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Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "So, why would it be a good idea to subsume two Linux servers into two VMs? Well, for one thing, the power requirement is immediately halved, as is the need for networking between the two computers. In fact, the saving may be even greater if the new host server is used for other duties. But the conservative estimate is that the saving is 50 percent. Is there a downside?"
Source: Linux Today Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Plat'Home, Linux pioneers in Japan and creators of the diminutive OpenMicroServer, are running a contest called "Will Linux Work?" They are basically asking people to submit crazy/extreme environments or ideas using their Linux servers and see if they work. Whoever has the best idea will get 5 of their OpenMicroServers shipped to them for free
Source: Linux Today Is it really that hard to do the right thing, all on your own without being forced to? It seems to me that after a person makes their first billion dollars they might sit back, relax, and think about how to improve the planet a little bit
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "The plans, which are far from being finalized, indicate the Microsoft is really running scared of Mac OS and Linux on the desktop."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to be looking at installing "branded" zones in Open Solaris; specifically, RedHat Enterprise Linux (although CentOS is also supported). We'll take a look at what Linux OS's and hardware are supported in Open Solaris, do a quick rundown of how to set up a Branded Linux zone and sneak a quick peak at some test results from Sun's site."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "As a result of its legal problems with the EU, Microsoft was forced to expose key protocols for Microsoft Office. Previously, Microsoft offerings such as SharePoint tended to tie in very tightly with Office, but other platforms couldn't leverage SharePoint's content sharing and collaboration features."
Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: "First, the likelihood that parents will be able to make an informed decision is almost zero."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "He recently followed up and discovered that the money had been used for nothing."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: " MythTV now has a new competitor and that is Boxee. Boxee is a "social media center" that is based upon the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) with versions for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X."
Source: Linux Today OSWeekly: "Over the past few years, I have heard a lot of noise about how great it would be to see KDE coming to Windows world. Despite this happening on its own, it really means little with the exception of perhaps one application - amaroK."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "To eliminate the "terminal madness" for Linux beginners, we've used apt-url links in this tutorial. So, just click the links in the guide in order to install the packages!"
Source: Linux Today PC World: "We looked at the Linux (Linpus) version for this review, which has an 8GB SSD and 512MB of DDR2 RAM accompanying its 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU. Straight out of the box, the Linpus interface boots up in around 20sec."
Source: Linux Today Techworld: "I was preparing to move to my Linux desktop yesterday when all hell broke loose. It seems the SLED 10 box and its partner in crime Lotus Notes were having a very bad day."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "Both Mac OS X and Linux have made consistent inroads into Windows' territory, a trend which only managed to accentuate following the availability of Windows Vista. But, at the end of July 2008, Microsoft got a little space to breathe."
Source: Linux Today The Long Tail: "The "Linux ecosystem" (everything from RedHat to IBM's open source consulting business) is around $30 billion today."
Source: Linux Today The Inquirer: "The Linux share of this route to market has edged up ever since the Vista launch. Then it broke the two per cent barrier in May after the latest release of Ubuntu, the strain of Linux most capable of kicking Microsoft in the shins."
Source: Linux Today Builder AU: ""Today's satellite-image technology means that complete privacy does not exist," Google said in its response to the complaint."
Source: Linux Today The Inquirer: "According to people close to the agreement, Nvidia has agreed to shoulder half the costs that HP sees, and that is averaging about $150 per incident. Someone doesn't want this information out, and anyone close to it is being shut up."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 1995 with the aim to provide a "glue language" for Web designers and part time programmers. It has grown to become one of the most widely used languages on the planet."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "LSB 4.0, set for release by the end of this year, could be the catalyst that enables independent software vendors, or ISVs TERM (define), to develop applications that will run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution. If it gets adopted, LSB 4 could bring a new wave of multidistribution Linux application development."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "Every few years Microsoft gets a new “good cop” regarding open source Then Steve Ballmer opens his yap and we’re back to square one."
Source: Linux Today nixCraft: "7. Use Command Line more than GUI
Use the command line as much as possible. Whether you are configuring a VLAN on a switch or setting up LDAP/NIS authentication on a Linux server, always use the command line instead of GUI."
Source: Linux Today Ginger's Thoughts: "Chris Blizzard and Chris Double of Mozilla have just announced that native Ogg Theora and Vorbis support is now available in the trunk of Firefox’s codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that gets installed on any platform will come with built-in Ogg Theora/Vorbis support out of the box."
Source: Linux Today Commercial Appeal: "Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department."
Source: Linux Today The Register: "The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.
The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "2. Take the idea of making generic accounts su-only one step further and start restricting access to the su binary as much as possible. If you can get away with it, ensure that your /usr/bin/su file is chowned to root:special and chmod'ed to 4750. Now only root and users who belong to the "special" group can even use su to do anything. Everyone else will get an error just for trying to run it."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Let's say that you've decided to start using a new programming language or framework. How can you learn what to do, or take some initial steps? Years ago, the obvious answer was the buy a book, or perhaps a magazine. Today, you're likely to read an online tutorial, or one of the many blogs that have sprung up about many of these technologies."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Out of several good choices, we're going to look at MaraDNS and Dnsmasq. MaraDNS is great for both caching and authoritative name serving, and claims to be highly secure. Dnsmasq is a great program for name services on the LAN: DNS caching, local name resolution, and DHCP."
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