Crystal Ball Sunday #10: Linux Vendor Consolidation
DaniWeb: "I foresee Red Hat and Novell battling it out for market share over the next 18 months by purchasing fan bases."
20 Linux Apps You Can't Live Without
TechRadar: "Hugin is a panorama photo editor that can stitch your photos together...You don't have to be exact, since Hugin can stitch the photos together quite well, although a tripod certainly helps."
Can the Giant IE Catch the Quick Red Firefox?
TechWorld: "In a dramatic turnaround since the Netscape air supply days, millions of people have chosen to go out of their way, download and install an independent browser and use it in preference to IE, the one that ships with Windows."
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Linux Server Share Keeps Growing
Practical Technology: "While the worldwide server market’s factory revenue grew 6.4% over the last year, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Track, Linux server revenue was running ahead of the curve at a growth rate of 10%."
Skegness Grammar School, Using GNU/Linux and Thin-Clients Across the School
Free Software Magazine: "These run as thin-clients using the Linux Terminal Server Project, which uses low power clients with most of the processing being done on fewer, more powerful, servers."
Where the Linux Laptops Live
ZDNet: "Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux."
Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Fedora 9
HowtoForge: "In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban on a Fedora 9 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP address/host by blocking it with an iptables firewall rule."
Google To Join Browser Wars with Chrome
The browser wars may just become a little bit more interesting. Apart from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, another player is ready to join the field in what will most probably be released as a beta - you know, company policy - for the upcoming 23 years: Chrome. It's a webkit-based browser from Google.
Firefox, the King of Web Browsers
Free Software Magazine: "After Microsoft killed Netscape, there was no serious competitor to Internet Explorer in the browser wars. For years, Microsoft lorded its dominance of the web browser market. Then along came Firefox, the open source web browser that took the world by storm."
Reasons to Be Cheerful or Angry - Your Choice
LinuxInsider: "As summer draws to a close, the activity has started to heat up on the Linux blogs. Among the topics at hand this week: The Democratic National Convention's lack of Linux support for its video feed, an estimate that Linux might own 20 percent of the OS market and a list of the best Linux-based devices out there."
Businesses Don't Need to Buy Linux
Cyber Cynic: "The 451 Group has issued a report that shows that companies are beginning to pick up something serious Linux users have known since day one: You don't have to buy Linux to use it."
Chrome: It is Google's Anti-Browser
Computerworld UK: "In a sense, Chrome is not a browser, it's an anti-browser. It's mission is to destroy the concept of the browser, and become a frame for other applications"
Google to Release Open-Source 'Chrome' Browser
ZDNet AU: "Are Internet Explorer and Firefox ready to do battle with Chrome? Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which will be released in 100 countries on Tuesday."
Top 7 Best-kept Ubuntu Secrets
Synapticism: "...there are a select few programs that are either insanely cool and innovative, or just extremely polished. They might not even be well known within the Linux community, but they make the overall experience that much better for everyone."
Microsoft's Man in Open Source: Sam Ramji on Redmond's Linux Strategy
Datamation: ""I am focused on narrowing the gap between the Open Source community and Microsoft through research, collaboration, interoperability, and community engagement.""
The CONSEGI 2008 Declaration: Six Nations "Just Say No" to ISO/IEC
Standards Blog: "This newest challenge to the continued relevance of ISO and IEC was thrown when major IT agencies of six nations - Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Paraguay, South Africa and Venezuela - signed a declaration that deploring the refusal of ISO and IEC to further review the appeals submitted by the National Bodies of four nations."
Is Windows Vista Really Driving People to Linux?
IT Wire: "Let's get this straight - if we are saying that GNU/Linux is being picked in preference to Vista, then we need some statistics showing that a sizeable number of people are asking their retailers to install the free operating systems on their new PCs in preference to Vista."
How the 'Net Works: an Introduction to Peering and Transit
"In 2005, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre famously told BusinessWeek, "What they [Google, Vonage, and others] would like to do is to use my pipes free. But I ain't going to let them do that... Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?" The story of how the Internet is structured economically is not so much a story about net neutrality, but rather it's a story about how ISPs actually do use AT&T's pipes for free, and about why AT&T actually wants them to do so. These inter-ISP sharing arrangements are known as 'peering' or 'transit', and they are the two mechanisms that underlie the interconnection of networks that form the Internet. In this article, I'll to take a look at the economics of peering of transit in order to give you a better sense of how traffic flows from point A to point B on the Internet, and how it does so mostly without problems, despite the fact that the Internet is a patchwork quilt of networks run by companies, schools, and governments."
Discover OS X' Hidden Artistic Side
"One of the most frequently used Cocoa classes is NSImage which, as the name suggests, is all about displaying and manipulating image data. The imageNamed: method of this class retrieves an image reference for you - provided that you know the name of the image you're after. Many of the images that can be retrieved via the imageNamed: method have well documented names, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's not well-known. It's those images - including some for Windows - that I'll be digging into here. I shall also give you source code to a little utility that uses an entirely different mechanism to retrieve images used by OS X."
Name: SyroBro