleased to see OpenStack, the new open source project for cloud computing projects from Rackspace and NASA. In the past, only large institutions like NASA had access to super computing functionality to complete large-scale computational projects.”

Linux.com: “Given this amazing year, we want to hear from you about what you think are some of the most important milestones in the areas that we’re going to be exploring at LinuxCon in a couple weeks”

The openSUSE project has announced that Jos Poortvliet will be its new
community manager. “Jos commented, ‘The opportunity to become part of the international
openSUSE community is very exciting. There are a great number of
interesting developments going on in the free software world, and openSUSE
plays a major role in many of them. I look forward to working with the
community on these, helping it grow, finding new directions and ways of
developing, and delivering its innovative technologies to users and
developers around the world.’”

yfrog: “This is the error message I get when attempting to file an Unemployment Claim with the State of Illinois using Ubuntu/Chrome.”

The KDE software collection has a new BlueTooth stack called “BlueDevil.” “This release should be stable enough to be used by everybody, but we’re looking specially for advanced users with ‘compiling skills’ so we can get quick feedback and fix as many bugs as possible.”

On the heels of an iMac refresh, Apple on Wednesday released the next version of its web browser. As promised, Safari 5.0.1 comes complete with extensions and a Safari Extensions Gallery. In June, Apple rolled out extensions support to help developers create extensions using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The result is a growing gallery currently at 100 extensions.

The gallery lets Apple fans find extensions that add new features to the browser, such as toolbars that display live web feeds and sophisticated programs that filter web content. Safari 5.0.1 users can download and install extensions from the gallery or directly from a developer’s web site.

“The Safari Extensions Gallery puts Safari right up there with Chrome or Firefox with its ability to add functionality to the browser,” said Michael Gartenberg, a partner at Altimeter Group. “It looks like they’ve got a good collection of extensions already up in the gallery. What’s interesting is that once again there is a Bing extension built in. Other than the extensions, this is a minor release.”

Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter Agree …

Apple is getting kudos from some of its heavy-hitting technology colleagues (and competitors), including Microsoft, Twitter and Amazon.com. Gianna Puerini, vice president of worldwide design and community at Amazon, pointed to how the browser helps its customers build wish lists.

“With Safari 5, we were able to quickly build the Add to Amazon Wish List extension that lets customers add items from any web site to their Amazon wish list with the click of a button,” Puerini said.

Jeff Henshaw, general manager of Microsoft’s Bing User Experience, said the software giant is excited about working closely with Apple to bring “visually
compelling Bing experiences to Safari.”

“The Bing Extension for Safari brings Bing search intelligence to everyday browsing with Safari,” Henshaw said. “When a user selects text in Safari,…

Wired: “A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to re-create cookies deleted by users.”

Phoronix: “Whether you are an owner of an ATI FirePro V3800 that retails for just over $100 USD, the proud owner of an ATI FirePro V8800 that goes for over $1,300 USD, or any of the FirePro products in-between, you will want to update your graphics driver when AMD puts out their next stable software update”