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Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "And now, Red Hat is campaigning for change. The software company will spend next week evangelizing the government’s growing need for open source. It’s a smart, timely move by Red Hat. Here's why."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "For the first time I'm scared for open source. Not open source as a global movement and way of doing business and software development - that's safe. Even Microsoft believes in it."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Video games have long struck me as a perfect platform for open-source development. Unfortunately, many gamers agreed, and the courts are littered with copyright lawsuits over the years when developers tried to extend their favorite games."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "Anytime you use a dollar sign followed by a variable name you're doing what bash calls Parameter expansion, eg echo $a or a=$b. But parameter expansion has numerous other forms which allow you to expand a parameter and modify the value or substitute other values in the expansion process."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "At what point -- or, rather, at what price -- does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?"
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "If the fact that the ParanoidLinux distribution (now in an "alpha-alpha stage") is based on a work of science fiction isn't unsettling, consider two key peripheral issues."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "Of what use is an operating system if all it does is to make you look forward to the next release - simply because umpteen bugs have been introduced by all the new features in the current version?"
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up a gOS 3.0 Gadgets desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge."
Source: Linux Today 10 Things: "Does Linux have what it takes to meet the needs of the corporate desktop? Jack Wallen thinks so. Here’s his list of office apps that can handle everything from word processing to project management to data backups."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "KVM is a free opensource virtualization software and is included in Linux Kernel version 2.6.20 and above. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images."
Source: Linux Today Computing Technology: "Other simpler-to-use rippers, however, have surfaced more recently, such as RipperX, Goobox, and the one that comes bundled with Ubuntu: Sound Juicer."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "If you like, go ahead and take a moment to rant at the astonishing numbers of persons who still complain about "RPM hell" as though Yum were never invented. RPM is package manager that concerns itself only with single software packages and how they are put together, and does not care about dependencies. Yum is dependency-resolving installer for RPM."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Yes, its date of publication was 1997. What makes this brochure different is that it is open. Perhaps this is less impressive in light of the advent of wikis, but the purpose and intent of the brochure is still remarkable, and well worth expanding upon."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "So far, all of the browsers that I reviewed for this book have been Gnome-based browsers. Epiphany is a Gnome-sponsored project, and Firefox is rapidly moving towards Gnomeization (though at the time of this writing, a Qt port of Firefox is under heavy development). What’s a good KDE user to do? Simple: use the conqueror of the browser market, Konqueror."
Source: Linux Today Quick Tweaks: "Enough said about Linux being free. You shouldn’t use anything just for the reason that it’s free. This post is for those Linux users who underestimate the power of Linux Terminal and for those Windows users who thinks that Linux is useless."
Source: Linux Today Small Business Computing: "There is no centralized way of counting Linux adoption because so many stories are anecdotal and there are so many channels through which Linux can be taken up. Rather than rely on unreliable statistics to make the point that Linux for small businesses in 2008 is a more viable option than ever, we simply need to look at the continued maturation of SMB-friendly Linux offerings."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "People have this delusion that the Web is a fount of all information. That, if you look hard enough with Google and other search engines, you can find all the answers. That's crap."
Source: Linux Today Works With U: "As anyone familiar with the Linux wireless scene before 2006 knows, Broadcom, which manufacturers the wireless chipsets found in many laptops, was for a long time synonymous with everything evil about closed-source software. That's changing."
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "Shall I compare thee to a Knol? Hmm, perhaps not. Wikipedia sounds just right. Memorable and serious but not too serious. Of course Wikipedia is now an established "brand" and it has a big headstart on any competitor."
Source: Linux Today LinuxHaxor: "How many of you have never customized/tweaked your favorite linux distro since your first installation? I suspect very few, if any. One of the main appeal of Linux (and open source softwares) is the freedom of customization and the choice to do virtually anything you want. You are only limited by your imagination and understanding of the system. So today we will share some tips and information to make your linux system "
Source: Linux Today JBCobb.net: "Here is a real-world example of something Windows will never do do that Linux *encourages*: rebuilding your kernel to support new hardware. You can do this on Linux; you may not want to but it is really nice knowing that you can. Microsoft will never ever allow this "
Source: Linux Today OStatic: ""We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology ""
Source: Linux Today Legal World And Childhood Dreams: "'Means are more important than the end: it is only with the right means that the desired end will follow.'"
Source: Linux Today Roy Tanck's Weblog: "Some bloggers have wondered whether the netbook hype that's currently going on will popularize Linux among (former) Windows users. For me personally, I can aswer that question with a firm 'yes'. Not only did I opt to install Ubuntu on my netbook, I've also set it up on my 'TV-PC'."
Source: Linux Today Blog of Helios: "Often, you never know who is reaching out to you to take the baton. So focused are you on the race, the ones relaying the prize are not important at the time."
Source: Linux Today LinuxHaxor: "The latest Gimp is not just an incremental release, but a major one in terms of development. Apart from major changes in user interface and tool sets, under the hood Gimp has a new powerful graph based image processing framework called GEGL. One of the many advantage of CEGL is the ability to do "on the fly" image processing (like Gaussian Blur) with preview."
Source: Linux Today Bauer-Power: "One of the coolest things ever invented was the OS on the stick. Whoever was smart enough to think of putting an operating system on a portable USB key was simply brilliant! I mean, seriously! How convenient is that?"
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "As Android, BlackBerry, the iPhone and a host of rivals all fight for share, it's clear that market success is all about applications and the underlying platform."
Source: Linux Today NY Times: "The digital media pioneer RealNetworks and Hollywood’s top studios are suing one another in California federal court over Real’s new DVD copying program, RealDVD."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Distillery: "Here’s what to do, plus one thing the Linux filesystem does brilliantly which Windows can’t do at all."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "Because of Linux I hardly have to lift a finger anymore, and because of it my health is suffering."
Source: Linux Today Wi-Fi Planet: "In the annals of computer software with bizarre and seemingly random names, "Tomato" is probably one of the less weird examples as these things go. But whether you say tomay-toe or tomah-toe, this one is neither a fruit nor a vegetable—it is a firmware for wireless routers, including the popular WRT54G family."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "I'm not sure why the silly notion that "Only .10068% of Linux kernel developers are paid" keeps circulating, but it does. So, let me just say, once and for all, Linux is written, for the most part, by paid software engineers and programmers from major American corporations."
Source: Linux Today Free Software in Latin America: "This quick action clearly shows how important the choice of ODF format is by the government. It it is a show of respect to the country’s citizens, since the government won’t force them to buy a license in order to view information which is their right to have access to."
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