Build an Embedded Linux Distro From Scratch
(Aug 20, 2008, 02:04 UTC) (34 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to build a custom Linux® distribution to use in an embedded environment, in this case to drive a Technologic Systems TS-7800 single-board computer. In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to the decisions you make as you're building the system and creating the distribution."
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How To Install Django On Mandriva 2008.1 (Apache2/mod_python)
(Aug 20, 2008, 01:04 UTC) (108 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Mandriva 2008.1 server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide."

4 Linux Distros Which Look Like Mac OS X
(Aug 20, 2008, 00:04 UTC) (806 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internetling: "Here’s an interesting compilation of Linux distribution which resemble Apple’s Mac OS 10. They might not be identical, but you guys who like Apple’s design might appreciate the fact yu can get something like it, with the nice-on-the-inside GNU/Linux kernel, out-of-the-box."

Fedora 10 Takes Shape
(Aug 19, 2008, 23:04 UTC) (631 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "Frields said he tested the feature in a literal road test -- he was able to maintain a network connection while riding in a car, courtesy of the ad hoc network created by users in a second car, which had a broadband Wi-Fi connection."

Free Digital Texts Begin to Challenge Costly College Textbooks in California
(Aug 19, 2008, 22:34 UTC) (478 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
LA Times: "McAfee said he wrote his open-source book because the traditional textbook market is broken. Textbook and college supply prices nearly tripled between 1986 and 2004..."

Tip of the Trade: Nagios Plugins
(Aug 19, 2008, 22:04 UTC) (370 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "The excellent open-source monitoring software Nagios is set up to use plugins to do the actual work of checking services. Here are some useful plugins from the official plugin site and an unofficial plugin collection."

GoboLinux and Replacing the FHS
(Aug 19, 2008, 21:34 UTC) (339 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OSNews: "In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic links are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories. A post in the GoboLinux forums suggested that it might be better to turn the concept around: retain the FHS, and then use symbolic links to map the GoboLinux tree on top of it."

Finding Running Process ID's On Linux Using Pidof
(Aug 19, 2008, 21:04 UTC) (316 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""pidof," as the name would suggest, is a program that will find the process id (PID) of a running program (or the PID's of programs). Again, just like its name, it finds the "pid of" a running process. I'm just repeating this over and over again because the name is so self explanatory is seems contrary to everything I've come to expect from Linux and Unix."

Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others
(Aug 19, 2008, 20:34 UTC) (361 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Business Week: "Only a handful of open-source acquisitions the last two years have netted investors at least 10 times their money."

Speaking UNIX: The new and improved Vim editor
(Aug 19, 2008, 20:04 UTC) (818 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "How could someone make a more powerful editing tool than vi, you may ask? The answer is Vim, and this article provides details on the many enhancements that have made Vim a highly used and acceptable editor in the world of UNIX and Linux."

Is The “Killer App” Argument Dead?
(Aug 19, 2008, 19:34 UTC) (784 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: ""The problem with both Apple and Linux is that neither OS has a compelling killer app driving the user base.""

A Tour of Empathy IM client. Will it replace Pidgin?
(Aug 19, 2008, 19:04 UTC) (1106 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Computer: "Listed on the roadmap to Gnome 2.24 is the integration with Empathy, a multi-protocol IM client. This integration could be a sign of a replacement for Pidgin and Ekiga with one single SIP and multi-protocol IM application."

9 Linux Myths Debunked
(Aug 19, 2008, 18:34 UTC) (1369 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Royal Hehe2-ness: "First of all, let’s face it, YOU are the weakest link in any OS. The user is the one that wreaks havoc to any OS, with ignorance or miscalculated decisions. Linux users are generally more savvy than the Windows or Mac users out there. We don’t just click on files promising us the latest Hollywood diva nude pictures."

MSNBC Spam-O-Rama
(Aug 19, 2008, 18:04 UTC) (851 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "Headlines have ranged from the semi-plausible: "McCain Plans Vietnam Campaign Tour;" to the unlikely, "Nation Morns the Tragic Loss of Britney Spears;" to the utterly unbelievable: "Paris Hilton Lectures on Dickens and Dostoevsky.""

Lots of Foot-Dragging on IPv6
(Aug 19, 2008, 17:34 UTC) (611 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "The IPv4 address space is near exhaustion, yet a new report claims that traffic on the modernized IPv6 (define) protocol is slow and migration to the newer address spaces is sluggish."

20 Beautiful Dark Themes for Gnome and Ubuntu
(Aug 19, 2008, 17:04 UTC) (2180 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cats Who Code: "Some weeks ago, I shown you a list of 30 themes for enhancing your Gnome desktop."

OpenSolaris: a Linux Admin's View
(Aug 19, 2008, 16:34 UTC) (1178 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Format: "Sun is battling hard to break into the open source operating system world with OpenSolaris. Juliet Kemp takes it for a test-drive, sampling its unique features and seeing how it fares against Linux."

What's That They Say About Assumptions?
(Aug 19, 2008, 16:04 UTC) (731 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Blog of Helios: "Sometimes Linux isn't the answer."

The Brampton Factor: Analysts Fail on Open Source
(Aug 19, 2008, 15:34 UTC) (515 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Pro: "For open source software to achieve its full potential, people's perceptions must change. Yet how can that happen when open source is so woefully neglected by analysts, asks Martin Brampton."

Why Red Hat Invested In JBoss Instead Of Linux Desktops
(Aug 19, 2008, 15:04 UTC) (1495 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Ever wonder why Red Hat spends so much time focused on the JBoss middleware market and so little time trying to make Linux a desktop standard? The answer involves some simple but startling open source math."

