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News Linux News for Mar 12, 2009:
Desktop GUI - Quick Clarification
(2009-03-12 00:01:33)
What's Going On?: "I want to keep this simple so new people don’t get lost. There is plenty of articles on the internet that can go much further into details. The 3 I want to hit on are Xorg, Desktop Environment and Window Manager. Some believe that KDE is an Operating System when in fact it is a Desktop Environment."
Possible data loss in Ext4
(2009-03-12 00:31:33)
The H Online: "A bug report posted in the bug tracker for the next version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4, the future standard file system for Linux..."
Group test: web editors
(2009-03-12 01:31:33)
Tux Radar: "From there web development got a bit smarter, and it wasn't long before GUI-based tools became available to make the whole process more speedy and user friendly. Sadly, they didn't improve on the whole colour clashing, but they did make a lot more people a lot more productive. Even Microsoft, having previously dismissed the power of the web, did a complete U-turn and ended up releasing FrontPage to fuel even more abuse of the senses."
8 Essential Vim Editor Navigation Fundamentals
(2009-03-12 03:01:33)
The Geek Stuff: "This article is part of the ongoing Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. Navigation is a vital part of text editing. To be very productive, you should be aware of all possible navigation shortcuts in your editor."
Tiny Core Linux Has Just 10 MB In Size
(2009-03-12 04:31:33)
DownloadTube blog: "Maybe the smallest desktop-based Linux distribution, which requires only 10 MB free space on an USB drive, CD or an internal hard disk drive, Tiny Core Linux could give you a new experience and maximum Internet speed with a customizable X desktop and by running entirely in RAM."
Mandriva 2009.1 Gets System Restore Functionality
(2009-03-12 06:01:33)
Softpedia: "Delayed four days, Mandriva announced last night (March 10th) the first release candidate version of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2009.1 (Spring) distribution. This RC release brings a Dual arch (32-bit and 64-bit) installable CD, and some of the hottest Linux technologies..."
Installing KVM Guests With virt-install On Ubuntu 8.10 Server
(2009-03-12 07:31:33)
HowtoForge: "...virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems..."
Parallelizing Shell Scripts with Middleman
(2009-03-12 09:01:33)
Project Middleman: "The Middleman System (mdm) is a set of open-source utilities that help you parallelize your shell scripts."
China Congratulates EU on AT&T's Amendments Being Accepted to the Telecoms Pack
(2009-03-12 10:31:33)
Chao-Kuei's Notes: "Most importantly, regulation of improper speeches will become so much easier if such amendments are fully accepted and the package becomes law."
Video Editing Made Easy with Kino!
(2009-03-12 12:01:33)
Worldlabel.com: "This article will help you take the very first step toward creating a movie by using the very simple storyboard video editing program called Kino to create a story."
Economists Say Copyright and Patent Laws Are Killing Innovation; Hurting Economy
(2009-03-12 12:31:33)
Newswise: "Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy according to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly. Professors Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine call for abolishing the current patent and copyright system in order to unleash innovations necessary to reverse the current recession and rescue the economy."
After two years, a new PCLinuxOS ships!
(2009-03-12 13:01:33)
DesktopLinux: "Two years after its last major release, the interesting PCLinuxOS project has quietly posted a major new release. The "pclinuxos-2009.1" download features a 2.6.28.8.tex3 kernel, KDE 3.5.10, and a host of other updates."
Analyst: ARM to surpass Atom, in 55% of netbooks by 2012
(2009-03-12 13:31:33)
ars Technica: "The two groups see distinctly different futures for computing's hottest (and virtually only) growth sector; one predicts an Atom-dominated world, while the other bets on ARM."
Learn Linux Leanly
(2009-03-12 14:01:33)
ServerWatch: "Your dilemma is that you need to learn Linux but you have no money to buy training -- what do you do -- wait indefinitely for money to return to the coffers, download Linux and fumble through it on your own? Or, do you take the initiative and find some inexpensive or free learning resources?"
French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
(2009-03-12 14:31:33)
ars Technica: "France's Gendarmerie Nationale, the country's national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft Windows and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution."
Hot Tempers and Cool Tips for Linux Geeks
(2009-03-12 15:01:33)
Linux Blog Safari: "Being an open source advocate apparently can be dangerous to your health -- or at least your hair. That's what Helios' Ken Starks found, anyway, when a field technician took issue with the threat of FOSS to his livelihood. Then there are the tips, lots of Linux tips."
OLPC Set to Dump X86 for Arm Chips in XO-2
(2009-03-12 15:31:33)
PC World: ""Like many, we are urging Microsoft to make Windows -- not Windows Mobile -- available on the Arm. This is a complex question for them," Negroponte said."
Android leads Linux mobile sales higher
(2009-03-12 16:01:33)
Tectonic: "In its latest report on the state of smartphones, IT analysts Gartner said that Linux-based mobile sales increased from 2.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 3.2 million units at the end of 2008. This was despite a general slowdown in growth for the entire smartphone sector over the same period."
