The Linux Support Call HOWNOTTO
LinuxPlanet: "LinuxPlanet Classics: "No," the technician explained, "Linux is probably causing this problem and it needs to come off the machine." Michael Hall's classic battle with Dell tech support was first published in July 2001. Has anything really changed?"
Sun Pushes ZFS Deeper Into Solaris
InternetNews: "Sun finally extends the file system with its Solaris 10 update -- giving new capabilities to system admins that had already been available elsewhere in the OS."
How To Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 Desktop & Server
HowtoForge: "Today the new Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) has been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 8.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 8.10."
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ICANN Almost Cracks Down on Spammy Domain Registrar
LinuxInsider: "An Estonian domain name registrar received a late stay of execution from the international body that regulates the domain name system. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was threatening to pull EstDomains' registrar status because EstDomains' president was convicted of fraud."
Virtualization’s MF Future is in its MF Past
Linux Magazine: "Quick quiz. What do Mainframes and virtualization have to do with each other? Give up? In a single word: Everything."
Hugin Panoramic Photo Editor Extends its Reach
Linux.com: "The developers of the free panoramic photo editor Hugin released version 0.7 this month, culminating a two-year development cycle. The new release incorporates key new technical abilities and usability improvements to help demystify the panorama creation process for the average shooter."
Controlling Fanspeeds in Linux on PWM Motherboards, Thinkpads and ASUS Eee PC
tjansson.dk: "In Windows I controlled the fanspeed on my stationary computer by using a ASUS program that read the temperatures. I wanted the same temperature/fanspeed scaling in Linux, so I decided to setup fancontrol, which is a small script that monitors temperatures and fanspeeds and sets the fan at the minimum required level to insure low noise levels."
New Qt Creator IDE From Qt Software
KDE.news: "News emerged recently that Qt Software (formerly Trolltech) were working on their first IDE for Qt, code named Project Greenhouse. Today saw the release of the first technical preview under the name Qt Creator."
Editor's Note: Does Linux Deliver For Small Businesses?
The answer is Yes, it does, though with some qualifications. The short answer: it's all in the implementation. The long answer starts with taking a look at Canonical's successes in opening new doors for Linux deployments.
Drupal Revealed as 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner
Packt: "Packt's annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007."
OpenSUSE Starts Steering its Own Course
LinuxPlanet: "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that it's not easy for a Linux company to let go the reins of control over its community Linux distribution. Just ask Red Hat, which started to let go of Fedora and then decided to keep managing it. But, now Novell is loosening its apron strings on its community Linux openSUSE."
Review: Ubuntu 8.10 Is The Real Deal
ChannelWeb: "Without much fanfare, developers of Ubuntu Linux have delivered the latest version of the open source operating system that scores higher than Windows Vista in performance testing, does a better job than Windows in making wireless connectivity easy and, overall, leaves fewer reasons to stick with Windows than any other previous release of Linux."
11 Simple Ways To Recover Your Screen on Linux and Unix
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "And, now, just to keep you on your toes, I'll include a hyperlink back to the original article on 9 simple ways to recover your screen in the same sentence that I let you know that this post is virtually the same material, only bigger, better and with extra sauce ;)"
Bash Tips: Speedy Keyboard Shortcuts
LinuxPlanet: "I've been using bash for years, and I still haven't come anywhere close to mastering the full range of available command line keyboard shortcuts. I've found the best way to get more under my fingers is to note a few on a Post-It stuck to the monitor, and then swap it for another one at intervals."
Xubuntu 8.10 Released
Xubuntu: "The Xubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is their latest result: Xubuntu 8.10, which brings a host of excellent improvements built on the rock solid Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment."
QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4 Released
If there is one operating system that has a special place in my heart, it's QNX. This microkernel operating system served as my main desktop operating system for months and months back in the day, during the short-lived QNX Desktop scene - which died out due to a lack of interest from QNX' parent company, QNX Software Systems. The money is in the embedded and high reliability markets, and that's where QSS - understandably - focused its efforts. QNX was sort-of open sourced in September 2007, and today the company has announced the release of QNX 6.4, the first major release since 6.3 in 2004.
Detailing Device Stage, Libraries
And yet some more information about Windows 7 has found its way to users. Ars Technica is present at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, and they dove into the new Device Stage feature, as well as the new Libraries feature in the Windows Explorer file manager.
OpenBSD 4.4 Released
The OpenBSD team has released OpenBSD 4.4. "As in our previous releases, 4.4 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system." Information on how you can obtain OpenBSD can be found on the OpenBSD website.
Solaris 10 10/08 Released
A new update of Solaris 10 has been made available today. There are a lot of ZFS enhancements and the next-gen file system is now supported as an installable root file system. You can download it for x86 and SPARC here. Other than that there are new drivers, security enhacements, etc. Fore more information, check the what's new page.
A Better File System for Linux?
InternetNews talks to developers and vendors about the rise of Btrfs as a successor to Ext4. Though Ext4 adds extents, Chris Mason, Btrfs developer noted that BTRFS adds a number of other features beyond that. Among those features are items like snapshotting, online file consistency checks and the ability to perform fast incremental backups. BTRFS (pronounced better FS) is currently under development in an effort led by Oracle engineer Chris Mason. With the support of Intel, Red Hat, HP, IBM, BTRFS could become the engine that brings next generation filesystem capabilities to Linux.
A Closer Look at Red Hat's Plymouth
Back in July we shared Red Hat's intentions to replace RHGB with Plymouth, a new graphical boot process that is able to benefit from the latest Linux graphics capabilities. Red Hat engineers had primarily designed Plymouth around a forthcoming feature we've talked about quite a bit known as kernel mode-setting, which provides end-users with a cleaner and flicker-free boot experience. In September in The State of Kernel Mode-Setting we then shared more information on Plymouth along with a brief video. Most recently we published another video of Plymouth that shows the tighter integration between the boot process and starting the GNOME Display Manager. Today though we are looking at Plymouth and its different plug-ins along with providing a few more videos.
Performance Analysis for Core 2 and K8: Part 1
Real World Technologies has posted a code level dissection of the Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 and an AMD Athlon FX-62. While rather dated, the two processors were state of the art in 2006, the article does an excellent job of detailing why the processors behave the way they do. Many publications will say, "Game X runs better on processor Z, so processor Z wins", but that does not tell the reader why. This Real World Technologies article, on the other hand, explains why. For instance, they used the game Prey to test the CPUs and found "Prey tends to favor more complex x86 instructions that likely either use 3 inputs, or have 2 output."
Be the Change -- You Want to See In The World
Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Means are more important than the end: it is only with the right means that the desired end will follow."
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