What is to be done

Sometimes music can do a lot for motivation…

Estimation

Source: xkcd.com

Save the newspaper: Buy One Anyway

“Not Everyone Can Afford to Wait for a New Profit Model”

Source: Netzpolitik.org

KDE 4.3 and KDE netbook remix

First of all I want to gratulate the KDE team for releasing their new version of KDE. Since KDE 4.2 is a pleasure to work with the software and I’m eager to try the new version.
There is also a video describing the changes in KDE 4.3 (also viewable with HTML5 or as ogg theora download ).

KDE 4.3 Desktop

Also there is an update on the KDE netbook remix project.

(or download the ogg theora file)

The Real Power of Human Energy

This is an identity correction remix that turns Chevron’s multi-million dollar Human Energy greenwashing PR blitz on its head.

Source: Rebellious Pixels

KDE 4.3 plasma screencast

The KDE 4.3 Plasma screencast arrives! It’s 10:36 in length and covers some of the nice improvements we’ve in Plasmaland for 4.3

Aaron Seigo has created a screencast which can be download via bittorrent oder http.

Source: Aaron Seigos Blog

iotop: simple top-like I/O monitor

iotop is a console application for monitoring the I/O usage of processes on your system. It is especially handy for answering the question “Grrr, sloooowness, why is my disk churning so much?”
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iotop is available in Debian since Lenny and in Ubuntu (universe) since Intrepid.

Source: DebianTimes

The triumph of Linux as a supercomputer OS

Operating systems on supercomputers used to be custom-made affairs, but this has changed. These days, Linux has become a popular choice for supercomputers. But how popular? You may be surprised.
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19 of the top 20 supercomputers in the world are running some form of Linux. That’s 95%! And if you just look at the top 10, ALL of them use Linux.

You can read the rest of the article on pingdom.

Introducing KDE 4 plasmoids

IBM’s developerWorks has an article about how to create a KDE plasmoid

KDE 4 includes many exciting new technologies, including Plasma, a feature that forms the desktop shell of KDE 4. See how to write simple Plasma applets (known as plasmoids) to greatly improve the desktop experience and how to turn a plasmoid into a simple memory monitor.

Source: IBM developerWorks

Google Chrome for Linux

After a long period of waiting Linux User have now the chance to test a beta version of Googles browser chrome.

You can download Google Chrome for ubuntu or debian 5 here.