News 02/08/09

Submitted by mdmarmer on February 8, 2009 - 7:09pm

Top 5 Linux Games for 2009
http://www.zmogo.com/video-games/top-5-linux-games-for-2009/

XFCE creator talks linux moblin netbooks and open source
http://www.slashgear.com/xfce-creator-talks-linux-moblin-netbooks-and-op...

Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877372-1,00.html

Windows 7 Beta Touch Capabilities Underwhelm
http://www.osnews.com/story/20933/_Windows_7_Beta_s_Touch_Capabilities_U...

Open Source Means Business
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/04/open-source-entrepreneur-technology-ent...

Microsoft PLans to Upsell Windows 7
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/06/microsofts-plan-to-upsell-windows-7/

The case for supporting and using Mono
http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/2009/02/mono_mania.html

Three Reasons Windows 7 Will Fail on Netbooks
http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/three-reasons-windows-7-will-fail-on...

Microsoft Licensing Deal Grants Access To Linux Printers
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?art...

OLPC's Hidden Killer App: Ultimate E-Book Reader
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/with-some-polis.html

Director, Open Source Desktop Strategy at Microsoft (Job Posting)
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=652401&fromSearch=0&sik=1233...

Ubuntu desktop apparently scares Microsoft
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10159100-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&ta...

Computer Repair Utility Kit
http://www.technibble.com/computer-repair-utility-kit/

Creating USB Startup Disks from various Linux Distributions with Unetbootin
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-usb-startup-disks-from-various-linux-...

10 free photo/image tools for Linux
http://darrenyates.com.au/?p=647

Where Spam Comes From
http://www.knujon.com/registrars/

FAQ: How Google Latitude locates you
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&...

Shutter aks Gscrot -- Screenshot Utility on Steroids
http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_o...

Free Chapters Offered for Android Book
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9329700710.html

FOSS Gaming Survey
http://www.evolutionaryit.com/blog/?p=132

10 Tips for Writing Efficient Bash Scripts
http://www.hacktux.com/bash/script/efficient

Saving Flash Videos in Linux
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/saving-flash-videos-in-linux/

Free Open Source Video Editor for Linux (Avidemux)
http://www.sizzledcore.com/2009/01/30/free-open-source-video-editor-for-... (Avidemux)

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