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nerdyH writes “As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive. Now, with Microsoft pushing its Silverlight alternative, Adobe is touting the universality of its Flash format, which has penetrated ‘98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops,’ it claims. And, it today released Flash 10 for Linux concurrently with other platforms. Welcome to the future.” Handily enough, Real Networks released this summer RealPlayer 11 for Linux, the first release for which they’ve included a .deb package, and offers nightly builds of their Helix player, for which Linux is one of the supported platforms.

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Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees tells the touching story of 14-year old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning). Haunted by the memory of her mother, Lily flees an abusive household with her friend Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson) and takes refuge with the Boatwright sisters (Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo). The film opens on October 17.

Kansas Cold Storage, which delivers perishable goods all over the country, needed a computer system that was fast, reliable, and easy to use. And for Chief Operating Officer Miles Jones, there was only one viable option. The Mac “has turned things around for us,” says Jones. “We can operate more productively and reliably now, and we don’t ever have to worry about downtime.”

At the University of Maine, all students training to be teachers in the College of Education and Human Development have their own MacBook. “With the MacBook,” explains Tim Hart, “we’ve removed any barriers to adoption.” Flexible and stable, the Mac notebooks require minimal support and allow future teachers to concentrate on becoming truly innovative professionals.

An anonymous reader writes “Blogger and ex-Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony reports that Michael Robertson has been sued by a Linspire shareholder to get to the bottom of what happened to Linspire’s assets. One hundred shareholders have been left uninformed as to what happened to the company and its assets after Linspire was sold to Xandros a few months back.”

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In what will certainly come seen as welcome news to many diehard Palm OS handheld owners, Dmitry Grinberg continues to make superb progress on his PowerSDHC memory card driver. Officially released less than a month ago, Dmitry is now hard and work and making good progress on adding the classic Palm Tungsten T3 to PowerSDHC’s compatible device list.

Version 1.2.0.0 of the driver has just been released, containing a substantial bugfix. All current users are encouraged to update to this new revision. PowerSDHC is available for $20.95 and a free trial version (after registering) can be downloaded. The current build of the program supports the Tungsten T|C, E2, T5, Palm LifeDrive and TX, and Zire 31 and 72 handhelds.