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News Linux News for Oct 10, 2008:
Netbooks Will Boost Adoption of Linux, Says Novell CTO
(2008-10-10 00:05:17)
CIO: ""People typically don't care what operating system is on the netbooks, because they don't buy them to run a suite of applications like Microsoft Office, but to be on the Web using a Web browser," Nat Friedman said in an interview with IDG Applications Service."
Where Open Source Will be Sucked Into the Downdraft
(2008-10-10 01:35:17)
ZDNet: "No use denying it. Parts of the open source industry are going to be sucked into Wall Street’s downdraft.:"
Ubuntu Scores Major Wikipedia Win
(2008-10-10 03:05:17)
Cyber Cynic: "While I find Wikipedia about as trustworthy as any random stranger at a pub, I can't deny that Wikipedia is incredibly popular. According to the Web traffic monitoring site Alexa on an average day 8.5% of the world's Internet users will visit the site."
Multi-Head, Multi-User Killer GNU/Linux App Languishes
(2008-10-10 04:35:17)
LinuxMedNews: "While fast-booting Splashtop desktops look promising, one killer application boldly going where Windows cannot go is languishing. That killer application is...Multi-head, multi-user systems running off a single PC."
Deploy an SCA Application Using Apache Tuscany
(2008-10-10 05:35:17)
IBM Developerworks: "Apache Tuscany provides an easy-to-use open source infrastructure for the development and operation of SCA applications. This article shows you how to administer an SCA domain using a Tuscany Web-based domain manager UI and code, and how to use the domain administrative UI to deploy an SOA solution comprised of SCA components."
Midgard 8.09.0 "Ragnaroek" Released
(2008-10-10 06:05:17)
Midgard CMS: "The Midgard Project has released stable release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted for mid-to-high-end web services."
Analyze Java Programs on Multi-Core Hardware
(2008-10-10 07:35:17)
IBM AlphaWorks: "The Data Collector for Linux component is a loadable kernel module for Linux operating systems. Both x86 and POWER5 multi-core processors are supported. To use this component, the Linux kernel must have DebugFS and/or Relay features enabled and kernel debug symbols ready to use..."
Using cron to Automate Maintenance
(2008-10-10 08:35:17)
IBM Developerworks: "From very often to every so often, cron happily minds the clock and runs jobs day or night. Learn how to configure and maintain cron, and discover just some of its many uses."
Many Fixes, Enhancements in Dojo's Release 1.2
(2008-10-10 09:05:17)
OStatic: "Dojo, which is developed by the Dojo Foundation and released under both the BSD License and Academic Free License, is officially integrated with a number of Web development frameworks, such as Django and the Zend Framework, and by vendors such as IBM and Sun Microsystems."
KOffice 2.0 Beta Hints at Improved Capabilities
(2008-10-10 10:35:17)
Linux.com: "KOffice has been trailing the office application leaders for a long time. Despite years of development, it has yet to match OpenOffice.org feature for feature, although its features are complete enough that they have attracted a loyal community. Judging from the first beta, KOffice 2.0 will still not rival OpenOffice.org or other free software rivals, but it should be a major step in that direction."
Linux at 17 - What Windows Promised to Be
(2008-10-10 12:05:17)
The Register: "It is hard to guess how many programmers and system administrators have been educated by the Linux development project, but it forms the core of what so many experts and newbies believe in terms of what an operating system should have in it, how that code is created, and how the systems software stack that rides atop of it is created and maintained."
Twin POS Systems for Linux
(2008-10-10 12:35:17)
LinuxDevices: "NEC announced two new POS (point-of-sales/service) computers that run Linux. The TwinPOS 5500 and 3500 feature integrated flat panel touchscreens, resistance against dust and liquids, and optional MSRs (magnetic stripe readers) and customer-facing displays, says the company."
Linux For The Masses: Are We There Yet?
(2008-10-10 13:05:17)
LinuxHaxor: "As another year is coming to an end, and another major distribution is around the corner; this might be a good time to remind everyone how next year will not be much different from this year."
Hackles: Funniest Comic Strip About Hacking and Linux
(2008-10-10 13:35:17)
Tech Source From Bohol: "I bumped into this old and stagnant website which featured a funny comic strip entitled Hackles. The main character named Hackles is a dog programmer who is clearly into Linux and open source. He is joined by two tux-looking penguins, a web-developer cat, and some other other cool characters."
BoycottNovell Goes Shopping for Mono Patent 'Protection'
(2008-10-10 14:05:17)
Boycott Novell: "We made a start by asking for our protection as we might wish to install the GNOME desktop environment in the future and it's already extremely hard to get it preinstalled without Mono these days. Here is the message we sent last night."
Strange Ironies
(2008-10-10 14:35:17)
Snake Bytes: "There have been a lot of strange ironies for me in the last week in the security world. Rather than expound on any one of them, I thought I'd take a stab at all of them all at once. So bear with me -- you're in for a ride."
Debian Postpones Lenny, Calls for Help
(2008-10-10 15:05:17)
Tectonic: "It seems the Debian team is battling "too many release critical bugs" to make Lenny viable. And now the team is calling for help from the community to squash the remainder of these bugs."
