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Source: Linux Today Techworld: "Plumbing World in New Zealand migrated to Linux on about 350 PCs throughout its 30 branches, which proved to be a boon for the cross-platform Yellowfin BI as the Business Objects application didn't run on Linux."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com "Why should enterprises adopt Ubuntu when there are two well-established, commercially supported enterprise Linux distros out there already, in the shape of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise? They've got the business side more or less sewn up between them, haven't they?"
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution funded and developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Pardus has its own unique installer, package manager, configuration wizard, and control panel. This originality, and the developers' attention to detail, make Pardus worth a look."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "This article presents tools and code needed to add your own text-searching interface to Firefox. With a Greasemonkey user script and some custom algorithms, you'll be able to add grep -v functionality to text searches — that is, highlighting a first search term where a second one is not located nearby."
Source: Linux Today Serverwatch: "Admins use ps all the time to look at processes running on a system. But do you make the best use of the multitude of options this very useful tool has, or do you stick to a tiny, tested handful? Here are some ps options to check out that you may not have encountered before."
Source: Linux Today Slashdot: "Bash Cookbook is by no means for the feint of heart. It seems that the book is meant for intermediate and above users of Bash. However, the first several chapters do a significant job of over viewing basic concepts of Bash navigation and combing simple commands. The book quickly changes gears to complex statements on how to get things done in Bash."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "The network stack is of great significance, but not so much that it's the first thing you should learn. We've waited to start the "layers" discussion for good reason: Many so-called networking classes will start by teaching you to memorize the name of every layer and every protocol contained within this model. Don't do that. Do realize that layers 5 and 6 can be completely ignored, though."
Source: Linux Today FOSS Bazaar: "Some might say that open source communities "just happen", and that they operate on intuition and unwritten social rules, but this logic overlooks the vast quantity of open source projects that fail."
Source: Linux Today Linux Format: "Firefox is pretty fast, but doesn't always win in the speed stakes. If you want to render your web pages faster, then you can mess about changing the options in about:config, or you can simply download the FasterFox addon. You can either choose from four one-click speed-up buttons, or if you are someone who absolutely has to fiddle with every last option, choose the Custom setting and tweak away to your heart's desire."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "It will allow users to have near-instant access to a Linux-based environment that offers email, calendar, attachments, contacts (yes, these are going to have to be cloud computing-based since you’re not going to want to have to reenter the same data more than once) and a web browser, all without ever needing to boot into the main operating system."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Vyatta can turn any 32-bit x86 machine with at least one network interface into a network appliance that handles routing, firewall, and VPN tasks. The company released Vyatta Community Edition 4 in April, with improved scalability and feature enhancements. Large enterprises now have a low-cost alternative to proprietary hardware like the Cisco 7200."
Source: Linux Today Mad Penguin: "I'm Playing Shockwave Games Easily On My Linux Box! I have tried endless times to successfully play Shockwave games via various Wine releases. As luck would have it, I've always had more success with Wine proper than with Crossover Office, but thanks to Wine-Doors, I was able to select Firefox 2.0 for Windows, install it, install Shockwave and unlike every time previously, it worked and worked well."
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: This script use's wget's --user-agent option. DO NOT use "Mozilla" as your user agent! Check out this page, near the bottom regarding being sued for masquerading as Mozilla."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "So you want to be one of the few, the proud, the Linux kernel developers do you? Well, it’s not easy. But, if you’ve got the right stuff, Linux is looking for a few good programmers."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Network latency and bandwidth are the two metrics most likely to be of interest when you benchmark a network. Even though most service and product advertising focuses on bandwidth, at times the latency can be a more important metric. Here's a look at three projects that include tools to test your network performance: nepim "network pipemeter," LMbench, and nuttcp."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "I assisted a company today with a spectacular Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) crash. The experience showed some folly in the oft-claimed mantra that Windows-based applications are graphical and friendly. In fact, here’s a free Linux-friendly open source package called Afresco which makes a better SharePoint than SharePoint."
Source: Linux Today Crashsystems: "However, the support agent refused to give her the case number, restating the fact that Comcast does not support Linux. He even went as far to say that the company supports Windows, Mac OSX, and even Unix (note that both Linux and OSX are a form of Unix), but not Linux."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "This is why Linux remains, in the desktop and laptop space, a hobbyist market. It only exists through the online channels hobbyists use."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "Can Red Hat really save Veritas customers $2,000 per server?"
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Graphic designers, movie editors, music composers, and multimedia addicts have specific needs when it comes to software. That is why there are specialized Linux distributions that cater to them."
Source: Linux Today Lists: "A lot have been said about user experience, themes and looks of your OS in general. Some claim that OSX has the best GUI around. Aero fans drool over its fancy windows flip thingy. But does it really all matter? Take a look and decide yourself."
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: "Qnap Systems announced a new member of its "TS" family of Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The five-bay, hot-swappable TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS is equipped with a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron processor, 1GB RAM, and dual gigabit Ethernet ports."
Source: Linux Today Laptop: "With the recent release of gOS 3 Beta, we thought it was prime time to take a closer look at the company responsible for creating the OS that powered the ill-fated Everex Cloudbook, and the gorgeous (and Mac OS X Leopard-inspired) gOS Space."
Source: Linux Today Interop Systems: "Personally I’m a little taken aback by the ferocity of IBM’s assault on such tiny and seemingly insignificant competitors as PSI, T3 and Fundamental Software (and really it would be more accurate to call them “coopetitors” because they were all paying royalties or commissions of some kind or another to IBM). What accounts for such overkill?"
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "OK, so it's not really Linux, but it is funny! You can see the evidence at the Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. I wonder what newly retired Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who was in Beijing for the Olympics, thought?"
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "I have a team of core Linux and JBoss engineers here in the countries in which we operate to provide local language and local understanding support. We don't outsource support."
Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: " I discovered that on some Dell notebooks, it is cheaper to buy the Ubuntu version and a retail copy of Vista than to buy Vista pre-installed."
Source: Linux Today TuxArea: "Instead of an introduction, I'll answer the question 'Why did you left out wonderful applications like Scribus, Inkscape, Cinelerra, Wine, QCAD etc?'. Well, because the article is about applications which I consider essential for daily use."
Source: Linux Today KDE News: "The KDE e.V. has ratified a proposal for a Code of Conduct as accepted shared set of values for participating in the KDE Community. This Code of Conduct presents a summary of the shared values and "common sense" thinking in our community. The basic social ingredients that hold our project together include:"
Source: Linux Today BeginLinux: "Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) provides a way for you to build a server and then add diskless computers to the server thus creating a huge savings for an organization. To the user, they will not recognize that the computer they are at is without a hard drive. They typically notice the fast speed at which the workstation runs and the features that are available."
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