How Adobe Can Stop Microsoft
(Aug 19, 2008, 14:34 UTC) (1914 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Market Watch: "If you've gone online to watch the Summer Olympics on your computer, you've found the elaborate NBC Web site done in conjunction with Microsoft Corp. featuring videos from almost all the events, using a new online-video presentation technology called Silverlight."

42 of the Best Free Linux Scientific Software
(Aug 19, 2008, 14:04 UTC) (2327 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Links: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux scientific applications, covering a broad spectrum of uses. There's a mix of graphical and console based applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all types of users."
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China Takes Lead in Linux Education
(Aug 19, 2008, 13:34 UTC) (561 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world's most populous country have become a part of the open source world."

Forbes Rewrites the History of Open Source
(Aug 19, 2008, 13:04 UTC) (1596 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDNet: "This is accomplished by someone named Dan Woods, who calls his company Evolved Media. (He might want to rename it Unevolved Medium.)"

Rotate Desktop Backgrounds in Ubuntu
(Aug 19, 2008, 12:34 UTC) (1193 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lifehacker: "Let's take a look at how any GNOME-based Linux user can use rotating backgrounds to keep better track of time, keep your desktop looking fresh, and inspire all kinds of coffee shop conversations."

Grokking SCO's Demise
(Aug 19, 2008, 12:04 UTC) (1392 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
PC World: "Did Groklaw really have an impact on those court cases? Naaah."

10 Total Commander Alternatives for Linux
(Aug 19, 2008, 11:04 UTC) (1540 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lists: "Xfe is small, very fast and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands."

People Behind KDE: Michael Pyne
(Aug 19, 2008, 10:34 UTC) (769 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Behind KDE: "Do you get to look out the window of your sub and see fish?

"There are no windows."

How to Get System Info in Linux
(Aug 19, 2008, 09:34 UTC) (2033 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
a non-geek’s linux notes: "Here are some useful commands that you can use to find (almost) every information that you want to know about your system from the command line. Most of this commands can be run as non-privileged user, but more information can be obtained if (and should be) run as root.:"

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server
(Aug 19, 2008, 09:04 UTC) (624 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license."

Install Ubuntu With Software RAID 10
(Aug 19, 2008, 08:04 UTC) (740 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "The Ubuntu Live CD installer doesn't support software RAID, and the server and alternate CDs only allow you to do RAID levels 0, 1, and 5. Raid 10 is the fastest RAID level that also has good redundancy too. So I was disappointed that Ubuntu didn't have it as a option for my new file server. I didn't want shell out lots of money for a RAID controller, especially since benchmarks show little performance benefit using a Hardware controller configured for RAID 10 in a file server."

Transparency is Just as Important
(Aug 19, 2008, 06:34 UTC) (915 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "One of the advantages, touted by the Open Source community is that you can read the source code and make changes to it if you need to. Now to be honest, how many of us even bother to look at the source code?"

OSU Open Source Lab Gets $300,000 From Google
(Aug 19, 2008, 05:04 UTC) (733 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Oregon Live: "The new funds will support growth and projects at a lab that has hosted some of the world's largest and most far-reaching open source efforts, including the Mozilla Firefox browser, portions of the One Laptop Per Child project, the Linux Foundation's main infrastructure, Apache Web Server and the Drupal content management system."

A Storm In The Computing World: Stormy Peters
(Aug 19, 2008, 04:14 UTC) (734 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EFY Times: "Proprietary solutions like drivers and codec aren't just a problem for the free and open source software community they are also a problem for users. Our ability to innovate and offer new solutions for users is often held up by proprietary solutions."

Back Up and Sync Your Cell Phone with BitPim
(Aug 19, 2008, 03:34 UTC) (1254 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lifehacker: "Those of us who have forgone a fancy BlackBerry, Treo, or iPhone know a standard cell phone is probably the most non-interactive, un-tweakable device in the gadget stable. But for many phones, there's a way around overpriced cables, intentionally weak Bluetooth software, and lack of good syncing software."

The Fedora Project Announces Fedora Scholarship
(Aug 19, 2008, 02:34 UTC) (687 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EFY Times: "Helping develop and foster up and coming talent in the open source software field, the Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, has announced the newly created Fedora Scholarship programme."

PC Giant Lenovo Set to Launch Linux Servers
(Aug 19, 2008, 02:04 UTC) (946 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Lenovo is leaping from the desktop into the server market, and will launch its first Linux and Windows servers this September."

Take a Closer Look at OpenBSD 4.3
(Aug 19, 2008, 00:32 UTC) (1236 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "OpenBSD’s motto—"free, functional, and secure"—says it all. In its default configuration, OpenBSD has proven one of the most secure operating systems available. Its recent version 4.3 release continues in that tradition."

Three Firefox Extensions for Gmail
(Aug 19, 2008, 00:02 UTC) (1393 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "A less complicated but more useful add-on is Gmail Manager, which helps you keep multiple Gmail accounts straight. To get started, register your Gmail accounts after installing Gmail Manager by selecting Tools -> Addons -> Gmail Manager from the Firefox menu, then click the Options button and add each Gmail account that you want Gmail Manager to keep track of."

Favorite Talkbacks, 8-18-2008
(Aug 18, 2008, 23:01 UTC) (706 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Today Blog: "One of my favorite features of Linux Today is the Talkbacks. A lot of times they're better than the articles. Or at least funny, or intriguing, or from such a different perspective they change how I think about the subject."

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