5 Free Linux Apps You Can't Do Without PC Authority: "Like a digital Swiss Army knife, these are the Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them." (Nov 2, 2009)
Linux Today Features
Linux Today Sticky Page On this page we'll maintain links to important articles and documents that pertain to Free Software, Linux, and the tech industry. Please submit your suggestions to editors@linuxtoday.com. Thank you! (Jun 15, 2009)
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The 10 biggest failures in IT history 10 Things: "I recently shared a list of events I believe were pivotal in shaping today’s IT industry - things like the development of COBOL and the creation of UNIX. This time around, I’ve listed a few of the biggest failures in IT..." Nov 1, 2009
Microsoft Exchange alternatives (Nov 7, 2009, 20:04 UTC) (2467 reads)
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(feedback) MyBroadband News: "Microsoft Exchange may be one of the most used groupware products on the market but there are also many open source alternatives available."
Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? (Nov 7, 2009, 08:04 UTC) (2299 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "That's no typo: A Linux vendor is requiring its users to run one of its key new products on the rival, closed source Windows operating system."
Novell cuts 3 percent of its workforce, plus benefits (Nov 6, 2009, 22:02 UTC) (1111 reads)
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(feedback) Business Tech: "Linux jobs in the United States are booming, up 6 percent since January, according to data from Dice.com. This will come as small consolation to Novell employees, however, which weathered another round of layoffs at the Waltham, Mass.-based company."
Microsoft Linux: Why one free software advocate wants it (Nov 6, 2009, 13:33 UTC) (3005 reads)
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(feedback) Network World: "A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note."
SECURITY: Turning clouds into crackers: $45 a password (Nov 6, 2009, 10:34 UTC) (1758 reads)
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(feedback) Cloudy News: "Security experts recommend long, complex passwords because they require a super computer’s power to hack into a system. So what happens now that a super computer is available to anyone with a credit card?"
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) (Nov 6, 2009, 01:34 UTC) (1743 reads)
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(feedback) war|ola’s: "The biggest issue about RHEV (and most controversial) is you have to run the management web interface on Windows Server. Yes its not a typo."
GNU/Linux: Virtualbox for solving a common small business problem. (Nov 5, 2009, 19:32 UTC) (2228 reads)
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(feedback) The ERACC Web Log: "We have all heard the GNU/Linux naysayers posit that, “No one will use Linux until (insert application name here) runs natively on Linux.” Other than the fact that this is almost pure hyperbole there is some kernel of truth there. This article demonstrates one solution."
Open source needs successful champions (Nov 5, 2009, 13:04 UTC) (882 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet Asia: "The open source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success, and attract funding and participation in open source, according to Red Hat CEO."
Symantec Backs Up Linux (Nov 5, 2009, 03:04 UTC) (1749 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Symantec is adding Linux support to its Backup Exec System Recovery solution for small businesses."
AMD opening shop in the Middle East? (Nov 4, 2009, 18:33 UTC) (703 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "It looks like AMD and Globalfoundries are going to set up shop in Dubai after taking a hefty chunk of change from an investment firm based in the emirate. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told Emirates Business that the firm is looking to a open chip design center in Dubai, and maybe a fabrication plant in Abu Dhabi."
Novell SUSE Linux Appliance Effort Shows Promise (Nov 4, 2009, 13:03 UTC) (903 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "It has been a few months since Novell launched the SUSE Appliance program. So we checked in with Novell to see how the effort was going so far. Matt Richards, director, emerging technologies, and Steve Hale, VP and worldwide data center channel lead"
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Gets Managed (Nov 4, 2009, 12:33 UTC) (1470 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "Red Hat has been talking about its new virtualization strategy for much of 2009. Today, the Linux vendor is making good on that talk with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, which includes a standalone hypervisor (RHEF-H) as well as a management platform (RHEV-M)."
SECURITY: Patch and Patch Again (Nov 4, 2009, 12:03 UTC) (1814 reads)
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(feedback) Sure, It's Secure: "Microsoft is always patching Windows. What some people don't know is that they often don't get it right the second time either."
La Curacao replaces Netware with Novell SUSE (Nov 4, 2009, 06:03 UTC) (1023 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "La Curacao, a $220 million Hispanic-oriented department store chain, says it has solved its performance problems, boosted reliability and added ample capacity for growth by converting its main transaction and application servers from Novell Netware (a proprietary OS) and Microsoft Windows, respectively, to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise."
The Final OOXML Update: Part III (Nov 3, 2009, 20:02 UTC) (1263 reads)
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(feedback) An Antic Disposition: "Part I showed how Microsoft, despite their promises that control of OOXML would be handed over to an independent, international committee, have instead stuffed the committee that maintains OOXML (JTC1/SC34/WG4) with Microsoft employees. And in Part II I looked at how the final published text of OOXML failed to account for all BRM decisions, and described the steps that ISO was taking to remedy this obvious procedural flaw."
Linux jobs outpacing Windows; virtualization is 'hot' (Nov 3, 2009, 19:02 UTC) (1915 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "Windows job-seekers may have 30% more available openings today in the U.S. than their Linux counterparts. On the upside, however, the number of Linux listings nationwide is growing while demand for Windows staffers is dropping."
5 open source billing systems to watch (Nov 3, 2009, 14:02 UTC) (1979 reads)
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(feedback) CIO: "Collecting money from customers should be the easy part of your business, but an billing system that underperforms can make life unnecessarily difficult for CIOs."
