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Understanding Ext4 File System

26 Jun 2009 | 2:57 am

This article gives a good understanding of Ext4 - the 4th extended file system. Ext4 was released as a functionally complete and stable filesystem in Linux kernel 2.6.28. Ubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope was released with support for the ext4 file system, so do many latest builds of many other Linux distributions.
Linux eventually garners a 1% market share

1 May 2009 | 10:38 pm

Linux has garnered the magical 1% global market share of computer users. As of April 2009, it is exactly 1.02 %. It is an understood fact that we have a long way to go to catch up with the market leader Windows which is still way ahead at 87.90%. But 1.02% of the total computer users the world over is by no means a small amount.
An indepth look at OpenOffice.org Office Suite

22 Apr 2009 | 3:55 am

OpenOffice.org is arguably the finest office suites available in the public domain. It is a direct competitor of Microsoft Office. It includes a Word processor (OpenOffice.org Writer), a Spreadsheet (OpenOffice.org Calc),a Presentation program (OpenOffice.org Impress), a Drawing program (OpenOffice.org Draw) and a Database (OpenOffice.org Base).
Sun Microsystems merges with Oracle

21 Apr 2009 | 11:37 am

Sun Microsystems gets acquired by Oracle. This is the hot news making rounds on the net. This is a news which could have wide ramifications for the Open Source crowd. Why? Because Sun Microsystems creates some of the most well received, robust open source software around. Just to put it in perspective, let me list some of them which come to my mind.
GNOME Do - An intelligent launcher tool for GNOME

21 Apr 2009 | 6:55 am

GNOME Do is an intelligent launcher tool which makes all your default menus and panels in GNOME redundant. Since last time I had written about GNOME Do, it has gotten only better. Just a glance through the numerous plugins available for GNOME Do will be enough for any sceptic to fall in love with it.

Copyrighteous
Send Me Your Antifeatures, Win a Flessenlikker

At OSCON this year, I'm going to be giving a talk about "antifeatures." Antifeatures are a way to describe a particular practice made possible by locked down technologies. Antifeatures, as I describe them, are functionality (i.e., "features) that a technology developer will charge users not to include. You can read my short article on the topic published in the FSF bulletin in 2007 for a series of examples and a more in-depth description. One thing I want to do is put together as large a collection of these antifeatures as possible before the talk. Please read the article if…
GitHub, Firewalls, and Freedom

Dafydd Harries pointed me to this announcement of a "Firewall Install" version of GitHub. Basically, it's a locally installed version of GitHub designed to serve those that, “wish to enjoy the benefits of GitHub, but are unable to do so because of corporate restrictions or laws that prevent you from hosting your code with a third-party service.” Daf and I put a little time in writing up a short reflection which I've posed over on autonomo.us. Our key points are that this represents an important compromise in the rough direction of autonomy by an important cloud player and that,…
Berlin

After a week at the International Open and User Innovation Workshop 2009 in Hamburg, I'm in Berlin again this week. I've got nothing concrete planned other than spending most of my days hacking on a few projects. Let me know if you're around and would like to meet up. I'll post more about my travel and talks schedule this summer as things firm up in the next couple weeks.
Spelling

When he was my adviser at the MIT Media Lab, I used to feel bad that I had trouble spelling Chris Csikszentmihályi's name. As this screenshot from Chris' Dopplr page shows, I am apparently in good company.
AttachCheck Revved

I finally got around to pushing out a new version of AttachCheck --- a trivial little program I wrote several years ago that tries to prevent people from having to send followup emails with subjects that include phrases like, "REALLY attached this time," by asking you for confirmation when you send an email that says you've attached something when it looks like you haven't. The release fixes a single bug that affected a few users --- thanks to Iain Murray who sent the patch in and apologies to him and others for taking a while to push it out. There's very little to AttachCheck and,…

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Can FAT patch avoid Microsoft lawsuits?

2 Jul 2009 | 12:37 am

Andrew Tridgell has published a patch that could make the Linux implementation of the FAT filesystem impervious to Microsoft patent claims of the kind that forced a settlement from TomTom. The patch alters the VFAT code so that it does not generate both short and long filenames, says Tridgell.
Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru

1 Jul 2009 | 12:07 am

As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ("Lenny") distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, "Squeeze." GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
LiveUSB version of OLPC software targets netbooks

30 Jun 2009 | 12:49 am

Sugar Labs has issued a LiveUSB version of its "Sugar" Linux distribution and educational software, used by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)'s XO-1. "Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry Learning Platform" can be plugged into any netbook or PC, offering 40 activities designed for K-12 students.
Virtualization software goes multi-processor

25 Jun 2009 | 2:07 pm

The Sun-sponsored VirtualBox project has released a beta 3.0 version of its free, x86-oriented virtualization software. The Linux-compatible xVM VirtualBox 3.0 adds support for guest Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with up to 32 virtual CPUs, as well as support for version 2.0 of the OpenGL graphics acceleration standard, among other features.
Open source show gears up with 200 sessions

25 Jun 2009 | 12:59 am

The OSCON (Open Source Convention) conference will present over 200 sessions between July 20-24 in San Jose, Calif., covering a variety of desktop and embedded Linux topics. Meanwhile, SourceForge.net has opened voting for its 2009 Community Choice Awards, with winners to be announced at OSCON.

Pen Drive Linux
USB xPUD Persistent Install (Windows)

admin

22 Jun 2009 | 8:41 am

USB xPUD Install from Windows: xPUD is an intuitive minimal Linux Operating system. It was created by Penk and functions [...]
USB Moblin Install from Windows

admin

4 Jun 2009 | 9:26 am

USB Moblin Flash Drive Install using Windows: Moblin is a Linux Platform designed for Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In [...]
Make a USB Boot CD for Xubuntu 9.04

admin

1 Jun 2009 | 11:51 am

Create a USB Boot CD that can be used to boot Xubuntu 9.04 from USB flash drive on computers using [...]
Make a USB Boot CD for Kubuntu 9.04

admin

1 Jun 2009 | 11:34 am

This tutorial explains how to create a USB Boot CD that can be used to boot Kubuntu 9.04 from a [...]
USB Linux Mint 7 Flash Drive creation (Windows)

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29 May 2009 | 3:38 pm

USB Linux Mint 7 persistent flash drive creation. In the following tutorial, we show you how to use Windows to [...]

Enterprise Linux Log
JBoss and rPath demonstrate choice and customization leading in Linux

admin

15 Jun 2009 | 8:12 am

This post was written by News Contributor, Pam Derringer. Sometimes writing or reading tech stories about entirely different products can uncover new trends and ideas. I was intrigued with the JBoss Open Choice Java Application story last week because Red Hat officials said its new framework would enable customers to add specific functionality like clustering, caching, messaging and security in “microcontainers” or do without it, according to their needs. In addition, for the first time, JBoss customers would be able to choose between three levels of application complexity, and move from…
Readers weigh in on Sun/Oracle impact

admin

27 May 2009 | 11:38 am

This post was written by News Contributor, Pam Derringer. A May 5 story on SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about the decline of Sun Microsystems and its recent purchase by Oracle Corp. drew some thoughtful, diverse views from readers. The article concluded that Linux didn’t cause Sun’s downfall, fiscally speaking, but provided a low-cost x86-based OS that offered companies a cheaper hardware/software alternative, indirectly undermining Sun’s overall business. David Marsh, an IT architect with a custom chip company, said his firm is planning to replace its outdated Solaris systems with…
Open source projects take advantage of Google Summer of Code opportunity

Leah Rosin

21 May 2009 | 11:32 am

Open source companies and organizations including Novell and Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab are taking advantage of the fifth year of Google’s Summer of Code initiative. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. Since 2005, the program has brought together nearly 2500 students and 2500 mentors and co-mentors from about 100 countries worldwide. The program works with open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month…
IBM POWER Systems focuses on Linux

Leah Rosin

27 Apr 2009 | 4:22 pm

In light of the global economic situation, IBM is putting a greater emphasis on the Linux market. This was an obvious shift that I noticed today while attending the COMMON User Group Annual Meeting and Exposition in Reno, Nev. I sat in on a panel discussion with Ian Jarman, IBM’s Power Systems Software Manager, and he plainly stated this fact. Jarman shared the Linux focus of IBM’s recent announcements, including increased focus on the PowerVM Lx86 product, which was created to help combat x86 server sprawl. PowerVM Lx86 creates an x86 Linux application environment running on…
Open source community reacts to Oracle-Sun deal

Leah Rosin

21 Apr 2009 | 11:13 am

Yesterday’s news that Oracle had entered an agreement to buy Sun sent a bit of a shock wave through the open source community. After weeks of pondering what an IBM buyout of Sun would mean, the IT community now had an entirely different scenario unfolding. The news was the first thing I noticed when I logged onto Twitter, and I saw that SearchDataCenter.com was working on the story. I “retweeted” Executive Editor Matt Stansberry’s play for feedback and heard back from Tom Howard, who said “IBM missed its chance. I want to know what Oracle’s commitment to Open Office and…

FOSSwire
Linux Native Multitouch support

The Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC, Toulouse have collaborated with the Linux developers to add the native multitouch support in Linux Kernel. They have recorded a video showing the multitouch effects that are being supported natively by sending ABS_MT_* events from the kernel and they have developed a simple application that reads these signals, do some gesture recognition then sends control messages to related windows using the DBus plugin in Compiz. Maybe you seen before people speaking about MPX, that is only Multi-pointer and not multitouch. When writing the code for the demos, They…
Google Chrome ‘Developer’ Builds for Linux, OS X Released

The Chromium blog (Chromium being Google’s name for the open source project behind their Chrome browser) reports that developer builds of Google Chrome are now available for both Mac OS X and Linux. Google Chrome has always been promised to be a cross-platform browser, right from when it was originally launched in September last year. This is just the beginning—Google Chrome is far from done. We’re releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We’re hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and…
PulseAudio Bluez

Some time ago, I’ve shown different methods of using scripts and configuration files to get Bluetooth A2DP audio working properly. But that’s a problem: it requires setup. Ideally this should all happen automatically right when the headphones are paired. In the latest releases of PulseAudio and Bluez, I found this to be the case. It works so well that I figured I’d make a screencast out of it just to show you. The application used in the video is pavucontrol, the volume controls for PulseAudio. (And a sidenote: this video was edited using PiTiVi, which just made a new…
Dig into your system with HardInfo

We all like to learn a little bit about our computers and how they stack up against others. Even if not, the information might be valuable to others trying to diagnose a problem with your machine. There are many ways to discover information about your hardware in Linux, but none of them have come close to the ease-of-use of HardInfo (install). HardInfo takes everything it can find about your system and presents it in an organized fashion. There’s no need to dig through the output of lspci or run a few commands to find out some network statistics; it’s all right there in front of…
Find the package a file is from

A quick tip today for all Debian (and derivative) users: Have a file on in your system that you just can’t figure out where it came from? Searching for the name in Synaptic doesn’t help? About ready to heave your weary keyboard out the window in an administrative rage? Fear not, dpkg to the rescue! Let’s say you are trying to find out where in the world /usr/share/epiphany-browser/glade/epiphany.glade came into existence. You’ve checked epiphany-browser, but it’s not there. Let’s ask dpkg-query: $ dpkg-query -S…

Gentoo Linux News
Gentoo at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin

