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What Linux Will Look Like In 2012
August 20, 2008 (11:00:00 AM) - 30 minutes ago
Our open source expert foresees the future of Linux: By 2012 the OS will have matured into three basic usage models. Web-based apps rule, virtualization is a breeze, and command-line hacking for basic system configuration is a thing of the past.
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Linux’s Market Share: Is There Any Way To Know?
August 20, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
One thing many of us would like to know, I am sure, is how many people out there use Linux? The usual numbers, those from Net Applications, would indicate that less than 1% of people use Linux. More recently, though, there have been some more optimistic numbers. Canonical is claiming that 11% of businesses use Ubuntu. (If that is the case, just imagine how many use Red Hat or Suse.) Gartner says that Linux’s market share is 4%, putting it about even with the Mac. And Context says that almost 3% of PCs sold in the UK have Linux pre-installed.
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Will Netbooks Pave the Way for Linux?
August 20, 2008 (9:00:00 AM) - 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
As we all know by now, netbooks are the latest craze in the computing world. Small notebooks, perfect for on the go, and relatively cheap. The interesting thing is that these netbooks are often offered with Linux pre-installed instead of Windows, and this prompts many to believe that it is the netbook niche where Linux will gain its first solid foothold among the general populace. "It does a lot to level the playing field. In fact, Linux looks to be quick out of the gate," said Jay Lyman, analyst with the 451 Group. However - is that really happening?
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Forbes rewrites the history of open source
August 20, 2008 (8:00:00 AM) - 3 hours, 30 minutes ago
In the name of defining jargon, Forbes this week tries a complete rewrite of open source history.
Read more at: blogs.zdnet.com ( Post Comment )
Rotate Desktop Backgrounds in Ubuntu
August 20, 2008 (7:00:00 AM) - 4 hours, 30 minutes ago
I get bored with my desktop wallpaper pretty easily, especially in Ubuntu Linux, where it's nearly the only thing on my desktop. Until recently, that meant scouring theming sites for great artwork, opening the Appearance tab and re-scaling and choosing background colors for each picture, and just general unproductive knob-twiddling. Digging through the Ubuntu Forums, however, I came across a few tools that can rotate customized background images with a shortcut, on a timer, or based on the time of day. 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.
Read more at: lifehacker.com ( Post Comment )
Grokking SCO's demise
August 20, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 5 hours, 30 minutes ago
The SCO Group 's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn't actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten -- and in some cases, sue -- Linux users.
Read more at: pcworld.idg.com.au ( 1 comment )
10 Total Commander Alternatives for Linux
August 20, 2008 (5:00:00 AM) - 6 hours, 30 minutes ago
Although we all remember that everything started with legendary Norton Commander, somehow lots of TC users religiously believe that every other, two pane file manager, is a not worthy clone. They all share the same roots, but TC with its rich Plugin library managed to capture the largest user base.
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Michael Pyne
August 20, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 7 hours, 30 minutes ago
n what ways do you make a contribution to KDE?
I developed and maintain kdesvn-build. I also help work on JuK, and beyond that I do lots of random bugfixing, bug triage, and general helpfulness on the mailing lists. Time permitting, of course. ;)
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How to get system info in Linux
August 20, 2008 (3:00:00 AM) - 8 hours, 30 minutes ago
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.:
Read more at: alinuxblog.wordpress.com ( Post Comment )
The market share of Firefox vs. Internet Explorer
August 20, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 9 hours, 30 minutes ago
In his Open Road blog, Matt Asay was skeptical about some browser market share data because the sample audience was heavy on techies. The July 2008 stats for the site in question, W3Schools.com, were:
Read more at: news.cnet.com ( Post Comment )
Mozilla grabs new Exec Director from Shuttleworth
August 20, 2008 (1:00:00 AM) - 10 hours, 30 minutes ago
The Mozilla Foundation has named Mark Surman as its new Executive Director effective September 22. Surman is currently serving as an Open Philanthropy Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation.
Read more at: blog.internetnews.com ( Post Comment )
NVIDIA 177.67 Display Driver
August 20, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 11 hours, 30 minutes ago
It has been a few weeks since NVIDIA last pushed out a Linux display driver update, but this morning already they have pushed out a new update. The just-released NVIDIA 177.67 display driver doesn't introduce OpenGL 3.0 support or any other major features, but it does look to resolve a number of bugs, provide improvements to the Render extension, add official support to the GeForce GTX 260/280 graphics cards, and a number of other improvements.
Read more at: Phoronix.com ( Post Comment )
36 Items To Capture For Practical Hardware Asset Tracking
August 19, 2008 (11:00:00 PM) - 12 hours, 30 minutes ago
If you are managing more than one equipment in your organization, it is very important to document and track ALL information about the servers effectively. In this article, I have listed 36 attributes that needs to be tracked for your equipments, with an explanation on why it needs to be tracked. I have also provided a spreadsheet template with these fields that will give you a jumpstart.
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A tour of Empathy IM client. Will it replace Pidgin?
August 19, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 30 minutes ago
On the roadmap to Gnome 2.24 is the integration with Empathy, a multi-protocol IM client.
Could this integration be a sign of a replacement for Pidgin and Ekiga with one single SIP and multi-protocol IM application? Let's see how Empathy is doing now.
Read more at: opencomputer.net ( Post Comment )
Passenger Brings Rails Apps to Apache
August 19, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 14 hours ago
Phusion released Passenger, an Apache module for deploying Rails applications. I have been working with Passenger over the last few weeks, and am pleased to report that the module is extremely easy to install, use, and configure. Passenger has succeeded in bringing me back into the world of Apache after several years of wandering in the HTTP server desert.
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42 of the Best Free Linux Scientific Software
August 19, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 14 hours, 30 minutes ago
Science is the effort of trying to understand how the physical world works. From observation and experimentation, science uses physical evidence of natural phenomena to compile data and analyze the collated information. Science really prospers and advances when individuals share the results of their experiments with others in the scientific community. There is a certain logic that scientific software should therefore be released in a freely distributable environment.
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Debian @15 is it still relevant?
August 19, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 15 hours ago
Debian GNU/Linux is now 15 years old -- which isn't too shabby for an operating system. Yet though Debian is still alive and kicking, I'm not so sure it holds the market position that it should at this point in its maturity.
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If it's animation or special effects, it's Linux
August 19, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 15 hours, 30 minutes ago
Like the special effects in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; 300; The Golden Compass; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; and I Am Legend? The animation in Star Wars: The Clone Wars; WALL-E; or Ratatouille? You can thank Linux for all of them.
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ESC Boston giving away free Beagles
August 19, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 16 hours ago
At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston show on Oct. 26-30, the organizers are giving away free Cortex-A8-based Beagle development boards. TechInsights will offer attendees either the Linux-based, Texas Instruments-made Beagle, which is based on TI's OMAP3530 system-on-chip (SoC), or a Windows CE-based kit from iBase.
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Reputation Attacks: A Little Known Internet Threat
August 19, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 16 hours, 30 minutes ago
Reputation attacks target both individuals and companies, and their goal is to ruin the victim’s reputation. While attack techniques are varied, the consequences are often the same: a damaged reputation resulting in many cases in financial loss. Attackers can use several methods to ruin a company’s reputation. Until now, most common attacks have been based on distributed denial of service (DDoS). The objective of these attack is to flood corporate online services by means of millions of non legitimate requests from botnets.
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