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Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "At a time when new and buggy features cloud basic computer functions, it's refreshing to see a new release of a distro like Slackware that stays true to its core philosophy. Slackware has an unfair reputation of being a distro only for experienced users. Granted it doesn't sport many graphical configuration tools, but it balances that with stability and speed."
Source: Linux Today Heise Open Source: "The Ext4 file system leaves its main development phase and will soon be ripe for productive use. Major renovation work on the code for memory and disk management promises GPU speed increases and better scalability. Hundreds of new and revised drivers improve hardware compatibility significantly."
Source: Linux Today Another Signpost on the Information Superhighway: "Computer world is running a post talking about the demise of the hard-disk (HD) in favor of solid state drives (SSD). The post has so many errors in it I have a hard time figuring out where to begin."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Linux Mint says its "purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." With hundreds of Linux distributions vying for our attention, what sets Linux Mint apart?"
Source: Linux Today MakeTechEasier: "The tab is easily one of the most used feature in Firefox. It gives you the convenience of browsing different sites in one single window and save you the trouble of too many windows cluttering your desktop. If you are like me, who like to open many tabs at the same time, here are 10 useful extensions that you can use to better manage your tabs."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "Firefox users don't realize that Firefox's current existence is owed almost exclusively to its search partnership with Google wherein Mozilla Corp receives a portion of ad revenue from Google queries initiated from Firefox's search bar."
Source: Linux Today Heise Open Source: "With 2008 coming to an end, heise online UK picks what was full of win, who was waiting for the failboat, and who just made us go meh. So in no particular order, here are the Wins, the Fails and the Mehs of Open Source from 2008."
Source: Linux Today Manila Standard: "Open source software can reduce costs and improve security dramatically, yet many people are a bit apprehensive about getting their feet wet. Typical of this concern, reader John Cohon wrote in with a number of questions about shifting to open source."
Source: Linux Today Royal Pingdom: "Christmas is upon us, and like the geeks we are here at Pingdom, we couldn't help but check out how our fellow geeks worldwide are handling their Christmas decorations."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "There is a way to make money from Linux even in a down economy -- it's called subscription revenues."
Source: Linux Today Linux Developer Network: "While Linux is officially a monolithic kernel, it does permit dynamic extensibility with loadable kernel modules. In this article, we'll explore the various tools and processes that support dynamic kernel customization." Translation: useful commands for end-users--ed.
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced plans to overhaul desktop notifications. The project is part of a broader initiative that the company launched earlier this year to boost the usability of the Linux software ecosystem."
Source: Linux Today Sidux: "After fixing the problem with multiple optical disc drives, which occured in our first preview, and quite some infrastructural changes, we now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2008-04 "Πόντος", available in the following flavours:"
Source: Linux Today The Register: "While commercial Linux distributor Red Hat has not grown enough to justify the ridiculous valuations that Wall Street put on the company when it went public a decade ago, the company is more or less on track to break $1bn in sales in the next couple years."
Source: Linux Today The Linux Distillery: "You've all heard a major new flaw has been found affecting Internet Explorer all the way back to version 5. Microsoft pushed out a fix out of their regular "patch Tuesday" monthly schedule. The flaw has prompted some commentators to call for the replacement of IE with alternate browsers like Firefox. Just what was so serious? And what do Microsoft say that show Linux has the superior design?"
Source: Linux Today WorksWithU: "Cornell College of Mount Vernon, Iowa is the latest institute of higher education to embrace Ubuntu Server Edition, WorksWithU has learned. It's not a huge deployment, but Cornell's targeted Ubuntu use reinforces a growing trend at colleges and universities worldwide, according to the WorksWithU 1000 -- a survey that aims to track one thousand Ubuntu deployments"
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "The past year has brought several invasive changes to the Intel Linux graphics stack with the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager for GPU memory management within the kernel, support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2, and kernel mode-setting finally getting ready to enter the limelight. How though has the work this year affected the overall performance of Intel integrated graphics on Linux? In this article we have run a few benchmarks that show where the driver was at a few months ago and where it is today."
Source: Linux Today LXer News: "Linux Kernel developer Alan Cox has announced that he will be departing Red Hat for Intel. In an e-mail to the editors he explained that this move allows him to spend more time with his family and work even closer on the low level stuff that he really likes."
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "It fixed a lot of bugs and brought some impressive new features to the Plasma panel system and other areas of the desktop environment. The second beta, which was released last week, builds on that work and adds a lot of important refinements."
Source: Linux Today John Deeth: " the longer you run a Windows installation, the slower and less responsive it gets. On my year-old dual-boot laptop, I wait longer and longer for Windows to boot, and longer and longer for programs to do what I ask. Meanwhile, my Ubuntu Linux installation, on exactly the same hardware, installed almost as long ago, is as snappy as the day I set it up--faster, in fact, as I've tweaked it and geeked it."
Source: Linux Today 451 CAOS Theory: " we've received some more tangible gifts from the Linux community recently as we enjoy the holidays. We also see the OS continues to run strong in a variety of settings, and this is best-evidenced by the latest releases of the most popular distributions."
Source: Linux Today Hacking Truths: "2. Nikto - Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3200 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems on over 230 servers."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "The cancerous Mono has spread its tentacles further into the GNOME Desktop environment which is present on the GNOME live CD, to the extent that removing mono-core results in the removal of Evolution as well, the default mail program."
Source: Linux Today Heise Open Source: "The Git distributed source code management system has won over another major project, Perl 5. The Perl Foundation has announced that they have completed moving the source code of Perl 5 from Perforce to Git and are now opening the system up for developer use."
Source: Linux Today Hacking Truths: "Linux rarely needs to be rebooted. But when it does, it's often slow to boot. Fortunately, there are ways to speed things up. Some of these methods are not terribly difficult. (although some, unfortunately, are). Let’s take a look."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "I've met people in their twenties who are unclear about what cassette-tapes are exactly and floppy disks are rapidly falling away from our collective memory. Now, it looks like hard-drives will soon be following them into history's dustbin."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Python 3 is the latest version of Guido van Rossum's powerful general-purpose programming language. It breaks backwards compatibility with the 2.x line but has cleaned up some syntax issues. This article is the first in a series that talks about the changes that affect the language and backwards compatibility, and it provides examples of new features."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "This MSN script, of course, is only slightly different than the original Google script, although the differences are significant enough that I rewrote entire portions so I wouldn't have to back-translate code and then convert it and hope it worked ;) The script, itself, operates the same way our Google search index page rank script works, insofar as executing it from the command line goes."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.1 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, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of OpenSUSE 11.1, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well."
Source: Linux Today Wolfmanz Bytes: "One thing I have noticed over the last few years with Ubuntu is people have always mentioned how much better Nvidia graphics cards were then ATI cards when it comes to how they worked on Linux. So I got the Ubuntu 8.10 live CD on the machine and loaded that up and was amazed to see that Ubuntu had put my monitor resolution to 800 by 600."
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