Joshua Saddler

LinuxTag 2009 runs from June 24th to June 27th in Berlin, Germany. With almost 12,000 visitors last year, it is one of the biggest Linux and open source events in Europe. You will find the Gentoo booth at Hall 7.2a, Booth 101a, right next to the entrance. Come and visit us! You will meet many of our developers and users, talk with us, plus get some of the Gentoo merchandise you have always wanted. Discuss this!Robert Buchholz and Alex Legler contributed the draft for this announcement.
Gentoo accepted for Google Summer of Code 2009

Alec Warner

Gentoo has been accepted for its 4th consecutive year in the Google Summer of Code! Check out our GSoC 2009 homepage if you are interested in this year's GSoC for Gentoo. If you'd like to apply to be a mentor, you can do so on the webapp. Please read the mentoring guide before applying. Interested students can browse Gentoo's project ideas and student applications will be accepted starting March 23rd.
New stages available for arm/sh

Alec Warner

The Gentoo embedded team would like to announce that we will be automatically building and releasing stages for ARM and SuperH/SH. We hope these stages will help out people interested in developing embedded linux applications. On the ARM side, we are currently releasing stages for the following CHOSTs: arm-unknown-linux-gnu (old ABI, in progress)armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu (old ABI, in progress)armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi (EABI)armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi (EABI) On the SuperH/SH side, we are currently releasing stages for the following processors: sh4sh4a The stages are available under…
Website tweaks bring more life and usability to the homepage

Xavier Neys

As you can see, your favorite website now displays more information, reflecting the activity that's been going on behind the scenes all along. Thanks to popular demand, the latest blog posts from planet.gentoo.org, packages from packages.gentoo.org and security announcements are summed up on Gentoo's home page. Discuss this!
Get involved: Bugday coming up Saturday

Tobias Scherbaum

What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs When: Saturday, January 3, in a timezone near you What do you need to bring?A Gentoo system, an Internet connection and an IRC clientYour bug. If you don't have one, we will find you one to suit your area of interest and your skillsYour favorite editorA way to test that your bug is fixed (asking people counts!)You don't need to know C, C++, or bashWhat's a bug? Gentoo's way of tracking change requests. A change request can be anything from "I've found a typo in foo" to "I've built this…

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Festa de les Trementinaires

10 Jun 2009 | 12:50 am

Two weekends ago I went to La Seu d'Urgell again, and early on Saturday we drove to Tuixent, in the heart of the beautiful Parc Natural del Cadí-Moixeró, to participate in the Festa de les Trementinaires of the Vansa and Tuixent Valleys. Until then, I didn't really know what a Trementinaire was, so discovering that incredible tradition in place made it a lot more fun. A Trementinaire was a woman who, in order to bring some needed extra income to their family, collected medicinal plants found around the Vansa valley area, and used them to make remedies, medicines and other valuable goods.
Barcelona

28 May 2009 | 5:50 pm

Last weekend I finally managed to travel to Barcelona to visit my family and some friends. As my agenda was quite packed with stuff to do, I was unable to find out if any of the Ubunteros had arrived early for UDS, and I left just after lunch on Sunday. Unfortunately, I had totally missed that before UDS, Canonical held their allhands meeting, and it would have been easy to meet them on Friday night after I got in the city. What a pitty, and sorry about this, mdz, I would have loved to meet... :( In other Barcelona news, I'm sure that UDS attendees will be astonished (or fed up!) by the…
31

15 May 2009 | 8:16 am

So, today I turn 31. Fortunately I've had a year to learn that the thirties change nothing, and looking back, I can easily say I've enjoyed one of the best years I remember. Today, a bit of protesting in the Plaça de l'Ajuntament against the old menaces of the Valencian Botanical Garden, and just after that, beer time around the Cedre area. The amount of email, Facebook stuff and calls I've been getting today since I woke up is impressive. Thanks everyone! ;)
Spanish Cup final in València

13 May 2009 | 11:21 am

València is again taken over by football fans, who have come from all over the Basque Country and Catalunya to watch the Copa de España final in Mestalla stadium. The city is literally tinted in red, white, blue and maroon and thousands of supporters (more than 60.000) have flooded the streets. If you can't beat them, join them, so for a change, I'm going to join the crazyness and will go to the Athletic Hiria to watch the game in the middle of the leonera. I can't wait to see how the Basque and Catalan supporters who have tickets for the game will react when the King of Spain enters the…
Words

31 Mar 2009 | 3:41 pm

Some days I wish I could selectively get rid of some memories. I would probably cut out a small chunk of today's evening, to avoid remembering some tough words that I've been told. On the other hand, I feel I have lots of things to learn from these moments, given enough time, after the dust has settled. El tiempo todo lo cura...

J5's Blog
Looking for two roommates to move in on September 1st

J5

23 Jun 2009 | 4:47 pm

Hey everyone, my two roommates are moving out to be closer to the city. Those who have been to my place know it is an amazing apartment in North Cambridge, MA with a five minute walk to the Alewife T station. If you are looking to move or know someone who needs a place let me know. The lease is for a year and is super inexpensive at $635 a month per person plus utilities. Oh and you will have to like dogs since Ty is staying too [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
Open Video Conference an Amazing Step Forward

J5

22 Jun 2009 | 7:35 am

The Open Video Conference just ended yesterday. I attended the first two days and just stopped in briefly during the hack-fests yesterday before having brunch with some old highschool friends and heading back to my parents house where my dog and car were stashed. I can say without a doubt the turnout was amazing and even though not everything I heard all weekend was positive it was a giant leap forward in then understanding of the importance of Open Video and culture. I won’t put a figure on how many people attended but some of the upstairs talks were standing room only and after the…
Drink a glass of wine it’s release time

J5

10 Jun 2009 | 2:25 pm

The project I have been working on for a long time now has seen it’s first (beta) release. Meet Fedora Community, a consolidation of the various Fedora Infrastructure bits into one UI with a focus on usability. The unique thing about this site is that it doesn’t replace the other Fedora Infrastructure bits. It uses them as backends and mashes together the data into one view. For instance you no longer have to go to the bodhi update tool after checking on a build in koji. Instead you simply look at the build tool and if the package is able to be updated you will be presented with…
GUADEC 2010 Call for Hosts postponed until after Gran Canaria

J5

3 Jun 2009 | 8:53 am

Dear Foundation Members, In the past, by this time, the Board would have already sent around the GUADEC call for hosts. In largely closed door meetings it would have been decided where next year’s GUADEC would be held, announcing it at the current year’s conference. Since this has been a year of significant change (this is the first year GUADEC is being co-located with Akademy) we would like to get more input into the process and find out what our members want to see come next summer, as well as how to best pick the winning location. We have decided to postpone the call for…
Open Video Conference

J5

29 May 2009 | 10:20 am

As a culmination of all the positive momentum that has been going on the past few years all the important Open Video players will be gathering at NYU’s law center for the first of hopefully many Open Video Conferences on June 19th. The interesting part of this conference is it isn’t exclusively a tech conference. According to their website: Open Video is a broad-based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. When most folks think of “open,” they think of open source and open codecs. They’re…

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Tracking Ubuntu Community Issues

jono

26 Jun 2009 | 6:11 pm

Recently Melissa wrote a post about how we track problems with community, and how she feels that blogging about community problems is a reasonable approach. As part of her post she says: Blogging about problems we see in our community should be seen as a good thing, not a bad thing. Why? Because this blogging is action. The alternative is no action, and that is much worse. Firstly, I entirely agree with Melissa that we need a better way to track issues with community, which I will get to a little later in this post. While blogging has become a tremendous tool in online communities and enabled…
VMWare: Rock and Roll

jono

24 Jun 2009 | 5:34 pm

In a world where most companies would give their hind teeth to get your email address into their marketing database, it was refreshing to see this from VMWare: Thank you for your past interest in VMware. As part of our routine scheduled maintenance, we will be removing email addresses and associated subscription information from our marketing database for contacts who have not updated their profile and/or subscription preferences within the last 6 months. If you would like to remain on our mailing list and wish to receive updates on news, specific solutions, offers and much more, then please…
Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Deadline Draws Near

jono

24 Jun 2009 | 7:03 am

Just a quick note to you lovely folks that the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase, a competition to have your audio, video or imagery included on millions of Ubuntu systems, has it’s deadline drawing near on 16th July 2009. If you know some creative types who you think would love the opportunity to have their art on all those delicious Ubuntu systems, point their beady eyes in the direction of this page and tell them to get cracking. Also, thanks to our friends at the Creative Commons for blogging the competition.
Learn How To Run a Jam

jono

23 Jun 2009 | 10:58 pm

Recently we announced to epic Ubuntu Global Jam that is set to go down from 2nd - 4th Oct 2009. In this event hundreds of Ubuntu fans and contributors get together in their local area to work on Ubuntu, get to know each other and just have a big ‘ol barrel of fun. With the scheme recently announced we are still building up the list of events and are looking for you wonderful people to start organizing events. Sound interesting but don’t know how? Well, I have good news. We have organized a number of tuition sessions and events that will help you get started organizing a rocking…
The Ubuntu Global Jam

jono

15 Jun 2009 | 5:25 pm

In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event called the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam. The idea was simple: encourage our awesome global Ubuntu community to get together in the same room to find, triage and fix bugs. And they did, all over the world, as can be seen here. Well, at the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit we were having a good ‘ol chinwag about the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam and we came to an important and sage conclusion: Why limit the event to just bugs? As such, I am proud to announce Ubuntu Global Jam - more jam but with the same great taste!. Based upon all the feedback…

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New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents

2 Jul 2009 | 1:00 am

A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.
SourceForge delivers 4 billionth open source download

1 Jul 2009 | 7:50 pm

From the 'that's a lot of downloads' files:SourceForge.net, the big open source app/code repository has hit a major milestone: 4 billion downloads.Since 1999, SourceForge has the 'go to place' for all open source downloads, but in the last couple of years, Google Code has put up a bit of challenge.
VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux Brings 3D and OpenGL 2.0 Support

30 Jun 2009 | 11:20 pm

VirtualBox, reached version 3.0.0 a few minutes ago. This major update brings lots of new features, many bugfixes and improvements over previous 2.x versions. The big and breathtaking news is that users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications! Moreover, with VirtualBox 3.0.0, support for OpenGL 2.0
10 mistakes new Linux administrators make

30 Jun 2009 | 3:00 pm

"If you’re new to Linux, a few common mistakes are likely to get you into trouble. Learn about them up front so you can avoid major problems as you become increasingly Linux-savvy..."
How to Run Android Applications on Ubuntu

30 Jun 2009 | 9:40 am

The following tutorial was created especially for those of you who want to test the Android platform and install various applications, on the popular Ubuntu operating system. OK, so let's get started... shall we?

