News Linux News for Apr 03, 2009:

Speeding up your Nginx server with memcached
(2009-04-03 00:03:54)
Levent Serinol: "Nginx is a high performance web and proxy (web and mail proxy) server. Generally, nginx is used as a front-end proxy server to Apache webserver."

VectorLinux 6.0 Light released
(2009-04-03 01:33:54)
Vector Linux: "The VectorLinux team is pleased to announce the final release of VL6.0 Light."

Mono Again: the Controversy That Won't Quit
(2009-04-03 02:40:54)
Linux Today Blog: "Opinions on whether Mono is dangerous, and on whether it should be avoided or accepted fly thick and fast. If you're bored with the whole deal feel free to go read something else, but I suspect that the controversy is going to grow as some Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, ship with some Mono applications by default."

Midgard2 9.03.0beta2 released
(2009-04-03 03:03:54)
Midgard: " The Midgard Project has released a second beta of Midgard2 9.03 "Vinland" - the new generation of the Midgard content repository."

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Feature Tour
(2009-04-03 04:33:54)
Linux Magazine: "Take a screenshot tour of Novell's latest release of SLED. Get the scoop on what's new and what works (and what doesn't)."

An overview of FLOSS email clients
(2009-04-03 06:03:54)
Nuxified: "I was willing to share my experience as -let's say it right away- I seem to have a problem with Thunderbird. Thunderbird is a nice application but for some reason I always had problem backing up my emails and mailboxes. Oftentimes, I would reopen an archive with Thunderbird to find unreadable messages."

Planning for GNOME 3.0
(2009-04-03 07:33:54)
live.gnome.org: "There were thoughts that GNOME could stay with the 2.x branch for a very long time given our solid development methods, but that it was not the future that our community wants to see happening. Because of lack of excitement. Because of lack of vision. Slowly, a plan started to emerge. It evolved, changed, was trimmed a bit, made more solid."

Security Absurdity: The Complete, Unquestionable, And Total Failure of Information Security
(2009-04-03 09:03:54)
Security Absurdity: "They say if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will, of course, frantically try to scramble out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite complacently. As you turn up the heat, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death. The security industry is much like that frog; completely and uncontrollably in disarray - yet we tolerate it since we are used to it."

Webopedia Terms of the Day: bliki and blog storm
(2009-04-03 10:33:54)
Webopedia: "bliki: Short for blog and wiki, bliki is a type of blog that can be edited by readers or an agreed upon group of collaborators, contributors and editors"

Fedora: Chronicle of a Server Break-in
(2009-04-03 12:03:54)
Linux Magazine: "In August 2008, the Fedora team noticed irregularities on its server. Project leader Paul W. Frields has now released a detailed report of the break-in."

Shuttleworth: Windows 7 Is an Opportunity for Linux
(2009-04-03 12:33:54)
InternetNews: "Microsoft might be betting big on Windows 7, the next version of its flagship operating system, but to Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, the upcoming release is really an opportunity for Linux to shine."

Wine development two steps forward one step back
(2009-04-03 13:03:54)
Wine-Reviews: "We've got a huge number of fixes for Microsoft Office, notably Outlook. And most importantly, we've got Quicken 2009 working along nicely. That's critical, because Quicken 2006 goes out of support in 30 days here."

Firefox 3 market share crawls past IE 7 in Europe
(2009-04-03 13:33:54)
ars Technica: "According to Web analytics firm StatCounter, Firefox 3 has finally surpassed the popularity of Internet Explorer 7 in Europe. Internet Explorer's total marketshare across all versions, however, still exceeds that of Firefox."

Running Complex Commands with sudo
(2009-04-03 14:03:54)
Linux Journal: "If you use sudo to run commands as root, you've probably run into "permission denied" problems when only part of a pipeline or part of a command is running with root permissions."

IBM Sun acquisition to be announced today?
(2009-04-03 14:33:54)
Netstat -vat: "Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are reporting that according to their sources, a deal is nearly done. If the sources familiar with the matter are accurate, the deal could be announced as soon as today."

Ubuntu Podcast Interviews Mark Shuttleworth
(2009-04-03 15:03:54)
Ubuntu Podcast: "Mark Shuttleworth joins us for a video podcast to discuss the upcoming 9.04 release, Ubuntu history, Linux on the desktop, impacts of cloud computing, Ayatana, the community and Ubuntu, Ubuntu and Canonical, Google Summer of Code, Ubunet, and much more!"

How to get nice, smooth, X11 fonts in your terminal and editors
(2009-04-03 15:33:54)
CaseyBanner.ca: "Ok, so well all know that bitmap fonts are great, but sometimes its nice to have some smoothing and anti aliasing to make things easier on the eyes. How is this accomplished? By adding this to your ~/.Xdefaults file:"

10 File Managers for Linux
(2009-04-03 16:03:54)
TuxArena: "PCManFM- Yet another popular file manager written in GTK, PCManFM is probably the preferred alternative to Nautilus for GNOME users, especially that it is reported to be faster."