BBC team exposes cyber crime risk
(2009-03-12 16:31:33)
BBS News: "Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime."
As usual, no mention of the botnet OS, MS Windows-- ed.
Linux tip: Finding rootfs during boot
(2009-03-12 17:01:33)
IBM Developerworks: "As a Linux administrator, you may encounter rootfs errors like cannot mount rootfs and kernel panic when you try to reboot a server after attaching volumes from external storage or even after installing a new Linux operating system. This article outlines the Linux booting process on an x86 platform, shows why this problem happens, and offers four tips to avoid it or fix it."
Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google
(2009-03-12 17:31:33)
Business Week: "Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker says the Chrome browser is making the foundation behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues from Google."
Weekly Ten (3-9-2009): Circuit City Closes, Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!, 'Planetary Skin'
(2009-03-12 18:04:22)
Tech Source From Bohol: "For Circuit City, it passed for good news: On Friday, a press release trumpeted the "record shopper turnout" at the failed retailer's going-out-of-business sale and said that the liquidation proceedings were ahead of schedule."
Oracle: If RHEL were free, we wouldn't compete
(2009-03-12 18:34:22)
The Open Road: "We're offering (Oracle Unbreakable Linux) only because Red Hat requires customers to pay for binary downloads of (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). If RHEL was free, we would have never done (Oracle Unbreakable Linux)."
The Free Beer Economy
(2009-03-12 19:04:22)
Linux Journal: "Why is FREE! the world's best-selling noun, verb, adjective and adverb, yet so hard to credit as a foundation for business in the Internet Age? And what will happen when business folk finally grok the abundant opportunities that FREE! provides?"
Jaunty: Apt is broken? Move to another country!
(2009-03-12 19:34:22)
Technology FLOSS: "You might remember that I had switched to Jaunty to give it a test drive. Well, since yesterday I was having this problem with apt. It was throwing a segmentation fault whenever I tried to work with its repos (upgrade would seg fault, and dist-upgrade, and the same for install)."
Testing Ubuntu Jaunty and Ext4 WITHOUT Trashing Your Data
(2009-03-12 20:04:22)
automaticable: "Arguably the hottest new feature is stable support for Linux's new filesystem, ext4. The new filesystem has been shown to have significant performance gains over any other Linux filesystem to date. But think twice before you upgrade to ext4--many users have been reporting considerable data loss."
Plasma dev team rocks
(2009-03-12 20:34:22)
nowwhatthe: "Yesterday I updated KDE SVN. So, I have the latest dev stuff on my box again. Upon logging in, I was greeted by the new look of plasma.
First of all, congrats to the artists."
Google Voice: Press "1" to invade your privacy
(2009-03-12 21:04:22)
Computerworld: "The service will give Google enormous amounts of information about the intimate details of your everyday life, including recordings of your voice mail and possibly your phone calls. Combined with what Google already knows about you, it could mean your privacy is at an end."
Intro to Shell Programming: Writing a Simple Web Gallery
(2009-03-12 21:17:22)
LinuxPlanet: "So you're not a programmer, you say? If you can string a few shell commands together, it's not much of a step from there to programming.
To demonstrate that, I'll take you through the steps of writing a very simple web gallery script: one that will take your images and build a little web page to show them off."
Linux Has Worse Device Support Than Windows...I Don't Think So
(2009-03-12 21:34:22)
Rip's Random Notes: "It only took 4 1/2 hours to get to this point but everything was working. I can upload files to the watch and they play fine...I decided to see what would happen if I plugged the watch into one of my Debian GNU/Linux computers."
Computer Data Storage Through the Ages -- From Punch Cards to Blu-Ray
(2009-03-12 22:04:22)
Maximum PC: "And if you've lived long enough to remember the IBM Punch Card first hand, just ask and we'll SPEAK LOUDER.
Fasten your seatbelt and take a trip back in time with us as we follow the evolution of computer storage from its earliest days, all the way up to now."
PC Vendors: Put up or shut up on the Linux desktop
(2009-03-12 22:17:22)
Cyber Cynic: "Well. Sort of. You see, except for Dell, everyone makes it a pain to get their Linux-enabled PCs. And, I'm sick of it."
Two Reasons the Command Line Trumps the Graphical User Interface
(2009-03-12 22:34:22)
The ERACC Web Log: "I like my GUI chewy goodness as much as any visually stimulated human. However, for certain tasks a GUI is just not the best choice."
Linux services without mains power
(2009-03-12 23:04:22)
Tectonic: "We bought the house about 12 years ago, and one of the appealing factors was that it was off the grid. I had always wanted a chance to see whether it was viable to operate without mains power, and here we were faced with either spending a fair amount on getting power to the house or looking at harnessing natural power."
Despite Economy, Storage Bargains Hard to Find
(2009-03-12 23:34:22)
Enterprise Storage Forum: ""Pricing was already dropping due to the arrival on the market of products built from general purpose server components," said Jason Williams, CTO and COO and Digitar Inc. of Boise, Idaho, a company that has saved a lot of money with commodity hardware and open source storage.""
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