Programming and Debugging (in my Underhøøsen)
The Power of Foreach

The Free Meme

23 Jun 2009 | 1:06 am

In D, arrays can be traversed using the foreach construct:int [] a = [1, 5, 10, 42, 13];foreach (i;a) { writefln(“%d”, i);}The array of integers in this example is traversed and each element printed, in the natural order in which elements appear in the sequence. To visit the elements in reverse order, simply replace foreach with foreach_reverse. It is as intuitive as it gets.Moreover, linear searches can be implemented with foreach: simply break out of the loop when the searched-for value is found:foreach (i;a) { writefln(“%d”, i); if (i == 42) { break; }}Consider now a tree data…
Pragma Assembly

The Free Meme

18 Jun 2009 | 12:11 am

Publishing the source code for D.NET on CodePlex in its current (rough) form turned out to be a great idea, as I received very good feedback. Tim Matthews of New Zealand has submitted several bug reports and patches and convinced me to change my stance on the "assembly class hack".The hack was a very limited solution to the problem of qualifying imported declarations by the name of the assembly where they live. I described the problem and the attempt to hack around it at the end of a post back in December; a diligent reader commented that I should have used the pragma mechanism instead. I…
D .NET on Codeplex

The Free Meme

10 May 2009 | 12:17 am

I will be taking a few days off next week and I decided to upload the code for the D compiler .net back-end on Codeplex before I close shop. I hope that it will provide context for the last few months worth of blog posts.Most core language features are usable, but there's no Phobos port and if you need to import functionality from external DLLs, you'll have to hand-write some import files (following the model in druntime/import/System.di); I hope to get around to writing a tool that automates the process one of these days -- and it will most likely be in D.There is a Visual Studio 8 (works…
Argument against _argptr

The Free Meme

28 Apr 2009 | 10:47 pm

Variadic functions work slightly different in my D.NET implementation than under the native D compiler.For functions with variable numbers of arguments, the native compiler synthesizes two parameters: _arguments and _argptr; _arguments is an array of TypeInfo objects, and _argptr is a pointer to the beginning of the variable arguments on the stack. The user is supposed to query the type information in _arguments, and do the proper pointer arithmetic to navigate the arguments. You can see some examples at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/function.html:void printargs(int x, ...){ writefln("%d…
Slice and D-ice

The Free Meme

28 Apr 2009 | 12:12 pm

It is amazing how much insight one can get into a language by simply writing a compiler for it... Today I am going to spend half a lunch break copying and pasting into this post a stack of notes related to array slices (collected over the past few months of working on a .net back-end for the D compiler).D sports a data type called array slice that is intended to boost the performance of array-intensive computations. A slice is a lightweight value type, conceptually equivalent to a range of array elements, or a "view" into an array. It can be thought of as consisting of a reference to an…

Linux news from LinuxWorld.com
Mozilla slates first Firefox 3.5 patch

1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pm

Mozilla will patch the just-released Firefox 3.5 later this month to stamp out several bugs that went unfixed in the final version of the browser, the company said.
No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pm

The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.
PostgreSQL 8.4 released, focus on admin, monitoring

30 Jun 2009 | 5:00 pm

The PostgreSQL project has released version 8.4 of its namesake open source database system with some 300 new or improved features and a renewed focus on administration and monitoring tools.
Red Hat program certifies partners to put Linux on cloud

30 Jun 2009 | 5:00 pm

Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud.
Java development critical to Oracle Fusion strategy

30 Jun 2009 | 5:00 pm

For developers, Oracle's Fusion Middleware 11g rollout on Wednesday emphasizes Java technologies, particularly the company's JDeveloper IDE, along with concepts including declarative programming and ALM (application lifecycle management).

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Celebrate the 4th of July From the Command Line

Mitch Frazier

2 Jul 2009 | 10:23 am

Download in .ogv format For the source code see fireworks-command-line. read more
Fireworks from the Command Line

Mitch Frazier

2 Jul 2009 | 9:39 am

To kick off the upcoming 4th of July celebrations we present the following bash script for your enjoyment. read more
Tech Tip: Color man Pages

Jose Filipe Lopes Santos

2 Jul 2009 | 8:11 am

To add a bit of color to your man pages install the most pager. For most DEB based distros: $ sudo apt-get install most For most RPM based distros: $ yum install most Failing these, get the source here. read more
Reserve Your Space on the Australian Stage

Justin Ryan

1 Jul 2009 | 12:54 pm

The Triple Crown of Linux conferences — if there is one — is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au. It was just a month ago that we passed on the message to LinuxJournal.com readers that the time to get their name on the Kongress program was nigh, and now it is time to do the same for the southernmost jewel in the crown. read more
Making Processes Feel Important

Shawn Powers

1 Jul 2009 | 9:46 am

How to use nice and renice to change the priority level of your processes. Download in .ogv format read more

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The Open Source Public Relations Engine

David Lane

1 Jul 2009 | 7:13 am

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends, both at home and abroad. June was a very busy month for me, which is why there were so few postings and I wanted to jump on July with a really big bang, but I am having trouble finding a topic worth discussing. read more
Help Me Go Mano a Mano with Microsoft

Glyn Moody

1 Jul 2009 | 3:01 am

Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO process last year. Since said Microsoftie can draw on the not inconsiderable resources of his organisation to provide him with a little back-up, I thought I'd try to even the odds by putting out a call for help to the unmatched resource that is the Linux Journal community. Here's the background to the meeting, and the kind of info I hope people might be able to provide. read more
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David Lane

20 Jun 2009 | 2:25 pm

The majority of people in the United States probably have no idea what is contained in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Similarly, most people are clueless about the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. Despite this, most of us who work in those fields are expected to not only know about them, but understand the security ramifications behind them. read more
SAP: Open Source's Friend or Foe?

Glyn Moody

10 Jun 2009 | 6:21 am

For an outfit that calls itself “the world's largest business software company”, the German software giant SAP is relatively little-known in the open source world. With 51,500 employees, a turnover of 11.5 billion euros ($16 billion) last year, and operating profits of 2.7 billion euros ($3.8 billion), SAP is clearly one of the heavyweights in the computer world. Given that huge clout, SAP's attitude to open source is important; and yet it is hard to tell whether it is really free software's friend or its foe. read more
Open Government: the Latest Member of the Open Family

Glyn Moody

31 May 2009 | 3:19 am

One of the most exciting developments in the last few years has been the application of some of the core ideas of free software and open source to completely different domains. Examples include open content, open access, open data and open science. More recently, those principles are starting to appear in a rather surprising field: that of government, as various transparency initiatives around the world start to gain traction. read more

Linux News
Canonical, Eucalyptus Offer Private Cloud Consulting

2 Jul 2009 | 3:57 pm

Canonical, supplier of the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, is partnering with Eucalyptus Systems to offer "private" cloud consulting services.
Red Hat program certifies partners to put Linux on cloud

2 Jul 2009 | 8:11 am

Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud.
Possible way Out of The Microsoft = TomTom FAT Problem

2 Jul 2009 | 3:43 am

Linux developers have discovered a way to implement the FAT file system's method of operation while possibly invalidating any claims to royalties from Microsoft.
Reserve Your Space on the Australian Stage

1 Jul 2009 | 10:05 pm

The Triple Crown of Linux conferences - if there is one - is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au. It was just a month ago that we passed on the message to LinuxJournal.com readers that the time to get their name on the Kongress program was nigh , and now it is time to do the same for the southernmost jewel in the crown ...
Official Ubuntu Book, The, 4th Edition

1 Jul 2009 | 2:04 pm

Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use without compromising speed, power, or flexibility.

Linux on Desktop
Browser Update : Opera 10 beta and Google Chrome

Ambuj

13 Jun 2009 | 5:47 am

Past few weeks saw lot of activity in Linux Internet Browser sphere, finally after waiting almost an year; an early alpha developer version of WebKit based Google Chrome was made available. Also, Opera released beta version of their popular web-browser, Opera 10 Beta.Google ChromeGoogle Chrome was released almost an year back with much fanfare, it was initially available only for Microsoft
Relive old NES days with Secret Maryo Chronicles

Ambuj

17 May 2009 | 1:52 pm

Mario Bros and Super Mario has been one of the most popular games in computer games/console games history. The story of character Mario , who tries to save princess in Mushroom land has been like a legend in the video game world. I still fondly remember spending my childhood playing these awesomely made games day and night out (along with another awesome computer game Price of Persia :P) on my
A Look at Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope"

Ambuj

3 May 2009 | 5:15 pm

First of all , I am sorry for taking hiatus from blogging, I was having my End Semester examination and hence wasn't able to devote much time to Blogging. Anyway , couple of days back Cannonical came out with new release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" and being ardent follower of Ubuntu, I decided to take a look at some of the exciting new features in Ubuntu 9.04.Ubuntu 9.04 does not
Easily Convert and Encode videos with Handbrake

Ambuj

30 Mar 2009 | 9:40 am

Handbrake has been one of the more user friendly tools available on Windows and Linux for ripping DVD's and converting them to mp4 format. However , handbrake has been available on Linux as a command line application and did not support converting videos to lets say a format that could be easily played on Portable Meda Players. Handbrake with version 0.9.3 on Linux is available with a GTK+ based
Scan for Viruses under Linux with AVG Free Antivirus

Ambuj

13 Mar 2009 | 2:18 pm

Most of us run multiple Operating Systems on our PC's and are connected to LAN with machines running different Operating Systems. Now, Linux even though is sort of immune to viruses (there are few viruses, and Linux can get infected ) most of Desktop Linux users don't need Anti virus tool, but there are people who run Windows and there are umpteen number of Viruses, Worms and Trojans for

Linux Today
Eschalon Review - Commercial Role-Playing Game for Linux

2 Jul 2009 | 4:04 pm

Tuxarena: "Eschalon is a turn-based RPG (role-playing game), which tries to reproduce the feeling of classic RPG games. It's closed-source, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and it comes with a demo too. The full version is available as a download for $19.95."
Will AES crypto go the way of MD5?

2 Jul 2009 | 3:34 pm

Netstat -vat: "The AES (Advance Encryption Standard) (Define:AES) is a standard encryption mechanism in use by the US Government and many others - and it is now at risk from a very theoretical attack."
Mozilla's Crowdsourcing Mystique

2 Jul 2009 | 3:04 pm

Business Week: "So Ken Saunders, a 41-year-old, legally blind volunteer for Mozilla, took it upon himself to create a tool that makes the player easier to use for people with vision problems."
VirtualBox 3.0: No More Booting Windows

2 Jul 2009 | 2:34 pm

Linux Magazine: "VirtualBox 3.0, with its improved 3D support, can ensure that some users won't need to boot Windows even when gaming."
ASCAP Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones

2 Jul 2009 | 2:04 pm

Electronic Frontier Foundation: " But as part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone user has violated copyright law."

Linux.com - Content Feed
Novell Battles Recession with Better Inhouse Software Testing

2 Jul 2009 | 3:55 pm

Novell’s geographically far-flung software engineers produce lots of types of Linux software the some 50,000 SMB and enterprise customers. Now, the major Linux distributor is using quality assurance (QA) testing tools from third-party vendor dynaTrace to help fight the economic downturn.
Linux Weather Forecast

2 Jul 2009 | 3:24 pm

The 2.6.30 kernel was released on June 9. The 2.6.30 development cycle saw the addition of almost 12,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing some 200 different companies. 2.6.30 has 624,000 more lines of code than 2.6.29.
Generating Graphs with gnuplot, Part 2

2 Jul 2009 | 7:57 am

In Part 1 of this series on Gnuplot, there was a lot of talk about line colors, font settings, export scripts, and the like, but no actual graphs. Input from graphs can be read from the command line or, more commonly from external files.
Firefox 3.5 Downloaded 5 Million Times in First 24 Hours

2 Jul 2009 | 6:00 am

Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday. The new version of the popular open source web browser has attracted considerable attention and is already seeing rapid adoption.
Slackware Linux 13.0 RC1 Announced

2 Jul 2009 | 4:40 am

The TODO isn't entirely empty here, but it's pretty much down to minor nits, and so we're going to call this release candidate #1...

