News Linux News for Apr 02, 2009:

An easy library catalog with Tellico
(2009-04-02 00:02:49)
Free Software Magazine: "Setting up an electronic card catalog for my books always seemed like a lot of work, so I hadn't really attempted it before; lately, I happened across a KDE program called Tellico that made it so easy and fun that I completed my inventory in under a week. Plus, I finally found a use for that "CueCat" scanner I've had collecting dust for the last several years!"

KVM Virtualization With Enomalism 2 On An Ubuntu 8.10 Server
(2009-04-02 01:32:49)
HowtoForge: "Enomalism ECP (Elastic Computing Platform) provides a web-based control panel that lets you design, deploy, and manage virtual machines on one or more host systems (in the case of multiple systems, we speak of a cluster or cloud). This article shows how you can use Enomalism (also know as Enomaly) to manage KVM guests on one Ubuntu 8.10 server."

Idle Process Time On Linux And Unix: How To Find It Again
(2009-04-02 03:02:49)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "In our final installment on "finding a process's idle time on Linux or Unix," (last touched upon in our post on echo debugging) we looked at whole lot of ways one could go wrong trying to find the idle time of a process on Linux or Unix. This post is a little more upbeat ;)"

Exploring filters and pipes
(2009-04-02 04:32:49)
Tux Radar: "When many newbies first encounter Linux, the 'cool stuff' that often gets their attention is the incredible array of command line tools, and something called a pipe that allowed you to connect them together. Together, these provide an incredibly powerful component-based architecture designed to process streams of text-based data."

Most Reliable Hosting Company Sites in March 2009
(2009-04-02 06:02:49)
Netcraft: "Based in New York, Swishmail specialise in email hosting, and offer a variety of email and web hosting solutions. The company's main website is served by nginx, running on FreeBSD."

Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 1
(2009-04-02 07:32:49)
Linux Journal: "I've written about the awesome LilyPond in previous articles for this column, and I'm happy to report that the project is still alive and flourishing in its version 2.12 stable branch. LilyPond's development tasks and maintenance duties are managed by a sizable community of users and programmers, and it is indeed a work in full maturity."

HowTo List Virtual Machines using Python and CIM Part 2
(2009-04-02 09:02:49)
Linux Dynasty: "Welcome to part 2 of the "HowTo List Virtual Machines using Python and CIM". In this part, I modified the original script so that you can pass the Virtual Machine name as well as run it with out the Virtual Machine name."

Webopedia Term of the Day: femtocell
(2009-04-02 10:32:49)
Webopedia: "A femtocell is a small cellular base station -- or a wireless access point -- that is typically used to improve indoor cellular reception inside a home or small business."

March 2009 Web Server Survey
(2009-04-02 12:02:49)
Netcraft: "In the March 2009 survey, we received responses from 224,749,695 sites. This has brought the total up by more than 9 million sites, with QQ and Microsoft making the most significant contributions. Apache remains in the lead with a total of 104 million sites, while Microsoft-IIS's gain of 3.3 million sites (mostly consisting of new Windows Live blogs) brings its total up to 66 million."

Mythbuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Beta Screenshot Tour
(2009-04-02 12:32:49)
Okabatology: "Mythbuntu is a community built MythTV-focused distribution of Ubuntu. It aims at resolving the difficulties of setting up a standalone MythTV system with Ubuntu. MythTv as Mythbuntu becomes a full-fleshed open source DVR (Digital Video Recorder) application, with a solid developer community in the background."

Spend Trend: Thin Clients
(2009-04-02 13:02:49)
ServerWatch: "I must confess I've never liked thin clients, dumb terminals or similar ilk — that is until a few years ago when I setup Linux as a Windows Terminal Server client. I wrote an article about my experience with that project and became a thin-client convert."

Using The BTRFS Filesystem On Debian Lenny
(2009-04-02 13:32:49)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can build the kernel and tools to use the new BTRFS filesystem on Debian Lenny. Btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration."

Novell sets up Netbook Linux R&D team
(2009-04-02 14:02:49)
EeePC: "Novell has established a research & development team specifically for developing Linux Operating Systems for use in netbook PCs..."

Microsoft releases ASP.NET under the MS-PL License
(2009-04-02 14:32:49)
Miguel de Icaza's web log: "These are incredibly good news. Worth dancing for! I know that a lot of developers inside Microsoft worked to get this important piece of code released under the MS-PL to ensure that the users of ASP.NET could benefit from the code being open source."

Nehalem Cracks the Virtual Glass Ceiling
(2009-04-02 15:02:49)
ServerWatch: "Software can only do so much. If the scaffolding around it isn't strong or conducive to what it sets out to do, its capabilities are limited. This is especially true for virtualization, where to I/O and processing power can often stop performance in its tracks. This week, a number of announcements emphasized the importance of hardware."

