Netbooks and Linux: A Complicated Story Over the past few days there's been a raft of stories about how the Linux netbook market share is not as healthy as it used to be. 10 Expert Ubuntu Tricks Recently I started work on a new Ubuntu tips book that will partner my existing title, Ubuntu Kung Fu. The new book is still being planned and won't be published until next year, but I thought I'd share 10 tips that are on my list to be included. If you have any others that you think would go into such a book, put them in the comments below. I'd love to hear them, as would other readers, I'm sure. Fear and Loathing in Windows 7: Testing Branch Cache using Linux Hiddeen Microsoft blogger Tyson Kopczynski took a look at a new feature in Windows 7 called Branch Cache which is supposed to reduce bandwidth consumption on branch-office WAN links. Read how he made out. Red Hat connects its distributor SYNNEX with ISVs Red Hat is helping nine of its open-source ISV partners get broader distribution for their products in North America through a partnership with one of its major distributors, SYNNEX. Taking a stab at open source IP telephony Cisco Subnet blogger Avner Izhar reveals how AsterikNOW might not save a lot of money, but still pays off by letting you program your own code and modify the existing one. Sun's open-source boss slams App Engine's Java support Google committed a major transgression by only including support for a subset of Java classes in its App Engine development platform, according to Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps. Obama's open data era 'coming soon' The U.S. may be close to making it easier for application developers to tear into government data as early as next month on its new Web site, data.gov. When Good Browsers Go Bad - And They All Do Jeffrey Zeldman must have thought he'd never live to see the day. Ten years after he co-founded the Web Standards Project, all of the major browser vendors have renewed their commitment to supporting World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards in the past few years -- and they're following through. The specifications in the latest standards initiatives are tighter than ever. Web authoring tools are generating more-compliant code. Two of the three rendering engines that underpin the major browsers in use today are open source. Microsoft eating up U.S. and global netbook markets Microsoft's chest thumping last week over its 96% share of the U.S. netbook market for February doesn't appear to be just its normal bravado as the company also is charging toward dominance on a global front. Video: Eye-tracking system goes open source Eye tracking software that allows a person to control a cursor with eye movements is typically an expensive package of hardware and software, but students from the IT University of Copenhagen have developed a low-cost, open source option. Podcast: Alex Miller: Java enterprise clustering with Terracotta Alex Miller is a respected Java concurrency and scalability enthusiast who works on Terracotta, an open source, Java-based clustering system. In this talk with Andrew Glover, Alex demystifies Terracotta, explaining the programming magic that enables enterprise customers to run 50 to 100 JVMs on a single application server instance. Alex also talks about Terracotta's "sweet spot" - storing session data off of the database - and Terracotta 3.0, which promises new features that he says will eliminate certain scalability barriers. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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