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Source: Linux Today The Register: "MICROSOFT'S NEARLY nine-year old blanket software licencing deal with the New Zealand government has apparently collapsed."
Source: Linux Today Begin Linux: "Two things I do every morning no matter what are drink my morning coffee and read the latest Linux news. A day without either of them would be a disaster. Because getting Linux news is so important to me I’ve kept track of several Linux news sites and tested the value and focus of their articles."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Ubicom is shipping a OpenWRT Linux-based router platform and reference design using the company's new Ubicom IP7100 Router Gateway Evaluation board. The Ubicom board incorporates its StreamEngine IP7100 series network RISC processor, and includes a gigabit WAN port and four gigabit LAN ports, says the company."
Source: Linux Today OSNews: "OSNews has been reporting on the Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Opensolaris hybrid for several years. But for those of you who've never looked more closely at this interesting OS, a Nexenta developer has laid out some of its more noteworthy features and advantages."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "For those of us already sold on the advantages of FOSS it can be hard to imagine why anyone would hesitate to jump in, but the reluctance to embrace open source can be summarized with just two words: human nature."
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "KDM (KDE Display Manager) is the default graphical login interface of the K Desktop Environment. Anyone who uses KDE should know that KDM is highly customizable and can be easily configured."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "Back in August 2005, Matthew Paul Thomas submitted, on the Ubuntu wiki page, an idea and design of a piece of software that would unify all the existing package managers in the Ubuntu distribution. At the moment, the software is called AppCenter, and it was recently brought into spotlight."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server on Debian Lenny. A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "With the Phenom II series there is the X3 and X4 line-up for triple-core and quad-core processors, respectively. In this article we are looking at how well the AMD Phenom II X3 710 performs under Ubuntu Linux."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "Of course, one section's response was to write another script, which 'touched' every file they owned, once every month, so we could never again tell them that they were storing data that wasn't being used!"
Source: Linux Today eWeek: "Free software pact gives supporters something better to vote on than disgust over MP's expenses"
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "A couple of kernel developers at Wine are upset about the current project leadership. Behind the dissatisfaction is so-called bug421 on the missing device-independent bitmap (DIB) engine."
Source: Linux Today Webreference: "Consider time, talent and money all to be resources and decide how much of each you can afford, both to get the site launched and to maintain it. Open source may be free, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have costs associated with it."
Source: Linux Today TuxRadar: "Most distributions configure your graphics card and display automatically, but xorg.conf is still well worth fiddling with. It's a text file that contains all the configurations details required by the X server to deliver a graphical display and provide a connection between your keyboard, your mouse, and the computer."
Source: Linux Today Blog of Helios: "OK I think we can put the old wive's tale to bed that Linux Users just don't spend money."
Source: Linux Today IT News Today: "So far, it's amazing and is shaping up to be yet another stellar release from the KDE team."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Data Ltd announced a ruggedized UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) claimed to survive multiple four-foot drops onto concrete. The Linux-compatible "DLI 8400" uses a 1.6GHz Atom processor, has hard disk or SSD (solid state disk) storage, and operates for nine hours via two hot-swappable batteries, the company says."
Source: Linux Today Electronista: "At the same time, the Ubuntu system can only be had with 4GB of RAM, while the Windows system can be upgraded to 6GB or 8GB."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "The respondents considered the fear of "painful and distracting" change as the largest obstacle to migrating from Windows to Linux. Device driver issues, fragmented distributions and lack of support were not among the high potential hurdles, according to the study."
Source: Linux Today Red Row Studio: "I've been using this trick for ages to make simple cards from photograph - starting with a photo and making a card like looks like this:"
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "If you are a local government IT official in the U.S. today, it's likely easier for you to pick up a phone and get easy, quick answers from proprietary software vendors to find technology products to fill your needs, rather than having to manually sort through the sometimes fragmented world of open source projects to find a good fit."
Source: Linux Today Groklaw: "So, guess what has been happening in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation? A battle over deposing Bill Gates. I have the transcript [PDF] for you of the half-deposition that happened already."
Source: Linux Today KDE Announce: "Linux Unified Kernel (also known as LUK or
Longene) is a computer operating system kernel
intended to be binary-compatible with application
software and device drivers made for Microsoft
Windows and Linux."
Source: Linux Today Open : "I'm also impressed by the steadfastness of his vision: he does not flit from one trendy idea to another, but sticks unswervingly to his core beliefs.
But even I am astonished by this July 1986 interview with him, which could have been conducted yesterday:"
Source: Linux Today The Register: "That's right - this 40 foot poster includes over 1,000 versions of 150 different types of Unix."
Source: Linux Today The H Open: "SourceForge, the open-source project host, has removed the pages of the rtmpdump stream-recording software from its network in response to a cease-and-desist notice from Adobe."
Source: Linux Today The Four Hundred: "After close to two years of development and preliminary marketing in India, IBM's Smart Cube application appliances went on sale last Tuesday in its home market in the United States, moving one step closer to a worldwide launch."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Intel's Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooks is really still too raw to be called a beta, but with a fresh take on what a desktop should be, it's showing great promise."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono?"
Source: Linux Today Enterprise Networking Planet: "GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer program that Linux folk have used for ages. It allows you to turn one terminal into many, and run processes even after logging out. In this article we will give a brief overview of screen usage for the uninitiated, then talk about how Ubuntu's defaults "
Source: Linux Today Frugal Friday Podcast: "Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss his recent trip to Interop Las Vegas, my aborted Bahamas vacation at Atlantis, The Apple Airport Express and talk with Kickfire CEO Bruce Armstrong about the record-breaking Kickfire MySQL appliance."
Source: Linux Today New York Times: "The most attention-grabbing element of Intel's software push is a version of the open-source Linux operating system called Moblin. It represents a direct assault on the Windows franchise of Microsoft, Intel's longtime partner."
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