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What Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD Internet News: "It's soo rude that it's 'funny' - that is if you're not an OpenBSD developer or have a particular affection for monkeys." (Jul 16, 2008)
Linux Today Features
SCO Goes Down and Sun's in Trouble Practical Technology: "The decision is in, and SCO has gone down in defeat. The U.S. District Court in Utah has ruled in favor of Novell in SCO vs. Novell, the keystone case in SCO’s long, and ultimately unsuccessful war against Linux." (Jul 17, 2008)
Confirmed: Canonical Ubuntu Server Blitz at LinuxWorld Expo (Jul 24, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (382 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Canonical is preparing an Ubuntu Server blitz at LinuxWorld Expo in August. Alfresco, IBM, Openbravo, Zimbra and others are expected to rally around Ubuntu Server at the conference, The VAR Guy learned during meetings at OSCON. Here’s the scoop, and the implications for Ubuntu partners."
Setting up DRBD in an Open Source SAN (Jul 24, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (549 reads)
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(feedback) SearchEnterpriseLinux: "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."
CLI Magic: For Geek Cred, Try These One-liners (Jul 23, 2008, 22:45 UTC) (1073 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "...a one-liner is a set of commands normally joined through a pipe (|). When joined by a pipe, the command on the left passes its output to the command on the right. Simple or complex, you can get useful results from a single line at the bash command prompt."
OSCON: Open Source Database Study Has Obvious Results (Jul 23, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (493 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "The biggest conclusion of the EnterpriseDB open source database study is that PostgreSQL is the open source database of choice for transactional applications. Not a surprising conclusion given that EnterpriseDB is a sponsor of the PostgreSQL project and has its own supported distributions of it."
Vector Linux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe -- Not Just For The Office (Jul 23, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (506 reads)
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(feedback) O'Reilly News: "For those not familiar with Vector Linux it's a decade old distribution based on Slackware that provides many of the user friendly tools and features offered by the largest and most popular distributions. I've often compared the Standard edition to Xubuntu with it's relatively lightweight Xfce default desktop while the SOHO (Small Office, Home Office) edition is comparable to Kubuntu, with a fully integrated KDE desktop."
Lazy Linux: 10 Essential Tricks for Admins (Jul 23, 2008, 19:45 UTC) (1774 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Trick 4: Getting back the root password
You forgot your root password. Nice work. Now you'll just have to reinstall the entire machine. Sadly enough, I've seen more than a few people do this. But it's surprisingly easy to get on the machine and change the password. This doesn't work in all cases (like if you made a GRUB password and forgot that too), but here's how you do it in a normal case with a Cent OS Linux example."
Vista Adoption going no-where, IT considering Linux and Mac instead (Jul 23, 2008, 19:32 UTC) (1609 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced that their recent survey of IT administrators showed that 60 percent of them have no plans to deploy Vista. That’s almost 10% more turning their backs on Vista then in KACE’s last survey in November 2007."
Guide to Faster Ubuntu (Jul 23, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (2027 reads)
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(feedback) Ubuntu Snippets "Optimize ubuntu boot sequence by profiling it...This one time special boot may take more time than ordinary boot. But during this boot ubuntu monitors file usage and preloads those files during subsequent boots."
Video and Audio Broadcasts From OSCON (Jul 23, 2008, 17:00 UTC) (462 reads)
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(feedback) O'Reilly News: "At OSCON: Pia Waugh, President of Software Freedom International; Jim Zemlin: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation; Larry Wall: Open Source as a Parenting Experience"
"Mark Shuttleworth: It's actually an offensive idea to me. We take the view that distributions should be humble in what they claim they do. The reality is that we distribute Linux, and we're at our best when we do that particular thing efficiently -- when we most effectively celebrate the work of others."
Linux is Easier to Install Than XP (Jul 23, 2008, 15:30 UTC) (1514 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Tech: "when I had to get a new PC in a hurry, after one of my PCs went to the big bit-ranch in the sky with a fried motherboard, the one I bought, a Dell Inspiron 530S from my local Best Buy came pre-infected with Vista Home Premium. Big deal. It took me less than an hour to install Linux Mint 5 Elyssa R1 on it."
Novell Turns ICE into Kablink (Jul 23, 2008, 11:00 UTC) (938 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "The Kablink project is Novell's effort to grow the market for open source collaboration solutions, and chip away at the hold that Microsoft's Sharepoint commands among small business users."
