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Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "Therefore, using noatime can lead to significant performance gains."
Source: Linux Today Packt: "In this article by Mark Noble, we will introduce our imaginary client, the Good Eatin' Bistro, and discuss their plans to build a newsletter for their web site. We will add some new features which will allow Chef Wanyama, who is the owner of the Good Eatin' Bistro, a popular upscale restaurant, to keep his customers informed of current events at Good Eatin' restaurant."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It includes a real UNIX shell, a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) emulation library, and thousands of UNIX utilities ported to Windows."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "By now, you might have noticed that I'm a big fan of Puppy Linux. I wrote about this tiny Linux distro in Linux (Pro) Magazine, and extol its virtues at any given opportunity."
Source: Linux Today Debian Admin: "A wireless bridge may be the answer, either as a dedicated piece of hardware (like the Linksys WET54G) or using a spare wireless router with WDS capability as remote station. Both solutions get around the Linux driver issue in that no wireless driver is required."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Cisco Systems is a gold member of the Linux Foundation, the non-profit association "dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux." Yet according to a lawsuit for copyright violation filed last week by the Software Freedom Law Center on behalf of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Cisco has repeatedly infringed on the copyright of core GNU/Linux utilities over the last five years."
Source: Linux Today TechRadar: "Or has it just been made obsolete by the Apple Mactini Nano?"
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Over the next few months we'll begin testing a greater number of PCs (primarily notebooks and netbooks) at Phoronix under Linux. Like our component testing, we'll also be delivering Linux benchmarks from these PCs using the Phoronix Test Suite."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Movial Octopus Media Engine" provides a central point of contact for "all" multimedia use cases on a Linux-based device, according to Movial. It includes an API (application programming interface) for management of local or network-based media, and works with either GStreamer or OpenMAX IL (integration layer) components for transporting and rendering media files."
Source: Linux Today Media Newswire: "Now that big business has grasped the principles of open source, the open source community can get down to business. New times demand new ideas, and OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, has opened its call for innovation. O'Reilly Media and program chairs Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill invite proposals for tutorials, sessions, and panels for OSCON, happening July 20 - 24, 2009, in San Jose, CA."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "One of the most repeated examples cited to promote open source philosophy is that of an electronic voting system. If this process is not understood or transparent then its results cannot be trusted. The strength of this argument has gone up a hundredfold with the discovery that Diebold counting software has been missing ballots for four years."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "If Parkinson's Law for computers holds true, then no matter how much disk space you have, it will get used up. If you're already feeling a pinch, consider using a disk space analyzer tool to see what's eating your space."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "But, whether his health has gone downhill or not isn't really what important to the worlds of technology and business. What's important is that, by not showing up to make the keynote speech at Macworld, Jobs appears to no longer be at Apple's helm."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "The fastest and most efficient way to navigate your Ubuntu/GNOME desktop is to learn the keyboard shortcuts that are available at your fingertips So if you want to increase your productivity, you have to know the all-important keys."
Source: Linux Today Standards Blog: "The emotion arises in part because Rambus develops and licenses technology, but does not actually fabricate semiconductors. This has made its stockholders particularly partisan, as its stock has risen and fallen in synchrony with its fortunes in court, and its detractors particularly irate, because they view Rambus not only as a patent troll, but also as one that has gamed the standards development process "
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Warning to Windows fanboys: The images that you are about to see are incredibly disturbing."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "Roger Levy NovellNovell is generating buzz this week with the December 18 launch of OpenSUSE 11.1. But The VAR Guy is looking at Novell from a slightly different perspective. The far bigger news involves senior VP Roger Levy (pictured) -- who may bring order to Novell's product lines."
Source: Linux Today LinuxMint: "Based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" comes with a brand new "Software Manager", FTP support in mintUpload, proxy support and history of updates in mintUpdate, mint4win (a Linux Mint installer for Microsoft Windows), tabbed browsing in Nautilus and a lot of other improvements."
Source: Linux Today eWeek: "Linux and open source will start to chip away at Microsoft Windows desktop software thanks to their popularity on netbooks, those ultralight, low-cost laptops."
Source: Linux Today IT Toolbox: "What really gets me excited about Linux is its ability to recover from disasters. When, in an emergency, a program or service has to be moved from one machine to another in the shortest time possible I would bet on Linux every time. Especially if you do not have the programs install disks. Here is what happened."
Source: Linux Today steaming open cup: "Now, since we're all Linux lovers here and since our beloved Tux has undoubtedly enjoyed a great year, here's my top 10 wish list for all ye jolly readers."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "Likewise Software, which specializes in getting Linux and other Unix systems to work with AD (Active Directory) authentication, management, and auditing is offering a middle ground program between its open-source version, Likewise Open, and its enterprise edition, Likewise Enterprise: Likewise Open with Cell Module."
Source: Linux Today Royal Pingdom: "For the last five years the data recovery company Kroll Ontrack has been publishing a yearly list of strange ways people have broken their computers and/or hard drives. We here at Pingdom have gone through those press releases and handpicked the funniest and most bizarre incidents, for your reading pleasure."
Source: Linux Today Managing L'unix: "Similarly, when Linus Torvalds decided to build a "free Unix for the 386" he stripped away Tanenbaum's layered micro-kernel and hardwired Intel's approach to interrupt management directly into what has since become the largest monolithic kernel still in use."
Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: "Wine is a piece of software that allows Windows applications to run natively on Linux. The problem is that not all applications work perfectly through Wine. Some applications work perfectly, while others don’t even install."
Source: Linux Today Me and U(buntu): "This FAQ is where OpenSUSE gets its best shot at PR, alternately arguing "there is no problem with the Novell/Microsoft deal" and "OpenSUSE isn't Novell, so even if there were any problems, you can still use us". Of course, both arguments are dishonest, but since the people often think just linking to a FAQ settles the matter, a bit of analysis on this particular FAQ might be worthwhile."
Source: Linux Today Electronista: "Dell on Tuesday quietly expanded its options for the Inspiron Mini 12 with Linux and XP options."
Source: Linux Today Royal HeHe2Ness: "Doing some shopping for your technical friends this year? Or just following the Golden Rule of Giving? That is, Give Something That You Yourself Would Like In Case They Don’t Get Around To Using It."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "When it comes to Linux, most U.S. headlines involve Canonical, Novell or Red Hat. But another Linux distribution -- from Mandriva S.A. of Paris, France -- is making a name for itself in the global IT channel"
Source: Linux Today Intranet Journal: "Over the course of recent years, some people have found the quality of most out-of-the-store firewall appliances either lacking functionality or worse, set at a price that has made them generally out of reach. Because of this issue, I thought it would be beneficial to write an article to better highlight what works and what does not with regard to turning an older PC into a standalone router/firewall appliance."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Yesterday we had published our AMD Linux 2008 Year in Review where we had provided a recap of all major features introduced in their Linux driver over the past year as well as taking the time to re-benchmark every Catalyst driver released this year. We have been doing this process annually going back to 2005, and now it's time to look at the NVIDIA Linux driver releases from this year."
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