http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com 05/09/2008 12:00:24 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-006-26-OS-NT <b>iTnews:</b> "Researchers have developed file sharing software that doubles peer-to-peer transfer speeds by identifying nearby computers..." 05/09/2008 10:30:55 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-005-26-IN-HE-SL <b>Linux.com:</b> "Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the Bluewhite64 distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going..." 05/09/2008 09:00:33 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-004-26-OS-SW-DV <b>OStatic:</b> "JavaFX is, in Sun's eyes at least, designed to usher in Rich Internet Applications such as rendering multiple high-definition movies concurrently, and rendering and tagging many photos at once..." 05/09/2008 07:30:06 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-008-26-PS <b>Raiden's Realm:</b> "One of the most prized rights of any American is the right to privacy and security. It's something people in some countries would kill for..." 05/09/2008 06:00:53 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-008-26-OS-DV-NT <b>The Linux Distillery:</b> "As we know, static HTML web sites are pass&eacute;. Yet, Java applets never turned out to be the killer online application platform they possibly could have been..." 05/09/2008 04:30:43 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-007-26-OS-HL-SS <b>developerWorks:</b> "The IBM BladeCenter S is the newest BladeCenter designed for small and medium businesses. It is also the first BladeCenter to integrate the server and storage systems..." 05/09/2008 01:30:30 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-002-26-OP-BZ <b>Practical Technology:</b> "Thanks to a recent column by my friend Andy Patrizio, I found out that there's 'been an ongoing debate among bloggers and industry observers over one simple question: Where are the open source billionaires...?'" 05/09/2008 01:30:20 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-009-26-OP-SV-NT <b>ZDNet:</b> "Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL..." 05/09/2008 00:00:12 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-09-008-26-OP-DT-HW <b>451 CAOS Theory:</b> "Let's remember that notebooks are now the dominant form factor for PCs, and emerging markets and new form factors, such as the EeePC, Cloudbook and others offer a new playing field for Linux..." 05/08/2008 22:30:52 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-08-024-26-OP-EM-NT <b>ZDNet:</b> "I recently got to attend a couple of conferences, both of them the really technical kind where I end up learning things..." 05/08/2008 21:45:50 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-08-024-26-OP-SW-NT <b>McPherson:</b> "Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft's) are built on Linux..." 05/08/2008 21:00:39 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-08-023-26-NW-HW-LL <b>Phoronix:</b> "VIA has released over 16,000 lines of code that provides a frame-buffer driver in the Linux kernel..." 05/08/2008 20:15:54 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-08-023-26-NW-CY-DB <b>iTWire:</b> "A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources..." 05/08/2008 19:30:59 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-08-020-26-OP-CY <b>Really Linux:</b> "You can save yourself serious money, not only at the register but in years to come, avoiding paying for countless upgrades. For all of us paying the crazy food and fuel prices, this is a real easy way to save money..." <I>(Humor)</i> 05/08/2008 18:00:23 http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-08-019-26-OS-HL-SW <b>Between the Lines:</b> "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"