Peng’s links for Friday, 15 August

Before I get into today’s links I want to apologize for my sister’s post about Debian’s birthday showing up on the Planet, with my picture on it nonetheless. I’ll let her know that anything tagged Ubuntu goes to the planet with my name on it so she may want to refrain from using that tag. Although it saves me the work of making sure readers of PUU know about tomorrow’s Debian Day celebration. (I’ll make sure she fixes the spelling in the post title, as well.)

• New York Times: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software. A federal appeals court rules for an open source programmer and also gives Creative Commons a win. John Lily from Planet Mozilla also covers this story and includes a link to a response from Creative Commons CEO Lawrence Lessig. (Full Disclosure: All articles on this blog, whether by myself or by Nanci, are covered by a Creative Commons license, as the left sidebar shows.)
• Steven Rose: Intrepid Ibex for the cautious. Another post form Steven (yes, I made sure I spelled it his way rather than my son’s way this time) has great information for anyone wanting a sneak peak at the new features in Ubuntu Intrepid without the risk of running an alpha version of an operating system. I’ve started using the PPA he lists (as well as Steven’s PPA) and I have to like I’m liking what I’m seeing so far. Except for the possible change of the default IM client from Pidgin to Empathy. I looked at Empathy and feel Empathy is much easier to set up and use.
• Bob Lord: Banks still act like phishers. After reading Mary Hammak’s  comment on my post about Bank of America and Bob’s post I’m wondering if I need to try to do more to protect my personal information. This isn’t a Chicken Little thing, it’s a pull-your-head-out-of-your-arse thing.
• Daniel Stone: ryan farmer is a spammer. Here’s a guy that thinks there’s nothing wrong with whining about a problem and not taking the time to bother with a little something many of us like to call “facts.” He (Ryan, not Daniel) also gave some of the Ubuntu leaders the gift of being signed up for spam lists, but he won’t take the time to allow someone questioning his so-called-facts on his blog. But then he was caught breaking the Ubuntu Forum house rules and then had the audacity to whine about it rather than fess up. What a maroon. The moral? People always pay attention when you least want them to.
• Atul Varma: Tab Navigation: Tradeoffs. Atul looks at a change coming in Firefox 3.1. I’m not sure how I feel about it from reading Atul’s post, but I wanted to let you guys (and gals) know that the Firefox 3 changes haven’t stopped just because Firefox 3 got uncaged. It may be a great change, but once again get ready for your browser to tell you that the way you use tabs is evidently the wrong way. (That came out a lot more pissed than I meant it to.)
• Eddie Martinez: The Myth of the Operating System Install. Every OS, whether it’s Windows, GNU/Linux or OSX, has basically the same install process. Yes, there are different details, but if you read Eddie’s post you’ll see that the basic install process of, say Linux, is no more difficult than the install process of, say, OSX. To borrow a favorite phrase from Adam, Jamie, Kari, Grant and Tory, the myth of the hard/stupid OS install is BUSTED!
• Jussi Schultink: Testing Firefox QT. KDE users rejoice! FIrefox 3 is getting a native build rather than forcing you use a web browser that’s made for a different desktop technology.
• Jorge Bernal: Is Ubuntu the new Linux? I’m not sure what Shoes is, but I’m glad they’re cross-platform (OSX, GNU/Linux, Windows). And thanks for reminding me of the proper way to refer to GNU/Linux. Please tell me Tux isn’t unemployed now.

/me checks my feeds one more time

Yep, that’s a lid. I hope everyone enjoys National Relaxation Day, and I hope you all have a great weekend. I know my weekend got better when I found out I can see my beloved Dodgers play the Brewers on national TV when their game Sunday is the TBS Game of the Week. Go Dodger Blue!