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Market 2008: Ubuntu vs. Red Hat vs. SUSE |
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How the big Linux three are positioned for the near future...
Red Hat is the dominant force in Linux right now. They own the enterprise market. SUSE is also supported by many IHVs as a ready-to-install operating system (OS), but does not have nearly the market share as flouted by the fedora. Ubuntu is the little Linux OS that could and, in the last three years, it has gripped the desktop Linux market with a stranglehold and will not let go.
It seems that each distribution has found a niche: Red Hat and Ubuntu are the leaders in their markets, and SUSE is a comfortable runner-up. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9872 | -Ray, December 17, 2007 |
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Mac4Lin: Make Linux look like a Mac |
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| Do you want to give your desktop a dash of Mac OS X? The goal of this project is to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest being 10.5, Leopard) to *nix GTK based systems. This document will present the procedure to install Mac4Lin pack & tweak certain things to get that almost perfect Mac OS X like desktop. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9841 | -falko, October 30, 2007 |
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OpenSolaris Screenshots |
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| You don't have to understand Hungarian to appreciate this large collection of thumbnail OpenSolaris screenshots, but it helps. ;) Click on any screenshot for a 800x600 image of that screen. The screenshots themselves are in English. There are approximately one hundred of them. Enjoy.. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9796 | -Ray, June 23, 2005 |
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How to test if a Linux SCSI / SATA hard disk is failing |
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smartctl command controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.
smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform SMART tasks such as printing the SMART self-test and error logs, enabling and disabling SMART automatic testing, and initiating device self-tests.
This article demonstrates usage of smartctl command to test if hard disk is going bad. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9793 | -nixcraft, August 7, 2007 |
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Write high performance, Java data access applications |
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| Maximize security and configurability with pureQuery, a high-performance Java data access platform focused on simplifying the tasks of developing applications that access data. This article introduces the pureQuery annotated method coding style. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9789 | -jmalasko, April 18, 2008 |
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Create and manage a social networking site with new book on Elgg |
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Packt is pleased to announce the availability of its new book on Elgg, the free open-source tool used to create social networks. Written by Mayank Sharma, the book teaches users to create their own fully customized, hosted social network for their business, organization, or group of friends.
Elgg is an open-source social web application licensed under GPL version 2, and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) or WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform. It offers a networking platform combining elements of blogging, e-portfolios, news feed aggregation, file sharing, and social networking.
Elgg provides each user with a personal weblog, file repository (with podcasting capabilities), an online profile, and an RSS reader. Additionally, all of a user's content can be tagged with keywords—so they can connect with other users with similar interests and create their own personal learning network.
Because it's open source, and has many plug-ins, Elgg can be extended in unlimited ways. This book provides users with all they need to know to create safe, fun social networks. It is especially useful in education as it has many features making it suitable for e-learning, including groups, communities, and blogs that can be used for online classes
People teaching e-learning and those who are interested in social networking will find this book useful. For more information about the book, please visit: www.packtpub.com/elgg-social-networking/book read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9785 | -Duane Moraes, April 23, 2008 |
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What is Darwin? |
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The underpinnings of Mac OS X...
Have you ever wondered why the Terminal greets you with the words “Welcome to Darwin”? Why do BSD and Mac OS share certain bits of code? Why does Wikipedia describe Mac OS X as a graphical operating system? Today we’re going to take a look at the underlying open source technology which powers your fancy Leopard OS - the hidden core set of components, named Darwin. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9779 | -Ray, April 9, 2008 |
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Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux |
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| Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux is a tool that allows you to establish a connection to the Internet using 3G cards. It also allows to send and receive short messages from your computer. The cards currently supported are: Huawei E620, Huawei E220 and Option GlobeTrotter 3G+ EMEA. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9779 | -falko, November 28, 2007 |
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Build an iPhone remote control |
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| Use PHP combined with Joe Hewitt's iUI toolkit to build a Sailing Clicker like application (a remote control for a Mac and windows). The toolkit builds an iPhone-looking interface, and handles the feel of the interface. For example, as you page through a list of items, iUI sweeps from side to side, just like an iPhone application does. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9776 | -solrac, August 15, 2007 |
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Introducing OpenDocument for Office Apps |
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Discover OpenDocument for Office Applications, an XML standard that lets you store and exchange documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Learn about OpenDocument files as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and how to structure text and tabular information in OpenDocument.
