Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS in wake of Murder Suspicion
Novell is changing the file system software used by default in its Suse Linux operating system, aligning with rival Red Hat and moving away from a project whose future has become entangled with…
Counter Strike Source and HL2 in Linux with Wine
For a lot of us, not being able to play our favorite Steam video games is a huge barrier that keeps us from switching over to a linux desktop. Linux-gamers has a great how-to on getting steam…
What do dependencies have to do with Free Software?
There is one huge difference between the free and non-free software that has some very practical implications in the way we use it. One of those implications are the dependencies between single…
KDE Celebrates 10 Years of the Free Desktop
The president of the KDE e.V. Eva Brucherseifer welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE anniversary event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen (TAE) in Ostfildern near Stuttgart…
Real-time kernels explained
As of 2.6.18, the mainline Linux kernel has gained real-time features. But there are some confusion about the benefits and drawbacks of having real-time capabilities. This post explains the…
Weekly Wrap-up
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is the weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- Microsoft Shown Involved with…
Open Source Venture Capitalist Answers Your Questions
The venture capitalist is, of course, Richard Gorman, of Bay Partners, to whom we sent your questions earlier this week. He prefaces his answers by saying: "Thanks for all of your questions. They…
Gnome / KDE Keyboard Shortcuts
Tired of using your mouse so much? Did you know that both KDE and Gnome have keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you can do with a mouse? Here's a list of the various shortcuts on both…
Wine 0.9.23 Released
This is release 0.9.23 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. New in this release is a massive update of printf formats for Win64 compatibility, Dynamic drive support on MacOSX, still…
Linux and Women
A woman responded to a campaign to get more women involved with Linux with a suggestion. She was surprised (not happily) to find out that this pro-women Linux community was populated by mostly…