Linux alternatives to Windows SBS part two
IT Wire: "Yet, it's not just cut down on price but cut down on features too. It has deliberate built-in limitations. You don't have to put up with this. Here are a range of Linux-based options that give you greater functionality and at a lower price."
VLC Goes to Nine Point Two
Linux.com: "Sometimes I get the feeling that I only know about 5% of what VLC can do. Everyone knows it's a dependable, free, cross-platform media player...the new VLC exposes a lot more of that functionality."
Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.
TechCrunch: "The iPhone may be the only game in town for serious mobile Web developers right now, but that won't last long. Next year, the iPhone will see some serious competition from Google's Android platform."
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Omega 10 Desktop Linux
OSNews: "The Omega 10 Beta release is roughly equivalent to the Fedora 10 Beta to be released tomorrow, but integrates multimedia support not found in Fedora."
Save a Web Page for Later With Read It Later Extension
Linux.com: "At first sight, the Read It Later (RIL) extension looks redundant -- after all, you can use Firefox's own bookmarking functionality to save Web pages for later reading. But dig deeper, and you'll discover that it offers enough nifty features to make it a must-have tool for most users."
Keyboards Must Die
Linux Today Blog: "The computer of the future is almost here. It's a small handheld device with some pretty good built-in muscle and storage, and that depends on the network for most of its functionality. But it won't really be practical until the keyboard goes away and we can talk to our computers."
Tools for Editing Vector Graphics in GNU/Linux
Linux.com: "Free software includes a number of options for working with vector graphics, including several simple ones: OpenOffice.org's Draw, KOffice's Karbon14, and Inkscape, which is currently the premier vector graphic editor in free software."
Live DVD for Linux Games
LinuxHaxor: "lg-live is a live Linux DVD pre-installed with some of the top linux games out there. You just boot from your dvd, select your game and start playing."
Tip of the Trade: Make Perl Scripts More Readable With perltidy
Serverwatch: "I am of course sure that everyone reading this is well aware of scripting best practices and always writes beautifully neat and well-set-out scripts that will still have meaning when you return to them in six months time. You might not then need perltidy for your own scripts."
Midgard 8.09.0RC "Ragnaroek" released
Midgard CMS: "The Midgard Project has released first 'Release Canditate' release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted for mid-to-high-end web services."
Postfix Stress Test With smtp-source and top
PostfixMail: "In order to evaluate the load on your box you can run smtp-source and combine that with snapshots of top to evaluate the load on the server."
Install open-vm-tools on Debian 4.0 (Etch)
Debian Admin: "VMware Inc. released an OpenSource version of their VMware-Tools, called open-vm-tools. While they’re quite easy to install on Gentoo (emerge open-vm-tools), it’s not that easy having them installed on a Debian Etch (4.0) if you want to go the proper way."
Kubuntu: How To Turn The Touchpad Off And On With One Shortcut Key
HowtoForge: "...but nothing worked in my Kubuntu environment for whatever reason...Therefore, facing all these 'downers' I set out to find another method using the code that did work in my system."
Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile's G1) and offer them on the Android Market."
Mounting ISO Images with Furius ISO Mount on Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
HowtoForge: "This guide shows how to install it on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop."
Omega 10 Desktop Linux
The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and Fedora Xfce media spins, Rahul Sundaram, announced the release of Omega 10 Beta, a remix of Fedora this past weekend. Omega is a desktop/mobile Linux distribution that is based upon Fedora but includes packages from the Livna RPM repository. The Omega 10 Beta release is roughly equivalent to the Fedora 10 Beta to be released tomorrow, but integrates multimedia support not found in Fedora.
When Linux Goes Bad: the e1000e Ethernet bug
Cyber Cynic: "I know some people think I only say wonderful things about Linux and bad things about Windows. Wrong. I call them like I see them. Most of the time, while wearing my operating system umpire's cap, I see Linux making the right hits... Most of the time. Sometimes, though, Linux strikes out..."
5 Ways to Know You're Ready for Virtualization
Linux Magazine: "To help you avoid those opportunists who jump on new technologies like cockroaches pouncing on freshly fallen cake crumbs--gobbling up the sweet bits and running off into the dark when the lights come on, I've compiled 5 simple questions to ask yourself before taking the plunge."
Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job
Datamation: "You've heard the stereotypes and the misconceptions. Since Linux is free software, the developers who create it are paid next to nothing, right?"
Linux Speaks Your Instant Messaging Dialect
IT Wire: "Pidgin is multi-lingual. It will communicate with, and manage, your MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM and other accounts all in the one package. There's no need for loads of different IM clients. You can control each and every one from within Pidgin."
1 Million Classmates Headed to Venezuela
ZDNet Education: "In the latest success for this model, Venezuela has just ordered 1 million second-generation Classmates from the same local OEM (J.P. Sa Couto) producing Classmates for Portugal."
The XO Files Part III: Re-imagining the OLPC Distribution
OLPC News: "Concern over the original distribution plan was what got me writing for OLPCNews.com. The belligerent anti-pilot-project attitude, the requirement to buy the laptops in lots of 1million units, and the hushed discussions about the costs beyond the "$100" laptop. Rapid, bulk deployment is not a good model to introduce technology, particularly in a resource-constrained environment."
Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source
LWN: "Regardless of one's own feelings in the matter, the fact remains that the legal system exists, it affects our lives, and that we can only be better off if we understand it. To that end, O'Reilly has published Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg."
Wall Street's Collapse May be Computer Science's Gain
Computerworld: "The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and IT careers attractive to students who abandoned these fields in droves after the pop of the last big bubble, the dot-com bust of 2001."
RMS: Cloud Computing Is Bad, Blogosphere Responds
A very interesting "Blogwatch" posting at Computerworld links out to an interview with Richard Stallman wherein he posits that Cloud Computing is a trap to entice users to give up control and privacy and become subject to closed, proprietary platforms. Since RMS is a professional provocateur, I wouldn't consider all of his pronouncements newsworthy. But the thoughtful responses linked in this blog roundup were interesting, and I believe the issue of convenience vs control vis a vis Cloud Computing is a very timely and important debate to be having at this point in IT history.
Motorola Building 350 Person Android Team
No, Motorola isn't building an army of humanoid robots. The fading mobile phone powerhouse already has 50 developers on its android-based mobile phone OS team, and it intends to expand to 350, according to TechCrunch. Other major handset vendors seem to be expressing interest in the new Google OS as well. Will intense pressure from competitors backing an open OS be just what iPhone fans have been praying for, forcing Apple to loosen the screws a bit?
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