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News Linux News for Aug 06, 2008:
How To Install The Zimbra Desktop Email Client On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
(2008-08-06 00:06:05)
HowtoForge: "This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. Zimbra Desktop is a full-fledged replacement for email clients such as Outlook or Evolution, offering email, contacts, calendar, documents, tasks, etc. You can use it in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) or any other email account that supports POP3 or IMAP."
Screenlets - Desktop Applications, Widgets and Screen Addons for openSUSE
(2008-08-06 01:30:05)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, youtube, gmail and more. Screenlets are free opensource software released under GPL License."
Multiplatform PostgreSQL Web Stack Released
(2008-08-06 03:00:05)
BitNami: "The BitNami project released LAPPStack, a free, easy to install distribution of Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP, and supporting libraries. Its user-friendly installer allows users to quickly install and configure LAPPStack across a wide range of Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms. BitNami LAPPStack 1.0 is licensed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0, and is free for download and use from http://www.bitnami.org/lampstack"
Learning Doxygen for Source Code Documentation
(2008-08-06 04:30:05)
IBM Developerworks: "Maintaining and adding new features to legacy systems developed using C/C++ is a daunting task. Fortunately, doxygen—a documentation system for the C/C++, Java™, Python, and other programming languages—can help. Discover the features of doxygen in the context of projects using C/C++ as well as how to document code using doxygen-defined tags."
The Busy Java developer's Guide to Scala: Packages and Access Modifiers
(2008-08-06 06:00:05)
IBM Developerworks: "Scala takes a slightly different approach in respect to packaging, treating it as a combination of the Java language's declaration approach and C#'s scoped approach. With that in mind, a Java developer can do the traditional Java approach and put a package declaration at the top of a .scala file just as normal Java classes do; the package declaration applies across the entire file scope just as it does in Java code."
Dragonfly BSD and the Hammer Filesystem
(2008-08-06 07:30:05)
Tip of the Trade: "Dragonfly BSD v2.0 has recently been released. It's a fork from FreeBSD, and it's ultimate goal is to provide native clustering support in the kernel."
Shuttle PC With Foresight Linux- $199.99
(2008-08-06 09:00:05)
Shuttle: "SLK4500 -- Starting at $299.99 -- Foresight Linux;
SYK4500 -- Starting at $429.00 -- Windows Vista Home Basic 32Bit"
I thought this might be interesting to LT readers- no pricing games, just a straightforward comparison on identical hardware -- ed.
Humor: A Better View of Microsoft Security
(2008-08-06 10:30:05)
Linux Today Blog: "Sean Michael Kerner is an excellent reporter, and gives the impression of keeping a straight face as he wrote this article. It may be that he did; I know I would not have been capable of writing it as a straight news story. Allow me to share a few choice quotes:"
WiFi Software Arrives on Linux Desktops
(2008-08-06 12:00:05)
Desktop Linux: "A vendor of Linux-based WiFi arrays is finally releasing a version of its WiFi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open source, widget-like Xirrus WiFi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot WiFi networks, says Xirrus."
IBM, Linux and the Microsoft-Free PC
(2008-08-06 12:30:05)
Internet News: ""The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen.""
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - Whole Load of Apps Going On
(2008-08-06 13:00:05)
Canonical Blog: "We will also be making IBM Lotus Symphony available too, packaged up for an easy install through the Ubuntu Add / Remove software tool. Symphony is IBM’s driver for acceptance of a free and open alternative to the ubiquitous Microsoft Office."
The Technophobe Sister and Xubuntu Project
(2008-08-06 13:30:05)
Tux Training: "She’s had the same computer since she was a freshman in college, and she graduated 3 years ago. And boy did she mess it up royally, regularly. Viruses, spyware, you name it. Eventually she got a boyfriend who knew even less that she did except he loves the computer...between the two of them, they’d screw up Windows XP SP2 so badly that it was more timely to re-install the OS and start from scratch each time."
Lenovo Launches Ideapad S10
(2008-08-06 14:00:05)
The Inquirer: "Lenovo's Ideapad S10 joins a growing list of small, low-powered and low-priced miniature laptops that typically weigh less than three pounds and sell for under $500. Other ultralight machines in this less-is-more category include MIT's OLPC, the Asus Eee PC, Acer's Aspire, MSI's Wind and HP's Mini-Note."
Linux Commands I Never Knew Existed: Pipe Viewer
(2008-08-06 14:30:05)
Slashzero: "This is where Pipe Viewer came in handy. Quite simply this app reports the bitrate that the data is sent over a unix pipe. Brilliant."
LinuxWorld Keynotes: Now is the Time to Invest
(2008-08-06 15:00:05)
ZDNet: "He cited a few examples of hospitals large and small that have launched Linux strategies. Among them was a large hospital in Houston, which used a Linux approach to launch a disaster recovery system, one that would enable them to maintain care in crisis situations such as hurricanes."