Verizon: LiMo No Longer Has 'Preferred' Status
(2009-04-03 16:33:54)
LinuxInsider: "Verizon Wireless said last year that LiMo software, a version of Linux created by a consortium of companies, would be the preferred software platform for its phones starting this year, but Chief Executive Lowell McAdam denied Wednesday that LiMo would have any special status."

Freeswitch + mod_skypiax = Skype for all?
(2009-04-03 17:03:54)
Jajah: "Currently, Skype for SIP is aimed at organizations with IP-PBX wishing to integrate its SIP standard with Skype. It is not known at this time when, and if, Skype will launch a similar program for individuals."

Good-bye Solaris? The fate of Sun's top 5 technologies
(2009-04-03 17:14:25)
Cyber Cynic: "I'd long thought Sun was going to down for the count, so the news that IBM was moving in didn't surprise me. What happens next though? Specifically, what's going to happen to Sun's product lines?"

Developments in the GCC world
(2009-04-03 17:33:54)
LWN.net: "As GCC nears its 4.4 release, there are a number of criteria that need to be met before it can be released. Those requirements--regressions requiring squashing--have been met, but things are still stalled."

PXE: Not Just for Server Networks Anymore!
(2009-04-03 18:03:54)
Linux Journal: "...recently I found myself managing not only a network of Linux servers, but also the entire LAN, encompassing Ubuntu laptops, desktops and servers, along with Windows laptops, desktops and servers. I found myself imagineering a PXE server that would not only allow me to kickstart servers and boot rescue tools off the network, but that also could provide a temporary environment for my users in the event that their computers broke."

Linux game console ready to ship
(2009-04-03 18:33:54)
LinuxDevices: "Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers, resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro."

New law sees dip in internet traffic
(2009-04-03 19:03:54)
The Local: "Internet use in Sweden dipped by 30 percent on Wednesday, as the country's new anti-file sharing measures came into force."

ctrl s freezes vi and linux terminal
(2009-04-03 19:33:54)
UNIX BASH scripting: "While working on Linux terminal, sometime my terminal hangs due to some key strokes that I make in hurry."

Semantic Web Taps Into Venerable Lisp Language
(2009-04-03 20:03:54)
SemanticWeb: "A core part of the college’s Software Engineering Capstone Project course, the work has focused on creating a new version of the Common Lisp language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and is intertwined with the Java language in such a way that users of Lisp can directly access Java libraries and vice versa."

10 open source books worth downloading
(2009-04-03 20:33:54)
Textonic: "There are many more books than just these available online but I chose to limit the list to books that could be downloaded in full. I also chose a wide range of books, from introductions to Linux, books on implementing open source in schools and in Africa, to books that defined the evolution of free software."

Low-power ARM9 module runs Linux
(2009-04-03 21:03:54)
LinuxDevices: "Bluewater Systems has announced its latest Snapper processor module, this time built around the Atmel ARM9-based AT91SAM9260 processor. The 1.0 x 2.7-inch Snapper 9260 offers Ethernet, USB, and other I/O and can power peripherals on and off for reduced power consumption, says the company."

Linux, Windows Server both hit by economy
(2009-04-03 21:33:54)
InfoWorld: "An industry analyst forecast has Linux shipments slipping a bit more percentage-wise than Microsoft's Windows Server, but Microsoft is feeling the pain of the economy, too, said an analyst who worked on the report."

Arch Linux: i686 support not being dropped
(2009-04-03 22:03:54)
Arch Linux: "Hi, Arch Linux users, we are pleased to inform you that the i686 architecture is not going to be dropped from Arch Linux. It all was part of an April Fools joke, in which all the developers and the forum moderators played a big part."

How to build a highly available fileserver with Linux
(2009-04-03 22:33:54)
How To Stuff: "This is a follow up to my last article on fileservers that focused on ZFS and Solaris, this time we will look at Linux, NFS and DRBD for a much lower cost system."

Use a Different Color for the Root Shell Prompt
(2009-04-03 23:03:54)
Lifehacker: "Linux only: Reader Chris writes in with an excellent tip that changes the prompt to red when using the root account from the terminal--as a reminder to be more careful."

5 Best BSD Distributions
(2009-04-03 23:33:54)
Tech Source From Bohol: "As some of you may know, Linux is not the only Unix-like operating system available. There are other UNIX derivatives, and one of the most popular among them is called BSD. If you have been to Distrowatch, you will see different BSD distributions listed in there."

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