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Source: Linux Today WDVL: "There can be many reasons why you might need a client/server application. For a simple example, purchasing for a small retail chain might need up to the minute stock levels on a central server. The point-of-sale application in the stores would then need to post inventory transactions to the central server in real-time."
Source: Linux Today MakeTechEasier: "For those who are using Ubuntu Jaunty, you will notice that there is a change in the way the system notifies you to upgrade software. In the past, an icon will appear on the system tray whenever there is new update available."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "Do desktops matter?
Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation insists they don't."
Source: Linux Today I'm heading out on vacation for a week, so I'm counting on you fine readers to behave yourselves and not make my substitute editors cry. Anyway they're both tough, grizzled old grouches who don't care, so you're in good hands. I intend to spend the entire week nowhere near a computer.
Source: Linux Today LWN.net: "openSUSE development is now even _more_ open than before. Factory development
is changing, and we're making it easier for contributors to take
responsibility for packages and to contribute directly to openSUSE."
Source: Linux Today EdTechDev: "I've been using Ubuntu Linux as my sole operating system for two years now, ever since before I became a professor. The switch was completely painless as I had already been using the same software on Windows and the Mac for years (such as OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC, Pidgin, Netbeans, Eclipse, JEdit, Inkscape, Gimp, etc.). I wrote about making the switch to Linux gradually over 6 years ago "
Source: Linux Today Jamie's Random Musings: "The first thing to say about Moblin this time is that the automatic update process seems to work very well. Shortly after booting it today I got a notice that there were 344 updates available for my system, and it is now happily chugging along installing them. Quite Nice."
Source: Linux Today DBTA: "The project fulfills several purposes and "one of them is to give Red Hat a place to contribute code and have it integrated into a release that is in very wide distribution to millions and millions of users," Paul Frields, Fedora project leader at Red Hat, tells Linux Executive Report."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "I'm writing about using the KDE Interactive Geometry (Kig) program to teach mathematics. Kig allows you to use various tools to diagram and demonstrate different mathematical concepts. With Kig, you can draw points, lines, line segments, half lines, vectors, circles and various other conic sections."
Source: Linux Today Howtoforge: "Qmailtoaster (www.qmailtoaster.com) is a project that aims to make the installation of Qmail onto RPM based systems a snap. All of the packages are distributed in source RPMs so building the packages for your particular distro and architecture is as easy as running a script or a simple command for each package."
Source: Linux Today 10 Things: "Open source brings a host of benefits to the mobile market, starting with cost savings. But as Jack Wallen explains, the advantages go much further - from better security to more customization options to more prolific application development."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "This led me to the question: "What's the oldest PC that you're still using?"
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "Amazon recently released the source code of some of the components that are used in the Kindle. Contrary to the erroneous reports that are circulating the Web, Amazon is not opening its ebook reader. The code release is purely for GPL compliance while the Kindle's ebook features remain proprietary."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld UK: "The company providing technology to the US intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise-search technology to the CIA and other intelligence agencies."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Before I blow town to avoid a pending arrest warrant (or am I just going on a regular family vacation? ;) I put together a few fluff posts so I don't have to worry too much about any mistakes I may have made."
Source: Linux Today HTML Goodies: "If you are developing or theming for a content management system (CMS) -- such as Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Blogspot -- Firebug is an essential tool. These applications are comprised of many, many files, and navigating through this maze can be daunting without a tool like Firebug"
Source: Linux Today Spice Mines of Kessel: "Perhaps there are some of you out there with a friend or loved one that is a long distance away and a regular phone call just doesn't suffice. It's one thing to hear his or her voice, but to see a face and a smile makes a world of a difference. I am soon to be in such a situation and I wanted to make sure I was going to be able to make the most of my communication with this special person."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "The Linux-friendly System76 manufacturer recently introduced the Bonobo Professional notebook computer with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, which we happen to be looking at now and today are delivering some initial performance results from this high-end NVIDIA GPU under Ubuntu Linux."
Source: Linux Today Open Enterprise: "Shaver noted how most of the real advances in 3.5 were non-obvious to the general user; sending it out into the world as Firefox 4.0 would have created false expectations that might not have been met. So think of it as a kind of coded signal to those in the know: it may not look much different, but there are some powerful new features under the bonnet."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "Mike Rayfield, the company's general manager for the mobile business unit, has stated that NVIDIA prefers Windows CE over Android because CE is more mature. Windows CE "is a rock-solid operating system that has been shipped billions of times.""
Source: Linux Today ZDNetUK: "Not only is the Linux desktop user-friendly, powerful and flexible, it is also an improvement on the more familiar operating systems."
Source: Linux Today Tech Radar: "Our favourite is called the Magic Folder. You can install it by clicking on the Add Widgets icon, followed by Install New Widgets. Magic Folder appears in the list, from where you'll be able to drag it on to the desktop."
Source: Linux Today IT Business.ca: "I've barely put down the Palm Pre since it arrived at my desk this week, and I've come up with quite a few Pre tips, tricks and shortcuts, the best of which I'm sharing below."
Source: Linux Today Linux Blog Safari: "Will ARM-powered smartbooks make all the difference for Linux? There's no unanimity of opinion in the FOSS world, except perhaps the general agreement that the $200 units Freescale and Qualcomm debuted at Computex are, well, interesting. Unlike Windows, most Linux software is "only a recompile away from running on ARM," noted Slashdot blogger Peter Brett."
Source: Linux Today Blog of Helios: ""Oh yeah well Linux is only secure because no one uses it. You just wait until the hackers think it's worth messing with, then you'll see, Mr. smarty pants Linux user."
Source: Linux Today Linux Weekly News: "One of the topics of ongoing interest in the kernel community is that of maintaining quality. It is trivially obvious that we need to maintain and even improve quality. It is less obvious how best to do so."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Not long ago, we've featured here some of the most beautiful KDM themes available for all the KDE users out there. So it's only appropriate to give GNOME lovers a little treat by presenting several good looking GDM themes this time around."
Source: Linux Today Ouistiti: "This tutorial will show you how to install and setup a linux recording environment on your EEE PC or other netbook, for the purpose of mobile audio recording and audio sampling"
Source: Linux Today Gimpusers: "GAP is a collection of GIMP plugins that make it possible to create animations as sequences of single frames. The result can be saved as animated GIF, AVI or MPEG file (external libraries are used for this)."
Source: Linux Today From Windows to Linux: "One of the questions I see the most in forums and sites like Yahoo Answers is : "What is the best Linux distribution for beginners?" or "What is the easiest Linux distribution?""
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Geek: "This tutorial explain how to use screen and screen profiles in your ubuntu server.
Screen is a program that allows you to have multiple logins on one terminal."
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