Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux

Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers. The Cambridge, Mass., start-up has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief Operating Officer Waseem Daher.
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Best Linux Distributions of the Decade

We've seen plenty of "Best of the Decade" lists around, but not one is related to Linux distribution. So it's only fitting that we will give credit to the best Linux distros that dominated the last decade (2000-2009), or most part of it.
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Thirteen Ways To Customize UNR For Better Usability

Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) is a modified version of Ubuntu specially for the netbooks. The latest version of UNR runs Ubuntu Karmic in the backend, but the interface has been heavily customized to make it looks/functions good in small screen. Recently, I installed UNR on my netbook (as a replacement for WinXP). While I like the interface, I find that there are still many places that can be improved for better usability and performance. Here I will highlight several of my own customizations.
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An Interview With Jono Bacon

I’m about 100% sure that the next person to be interviewed needs no introduction – everybody will have heard of Jono at some point, whether it be from his role within the community, his activity on identi.ca & twitter, or maybe even from Lernid…Either way, I hope you enjoy this as much as I have!
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Android versus Linux?

Recently, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that Google's device drivers for Android, had been removed from the Linux source code tree. To be exact, the drivers were removed from "staging", a section of the Linux source code tree for code which hasn't yet been adopted into the mainline of the Linux kernel code.
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A Few New Features In Gnome-Shell

OMG! contributor om26er took the daily build of GNOME-Shell for a spin and found some nice new features. You can click on all images below to view them larger.
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Gwibber goes TweetDeck in Lucid

Ubuntu supremo Jono Bacon has been blogging about Gwibber and tweeting in Ubuntu Lucid - including the awesome screenshot of a mutli-column Gwibber as shamlessly pasted above.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue 179

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #179 for the week January 31st - February 6th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO, Lucid Translations now open, Ubuntu Developer Week Re-Cap, Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Maintenance release, Lucid Ubuntu Global Jam Announced, Project Awesome Opportunity, New Ubuntu Review Team: Reviewing bug with patches, Jane Silber Interview, Dustin Kirkland Interview: Encryption in Ubuntu, Nicaraguan LoCo Team's Third Anniversary, Report on Launchpad down-time of 4th Feb 2010, January Team Meeting Reports, and much, much more!
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Six of the Best Android Mobile Devices

Android is the name given to a mobile operating system using a customised version of the Linux kernel. It was first released in late 2008. The platform enables developers to write code in the Java language, controlling the device via Java libraries developed by Google.
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Happy camper

I got the original G1 phone from google when it came out, and I hardly ever used it. Why? I generally hate phones - they are irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever - and a cellphone to me is just an opportunity to be irritated wherever you are. Which is not a good thing.
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