http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-008-35-OS-DB <b>Ubuntu Geek:</b> "A graphical tool to make file backup simpler. Provides a user-friendly interface which allows you to back up your files easily to an archive, to a CD/DVD or to a remote location using SSH." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-008-35-OS-DB Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-006-35-OS-BR <b>OStatic:</b> "If so, OStatic is proud to announce that we're offering the first chapter of John K. VanDyk's newly updated book Pro Drupal Development, published by Apress, and out now." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-006-35-OS-BR Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:49:04 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-007-35-NW-DT-RL <b>Linux Loop:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-007-35-NW-DT-RL Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-005-35-OS-DT <b>Linux Journal:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-005-35-OS-DT Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-004-35-OS-SV <b>Computing Tech:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-004-35-OS-SV Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-003-35-OP-CY <b>Sourceforge:</b> "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?" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-003-35-OP-CY Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-002-35-OS-DB <b>PC Mech:</b> "Sick of burning CDs of Linux distributions every time you want to try out a new one? Don&#8217;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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-002-35-OS-DB Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:01:02 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-001-35-OS-RL <b>ars Technica:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-07-001-35-OS-RL Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-015-35-OS-BZ <b>Linux.com:</b> "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..." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-015-35-OS-BZ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-014-35-NW-BZ <b>Network World:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-014-35-NW-BZ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-013-35-OS-HL-SV <b>Search Enterprise Linux:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-013-35-OS-HL-SV Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-012-35-OS-SV-SS <b>Search Enterprise Linux:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-012-35-OS-SV-SS Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-012-35-OS-SV-SW <b>Search Enterprise Linux:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-012-35-OS-SV-SW Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-012-35-OS-SV <b>Search Enterprise Linux:</b> "Yet most companies need a SAN, because &#8211; in my opinion &#8211; 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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-012-35-OS-SV Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:01:39 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-009-35-OS-HW <b>ars Technica:</b> "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." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-09-06-009-35-OS-HW