Linux-Watch.com
Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru

1 Jul 2009 | 10:16 am

As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ("Lenny") distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, "Squeeze." GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
OpenSource World announces keynote speakers

18 Jun 2009 | 12:36 am

IDG World Expo has announced speakers for its inaugural OpenSource World 2009 show (formerly LinuxWorld) on Aug. 12-13 in San Francisco. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will keynote the conference, which will feature presentations on Linux desktops, netbooks, Android, mobile devices, enterprise, security, troubleshooting, and numerous "cloud" topics.
Linux 2.6.30 gets new filesystems

10 Jun 2009 | 1:36 pm

Linus Torvalds (pictured) announced Linux kernel 2.6.30, adding several new filesystems, including the NILFS2 log-structured filesystem. Linux 2.6.30 enhancements include a local caching layer for NFS data, the RDS server cluster communications protocol, the Tomoyo security module, and support for LZMA and BZIP2 compression algorithms.
Intel to buy Wind River for $884 million

5 Jun 2009 | 12:28 am

Intel announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems, one of the top providers of embedded Linux distributions and tools. Intel plans to acquire Wind River for $11.50 per share in cash, or about $884 million, making it a wholly owned subsidiary.
Apple sued for squelching wiki chat

28 Apr 2009 | 1:18 pm

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against Apple to defend the First Amendment rights of a noncommercial online forum. The suit comes in response to pressure from Apple lawyers that forced "BluWiki" to remove discussions of how to make third-party media management software work with the iPhone and iPod.

Software
Linux Weather Forecast

2 Jul 2009 | 9:24 am

The 2.6.30 kernel was released on June 9. The 2.6.30 development cycle saw the addition of almost 12,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing some 200 different companies. 2.6.30 has 624,000 more lines of code than 2.6.29.
Generating Graphs with gnuplot, Part 2

2 Jul 2009 | 1:57 am

In Part 1 of this series on Gnuplot, there was a lot of talk about line colors, font settings, export scripts, and the like, but no actual graphs. Input from graphs can be read from the command line or, more commonly from external files.
Mozilla Slates First Firefox 3.5 Patch

1 Jul 2009 | 9:26 pm

Mozilla will patch the just-released Firefox 3.5 later this month to stamp out several bugs that went unfixed in the final version of the browser, the company said.
New Linux Patch Could Circumvent Microsoft's FAT Patents

1 Jul 2009 | 11:15 am

Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem.
Reserve Your Space on the Australian Stage

1 Jul 2009 | 5:54 am

The Triple Crown of Linux conferences — if there is one — is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au.

LinuxInsider
Is Software Installation on Linux 'Broken'?

Katherine Noyes

2 Jul 2009 | 4:00 am

You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that's what happened in the Mono debate late last week. "Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction," RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation's site. Of course, rather than settling the debate, Stallman's proclamation only fanned the flames higher, resulting in a raging inferno.
Is Dell Building an Android PDA?

Jack M. Germain

1 Jul 2009 | 4:00 am

Here's one of the many questions facing device makers targeting the mini notebook and netbook markets: When business users or consumers want to access the Web on the go, will they be willing to set aside a smartphone or cellphone and instead log on using a next-generation PDA? Dell may be wagering the answer is yes. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday the company is developing an Android-based, non-phone device that will run on the ARM architecture instead of an Intel Atom mobile chip.
Wikipedia and the Kidnapped Reporter: Censor or Savior?

Richard Adhikari

30 Jun 2009 | 5:15 am

For seven months, New York Times reporter David Rohde was held by Taliban kidnappers. During his captivity, both his newspaper and Wikipedia kept quiet about his plight. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales reportedly agreed to a request from The New York Times to delete all references to the kidnapping on Rohde's Wikipedia entry. Thus began a cat-and-mouse game, with anywhere from one to several users repeatedly posting news of Rohde's capture on Wikipedia and Wikipedia representatives repeatedly deleting that information.
The Business Case for Virtual Business, Part 2

Katherine Noyes

30 Jun 2009 | 4:00 am

There's no doubt some companies have succeeded in using virtual worlds for branding and interaction with their customers, whether through in-world stores, billboards or other means. Wells Fargo, for instance, has been operating its Stagecoach Island aimed at young customers for roughly four years and says it is pleased with the results. Yet branding and advertising seem to be about as far as externally facing efforts tend to go in virtual worlds; attempts to take the next step into sales -- for the most part -- don't seem to have met with much success.
Conspiracy Theories and the 'Smoking Gun'

Katherine Noyes

29 Jun 2009 | 4:00 am

Linux bloggers are never shy about laying blame at Microsoft's door, but in recent days the accusations seemed to be flying faster than ever. First, Groklaw published a post entitled, "Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun." Referring to a post from earlier this month by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn, Groklaw zeroed in on comments made by Li Chang, vice president of the Taipei Computer Association, in response to a query at Computex about "where the Linux went," as Blankenhorn put it.

Phoronix
NVIDIA Issues An Open-Source Driver Update

2 Jul 2009 | 2:01 pm

NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has just announced the release of the xf86-video-nv 2.1.14 driver, but does it have anything in store? Not really. The NVIDIA open-source X.Org driver update brings support for a couple of new ASICs, fixed mode-setting for some NVIDIA GPUs, and other fixes, but nothing too exciting.....
A Root-less X Server Nears Reality

1 Jul 2009 | 11:31 pm

One of the benefits of moving the different graphics hardware drivers over to using kernel mode-setting, an in-kernel GPU memory manager (whether it be GEM or TTM), and other newer X innovations is the possibility of now running the X Server without root privileges. By doing so, this of course improves the security since this very large chunk of code is no longer running with all of these high-privileged rights. Due to now living in a KMS-enabled world, at least on the Intel and ATI side (the NVIDIA side is still slowly but surely coming via Nouveau), it's rather easy to get the X Server…
KDE 4.3.0 Release Candidate Goes Wild

1 Jul 2009 | 5:22 am

With KDE 4.3 being scheduled for release later this month, Sebastian Kügler on the behalf of the KDE developers around the world has announced the KDE 4.3.0 release candidate. KDE 4.3 RC1 further polishes and completes the K Desktop Environment 4 with the integration of many new Linux desktop technologies, new KWin effects, improvements across the board, and many bug fixes in KDE4 packages. The KDE 4.3 RC1 announcement with the extensive change-log is available from KDE.org...
Razer Salmosa Gaming Mouse

1 Jul 2009 | 2:00 am

Razer has long been known as a manufacturer of high-end gaming mice with such prestigious products as the Copperhead, DeathAdder, and most recently the Lachesis. Razer has also expanded to offer other products such as the Barracuda Sound Card, Tarantula Keyboard, and the Piranha Gaming Headset. Razer's products generally do not come cheap, however, recently they have begun offering lower cost products such as the Arctosa Keyboard, which is still built and designed well but is a step-down from their flagship product lines. Most recently, Razer has now further entered the entry-level gaming…
PHP 5.3.0 Released With Namespaces & More

1 Jul 2009 | 12:02 am

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LinuxSecurity.com - Latest News
Spam blacklist bids top $1m

2 Jul 2009 | 9:18 am

LinuxSecurity.com: ONE of the largest spam blacklists in the world, developed in Australia, is up for sale and the creator has already received offers of more than $1million.
'Mafiaboy': Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown

2 Jul 2009 | 4:39 am

LinuxSecurity.com: Reformed black-hat hacker Michael Calce, better known as the 15-year-old "mafiaboy" who, in 2000, took down Websites CNN, Yahoo, E*Trade, Dell, Amazon, and eBay, says widespread adoption of cloud computing is going to make the Internet only more of a hacker haven.
Hacker attack techniques and tactics: Understanding hacking strategies

2 Jul 2009 | 4:34 am

LinuxSecurity.com: This tutorial on hacker attack techniques and tactics will provide insight inside the mind of a hacker and help you to understand a malicious attacker's motives. You will receive advice on how hackers target specific information and what polices and procedures every organization should have in place to protect sensitive data.
Swedish company to buy Pirate Bay

2 Jul 2009 | 4:32 am

LinuxSecurity.com: The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site entangled in a court case over pirated music, will be bought by a Swedish software company.
Swatting phreaker swatted and heading to jail

1 Jul 2009 | 3:19 am

LinuxSecurity.com: In the US a 19-year-old phreaker (or phone phreak) has been sentenced to more than eleven years in prison because he placed numerous emergency calls resulting in the dispatch of special police units or SWAT teams (Special Weapons and Tactics). The SWAT teams arrived at the locations from which the calls were placed only to find sleeping families. Such incidents are increasingly common in the US, giving rise to the term swatting.

LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories
SuSE: IBM Java 6 (SUSE-SA:2009:036)

2 Jul 2009 | 8:56 am

LinuxSecurity.com:
Gentoo: ModSecurity Denial of Service

2 Jul 2009 | 8:38 am

LinuxSecurity.com: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Two vulnerabilities in ModSecurity might lead to a Denial of Service.
Gentoo: libwmf User-assisted execution of arbitrary

2 Jul 2009 | 8:37 am

LinuxSecurity.com: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D libwmf bundles an old GD version which contains a "use-after-free" vulnerability.
Ubuntu: Perl vulnerability

2 Jul 2009 | 7:31 am

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that the Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module incorrectly handled certain zlib compressed streams. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted compressed stream or file, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service.
Ubuntu: Nagios vulnerability

2 Jul 2009 | 7:30 am

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Nagios did not properly parse certain commands submitted using the WAP web interface. An authenticated user could exploit this flaw and execute arbitrary programs on the server.

Linux
Low End Linux Netbook Prices Continue To Drop

Caitlyn Martin

It almost goes without saying that you won't find anything that runs Windows at anywhere near these prices. Oh, and no, that doesn't mean that Linux is somehow inferior as Windows fans would want you to believe. It is, however, free of charge.
Version Control with Git

Jon Loeliger

Version Control with Git takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects, using this highly flexible open-source version control system. Git permits practically an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration, but its flexibility also means that some users don't understand how to use it to best advantage. This book offers tutorials on ways to use it, as well as friendly yet rigorous advice to help you navigate Git's many functions.
Four short links: 12 June 2009

Nat Torkington

New Media Challenges: Legal and Policy Considerations for Federal Use of Web 2.0 Technology (Center for American Progress) -- report on the issues around Web 2.0 use in Government, which include privacy, security, Public Records Act, advertising, etc. See also It's Not the Campaign Anymore: How the White House Is Using Web 2.0 Technology So Far from the same...
Windows or Linux? A case of machine ignorance

Andy Oram

Our artist at O'Reilly was spell-checking the text in a drawing and got a strange recommendation. Perhaps Adobe is little behind the times, not recognizing Linux as a word, but where did the recommendation for Windows come from?
Southern California Linux Expo: freedom in a service economy, and more

Andy Oram

This evening's SCALE blog covers Bradley Kuhn's keynote on Software as a Service, Jono Bacon on security, Red Hat's counsel on patents, and much more (with ample indulgence for my own opinions).