How To Upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 To 9.10 (Desktop & Server) (Oct 31, 2009, 07:31 UTC) (5008 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "Yesterday the new Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 9.10."
Automatic Dialer With Asterisk And GNUDialer (Oct 30, 2009, 19:38 UTC) (1579 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This document describes the installation of the Automatic Dialer GNUDialer, this is an alternative dialer to VICIDial, with more lightweight scripts and a far more easier GUI."
Ubuntu 9.10: Linux for Business (Oct 29, 2009, 17:18 UTC) (2987 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "Even before Ubuntu 9.10 was in beta, Canonical introduced PSE (Premium Service Engineer), a new level of support for large enterprises."
Build an IPSEC VPN Without Losing Your Mind (Oct 29, 2009, 06:19 UTC) (2452 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Networking Planet: "With latency-sensitive or high bandwidth requirements, often we find OpenVPN unable to perform. IPSEC is the solution, but the barrier to using IPSEC is great."
Dual-Booting Linux And Windows: Easier Said than Done (Oct 29, 2009, 04:32 UTC) (3423 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Dual-booting with Windows and desktop Linux is a snap to do. This statement is at best a half-truth as it really depends on the skill set of the person trying to install Linux along side Windows. Despite this, I hear people stating this as a fact nearly everyday. Drives me bananas."
Rule Engine Integration with Nagios using NodeBrain (Oct 28, 2009, 00:27 UTC) (1568 reads)
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(feedback) It-Slave Blog: "This article will describe how easy it is to integrate other tools to Nagios or op5 Monitor. I will use an example with a webshop where a business view of how the webshop is doing is implemented by using a GPL’d rule engine, NodeBrain."
Five Open Source IP Telephony Projects to Watch (Oct 27, 2009, 10:38 UTC) (2557 reads)
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(feedback) CIO: "In addition to the well-known Asterisk, there is a vibrant community of open source software PABX systems that can be used for internal and service provider IP telephony."
Reviewed: Gnome 2.28 (Oct 27, 2009, 00:21 UTC) (3310 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "The Gnome project's latest release, comes just in time to be bolted on to Karmic Koala. But with KDE making big strides forward with each point release of KDE 4, are the Gnome team doing enough to keep up?"
Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On Ubuntu 9.04 (Oct 26, 2009, 23:17 UTC) (1249 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine."
Choosing a Desktop Linux Distro, Part 2: Installation and Support (Oct 26, 2009, 15:48 UTC) (1762 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "Homing in on the right Linux distro for you can be tricky. In addition to hardware considerations, there are compatibility issues, support requirements and even the culture of the community to take into account."
Stumbling and Sniffing Wireless Networks in Linux, Part 2 (Oct 26, 2009, 15:32 UTC) (1921 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "In Part 1 we learned some basic network sniffing and stumbling with SWScanner on Linux. Today Eric Geiers shows us some more excellent network discovery and probing utilities: KwifiManager, tcpdump, and Wireshark."
Peering Disputes Migrate to IPv6 (Oct 26, 2009, 15:02 UTC) (1267 reads)
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(feedback) Data Center Knowledge: "Complaints of a 'broken IPv6 Internet' emerged last week on the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, which surfaced a peering issue involving IPv6 connections between Hurricane Electric and Cogent Communications."
Big Software has duped us for decades – Part I (Oct 26, 2009, 07:04 UTC) (3726 reads)
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(feedback) CNN Money: "Here’s how the software business really works: A software company charges your firm an enormous upfront licensing fee and locks you into escalating costs for decades to come, often using a set of hardball tactics."
Lotus Symphony on Linux: Install a part of IBM's Smart Work (Oct 25, 2009, 23:36 UTC) (2342 reads)
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(feedback) Ghacks: "IBM recently announced they are pairing up with Cannonical and Red Hat to develop a Windows 7 alternative (see IBM Client for Smart Work). This pairing makes perfect sense as IBM has been a supporter of open source and Linux for some time now."
Despite Windows 7, Linux raps harder at company doors (Oct 25, 2009, 03:02 UTC) (5043 reads)
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(feedback) USA Today: "The launch of the Windows 7 computer operating system on Thursday should help Microsoft (MSFT) tighten its grip as the dominant supplier of desktops and laptops to the business world."
Big Internet carriers win right to manage traffic (Oct 24, 2009, 17:03 UTC) (2747 reads)
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(feedback) Globe and Mail: "Canada's big Internet carriers have scored a major victory, as the telecommunication regulator ruled it is okay for them to slow down some of the Web traffic travelling to customers' personal computers – as long as the companies explain ahead of time what they are doing."
Linux-based route server battles BGP attacks (Oct 23, 2009, 21:02 UTC) (1817 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "IP Infusion announced a Linux-based networking server package based on its ZebOS carrier-grade middleware. The ZebOS Internet Route Server enables service providers to remotely view, monitor, filter, and track networking routes, identifying and avoiding Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking and other denial-of-service attacks..."
Forwarding a Postfix Virtual Alias to /dev/null (Oct 23, 2009, 20:02 UTC) (1470 reads)
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(feedback) Tip of the Trade: "It's poor practice to send out email from email addresses that don't resolve, and may mean your mail ends up in a spamtrap. But sometimes you want to use a "do-not-reply" type of email address, and you don't want to have to mass-delete the mailbox at intervals."
