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News Linux News for Feb 03, 2009:
KDE On Windows Challenges Microsoft On Its Own Turf
(2009-02-03 00:02:31)
LinuxHaxor: "KDE on windows is an audacious project aimed at porting all KDE applications on MS Windows natively. KDE also has a similar project for Mac OSX."
Chaining Linux Commands Together
(2009-02-03 01:32:31)
Linux: Newb To Pro: "Running commands one right after the other can be a tedious way to get things done from the shell. What if there was a way to "chain" these commands together? Well fortunately Linux provides some ways to allow you to type in a bunch of commands at the prompt and run them as if it was one command."
JavaScript Data Types
(2009-02-03 02:32:31)
The JavaScript Chronicles: "This week we cover JavaScript Data Types. There are a number of different types of data that JavaScript can work with. The different types of data are Numbers, Strings, Boolean, null, and undefined. Each is used in a slightly different way for varying functionality."
Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
(2009-02-03 03:02:31)
HowtoForge "This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive."
Saving Flash Videos In Linux
(2009-02-03 04:32:31)
The How-to Geek: "This can be done very easily because when you watch a video on any of those sites they save a temporary file on your computer of the video. So from there you will need to just find the file and rename it."
SaaS Hasn't Killed Open Source: Can Open Source Help SaaS Evolve?
(2009-02-03 06:02:31)
OStatic: "Ben Kepes at Cloud Ave. offers some interesting analysis of a question Yuuguu CEO Anish Kapoor recently tackled on his company's blog: Has software as a service (SaaS) killed open source as a business model?"
The HeliOS Project Kicks off 2009 Hardware Drive
(2009-02-03 07:32:31)
The Helios Project: "The HeliOS Project is looking for community members to donate their old computers for financially and socially disadvantaged kids and students. They are also in need of small paypal donations to take care of day to day operational costs."
Out With The Slow, In With The Linux
(2009-02-03 09:02:31)
TrainSignalTraining: "But if you want an operating system that is reliable, efficient, virus free then continue reading my friend."
Dell Offers Enterprise Linux Operating System for Thin Clients
(2009-02-03 10:32:31)
Webwire press release: "Novell today announced that Dell will preload SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client, the market's leading enterprise-quality Linux thin client operating system, onto Dell’s new OptiPlex FX160 thin client device."
Recovering from a Hard Drive Failure
(2009-02-03 12:02:31)
Linux Journal: "Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, "today is the day that I'm finally going to backup my workstation!” only to find out that you're a day late and about 320Gb short? Well, that's about what happened to me recently, but don't worry, the story has a happy ending."
3 Apache/httpd Command-Line Options
(2009-02-03 13:02:31)
Tip of the Trade: "You can do more with httpd than just stop/start/reload Apache. Here are some command-line options that enable you to manipulate your configuration without changing httpd.conf."
Second netbook wave begins
(2009-02-03 13:32:31)
LinuxDevices: "Asus is taking pre-orders for a netbook based on Intel's second-generation netbook platform, the secret-shrouded N280/GN40 chipset. Early product specs confirm that the second wave of netbooks are likely to offer faster graphics and lower power use, along with room for much, much larger batteries."
Free Ubuntu book tops 150,000 downloads
(2009-02-03 14:02:31)
Desktop Linux: "Keir Thomas informs us that his new Ubuntu book has been downloaded 150,000 times. Freely downloadable in PDF format and available from Amazon in paperback form for $10, MacFreda Publishing's 164-page Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference offers a beginner's overview of the popular distro."
Making Slackware and Slackware Derivative Linux Distros Speak Your Language
(2009-02-03 14:32:31)
O'Reilly Blogs: "Slackware and some Linux distributions based on Slackware don't include GDM and don't have a graphical tool to set language and locale on the fly. However, if you're willing to edit one or two configuration files and install a few packages you can make Slackware speak your language, working in whatever language you are most comfortable with."
Using The Red Hat Rescue Environment
(2009-02-03 15:02:31)
Linux Gazette: "There are several different rescue CDs out there, and they all provide slightly different rescue environments. The requirement here at Red Hat Academy is, perhaps unsurprisingly, an intimate knowledge of how to use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 boot CD."
Interview with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
(2009-02-03 15:32:31)
DistroWatch: "To take an example from my own sphere of development - with git, one of the biggest hurdles used to be how different it was from what people were used to, and people who wanted just another CVS or SVN felt it was really hard to get your head around it. It used to be a constant issue that required explanation on the git mailing list."
10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009
(2009-02-03 16:02:31)
TechGuides: "The year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software--from an explosion in the mobile arena to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3, says industry watcher."