PC Vendors Want to Sell You Desktop Linux (Jul 23, 2008, 00:30 UTC) (1999 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "It used to be that finding a PC with pre-installed Linux was harder than finding a needle in a haystack. Now, though, all the major PC vendors are offering Linux-powered PCs."
Verizon Shuns Android for LiMo (Jul 22, 2008, 23:15 UTC) (1366 reads)
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(feedback) the Register: "Sometime next year, Verizon will roll out a Linux OS as the "preferred operating system" for phones on its US wireless network. And that Linux OS is not Google Android."
SECURITY: Are VM Environments Open to Attack? (Jul 22, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (800 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "Another potential security pothole lies in some virtual machines' ability to "hide" from security departments since they are not always on. Thus, security network scans often miss insecure virtual servers since they must be up and running during the scan in order to be noticed."
Don't Forget UOF: Here Comes EIOffice 2009 (Jul 22, 2008, 19:50 UTC) (1178 reads)
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(feedback) Standards Blog: "Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF - for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in China since 2002, although I first heard and wrote about it back in November of 2006. Last summer, UOF was adopted as a Chinese National Standard, and last Friday the first complete office suite based upon UOF was released. It's called Evermore Integrated Office 2009 (EIOffice 2009 for short), and here's the story."
Charms and Dangers of Harry Potter's World (Jul 22, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1250 reads)
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(feedback) Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Protest websites, as the name suggests, are those websites that point out some shortcoming about a service or product. They are typically formed by adding the words ‘sucks’ with the name of the service or product. This means that they use the name of that service and product also. It is not their trade mark. Are they entitled to use it?"
SFLC Keeps on the GPL Case: Sues Extreme Networks (Jul 22, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (1375 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "You’d think the electronics vendors who keep breaking the GPL by using the BusyBox Unix utilities would finally learn that they can’t get away with it. It doesn’t look like they have though. This time the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) is taking on Extreme Networks, a major network hardware provider."
SECURITY: In Linux security, apply principle of least privilege (Jul 22, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (815 reads)
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(feedback) SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Linux security may seem daunting, but there are a host of best practices to simplify the maze. Recently, Steve Grubb of Red Hat Inc. outlined some important security principles, including minimizing admin access, the increasing sophistication of SELinux and the importance of auditing systems."
Linux Gets Improved IPv6 Multihoming Support (Jul 22, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (1222 reads)
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(feedback) INL: IP Networking Lab: "The Internet architecture was designed in the 1970s as a small internetwork to serve the needs of researchers. For the last 30 years, the Internet continued to grow and we are now getting close to hitting the limits of the 32 bits IPv4 addressing space. During the last decade, the Internet Engineering Task Force has been designing IPv6 as a replacement for IPv4. Most of the initial benefits of IPv6 (security, QoS, autoconfiguration, ...) have been ported to IPv4 and IPv6 deployment has been limited."
Up or Out: Where Are IT Jobs Headed? (Jul 22, 2008, 03:30 UTC) (1426 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Networking Planet: "We often hear, "all roads lead to management." While that certainly isn't true for everyone, it becomes a stark reality when a long-time techie decides to move up the corporate ladder. Businesses are also less dependent on some IT services, and to remain competitive or even employable, employees need to become more business-aware. As a result, it is increasingly more common to see hard-core techies venturing out to acquire an MBA. They aren't jumping the IT ship; in fact, they're becoming more competitive in the IT world."
Options and Tools For OpenOffice.org. Users (Jul 22, 2008, 02:00 UTC) (1944 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "While you may have heard of OpenOffice.org, there are some lesser-known forks and some handy tools that you might not know about. Let's take a look."
Dell Adds Ubuntu 8.04 to Expanded Linux Desktop Line-up (Jul 21, 2008, 23:15 UTC) (1645 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "Starting on Friday, July 18th, 2008, Dell started offering Ubuntu 8.04 on its XPS M1330N and Inspiron 1525N laptops and its Inspiron 530N desktop.
That’s just the beginning though"
Linux as a Hypervisor (Jul 21, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (1639 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "It's quite fascinating how many virtualization designs there are out there. Even in Linux itself there are so many different approaches. To reduce the scope a bit for this post we'll ignore all the designs that can't revirtualize the CPU to allow other operative systems to run."
