Peng’s links for Wednesday, 13 August

Sorry about not posting yesterday. I did have links to post, but there were just too many RL details on my call sheet to be able to post.

• Tiago Faria: UbuntuWeblogs. Tiago’s added new sources to Planet Ubuntu Users (PUU), but he’s also looking for authors who write about Ubuntu or any of it’s derivatives to add to the Planet. (Full Disclosure: My Ubuntu-related posts are syndicated on PUU.)
• Derek Buranen: Flash 10 RC: at least it doesn’t crash? Adobe Flash 10 is even closer to getting officially released, and they finally seem to have fixed the fullscreen performance issues. I’m not entirely sure about that yet since I haven’t had a chance to grab the RC yet, but if someone can verify that for me I’d love to get your comment for others to see.
• Aaron Toponce: Dear Sprint. After reading Aaron’s open letter I’m really glad I have a cell phone with AT&T rather than Sprint.
• Fabrizio Balliano: 5 + 1 beautiful designs for Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”. It looks like Ubuntu Intrepid is going to have some great new themes we can select from. I’m loving Personification and Wall-light. I’ve actually seen someone use that wallpaper on the August 2008 Desktop Screenshot Thread over on the Ubuntu Forums and I think I may have to add it to my wallpaper rotation once I get it.
• Frank Taylor/Google Earth Blog: 3D Driving Directions and Driving Simulator. If you’re running Windows you can now use Google Earth to get not only 3D driving directions but also a view with a 3D car. Linux and OSX compatible code for this is in the works and should hopefully be here soon. -ish.
• Aaron Toponce: Using GnuPGv2. Gnu Privacy Guard has been updated and it’s not only in the Ubuntu repos, Aaron has instructions for making it the default GPG tool for all the apps that may be on your computer. Info on what changed can be read in the release announcement.
• LinuxDevices.com: Motorola Linux phone ships in U.S. Woot! The Linux Mobile-compliant Moto U9 can now be purchased in the States! Now to find a cell phone company that has it in the greater Boston area.
• Kevin DuBois: Freewins Hardy Package for Compiz! Ok, with the ability to rotate your windows on any axis this is 100% eye candy. And I wish the hell I could use it on my Linux box, but I tried and the screen just sat there like a log’s bump.
• Daniel Holbach: Global Bug Jam – Retrospective. People in twelve nations and over 20 locations processed 834 bugs in Saturday’s Global Bug Jam. It may be under the goal of a thousand bugs, but it’s still a lot of bugs. Daniel also has links to reports from some of the participating groups. And I promise next time they have something like this I’ll try to blog it much sooner so more people have a chance to get it on their schedules.