Today's News

5th Mar 2008
4th Mar 2008
3rd Mar 2008

Get Linux in South Africa Pretoria on DVD or CD, SUSE, OpenSuse, Fedora, Mandriva, Knoppix, Mandrake, Debian, DamnSmall, DSL, Gentoo, Slackware, SimplyMepis, Monoppix, FreeBSD, Trustix, Comodo, Smoothwall, Gibraltar, IPCop, OpenCD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Whitebox, PCLinuxOS, Xandros, Vector, Scientific, OpenOffice, Vector, Foresight, Asterisk
 
News Alert


Linux and Open Source News for 4th March 2008

Linux ZA

previous    Linux Today News Service    next


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Networking Planet: "Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

ClusterMonkey: "In particular, I am most interested in how multi-core and MPI play in the HPC space. There is plenty to discuss, but for some interesting benchmark numbers, read on "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Off the Wall: "Every few months or so, someone blogs that free software would be more popular if it had fewer applications in each category "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "Less well known is the way that Mozilla the organisation has turned from a rather desperate and leaky lifeboat for the open-sourced Netscape Navigator code into a mighty battleship blasting hither and thither against outposts of proprietary software "


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "With each passing month, I find one article after another claiming to have the magic formula needed for desktop Linux to see significant gains. But to me, this feels a lot like putting the carriage before the horse "


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "This year's Iditarod race is a bit different from past seasons. Oh sure, there are many of the same things going on, like dogs, sleds, snow, and mushing--but this year there's also GPS enabled tracking "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "I am of the view that the Asus Eee PC represents both a new class of ultraportable, ultra low-cost computers, and a huge opportunity for GNU/Linux "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Bytesfree: "I'm torn by this argument, because I can see both sides of this. On one hand, it is true that fewer Linux and FLOSS users today care about the 'free' in Free Software, and I lament this occurrence "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Popular Science: "Amid delays and feuds, the One Laptop Per Child program is picking up the pieces "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "'A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its access to GPL-only symbols,' noted Pavel Roskin, offering a patch to address the issue "


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "Digium, one of Asterisk's strongest proponents, plans to announce a global distribution partnership within two weeks, The VAR Guy has learned "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "Here's one from the file of random stuff you see when you put a new machine on the upstream kernel instead of the distro kernel. USB drivers for Linux will be GPL-only with the release of the upcoming kernel 2.6.25 "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Entrepreneur: "After an excruciatingly long time, it looks like Linux is finally taking hold "


  popularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "If you need to repair PCs, even if you don't use Linux as a rule, you should have a Linux repair CD. These self-booting Linux distributions give you all the software tools you need to bring all but the deadest computers back to life "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Thirty years later, the computer programmer finds himself again arguing his case, but this time it's before a crowded courtroom where he is facing charges he murdered his estranged wife, whose body has never been found "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

eWeek Mid-Market: "When considering which software applications to buy, more and more midsize companies are considering open source--low-cost or free software whose source code can be modified by users or developers "


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld Australia: " [T]he idea of two kids with laptops sitting under a tree somewhere in Saharan Africa being able to exchange information without any kind of infrastructure or configuration, seems as wild an idea as the land they live in "


  popularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Reuters/internetnews.com: "IBM has teamed up with partners in Austria and Poland to offer Microsoft-free personal computers for the eastern European market, IBM said in a statement on Tuesday "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

tecosystems: "Given that I've been waiting months for its release, you'd think that I'd be more excited about the availability of the Amazon MP3 Downloader client for Linux. And I was, initially "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: A little time out to celebrate a big milestone.


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld Australia: "The Mozilla Foundation's new e-mail spin-off is aiming at a quick delivery of the first alpha version of Thunderbird 3.0, according to discussions among developers "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Want to make more money as an enterprise application developer? You're in luck--if you know open source "


  popularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "It wasn't the DMCA or the RIAA's fault (honest) "


  popularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

MDLog:/sysadmin: "It seems that the Debian team doesn't like to release minor versions anymore "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

The Salt Lake Tribune: "Darl McBride said Monday he regrets that he is being pushed out as CEO of The SCO Group software company but not his decision to sue IBM and Novell "


  popularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

PC Pro: "Microsoft says it is 'optimistic' that the Office Open XML specification will be made into an ISO standard, despite a national body describing the ballot resolution process as 'bulls**t '"


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld Australia: " James Gosling has urged coders to stop using the antiquated Emacs text editor and move to a more modern IDE like Sun's own open source NetBeans "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "If you like your browser interface to be simple, try these extensions designed to unclutter Firefox "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "After a slow start, add-ons for OpenOffice.org are finally starting to reach a critical mass "


  popularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "In this article are a few simple steps to take in order to extend your notebook's battery life on Ubuntu "


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "TorrentFlux is a free bittorrent client, which requires a webserver for operation. During the last few months it has become popular, especially among users not fond of command line "


  popularitypopularity

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It was a year ago that AMD had replaced its aging FireGL Control Panel inside its Linux driver with the AMDCCCLE, or AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition "



previous    The O'Reilly Network ONLamp Articles and Weblogs    next


  popularity

Source: ONLamp.com

Brandon Craig Rhodes, a local PyAtl, Python wizard, has released an incredibly easy to understand screencast on Buildout. Since I "strong armed him", into making this screencast, it is only fair I blog about it Background: Buildout is a tool that Jim


  popularitypopularity

Source: ONLamp.com

Since I had “Windows vs. Linux” on the brain (as opposed to “Windows and Linux”, which happens now and then as well), I was thinking back to a recent meeting I had for the Baton Rouge Information Systems Security Association, which is


  popularity

Source: ONLamp.com

I just read an interesting if short blog from Ann All about Linux in the SMB market. Basically, the question is: How far has Linux penetrated into small and medium sized businesses? That’s a great question. I’m a big fan that, in


  popularitypopularity

Source: ONLamp.com

This is the first in a new series of ONLamp articles you'll be seeing over the next few months. They aren't breaking news about the hottest new technologies, they're step by step guides to common but sometimes complicated procedures you may have to tackle. In the first installment, Juliet Kemp gives us a checklist that should have your Apache server running SSL in nothing flat.



previous    The O'Reilly Network's Linux DevCenter Articles and Weblogs    next


  popularitypopularitypopularity

Source: Linux DevCenter

The energetic, never-sleeping Ken Starks, of Tux 500 fame, has launched a new project that involves the town of Felton, California. As Ken's blog says: On July 4th, 2008; a significant percentage of Felton, California, will go Microsoft-free for one



previous    The latest content from IBM developerWorks    next


  popularitypopularitypopularity

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This first article in a series on overhauling existing sites with
Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) shows you how to eliminate pop-up windows and
navigational dead-ends with simple modal windows.


  popularity

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

We find Web services everywhere today. There's a good chance you will need to
create Web services for whatever new applications or features you are developing. And it
was not too long ago that this could be a painful proposition. WSO2 realized this and
created an Eclipse plug-in to help make working with Web services easier. This article
explores the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) Eclipse plug-in and how it can
help you develop Web services.


  popularitypopularitypopularity

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Stretch the capacity of your Web server farm with PHP and a reverse proxy, such as Varnish.



Updated: Wed Mar 5 23:55:02 2008


OrderWeb Software CC
Contact Us