7 "Must Read" Linux Tutorials Linux Screw: "GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary by Gareth Anderson...This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide..." (Aug 26, 2008)
The Amazing Artwork of Fedora 10 (Sep 7, 2008, 18:49 UTC) (1034 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Loop: "Fedora has a long track record of producing amazing themes and it is obvious to me that this release will live up to that expectation."
Java Sound & Music Software for Linux, Part 1 (Sep 7, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (583 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "I've wanted to write this article for quite a while. Over the years I've noted that Java-based music and sound applications have increased in number and quality, yet no comprehensive list or summaries have covered these advances. And so at long last I present this survey of music and sound applications that require Java."
Ubuntu Linux Disk Quotas (Sep 7, 2008, 12:01 UTC) (899 reads)
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(feedback) Computing Tech: "On large systems with many users, you need to control the amount of disk space a user has access to. Disk quotas are designed specifically for this purpose."
Where do Community Managers Fit? (Sep 7, 2008, 08:01 UTC) (500 reads)
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(feedback) Sourceforge: "Our good friend Joe Brockmeier, community manager for openSUSE, has just started blogging for ZDnet. In one of his inaugural posts, he ruminates over where a community manager belongs in corporate structure: engineering or marketing?"
How-To: Install Ubuntu Linux With No Optical Drive (Sep 7, 2008, 04:01 UTC) (2235 reads)
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(feedback) PC Mech: "Sick of burning CDs of Linux distributions every time you want to try out a new one? Don’t worry, you can reuse your USB stick as many times as you like and burn bootable ISOs to it. Is there an easy way to do this? Yes."
Google Unveils Chrome Source Code and Linux port (Sep 7, 2008, 00:01 UTC) (3390 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "In conjunction with the release, Google has also launched Chromium, an open-source software project that enables third-party developers to study, modify, extend, and redistribute the underlying source code of the Chrome browser."
Selling GNU/Linux in a Box (Sep 6, 2008, 20:01 UTC) (1492 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Eight years ago, computer stores stocked a choice of GNU/Linux distributions -- established ones like Caldera, Red Hat, and SUSE, and newcomers like Corel, Progeny, and Stormix. Now, only Ubuntu and openSUSE offer box sets, and both face challenges that other distributions found unsolvable..."
10 Open Source Companies to Watch (Sep 6, 2008, 19:01 UTC) (1921 reads)
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(feedback) Network World: "The decision is no longer a question of open source, but about what product is best at solving computing problems regardless of how it was built."
Centralized Access With iSCSI Wraps it up: Open Source SANs, part 4 (Sep 6, 2008, 18:01 UTC) (1026 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "If you've read the three previous parts of this tip, you should now have two servers running and a Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) available between them. The iSCSI target service will draw the two servers and DRBD together to create a fully functional SAN."
Adding Heartbeat to Your Open Source SAN: Open Source SANs, part 3 (Sep 6, 2008, 17:01 UTC) (856 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "Heartbeat is a monitoring tool that will help you to make the most of your SAN by catching problems before they interfere with your productivity. Part three of this four-part tip shows you how to install a Heartbeat cluster in an open source SAN."
Setting up DRBD in an Open Source SAN: Open Source SANs, part 2 (Sep 6, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (922 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "As we established in part one of this series on open storage area networks (SANs), building an open source SAN provides a cost-effective alternative for companies with a tight budget. Now that we've established the merits and some of the important considerations in creating open source SANs, we'll explain how to set up the Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) service, which allows for replicated storage in a SAN."
Build Your Own iSCSI SAN Appliances With Linux, part 1 (Sep 6, 2008, 15:01 UTC) (1502 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "Yet most companies need a SAN, because – in my opinion – it's probably the best way to avoid losing critical data when server storage crashes occur. You don't need to pay for a proprietary SAN appliance, because you can build your own SAN using open source software. In this four-part tip you'll learn how to set up such an appliance setup."
A Hands-on Overview of the Access Linux Platform (Sep 6, 2008, 14:01 UTC) (730 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "ALP is designed to maximize flexibility so that carriers and handset makers will be able to tailor it to their needs and provide some differentiation at various layers of the stack. Another major design consideration was the need to provide strong support for a multitude of form factors and handset designs."
Liferay: Performance Test of Liferay 5.1 Running on Linux (Sep 6, 2008, 12:01 UTC) (1130 reads)
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(feedback) Joomla! "I have performed a performance analysis of Liferay 5.1 running on Linux 2.6 operating system using an Intel Core2 Quad core CPU, Q9450...My objective has been to investigate the performance of Liferay serving a public facing, no-login, web site."
Tap Into the Google Geocoder Web Service (Sep 6, 2008, 10:01 UTC) (1094 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Explore the Google Geocoder Web service that takes a street address and returns data about that address including its longitude and latitude. In this two-part article series, you will combine it with the Google Maps API and XSLT to create data overlays for display in Google Maps and Google Earth."