New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE
(2009-02-03 16:32:31)
Slashdot: "Many sites are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade, from Danger (acquired by Microsoft early in 2008), is going to run NetBSD as their operating system, causing Microsoft's recruiters to look for NetBSD developers."
IBM to build massive supercomputer for U.S. government
(2009-02-03 17:02:31)
Computerworld: "The U.S. government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer with more power than all the supercomputers on the Top500 supercomputer list combined."
Learning to Use DNS Tools
(2009-02-03 17:32:31)
BeginLinux: "There are 3 valuable tools that you can use from your desktop to review DNS settings; host, nslookup and dig. By using these tools effectively, you will be able to analyze your DNS settings to find problems. This tutorial will show you how to use each of these valuable tools."
Microsoft Pursues Digium Asterisk Partners
(2009-02-03 18:02:31)
The VAR Guy: "Instead of ignoring open source conferences, Microsoft continues to invade them."
Startcom Linux and SevenL Networks Joint Venture
(2009-02-03 18:32:31)
Join The Revolution!: "SevenL approached StartCom a while ago and offered us a dedicated server based in their data-center. Simply because they wanted to give something back to vendors of Linux operating systems of which they make heavy use in their data-center."
23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
(2009-02-03 19:02:31)
Computerworld: "...in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu."
FOSS Games and Gaming Survey
(2009-02-03 19:32:31)
LinuxGames: "Are you a PC gamer? Do you play Free and Open Source games? - Complete this short survey and you could win a $50 Amazon gift certificate + $100 donation to the Open Source game project of your choice.
If you are a gamer, we want YOU to give us your feedback with this short 10 minute survey."
Are You Smart Enough To Use Linux?
(2009-02-03 20:02:31)
Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Sure, we now have KDE, GNOME, XFCE, and other fancy graphical user interfaces that attempt to mimic Windows and the Mac OS but underneath the shimmering polish, it's Unix and that scares people. I'm not so sure that this is a bad thing."
Set up OpenDNS on Ubuntu
(2009-02-03 20:32:31)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Considered by many as one of the best DNS resolution services, OpenDNS is free and is really very easy to set up."
A NVIDIA VDPAU Back-End For Intel's VA-API
(2009-02-03 21:02:31)
Phoronix: "Just over a month ago we shared that patches had emerged to support Intel's VA-API in MPlayer and FFmpeg. VA-API supports popular video formats such as MPEG-4 and VC-1 and is able to accelerate IDCT, Motion Compensation, LVC, bit-stream processing, and other functions..."
Your Pretty Linux GUI Fails and Dumps You to a Console. Now What?
(2009-02-03 21:12:44)
LinuxPlanet: "The graphical user interface is a separate layer on top of a plain-text console subsystem on Linux, Mac, and Windows; this is not unique to Linux, and you need console skills to be an effective troubleshooter-and-fixer on all three platforms. A. Lizard shows you how to use the Lynx Web browser to help you figure out how to repair your Linux system."
You'll Pry Vista from My Cold Dead Hands
(2009-02-03 21:32:31)
Linux Magazine: "Having done this awhile, I've noticed that Linux carries an odd cachet: Almost everyone thinks it's interesting, statistically (less than 1%) almost no one runs it."
Linux Defenders organize to fight patent trolls
(2009-02-03 21:53:12)
Network World: "If you think that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) desperately needs help to clean the earwax out of its cerebral sulci, there's an excellent example from the world of Linux that would bear watching and emulating in other fields."
Netbooks are a win for Microsoft? Think again.
(2009-02-03 22:02:31)
Raiden's Realm: "What these pundits fail to realize is that, while it does look like Microsoft is winning "on paper", they're actually only winning in a very narrow set of markets. They're also quickly learning, painfully I might add, that "[market] share doesn't always pay the bills", as one famous auto exec once said."
NixOS: A Distro Focused on Next-Generation Package Management
(2009-02-03 22:32:31)
LinuxPlanet: "Originally developed by Eelco Dolstra as a doctoral project at Utrecht University, and now developed by a small team at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, NixOS is designed as a test of Nix, a new package manager designed to overcome key problems with existing package managers."
How to: Manage Traffic Using Tomato and QoS
(2009-02-03 23:02:31)
Wi-Fi Planet: "Chances are that your wireless router is a very busy intersection. Picture those photos of crowded city streets jam-packed with cars, trucks, and busses all trying to squeeze through a narrow road. Now imagine your router as an overwhelmed traffic cop standing in the middle of it all, blowing her whistle trying to keep order."
Phantom Operating System to kill Windows AND Linux
(2009-02-03 23:32:31)
CrunchGear: "In Zavalishin's Phantom OS, snapshots of the entire system will be continually saved to disk, preserving state for running applications and active data. There are no files in the traditional sense, instead a file is merely an object with persistent state. Neat!"
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