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Wind River to host"Developer Day"
07/02/2008 
A commercial RTOS and tools provider will host an event for embedded Linux developers on August 6th, during the LinuxWorld Conference& Expo in San Fra ... 
OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner Launches July 4
07/02/2008
A year ago FIC started selling the OpenMoko Neo Base Developer Preview phone and starting on July 4 (in just two days) they will begin selling the Ope ...
Flash Player 10 Beta Adds Linux Features
07/02/2008
Last month the first beta for Adobe Flash Player 10 was released for not only Windows but also Mac OS X and Linux at the same time. This beta release ...
Create Your Own Web Server With BIND And Apache On CentOS 5
07/02/2008
This tutorial explains how you can run your own web server on CentOS 5 with the help of Apache and the BIND name server. ...
A new utility for quickly interpreting multiple Bonnie++ benchmarks
07/02/2008
Yesterday I discussed the Bonnie++ tool, which can be used to benchmark filesystem performance. When you are tweaking a RAID and filesystem combinatio ...
The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork
07/02/2008
After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with t ...
New law says computer repair guys in Texas must also be licensed private investigators!!!
07/02/2008
The Institute for Justice has filed a lawsuit on behalf of computer repair guy Mike Rife against the Texas Private Security Bureau (PSB) arguing that ...
A Hubris Model of One Laptop Per Child Implementation
07/02/2008
BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm and Geri Smith have written One Laptop Meets Big Business, a good article summing up the recent history of the OLPC project ...
Kiwi web collaboration outfit goes open
07/02/2008
A couple of weeks back, a small New Zealand-based company, OnlineGroups.Net, released the source code for its online collaboration platform, GroupServ ...
Open source social networking app thrives in China
07/02/2008
The popular social networking site Facebook just announced a Chinese version, but similar Chinese-based Web sites such as Xiaonei and Hainei have been ...
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful and Maddening
07/02/2008
Well, since I've gone through both Ubuntu and openSuSE Linux, and my curiosity about Unix systems in general has really started to kick in, I've decid ...
Dealing With ZFS-Rooted Zones on Solaris 10 Unix
07/02/2008
How to attempt to work around the fact that Solaris 10 zones, living on zfs rooted filesystems, can't be handled properly by Sun's Solaris 10 upgrade! ...
One live DVD, one ton of Linux games
07/02/2008
LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an e ...
Private St. Louis school goes Linux
07/02/2008
A private school in St. Louis, Mo. is increasingly choosing Linux for the computers it supplies to students and faculty, according to laptop supplier ...
Making desktop Linux work for business
07/02/2008
Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows X ...
10 Best Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux
07/02/2008
Linux is a hackerâs dream computer operating system. It supports tons of tools and utilities for cracking passwords, scanning network vulnerabi ...
Xandros Acquires Linspire
07/02/2008
Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and ...
Investigating strange dialup activity with Wireshark
07/02/2008
A controlled dial-on-demand router is a convenient tool. An uncontrolled dial-on-demand router is not. The Wireshark network protocol analyzer helped ...
Open-source venture funding rises 14 percent in Q2
07/02/2008
Venture funding for open-source companies rose to $115 million in the second quarter, a 14 percent increase over the same period a year ago, according ...
Sir Bill and Sir Tim: A Tale of Two Knights
07/02/2008
There's something strange going on. As Bill Gates steps down from active involvement in the day-to-day running of Microsoft, there's a natural tendenc ...
PCLinux Mini ME 2008 Review
07/02/2008
If you need a very easy to install, feature complete Linux distribution, do not look any further than PCLinuxOS. This gem of a distribution is an abso ...
Backing up Large Files - updated
07/02/2008
A simple command line procedure for making one-off backups of some large files to DVDs or a USB drive. Update and correction. ...
Phoronix Test Suite Design Contest
07/02/2008
If you're into computer graphics designs and are looking for a way to help out the open-source Phoronix Test Suite and possibly get a few rewards as a ...
'Lindependence 2008' to free Felton from Microsoft Windows
07/02/2008
Why pay $650 for Adobe Photoshop when you can have 97 percent of the functionality of Photoshop for free? That's a question software developers and di ...
OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts
07/02/2008
Microsoft Corp. today unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new ...
Three reasons why GNU/Linux is better for Web servers than OS X
07/02/2008
Apple's OS X, which has been an official certified Unix system for some time now, is often installed onto Internet-exposed or intranet-only Web server ...
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Linux Review
07/02/2008
Back in March we had looked at the Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 mobile processor with its Penryn core and 6MB of shared L2 cache between its two cores clock ...
Using Bonnie++ for filesystem performance benchmarking
07/02/2008
Bonnie++ allows you to benchmark how your filesystems perform various tasks, which makes it a valuable tool when you are making changes to how your RA ...
How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
07/02/2008
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server (version 1.0.6) on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system. With VMware Server ...
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