It's... Linux kernel 2.6.27
(2008-10-10 15:17:17)
Linux Format: "Crank up your compiler -- kernel 2.6.27 has arrived, including (deep breath): a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for "pure" flash-based storage devices;"
A (New) Bash Script to Download Entire PicasaWeb Albums
(2008-10-10 15:35:17)
Blue GNU: "Although Picasa is now available on GNU/Linux, it is still proprietary and, as such, unethical. One year ago, I wrote a simple Bash script that handles a very rapid download of entire PicasaWeb albums/galleries. During the last weeks, Google changed twice the format of the related Web pages and my script could not fetch any picture. Here is an updated script that does even more than the previous one."
Bash Extended Globbing
(2008-10-10 16:05:17)
Linux Journal: "A subtle point about pathname expansion that is not often understood is that it is done by bash and not by the operating system or by the program that is being run. The program never sees the wildcards, bash substitutes the expansion into the command line before running the program."
Does Hacking Closed Hardware Hinder Open Hardware?
(2008-10-10 16:17:17)
O'Reilly: "Though open drivers exist for video cards produced by companies who produce binary-only drivers, I realized a fundamental point about my purchasing habits. I'm profoundly uncomfortable purchasing devices which, by default, do not provide the freedoms I desire."
Life on the Cutting Edge - ArchLinux
(2008-10-10 16:35:17)
The Smaller Bang: "After a few months of using it, I finally feel I am confident enough to write a piece about one of the best, and I MEAN best, linux distros ever, archlinux. This distro is rather unique, and several things in it make it the ideal distro for the intermediate level linux user."
Zimbra Collaboration Server, Keeping the Discussion Going
(2008-10-10 17:05:17)
ServerWatch: "Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) separates itself from the pack in several ways. First and foremost, it occupies a newly emerging niche of "commercial open source" products. That is, the base version of ZCS is open source software, free to acquire or modify."
eCryptfs: Single-File Encryption in Linux
(2008-10-10 17:35:17)
DevX: "Yet many developers try to build their own cryptographic technology, which often gets them in trouble. A better approach is to employ tools that rely on proven cryptography techniques and algorithms. A great example of this approach is eCryptfs, a complete cryptographic file system for Linux that essentially is a robust implementation of mature cryptographic technology."
The Lenovo S10 Netbook is Here, Count Me In
(2008-10-10 18:05:17)
Defensive Computing: "The S10 is here, I ordered one yesterday and I'm psyched. The IdeaPad S10 is Lenovo's just-released entry in the Netbook market. "Netbook" is a new term that's applied to cheap small laptops that run either Windows XP Home Edition or Linux. No Vista or OS X here (neither is cheap)."
Ubuntu's Balancing Act
(2008-10-10 18:35:17)
Open Enterprise: "Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise. Similarly, MySQL's adoption by just about every Web 2.0 company meant that it, too, could no longer be dismissed as underpowered."
Open Source is About Belief in Code
(2008-10-10 19:05:17)
Linux and Open Source: "You can read stories about doom and depression somewhere else today...There is something there that does not exist in the proprietary wreckage, something important. Code."
On the Linux Laptop the Bundle is All
(2008-10-10 19:35:17)
Linux and Open Source: "Our review of the latest Linux laptop, the Asus EeePC 1000, has not begun auspiciously but with an important lesson.
In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all."
First dual-monitor LTSP 5 set-up?
(2008-10-10 20:05:17)
LinuxDevices: "DisklessWorkstations says one of its thin clients now supports dual monitors, when used with LTSP 5 (Linux Terminal Server Project v5). The Troy, Michigan based thin client vendor claims to be the "first to release how to configure dual monitors using LTSP 5.""
Software as a Service a Winning Model for Hotspot Provider
(2008-10-10 20:35:17)
Wi-Fi Planet: "Not that Sputnik has grown enormous or anything. It’s still a lean, mean entrepreneurial machine, with fewer than ten employees. But it evidently hasn’t just been flying in circles. LaDuke says Sputnik will start showing an operational profit before the end of this quarter.
Not bad for a little start-up with a one-track mind."
The KOffice 2.0 Beta, Part 2: Graphical and Charting Programs
(2008-10-10 21:05:17)
Linux.com: "Now it's the turn of the rest of the beta: The KPlato project manager, KChart, the vector graphics editor Karbon, and the raster graphics editor Krita.
These four graphical and charting programs have always been among the best-regarded of the KOffice programs. All of them have matured much faster than the traditional office applications KWord, KSpread, and KPresenter."
File Format Brouhaha Pits FOSS Against Proprietary
(2008-10-10 21:35:17)
OStatic: "Thomson is seeking $10 million in damages annually from GMU, according to the report, and open source software and file formats are at the heart of the conflict."
On Making Releases...
(2008-10-10 21:50:40)
Linus' Blog: "So I cut the 2.6.27 release today, and it's always a somewhat anti-climactic thing."
Video: From Zero to Samba in Six Minutes
(2008-10-10 22:05:17)
LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting's video tutorial shows you how to set up a Samba server on Ubuntu, and test it from a Windows PC, all in just a few minutes."
How To Set Up A Headless X Server On Redhat Linux
(2008-10-10 22:35:17)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to look at setting up a headless X Server. It's not quite as difficult, or as scary, as it sounds. Running a headless X Server is kind of like Night Of The Living Dead (the original; although the remake was kind of fun) except without all the zombies and with exported displays instead of excoriated remains..."
Editors' Note: Happy 10th Birthday Linux Today!
(2008-10-10 23:05:17)
September 28th was Linux Today's 10th birthday. I missed it because I was gallivanting about the countryside on an out-of-town trip, so today is official Happy Birthday Linux Today day!
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