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MySQL Juggles Business Models, Life with Sun, and Software Patents
05/15/2008 
MySQL is likely to face issues that are associated with ways of extracting revenue from its users. Another largely forgotten issue is the increased pr ... 
Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks
05/15/2008
Back in January of 2007 we had looked at Linux Virtualization Performance as we had compared a running native OS (at that time, Fedora Core 6) against ...
'Major' Flash Player beta released
05/15/2008
The"first major" Flash Player update since Adobe Systems completed its 2005 acquisition of Macromedia is due to be made available today as a beta. The ...
Exceptional Linux programs for Kids
05/15/2008
There's nothing worse than hearing how an entire school district is switching operating systems from Mac to Windows (or vice versa) because that's wha ...
Linux offers one alternative to Microsoft's Windows
05/15/2008
I left Windows a little over a year ago and have not regretted it. Bill Gates has plenty of money without me. I admit it was a scary step to take. I h ...
The Perfect Server - Fedora 9
05/15/2008
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 9 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capab ...
This week at LWN: How not to sell embedded Linux
05/15/2008
Every now and then one should have a look at some unabashed fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) material. It's good to know what the other side is sayi ...
How to add an internationalized keyboard to your Web site
05/15/2008
JavaScript VirtualKeyboard provides a virtual keyboard entirely written in JavaScript with more than 130 supported keyboard layouts allowing you to en ...
Ubuntu Stealing Linux Thunder?
05/15/2008
There is a growing identity crisis in the Linux community. In simplest terms, is Ubuntu taking the spotlight away from other deserving Linux distribut ...
Splashtop Linux desktop to appear on every Asus motherboard
05/15/2008
We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting conceptand it ...
Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) is available now
05/15/2008
In another 'not quite Windows Live but still cool' post, Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now a ...
Worst Hardware For Your Linux Desktop
05/15/2008
I have been asked this over and again - which hardware should be avoided before installing Linux? The list is actually smaller than you might expect, ...
STFUbuntu - The HOT New Linux Distro
05/15/2008
Have you ever wished your computer had theballs to tell you to STFU? Have you every wished it T4LK3D L1K3 7H1S? Have you ever dreamt of saying STFU ev ...
NPR station WBUR Boston adds support for free audio standard
05/15/2008
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio (NPR) news st ...
Ok; this IS bad
05/15/2008
You may have heard of it: I'm speaking about DSA-1571-1. Read more about it on the pages 'Key Rollover ', or 'SSLkeys '. It's NOT only affecting Deb ...
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
05/15/2008
On Wednesday LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most significant being the Mozilla Foundation, which is currently developing a mobile version o ...
Linux rides pillion on Mumbai city buses
05/15/2008
In the swarming Indian metropolis Mumbai, it can be a gymnastic exercise just to fish in your pocket on the packed city buses and stretch out your pay ...
Adobe Flash Player 10 For Linux
05/15/2008
Adobe has announced the first pre-release of Flash Player 10, which is their forthcoming next-generation solution that is under their open Flash speci ...
Oracle substitutes previews for product
05/15/2008
Exactly a year after releasing the first preview of version 11g of its JDeveloper Java integrated development environment (IDE), Oracle has quietly sl ...
Install Solaris (Nevada build 87) DomU at Ubuntu 8.04 Xen 3.2 Server Dom0 (amd64)
05/15/2008
Install Ubuntu 8.04 Xen Server (amd64) as was recently advised by Todd Deshane in his notes @LiveJournal.com. To configure startup profile for Solaris ...
Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4
05/15/2008
Fedora 9 will include KDE 4.0.3 by default, so this is a look at the progress of one of the major free desktop environments. KDE 4.0 was released Janu ...
Verizon Wireless to Introduce Linux Phones
05/15/2008
Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to ...
Terminator runs multiple GNOME terminals in the same window
05/15/2008
In a sense, the desktop is the best thing that ever happened to the command line. Because a virtual terminal runs in a graphical environment, it boast ...
How to rescue Java from the men in suits
05/15/2008
Open source and Java developers are calling on Java's governing body - the Java Community Process - to open up beyond the big players. Members of a Ja ...
LinMin Helps IT Reduce Energy and Labor Costs with 'Fire and Forget' Provisioning
05/15/2008
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.1 Simplifies the Unattended Deployment of Systems and Virtual Machines on New Platforms, adds 'Green' Features and I ...
Report: Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Pt. 1
05/15/2008
It has been more than two years since the Yin and Yang article was published on LinuxPlanet, a long time in the information and communications technol ...
Bug Day 4 - Sunday 18th May 2008
05/15/2008
Bug Day 4 will take place on Sunday 18th May from 0:00 UTC - 23:59 UTC. (That's a start time of 02:00 CEST, or 17:00 PDT). For this Bug Day, we will b ...
HAMMER Stabilizing
05/15/2008
Matthew Dillon sent out a series of updates about his developing HAMMER filesystem, noting that he is currently focusing on the reblocking and pruning ...
Fedora 9 Screenshots
05/15/2008
The Fedora Project announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution. Highlights include Pac ...
Hacking the FreeBSD Boot CD
05/15/2008
This is a disection of the FreeBSD BootCD. To learn how it all works and how to modify things. The cd that I'm going to be using is 7.0-RELEASE-i386-b ...
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