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Source: Linux Today OStatic: "He said that initially, Cisco seemed willing to work with the FSF to put procedures in place so that its products -- at the time, and in the future -- would comply with the license terms the firmware used.
Over the course of five years, a compliance plan never materialized."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "For those of you who are serious and not afraid to work hard, it is possible to get paid to write computer howtos. So as long as you promise to not come to my house and pester me, I will share some tips with you."
Source: Linux Today My Thoughts: "I use git quite a lot, for my plugin development and for kernel compiling. I have been creating packages of the latest version for Ubuntu for quite a while. Today I decided to make these packages available to the public by using the Launchpad PPA repository."
Source: Linux Today Okii Living: "Now here we sit on the cusp of 2009 and there are numerous mainstream vendors such as ASUS, Dell, and HP offering pre-loaded Linux desktops and laptops, which brings me to my story."
Source: Linux Today I've read a number of essays recently that claim that the modern information society makes people stupid. The print publication industry is in decline, so people are reading fewer printed books, magazines, and newspapers. These are replaced by the intellectual junk food of the Web and television. The people who write these pieces are passionate, articulate, refer to all kinds of studies, quote all kinds of people, and I suspect get paid well to write them. But it's all for naught because it's hooey.
Source: Linux Today WorksWithU: "System76 continued its long-term Linux commitment today by launching the Gazelle Ultra (pictured) -- an Ubuntu laptop with some pretty slick hardware specs and a biometric fingerprint reader for security."
Source: Linux Today WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 12, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. This is episode 37. Today's stories ask you to decide whether Cisco is a good or a bad witch as the Free Software Foundation sues forward. Meanwhile HP shows IBM they aren't the only ones, netbooks are seriously hot, Amarok rocks hard, and even teachers can learn."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "He notes that "The US industry could absorb more good developers than there are currently students enrolled in IT-related programs -- but not all of those programs and all of those students would qualify as 'good' in this context.""
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "From the "lessons Microsoft should learn from open source" files:
Windows users have a real problem when it comes to updates."
Source: Linux Today Muhammad Siyab: "The OS wars started a long time back, and are still continuing on now, with the open-source side bashing Windows fans and vice versa. Here's a collection of over 30 funny anti-microsoft, pro-linux wallpapers from all over the internet. Enjoy!"
Source: Linux Today Blog of Helios: "It never was my intention to attack anyone personally ."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Linux forums, mailing lists, and even howto articles are full of fearful comments against the Linux command line. "Pry my GUI from my cold dead hands!" is all too common. Nobody wants to take your GUI away, because with Linux you get the full power of both. Akkana Peck gives us a friendly introduction to the Linux command line, starting with a lesson on the fastest way to find files."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "The recession is hitting everyone. But print media companies -- newspapers, books and magazines -- are getting hit harder and sooner than most.
It's their own damned fault."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Corporations and home users alike need firewall protection. Many choices abound, including some expensive, commercial options that only run on specialized hardware. Others, like SmoothWall Express, are freely downloadable, built on the same technology as the commercial solutions, and even deliver some superior features."
Source: Linux Today It's a Binary World 2.0: "When my wife went to do this, she was informed that MS Money only allows you to do this for two years. After that if you want to keep doing it you have to buy another copy of Money."
Source: Linux Today Penguin Pete's Blog: "If you run Linux, BSD, or any other Free and Open Source system, you know that every time you open your mouth about it in day-to-day life, you usually have to stop and explain what it means. Outside your office or school, there's everyday-type folks who have no idea that such a thing exists, and they'll all have to be taught, one person at a time."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Our team had to convert three legacy payroll and HR systems into a brand-spanking new ERP system. And we had to do it in a weekend or potentially impact the payroll of 100,000 employees.
Now, everything was going down the toilet."
Source: Linux Today PC Authority: "I do it with Ubuntu."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "While large businesses are a major focus for HP -- and it has supported open source in other ways -- a "smaller business" line of open source products has been a long time coming."
Source: Linux Today Field Commander Wieers: "However what I found was a few bugreports, some for known issues and some for new issues I haven't heard of. Now the sad part is that nobody contacted me (upstream) regarding these issues. And nobody was fixing them either, let alone commenting on them."
Source: Linux Today Join The Revolution!: "From the outside it's just another Thunderbird as we know it - with some user interface changes and tweaks. But under the hood, the groundwork was laid for many future improvements and additions."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "Since at least May 12, 2006, Cisco has distributed to the public copies of firmware containing the FSF's programs in its products "without providing complete and corresponding source code or an offer for source code as required by the Licenses," the complaint charged. It listed 13 Linksys products as offenders, including its popular wireless routers for setting up Wi-Fi networks."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Microsoft, long the bastion of proprietary thought, is increasingly adding open-source DNA to the fold. And it's adding to its roster of open-source veterans: Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and ActiveState, announced on his blog earlier this week that he will be joining Microsoft:"
Source: Linux Today Heise Online: "After about seven months, the developers have released version 12.2 of Slackware, which is probably the oldest Linux distribution still being maintained."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "In a truly open market the battle to set new mobile standards would be fairly clear.
It's not, because this is not an open market."
Source: Linux Today brajeshwar.com: "One issue that may come to the mind of a Linux user is - How to secure data that comes in from an encrypted file? This critique takes the point that SE Linux is the reply."
Source: Linux Today Planete Beranger: "This is to certify that I have migrated my home laptops to Windows XP Professional for a week already."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "This time we chat with Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language and regarded as the father of modern scripting languages."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Two Oregon educators who founded the K12Linux project seven years ago are glad that they have been able to hand that project over to Fedora, the home they always meant for K12Linux to have."
Source: Linux Today dralnuX.com: "The -exec extension to the find command is a very useful and flexible utility."
Source: Linux Today Fierce Content Management: "Today, Alfresco announced a joint project with the Joomla! web content management system where Alfresco will act as the content repository for Joomla! web sites."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "The computing world has become dependent on various types of tunneling. All remote access VPN connections use tunnels, and you'll frequently hear the geeks talking about SSH tunnels. You can accomplish amazing things with tunnels, so sit back and relax while you enjoy a gentle introduction to tunneling and its uses."
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