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100 papercuts and Kubuntu

seele

19 Jun 2009 | 11:56 am

Many of you may have heard about Canonical’s new 100 papercuts project (more info). The goal is to fix 100 minor usability bugs for the Karmic release. Although the primary focus is Ubuntu, Kubuntu can benefit from this program as well. A papercut is easy to fix, will improve the user experience for a lot of users, and is present in Kubuntu Jaunty 9.10. For example, a papercut could be improving a bad label or icon, fixing a HIG violation, or rearranging a configuration dialog to make more sense, A papercut is not a new feature request or change requiring more than a few likes of code.
OSS 2009

seele

9 Jun 2009 | 8:20 am

This past week, I attended Open Source Systems 2009 in Skövde, Sweden. Academics from around the world came to talk about their research in open source software, discussing topics ranging from architecture to commercial use and adoption to user involvement. It was very strange for me to be there from the KDE project, because although many of the researchers there were knowledgeable about open source, very few of them actually participated in the community. Many attendees were looking in at open source from the outside. In many respects this is necessary in order to remain objective about the…
Talks at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit/Akademy

seele

1 Jun 2009 | 8:32 am

Flight reservations? Check. US to EU Power adapter? Check. SPF 70 Sunscreen? Check. The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit is a month away. Are you ready? See you there! On Saturday during the Cross-Desktop session, I will be participating in the Lightning Talks and will try to dump as much useful information about community-based usability testing onto you as I can. On Sunday during the Akademy session, I will talk about Communicating Design in Development. There are a number of ways developers try to explain new user interface ideas to the community: ACII art, scanned napkin drawings, Qt designer…
Summary of May KDE Usability Meeting

seele

1 Jun 2009 | 7:48 am

This month’s KDE Usability Project meeting was held May 13 at 20:00 UTC in #kde-usability. The IRC meeting logs are also available on the wiki. The next meeting is TBA, but will probably be sometime during the week of June 21 2009. We will probably cover a few meeting topics and spend the rest of the time talking about Akademy. Post your meeting topics on the meeting page or come prepared to share screenshots. Summary of Discussion Flyser brought up an issue with the KGet icon and how to indicate progress. Notmart and Pinheiro lead the discussion and Pinheiro will mockup some alternative…
Amarok Usability Update

seele

4 May 2009 | 3:46 pm

This past weekend, the Amarok team met to talk about the road map for 2.1.x and 2.2. They also discussed the findings from the usability test and plan to implement many of the recommendation from the report. See the 2009 Sprint Roadmap and TODO (particularly the usability section for 2.1.x) for more details of what’s to come for Amarok! Thanks again to the Columbia Area Linux Users Group and Maryland Ubuntu Local Community for their help with organizing and running the usability test.

OSDir.com
Linux Kernel Patch Works Around Microsoft's FAT Patents

From the PHAT dept.: The FAT file system is the file system used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows. It's a relatively simple and straightforward file system, supported by just about any operating system, making it the favoured file system on memory cards and the like. FAT is an ECMA and ISO standard, but these only apply for FAT12 and FAT16 without support for long file names, and therein lies a problem. ...The new patch offers support for long file names without infringing any of Microsoft's patents. This isn't just an empty claim; several patent lawyers with expertise in this area…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta Released

From the Get Virtualized dept.: Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL), which in my view is a lot more than a typical point release. Sure we're all waiting for the big RHEL 6 release, but there are some major changes in RHEL 5.4. The most obvious change is the shift to the KVM hypervisor (as opposed to Xen). Xen is still in RHEL, but with RHEL 5.4, Red Hat is signaling its intention that KVM (eventually) is to be Red Hat's preferred Hypervisor. It's a preference that Red Hat execs have indicated at multiple points this year and should…
PostgreSQL 8.4

From the Not Oracle dept.: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4, continuing the rapid development of the world's most advanced open source database. This release contains an abundance of enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier than ever before. With 293 new or improved features in version 8.4, there are even more reasons to choose PostgreSQL for your next project. The most numerous changes in PostgreSQL 8.4 are new or improved administration and monitoring tools and commands. Each user has their own favorite…
Firefox 3.5 Released

From the Expecting Chrome Release Announcement in 3...2...1 dept.: Things move quickly online, and weâ€™ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.
PHP 5.3.0 Released!

From the dept.: The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.

RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix
Unix turns 40 (8 Jun 2009)

Nice retrospective by computer world."After batting around some ideas for a new system, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix, which the pair would continue to develop over the next several years with the help of colleagues Doug McIlroy, Joe Ossanna and Rudd Canaday. Some of the principles of Multics were carried over into their new operating system, but the beauty of Unix then (if not now) lay in its less-is-more philosophy." Unix turns 4
Using PHP directly from the command line on Linux (5 Jun 2009)

Learn how to better integrate scripts with command-line tools. Examine using shell_exec(), exec(), passthru(), and system(); safely passing information to the command line; and safely retrieving information from it. See how to integrate closely with underlying shell commands and folding any return values into your interfaces and processes.
Anatomy of a Linux hypervisor (5 Jun 2009)

The battleground has shifted from the Operating System to the hypervisor, and Linux has a clear role to play. One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor. Learn about KVM and Lguest and why the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor
Boost Linux performance on old hardware (1 Jun 2009)

The ideas in this article may help you breathe life (and some additional security) into your old machines and make better use of Linux on aging hardware. A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. Llearn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example.
Comparing UNIX inovation (29 May 2009)

This article compares and contrasts some of the innovations of the latest releases of AIX 6.1, Solaris 1, and HP-UX. Learn the differences on how to work with certain tasks, such as networking and performance tuning. Also, see at a high level some of the virtualization differences among these big three. You decide what you prefer best.

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Enterprise Linux headlines
Linux desktop adoption boosted by economy

2 Jul 2009 | 8:29 am

The tough economy is boosting Linux desktops in business, especially among existing users, but small market share makes major gains a daunting challenge.
Red Hat explains open source virtualization shift from Xen to KVM

25 Jun 2009 | 10:04 am

Red Hat's Enterprise Virtualization Suite features KVM, not Xen. In this podcast, Navin Thadani, senior director of Red Hat's virtualization business, talks about the move from Xen to KVM and what it means for Red Hat's position in the virtualization marketplace.
Server users ponder Sun's hardware future

18 Jun 2009 | 11:06 am

With reports that Sun Microsystems' next-generation processor has been axed, what does the fate of UltraSparc mean for the rest of Sun's server hardware?
Red Hat KVM suite, VirtualBox 3.0 hit beta: News in brief

18 Jun 2009 | 11:05 am

In today's news in brief, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with KVM and Sun VirtualBox 3.0 are now available in beta.
Choice and customization lead Linux and IT marketplace

16 Jun 2009 | 8:55 am

Red Hat's JBoss and rPath's cloud computing offerings have customization in common. How will a customized approach to products change the future of IT, and how does it affect your bottom-line?

Toolinux
LemonLDAP ::NG 0.9.4 en version beta

Toolinux

2 Jul 2009 | 4:30 pm

Depuis quelques jours une version beta de la nouvelle mouture (0.9.4) de LemonLDAP ::NG est disponible en téléchargement sur la forge OW2. - Développement
Centralisation de logs avec Octopussy

Toolinux

2 Jul 2009 | 3:40 pm

Octopussy a vu le jour en Aout 2005. Son développeur principal l'a publié sur sourceforge en décembre 2005, mais le logiciel était encore peu utilisé. C'est en Juin 2006, après sa publication sur freshmeat que le nombre d'utilisateur a augmenté et avec lui les premières remontées de bug et les premières contributions. - Développement
Quoi de neuf dans Netbeans 6.7 ?

Toolinux

2 Jul 2009 | 3:24 pm

Netbeans est un environnement de développement (IDE) développé par Oracle (Sun) et écrit en Java. Netbeans 6.7 vient de sortir. - Développement
Canonical cherche son modèle économique dans les nuages

Toolinux

2 Jul 2009 | 3:22 pm

Canonical en collaboration avec Eucalyptus Systems vient de lancer son offre Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). - Blog & Podcast
Pour Novell, le partenariat avec Microsoft est 'plébiscité'

Toolinux

2 Jul 2009 | 3:10 pm

Microsoft et Novell annonçaient ce jeudi dans un communiqué qu'ils enregistrent "une augmentation de leurs clients, en quête de solutions d'interopérabilité." Soit 100 nouveaux clients au cours des six derniers mois. - Services

Yet Another Linux Blog
The Palm Pre, Linux, and 4G

devnet

2 Jul 2009 | 12:44 pm

Whiz bang gadgets and myself are usually not uttered in the same sentence. I’m pretty basic. I like simple desktops like XFCE and Openbox…I like plain things. Give me bread, cheese and water and I’m a happy man. Give me wine and I’m your friend for life : I’ve tried to simplify in the past few years and my cell phone has always been the simplest of the simple regardless of my carrier. When my family cell plan was set to expire this year, we had a little more excitement than we had in years past. Afterall, phones have become small computers that house…
Unity 3.7 Snapshot Preview Out

devnet

30 Jun 2009 | 7:41 am

Gettinther announced that build 3.7…a developer environment snapshot intended as proof of concept…has been released. This is an unofficial release…It’s stable…but we consider it not even an alpha quality release…mainly because it is being used as a proof of concept to show the new technologies we’ve integrated. Gettinther wanted to have a bit larger test base for this release so he announced this in the forum only…but I figured that it would be nice to flash it to our Planet Unity readers. The full announcement is in the forum here:…
Adding Color to Bash List Command

devnet

5 Jun 2009 | 2:00 pm

One of the things I love is being able to enter into a directory via terminal, list the contents, and quickly see which ones are executable or not and which ones are directories or are not directories IN COLOR (not everyone is perfect right?). This is specifically handy as I move through working with Slackware based distributions like the one I’m using now, Zenwalk Linux 6 and the /etc/rc.d/ directory. Most of the Red Hat based distributions out there that I’ve used have this set automatically…so I’m used to it. When I opened up a terminal in Zenwalk I found no…
Slackware and Zenwalk

devnet

4 Jun 2009 | 8:23 pm

I’ve been distro shopping lately. I had become complacent while working with PCLinuxOS because everything just works when using it. With nothing broken, I had nothing to fix This is a good thing, unless you want things to break every once in a while so you can learn to fix them. I know, I’m a glutton for punishment. After some initial toolings in Arch and Gentoo, I settled on Slackware…which was my first distribution I tried ever in 1995. It felt good to be coming back to Slackware…there is a simple elegance about it. It’s ultimately fast on just…
Links for 2009-06-03 [del.icio.us]

4 Jun 2009 | 12:00 am

10 Creative Mac ’n’ Cheese Creations from WomansDay.com - Macaroni and Cheese For those times when you're on a programming binge and need extra carbs....

