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Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "As we are all (I hope ) painfully aware, decent backups are absolutely vital. Last week I looked at a potential option for offsite backup, and solutions like Bacula are excellent for providing a stable, reliable onsite backup, with historical data available."
Source: Linux Today APCmag: "Stuck at work while the boss goes out for a flutter on the horses? Here's the five best tech pranks you can play."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "While the Theora bitstream format was standardized in 2004 and our beta releases have been used by millions, this 1.0 release is an important milestone reflecting the maturity and stability of the Theora codebase."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: ""The Fedora Project is proud to announce the availability of the Fedora 10 Preview Release. The Fedora 10 Preview Release is our last pre-release offering before we let everyone taste the goods for real."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "This article discusses the advantages of IPv6, which in addition to a larger address space promises to increase standby time in devices, and improve performance in routers. It discusses IPv6 technology, as well as how IPv6 has been implemented in the Linux kernel."
Source: Linux Today Linux and Open Source: "Vincent Danen introduces an open source solution called dnsmasq, which provides both DNS forwarding and DHCP services for a small network or home office."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "One of the motherboards to use Intel's G43 is the ASRock G43Twins-FullHD, which we happen to be looking at today. This motherboard that pairs the Intel G43 with an ICH10 Southbridge supports both DDR2 and DDR3 system memory and its video connectors include D-Sub, DVI-D, and DisplayPort."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to take a look at a topic that most people are probably familiar with to one degree or another. To use the dictionary definition, steganography is the art of "hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a way that others can not discern the presence or contents of the hidden message.""
Source: Linux Today Information Week: "News of a new Linux graphics-server project called "Wayland" crossed my desk this morning. It got me thinking: are "big-box" open source vendors going to make individual programmers irrelevant?"
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "If you accidentally mangle your boot record and render your system unbootable, don't reinstall your operating system. Paul Ferrill shows how to rescue a non-booting computer with the Super Grub Disk, a sophisticated yet easy-to-use Free software application."
Source: Linux Today Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "One of the main highlights of all the stories, news and reviews doing the rounds are that this is an LTS version. But many people, mostly those who are new to Ubuntu, and even a few who are already using it, are not sure what LTS really means."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Here's a look at several tools that let you monitor one or more servers from a Web interface.
Each tool has a slightly different focus, so we'll take them all for a spin to give you an idea of which you might like to install on your machine."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "While some state governments have explored the idea of using open source software in their systems, the same gripes continue to hold back its adoption: Quality, compatibility and security. Some states make use of open source, but all stop short of mandating its use."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Though it may not be as epically geek as the NetBSD toaster, there is a certain appeal to Chumby, the Linux alarm clock. The hardware and software are open and hackable, for the hands-on type."
Source: Linux Today Open Enterprise: "There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there -- Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement -- cannot share content."
Source: Linux Today O'Reilly Radar: "A number of people have responded to my endorsement of Barack Obama with complaints that it is inappropriate for a tech publisher to publish on political issues. While most of the people responding to the post have either been supportive, or thoughtfully countered one or more of my arguments, a number of people have threatened to stop buying from O'Reilly as a result of my endorsement."
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "It takes money and it takes new ideas to build a better desktop, both of which are being raised by the open source GNOME Foundation. GNOME is one of the most popular Linux desktop GUIs and is included in nearly every Linux distribution."
Source: Linux Today InformIT: "Have you tried the major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora/RHEL, and OpenSUSE/SLED? Were they not quite right for your needs? The major distros are not the only game in town. Find out the good, the bad, and the ugly about three of the best-known alternatives to the "big" user distros."
Source: Linux Today Hardware 2.0: "A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum have successfully defeated BD+, the Blu-ray copy-protection system. This was the copy-protection mechanism that Richard Doherty, a media analyst with Envisioneering Group, claimed wouldn’t likely be broken for 10 years."
Source: Linux Today FSF.org: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the release of version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). This version of the license allows public wikis to relicense their FDL-covered materials under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0 license."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "First, in a simplified nutshell, here is what Bilski means to everyone: You can't get patents any more on a pure mental process. You can no longer patent a process that you can think through all in your mind. In other words, abstract ideas are not patentable."
Source: Linux Today Adam's Tech Talk: "The Alix 3c2 main board arrived in good health and works well. On the underside is a 512MB CF card and an Atheros MiniPCI Wifi. I've soldered single core wire to the I2C bus pinout. GND, CLK, Data & +3v."
Source: Linux Today yabBlog: "After the popularity of Faces behind Popular Linux Distros, here's another article about faces behind popular programming language."
Source: Linux Today Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "There are 5 things that every good Linux Administrator knows. Do you know what they are?
They are in no particular order of importance:"
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "I don't get it. Why in the world are people reporting that seven out of ten Asus PCs is news. Hello. Wake up call. Nine in ten PCs, counting Macs as PCs, are already running Windows. The news, the real news, is that three out of ten Asus PCs are being sold with Linux."
Source: Linux Today Standards Blog: "If you hail from one of the hot beds of high tech - Silicon Valley, say, or (in my case) the Route 128/495 area of Massachusetts, you've doubtless heard the phrase "serial entrepreneur But should this really be a compliment?"
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Netbook pioneer Asus will introduce a new version of its Eee PC (left) next year for just $200, says company president Jerry Shen. The company has also teamed up with Intel to launch a new website, intended to bring about the "world's first community-designed PCs.""
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Source: Linux Today Freedom to Tinker: "The decision is surprising because the Federal Circuit has until recently been strongly in favor of expanding patent rights."
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Source: Linux Today Miguel de Icaza's web log: "I believe we are the first VM for managed code that provides an object-oriented API to the underlying CPU SIMD instructions.
In short, this means that developers will be able to use the types in the Mono.Simd library and have those mapped directly to efficient vector operations on the hardware that supports it."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Because of these difficulties, some people decide not to back up data at all, and feel the pain when they accidentally delete the wrong file or their system crashes. TimeVault is a backup utility for Ubuntu that addresses these problems."
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