Patrick E. Bennett, Jr., Computer Consultant ... computing support for small business

Enterprise Storage Forum: "The three-year legal battle between NetApp and Oracle has come to an end as the companies quietly dropped their dueling patent infringement lawsuits over the open source Zettabyte File System (ZFS)."

Ghacks: "Today's file manager shares the speed, but not the GUI. This file manager is vifm. If you know your Linux you can probably assume the �vi� is associated with one of the most popular Linux editors, vi. That assumption is correct."

Get on your tuxedo’s - MyGaming pays respect to our oft-forgotten PC gaming brother, the Linux user. MyGaming thought it was high time to do another Linux compatible gaming round-up. A lot of these games support multiple platforms, and not just Linux, because Linux programmers are cool like that.

Datamation: "Last week, when I wrote "7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows," I assumed that anyone who was interested in the KDE 4 series had already explored it. However, the email I received and a few web searches soon convinced me that I was wrong."

T-Mobile officially unveiled its G2 smartphone, the successor to the world's first Android-powered mobile phone, touting its faster Web-browsing experience and direct integration with Google services. The G2, which is designed specifically for T-Mobile's new HSPA+ network, features downloads at "4G speeds," according to T-Mobile. The network is expected to reach more than 100 million Americans in 55 major cities across the country when the smartphone becomes available later this month.

Linux Planet: "Hugin is a wonderful and powerful photo panorama creator for Linux, but sometimes it gets confused and doesn't seem to know what to do. Akkana Peck offers some tips on getting Hugin back on track."

MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face - a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle.

Tech Source: "The iPad may be flying off the shelves with more than 3 million units sold to date, but it doesn't mean that others aren't welcome to take a shot at unseating it."

Sydney Morning Herald: "The film industry is using pirate tactics to beat the pirates � by employing �cyber hitmen� to launch attacks that take out websites hosting illegal movies."

Ubuntu Unity is a bold step for Ubuntu caretaker Canonical and its Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook remix. It offers a completely new user interface built on the backbone of key features due in GNOME 3 including Mutter and Zeitgeist. Russell Barnes tests it to breaking point (and found that it did. Regularly.)…

Linux Today: "Ubuntu Unity is a bold step for Ubuntu caretaker Canonical and its Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook remix. It offers a completely new user interface built on the backbone of key features due in GNOME 3 including Mutter and Zeitgeist. Russell Barnes tests it to breaking point (and found that it did. Regularly.)"

To activate the fullscreen mode in a virtualbox machine, we need to install Guest additions in the guest OS. If you are testing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick meerkat in virtualBox , you may notice that guest additions are not working, it seems that the problem is the new xserver they put in ubuntu10.10, the modules are not build against this new version (See screenshot). To fix this issue, try this solution, this methode consist on installing a new xserver display packages which works well.

Computerworld UK: "Asus plans to launch its long awaited Eee Tablet with an 8-inch LCD touchscreen in October for around $300 (�190), though prices vary by market."

Phoronix: "Recently when benchmarking the Btrfs and EXT4 file-systems we were left surprised that the performance of the next-generation Btrfs file-system had regressed against EXT4 to the point where the evolutionary file-system is measurably faster in a greater number of disk benchmarks."

With Android already on millions of devices, the upcoming Google Music service will have a waiting audience, but is Google prepared to run a commercial music service?

People are resistant to change. This is a fact and it is not going to change any time soon. Because of this they will not want their entire computer to change on them all at once. An important fact that a lot Linux Advocates miss is that the conversion to Linux starts on Windows or OSX.

Developer.com: "As with everything in the open source world, version control systems (VCSs) come in several flavors. The grandfather of open source VCSs is CVS, a tool that was the de facto standard in the industry for several years until the likes of Subversion came along and made it almost obsolete."

ThePCSpy: "I recently read two posts throwing mud at the 1% statistic. The first didn't offer any positive reasoning and just said the statistics had to be based on sales and that wasn't fair."

Linux.com: "KDE 4.5 brings to the table plenty of useful, functional, innovative features. One of those very features is the Desktop Activity. Although many scoffed at the idea (even tried to get the feature pulled), those same naysayers are (hopefully) glad their requests were not followed. Why?"

Linux Pro Magazine: "Have you read the Evil HR Lady's article called Illegal Gender Discrimination in Tech? Hardly.? Suzanne Lucas, a.k.a. Evil HR Lady, says, �Everyone wrings their hands and frets, 'what can we do about the inequality in X?' Well, first stop and see if people are making different choices.�"