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Big Surprise: Schmidt Wants An Independent Yahoo!
07/11/2008 
AP is reporting this morning that Eric Schmidt, he being CEO of the great and almighty Google, thinks it would better if Yahoo! remained independent. ... 
SliTaz, a mighty micro Linux distro
07/11/2008
SliTaz is a new micro GNU/Linux live distribution designed to run from RAM (a recommended minimum of 128MB) and installable to a hard drive or USB dev ...
In memoriam: Linux evangelist and Linux.com editor Joe Barr
07/11/2008
Our colleague Joe Barr sometimes described himself as a doddering old geek. Many knew him as a Linux evangelist; others knew him from his ham radio ac ...
Wifi Authentication/Accounting With FreeRadius On CentOS 5
07/11/2008
This tutorial explains how you can set up a FreeRadius server with Wifi authentication and accounting on CentOS 5. This howto should work for a newbie ...
Don't compare GNU/Linux with Windows or MacOS - they are not in the same game
07/11/2008
Recently a blog post entitled Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of ...
Yahoo Recruits Dev Army With Open Search Move
07/11/2008
Its stock price is in free fall and it still faces a potential takeover led by rogue investor Carl Icahn. However, Yahoo can still fire shots across t ...
YACC, Unix, and programming advice from a Bell Labs veteran
07/11/2008
Bell Labs alumni Stephen Johnson tells about the creation of Yet Another Compiler Compiler (YACC), and offers some advice to programmers as well: You ...
The Amazing Brain Train from Grubby Games
07/11/2008
Back in issue #164 of Linux Journal I reviewed a trio of Linux-compatible games from Grubby Games. Well, the developers have recently added a new game ...
5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
07/11/2008
Apple, through its marketing and visual design techniques, is manufacturing an illusion that merely buying an Apple makes you part of an alternative c ...
Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug
07/11/2008
n OpenBSD developer has discovered and fixed a bug in the software that has been traced back to an AT&T version of Unix from 1975. OpenBSD is a varian ...
Symbian Foundation gets nine new members
07/11/2008
The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Sy ...
Using Screen, Script, Mkfifo And Redirection To Watch Or Log User Sessions
07/11/2008
Using Script, Screen, Mkfifo and shell redirection to enhance user session logging and tracking. ...
An Ubuntu PC From Canonical: Is it a good idea?
07/11/2008
Just a few days ago, the news appeared that there was a boxed version of Ubuntu being sold at Best Buy stores. While I, and just about everyone else, ...
Full text of interview of ISO Secretary-General
07/11/2008
ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden was recently inteviewed by Georgina Prodhan, European Technology Correspondent of the Reuters news agency on issues ...
Linux build service offered
07/11/2008
The Novell-sponsored openSuSE project for Linux released openSuSE Build Service 1.0 on Wednesday, providing developers with access to code repositorie ...
The Lost Tribe of OLPC
07/11/2008
Once upon a time, long ago, there was someone from a faraway country in South America doing an advanced program at MIT in Boston, where he met with th ...
Dynamic Content - Page Failure Redirection
07/11/2008
In this article, I attempt to catch a menu choice error quickly and redirect to a common error page template. Despite this being my preferred route I ...
Canadian open source community upset over proposed copyright law
07/11/2008
The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country's open source business model. Russell McOrm ...
Replacing Slurpd using OpenLDAP 2.4
07/11/2008
I updated the replication section of the OpenLDAP Admin guide last night to the final version discussing Push Based Replication, i.e. what slurpd does ...
5 Tips to Make Working with the Shell Easier
07/11/2008
The article contains 5 frequent tips to make working with the shell easier. ...
Review: Sidux, a Great Alternative to Ubuntu, Part 2
07/11/2008
Last week we introduced ourselves to Sidux, the excellent Debian Sid implementation that makes Debian Sid a bit friendlier. Even though I thought I ga ...
The Human Genome Goes Wiki
07/11/2008
Researchers plan to create a library of human genetics, with entries on the workings of individual genes, and make it available for anyone in Wikipedi ...
Independent Yahoo is better for business: Google
07/11/2008
An independent Yahoo Inc is better for business, Google Inc Chief Executive told reporters on Thursday, saying a combination with Microsoft Corp would ...
For those"oops" moments: ext3undel
07/11/2008
The rm command can be a powerful tool for deleting data -- until you delete the wrong files or directories. Thankfully, the ext3undel utility can reco ...
LinuxCertified Announces its Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp
07/11/2008
LinuxCertified, Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on July 31st - August 1st, 2008 in ...
UMPCs and Linux: made for each other, and coming soon
07/11/2008
Who knew that the biggest desktop Linux show of 2008 would turn out to be the June Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, where the next generation of Linux ...
SabayonLinux 3.5 - Review
07/11/2008
After nearly a year of hard work, Sabayon team has released their new Gentoo based Linux, SabayonLinux 3.5 on 1st July 2008. Sabayon is the most succe ...
The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11
07/11/2008
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-c ...
Monitoring network performance with GNetWatch
07/11/2008
GNetWatch is a network monitoring and performance testing tool that lets you can see the status of hosts on your network, send ping requests of varyin ...
Using Mkfifo For Monitoring And Enhanced User Activity Logging
07/11/2008
A look at some more security on-the-cheap, using mkfifo. ...
UT3 Linux Client Is "In The Works"
07/11/2008
It's been 234 days (or just shy of eight months) since Unreal Tournament 3 had shipped for the PC. Most would have thought the Linux client for this t ...
$332 Million (Or More) Awaits Red Hat Partners
07/11/2008
So, how high will Red Hatâ??s partner sales climb this year? The VAR Guy spoke with Red Hat VP Mark Enzweiler, noted some facts and figures, and ...
GNOME 3.0 Is Coming, And Coming Soon!
07/11/2008
The K Desktop Environment community came out earlier this year with their brand new KDE 4.0 release that marked significant advancements to this open- ...
Microsoft Crosses a Line
07/11/2008
Until today I've largely been a big supporter of Microsoft's efforts to acquire Yahoo. A couple of days before Microsoft placed its initial $44.6 bill ...
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