| Linux Today News KDE 4.4 KREEPS KLOSER TO KOMPLETE
"The KDE team is getting very close to a final release of KDE 4.4. The second release candidate came out yesterday as a testing platform for users and developers to find and squash bugs before the final release date of February 9th." FAREWELL TO SOLARIS EXPRESS COMMUNITY EDITION
"...earlier this month Sun Microsystems put out their last bi-weekly build of SXCE and as of the end of this week all downloads will cease. OpenSolaris has superseded Solaris Express Community Edition, but with this article, we are taking one last look at Build 130, the final version of Solaris Express Community Edition." UBUNTU UNLEASHED 2010 EDITION REVIEW
"The Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition was updated with an Ubuntu 9.10 DVD and a �Free Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04″ which I found out that if you buy the book before the end of 2010 you can get an upgrade kit in the mail." IS UBUNTU CHEATING MOZILLA WITH YAHOO SEARCH DEAL?
"So Canonical will make money from Yahoo searches (really Microsoft now with Bing powering Yahoo search) to help fund their efforts." DOES UBUNTU NEED SERVER HARDWARE PARTNERS?
"But as I heard more about Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) in 2009, I realized Ubuntu in 2010 may find a back door into the server market. Here�s why." MICROSOFT-COMPATIBLE APIS IN MONO 2.4
"Mono is an open source project led by Novell to create a .NET-compatible set of tools that include, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows operating systems." LINUX MOTHERBOARD FOLLIES
"It all started with upgrading a CPU. It should have been a simple, inexpensive task, but it has taken on a life of its own, resulting in battles with warranty service and shopping for yet more new parts. Will the madness ever end?" KDE SOFTWARE COMPILATION 4.3.5 RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
"KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates" FORKING VS THREADING
"So, finally after long time, i am able to figure out the difference between forking and threading :)" THE IPAD IS POTENTIALLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, CULTURE-CHANGING PRODUCTS IN HISTORY!
Steve Jobs once again weaves his magic spell, and the world is all agog over the announcement of Apple's latest gadget, the iPad. At prices ranging from $499 to over $800, Mr. Jobs better have some powerful magic. Here are several news stories about this latest Apple product release. SIZE CAN MATTER: WOULD YOU PREFER THE HARD DRIVE OR THE RAMDISK THIS EVENING? PART 3
"The past couple of weeks we ran the numbers on metadata performance for ramdisks and hard drive-based journals for ext4. Now let�s compare/contrast the two journal devices and see what trends emerge." LINUX FOUNDATION TO WORLD: GET A JOB!
"The good news is that, finally, there do seem to be indications that the frozen job market may be thawing, particularly in IT." ZOHO OPENS UP ZOHO DISCUSSIONS FOR OPEN SOURCE
"Zoho recently announced that they are making Zoho Discussions available for free to open source projects" Get Ready for Windows 7!
Pros and Cons? Learn What Our Experts Think
Download Free eBook Now. Click Here. |
Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here
UBUNTU: ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT GETTING EASIER?
"Are Ubuntu servers and desktops easy for enterprises to manage? Before you answer, consider some recent and upcoming moves involving Bomgar, Kaseya, Likewise Software, Groundwork Open Source and Canonical itself. Here are some observations." APACHE SPAMASSASSIN TAKES A NEW ROUTE IN VERSION 3.30
"Spammers beware! A new version of Apache SpamAssassin has you in its sights." BUILDING KERNEL MODULES WITH MODULE-ASSISTANT ON DEBIAN LENNY
"module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages." MEETINGS, MINUTES, AND MOOTBOT
"I found out the #ubuntu-meeting Channel on Freenode uses mootbot. This great little bot that makes keeping track of action items and gathering meeting minutes/notes really easy." GOODBYE KDE, HELLO XFCE
"This past weekend I uninstalled KDE4 from my Desktop. When I first started playing around with Linux, my first desktop was KDE 1.something. Even though it didn’t have the polish of Windows, I could see that it had a lot of potential." INSTALLING THE ELGG SOCIAL NETWORKING CMS
"Open Source CMSes are the latest rage it seems, and we've tried out dozens. One that stands out above the rest for small businesses and personal networks is the Elgg open source "social engine," which can be used to create social applications." WHAT WOULD LIFE BE LIKE WITHOUT WINDOWS?
"What would life be like without Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software crowd, the demise of Windows -- and by extension, Microsoft's hegemony over the PC universe -- would signal a kind of rebirth for information technology." JUST WHAT IS “LINUX”?
"The central issue that I have is that this issue causes great confusion with newbies and anger with power users. To that end, I thought I would put forth a few ideas that could solve this issue. It’s confusing, it’s frustrating, and it’s rooted in years of heavy geek war. So read on and chime in." 9 HILARIOUS USB KEYS
An oldie but goodie, featuring Barbie, a real thumb drive, and a teddy bear. WHAT'S NEXT FOR FIREFOX? ELECTROLYSIS
"One of the key new features that the Lorentz branch of Firefox 3.6 will aim to include is a technology that rival browser Google Chrome helped to popularize – out of process plugins." SOLID STATE DRIVES GET FASTER WITH TRIM
"More companies are turning to the TRIM command, a subset of the data set management features within the latest ATA specifications, to help them improve the speed of SSD drives and ultimately boost the drives' overall read and write performance." KERNEL LOG: COMING IN 2.6.33 (PART 2) - STORAGE
"Extended discard support means that Linux now supports ATA TRIM, which can increase SSD lifespan and throughput." AND THE BEST LINUX DESKTOP DISTRO OF ALL IS...
