Blame game: Enterprise Desktop Blogger Randall Kennedy has immersed himself in desktop Linux of late. He's been pleasantly surprised by Ubuntu -- but he still sees one key barrier (at least) to widespread Linux adoption: a lack of accountability. When dealing with a recent ACPI bug, for example, he observed plenty of finger-pointing at both nVidia and the Linux kernel team. But a user, or a company, would rather Blame game: Enterprise Desktop Blogger Randall Kennedy has immersed himself in desktop Linux of late. He’s been pleasantly surprised by Ubuntu — but he still sees one key barrier (at least) to widespread Linux adoption: a lack of accountability. When dealing with a recent ACPI bug, for example, he observed plenty of finger-pointing at both nVidia and the Linux kernel team. But a user, or a company, would rather have one place to go for answers, rather than turning to the community for help — or rolling their own solutions.Citrix revs Web-app delivery: Waiting is the hardest part, at least according to certain song lyrics. Waiting for a Web page to load can certainly be maddening. Citrix has a solution in NetScaler 8.0, and Test Center contributor Logan Harbaugh recently got his hands on it. He finds that the package offers “a very sophisticated suite of load balancing, Web application acceleration, Web application firewall, security, and logging features, at a good price.”The Android SDK is a Java API: Strategic Developer Martin Heller probes the SDK for the much-hyped Google Android Open Handset. Lo, he discovers that it’s essentially a Java API that supports XML-based layout files, and contains a variety of development tools — such as an emulator, an Eclipse plug-in, a debug monitor, a debug bridge, an asset packaging tool, and much more. Technology Industry