LXer Linux News
London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

2 Jul 2009 | 4:08 pm

Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)'s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day. While the LSE denied that the collapse was TradElect's fault, they also refused to explain what the problem really wa. Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect.
Ubuntu Sees No Reason To Remove Mono from Default Install

2 Jul 2009 | 3:04 pm

The Mono discussion may be tiring, but the fact of the matter is that thanks to this discussion, various major Linux distributions are now making official statements detailing their position in the Mono/C# debate. The latest to do this is Ubuntu, which reiterated their position yesterday.
Study:GPL loses ground in open source development

2 Jul 2009 | 2:07 pm

The GNU General Public Licence is falling in popularity, looking at all the versions of the GPL as a whole, according to figures released on Tuesday by Black Duck. At the same time, Microsoft's open source software license, MS-PL, is gaining ground in the open source world, the company said. Black Duck, which provides services and products for developers working with open source code, compiled the figures from its database of more than 200,000 open source projects collected from the internet. [The lead is a tad misleading. GPL has lost some percentage but it lost to BSD and MIT, not to MS-PL…
The Open Source Public Relations Engine

David Lane

2 Jul 2009 | 1:09 pm

I have trolled my Twitter feeds looking for something exciting or provocative related to Open Source, but nothing, other than the release of Fedora 11 and Firefox 3.5 is jumping out at me and frankly neither is particularly news worth, despite the large number of people that are supposedly downloading both code sets. Has Open Source lost its mojo? Has it become so common place that there are no real innovations to talk about? Or is it simply the summer lull?
[Video] Making Processes Feel Important

Shawn Powers

2 Jul 2009 | 12:12 pm

Linux Journal's Shawn Powers shows us how to use nice and renice to change the priority level of your processes.

jonobacon@home
Tracking Ubuntu Community Issues

jono

26 Jun 2009 | 6:11 pm

Recently Melissa wrote a post about how we track problems with community, and how she feels that blogging about community problems is a reasonable approach. As part of her post she says: Blogging about problems we see in our community should be seen as a good thing, not a bad thing. Why? Because this blogging is action. The alternative is no action, and that is much worse. Firstly, I entirely agree with Melissa that we need a better way to track issues with community, which I will get to a little later in this post. While blogging has become a tremendous tool in online communities and enabled…
VMWare: Rock and Roll

jono

24 Jun 2009 | 5:34 pm

In a world where most companies would give their hind teeth to get your email address into their marketing database, it was refreshing to see this from VMWare: Thank you for your past interest in VMware. As part of our routine scheduled maintenance, we will be removing email addresses and associated subscription information from our marketing database for contacts who have not updated their profile and/or subscription preferences within the last 6 months. If you would like to remain on our mailing list and wish to receive updates on news, specific solutions, offers and much more, then please…
Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Deadline Draws Near

jono

24 Jun 2009 | 7:03 am

Just a quick note to you lovely folks that the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase, a competition to have your audio, video or imagery included on millions of Ubuntu systems, has it’s deadline drawing near on 16th July 2009. If you know some creative types who you think would love the opportunity to have their art on all those delicious Ubuntu systems, point their beady eyes in the direction of this page and tell them to get cracking. Also, thanks to our friends at the Creative Commons for blogging the competition.
Learn How To Run a Jam

jono

23 Jun 2009 | 10:58 pm

Recently we announced to epic Ubuntu Global Jam that is set to go down from 2nd - 4th Oct 2009. In this event hundreds of Ubuntu fans and contributors get together in their local area to work on Ubuntu, get to know each other and just have a big ‘ol barrel of fun. With the scheme recently announced we are still building up the list of events and are looking for you wonderful people to start organizing events. Sound interesting but don’t know how? Well, I have good news. We have organized a number of tuition sessions and events that will help you get started organizing a rocking…
The Ubuntu Global Jam

jono

15 Jun 2009 | 5:25 pm

In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event called the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam. The idea was simple: encourage our awesome global Ubuntu community to get together in the same room to find, triage and fix bugs. And they did, all over the world, as can be seen here. Well, at the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit we were having a good ‘ol chinwag about the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam and we came to an important and sage conclusion: Why limit the event to just bugs? As such, I am proud to announce Ubuntu Global Jam - more jam but with the same great taste!. Based upon all the feedback…

Be the signal
How do dogs drink water?

Jeff Waugh

13 Jun 2009 | 2:29 am

Wow, this sure is counter-intuitive. Watching Po the other day, I was pondering more efficient ways for a dog to drink water. I mean, why doesn’t he just hold his breath, stick his snout in the bowl and suck? OK, it might take a leap of faith for a dog to do that due to inconvenient nostril placement. Meanwhile, I’ve always assumed that dogs and cats scooped up the water in their tongue like a bucket. Turns out that was right, albeit backwards… in the slow-mo video below, you can see that dogs actually use the back of their tongue as a scoop, not the front (which is the way…
Truly, CSS is awesome

Jeff Waugh

13 Jun 2009 | 1:00 am

… and apparently available on Zazzle.
Barack Obama celebrates National Andrew Bolt is a Dickhead Day

Jeff Waugh

3 Jun 2009 | 1:36 am

(This stupid joke, and the linked cartoon which inspired it, will be difficult for international readers to understand. It might make slightly more sense if you replace “Andrew Bolt” with “Rush Limbaugh” as you read it, while noting that a true analogue to Limbaugh simply doesn’t exist in the Australian commentariat. Despite having our own breed of hypocritical right-wing crazies, I think it will be a long time coming before Australians would accept someone even remotely as ignorant and offensive as Limbaugh in our public conversation.)
Welcoming Po to the family

Jeff Waugh

19 May 2009 | 4:13 am

Yesterday we adopted a beautiful, 2½ month-old Border Collie puppy. He was the more curious and attentive of two brothers, though it was still a difficult choice! He is heart-stoppingly cute, has that adorable “new puppy” smell, soft and fluffy long fur, and is already beginning to figure out the inscrutable noises of the silly humans. Po seems to be very comfortable at his new home:
“I loved you in Wall Street!”

Jeff Waugh

3 May 2009 | 4:58 am

A single scene completely redeems one of the worst films of all time… Click here to view the embedded video. So much awesome.

taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog
Links for 2009-07-01

dailylinks

1 Jul 2009 | 3:05 pm

UPC’s response to IRMA’s legal summons demanding a “three strikes” system : ‘UPC has made its position clear from the outset — it will not agree to a request that goes beyond what is currently provided under existing legislation. There is no basis under Irish law requiring ISPs to control, access or block the internet content its users download. In addition, the rights holders’ proposal gives rise to serious concerns for data privacy and consumer contract law.’ go UPC! (tags: upc isps ireland law legal irma music mp3 downloading piracy…
User script: add my delicious search results to Google

Justin

1 Jul 2009 | 2:58 am

For years now, I’ve been collecting bookmarks at delicious.com/jm — nearly 7000 of them by now. I’ve been scrupulous about tagging and describing each one, so they’re eminently searchable, too. I’ve frequently found this to be a very useful personal reference resource. I was quite pleased to come across the Delicious Search Results on Google Greasemonkey userscript, accordingly. It intercepts Google searches, adding Delicious tag-search results at the top of the search page, and works pretty well. Unfortunately though, that searches all of delicious, not…
Links for 2009-06-30

dailylinks

30 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pm

MythTV support in Boxee : native support built-in — awesome! must try this out (tags: mythtv boxee linux pvr mythfrontend) Introducing The Computer of 2010 : hilariously off-base predictions from Forbes ASAP back in 2000. pretty much everything is wrong, except for the available disk capacity of 1TB (via Tony) (tags: history computing prediction funny 2010 forbes frogdesign fail pc future via:fanf) Bids for the SORBS blocklist over AU$1.2m : ‘Ms Sullivan said the highest “legitimate” offer was about $1.2million. Others were for much more but from unscrupulous…
Links for 2009-06-29

dailylinks

29 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pm

Evan Weaver’s qcon presentation on Twitter’s backend : even more techie details, good tips on JVM profiling/monitoring tools and background on their switch from Ruby to Scala (tags: scaling twitter java rails distributed memcached queueing evan-weaver scala ruby performance profiling jvm gc)
Links for 2009-06-28

dailylinks

28 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pm

Twitter, an Evolving Architecture : good info on Twitter’s current architecture. lots of memcached (tags: memcached twitter ruby java scalability queue architecture caching performance web) The Toaster Project : Artist attempting to build a toaster from scratch — ‘beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99.’ fascinating (tags: art hardware technology economics build diy consumption capitalism crafts toaster manufacturing mass-production) Agilo : web-based tool to aid Scrum development processes, Apache-licensed, in…

Software
Linux Weather Forecast

2 Jul 2009 | 9:24 am

The 2.6.30 kernel was released on June 9. The 2.6.30 development cycle saw the addition of almost 12,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing some 200 different companies. 2.6.30 has 624,000 more lines of code than 2.6.29.
Generating Graphs with gnuplot, Part 2

2 Jul 2009 | 1:57 am

In Part 1 of this series on Gnuplot, there was a lot of talk about line colors, font settings, export scripts, and the like, but no actual graphs. Input from graphs can be read from the command line or, more commonly from external files.
Mozilla Slates First Firefox 3.5 Patch

1 Jul 2009 | 9:26 pm

Mozilla will patch the just-released Firefox 3.5 later this month to stamp out several bugs that went unfixed in the final version of the browser, the company said.
New Linux Patch Could Circumvent Microsoft's FAT Patents

1 Jul 2009 | 11:15 am

Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem.
Reserve Your Space on the Australian Stage

1 Jul 2009 | 5:54 am

The Triple Crown of Linux conferences — if there is one — is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au.

Zaheer Abbas Merali
Fluendo 5th Anniversary

admin

2 Jul 2009 | 4:39 am

So yesterday was the 5th anniversary party for the Fluendo group. It only seems like yesterday that I joined the group (3 years 4 1/2 months ago) to work for Flumotion. It was really nice of the company to fly me in especially to Barcelona for the party, so thank you.
Spykee GStreamer element

admin

20 Jun 2009 | 8:09 am

So this aftermoon, I spent the time starting a GStreamer source element for Spykee. I have made it respond to key press navigation events coming upstream from say xvimagesink and move forward, back, left and right and d for dock. The code so far is here: http://github.com/zaheerm/zspykee/commits/master/flumotion-spykee/flumotion/component/spykee/gstreamer.py Video with Spykee moving controlled through navigation events coming from xvimagesink: http://zaheer.merali.org/spykee_gstreamer.ogv
More Spykee with Flumotion

admin

18 Jun 2009 | 2:25 pm

So tonight, I added wizard support for flumotion-spykee and so now anyone with a Spykee robot can control and stream the robot with Flumotion without requiring to write a config file. It can all now be configured with ease in Flumotion, including discovery of Spykee robots on any interface your flumotion installation is on. Two screencasts (both Ogg Theora videos): Successful Spykee discovery and control (Night time and no lights on, so limited visibility) Failure to see a Spykee robot
If you want an OS that can browse the web out of the box, forget Windows 7 (in Europe)

admin

12 Jun 2009 | 2:48 am

Source: BBC
Flumotion UI for Spykee movement

admin

11 Jun 2009 | 6:08 am

Simple UI to move the Spykee robot around, committed and pushed:

LWN.net
Pianoteq3 For Linux: A Product Review (Linux Journal)

cook

2 Jul 2009 | 2:20 pm

Dave Philips reviews the Linux version of Pianoteq (commercial software) on Linux Journal. "On the 15th of May 2009 the Modartt company announced the release of version 3.0.3 of their award-winning Pianoteq, a professional-quality digital keyboard instrument created by an audio synthesis method known as physical modeling. The program is vastly praised by its users, but in order to feel the love you've had to run a Windows machine or a Mac box. Until now, that is. The latest release introduces various new attractions, and the one that interests me the most is support for a native Linux…
Fellowship interview with Smári McCarthy (FSFE)

cook

2 Jul 2009 | 11:10 am

The Free Software Foundation Europe presents an interview with Smári McCarthy. "Stian Rødven Eide: One of the most profiled projects you have been involved with is the Fab Lab, having headed the Icelandic branch for over a year now. While best known for its use of 3D printers, the Fab Lab is actually a much broader concept that goes far beyond technical innovation. Can you tell us a bit about your work there, and what you hope to achieve? Smári McCarthy: There are two sides to the Fab Lab story. On the one hand, there’s the research side, which is all about developing the universal…
GNOME Journal Issue 15

cook

2 Jul 2009 | 10:59 am

The July, 2009 edition of the GNOME Journal has been published. Contents include: "a review of Project Hamster by Les Harris, an interview on working with upstream with Laszlo Peter by Stormy Peters, using git for GNOME translators by Og Maciel, an introduction to GNOME Zeitgeist by Natan Yellin, a look at some of GNOME Do's advanced features by Jorge Castro, and lastly, the Behind the Scenes feature continues with Owen Taylor by Paul Cutler."
Thursday Security Updates

cook

2 Jul 2009 | 10:54 am

CentOS has updated seamonkey (arbitrary code execution). Fedora 9 has updated xorg-x11-xfs (race condition). Fedora 10 has updated xorg-x11-xfs (race condition). Red Hat Enterprise Linux has updated pidgin (denial of service) and openswan (input validation flaws). Ubuntu has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Virtual Linux is the prescription for hospital patients (iTWire)

cook

2 Jul 2009 | 8:43 am

iTWire reports on a new Linux installation by a Glendale, California hospital. "Adventist Medical Center (GAMC) has installed thin clients running Linux virtual desktops in 65 patient rooms in its new West Tower. "Just as easily as the hospital provides patients with TVs in rooms, now we provide personal computing," said Roger Pruyne, senior programmer/analyst and project manager for the GAMC Patient Computing project. The system combines NoMachine's NX remote access and virtualisation software, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and an IBM System x3650 server. GAMC estimates that this approach…

