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Source: Linux Today SUSE and OpenSUSE: "Banshee is a simple but powerful multimedia player with Audio/Video playback support, subscribe and playback podcasts and last.fm radio from Banshee. With Banshee1.2 Import, organize, play, share your music and videos using Banshee’s simple but powerful interface."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "The enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. It is hardened by real-world use, is full-featured, supports multi-master replication, and already handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world. The Centos Directory Server (based on Fedora Directory Server) can be downloaded for free and set up in less than half an hour."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""why has this feature never existed when it seems so essential?" As it turns out, this feature "has" existed, although it was a little hard to find in bash 2.x. With bash 3.x, it's brought to the fore and given the attention it deserves "
Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "None of this is terribly surprising. Today, for many enterprises, Linux is just another operating system choice. In a clear case of be-careful-what-you-wish-for, it is as viable an option as some of the Unix heavyweights or Microsoft Windows, depending on the situation."
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: "Emerson Network Power (ENP) announced an ATCA (advanced telecommunications computing architecture) blade and AMC (advanced mezzanine card) module based on Cavium Octeon network processors and carrier-grade Linux."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "It’s not a bad idea, but my take is that IBM must dig deep and invest heavily in marketing and advertising to drive more general consumer acceptance about its open source Office. Techies know that OpenOffice exists and may need to be told that IBM is now shipping its own flavor. But more significantly, Big Blue has to tell ordinary consumers."
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: "OpenMoko has promised to publish schematic diagrams for its latest hardware design, the Neo FreeRunner. Schematics should enable community developers to create alternative firmware for the device, in order to better adapt it to entirely new purposes."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "For me, that's a no-brainer. Windows has long been more trouble than its worth. Since Microsoft seems to be seriously considering dumping Windows, it seems they agree with me."
Source: Linux Today Redmond Developer News: "The Office Open XML (OOXML) file format is probably destined to be an international standard under International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). And Andy Updegrove, for one, is not happy about it."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "Reading a user's hard drive contents alone wasn't enough for Kotler who claimed that function alone bored him after a period of time. "I got bored with it so I made it into a bot and interactive, so I can manage multiple Jinx instances," Kotler said. "We end up having a complete framework all in JavaScript in the browser without code injection or virtualization. It's just you, Firefox and us."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "The real centerpiece for the PS3, however, is its processor -- the Cell Broadband Engine chip (often called the Cell BE chip). The Cell BE architecture is a radical departure from traditional processor designs. The Cell BE processor is a chip consisting of nine processing elements (note the PS3 has one of them disabled, and one of them reserved for system use, leaving seven processing units at your disposal)."
Source: Linux Today Washington Post: "People in most markets Lenovo serves, including Singapore, China and the U.K., will be offered the company's new IdeaPad netbooks with either Microsoft Windows XP or a Linux OS, but users in the U.S. won't have that option."
Source: Linux Today Ultrawideband Planet: "According to a Pulse~Link press release issued today, "the new 1394 Over Coax standard is designed to enable the industry's fastest whole-home network in a multi-supplier ecosystem featuring protected high-definition and multimedia content.""
Source: Linux Today WiFi Planet: "Q: In your January 2007 article, DD-WRT Tutorial 5: Wireless Repeater, you say: "At the time of this writing, wireless repeater mode does not yet function in bridged mode. This means that clients connected to your DD-WRT repeater must be inside their own subnet, preventing them from seeing clients connected to the host AP." Do you know with the release of v24 Final, if this has changed?"
Source: Linux Today Linux Hater's Blog: "I'm getting way behind on these things, so I'm combining the Rants and Laughs posts into one series. I can feel that we're getting closer and closer to becoming the anti-slashdot. Perhaps ~/. is an appropriate way to refer to this site."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: " but anything that's free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source software.
Enterprises using open source are being sued for not complying with the multitude of licenses the software comes with."
Source: Linux Today Ubuntugeek: "Using NTP is a great way to keep your system clock set correctly. It works by contacting a number of servers around the world, asking them for the time and then calculating what the correct local time is from their responses."
Source: Linux Today LXer: "LinuxWorld 2008 is being held at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. After getting inside and getting my badge, it was time to go down the escalator and get this party started."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Fedora 9 now lets you create a bootable Linux distribution on a flash drive with persistence. In other words, you can not only boot any PC that will accept USB drive booting into Linux, you can even boot into your own personal desktop."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "He cited a few examples of hospitals large and small that have launched Linux strategies. Among them was a large hospital in Houston, which used a Linux approach to launch a disaster recovery system, one that would enable them to maintain care in crisis situations such as hurricanes."
Source: Linux Today Slashzero: "This is where Pipe Viewer came in handy. Quite simply this app reports the bitrate that the data is sent over a unix pipe. Brilliant."
Source: Linux Today The Inquirer: "Lenovo's Ideapad S10 joins a growing list of small, low-powered and low-priced miniature laptops that typically weigh less than three pounds and sell for under $500. Other ultralight machines in this less-is-more category include MIT's OLPC, the Asus Eee PC, Acer's Aspire, MSI's Wind and HP's Mini-Note."
Source: Linux Today Tux Training: "She’s had the same computer since she was a freshman in college, and she graduated 3 years ago. And boy did she mess it up royally, regularly. Viruses, spyware, you name it. Eventually she got a boyfriend who knew even less that she did except he loves the computer between the two of them, they’d screw up Windows XP SP2 so badly that it was more timely to re-install the OS and start from scratch each time."
Source: Linux Today Canonical Blog: "We will also be making IBM Lotus Symphony available too, packaged up for an easy install through the Ubuntu Add / Remove software tool. Symphony is IBM’s driver for acceptance of a free and open alternative to the ubiquitous Microsoft Office."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: ""The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen.""
Source: Linux Today Desktop Linux: "A vendor of Linux-based WiFi arrays is finally releasing a version of its WiFi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open source, widget-like Xirrus WiFi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot WiFi networks, says Xirrus."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "Sean Michael Kerner is an excellent reporter, and gives the impression of keeping a straight face as he wrote this article. It may be that he did; I know I would not have been capable of writing it as a straight news story. Allow me to share a few choice quotes:"
Source: Linux Today Shuttle: "SLK4500 -- Starting at $299.99 -- Foresight Linux;
SYK4500 -- Starting at $429.00 -- Windows Vista Home Basic 32Bit"
I thought this might be interesting to LT readers- no pricing games, just a straightforward comparison on identical hardware -- ed.
Source: Linux Today Tip of the Trade: "Dragonfly BSD v2.0 has recently been released. It's a fork from FreeBSD, and it's ultimate goal is to provide native clustering support in the kernel."
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