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News Linux News for Feb 05, 2009:
Need a supercomputer? This guy builds them himself
(2009-02-05 00:04:33)
Computerworld: "Bruce Allen is perhaps the world's best do-it-yourselfer. When he needed a supercomputer to crunch the results of gravitational-wave research, he built one with his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee."
Anatomy of a Web attack
(2009-02-05 01:34:33)
IBM Developerworks: "More applications are being hosted on the Internet than ever before. Everything from databases to services is moving to a Web-based format. As a matter of course, this increased number of applications and services on the Internet has led to an ever-increasing number of attacks targeted at them. Learn how some of the more popular attacks work so that you can protect your organization."
The move to Linux, stymied by hardware
(2009-02-05 03:04:33)
Linux Journal: "With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis. Except..."
A truly light-weight OS: Written in ASM, with GUI, networking and apps
(2009-02-05 04:34:33)
Foobar: "Today I came across an operating system that can truly claim to be light-weight. It is called Kolibri. Check this out: It's completely written in assembler..."
NixOS, a Real Revolution in Package Management
(2009-02-05 06:04:33)
Linux Today Blog: "Which is all good and easy, but they're still just variations on the same theme and aren't all that different from each other. NixOS, on the other hand, demonstrates a radically different approach."
WFTL Bytes! for Feb 2, 2009: Motorola Evicts Windows, Linus Jumps Ship, Groundhog Bites Mayor
(2009-02-05 06:31:53)
WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, February 2, 2009 (Groundhog Day), with your host, Marcel Gagne. This is episode 49. On today's newscast . . . nature's own weather forecaster tells it like it might be and bites it. Did Linus jump ship too soon? Dept of defense thinks FOSS is cool. Mototala axes Windows, sort of. Going RMS on semantics."
Saving my sanity with Zenity : shell script interaction via the GUI
(2009-02-05 07:34:33)
Free Software Magazine: "How do we bring the flexibility of the shell script to the GUI-only user? Recently faced with just such a quandary, I discovered Zenity: a tool which just might have saved my sanity."
Setting Up a SME Server Test Environment with Virtual Box on Vista
(2009-02-05 09:04:33)
The Small Box Admin: "SME Server (http://www.contribs.org/) is a Linux distribution designed for the office environment, similar to Microsoft Small Business Server or the now defunct Linux based NetMax Server. SME Server is managed through a web interface and provides file and print sharing, E-mail server and web client, Firewall, Directory Services, Web hosting and other services."
Howto: Multitouch + Tethering + Task Manager for Android G1
(2009-02-05 10:34:33)
Royal HeHe2ness: "Before I start this howto, I must tell you that this hack doesn't just give you multitouch, it actually opens up the possibilities wide open for you. You can change your theme, tether (use your phone as a wireless modem), auto-rotate, get a fully operable task manager...and much much more! So if you aren't really interested in multitouch, this guide might also be of great value for you"
Microsoft Leaves the Door Wide Open for Linux on Netbooks
(2009-02-05 12:04:33)
Linugadgetech: "Windows 7 Home Premium for consumers, and Windows 7 Professional for business customers. The lightest version of the OS will be Windows 7 Starter Edition. It limits users to a maximum of three open applications."
Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7
(2009-02-05 13:04:33)
Tux Radar: "A lot of people have been chattering about the improvements Windows 7 brings for Windows users, but how does it compare to Ubuntu in real-world tests? We put Ubuntu 8.10, Windows Vista and Windows 7 through their paces in both 32-bit and 64-bit tests to see just how well Ubuntu faces the new contender. And, just for luck, we threw in a few tests using Jaunty Jackalope with ext4."
HP releases netbook interface for Ubuntu
(2009-02-05 13:34:33)
Download Squad: "Hewlett Packard has released a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed for netbooks. For the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition, to be exact. Under the hood, the operating system is based on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron."
SSH at Work: Manage Long-Running Processes with screen
(2009-02-05 14:04:33)
Enterprise IT Planet: "There are times when I want to reconnect from home to an ssh session that I started at work. Unfortunately, ssh doesn't support that sort of thing. But the screen utility lets you do something similar to this."
Simple Tips for the New User to remember about Linux
(2009-02-05 14:34:33)
Raiden's Realm: "There are numerous little things that a new user should learn and remember when it comes to Linux. Now don't let these scare you, but rather, remember them to ensure that you have a proper user experience. These will also save you from a lot of trouble as you learn Linux."
Game up for desktop Linux?
(2009-02-05 15:04:33)
FMTech: "With Microsoft readying itself for the release of a fast, streamlined operating system in Windows 7, the Linux community needs to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat if the free and open-source operating system is to stay relevant on desktop computers."