"When it comes to Linux, there is no one size fits all answer. But, unlike other desktop operating systems, Linux doesn't try to squeeze you into a system's that's too large or too small. Instead, Linux offers a wide variety of distributions and one of them is likely be the right one for you." ZAP PROVIDES OPEN SOURCE WIRELESS TESTING
"Ruckus has released the Zap source code under a modified BSD license to provide the tool to the world, and hopefully spur development of this and other related analysis tools. Zap measures performance, statistically, to provide insight into the true nature of how a network can perform." USING BRASERO FOR DATA BACKUP AND ISO BURNING
"From command line to stand alone GUI to fully desktop-integrated tool, you can get your data (or ISO) onto a CD or DVD in many ways. One such way is the Brasero CD/DVD burner. Brasero is the default burner for the GNOME desktop." MONITORINGFORGE.ORG REACHES 2,000 REGISTRANTS AND MORE THAN 2,000 PROJECTS IN ITS FIRST FOUR MONTHS
MonitoringForge (www.MonitoringForge.org), the epicenter of all open source projects that relate to IT monitoring, announces its 2,000th registered member and more than 2,000 projects since its launch in September 2009. In addition to its expanding membership base, MonitoringForge has established an advisory board of monitoring gurus, and implemented new updates to the platform. THE CHOICES INSIDE UBUNTU
"Hearing that the next Ubuntu release will use Yahoo! as the default search engine in Firefox leaves me with a twinge of uneasiness. My misgiving -- and it's a small one -- is not so much with the decision as with why it was made." LINUX AUDIO PLUGIN UPDATE
"LADSPA is the senior player in the Linux audio plugin field. Its API (applications programming interface) is stable, but development is no longer as lively as when it first appeared. Nevertheless, some significant LADSPA plugins have shown up in the last few months." 20 UBUNTU KARMIC ANNOYANCES
"If you are mounting shares from disks on your network and you are using wifi, the shares don't unmount when you try to shut down. This is a major pain. (The pain is amplified because folks keep marking the bug "fixed" when it's not.) " GNOME ACTIVITY JOURNAL SHOWS YOUR RECENT COMPUTER WORK
"Linux only: It's still a work in progress, but GNOME Activity Journal already offers a nice at-a-glance look at your file work over the last few days, offering usage charts, image previews, and quick file access." DEAR NETFLIX
" We, the undersigned, are current or prospective subscribers of Netflix that would like the "Watch Now" feature available to Linux users." A LOOK AT KDE 4.4
"The latest version of my favorite desktop, KDE SC 4.4, is due to be released in just a couple of weeks. Even though it’s still in beta, I just couldn’t keep my hands off of it, being the desktop geek that I am. Let’s take a quick look at how KDE 4.4 is shaping up during the last leg of its development phase." LCA: COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF PACKAGE COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING DATA
"Kate Stewart is the manager of the PowerPC team at Freescale. As such, she has a basic customer service problem to solve: people who buy a board from Freescale would like to have some sort of operating system to run on it. That system, of course, will be Linux; satisfying this requirement means that Freescale must operate as a sort of Linux distributor." ANYTHING THE IPAD CAN DO, LINUX CAN DO BETTER.
"The Apple iPad has finally arrived, and, as I predicted a while back, it's really just a big iPod Touch. That's great. I love my iPod Touch. But, really, is there anything here that Linux can't do just as well for less money?" THE IMPORTANCE OF FITTING IN
"Is the success of Linux directly proportional to its ability to integrate with existing proprietary systems like Windows? If so, should free software developers be spending more time integrating with it instead of building better software for free platforms?" FOSS FEATS AND FOLLIES: Q&A WITH RED HAT FEDORA PROJECT LEADER PAUL FRIELDS
"Paul Frields, Red Hat's Fedora Project Leader, talks about FUDCon, what lies ahead for the next generation of FOSS, and how to address some of the lingering problems of Linux communities." 6 OF THE BEST DESKTOP SEARCH TOOLS FOR LINUX
"Do desktop search tools spell the end of grep?" MAKE PRETTY GUI APPS FAST WITH PYTHON-QT
"KDE users love the look of all those pretty applications. The key is the toolkit KDE uses: Qt. Akkana Peck uses a poker game to show how quickly you can create a nice-looking graphical application." TRACKING TIME WITH RACHOTA
"There are quite a few time tracking solutions out there, including the nifty Rachota utility which not only makes it easy to track time spent on different tasks but also helps you to analyze the collected data." | 
No comments:
Post a Comment