Two Repositories of Linux and Unix Commands and Example Dot Files (Sep 6, 2008, 04:31 UTC) (1424 reads)
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(feedback) All about Linux: "Or perhaps you are interested in learning tips and tricks on writing versatile dotfiles. Well, here are two sites which are dedicated to collecting useful tips so as to help Linux users better."
Has the Head of MySQL Left Sun? (Sep 6, 2008, 03:31 UTC) (1125 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "Many former CEOs in that position quickly quit and it sounds like Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, will be the next to leave his company's new owner."
Browse the Web in Konqueror Using Only the Keyboard (Sep 6, 2008, 03:01 UTC) (901 reads)
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(feedback) All about Linux: "KDE Konqueror is much more than a file manager. It is also a standards compliant web browser. Here is a neat trick to surf the web sans the mouse - that is, using just your keyboard."
Taming Linux Font Sizes (Sep 6, 2008, 00:01 UTC) (1304 reads)
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(feedback) Truesong Tech: "I recently set up Arch Linux (which is awesome, by the way) on my laptop, and noticed a bit of a problem... despite my resolution, 1680x1050, which usually makes fonts look tiny, all of my system fonts were huge."
What They're Using: Christian Einfeldt, Producer, the Digital Tipping Point (Sep 5, 2008, 23:32 UTC) (720 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "The boxes to my left are the thin clients. If you look just over my right ear, you will see a silvery small computer between two black monitors. That's the computer on which I captured this photograph (Gutsy Ubuntu running on the ZaReason media box)."
Editor's Note: Chrome Comic Books, Yugos, Our New Global Overlords (Sep 5, 2008, 23:02 UTC) (1398 reads)
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(feedback) Google's Chrome browser is the most revolutionary, transformative technology to ever hit the planet. It will end hunger, tame avarice and greed, and beat swords into plowshares. But plows are destructive, so they will be strictly ornamental and have pretty flowers growing over them.
openSUSE 11.0: A Versatile Linux Server (Sep 5, 2008, 22:02 UTC) (896 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "OpenSUSE 11.0 does a great job on the desktop, but it shines equally as bright in the server role. Everything you need to set up most any type of server comes on the OpenSUSE 11.0 installation DVD. The trick is narrowing down the options to the ones you'll really need."
Ubuntu Documentation in Shreds (Sep 5, 2008, 21:32 UTC) (1903 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "An ambitious plan to smarten up the online documentation for Linux distro Ubuntu has ended in failure."
Online Sharing with Creative Commons (Sep 5, 2008, 20:02 UTC) (572 reads)
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(feedback) BusinessWeek: "The Japanese Net entrepreneur Joichi Ito makes a case for free-content distribution on the Internet. Nine Inch Nails is an early adopter."
"Olympics" Phone Runs Linux (Sep 5, 2008, 19:32 UTC) (939 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "China Unicom is distributing a Samsung Electronics phone that runs a mobile Linux stack from Mizi Research, a company that will soon be acquired by Wind River. Samsung's "Olympics" phone, also called the SCH-i859, is equipped with a Marvell PXA300 processor and a 2.8-inch touchscreen."
A Java Developer’s Pythonic Experience (Sep 5, 2008, 19:02 UTC) (1470 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source From Bohol: "Without hesitation, I said yes and not even thinking of how I'll do it. That time, I was biting my nails and learning deeper about Python. My first problem was the GUI...Tkinter."
Document Management With Epiware (Sep 5, 2008, 18:32 UTC) (829 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Out of the many available open source document management packages, Epiware GPL is noteworthy because it includes project management features: if your work has to do with producing written matter, you can not only manage the documents themselves, but the development project as well."
Ten Tweaks For a New Acer Aspire One (Sep 5, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (1245 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "Hands on Acer's smart Small, Cheap Computer, the Aspire One (AA1), is ready to go out of the box, but if you've opted for the Linux version and you're new to the open source OS, you may be wondering how to take charge of the little machine. Here are ten things to try."
Interactive Map of GNU/Linux OS and FOSS (Sep 5, 2008, 17:32 UTC) (1178 reads)
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(feedback) Makelinux: This interactive map demonstrates the anatomy of the Linux operating system and popular Free/Open Source software applications.
Vista vs Linux -- Has the Penguin Got the Power? (Sep 5, 2008, 17:02 UTC) (2328 reads)
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(feedback) New Zealand Herald: "Linux versus Windows is the stuff of near endless controversy. Linux lovers trash Windows for being slow, unreliable, insecure and overpriced, whilst Windows bigots accuse Linux of being hard to use and clunky."
KDE Community Working Group Takes Care of the Community (Sep 5, 2008, 16:02 UTC) (1030 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "If the rocky reception of KDE 4 has done anything, it has forced the KDE project to realize it needs to listen to users more closely. One of the first results of this realization is the new Community Working Group (CWG)."
HP's 'End Run' Around Windows (Sep 5, 2008, 15:02 UTC) (3142 reads)
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(feedback) Businessweek: "A Skunk Works of engineers at the company is even angling to replace Windows with an HP-assembled operating system, sources say."