Linux
Low End Linux Netbook Prices Continue To Drop

Caitlyn Martin

It almost goes without saying that you won't find anything that runs Windows at anywhere near these prices. Oh, and no, that doesn't mean that Linux is somehow inferior as Windows fans would want you to believe. It is, however, free of charge.
Version Control with Git

Jon Loeliger

Version Control with Git takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects, using this highly flexible open-source version control system. Git permits practically an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration, but its flexibility also means that some users don't understand how to use it to best advantage. This book offers tutorials on ways to use it, as well as friendly yet rigorous advice to help you navigate Git's many functions.
Four short links: 12 June 2009

Nat Torkington

New Media Challenges: Legal and Policy Considerations for Federal Use of Web 2.0 Technology (Center for American Progress) -- report on the issues around Web 2.0 use in Government, which include privacy, security, Public Records Act, advertising, etc. See also It's Not the Campaign Anymore: How the White House Is Using Web 2.0 Technology So Far from the same...
Windows or Linux? A case of machine ignorance

Andy Oram

Our artist at O'Reilly was spell-checking the text in a drawing and got a strange recommendation. Perhaps Adobe is little behind the times, not recognizing Linux as a word, but where did the recommendation for Windows come from?
Southern California Linux Expo: freedom in a service economy, and more

Andy Oram

This evening's SCALE blog covers Bradley Kuhn's keynote on Software as a Service, Jono Bacon on security, Red Hat's counsel on patents, and much more (with ample indulgence for my own opinions).

Computerworld Blogs - Linux
London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

1 Jul 2009 | 10:20 am

In September 2008, the London Stock Exchange collapsed because its Windows-based electronic trading platform, TradElect completely failed. Now, under new leadership, the Exchange will finally do away with its fatally flawed Windows system. read more
Finally! Download Firefox 3.5 from Mozilla in 3... 2... 1...

IT Blogwatch

1 Jul 2009 | 2:47 am

After many delays, you can finally download Firefox 3.5 from Mozilla.org. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate its speed, stability, security, and, err, private browsing mode. By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selected these bloggy morsels for your enjoyment. Not to mention life in plastic: it's fantastic... read more
Ubuntu heads to the clouds

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

30 Jun 2009 | 7:46 pm

If you want to use Ubuntu Linux serveea, and the idea of saving money by running your servers on a cloud sounds interesting, boy does Canonical have a deal for you. read more
Never reboot again with Linux and Ksplice

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

29 Jun 2009 | 10:02 am

Linux users like to snicker at Windows users because, while they constantly need to reboot, we may need to reboot every few months. Thanks to a rapidly maturing new project, Ksplice, Linux fans may soon never need to reboot again. read more
Don't believe the $120 Windows 7 pricetag

Preston Gralla

26 Jun 2009 | 11:29 am

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it will charge $120 for upgrades to Windows 7 when it ships. But don't believe that price; I expect that permanent discounts will ensure consumers will always pay less. read more

J5's Blog
Looking for two roommates to move in on September 1st

J5

23 Jun 2009 | 4:47 pm

Hey everyone, my two roommates are moving out to be closer to the city. Those who have been to my place know it is an amazing apartment in North Cambridge, MA with a five minute walk to the Alewife T station. If you are looking to move or know someone who needs a place let me know. The lease is for a year and is super inexpensive at $635 a month per person plus utilities. Oh and you will have to like dogs since Ty is staying too [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ]
Open Video Conference an Amazing Step Forward

J5

22 Jun 2009 | 7:35 am

The Open Video Conference just ended yesterday. I attended the first two days and just stopped in briefly during the hack-fests yesterday before having brunch with some old highschool friends and heading back to my parents house where my dog and car were stashed. I can say without a doubt the turnout was amazing and even though not everything I heard all weekend was positive it was a giant leap forward in then understanding of the importance of Open Video and culture. I won’t put a figure on how many people attended but some of the upstairs talks were standing room only and after the…
Drink a glass of wine it’s release time

J5

10 Jun 2009 | 2:25 pm

The project I have been working on for a long time now has seen it’s first (beta) release. Meet Fedora Community, a consolidation of the various Fedora Infrastructure bits into one UI with a focus on usability. The unique thing about this site is that it doesn’t replace the other Fedora Infrastructure bits. It uses them as backends and mashes together the data into one view. For instance you no longer have to go to the bodhi update tool after checking on a build in koji. Instead you simply look at the build tool and if the package is able to be updated you will be presented with…
GUADEC 2010 Call for Hosts postponed until after Gran Canaria

J5

3 Jun 2009 | 8:53 am

Dear Foundation Members, In the past, by this time, the Board would have already sent around the GUADEC call for hosts. In largely closed door meetings it would have been decided where next year’s GUADEC would be held, announcing it at the current year’s conference. Since this has been a year of significant change (this is the first year GUADEC is being co-located with Akademy) we would like to get more input into the process and find out what our members want to see come next summer, as well as how to best pick the winning location. We have decided to postpone the call for…
Open Video Conference

J5

29 May 2009 | 10:20 am

As a culmination of all the positive momentum that has been going on the past few years all the important Open Video players will be gathering at NYU’s law center for the first of hopefully many Open Video Conferences on June 19th. The interesting part of this conference is it isn’t exclusively a tech conference. According to their website: Open Video is a broad-based movement of video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. When most folks think of “open,” they think of open source and open codecs. They’re…

Robert Love
Tiananmen, Then and Now

Robert Love

5 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am

Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Today, The Big Picture, the Globe's photo blog, put up a touching remembrance. The changes—the disconnect, the growth—between these two pictures, 1989 and today, are striking:Changan Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, 1989Changan Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, 2009When I was last in China, my blog was blocked by the great firewall. That's me, a rabble rouser. I rouse rabble.
Cupcake!

Robert Love

8 May 2009 | 1:00 pm

For users: Top 10 features you'll love about Android 1.5For developers: Download SDK 1.5
Where I've Been

Robert Love

31 Mar 2009 | 1:00 am

I have been silent, I know. Both work and life keep me busy. At work, we released Android 1.1, which added voice search, Latitude, and paid apps. We continue to advance the platform, with exciting upcoming releases including the anticipated cupcake milestone. And of course there will be more phones.In life, I spend most of my blogging cycles on my food blog (feed), knocking out several posts a week—that is not just a lot of blogging, but quite a bit of braising, infusing, roasting, and even foam making.I find myself again with pen to paper—nothing anytime soon—and am happy…
Happy New Year

Robert Love

31 Dec 2008 | 11:00 am

This New Year's Eve, while you drink and dine and dance, as sapping as this roller coaster of a year has been, never take for granted what you have and who you are.I'm luckier than most.The Big Picture, The Globe's beautiful photography blog, features an amazingly well composed photo tour of Israel and Hamas's deterioration after six months of relative but illusive calm.Even they are luckier than some.
Whither an Automotive Industry

Robert Love

3 Dec 2008 | 7:30 am

I have long argued, partly in jest, mostly serious, that America should just get out of the car industry altogether and focus our capital on things we are good at, such as the service sector, software, or torts. The cost issue was secondary, I would say, if the cars themselves aren't competitive. (Does everyone at GM have huge fingers? Why are the interiors filled with over-sized plastic buttons?)My bafflement continues with this latest bailout—unlike the financial package, I am against bailing out the US auto industry—and these comments from Ford's chief on the necessity of…

Evan Prodromou
14 Messidor CCXVII

2 Jul 2009 | 1:48 am

It's been one year since the public launch of identi.ca on July 2, 2008. At the time, I'd been working on the software for a few months, and after some friendly beta testing by Montreal tech folks and autonomo.us members, I felt that it was time to Release Early, Release Often. So on vacation in Lake Tahoe with my pregnant wife and in-laws, and jetlagged and unable to sleep, I sent out an announcement email to beta users at 5:30AM PDT. You can see my status update on the subject, which in turn links to our press release and my personal blog post of Journal/14 Messidor CCXVI. We had 10K users…
4 Germinal CCXVII

24 Mar 2009 | 9:36 am

Identi.ca is one of the contestants in the Internet March Mayhem e-Tournament. We're up against LinkedIn in the first round. Help us out by clicking the "Identi.ca" link in the lower left-hand part of the tree. tags identi.ca marchmayhem voteforus Ada Lovelace Day FAIL Updated. I signed up for the Ada Lovelace Day pledge a few months ago, so I wrote a churlish, short, and ill-tempered blog post on the subject. (Since redacted.) Among other things, I said, "I dislike the canonization of Ada Lovelace as a patron saint of women in computing. [...] Hundreds of thousands if not…
24 Pluviôse CCXVII

11 Feb 2009 | 8:47 pm

I was listening to Tech Nation today on the treadmill -- the episode from Jan 13 2009 with Darrell Rhea of Cheskin Added Value. He made a great point: that when people give money to charity, they feel good about themselves. But when they pay their taxes, they feel really bad -- even though their taxes go for schools, hospitals, fire departments, and other important societal services. And that made me think about a few things. One reason for this discrepancy is probably a feeling of control. When I make a charitable donation, I choose the charity. With taxes, I don't have much of a choice…
26 Nivôse CCXVII

14 Jan 2009 | 10:57 pm

I got tagged in the bunnymeme. I even got nagged about it. I have to admit, drawing a bunny is kind of a relief from a busy week. Here are the rules: Draw a Bunny (or more) Post it to your blog with the rules Name three other bloggers that should draw a bunny Here is my bunny: And here are the three blogger friends I can think of who aren't too uptight and full of themselves to post a picture of a hand-drawn bunny: Hugh McGuire Michele Ann Jenkins Nicolas Ritoux Update: there's a nice graph tracking the meme's progress. tags: bunnymeme bunny meme splitbrain Montreal Startup invests in Control…
15 Nivôse CCXVII

4 Jan 2009 | 12:30 am

I really like the This American Life podcast. It's probably one of my favorite pieces of public radio, and having a full high-quality public feed is fantastic. However, I've been a little grumpy about the long forewords that have been put into the show lately, asking for donations from podcast listeners. Here's the scoop: apparently WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio) is spending US$150K just on the bandwidth to keep the podcast on the air (not counting servers, staff, or whatever). This is not just small potatoes for WBEZ; they just laid off a dozen workers. So, podcast listeners should pay their…

