3 BitTorrent Clients for Linux - Review
06/13/2008 
KTorrent is definitely the most full-featured BitTorrent client for KDE. It is complete by any means and highly configurable, offering, among many oth ... 
Tagan Icy Box NAS4220 NAS Enclosure
06/13/2008
Over the past few years we have looked at several Tagan power supplies such as the TurboJet 1100W and BZ 900W. However, their product selection is no ...
Gobuntu Changes Going Back Into Ubuntu
06/13/2008
The release of Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 is running a few days behind schedule, but an interesting announcement has come out of the Canonical camp this morn ...
LGP's "X3: Reunion" Nears Completion
06/13/2008
Back when we told you that LGP is porting Sacred Gold to Linux, we had also mentioned that the port of Egosoft's X3: Reunion would be completed shortl ...
Review: TinyMe 2008
06/13/2008
About a year ago we reviewed TinyMe when it was still in its beta and test stage. But a lot has happened in the past year, and all of it good. But wha ...
Tagan Icy Box NAS4220 NAS Enclosure
06/13/2008
Over the past few years we have looked at several Tagan power supplies such as the TurboJet 1100W and BZ 900W. However, their product selection is no ...
Open Solaris still has some Linux copying to do
06/13/2008
Sun has made good on its promise to deliver OpenSolaris, the company's Unix-based answer to Linux, with a company-supported, commercial update arrivin ...
Taking breaks from your computer
06/13/2008
Hi and welcome to my first post as an iTWire blogger! Firstly, I'd like to say thanks to the iTWire team for letting me rattle on about one of my favo ...
Dimdim Open Source is a bright-bright solution for Web conferencing
06/13/2008
Dimdim Web conferencing software, which competes with services like WebEx and GoToMeeting, provides almost all the important features you need for con ...
Please don't take our XP away from us!
06/13/2008
The users are asking, ok screaming, to Microsoft to please, oh please, don't take our XP Pro away from us. So far the big dumb company from Washington ...
Red Hat looks out for OSS community with patent settlement
06/13/2008
Red Hat announced today that it has settled a patent dispute with Firestar and DataTern over two patents, including one that covers object-relational ...
Opera 9.5 browser bursts onto the stage
06/13/2008
Beating Firefox 3.0 to the opening night accolades is Opera 9.5, the latest version of the free browser from the Norwegian browser company, available ...
Desktops in trouble
06/13/2008
There are some disturbing developments and they are happening in the key components of our systems: the desktop. KDE has spawned a new release. People ...
Wall Street becoming Linux stronghold
06/13/2008
Wall Street firms increasingly are buying into Linux, but some still need convincing that open source licensing and support models won't make using th ...
How To Install And Use gDesklets On Ubuntu 8.04
06/13/2008
This document describes how to install and use gDesklets on Ubuntu 8.04. Taken from the gDesklets page:"gDesklets is a system for bringing mini progra ...
Ubuntu gets the Remix right
06/13/2008
Rarely does one find the proprietor of a company that is closely connected to any kind of software getting on mailing lists to try to correct public p ...
Using NTSYSV To Manage Linux Services
06/13/2008
How to use ntysyv, rather than chkconfig, to manage Linux services at specific run levels. ...
Asus Eee PC 901 to hit Blighty on 1 July
06/13/2008
Asus' Atom-powered Eee PC 901 will go on sale across the UK on 1 July for an Eee PC 900-beating£319, Register Hardware has learned. The 900, which we ...
Get the Facts Straight
06/13/2008
Linux is the best kernel there is, and the OSes built off of it are the best around. Period. There, I said it. Normally if I was to write an opinionat ...
SELF-made site for courseware
06/13/2008
Where on the Web do you go for free education and training materials? A project called Science, Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF) has created a ...
Book review: Patent Failure
06/13/2008
Patent Failure examines the current state of the American patent system based on the way it has traditionally been treatedas a type of property syst ...
KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8
06/13/2008
The KDE Project today announced the eighth alpha release of KOffice 2, a technology preview of the upcoming version 2.0. Work continues in the same ve ...
Easy automated editing of /etc/files with Augeas
06/13/2008
The days of parsing configuration files with awk and making quick changes to configuration files with ad-hoc scripts may finally be at an end. With Au ...
Embedding a File in an Executable, aka Hello World, Version 5967
06/13/2008
I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I'm working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that mak ...
The Inevitability of Open Source Windows
06/13/2008
Microsoft is going to become an OSS company, not a FOSS company. We are already seeing the early signs of this. They have created a couple of open sou ...
Why Spend Money for Linux Training?
06/13/2008
As I was perusing the Linux forums this morning, I found a thread that was started by someone who was interested in learning about Linux server admini ...
Finally, it's time for Wine
06/13/2008
Fifteen years in the making, everyone's favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release. If all ...
R/A: Sample chapter available for revised Ubuntu book
06/13/2008
Rickford Grant has revised his book, Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, to cover Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron. Published by No Starch Press, which is offering a free s ...
Intel's GEM Merging To Master
06/13/2008
Intel's Eric Anholt has announced on the dri-devel mailing list that they are getting close to merging GEM to master. There was one last bug hitting t ...
VIA Evaluating Its Open-Source Role
06/13/2008
Two months ago VIA Technologies had announced their intentions on joining the open-source bandwagon, but since that time we've seen little more than t ...
The Status of WINE 1.0: Arriving Soon
06/13/2008
WINE 1.0-rc4 was released last Friday and today the news coming out of WINE HQ is that WINE 1.0-rc5 -- the final release candidate before WINE 1.0 -- ...
Linux 2.6.26-rc6 Kernel Released
06/13/2008
We're almost nearing an end to the Linux 2.6.26 kernel development with now six release candidates, but Linus Torvalds notes in his mailing list annou ...
Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 Works Around Mac OS X Bug
06/13/2008
A third release candidate of Mozilla Firefox 3 has been issued with a workaround for a bug introduced in the latest 10.5.3 update of Mac OS X. The pro ...
Using Chkconfig To Mange Linux Service Run Levels
06/13/2008
How to use chkconfig to manage Linux services and work with the run levels you need them turned on and off for. ...
Linux jukebox app achieves first stable release
06/13/2008
The Banshee Project has achieved the first major, stable release of its eponymous music jukebox application. Banshee 1.0 features faster searching, br ...
Visual MySQL Database Design in MySQL Workbench
06/13/2008
MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool recently released by MySQL AB. The tool is specifically for designing MySQL database. MySQL Workbench ...
How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
06/13/2008
This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a loa ...
Hitachi 1TB 7K1000 Hard Drive
06/13/2008
Hitachi was the first company to release a one terabyte hard drive, and they've sent us the DeskStar 7K1000 model for review. Our benchmarks show it p ...
Headless torrent downloads with rTorrent and Screen
06/13/2008
I have a constantly running server that would be a perfect on which to run torrent downloads. The only catch is that the server is headless -- it has ...
Review - Pardus 2008 RC1
06/13/2008
Pardus is an independently developed system with notable visions/history. The first version was released during the end of 2006. The initial version h ...
Andre Boisvert: The Man Behind the Open Source Curtain
06/13/2008
Most open source luminaries are known for their code, their successful startup successes or even their outspokenness. Andre Boisvert comes to open sou ...
The Power of Plasma theming - a gallery of 23 themes
06/13/2008
One of the most often mentioned concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma would force the user to have a black panel. While we ...
This week at LWN: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops
06/13/2008
Laptop installation has traditionally been one of the biggest challenges faced by Linux users. These systems come with no end of special-purpose hardw ...
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