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Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "One of the things that seems to be confusing for new users to BSD is the concept of slices and partitions. The partitions they understand, but many are baffled by the concept of slices. What are slices and why are they needed?"
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2009.0 desktop (with the GNOME desktop environment) 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."
Source: Linux Today Quick Tweaks: "If you regularly run a couple of OS from your VirtualBox and want to login to those OS directly from GDM session, here is a quick way to do it."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "When you hear the "brand" name "Damn Small Linux" these days (note the title of this post has been altered slightly to try and be as non-confrontational as possible. We don't need or want any flack from oversensitive web-monitors, and we'll be damned if we won't do everything possible to stay under the radar "
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "As Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, the head of this project, has been blathering on about Mono for years and years, one did not expect that this announcement would have any more traction than the grandiose announcements of previous releases."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "flimp is a generic graphical frontend to the many excellent command line image manipulation tools available. It allows you to create pipelines of commands that read from standard input and write to standard output."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "I like Chrome, Google's beta Web browser, a lot. It boasted the fastest Web-rendering engine I'd ever seen, until now. Starting last night, there's a new Web speed-demon, Firefox 3.1 beta 1."
Source: Linux Today ReadWriteWeb: "How do you make money if you give your software away for free? That's the classic question asked of Open Source software vendors and the expected reply is that they charge customers for software customization and support. That's not the way it works anymore, though, according to a report published today by analyst firm The 451 Group."
Source: Linux Today I'm a Super.com: "What if there was a type of cookie that could:
Stay on your computer for an unlimited amount of time
Store 100 kb of data by default, with an unlimited max
Couldn't be deleted by your browser"
Source: Linux Today VoIP Planet: "What looks like Skype and works like an open-source PBX? "Skype on Asterisk," of course."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "When you open the Firefox browser, it knows where you are and immediately opens websites for nearby restaurants, stores and other attractions."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "I have just opened and defused an email positively crackling with anger, frustration and hurt. It was followed at speed with eight more, by way of illustration. Having read them all, I second every emotion."
Source: Linux Today CNet: "The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available."
Source: Linux Today Seeing Through Windows: "The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out today, and if you're looking to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying Microsoft Office --- you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and not lose out on many features."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "Discovery's sound-producing architecture is straightforward subtractive synthesis enriched with a variety of tools for further sonic bending and blending. The screenshot in Figure 1 shows how the GUI is organized to represent the synthesis signal flow. The output from the LFO (low-frequency oscillator) modulates the main audio oscillator stage, and the output from that stage is further modified by the filter and amplifier stages."
Source: Linux Today InformationWeek: "There's little question that Linux on laptops (and on PCs in general) is no longer nearly as complicated or painful as it used to be. The new problem is whether notebook manufacturers are going to readily offer Linux to consumers -- both regular folks on the street and corporate clients -- outside of designated niches."
Source: Linux Today Between the Lines: "The only price for access to this incredible wealth of software is to obey the Free Software licenses and give their customers the same freedoms that they themselves have."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions."
Source: Linux Today Electronics Weekly: "Linux has gained a firm position in the embedded market. This raises the question of whether it is worth developing new products with Linux and replacing an existing operating system with Linux. There is effort and risk in any migration of an operating system, and the technical difficulties and analysis and planning for migration to embedded Linux require consideration and time."
Source: Linux Today Silicon.com: "The BBC iPlayer's download function will soon be coming to Linux and Macs, thanks to a deal between Auntie and Adobe."
Source: Linux Today Works With U: "One of the three fundamental principles of the Ubuntu philosophy is the availability of software in a user's native language, whatever that happens to be. While those of us who grew up speaking one of the world's top 10 languages might never give linguistic freedom a second thought, this is an area where Ubuntu clearly outperforms its proprietary competitors."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "If you write software for Linux though you can pretty much do whatever you want, except, of course, you shouldn't. Because if you do re-invent the wheel every time you write for Linux, we end up with software that doesn't work or play well with other Linux software. That's where the LSB (Linux Standard Base) comes in."
Source: Linux Today OLPC News: "Recently Anne Gentle and I organised the 3rd FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint, which was the first for OLPC and Sugar. We had recently been approached by David Farning from Sugar Labs to host the Sugar documentation and there followed a frenzy of discussion on multiple mailing-lists about who would manage, write, and host the documentation for both OLPC and Sugar."
Source: Linux Today Open Enterprise: "In particular, people worry about how to make an open source business "scale" - shorthand for finding a way to make lots of money without really trying. As the CAOS report notes, the only way people have been able to come up with something that "scales" is to add proprietary elements."
Source: Linux Today LinuxWorld: "Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled."
Source: Linux Today New York Times: "The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the Internet, persuading a federal court in Chicago on Tuesday to freeze the group's assets and order the spam network to shut down."
Source: Linux Today Royal HeHe2-ness!: "You would probably end up spending thousands on software to equip your school’s computers, and with the budget constraint, you will roll out only a fraction of the computers actually needed. This would put you in front of two options; either some schools get computers, or cramp 10 children in front of one computer."
Source: Linux Today Tecosystems: "“The big win is saying 'screw you' to KDE and Gnome and all those crap Linux interfaces and APIs." - John Gruber, Daring Fireball"
Source: Linux Today NewsFactor: "OpenOffice 3.0 now supports Macs for the first time, along with Windows and Linux computers. The Microsoft Office alternative even supports Microsoft Access .accdb files and the word processor can create Web 2.0 XHTML and MediaWiki documents. OpenOffice also puts some functions into extensions to reduce feature bloat."
Source: Linux Today Works With U: "Now, the challenge: It sounds like there really isn't much - if any - money flowing from Wikipedia to Canonical."
Source: Linux Today CIO: "IT budgets will shrink along with all other budgets, and maybe even more than other budgets. After all, companies still need to advertise and pay their workforce, but they may be able to do without new servers or software for a while. And that is where open source software vendors can help keep the ship sailing."
Source: Linux Today The Channel Wire: "In summary, it looks as if Open Office is continuing on its path as the would-be Microsoft Office killer."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "The flash memory revolution keeps on revving up, with 32GB now a standard USB flash memory drive capacity at prices that anyone can afford."
Source: Linux Today SunMink: "At the ODF Workshop last week, a number of the delegates were asking about the right way to handle archiving of their documents. Obviously ODF offers a baseline file format that promises long-term readability and editability, but the question remains of how best to handle files."
Source: Linux Today Serverwatch: "I've been using bash for years, and I still haven't come anywhere close to mastering the full range of available command line keyboard shortcuts. I've found the best way to get more under my fingers is to note a few on a Post-It stuck to the monitor, and then swap it for another one at intervals."
Source: Linux Today Adam's Tech Talk: "Thanks to some further thought and some great comments and suggestions, I've got a clearer idea of what I'd like to build, and I've devised a preliminary hardware list. I've divided this into various categories to help planning and ordering."
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