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Source: Linux Today The Linux Hardcore: "Mandrake was one of the first Linux Distros I used and has always had my respect for it's hardware recognition and robustness. Even though back then, rpm distros were notorious for giving you a taste of "dependency hell", one of the reason why I previously went for Debian-based Ubuntu (Hoary to Dapper) and then later Debian itself."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "What exactly is the Internet? This article will explain the concepts required to understand BGP, our next Networking 101 topic. Shipping packets around the Internet requires the cooperation of separate organizations, so it isn't as straightforward as learning about an IGP routing mechanism."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to take a look at simply and quickly getting as much dirty information about open ports on your own localhost as possible (By localhost, we mean, the server you're currently logged into and by dirty, we mean "not necessarily useful, but, probably, interesting and, maybe, useful" ;)"
Source: Linux Today Certification Magazine: "Omni and Userful announced that more than 50 academic institutions from 29 U.S. States and 10 countries worldwide have signed up to deploy Multi-station SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops through the "Free the Penguins" education initiative."
Source: Linux Today Any political discussion can turn dangerous in a heartbeat, and they usually do, with foaming and fireworks more usual than relaxed give-and-take. So a lot of folks avoid any kind of political discussion entirely just to keep the peace. And this makes sense-- why pick unnecessary fights?
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Such lightweight and universal access is the promise of Gollem, a file manager that runs in your Web browser. With it you can connect to and manage your files on a WebDAV, FTP, or traditional filesystem or SQL database.
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "With this in mind, and for several other reasons, I think many people are underestimating the impact Fennec will have as a mobile browser. Here is why."
Source: Linux Today Royal HeHe2-ness!: "The most outrageously great was the "chicken sitter." Gordon Smith of Lakewood, CO, wanted to do a "useful project." Save the chickens!"
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Linux users are not an easy bunch to profile or to count. Many Linux users download the operating system for free and never perform any kind of systems registration to enumerate their hardware.
That's where Smolt may be able to help fill the gap."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "In the past, Microsoft wouldn't have sweated this kind of flop. "What can users do?" they'd say. "Move to Linux or Macs? Ha!" That was then. This is now."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "LinuxPlanet Classics: This was originally published on LinuxPlanet Dec. 18, 2000, though it could be brand-new, as these same old anti-Linux arguments are being recycled yet one more time. And just in time for the holidays! Read on to learn how Brian Proffitt artfully demolishes the "It's not even an operating system, it's just old technology cobbled together" nonsense."
Source: Linux Today TechRadar: "If you've never tried Ubuntu, there's never been a better time to dive in. If you're already a convert, read on to discover how to get the best from your installation."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Kid3 is a free opensource tool to easily tag multiple MP3 files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and allow you to control and edit ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. It’s one of those things I started doing so enthusiatically and then give up after a few tracks and finally this should help me get around this."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "Let's say you are on an expensive satellite link that can barely provide enough bandwidth for your company's Internet access and you will want to do whatever you can to get as much as possible out of this link. Moreover, occassionally you lose power from the utility company, long enough for your UPS to run out."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "In October, Mozilla witnessed a surge in Firefox 3's market share as it continued its plan to decommission Firefox 2 -- and the Gecko engine that powered it -- before the end of December."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Last Thursday, the OLPC Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the availability of the Fedora Sugar Spin LiveCD. This release incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment in to a Fedora liveCD."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This post will be different from yesterday's in that we'll be focusing on specific CPU-related commands you can use, in a time of crisis (or, perhaps, just a long, drawn-out eternity of soul-crushing boredom ;), to determine if the CPU(s) on your machine are at the fore of whatever problems your system is having."
Source: Linux Today Techworld: "Microsoft has given its most ringing endorsement of open source Web browsers to date with chief executive officer Steve Ballmer not ruling out adopting such technology as an alternative to its own popular Internet Explorer, saying it is "interesting".
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "A Tokyo-based vendor of embedded security technology says its DRM product will be ported to Access's Linux stack for mobile devices. Discretix says its Content Protection for Recordable Media Client offers software-based protection for music, video, and other premium content on SD cards and mobile handsets."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "I have not seriously sat and looked at a Fedora release since FC2. As Fedora's new release started to take shape, I was hearing a lot of positive things -- comments about how good it looked, and how fast and solid it was. It seemed the right time to overcome the mental block I'd developed, and see what the fuss was about."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "The KDE community announced yesterday (November 5th, 2008), in a press release, the immediate availability of the third maintenance of the K Desktop Environment, one of the most popular desktop managers, also known as KDE. The new release, KDE 4.1.3 (dubbed Change), ships with numerous bugfixes, some translation updates and many performance improvements."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "The ReactOS team has released version 0.3.7 of its Windows NT compatible operating system. This release along with the rest of the 0.3.x series is still considered alpha quality software."
Source: Linux Today Michael Tiemann's blog: "It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because his website ran open source software while John McCain's ran on proprietary software. But what is not a stretch at all is that Barack Obama's campaign built a powerful synergy between grass-roots politics and grass-roots technology, while presenting what many consider to be the most disciplined campaign of any candidate in modern history."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "Instead of resorting to things like delaying all writes until shutdown and storing them in RAM, SanDisk claims it has a better option. At WinHEC yesterday, the company introduced its Extreme FFS, which it claims will improve write performance on SSDs by a factor of 100."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "We need to take a quick break from the Bilski series because there are a number of filings in the SCO bankruptcy, including a notation in one filing that seems to indicate that SCO is considering resurrecting the name Caldera International. Take a look at this, Exhibit D [PDF], attached to Dorsey & Whitney's 9th monthly application for compensation. On page 9, we see two notations:"
Source: Linux Today Mercury News: "If more evidence was needed to explain why California has mostly abandoned touch-screen voting, Santa Clara County provided it this week. Fifty-seven electronic voting machines for the disabled malfunctioned Tuesday and could not be replaced for hours, despite requirements that they be available in each precinct."
Source: Linux Today CIO: "Yet a closer look from open-source software developers and industry analysts reveals that enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community."
Source: Linux Today tgDaily: "Dell said it will be adding a new option for wireless connectivity in future laptops. The company plans to install radio chips that will be capable of connecting to the unused U.S. television spectrum referred to as White Spaces."
Source: Linux Today DSP Design Line: "This article looks at the motives behind open source, explains where open source is (and isn't) succeeding, and reveals Texas Instruments' thinking on Linux and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)."
Source: Linux Today Bizarre Linux: "It'll be really hard for me to keep track which feature was done by which, so I'll post GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10 as one. How is it hard? Well, I used to think that most of the things in Ubuntu were done by GNOME, but I was proven wrong when I looked deeply into the progress of Ubuntu 8.10 from alpha to final."
Source: Linux Today nixCraft: "Cheat sheet act as a reference tool which provides cut and paste kind of commands to complete a specific task. I often recommend following set of best cheat sheets to students and IT professionals. It include Linux / UNIX command and shell scripting."
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