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Android File System |
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| This article proposes creating an Android-based service that emulates a network server that enhances the value of the local machine in unique and unexpected ways. Put a tiny cloud in your Android handset and experience the usefulness of a local Web server. read more... |
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MINIX Introduction |
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Want to get started in operating system programming?
MINIX originally was developed in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching tool for his textbook Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Today, it is a text-oriented operating system with a kernel of less than 6,000 lines of code. MINIX's largest claim to fame is as an example of a microkernel, in which each device driver runs as an isolated user-mode process—a structure that not only increases security but also reliability, because it means a bug in a driver cannot bring down the entire system. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9828 | -Ray, August 15, 2010 |
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Librenix T-Shirts and Coffee Mugs! |
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For today's example of my (semi)elite C programming skilz, I submit for your inspection the Librenix T-Shirts! Yes, I created the images on these shirts and coffee mugs entirely with C code. While the code isn't up to the standards *cough* of my open source Space Tyrant project, at least the output is colorful and not entirely textual!
 click either image to see the T-Shirts, Coffee Mugs, etc.
(If you like the images but don't care for 'librenix' on your shirt, these same styles are available for all 50 US state names as well as with the signs of the zodiac here)
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9818 | -Ray, June 6, 2010 |
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Linux dominates Windows |
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Linux dominates Windows -- and everything else -- on supercomputers in 2010. Microsoft's renowned engineering quality and down-to-earth pricing shows brilliantly in its capturing 1% of the top 500 supercomputer projects. Perhaps next year, utilizing all the organizational pressure they can bring to bear, they can retain 0.8%.
Formal Unix, now long dead*, controls 4.4%. Meanwhile, Linux is now installed on 91% of the remaining 95% of top systems. Add in the single BSD system and you have Unix-like systems (Unix+Linux+BSD) accounting for 95.6% of the top supercomputer projects. The remaining 3.4% of are 'mixed' systems and may also contain significant percentages of Unix and Linux.
There are many reasons for Linux' success. Among the top factors are surely these four, in no particular order:- Price (starting at free)
- Quality (excellent code, Unix-based design)
- Hardware Support (most all modern quality gear is supported)
- Open Source (open to tinkering -- and redistributable)
Check my math on the top 500 systems here.
*Of course, counting functional Unix systems while ignoring the trademarked term, Unix is clearly not dead since Linux is one of the truest of the true Unix work-alike systems. Linux is, of course, the reason formal Unix has suffered such a precipitous decline. Many Unix users just switched flavors -- and Linux was a most appealing flavor. |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9807 | -Ray, June 2, 2010 |
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Open Core considered harmful |
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The first sample is free, but you'll find yourself needing more...
Open core is a game on rather than a valid expression of software freedom, because it does not cultivate software freedom for the software user. In an open core business, there is a core package which is open source and which delivers basic functions. That package can be used freely under the terms of an open source licence, and there's no issue involved at this point... read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9772 | -Ray, July 5, 2010 |
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Restore grub in ubuntu remix 9.10 |
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| I recently installed Windows 7 on my laptop which already had ubuntu remix installed in it. The problem i faced was, the GRUB was lost. But i had trouble getting your GRUB boot loader since the process of restoring GRUB has changed. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9760 | -Dipin Krishna, January 25, 2010 |
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OpenSUSE 11.3 LXDE Screenshots |
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| Need something to play with over the weekend? The OpenSUSE 11.3 release is the first ever to include the OpenSUSE LXDE flavor. LXDE version 0.5.5 is included on the OpenSUSE DVD along with other desktop options KDE, GNOME, and XFCE. LXDE 0.5.5 is integrated into OpenSUSE along with Lxdm 0.2.0 is the default Login Manager, Pcmanfm 0.9.7 has been completely rewritten to have GVFS and Trash support, LXDE Control Center and Lxdm-conf configuration tool are included by default and Brasero works without GNOME dependencies. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9720 | -aweber, July 18, 2010 |
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Fedora 13 Screenshots |
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| Here are some screenshots of the Fedora 13 release using the Gnome(default) desktop environment. The screenshots focus on the new Fedora 13 installer and various areas of the desktop. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9718 | -aweber, May 27, 2010 |
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PCLinuxOS 2010 Enlightenment Screenshots |
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| Screenshots from PCLinuxOS 2010 Enlightenment (E17) which includes various gadgets and eye candy without the bloat. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9709 | -aweber, April 26, 2010 |
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Free Linux books |
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This article called "12 More of the Best Free Linux Books" includes a link to the original article, "20 of the Best Free Linux Books".
