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

Packt: Packt Publishing, the innovative, fast-growing publisher, announced today the launch of PacktLib, its new online digital book library, which provides users access to every book in Packt's catalogue from one online location.

LWN.net: "Much attention goes toward mainline kernel releases, but relatively few users are actually running those kernels. Instead, they run kernels provided by their distributors, and those kernels, in turn, are based off the stable kernel series. The practice of releasing stable kernels has been going for well over five years now, so perhaps it's time to look back at how it has been going."

Howtoforge: "vtiger is the CRM / complete tracking solution I have looked for and needed for 10 years!!! An all-in-one tracking everything organic package that ties everything together - because every task has many things associated with it, and vtiger works the way people think."

LWN.net: "Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the native mac80211 stack."

Tech Drive-in: "Even the seemingly simple right click menu in Ubuntu Gnome is getting designer's attention. Has anybody noticed that, there are already about 20 or so entries in the right click menu of a folder in Nautilus? Somebody has. Take a look at this 'right click menu alternative' mockup."

Linux Journal: "Man pages have been the primary source for UN*x documentation for a long time. Whenever I create a script that's going to be around for a while, I create documentation in the form of a section 1 man page. This stops my cell phone from ringing on the weekends when the junior sysadmins are looking for my notes."

Linux.com: "The first step of any journey is the hardest part. Clich�d, but true. The first step in using Linux is to install it, and for many folks that step is the most intimidating. It doesn't have to be � most Linux distributions are easy to install, if you know what to expect. Here's how to prep for an install and get on with the journey."

Groklaw: "FSF has issued a statement about Oracle's patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. While Google could have avoided all this by using the GPL'd IcedTea and they have yet to take a stand against software patents, still nothing, FSF writes, can excuse Oracle's patent aggression. "Oracle is wrong to use its patents to attack Android," FSF concludes."

Groklaw: "So. A crusade to destroy Google. By folks who count Microsoft as an important client, with new clients, at least one of them directly referred to the "crusaders" by Microsoft and the rest now under their umbrella. My stars, gentlemen. Where is your subtlety?" Link fixed --ed.

Enterprise Mobile Today: "T-Mobile today finally unveiled the G2, the first smartphone to run on its HSPA+ network, running Android 2.2 and capable of 4G data downloads, featuring a 3.7-inch screen, full keyboard and HD video capture."

Linux Journal: "Zenwalk Linux is a Slackware based distribution introduced in early 2004 that aims to be fast, easy, modern. Zenwalk tends to have a very loyal user-base in addition to leaving most distro hoppers and reviewers impressed. Most agree with Zenwalk's latest tagline: It just works."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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.)"

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."