Cognos Taps Novell SUSE Linux For Mainframe Debut (Jul 21, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (739 reads)
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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Cognos, which IBM bought for $4.9 billion last November, bypassed three IBM operating systems (z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE) and instead chose IBM System z for Linux and Novell's SUSE for its entrée into the mainframe market."
FSF Organizes Against Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Jul 21, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1092 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Nobody knows yet what the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will consist of, but the few available indications are so ominous that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has started a campaign to raise public awareness of the possibilities. According to Matt Lee, an FSF campaign manager, ACTA threatens to "create a culture of fear and suspicion," and, in the worst-case scenario, undermine and demonize free software."
OSTtatic: "But poking around CherryPal's web site reveals no hint of any source code."
NComputing: Little Box, Big Aspirations (Jul 21, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (1188 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "Stephen Dukker believes he has what the world is looking for: The People's PC. But it's not really a PC.
The chairman and chief executive of NComputing in Redwood City, Calif., is pursuing a computer revolution with a small box that turns low-cost desktop computers into servers that feed dozens of work stations."
Is open source software bad for business? (Jul 21, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (1700 reads)
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(feedback) ITWire: "New data from Fortify Software suggests that the rising adoption of open source software within the enterprise is putting the average business at far greater risk than it should."
Critical Week for Canonical and Ubuntu Linux (Jul 21, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (2671 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Canonical CEO and Ubuntu Linux backer Mark Shuttleworth will step into the spotlight July 22, when he keynotes OSCON (Open Source Convention) in Portland, Oregon. It will be a critical moment for Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu movement. Here’s why."
VMware Exec Says Windows Days Are Numbered (Jul 21, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (3841 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "VMware's managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual appliances running on Linux. In ten-years, there will be no more Windows."
Mandriva Leaps Into the Netbook Market With the GDium (Jul 21, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (1295 reads)
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(feedback) Club Mandriva: "Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about netbooks - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC (which, of course, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring supports very well). Many in the community have asked if Mandriva is going to get directly involved in this market. Well, the answer is yes! Mandriva is providing the innovative operating system for the upcoming GDium netbook system, produced by Emtec."
How To Configure ISP Mail Server With Virtual Users/Domains On Centos 5.0 (Jul 21, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (1140 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "I decided to update and add extra information on a tutorial I found online by Babaraleem to further assist Postfix newbie's. I experienced a difficult time following up on an out of date howto, when setting up my own mail server. I spent a long time troubleshooting, googling and reading other tutorials and documentation on postfix. The final results is this howto."
Installing Dansguardian With Multi-Group Filtering & Squid With NTLM Auth (Debia (Jul 20, 2008, 17:30 UTC) (1315 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This how-to describes how to install and configure Dansguardian with multi-group filtering, Squid with NTLM auth, ipmasq, and dnsmasq to provide a full internet gateway solution for small to medium sized networks. This how-to requires two NICs in order to preform firewalling and transparent proxying."
Ruiz Out, Meyer In At AMD (Jul 20, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (1206 reads)
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(feedback) ChannelWeb: "Hector Ruiz is out as chief executive at Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) as the struggling chip maker on Thursday reported its seventh consecutive quarter in the red to the tune of a $1.19 billion loss in the second quarter of this year. Dirk Meyer, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD's president and chief operating officer, has been elected by AMD's board to replace Ruiz as CEO, according to the company."
Hosted Zimbra Email Catches On With Managed Service Providers (Jul 19, 2008, 17:30 UTC) (1767 reads)
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(feedback) MSPmentor: "When it comes to hosted email, why zig when you can zag? That explains the strategy at EtomicMail, a managed service provider that’s hosting Zimbra — an open source email platform — rather than Microsoft Exchange."
JUNOS: Open, But Not Open Source (Jul 19, 2008, 02:30 UTC) (1452 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "At the heart of every networking device is an operating system that enables traffic flow. In the case of networking vendor Juniper, that operating system for the past ten years has been JUNOS, a network operating system with its roots in the open source FreeBSD operating system."
Linux Not the Savior for our Economy (Jul 18, 2008, 23:30 UTC) (2331 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "Computer World's Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols makes that claim in 'Linux Will Save Us'. The title almost has religious overtones...Whether it's iPhones, Linux vs. Microsoft, or Macs vs. PCs, there's always a group who are so overly passionate about their favorite hammer that everything else looks like a nail."
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