There are literally thousands of Linux books which are available to purchase from any good (online) book shop. However, the focus of this article is to highlight champion Linux books which make an invaluable contribution to learning about Linux, and which are also available to download without charge.
We have tried to select a fairly diverse selection of books in this article so that there should be something of interest here for any type of user whatever their level of computing knowledge. This article should be read in conjunction with our previous article on free Linux books, entitled 20 of the Best Free Linux Books. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9678 | -Ray, April 6, 2010 |
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RIP Linux 9.8 Screenshots |
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| RIP Linux is a Slackware-based Linux rescue distribution that can be installed onto a CD, USB and even a 1.44 MB floppy. You can use this distro for various types of maintenance and troubleshooting or it also can be used for everyday desktop activities such as web surfing, email, and playing music. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9661 | -aweber, June 20, 2010 |
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TCO: Linux vs. Windows |
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Calculating your total cost of ownership (TCO) of Windows vs. Linux -- and the pitfalls...
Whether a switch is worth your effort is usually calculated in terms of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). As the term emphasizes, TCO includes not only the cost of buying and installing the software, but also the cost of hardware to run it, administering it, training employees to use it, and maintaining and supporting it. Sometimes, TCO is divided into first year costs and yearly costs, to reflect the extra expenses of setup and configuration, and the presumably lower costs of running an ongoing system. But, however TCO is calculated, what matters is that making the switch is not just as simple as assuming that, because GNU/Linux has no licensing fees, you will automatically save money. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9642 | -Ray, May 13, 2010 |
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ModSecurity Handbook Review |
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| What's happening on your web server that you do not know about? ModSecurity provides you insight into the activity on your web server that Apache is not designed to tell you about. ModSecurity Handbook by Ivan Ristic is a great read to start getting information about activity and then managing the access to your web server. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9611 | -aweber, June 23, 2010 |
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Install PowerDNS, MySQL, Poweradmin on Fedora 12 |
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| This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9603 | -falko, June 21, 2010 |
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Ubuntu 10.04 Screenshots |
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| The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process and what is new in ubuntu 10.04 read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9600 | -gg234, March 1, 2010 |
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The Mono Programming Disease |
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Another opinion on Mono...
In case you don't already know about it, the whole purpose of mono for Linux (hereafter just mono) is simply to allow microsofts self serving language and sub-standard net protocols to work under Linux. This project is hosted by Novell which entered into a partnership with microsoft because they were spooked by the whole license and litigation saber rattling of a few years ago. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9597 | -Ray, June 20, 2010 |
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SalixOS 13.0 Screenshots |
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| Salix OS 13.0 "Live" is a Slackware-based distribution that runs the XFCE desktop environment. This distro offers a complete desktop running as a live CD and it also offers users the Persistence Wizard, a tool designed to help you save data and modifications between live CD sessions. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9581 | -aweber, April 12, 2010 |
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Video: Ubuntu Linux solution stack |
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| Learn how to download and install a Ubuntu image and then go through some basic shell commands to help you navigate through the Linux environment. This is part 1 of a 4 part demo series to show you how to implement a solution stack (Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2 Express-C) on Ubuntu Linux, as well as how to integrate them in a Java application. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9547 | -solrac, July 28, 2010 |
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PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Screenshots |
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Screenshots of the PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE 4.4.2 desktop which is the default desktop environment for PCLinuxOS 2010.
PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE features the Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-bfs, KDE 4.4.2, Nvidia and ATI fglrx driver support, and enhanced multimedia, wireless, and printer support. Something that caught my eye right away was the MyLiveCD feature that allows users to take a snapshot and burn it to a CD essentially creating a custom live CD based on PCLinuxOS 2010. Also new, parental controls and an updated control center. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9523 | -aweber, April 22, 2010 |
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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Screenshots |
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| The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer.Our newest release, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , brings a host of exciting new features for users.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications screeshots read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9493 | -gg234, May 6, 2010 |
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