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Source: Linux Today Datamation: "He might be called the international rock star of computer security. Having testified before Congress and given well-regarded speeches the world over, when Bruce Schneier talks about security, experts listen."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 8.10 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. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license."
Source: Linux Today Enterprise Networking Planet: "If you're looking for a darned good open-source backup solution, this may be your lucky day for an interview with this data-sucking vampire. For tape backup and even disk-to-disk backup, Bacula is one of the more popular and well-maintained open source applications out there."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Many academics and students share a dirty secret: They hate the drudgery of assembling bibliographies. The cb2bib utility attempts to remove some of the drudgery, at least so far as online references go. Designed primarily for use with BibTeX, cb2bib can also be used with other formats once you export the results. However, whether the application actually makes bibliographical tasks easier seems questionable."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting guides us through the Border Gateway Protocol, which is the routing protocol of the Internet. BGP itself isnt too complex, but the concepts behind autonomous-system-based routing can be strange to newcomers. In this article we are given a short overview of how BGP works, along with the problems it solves and causes."
Source: Linux Today Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "GLib is a utility library for C, which augments the standard C library in several purposeful ways to make your life that much easier while programming. GLib has the following things to offer you:"
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "In our original article we hadn't focused much upon the graphics tests and we were just using ATI's binary driver, but per a request from Canonical's Bryce Harrington, we have carried out some open-source graphics tests on Ubuntu 7.04 through 8.10 and we started with the ATI performance."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "The release of Firefox 3 in June was a major milestone for Mozilla, but still, nearly six months later, there are those who have eschewed the new for the comfortable, homey, well-worn-in welcomeness of Firefox 2. That will be changing soon, though, as funeral arrangements for the second-era Fox are in full-tilt at Mozilla HQ, and the service is fast approaching."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "The benefit to users is somewhat akin to walking into a hardware store. On the shelves are tools, each suited to a specific task. And it's particularly nice that all the tools are free."
Source: Linux Today GoblinX Project: "The MPlayer, Linux Movie Player, is an extraordinary video and audio player, and it has hundreds of options to use in order to do everything we wish to an audio or video file, one of these fantastic options are used to video output."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "But what do you do if you need to run multiple commands in the background? You could put them all into a separate script file and then execute that script followed by an ampersand, or you can keep the commands in your main script and run them as a sub-shell."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "T-Mobile has issued an over-the-air fix for a laughable Android security bug that caused anything typed into its G1 phone to be interpreted by a root shell process."
Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "The /proc directory -- which provides a text-based way of interfacing with system settings and processes -- looks complicated at first glance, but it can be incredibly helpful when troubleshooting."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "There are a plenty of ways to grow a business, including the old-fashioned approach of stealing customers from your competition. The latest entrant is Novell, which is pitching customers of Red Hat's Linux to migrate over to Novell."
Source: Linux Today Techdirt: "So, what's Searete? Well, it appears (warning: pdf file) that it's one of the many ultra secret shell front companies for Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, a company that unabashedly plans to be a huge patent tollbooth on just about any kind of innovation."
Source: Linux Today Linux and Open Source: "Having said that, the CLI can be intimidating and obscure, but it doesn’t need to be. There are a number of tips and tricks that can be accomplished on the CLI and so this tip will provide a few of them."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "The XO laptop will be sold on Amazon through the same arrangement as the G1G1 program, in which a consumer donates $400 for two laptops, one of which is delivered to a child in a developing nation."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Virtual appliances deliver focused services in a lightweight package. With all of the talk around virtualization being large system optimization, why single-purpose machines getting so much attention?"
Source: Linux Today Debian Administration: "Inspired by this work, and because I have the same laptop, I decided to try to reproduce their results. So far I have not come very close to their 5 seconds, but I have made some significant improvements compared to the default boot time for Debian on that machine; this article describes what I've done."
Source: Linux Today Webware: "I get a lot of e-mail from people asking when Google will release its Chrome Web browser for Mac OS X and Linux."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "InternetNews.com has learned that Sun is set to release StarOffice 9 on November 17th. StarOffice is Sun's office suite offering currently based on the OpenOffice.org code base."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "Novell is reaching out to Red Hat customers and Microsoft channel partners with a new offer. The strategy: Train Microsoft solutions providers to replace Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Novell SUSE Linux."
Source: Linux Today The Register: "Microsoft's CodePlex site could be revised before the year's out to signpost genuinely open-source projects, after the company got itself in hot water."
Source: Linux Today OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas: "But once you do it, you don't have to create the envelope document again. You don't have to figure out which way the printers go in. You know. So the second time and all other times, you just open the old doc, whether you made it into a template or just saved it "
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Linux just keeps popping up on many of the popular gadgets that are hogging the limelight nowadays. Some are quite conspicuous about it, like the Android phone that is being developed by a group that makes it very obvious, calling themselves the Open Handset Alliance. However, there are some that don't flaunt Linux around, like the Amazon Kindle."
Source: Linux Today Random Rantings: "So here I am, with a wonderful Wii, complete with Twilight Hack and Homebrew Menu installed, wondering if I could do something crazy like run Ubuntu on it. After some trial and error, it appears possible to do a debootstrap of an Ubuntu PowerPC installation and have it work!.
Source: Linux Today moving parts of the kasper clan: "I've been running OpenSUSE 11 for a couple of months now, and thanks to the awesome nightly/weekly KDE 4.2/trunk packages, I'm thoroughly enjoying pretty-darned-bleeding-edge 4.2/trunk packages, but with half the carbs, and I am loving what I'm seeing!"
Source: Linux Today Michael Tiemann's blog: "Venkatesh Hariharan recently wrote an article titled The practical problem with software patents, a subject near and dear to my heart. He draws on the same research that I have cited in the past, the book "Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk," by Boston University professors, James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, but I confess that he shows both greater insights and certainly a better sense of humor than I do when I write abou the subject."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "I know some of you, especially those who are disappointed with the Intrepid Ibex theme, are still hoping to see a completely refurbished Ubuntu look. So here are a few Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" mock-up designs that are showing up this early:"
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "OStatic: What do the results of this study mean for someone who uses Linux as their primary operating system, but isn't a developer or engineer?"
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Geek: "We have already dicussed how to add ubuntu machine in to windows Active Directory.In this tutorial we will see how Integrate windows Active Directory and Samba in Ubuntu.If you want to access samba shares from windows Active Directory."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Baobab is a C/gtk+ application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment. Baobab can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch either on the local system or on a remote system."
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