Fedora on a Stick
(2008-08-06 15:30:05)
Linux.com: "Fedora 9 now lets you create a bootable Linux distribution on a flash drive with persistence. In other words, you can not only boot any PC that will accept USB drive booting into Linux, you can even boot into your own personal desktop."
LinuxWorld 2008 Thoughts and Pictures
(2008-08-06 16:00:05)
LXer: "LinuxWorld 2008 is being held at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. After getting inside and getting my badge, it was time to go down the escalator and get this party started."
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server and Clients Setup in Ubuntu
(2008-08-06 16:30:05)
Ubuntugeek: "Using NTP is a great way to keep your system clock set correctly. It works by contacting a number of servers around the world, asking them for the time and then calculating what the correct local time is from their responses."
The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation
(2008-08-06 17:05:12)
Internet News: "...but anything that's free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source software.
Enterprises using open source are being sued for not complying with the multitude of licenses the software comes with."
Rants and Laughs
(2008-08-06 17:30:05)
Linux Hater's Blog: "I'm getting way behind on these things, so I'm combining the Rants and Laughs posts into one series. I can feel that we're getting closer and closer to becoming the anti-slashdot. Perhaps ~/. is an appropriate way to refer to this site."
Ask the Wi-Fi Guru, Episode VI
(2008-08-06 18:00:05)
WiFi Planet: "Q: In your January 2007 article, DD-WRT Tutorial 5: Wireless Repeater, you say: "At the time of this writing, wireless repeater mode does not yet function in bridged mode. This means that...clients connected to your DD-WRT repeater must be inside their own subnet, preventing them from seeing clients connected to the host AP." Do you know with the release of v24 Final, if this has changed?"
New 1394 Over Coax Standard Introduced
(2008-08-06 18:30:05)
Ultrawideband Planet: "According to a Pulse~Link press release issued today, "the new 1394 Over Coax standard is designed to enable the industry’s fastest whole-home network in a multi-supplier ecosystem featuring protected high-definition and multimedia content.""
U.S. Loses out in Lenovo's Linux Netbook Push
(2008-08-06 19:00:05)
Washington Post: "People in most markets Lenovo serves, including Singapore, China and the U.K., will be offered the company's new IdeaPad netbooks with either Microsoft Windows XP or a Linux OS, but users in the U.S. won't have that option."
Your First Linux Playstation 3 Programming Steps
(2008-08-06 20:00:05)
IBM Developerworks: "The real centerpiece for the PS3, however, is its processor -- the Cell Broadband Engine chip (often called the Cell BE chip). The Cell BE architecture is a radical departure from traditional processor designs. The Cell BE processor is a chip consisting of nine processing elements (note the PS3 has one of them disabled, and one of them reserved for system use, leaving seven processing units at your disposal)."
Is Mozilla Jinxed?
(2008-08-06 20:30:05)
Internet News: "Reading a user's hard drive contents alone wasn't enough for Kotler who claimed that function alone bored him after a period of time. "I got bored with it so I made it into a bot and interactive, so I can manage multiple Jinx instances," Kotler said. "We end up having a complete framework all in JavaScript in the browser without code injection or virtualization. It's just you, Firefox and us."
The OOXML Appeals: What Next?
(2008-08-06 20:50:16)
Redmond Developer News: "The Office Open XML (OOXML) file format is probably destined to be an international standard under International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). And Andy Updegrove, for one, is not happy about it."
Would You Buy a Microsoft-less Desktop?
(2008-08-06 21:00:05)
Computerworld: "For me, that's a no-brainer. Windows has long been more trouble than its worth. Since Microsoft seems to be seriously considering dumping Windows, it seems they agree with me."
Open Phone Hardware Vendor Frees Schematics
(2008-08-06 21:30:05)
Linux Devices: "OpenMoko has promised to publish schematic diagrams for its latest hardware design, the Neo FreeRunner. Schematics should enable community developers to create alternative firmware for the device, in order to better adapt it to entirely new purposes."
IBM Should Spend Another $1B to Sell its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux Desktop to the Masses
(2008-08-06 22:00:05)
ZDNet: "It’s not a bad idea, but my take is that IBM must dig deep and invest heavily in marketing and advertising to drive more general consumer acceptance about its open source Office. Techies know that OpenOffice exists and may need to be told that IBM is now shipping its own flavor. But more significantly, Big Blue has to tell ordinary consumers."
Linux-based ATCA and AMC Boards Adopt Octeons
(2008-08-06 23:00:05)
Linux Devices: "Emerson Network Power (ENP) announced an ATCA (advanced telecommunications computing architecture) blade and AMC (advanced mezzanine card) module based on Cavium Octeon network processors and carrier-grade Linux."
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