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News Linux News for Aug 11, 2009:
First Look: Pardus 2009 (DistroWatch Weekly #315)
(2009-08-11 00:03:03)
Distrowatch: "Pardus Linux is somewhat unusual in that it is a government funded distribution. It was created and is maintained by The National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an affiliate of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey."
How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam
(2009-08-11 01:33:03)
Howtoforge: "If you are running a webserver you might have faced the problem already: somewhere on your server is a vulnerable contact form or CMS system written in PHP that gets abused by spammers to send emails trough your server."
Moblin 2.0 keeps getting better
(2009-08-11 03:03:03)
Geek.com: "Since my first Moblin 2.0 article a month ago, the development team has not been resting. There have been a half dozen serious updates (over 200MB each time), and the OS has moved away from being riddled with periodic “Fatal Error” messages to just a few now and then. But beyond that, the entire OS has become far more usable as new features are enabled."
Real Sexism in the Open Source Community
(2009-08-11 04:33:03)
Bag of Lies: "I just checked Planet Ubuntu (working late on some new articles, and expect to be in London by the end of the week) and i saw a link to Prude or Professional? (NSFW) and i thought it was another stupid article about the lame joke rms made some time ago with the dumb “stop sexism” stop sign."
Coding and the Meaning of Life
(2009-08-11 06:03:03)
Linux Blog Safari: "It can, in fact, be thankless -- FOSS coders may get ridicule and criticism instead of riches. Why do they do it?"
Writing a book with the help of the Sakai free software community
(2009-08-11 07:33:03)
Free Software Magazine: "Sakai is a respected online platform for collaborative learning. Millions of students around the world, especially in higher education learn using this platform. Sakai is highly flexible and allows you to quickly make project and course sites."
5 Opera Tips and Tricks
(2009-08-11 09:03:03)
Tuxarena: "Built using the commercial Qt toolkit and including powerful features like RSS reader, widgets, speed dial, tab previews (in the upcoming Opera 10), themes, BitTorrent client, to mention just several, Opera also offers packages for any popular distribution out there, including DEB, RPM or compressed .tar.gz packages."
Howto Check your webserver for vulnerabilities : Nikto a website scanner
(2009-08-11 10:33:03)
Linux and Microcontroller Tips: "Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which scans your webserver against more than 3500 dangerous files/CGIs, outdated version checking, It has a very good plugin support"
SYSSTAT Howto: A Deployment and Configuration Guide for Linux Servers
(2009-08-11 12:03:03)
Linux.com: "SYSSTAT is a software application comprised of several tools that offers advanced system performance monitoring. It provides the ability to create a measurable baseline of server performance, as well as the capability to formulate, accurately assess and conclude what led up to an issue or unexpected occurrence."
Reviews of KDE 4.3
(2009-08-11 12:33:03)
KDE.news: "Polishlinux once again offers an extensive review with many screenshots showing what is new in KDE 4.3. According to Korneliusz Jarzębski, "Finally the day has come, when the curiosity about the KDE4.3 development branch took the better of me.""
Doing the Samba in Public
(2009-08-11 13:03:03)
Open Enterprise: "The open source Samba project is often overshadowed by its more glamorous siblings. That's a pity, because it has played a crucial role in the increasing uptake of free software in companies by providing a bridge between Microsoft systems and GNU/Linux ones:"
Five gui hex editors for ubuntu
(2009-08-11 13:33:03)
Experimenting with GNU/Linux: "I downloaded several programs (GUI as well as console) and poked around a bit with each. Here are five gui hex editors you can use on ubuntu 9.04."
Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition (Developer's Library)
(2009-08-11 14:03:03)
A Million Chimpanzees: "The key feature of this edition of the reference guide, is the presence of both Python 2.6 and 3.0. If you're savvy enough to be reading a review about a Python reference text, you know that Python 3.0 breaks backwards compatibility."
Does GPL still matter?
(2009-08-11 14:33:03)
InfoWorld: "As open source gets more commercial, GPL's idealism is overridden by developers' business needs."
Electronic whiteboard for Linux (ubuntu)
(2009-08-11 15:03:03)
Linux Tips: "How to convert our computer screen on to a digital electronic whiteboard, under Linux, could not be simpler. Only need a knob for Wii (Nintendo Console), an infrared emitter (such as a remote control), and the software for it"
Filmaster switches to Mercurial
(2009-08-11 15:33:03)
Fimaster: "Filmaster.com, the open source movie recommendation service and film buffs community website, was just fully switched from Subversion to Mercurial for version control software."