Linux/Open Source Recruitment Landscape
Fantastic Open Source Institution

19 Jun 2009 | 8:16 am

Here is an article about Seneca College's School of Computer Studies that explains how their embrace of open source software has paid huge dividends for their students. I have stated over the years that open source software provides an institution the opportunity to become relevant again. There was a time when computer science majors thought it was a waste to be in school, because the things they were learning were out of touch with what was happening in "the real world". Well, that no longer needs to be the case. And, Seneca is a perfect example of that. They are allowing their students to…
Good Summation of the Job Market

9 Jun 2009 | 7:53 am

Here is a survey that was released last week that provides an update on the labor market at the moment. There are a lot of them out there, but this one lines up pretty strongly with what we have been seeing. In a nutshell, it is fairly stale at the moment. Periodically, there are small signs of life, but the sense of urgency from corporations is not there at the moment. Thus, the positions that are open tend to remain open for a period of time. Hopefully, this mind set will change as we move into the third quarter.
Developer Salary Update

21 May 2009 | 10:29 am

A few weeks ago, Datamation came out with an article that summarized salary levels for IT professionals over the last five years. Now, they have revealed the salary levels of developers over the last five years. The data can be found here .What it shows is not a lot of overall movement in salary levels during this period of time. And, in the case of software engineers, it shows that the average salary of a developer in a large corporation actually went down a little over 10%. Minimum gain for those in mid-sized organizations. I know their data spans a greater swath than that of ours, but our…
Another Linux Certification Article

13 May 2009 | 11:43 am

Here is a new article from InforWorld discussing Linux certifications. It is always interesting to hear different view points. I know I have written about this in the past, but this is my brief take on Linux certifications as it relates to the article.1. All in all, they are correct about who gets better mileage out of a Linux certification. It benefits the individuals with less experience the most. But, no matter your level of experience, I have never seen an instance where it hurts the candidates application.2. As much as I like the idea of a vendor neutral certification, we definitely see…
Articles on the new Linux.com

13 May 2009 | 9:13 am

Just wanted to do a little self plug and mention that the series of articles that I wrote for the new Linux.com site are live. You can access them in the career guide section here .

Softpedia News - Linux
New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 OSes

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)

2 Jul 2009 | 4:00 am

Earlier today, Canonical has announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 8.10 and 9.04 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches no more than 15 security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages by var... (read more)
Available Now: GNOME 2.26.3

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)

2 Jul 2009 | 1:08 am

The GNOME developers, through Lucas Rocha, have announced early this morning in a press release that the last maintenance release of the popular GNOME 2.26 desktop environment is now available for download. Just like the previous maintenance releases, GNOME 2.26.3 is here mainly to fix many of the remaining bugs, but to also introduce a few interesting features.... (read more)
KDE 4.3 RC1 Released, Live CD Available for Testing

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)

1 Jul 2009 | 6:17 am

The KDE community proudly announced today, June 1st, the immediate availability of the first release candidate of KDE 4.3, the next-generation KDE desktop environment for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms. However, the focus of this release is to fix the remaining issues before the final one comes out, at the end of July, 2009. When it will... (read more)
PCLinuxOS 2009.2 KDE and GNOME Editions Are Available

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)

1 Jul 2009 | 3:49 am

The PCLinuxOS team announced yesterday evening, June 30th, the second maintenance release of PCLinuxOS 2009 in both of its KDE 3 and GNOME 2 variants. Besides the usual bugfixes and updated applications, PCLinuxOS 2009.2 comes now packed with a new tool called "notification-updater," which notifies the user about available system updates. An... (read more)
Sabayon Linux 4.2 GNOME Features Tuz-Powered Kernel

Softpedia News (Marius Nestor)

1 Jul 2009 | 12:25 am

Fabio Erculiani announced yesterday evening, June 30th, the immediate availability of a new maintenance version of the Sabayon Linux 4 GNOME Edition operating system, now with GNOME 2.26.2! Being based on the Lite MCE version, this second GNOME edition of Sabayon Linux 4 brings a "ready to use" version of the powerful and popular XBMC Med... (read more)

Daemon Dancing in the Dark
Creator and emacsclient

jdarnold

2 Jul 2009 | 9:56 am

Some notes on using emacsclient on KDE, as I'm trying to integrate it with Qt Creator, because Qt Creator doesn't have Emacs key bindings (so far, my biggest gripe). There's an albeit painful keystroke to pass the current file off to an external editor, so I'm trying to get it...
Information Please

jdarnold

23 Jun 2009 | 8:01 am

An article on Lifehacker featured an interesting utility called iotop, which gives a birds eye view of what your hard drive is up to. The commentors mentioned a couple of other interesting tools, although many seemed to be confused as to what iotop is measuring as opposed to some of...
Screencasting the Creator

jdarnold

10 Jun 2009 | 11:25 am

I'm trying out Nokia's fancy new Qt Creator IDE for developing Qt 4.5 applications. Looks pretty nice, even if Qt itself is a little fugly, given all the weird macros it uses to get its work done. Maybe this IDE will shield me from the worst of it? Anyway, I'm...
Pick The Best

jdarnold

29 Apr 2009 | 7:16 am

The latest issue of Linux Format magazine has a very nice article on how to pick the best distro. This is a subject rife with controversy, but they do a very nice job of remaining bias free and objective. By listing a wide variety of user types, you can pick...
import this

jdarnold

11 Mar 2009 | 10:58 am

$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 1 2008, 17:47:46) [GCC 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is...

Prakash Advani's Blog
Multiple users, one computer

Prakash

26 Jun 2009 | 1:07 am

Todays computer have more power than what is required by a single users. Thanks to the Gigahertz race, processors are getting faster and faster. The result is that an average Joe uses only 10% of the processing. The best way to harness this underutilised power is to get multiple users to share the resources of the same computer. One way is Utilise NComputing device or to setup a dual-head display on your computer and follow this howto. Related posts:Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user Nice article. Five crucial things the Linux…
Finally a phone that charges it self

Prakash

19 Jun 2009 | 11:39 pm

Nokia has developed a phone that charges itself using microwaves. It picks up waves from TV signals, radio and other mobile phones. So finally all the rations that’s been cooking our brains is finally being put to some good use. Related posts:My New Phone - Nokia 3100 My older Sendo phone which I got for free under...What I am looking for in a Mobile Phone After using Nokia 6230i for a while now, I was...Review of LG Dynamite KP 199 mobile phone LG has recently launched this mobile phone in India with... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Olympus E-P1 vs the Panasonic GH1

Prakash

17 Jun 2009 | 10:11 am

Olympus just released its Micro Four Thirds camera the Olympus E-P1. It was Panasonic which introduced this concept by doing away with the Prism, thereby reducing the size of the camera and now Olympus is following suit. Enough of technology, what does all this mean? This means that you can have a small camera with inter-changeable lenses. Whats I like about this camera: 12 MP Camera 3 inches LCD screen High Definition video recording with stereo sound Built in Image Stabilisation HDMI port Support for SD Memory, makes it easy to swap memory with other consumer devices. Thank god the xD…
Amazon Kindle source code released

Prakash

17 Jun 2009 | 2:48 am

Amazon has released the source code for its e-book reader Kindle. And guess what it runs Linux. Have a look if you are interested in the source. Way to go Amazon! Related posts:Open-source group wary of Microsoft’s code-sharing From Economic Times Prakash Advani, senior vice president, Netcore Solutions...BJP commits support to open source The BJP, India’s biggest opposition party has released its IT...Did Linux really had code from SCO Unix? As per this article: SCO has identified only 326 lines... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Routine check of drives

Prakash

8 Jun 2009 | 1:54 pm

When I boot up my Ubuntu system, it often says Routine check of drives and takes forever to boot up. This is because the routine check is set to a number which is not very high if you don’t reboot often Which may be the case in a server but for a Desktop its an overkill, specially if you boot up a couple of times a day. With a small change, you can boot up quicker and save time as well. So here is the solution: sudo tune2fs -c 100 /dev/sda5 Where 100 is the number of counts after which it should do a routine check. /dev/sda5 is my ex3 file system, replace this with whatever is your…

OSNews
Microsoft To Offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium

2 Jul 2009 | 2:25 pm

The Windows 7 pricing scheme thing isn't over just yet. Microsoft announced the prices for Windows 7 last week, including a limited offer with lower prices and all that. There was no mention of a family pack, but a little digging in the latest leaked build suggests that yes, there's going to be a family pack of Windows Home Premium.
Psystar Emerges from Chapter 11, Launches New Mac Clone

2 Jul 2009 | 1:54 pm

Well, it really seems as if Psystar is committed to continue its business, no matter what. The company entered chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, and many wondered if this meant the end of the clone maker and the legal case between Apple and Psystar. Well, today the clone maker announced that it is emerging from chapter 11, and while they're at it, they also introduce a new "Mac".
A Root-less X Server Nears Reality

2 Jul 2009 | 1:33 pm

"Due to now living in a KMS-enabled world, at least on the Intel and ATI side (the NVIDIA side is still slowly but surely coming via Nouveau), it's rather easy to get the X Server running without any special rights. Intel's Jesse Barnes explains on the X.Org mailing list that only a small patch is needed for the X Server and then a trivial one to the Direct Rendering Manager in the kernel."
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs

2 Jul 2009 | 11:51 am

We here at OSNews have taken somewhat of an interest in the new HTML5 video and audio tags, which should - some day - make embedding audio and video material into web pages as easy and straightforward as embedding images, allowing the web to finally remove the shackles of dreadful Flash video. Sadly, the problem with these new tags are the codecs; as it turns out, browser makers have not reached an agreement about what codecs to choose for video, with mostly Apple throwing a spanner in the works, and Microsoft shining in absence.
Linux Kernel Patch Works Around Microsoft's FAT Patents

2 Jul 2009 | 9:17 am

The FAT file system is the file system used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows. It's a relatively simple and straightforward file system, supported by just about any operating system, making it the favoured file system on memory cards and the like. FAT is an ECMA and ISO standard, but these only apply for FAT12 and FAT16 without support for long file names, and therein lies a problem.

tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?
Why I disagree with RMS concerning Mono

srlinuxx

2 Jul 2009 | 4:42 pm

blogs.gnome.org/bolsh: Richard’s position is that it’s dangerous to include Mono to the point where removing it is difficult, should that become necessary to legally distribute your software. On the surface, I agree. But he goes a little further. And on this point, we disagree. Advertisement: read more
Improved RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux hardware support

srlinuxx

2 Jul 2009 | 4:41 pm

dag.wieers.com: The past few months a bunch of very cool CentOS community members (and I am not including myself here) spend their time creating kernel modules for the stock RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel to extend hardware support. The result is now known as: ELRepo Advertisement: read more
Get to know Linux: man pages

srlinuxx

2 Jul 2009 | 4:40 pm

ghacks.net: Have you ever had someone tell you to “RTFM” (aka: “Read The Flippin’ Man page”) only to realize you have no idea what man pages were? Advertisement: read more
Get started with Linux - part 1

srlinuxx

2 Jul 2009 | 1:46 pm

computeractive.co.uk: As the years go by, many computers start to slow down. One way to breathe new life into an old computer is to re-install Windows but, unless you have all the required discs, this can be tricky. One easier way to bring an old computer back up to speed is to install a copy of Linux. Advertisement: read more
Linux desktop adoption boosted by economy

srlinuxx

2 Jul 2009 | 1:45 pm

techtarget.com: While hard numbers remain elusive, business adoption of Linux on the desktop appears to be growing, motivated at least in part by the need to stretch IT budgets during the current economic slump. Advertisement: read more

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