 Jim Zemlin | Linux can compete with the iPad on price, but where's the magic?
Yesterday I watched Apple’s Steve Jobs unveil the iPad. Jobs clearly can create revolutionary products; he can also produce spin like no one else. Yesterday was no exception.
His main message about the iPad was “a magical device at a breakthrough price.” He repeated this many times throughout the pitch and twice at the end. [...]
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 Amanda McPherson | How To Learn Linux From the Developers of Linux. (For Free.)
The Linux community is a pyramid. The base is comprised of millions of
Linux users and system administrators. The second level is programmers
who work with Linux; some of those developers contribute to the
kernel, many do not. The top rung of the pyramid is the thousand or so
kernel developers and maintainers who actively contribute to the
kernel or [...]
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 Ted T'so | Fast ext4 fsck times, revisited
Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov algorithm to spread out top-level directories for better filesystem aging. It also was buggy in certain [...]
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 Brian Profitt | Hundreds of Jobs Posted on Linux.com
With Linux powering nearly every mobile device that hits the market, the demand for Linux-related jobs is rapidly growing despite national unemployment figures. Combine this with the ongoing success of companies such as Red Hat and it's easy to see why demand for Linux professionals is on the rise.
That's why today Linux.com is adding an important function that will connect job seekers, employers, and recruiters.read more
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 Angela Brown | What to Expect at LinuxCon 2010 this August in Boston!
The call for participation and registration opened for LinuxCon today signaling the beginning of planning for the 2nd Annual LinuxCon.
To recap on some of the highlights of LinuxCon 2009, which took place in Portland last September, we brought you:
A fantastic line-up of speakers including Linus Torvalds, Mark Shuttleworth, Bob Sutor, and many more industry luminaries
A [...]
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 Linux Weather Forecast | Nouveau: a 2.6.33 surprise
Linus has released the 2.6.33-rc1 prepatch, closing the merge window for this development cycle. This kernel has a few features which will shake things up, with dynamic tracing being near the top as far as I am concerned. But, perhaps, the most interesting addition is one that almost nobody expected: a reverse-engineered driver [...]
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