Healthy critics about Ubuntu

This is a great article:
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Pragmatic Visual Presentation Critique
I hope Ubuntu and Gnome developers will read and take care about those considerations.
Source: OSNews.

Ubuntu lacking some multimedia support

Great steps have been made with the easy codec installation but there are still some troubles with 2 specific media types:

MIDI files
DVD (crypted or encrypted)

To play MIDI files you’ve to manually install timidity and play them in the command line or with some (not so beautiful) players, totem (the default media player for Ubuntu and [...]

only-ubiquity boot option for Ubuntu live cd

Following the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list I heard about the “only-ubiquity” boot option for the Ubuntu live cd, it’s really cool, it will start a minimal X session (avoiding the complete live environment overhead) and starting only ubiquity to install Ubuntu to the hard disk, amazing.
This feature seems to be still in a beta stage but [...]

Zend_Calendar, when?

Zend Framework has a quite impressive Zend_Date and Zend_Locale modules which finally do things we needed 4 years ago with MerlinWork and then P4A, like normalizing localized dates and parsing the Unicode’s Common Locale Data Repository but I think we still need a good calendar module that would do the things that Pear::Calendar does now. [...]

Magento has an italian blog

which is maintained by me
http://it.magentocommerce.com
This project will give everyone some great satisfactions in the near future.

War is started: Red had has been sued for patent infringement

IP Innovation LLC sued Red Hat and Novell (yes, Novell) for patent infringement about multiple workspaces (you’re right, this is unbelievable).
Is there Microsoft hand? We can’t say that but we know that IP Innovation LLC has just recruited some Microsoft executives…
Please read the complete article on Groklaw.

Virtualbox on Gutsy

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a auto-install virtualbox-ose