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Benchmarking hardware RAID vs. Linux kernel software RAID
07/15/2008 
Want to get an idea of what speed advantage adding an expensive hardware RAID card to your new server is likely to give you? You can benchmark the per ... 
Viacom and others back off from demands for YouTube user data!
07/15/2008
Your YouTube viewing history is safe from the prying eyes of Viacom and the other companies suing Google, at least for now. Despite a recent court ord ...
Red Hat opens up on Patent settlement - or does it?
07/15/2008
Red Hat VP and Assistant General Counsel Rob Tiller has publicly posted the terms of the patent agreement he helped to negotiate last month with Fires ...
Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 9
07/15/2008
This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more ...
An open letter to Adobe
07/15/2008
Thank you so much for releasing Flash Player 10 beta 2 for Linux. Thanks even more for (finally) building in support for video4linux2 Webcam technolog ...
An Early Look At OpenSolaris 2008.11
07/15/2008
Over the weekend we had posted our synopsis of Solaris Express Community Edition Build 93, which brings a great deal of needed changes to the Solaris ...
Linux Edges One Step Closer to Total World Domination
07/15/2008
Many LinuxInsider readers are probably familiar with OpenMoko's FreeRunner -- the new Linux-based cell phone. This smartphone uses the Linux kernel al ...
PCMan File Manager 0.4.5 Review
07/15/2008
Two days ago I reviewed Xfe, a pretty good file manager built using the FOX toolkit, so today I'll continue in the same fashion by reviewing with PCMa ...
QNAP TS-409U Turbo NAS
07/15/2008
QNAP's TS-409U is an excellent centralized storage solution that not only requires minimal setup and maintenance, but runs embedded Linux and software ...
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 261, 14 July 2008
07/15/2008
It's been a slow distro week, but not completely dead. We've had a few releases, several developmental releases, and a bit of news. We also have a gue ...
Converting Binary Numbers To Decimal The Hard Way On Linux Or Unix
07/15/2008
Simple C program to convert binary numbers to decimal. Written to appeal to a mass audience I may not have ;) Anyone can learn to code! ...
The Value of Free
07/15/2008
How do you put a value on the products created through open source? ...
Malware on GNU/Linux
07/15/2008
Malware includes not just virii, but worms, trojans and root-kits. These known and widely available tools are not the only options available to intrud ...
Intro to Awk, the Great Language with a Strange Name
07/15/2008
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programmi ...
Microsoft Sets the Record Straight
07/15/2008
On the evening of July 12, Yahoo! Inc. released a statement relating to recent discussions involving Yahoo!, Microsoft Corp., and Carl Icahn. Microsof ...
Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters
07/15/2008
The study Package Management Security, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the University of Arizona Tech Report, analyzed 10 package managers a ...
BeOS-like distro focused on content creation
07/15/2008
A new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has arrived, aimed at both Linux newbies and content creators. Boasting"out of the box" multimedia codecs, the f ...
Google plays Hide and Seek with Android SDK
07/15/2008
Google's strict code of secrecy may work fine for protecting its internal operations. But the company isn't ingratiating itself to software developers ...
Free Laptop-Tracking System Hits the Streets
07/15/2008
Adeona may have been the goddess of safe returns, but if a group of computer science professors and graduate students get their wish, they'll be viewe ...
In memory of Uwe Thiem
07/15/2008
I'm very sorry to let everyone know that Uwe Thiem, a long term contributor to KDE, passed away yesterday at 14:45 of kidney failure. Uwe was one of t ...
Web apps: the next battleground for FOSS?
07/15/2008
Concerned about the increasing popularity of Web applications, Marco Barulli of the Clipperz project has written one of the first detailed suggestions ...
Looking for Software? Gnomefiles Can Help
07/15/2008
Installing Ubuntu-related software is simple, but choosing which software to install can still be a challenge. The more than 20,000 packages that Ubun ...
Linux-based Exchange replacement helps 3 health care systems cut costs
07/15/2008
For three health care centers, the challenge was clear: Find a way to improve internal communications by expanding e-mail accounts to all employees, i ...
Open source quality checker released
07/15/2008
An open source software project, originally propped up by European Commission (EC) funds, has released an alpha version of its quality control program ...
Linux 2.6.26 Opens Up to Debugging
07/15/2008
No piece of software is immune to defects, which is why it's important to use tools that help find and fix bugs. That's the idea with the new Linux 2. ...
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS vs. 8.10 Alpha 2 Performance
07/15/2008
With Canonical having pulled many new packages into Ubuntu 8.10 from Debian unstable and there being the Linux 2.6.26-rc8 kernel, a near-final version ...
ALSA 1.0.17 Final Released
07/15/2008
Over the past month we've seen three release candidates for ALSA 1.0.17, but arriving today is the final stable build. There are hundreds of changes b ...
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS vs. 8.10 Alpha 2 Performance
07/15/2008
With Canonical having pulled many new packages into Ubuntu 8.10 from Debian unstable and there being the Linux 2.6.26-rc8 kernel, a near-final version ...
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 "R700" Unveiled
07/15/2008
This morning an embargo expired covering AMD's newest high-end graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 (codenamed the "R700"). Like the Radeon HD 387 ...
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