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Source: Linux Today HandleWithLinux: "I've been experimenting with GTK2 for a while and reading the tutorials a bit. I started a while ago by reading the source code for some perl GUI programs I found on my system. More specific I've been playing around with the podviewer and I was thinking about adding some functionality to it, to learn from the process."
Source: Linux Today Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "I'm in search of Linux--which sounds odd since it seems that I should be able to find all the Linux I'd ever want but I want to know about your favorite Linux gadget, project, invention, software, innovation or appliance."
Source: Linux Today Raiden's Realm: "This is a simple, yet novel way to end the patent threat to Linux, FOSS and generally anyone that the big corporations want to destroy or mess with. If you look at the patent fee schedule at the USPTO, you'll see that it's outrageously expensive to file a patent."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "With the Linux 2.6.30 kernel being prepped for release in early June, we have set out to provide a few benchmarks of this latest Linux kernel to see how it compares to its two earlier predecessors."
Source: Linux Today Information Week: "Investigators believe the hackers used a technique called SQL injection to exploit a security vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server database to gain entry to the Web servers."
Source: Linux Today KOffice.org: "The KOffice team is extremely pleased to finally announce version 2.0.0 of KOffice. This release marks the end of more than 3 years of work to port KOffice to Qt 4 and the KDE 4 libraries and, in some cases, totally rewrite the engine of the KOffice applications."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Not all that along ago, I was hearing rumors that the release of Windows 7 will spell the death of Linux on tiny notebook type computers called netbooks. At the time the argument was that people expected Windows on their PCs and that familiarity would win out over anything that desktop Linux distributions can dispense in response."
Source: Linux Today Linux Blog Safari: "And if you're a Linux geek, there's apparently no time like the summertime to indulge in the sheer pleasure of playing with cool stuff in the Linux universe. Some generous bloggers have tagged some of the shiniest treasures for us. What other gems are out there, friends? We'd love to know."
Source: Linux Today Always Right: "You follow the wizard, click here and there, et-voila ! You have a nice installer ready to be shipped wherever you want."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux's arrival has been delayed until early next week, June 2, but the release candidate is already looking mighty darn good."
Source: Linux Today WorksWithU: "The Wall Street Journal today (May 28, 2009) published a review of multiple Linux netbooks running Ubuntu, Mi and Moblin Linux. Overall, I think the review offers fair, balanced coverage of what's right -- and wrong -- with the Linux netbook market today. But there was one line in the review that I found completely misleading and shortsighted."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "In part 1 ace coder Akkana Peck taught us how to use Python and PyGTK to bring up a window and draw lines and circles. Today we'll expand on that humble beginning and draw some pretty graphics."
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Qnap Systems announced a 2.5-inch drive variation on its Linux- and Intel Atom-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices, called the SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS. In other NAS news, Asus is readying an Eee-branded NAS device, similarly running Linux on an Atom, says an industry report."
Source: Linux Today Linux Mint: "Based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Linux 2.6.28, Gnome 2.26 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" features a lot of improvements and the latest software from the Open Source World."
Source: Linux Today New York Times: "Q. My netbook came with SUSE Linux, but I want to use Ubuntu Linux. What's the easiest way to change?"
Source: Linux Today eWeek Europe: "Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists"
Source: Linux Today LAMP Security: "Kojoney is a wonderful low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python. Honeypots are systems that are set up in a deliberately vulnerable state in order to capture and observe intruder behavior. There are many reasons to run a honeypot, but for the purposes of this discussion we will assume that you want to run a honeypot to observe post compromise behavior in order to fingerprint patterns."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "One of the money milking machines in Microsoft's stable has just gone dry. It's a little teat but significant in that it shows the way for other, bigger teats to be pulled out of the Redmond suction pump."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: "Search can make or break your website. Sunspot and Solr give you an intuitive engine that maps directly to your Ruby objects."
Source: Linux Today Linux Distillery: "ASUS has effectively abandoned Linux and stated a power user would use Windows instead. This backflip stands against the history of their successful Eee netbook line. Nevertheless, ASUS' loss will be the gain of more savvy players."
Source: Linux Today SouthEast LinuxFest: "SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Free & Open Source software. It is part educational conference, and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips, ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux/Free and Open Source Software."
Source: Linux Today Tux Radar: "Here's a device that started out as a firewall and ended up as a powerful embedded development platform. It's based around an ARM CPU and includes an SDK to let you develop your own tools. An attractive price, but how good is it? Read on for our verdict "
Source: Linux Today Boycott Novell: "Summary: Microsoft touches NASA and turns public data into privilege of proprietary software users only"
Source: Linux Today Tech Flash: "NASA is processing immense sets of images and data from Mars and the moon into a special Microsoft format for viewing in the Redmond company's WorldWide Telescope online program."
Source: Linux Today Alex on Linux: "Lets say we have a data structure that manages objects and we would like to manipulate the data structure and the objects from two or more threads. To achieve maximum performance we have to distinguish between mechanism that we use to protect the data structure itself, and the mechanism that we use to protect actual objects."
Source: Linux Today Energy Circle: "As promised, below you will find our recipe for the TED, The Energy Detective hack that enabled us to publish our electricity use on the Energy Circle site, starting Earth Day."
Source: Linux Today Linuxhaxor: "Linux distributions are often customized to perform many specialized tasks cater to a particular industry, hobby or business. Security Penetration testing is one such niche where professional (and hobbyists) use customized Linux distributions with the whole purpose of doing security tests on networks and personal computer"
Source: Linux Today Tectonic: "Open source may have had a late start in the realm of enterprise virtualisation, but the meticulous and attentive development of this technology has led to better products in the long run."
Source: Linux Today Ghacks: "System 76 is a company, founded in 2005, dedicated to the spreading of Linux and open source. They are so dedicated to this cause they sell Linux-only hardware. You might be saying to yourself "It's been tried before and it failed.""
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "Last week we took a look at four great Linux/FOSS applications that are as good as any of their competitors, FOSS or proprietary. Today I'll wrap up with four more fine applications that I think are excellent and bragworthy, and that have not already been reviewed to death."
Source: Linux Today Wall Street Journal: "Linux on netbooks isn't going away though. In fact, software and hardware companies have been making big investments to improve Linux netbooks. For the past week, I've been using several flavors of Linux running on netbooks -- Ubuntu, Hewlett-Packard's Mi (which is based on Ubuntu) and Moblin, created largely by Intel and not yet available commercially"
Source: Linux Today Webreference: "Part six of this series looks at the last scripts that make up the main section of the application. We will look at how to add, remove and change bookmark information, in particular."
Source: Linux Today MakeUseOf: "What if you want to monitor more than just a blog, such as a static website, your email account, a file and you are a Linux user? In that case, Specto could come in handy."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "However, if the website doesn't host a Extended Validation certificate then the website URL (link) in the address bar is not highlighted or in otherwords shows as a normal website URL."
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