Compiz Fusion To Be Dropped, Other Changes Planned
(2009-02-05 15:34:33)
Phoronix: "With Compiz not having a clear road-map, a Compiz council has been established to begin charting the future of this compositing window manager."
Ubuntu Server Linux is for business
(2009-02-05 16:04:33)
Cyber Cynic: "When you think Ubuntu, you probably think of an outstanding, easy-to-use desktop Linux. You probably don't think of Ubuntu as a server operating system. Maybe you should."
Red Hat Expands Real Time Linux, cloud and messaging
(2009-02-05 16:34:33)
Internetnews: "There's fast and then there's real-time fast.
Linux vendor Red Hat is out today with its newest Real Time Linux platform, MRG 1.1 boasting new performance, messaging and grid computing (cloud) capabilities. "
HP ditches Linux option for UK netbooks
(2009-02-05 17:04:33)
ZDNet: "HP has dropped Linux as an operating-system option for its latest netbooks in the UK market."
12 Awesome Unix Custom License Plates
(2009-02-05 17:34:33)
The Geek Stuff: "These geeks decided to show their appreciation towards Unix using their vehicle license plates. My favorite from this list is rm -rf *. Imagine someone who has no clue about Unix seeing this car on the road and trying to figure out what "rm -rf *" means."
Top Linuxy Alternatives and Staying True to FOSS
(2009-02-05 18:04:33)
Linux Insider: "Until Linux and open source software can overcome the perceptions of CEOs who think that "you get what you pay for," Linux will remain a second-class citizen, he writes."
Is SCO lost for words in 2009?
(2009-02-05 18:29:41)
Tux Radar: "Enterprise
SCO's chief operating officer Jeff Hunsaker seems to be short on rhetoric right now, posting "Blah. Blah. Blah. Best regards" in the SCO Partner News newsletter.Presumably they are too busy finding new people to sue..."
MySQL Founder Monty leaves Sun
(2009-02-05 18:34:33)
Netstat -vat: "I met MySQL founder Monty Widenius last year in Portland and he wasn't particularly thrilled with Sun at the time - he was however publicly hopeful that things would improve for him. Apparently they didn't. Widenuis has now officially resigned from Sun."
LCA: Catching up with X.org
(2009-02-05 19:04:33)
LWN.net: "X talks have typically been all about the great changes which are coming in the near future. This time, the X developers had a different story: most of those great changes are done and will soon be heading toward a distribution near you."
Mobile Linux firm boasts cheery financials, funding round
(2009-02-05 19:34:33)
LinuxDevices: "French mobile stack developer and LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation member Purple Labs announced 2H 2008 revenues of 11 million Euros (~$14.1M), quadruple its revenue in the first half of 2008"
Open source hits the virtual desktop
(2009-02-05 20:04:33)
451 CAOSTheory: "There's no doubt VDI competition is heating up and it seems the players are, wisely, looking to open source and community effects to help build up their offerings and followings."
Floola, the portable iTunes replacement
(2009-02-05 20:34:33)
CNet: "Freeware Floola for Windows, Mac, and Linux is one of the few, if only, portable music players that not only works with your iPod, it will work from your iPod, too. The program's fully compatible with your desktop iTunes installation, but can be run from the iPod itself."
Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Start-Up
(2009-02-05 21:04:33)
New York Times: "Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could ignore the call of the motherboard no longer. He is going back to work -- this time at Fusion-io, a start-up company that tweaks computers to let them tap vast amounts of storage at very quick rates."
Saving Big Money With Open Source Storage
(2009-02-05 21:34:33)
Enterprise Storage Forum: ""Our entire operation is based on open source, and the financial perspective is the biggest reason," said Jason Williams, COO and CTO of Digitar. "But there are performance benefits too.""
Best Linux Distro for Mac
(2009-02-05 22:04:33)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Although there are few minor issues left unsolved, I'm quite happy with Xubuntu on my Mac because it simply works for me."
The long road to a working Cheese
(2009-02-05 22:34:33)
LWN.net: "Cheese is an interesting application that is designed to take still photos and movies using a webcam. In addition to its basic monitoring and recording abilities, Cheese can display and record real-time video effects similar to those from the EffecTV project. Cheese is based on the GStreamer multimedia framework."
Dell Hones in on Blade Market
(2009-02-05 23:05:33)
ServerWatch: "Rather than taking on IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) and HP (Palo Alto, Calif.), in an across-the-board blade server war, Dell appears to be targeting specific segments of the blade market with its M-series offerings."
Understanding the Linux Directory Layout
(2009-02-05 23:35:33)
Nix Tutor: "Whether you are new to Linux or a seasoned veteran, have you ever wondered what a particular directory was for? Find out what each directory does. Learn the differences between the Windows directory structure compared to Linux and some other key differences."
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