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Source: Linux Today OStatic: "This week, the Linux kernel and Intel developer teams announced they had discovered the probable cause of the e1000e driver bug. This bug was particularly destructive, as it would corrupt the EEPROM/NVM of certain Intel ethernet adapter chipsets, completely disabling them."
Source: Linux Today Red Devil's Blog: "WHAT does Microsoft do when someone says: No, sorry, we do not want to use your software any more. If that someone is a small business operating in an increasingly cut-throat world, a great deal of pressure can be brought to bear on them to fall into line."
Source: Linux Today Practical Technology: "When Michael Robertson sold Linspire to Xandros, I doubt many people saw a lawsuit coming his way from former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "The ps command has a large number of options that many Linux admins have not explored. Juliet Kemp shows how to use ps to show the command environment, who is doing what on a remote machine, and more."
Source: Linux Today Netstat -vat: "The new update is tagged by Google as containing mostly bug fixes as well as a new download behaviour - which is also an important thing to note. Security researcher Aviv Raff had alleged that Chrome was at risk from a Carpet Bombing flaw "
Source: Linux Today OK then, let's get back on track, which is Linux as a high-quality digital photography platform even if Adobe weren't a gang of Constitution-trampling thugs. The FOSS world offers an abundance of excellent digital image-editing applications. Here is a sampling of my favorites:
Source: Linux Today TuxArena: "I'll start with a quote from the official Songbird homepage, which goes like 'Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players'. Although not (yet) as popular in the audio players world as Firefox is in the one of web browsers, Songbird looks and offers an interface which integrates both powerful browsing features and music collection management."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "fsniper lets you monitor specified directories and execute scripts on any new files that are created in them. Because fsniper uses inotify to monitor its directories, the actions you define are executed as soon as filesystem changes happen. This makes fsniper both more immediate than an hourly cron job and more efficient."
Source: Linux Today Internet News: "Who's afraid of open source?
According to the open source industry group FOSSBazaar, there are plenty of organizations that view using the software as risky."
Source: Linux Today TuxArena: "Below are screenshots I took after I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Beta on a separate partition of 10 GB, on an my Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz PC with 1 GB DDRAM2. I took all the screenshots leaving default appearance and settings in applications, including the wallpaper, after I installed the nVIDIA restricted drivers and enabled Normal effects "
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "If there really is more than one way to skin a cat, you need to know all those different ways or you'll end up skinning your cat the same way over and over"
Source: Linux Today Free Software Magazine: "It was an understandable reaction, and in a way, kind of funny if you could understand all of the languages involved, but it wasn't exactly good public relations. It was a sure sign of burnout. He had forgotten one important point: you are not obligated to help just because you wrote the thing."
Source: Linux Today LKML.org: "How about this proposal instead?
We number the kernel based on the year, and the numbers of releases we
have done this year:
YEAR.NUMBER.MINOR_RELEASE"
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Geek: "FDupes uses md5sums and then a byte by byte comparison to find duplicate files within a set of directories. It has several useful options including recursion."
Source: Linux Today PC Mech: "Some are wondering what some of the new/improved/updated features in 8.10 will be compared to 8.04.
Here's a short list (not a full list - just some of the newer features I noticed personally):"
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. As I discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Drupal, OScommerce, and other popular open-source Web applications."
Source: Linux Today Define ('CHAOS',true); "I've moved my desktop at home from a Windows XP to a Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04 - and soon the new Intrepid Ibex), and have had to google a bit to find the answers to my following "problems".
Here are some of the issues I experienced, and some possible solutions "
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Boy, I wish I'd been at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. this year. That way I could heard with my own ears, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tell an audience of high-level business people that if they want to wait for Windows 7 to switch from XP, instead of going to Vista, "They certainly can.""
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "My 3 year old son is addicted to race cars, so I decided to look for some 3D racing games that can be played natively under Linux."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Well, as it turns out, Google's open-source Android comes with a similar feature, as reported by Computerworld:
In the Android Market terms of service, Google expressly says that it might remotely remove an application from user phones."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Back then, their concern was that the various workstation and server systems had 70 percent profit margins, which they locked in through the use of proprietary APIs. It was too expensive to port a customer's software to another brand, and thus the workstation vendors were able to hold on to that customer."
Source: Linux Today Tecosystems: "To be honest, I half expected the Linux Foundation End Users Summit to degenerate into a tavern brawl. Considering the disparate - and frequently conflicting - viewpoints assembled in a compact venue, it seemed at least possible."
Source: Linux Today Softpedia: "The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) developers announced today a new release of their XO Software, a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the XO laptop. The new version is based on the popular Sugar graphical interface, Fedora 9 operating system, and includes some core software customizations for wireless drivers, Open Firmware, power management, and the NAND flash filesystem."
Source: Linux Today eWeek: "The innovative T-Mobile G1, the first smart phone using the Google Android mobile operating system, is a worthy competitor to Apple and its iPhone."
Source: Linux Today The Irish Times: "When the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project finally shipped its famous $100 computer with a price tag closer to $200, long delays in shipping to US donors, resignations at senior levels of the organisation and a public U-turn on its original plan to spurn Microsoft Windows for Linux, most in the press wrote it off as a failure."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Founded in 1999, Mizi was among the first wave of companies attempting to commercialize embedded Linux. From the beginning, the company took an interest in Linux on handsets, as well as PDAs. It began offering GPL-licensed Linux BSPs (board support packages) for Samsung system-on-chip processors "
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "DarkStat is a simple Packet Sniffing Network Traffic/Bandwidth monitoring utility for Linux and UNIX. DarkStat relies on libpcap and presents simple webinterface with nice graphs and stats auto-refreshed."
Source: Linux Today Polish Linux: "As the work on KDE 4.2 turns out to be on quite an advanced stage, I've decided to test the current development version. For the purpose of this test I used the Archlinux distribution, that features the KDE 4.2-SVN packages repository."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Claws Mail is a free opensource lightweight, user friendly and fast email client for Linux
. Claws Mail is a quick response email client with easy configuration, intuitive operation and abundant features, extensibility, robustness and stability."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Grails makes it easy to ensure that your Web applications start out bug free and stay that way. As a bonus, you can leverage your test code to produce a rich set of executable documentation that is always up-to-date. This month, Grails guru Scott Davis shows you the Grails testing ropes."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "SearchMonkey is one of the first attempts from a major search engine to make use of Semantic Web technologies to enhance search results. In this tutorial, you will implement a Yahoo! SearchMonkey application that enhances blogger.com search listings to include other information about the blog and blog owner."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "But it can also be used for more serious purposes, such as illustrating a procedure that is clearer if you can see it in motion -- for instance, one of the most effective animations I saw showed was on a Society for Creative Anachronism site that explained how the links in chain mail fitted together."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "If you have ever found yourself in the position of having to reboot quickly or several times, you know that it's not a very quick process, particularly if you have SCSI devices or other initialization-intensive system devices. A package called kexec can speed up your reboots -- if you understand the rules."
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