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• Live Mesh and Linux on Mobile Devices 53 minutes ago
  
  Linux's rise on mobile devices, such as cell phones and UMPCs, may interfere with Microsoft's future plans and put them in a difficult position.
• Essential commands for Linux network administration 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
  
  In this article, Mark Rais shares a list of those essential networking commands every beginning Linux administrator needs to know.
• Flash Player 10: Dazzling Effects, Better Performance, Runs on Linux 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  The next generation of the Flash Player is here. Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player 10, which promises better performance, improved text handling, custom photo effects filters and native 3D animations. It's available as a free download at the Adobe Labs website.
• Linux - easier to run by the release 6 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  We’ve seen recently how fast Linux is moving and how many changes and updates are quickly and constantly being made. One of the biggest advancements across a variety of Linux distributions has been the growing variety and ease of ways to run Linux, including on, alongside or inside Windows.
• Fedora 9 - an OS that even the Linux challenged can love 8 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  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.
• Low-end RAID controllers support Linux 10 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  Adaptec has announced a new family of entry-level RAID controllers that support RAID 0, 1, and 10. The Series 2 RAID controllers ship with open-source Linux drivers and are designed for controlling low-cost SATA and SAS disk and tape-drive systems, says the company.
• Microsoft's Silverlight for Linux Available for Download 12 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  picture The equivalent of Microsoft's Silverlight but for Linux operating systems is available for download as of May 13, 2008, under the label Moonlight. According to the official description of the technology, Moonlight is nothing more than the open source implementation of Silverlight, tailored for UNIX systems. With this latest step in the evolution of Silverlight, Microsoft can finally claim that the technology is truly cross-platform, because ahead of the May 13 public release of Moonlight, support was available exclusively for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
• Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks 14 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  Back in January of 2007 we had looked at Linux Virtualization Performance as we had compared a running native OS (at that time, Fedora Core 6) against the same operating system running as a virtualized guest OS using Xen, QEMU with the (once closed-source) kqemu kernel module, and then KVM. In this testing we had found that KVM had performed well and won a number of the tests, but it wasn't the clear winner nor it had won by a substantial margin. However, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine had premiered with the Linux 2.6.20 kernel and it has matured quite a bit over the past year and a half since its christening. With that said, we are in the process of conducting new Linux virtualization benchmarks to see how these various implementations compare today. While the full comparison isn't yet ready, due to much interest surrounding Linux virtualization on desktops and servers, this morning we are publishing some initial benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite when running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as the host OS and then running it as the guest operating system with hardware-based acceleration through KVM.
• Ubuntu Stealing Linux Thunder? 16 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  There is a growing identity crisis in the Linux community. In simplest terms, is Ubuntu taking the spotlight away from other deserving Linux distributions? This has been charged over and again. While I can certainly see how some people might feel that Linux is being seen as a single distribution, I would also point out that the Ubuntu developers and the companies that support Ubuntu are not doing anything that cannot be duplicated.
• Splashtop Linux Gets on Every ASUS Motherboard 18 hours, 23 minutes ago
  
  DeviceVM, the company that produces Splashtop, announced yesterday that their Linux distribution would get on four new models of ASUS motherboards. ASUS integrated Splashtop on the brand new P5Q family of products, so now there are twelve motherboards that run Splashtop. The new motherboard models are P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe and P5Q-E.
• How Long Have You Been a Linux User? 20 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
  We know a fair number of you have been around since the beginning, but we figure there are those of you who may be new to the Linux community, as it does seem to be growing at an impressive pace. One of the great things about LinuxJournal.com is that you can all come together and weigh in on any topic from so many different angles and levels of experience. We're curious. When did you jump on the bandwagon?
• Nine Steps to Optimal GNU/Linux Desktop Setup 21 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
  My guide based on far too many late nights tweaking far too many desktop computers in my own home.
• OS X Gains U.S. Army As A Customer 22 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
  As a computer user, it’s easy for me to just think about everyday people like myself using operating systems. Just like me, they go to a store like Best Buy or The Apple Store, purchase an operating system, install it, and then use it for work or play, sometimes both. In the case of Linux, maybe they’ve downloaded it and have access to it in that way. Of course, aside from individuals, corporations also use operating systems, and they use them on a scale and in a way that we can’t even begin to imagine, since many of us just fire up our computers in our home office to do some simple Web browsing.
• Worst Hardware For Your Linux Desktop 23 hours, 53 minutes ago
  
  I have been asked this over and again - which hardware should be avoided before installing Linux? The list is actually smaller than you might expect, but it is helpful if you would like to remain in a headache-free zone.
• If a Linux interoperability deal is done in a forest, and no one is around to witness it, does it really exist? 1 day, 1 hour ago
  
  I wrote last week about how the conservatism of many senior IT executives is a significant barrier to widespread open source adoption. A recent post from Richard Steel, CIO of the London borough of Newham, is a reminder that the machinations of the open source software world are not as engrossing as some supporters might consider them to be.
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