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News Linux News for Feb 04, 2009:
Debian Linux is finally - no really! - getting close to release
(2009-02-04 00:03:44)
Cyber Cynic: "An open-source truism is: "Nothing is released until it's ready." Well, sometimes that's true and sometimes you have situations like the one with Debian Linux's next release: Debian 5 "Lenny.""
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 3
(2009-02-04 03:03:44)
Jamie's Random Musings: "Thanks to a typically excellent tip from Adam Williamson (AdamW), I now have Mandriva One 2009.0 running on the HP 2133, and it looks really good. When I tried it previously, it appeared that the LiveCD didn't boot properly."
Zimbra Backup and Restore tool
(2009-02-04 04:03:44)
KyaPanel: "This is the greatest new in Version 2.2~1: now KyaPanel has an exclusive tool to make backup and restore in servers with Zimbra. Like all KyaPanel's tools this one goes ahead from the regular tools. This one allow you to restore a single message for a user."
Vote Now: Intranet Journal Product of the Year Awards
(2009-02-04 04:33:44)
Intranet Journal: "Intranet Journal has a tradition of recognizing and honoring the best IT product vendors through its Product of the Year Awards. For the winners, these annual awards are a mark of distinction and symbol of achievement in a crowded, highly competitive marketplace."
There are several FOSS apps on the ballot-- ed.
Eye candy for KDE Desktop Manager (KDM)
(2009-02-04 06:03:44)
Free Software Magazine: "If you can draw what you want, you can make it happen with a KDM theme. I'll talk you through the construction of one simple theme I designed for my ASUS Eee PC."
Open and Closed Source VoIP Moves Forward at Digium
(2009-02-04 07:33:44)
Internet News: "While Digium plays in both open and closed source, the company's enhancements to Asterix and Switchvox share a common purpose: more closely tying in other services and software commonly in use in the enterprise."
Mandriva Linux Assembly
(2009-02-04 09:03:44)
Madriva: "Mandriva Assembly
Following the announcement of plans to set up an international committee encompassing Mandriva and its Community, here is the first update concerning the policies for this working group."
11 reasons to switch to Linux
(2009-02-04 10:33:44)
foobar: "People like to publish top-10 lists of all sorts. And "reasons to switch to Linux" is no exception. Many of those have been published, and the latest entry is here. However, I think the author completely forgot a very important point."
Andi Gutmans named CEO of PHP vendor Zend
(2009-02-04 12:03:44)
Netstat -vat: "Though he co-founded Zend, Gutmans has long been its CTO with others taking on the role of CEO.
That changes now as Gutmans was named today as the new CEO of Zend."
E-tailer dumps Windows for Red Hat
(2009-02-04 13:03:44)
ZDNet: "UK-based online lingerie and nightwear retailer figleaves.com has turned away from Microsoft and to virtualisation and open source software to revamp the technology platform that will support its upcoming ecommerce site."
The smallest threat to open source in 2009
(2009-02-04 13:33:44)
ZDNet: "...because open source software usually lacks any mechanisms for easily updating to the latest security patched version, the growing popularity of open source software will render it more vulnerable to problems than its closed source counterparts."
VoIP recording appliance runs Linux
(2009-02-04 14:03:44)
LinuxDevices: "A developer of open source VoIP recording software is readying an embedded VoIP recording appliance. The OrecX VoIP Recording Appliance combines OrecX's Oreka TR Total Recorder application with a 1U, Linux-based, rack-mounted server aimed at the small-to-medium business (SMB) call-handling market, says the company."
Getting Started With Subversion
(2009-02-04 14:33:44)
ServerWatch: "Subversion is a version control system: It keeps a record of changes over the lifetime of a file, allowing you to revert to an earlier version at will. It's particularly useful for code projects, but it can handle, and be useful for, pretty much any type of file (e.g., for tutorials!)"
Bill Gates on Linux@Intel: "This Huge Driver Group Scares Me."
(2009-02-04 15:03:44)
BoycottNovell: "Is Intel planning to write drivers for Linux? This huge driver group scares me. Its them doing something we should do and they will do it cross OS in a way that could be a real problem for us."
Canonical Survey Shows Ubuntu Server as Mission-Critical Enterprise Platform
(2009-02-04 15:33:44)
eWeek: "The survey, completed by nearly 7,000 respondents, shows that Ubuntu is being used in most common workloads, such as Web, file, database and mail server, and is considered "mission-critical" by most respondents."
