Sexy Jihad

Madpengiun has an Ubuntu 5.10 preview wherein the reviewer tries to find out why the cult of Ubuntu is so fanaticle:
Every community has its heroes. From the beginning of time, we’ve all needed that special something to grasp onto and worship in one way or another. The Linux community is no different. Sure, there are […]

News.com has an article on how “the advent of Firefox and other alternatives to Internet Explorer means cybercops have to learn new tricks for their investigations“:
Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual training […]

Somebody has built The Ultimate Linux Car PC:
I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as […]

Some crazy dude has ported Doom to the iPod. Of course you first have to install Linux to run it. The controls are clunky and the framerate is probably shitty but this is a really cool hack nontheless.

Some dude has written a HOWTO on making your own small portable wardriving box with Soekris / WRAP & OpenBSD:
it’s very easy, but this is not a step by step HOWTO, only a guide to build your own box. To start, you need a small up and running OpenBSD System on an Intel based System. […]

IBM Developerworks has an interesting article on the differences between IE and Mozilla, and things you should take note of when porting/creating web apps:
Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. […]

OSNews has an interesting opinion piece on the current state of the operating system “scene” and how it’s difficult for alternative OSes (read: Not Linux, OSX or Windows) to gain a foothold:
There are many ‘really alternative’ operating systems currently in existence. Most of them are purely for research, personal enjoyment or as a coding sandbox. […]

OSNews has an interesting interview with a few FreeBSD developers (John Baldwin, Robert Watson and Scott Long) on FreeBSD 6.0.
Stuff that they talk about includes:

SMPVFS
Hyper-Threading vulnerability
TrustedBSD
CVS
Darwin
Apple
UFS
Solaris

They also talk about FreeBSD . Excerpt:
4. What other new features are we going to see on FreeBSD 6.0?
John Baldwin: Support for WPA security for 802.11. The tty subsystem […]

Good Morning Silicon Valley has done an interview with Linus Torvalds on what he thinks of Microsoft and where he thinks it’s going:
Microsoft really is a fairly interesting vendor in this space. Unlike most proprietary vendors, it’s one of the very few ones whose bread and butter comes directly from its commodity market, and even […]

Looks like the iPodLinux have done what Apple couldn’t (or doesn’t want to) do. They’ve added video support to the iPod. The video player from the iPodLinux project will do 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files at iPod-native screen resolution only. You can download the binaries and the test video via the Read link. Demonstration video can […]