Getting Started With the Kate Text Editor: Kate For Coders
(2009-04-02 15:32:49)
LinuxPlanet: "Syntax highlighting is incredibly useful for any kind of coding or scripting; comments, quoted strings, code, and markup are shown in different colours. Juliet Kemp shows us how Kate supports syntax highlighting for a multitude of languages, configuration file types, and even some applications like MySQL and diff."

The Origins of Linux Quiz
(2009-04-02 16:02:49)
Technology and Business: "Linux has been around for over two decades now. But how well do you know the origins of this open source operating system? Why not take our quiz and test whether you really are a true Linux expert. After you complete the quiz well let you know how you went and give you the correct answers."

Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise
(2009-04-02 16:32:49)
Inc.: "At Fog Creek Software, every worker at the same level is paid the same salary. And when one gets a raise, they all do."

NSW missed Linux opportunity
(2009-04-02 17:02:49)
ZDNet AU: "Once again, the New South Wales State Government has left Linux out in the cold after being knee-deep in speculation the open source platform would make in-roads into its desktop environment."

On Netbooks and Redmond, Death and Taxes
(2009-04-02 17:32:49)
Linux Blog Safari: "What happens when you start using the 'T' word in connection with computer operating systems? All hell breaks loose in the blogosphere, that's what. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started it, with his assertion that Mac users pay an "Apple Tax." One thing led to another, and now the Linux community is debating whether Linux users pay a "Microsoft Tax.""

Save The ScreenSavers!
(2009-04-02 18:02:49)
Linux Magazine: "XScreenSaver is one of the most widely-used screensaver applications for Linux systems. The Debian project is seeking new maintainers to help keep the software running."

New Ubuntu Linux server is for business
(2009-04-02 18:32:49)
Cyber Cynic: "On April 20th, Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, will be releasing Ubuntu Server Edition 9.04 along with the new Ubuntu Desktop Edition and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. That's great news for Linux fans, but what I want to talk about today is why that's also great news for business."

Cloudera CEO: Hadoop, Open Source and the Cloud
(2009-04-02 19:02:49)
Datamation: "But here’s the zillion-dollar question: Is Cloudera really the next hot open source start-up, perhaps a nascent XenSource (bought by Citrix for a gorgeous $500 million)? Or will it be just another fledgling rushing into the crowded cloud computing sector?"

AMD Radeon HD 4890 On Linux
(2009-04-02 19:32:49)
Phoronix: "With the launch of the Radeon HD 4800 series in June of last year, AMD made an evolutionary leap in their Linux support. For the first time, when introducing a brand new graphics processor (the RV770) it was greeted by same-day Linux support, compared to the past where Linux users had to wait many months for any new level of support."

Rackable To Acquire Silicon Graphics For $25M
(2009-04-02 20:02:49)
InformationWeek: "In the deal, Rackable will acquire Silicon Graphics' servers and software for building x86 clusters for high-performance computing, cloud computing, and large-scale data storage."

Linux Foundation takes over Stewardship of Intel's Moblin OS
(2009-04-02 20:32:49)
Standards Blog: "Last time, it was Steven Vaughn-Nichols announcing our acquisition of the Linux.com site, and this time it's the New York Times (no less) announcing a day ahead of time the fact that the Linux Foundation has taken over stewardship of Intel's Linux-based Moblin mobile operating system. If you've been following the mobile space for awhile, this is news worth noting, on which more below."

25 Cool and Geeky BSD Wallpapers
(2009-04-02 21:02:49)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Before, we have shared our collection of high-quality and good-looking Linux wallpapers for all the Linux fans."

Ubuntu server adoption slow but steady in the data center
(2009-04-02 21:32:49)
SearchDataCenter: "Although the Ubuntu desktop has won wide popularity, Ubuntu's fairly sophisticated server OS has yet to establish significant inroads in U.S. data centers."

Maybe there will be a year of the Linux Desktop after all
(2009-04-02 22:02:49)
Handle With Linux: "This security article doesn't refer to windows as being the security risk. And the NY times reporter responds to the inquiry by saying this is a organized systematic espionage article. Which has nothing to do with Linux."

Best 5 Applications to Rip and Transcode DVDs in Linux
(2009-04-02 22:32:49)
TuxArena: "This is an overview of 5 most popular applications for ripping DVDs in Linux: dvd::rip, K9Copy, AcidRip, thoggen and HandBrake."

Available Now: KDE 4.2.2
(2009-04-02 23:02:49)
Softpedia: "The KDE community announced a few minutes ago, in a press release, the immediate availability of the second maintenance release of KDE 4.2. The new version is dubbed "Cano" and it brings many bug fixes and improvements..."

The ABC's of PHP Part 4 - How Variable Am I?
(2009-04-02 23:32:49)
PHP Builder: "The good thing about PHP is that this is not required, instead PHP is smart enough to work out how to handle your data automatically all you have to do is assign a value."

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