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Source: Linux Today Developerworks: "You need to run a job at midnight when system usage is low, or you need to run jobs daily or weekly, but you would rather be sleeping, or enjoying life in some other way. Other good reasons for scheduling jobs include letting routine tasks happen automatically, or ensuring tasks are handled the same way every time. This tip helps you use the cron and at capabilities to schedule jobs periodically or at a single future time."
Source: Linux Today Linux Tricks: "The main problem I had with the sound setup in linux was getting it to work so that i can use all my speakers. After a few hours of searching the web and trial and error I finally figured out how to do it. I have put together this tutorial hoping to help other people in a similar situation."
Source: Linux Today Linux Fund: "The Linux Fund began in 1999. Since then, the organization has handed out over one-half million dollars in grants to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects like Blender, FreeGeek and the WikiMedia Foundation"
Source: Linux Today Enterprise Networking Planet: "Why would you even want to do this? For a number of reasons: to get extra functionality, to weed out unneeded features, to try for better performance, to help with testing new patches, or just because you want to know how. The last two reasons are the best ones. I wish everyone had curiosity and a desire to tinker and improve things."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: The question of Canonical's success seems answered, for now. A better question could be, how will Canonical avoid the pitfalls of success that have befallen other strong software companies ?"
Source: Linux Today OpenSUSE.org: "Our OpenSUSE.org crew did some very enlightening research about who the Linux Desktop user is, and here’s what they found (PDF)."
I'm pushing 50, female, and I think playing music and movies on a PC is like cooking dinner on an exhaust manifold- it's possible, but kludgy and not very satisfying. But I still love using Linux. Geezers 4 Linux!--Carla Schroder, contributing LT editor
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "Andalusia's letter expresses its unhappiness with what it views as an attempt to mislead the committee by distorting the meaning of its letter from January"
Source: Linux Today Bit-Tech: "The previous article about Ubuntu based file serving hit like a bomb. The main focus of that article was to spark interest and get the server up and running in no time, showing what the possibilities were. Today's article starts where the previous one has left off."
Source: Linux Today Information Week: "I've beaten up on Linux in a couple of recent posts, arguing that there are too many distros and that it's a myth that Linux is technically superior to Windows. From the 300+ responses I received, a new thread emerges: Linux supporters seem more interested in preaching to the converted than in doing the hard work required to make the open-source operating system attractive to Windows users."
Source: Linux Today LKML Times: '"There once was a man they called rusty
Who patches were terribly crusty"'
Source: Linux Today LXer.com: "We always seem to hear about the companies that treat their customers like thieves or take away their rights, just for the sake of money. What about the companies that don't do that? What about the companies that respect their customers? What about the companies who want to make money and not take away their customers rights at the same time?"
Source: Linux Today ComputerShopper: " we pulled together a desktop that can ably handle today's average demands, built with easy-to-assemble, off-the-shelf components for a total cost of less than $250."
Source: Linux Today APCMag: "Computers of today may be 1,000 times faster than they were a decade ago, yet the things that matter are slower."
Source: Linux Today Hoosier Penguin: "With a headline like that, I get the most buzzword-conscious award for the day. But I can't help myself; I'm currently sitting in the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing " Plus, Eben Moglen comes out swinging.
Source: Linux Today Com/Net/Slash: "Tomorrow sees the development freeze of the first test version of Fedora 8. Due to be released on August (Crikey we’re almost in August!!!) 2nd. Hopefully we’ll be able to see some of the features expected in the next release…"
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "The new PC-BSD 1.4 beta, released last week, offers 3-D desktop support via Beryl as well as late-model components such as KDE 3.5.7, FreeBSD 6.2, Xorg 7.2, a selection of fresh GUI tools and utilities, and a variety of optional components "
Source: Linux Today BBC News: "Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com "According to a message posted over the weekend on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.5, contains a password management vulnerability that can allow malicious Web sites to steal user passwords. If you have JavaScript enabled and allow Firefox to remember your passwords, you are at risk from this flaw."
Source: Linux Today Ian Murdock's Weblog: "What’s the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry?"
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Dell wants to offer ATI Linux systems, but first the driver must be improved for the Linux platform (not necessarily open-source, but improved)."
Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "This is going to be my attempt at a newbies installation guide for Arch Linux. This will be a "take you by the hand and lead you through it step by step" approach. Unlike most lead you by the hand guides that tell you to do this, and do that, I intend to also tell you WHY you are doing what you're doing."
Source: Linux Today Developerworks: "Take charge of your editing session within Emacs and use it to your advantage. This tutorial is the fourth in a series, and shows you three areas of Emacs that control some aspect of the editing session: various command-line options, the register, and bookmark facilities for setting and saving positions and data. Knowing how and when to use these features, and what tricks are possible with them, are important topics in power editing."
Source: Linux Today The Jem Report:"The OSBR's goal is to be a resource for students and professionals who want to work with open source software in a business atmosphere. Because there are so many sources of misinformation on this subject, such a publication is a necessary resource for professionals."
Source: Linux Today Join the Revolution!: "Therefore the bottom line is, that everyone can trust open source, because everybody can read and modify that source."
Source: Linux Today Channel Insider: "Neoware has long claimed that among the three largest thin client vendors, it is the only one that is "committed to the Linux operating system.""
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