Das ukrainische Unternehmen PocketBook hat auf der IFA vier neue, auf Linux basierende E-Book-Reader und einen Tablet-PC vorgestellt, der mit dem Betriebssystem Android läuft.

Low Cost Computing: "The search for the perfect kernel scheduler is like searching for the Holy Grail. Linux 2.6 started with the O(1) scheduler, which solved a lot of issues for real-time processes. However, it didn't scale to large NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machines."

Desktop Engineering: "GPUs are now powerful enough to do more than just move images across the screen. They are capable of performing high-end computations that are the staple of many engineering activities."

eWeek: "Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware."

Maximum PC: "In this guide, we'll show you how to get Cygwin set up, the basics of how to navigate a Unix file system, and how to find more information as you need it."

The H Open: "At a press conference held yesterday, Intel and the WeTab developers, 4tiitoo, announced that the upcoming WeTab internet tablet, scheduled to arrive in September, will run the Linux-based MeeGo"

CIO: "The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October."

KDE.news: "The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications"

Nachdem Google bereits Ende Juli Teile seiner Online-Zusammenarbeits-Plattform Wave unter eine freie Lizenz gestellt hat, will der Suchmaschinengigant nun weiteren Code unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlichen. Google hat Anfang August bekannt gegeben, dass die Weiterentwicklung von Wave mangels Nutzern eingestellt wurde.

Linux Devices: "Beijing-based international online reseller LightInTheBox.com announced it has had two months of surprisingly strong sales of a seven-inch, $140 Android tablet."

Linux Magazine: "Dell's 17-inch Studio 1747 laptop is a beefy desktop replacement that ships with Windows 7. But how does it fare with Linux instead? A few days hands-on with the laptop shows that the machine is almost perfect, save for one fatal flaw."

Softpedia: "The second beta of the next GNOME release has arrived full of bug fixes and updates. Many of the standard packages have been updated for GNOME 2.32 Beta 2 (2.31.91) and more translation work has been done."

Die Entwickler von openSUSE haben den ersten Meilenstein der kommenden Version 11.4 veröffentlicht. openSUSE 11.4 soll acht Monate nach Version 11.3, also im März 2011, erscheinen.

Network World: "For better and sometimes for worse, Linux is the poster child for the open source movement. And why shouldn't it be"

Zona-M: "The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field."

conceivably Tech: "Microsoft just received confirmation of a patent that hands the company the intellectual property of shutting an operating system down."

Tiago Vignatti hat analog zu diversen Statistiken über den Linux-Kernel eine Auswertung vorgenommen, wie sich die Entwickler von X.org verteilen.

Groklaw: "Darl's purchase of the mobility assets was all done pretty much in the dark. We, the public were told one thing in advance, but something else after the fact. But now we get to see the final agreement."

Google hat den Webbrowser Chrome 6 für die drei unterstützten Systeme Linux, Mac OS X und Windows freigegeben. Zu den Verbesserungen zählen unter anderem Geschwindigkeitsoptimierungen und eine automatische Ausfüllfunktion für Web-Formulare.

Die Betaversion des für 10. Oktober 2010 geplanten Ubuntu 10.10 steht zum Download bereit. Auch die Netbook- und die Server-Edition sowie Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio und Mythbuntu haben den Betastatus erreicht.