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| | permapage | score:9703 | -jmalasko, April 14, 2008 |
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How to install MINIX 3 |
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Why you would want to do this is left as an exercise for the reader...
This document explains how to install MINIX 3.1.2. A complete MINIX 3 installation requires a Pentium (or compatible) with at least 16-MB of RAM, 1 GB of free disk space, an IDE or USB CD-ROM, and an IDE hard disk. A minimal installation (without the commands sources) requires 8 MB RAM and 50 MB of disk. SCSI disks are not supported at present. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9693 | -Ray, February 11, 2008 |
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Enable Logitech MX Revolutions buttons on Fedora Linux |
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This document describes how to enable and configure the Logitech MX Revolution's special buttons on Fedora 7.
This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9674 | -falko, September 1, 2007 |
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Linux based Compact Flash Computer |
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C Data Solutions has released the Compact Flash Computer; containing a 32 bit Coldfire processor, 32MB SDRAM, 8 MB FLASH, running linux (uClinux), packaged in a Type II Compact Flash format card, 37 * 43 * 5 mm.
The Compact Flash Computer can host up to 8 Compact Flash cards via a Bus Expansion Unit. This also provides a regulated 3.3V system voltage.
Build complete systems using Compact Flash cards for ultra miniature systems or rapid prototypes/proof of concept engineering. No hardware design required, use COTS CF cards for input and output. Choose from 3rd party RS232/485, Ethernet, Bluetooth, 802.11, GSM, GPRS, GPS...
Create systems a fraction the size of PC104.
Ideal for low volume systems that don’t justify custom hardware.
[For more information on the Compact Flash Computer, go to this page and scroll down a bit to the second entry. -Ed.] read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9649 | -paulz, October 29, 2005 |
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Nexenta OS (OpenSolaris) Screenshots |
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Gnusolaris.org reports - Nexenta is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. It is a result of our inspiration and desire to build a great system based on the best existing software: SunOS kernel and GNU software. We use Debian - one of the best existing software distribution/packaging mechanisms - to glue the numerous pieces together. Nexenta OS Pre-Alpha 1 has been released.
OSDir has some hot screenshots of Nexenta OS. read more... |
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| | permapage | score:9636 | -linuxbeta, November 9, 2005 |
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Nexenta OS Screenshots (OpenSolaris) |
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gnusolaris.org states - This release contains 3,596 packages, and in particular: OpenOffice.org 2.0 (distributed with both InstallCD and LiveCD); storage subsystem; OpenSolaris build #34, non-DEBUG kernel. The LiveCD 'Alpha 2' problem is now fixed. Also, we were able to fit in the entire OpenOffice 2.0 suite (110MB compressed) into the LiveCD image, and still keep the result below 700MB, which is suitable for most CD writers. The trick: ZFS compression. NexentaOS Installer: added time zone management.
OSDir takes the latest Nexenta OS Alpha for a spin in their screenshot tour. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9629 | -linuxbeta, March 11, 2006 |
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OpenSolaris vs. Linux |
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How Sun plans to beat Linux...
Sun Microsystems wants Internet developers to deploy their Web infrastructures on Sun's Solaris 10 operating system. Its three latest releases aim to help. They include Solaris Express, Developer Edition, an OpenSolaris-based distribution for Solaris, Java, and Web 2.0 developers; Solaris + AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP), an open source-based Web infrastructure stack designed for the Solaris 10 operating system; and an expansion of Sun's Startup Essentials program. read more... |
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| | mail this link | permapage | score:9599 | -Ray, February 19, 2007 |
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