Microsoft's long, slow decline continues
(2009-02-04 16:03:44)
Practical Technology: "Now, Windows is down to 88.26%. Mac OS X is within touching distance of 10% and Linux is still hanging in there with 0.83%."
How to be Faster at the Linux Command Line
(2009-02-04 16:33:44)
Hacktux: "Since most Linux distributions provide Bash as the default CLI, here are some Bash tricks that will help cut down the amount of typing needed to execute commands."
Which enterprise Linux to choose?
(2009-02-04 17:03:44)
IT Wire: "Debate abounds between Linux lovers which distribution to choose on the desktop. But what about the server? Yes, all versions of Linux are equally capable of serving your mail and web site, but just what is it in those so-called "enterprise" editions that make them, well, enterprise-y?"
VMware Rolls Out Open Source Virtual Desktop Client
(2009-02-04 17:33:44)
LinuxInsider: "VMware has released an open source virtual desktop infrastructure client, aiming to make it easy for partners to build their own applications or devices around its code. The goal eventually is to make possible a "universal client" that will support multiple environments."
Definitive Linux Remote System Access Guide
(2009-02-04 18:03:44)
Maximum PC: "While this service has a $19.95/month licensing fee (per computer, no less), there are alternatives that provide similar functionality on the Linux platform for free. Many of these free solutions are very versatile and are useful in a wide variety of situations."
IBM Plans 20-Fold Leap in Supercomputing
(2009-02-04 18:33:44)
InternetNews: "Penguinistas will be happy to know Sequoia will run the Linux operating system, heavily modified for massively parallel and scalable computing. If need be, the computer will be able to bring all 1.6 million processors to bear on a single task, or the system can be partitioned and run multiple jobs at once."
Linux-driven BitTorrent appliance ships
(2009-02-04 19:03:44)
LinuxDevices: "Myka is shipping an embedded Linux device that downloads, stores, and plays BitTorrent media files on an attached TV. Available in 80GB, 160GB, and 500GB models, plus a Developer's Edition with a 1TB disk, the Myka appliances offload BitTorrent peer-to-peer duties from a PC."
The Linux/Unix SysAdmin Covert File Storage Method Number 57
(2009-02-04 19:33:44)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This little goof is pretty simple to pull off (assuming you're a sysadmin and/or have the access, privilege and opportunity to do it) and can be a life-saver. Technically, you shouldn't ever need to do this, but sometimes convenience trumps sanity..."
Dell select Linux to keep enterprise IT costs down
(2009-02-04 20:03:44)
IT Wire: "This week Novell announced they've signed a deal that will see Dell using SUSE Linux Enterprise on their new OptiPlex FX160 thin clients. This move means corporate IT departments will be able to simplify IT at a lower cost than ever before."
Would a Server by Any Other Name Be as Functional?
(2009-02-04 20:33:44)
OSNews: "If you were to break into my network, getting to the contents of the right computer would be easy. I facilitate digital burglars by naming my computers according to what they actually are..."
KDE on Windows: Subversive, but Useful
(2009-02-04 21:03:44)
Datamation: "KDE on Windows is such a subversive project that it is impossible to resist. Who else except the free and open source software (FOSS) community would take a desktop for Unix-like systems and port it to Windows, co-opting the very operating system that community members love to hate?"
HeliOS Project Kicks It Into High Gear
(2009-02-04 21:33:44)
Blog of Helios: "The HeliOS project is proud to make two announcements. We have committed to two projects in the near future that promises to have a great impact not only on the Austin Community but the Linux and Open Source Community-at-large."
Microsoft and Apple Pay Net Applications (Hitslink)
(2009-02-04 22:03:44)
BoycottNovell:""Linux under 1%," says company with Apple/Microsoft money on its table"
LXC: Linux container tools
(2009-02-04 22:33:44)
IBM Developerworks: "Containers provide lightweight virtualization that lets you isolate processes and resources without the need to provide instruction interpretation mechanisms and other complexities of full virtualization. In this step-by-step tour of the container tools called Linux Containers (LXC), the author introduces you to the tools and shows how to get up and running on them."
Embedded Linux at 10; How's its Mojo?
(2009-02-04 23:03:44)
DeviceGuru: "Embedded Linux has now been around for a decade and consistently ranks as one of the top OS choices for device development. But, does it still have its mojo?"
GNOME Do's Smart Dock Takes App Launching to Another Level
(2009-02-04 23:33:44)
Lifehacker: "A new version of the quick-firing Linux keyboard launcher GNOME Do landed last week, bringing with it a "theme" that acts as a whole new desktop interface. Let's check out how it works."
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