UK Government ditches Microsoft's Cloud in favour of Open Source?
(2009-08-11 16:03:03)
ComputerworldUK: "Recently I reported that with the move of Martin Bellamy from the NHS Microsft IT project to the Cabinet Office to 'run' G-Cloud. It looked ominously like a step towards a fully outsourced MS Azure project."
xTuple 3.3 Amps up ERP (enterprise resource planning)
(2009-08-11 16:17:03)
xTuple press release: "xTuple Unveils Powerful New ERP (enterprise resource planning) Features in xTuple 3.3
New version of open source ERP software helps take growing businesses' supply chains global, layering in international tax support and distribution resource planning"
Hands on with SUSE Studio
(2009-08-11 16:33:03)
TuxRadar: "Novell has launched SUSE Studio, a service that allows anyone to create their own Linux distro respin using nothing more than their web browser. But did you know Novell already has plans to open source the new technology it contains?"
VMware: $420 Million SpringSource Deal Pressures Red Hat
(2009-08-11 17:03:03)
The VAR Guy: "Red Hat’s fastest-growing channel business — the JBoss middleware platform — potentially faces new competition. The aggressor is VMware, which has acquired SpringSource for $420 million. Here’s the scoop."
An Early Look at Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala - Overview & Screenshots
(2009-08-11 17:33:03)
TuxArena: "Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is scheduled for release in late October, and it will be the 11th release of the most popular Linux distribution. Although it is scheduled to come with GNOME 2.28, it will be the first release to introduce the first changes that will be featured in GNOME 3."
Apache updates to 2.2.13 for security
(2009-08-11 18:03:03)
Netstat -vat: "A new Apache HTTP server release is out, fixing at least 4 security issues in the popular open source web server. None of the fixed security issues look like show stoppers to me."
Run Multiple Debian Versions Simultaneously
(2009-08-11 18:33:03)
Tip of the Trade: "However, it can be really useful to grab packages from upstream when needed without necessarily upgrading your whole system to testing. This is quite straightforward to do with apt, but it isn't all that well-documented."
Download and convert Youtube videos with Elltube
(2009-08-11 19:03:03)
Experimenting with GNU/Linux: "Elltube is one such application which works both on Linux and windows."
The G:Standard 3.0.rc01 (2.9.90) is Released
(2009-08-11 19:33:03)
GoblinX Project: " The G:Standard is the original edition first released in the end of October 2004. In the past it was called as GoblinX and later as GoblinX Standard. "
Where Are the Tech Jobs?
(2009-08-11 20:03:03)
InternetNews: "What tech skills are in demand? One measure comes from eLance, a global online workplace of contract jobs. The company's monthly Top 100 Online Work Index for August, set for official release Tuesday, shows a big jump in several tech-related positions."
Obama, open source & healthcare
(2009-08-11 20:33:03)
Cyber Cynic: "Linux-based and open-source healthcare software has been around for years. Unless you were in health IT, however, chances are you never even heard of it. It's time to pay attention, because it may soon be tracking your medical records."
Nathive developer spotlight
(2009-08-11 21:03:03)
Bag of Lies: "This promising image editing application currently in alpha has the potential to be the default image editing app for Gnome, so i caught up with the lead developer Marcos Diaz for an interview sure to be a small part of history."
Weekly Ten: I.T. Glory Days Gone, Linux - The New 'Hot' Job Skill, iPhone Devs Flee Underground
(2009-08-11 21:33:03)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Nationwide unemployment may be heading toward double-digits in the U.S., but among the skills that are in highest demand are those of a Linux sysadmin."
Kubuntu Netbook Release Coming
(2009-08-11 22:03:03)
Jamie's Random Musings: "There is a small mention in the Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3 Technical Overview that says "Kubuntu includes its first Netbook release"."
Is too much choice getting in the way of Linux' acceptance?
(2009-08-11 22:33:03)
Linux and Open Source: "I know, I know...absolute crazy talk. But hear me out before you label me a mad man. This issue is fairly key to the wider adoption of Linux."
The Linux screensaver xscreensaver
(2009-08-11 23:03:03)
GHacks: "The xscreensaver package, however, is a much generic package that any Linux distribution, so long as it is running X, can use. That is what we are going to discuss."
First Moblin v2 netbook due this fall
(2009-08-11 23:33:03)
Moblin Zone: "The first netbook pre-installed with Moblin v2 operating system technology may reach market in October. A report suggests that Asus will offer Moblin v2 technology preinstalled on its "Seashell" netbook."
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