LINUX On The Road - The First Book on MOBILE Linux: Linux with Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones and other Portable Devices
MakeUseOf.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Hardcore work on the computer requires a serious dedicated setup. You can of course run your programming stack on your gaming machine, but that hardcore gaming or hardcore development would suffer. You need a dedicated setup for thorough work of any kind. Usually such situations involve setting up a server or using virtualization. Both of these [...]
LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Blue Chip Technology has released an updated version of its small SBC (single board computer) aimed at embedded HMI (human machine interface) applications. Based on a MIPS32-based RMI Au1100 processor, the new RE1 & REsolution& SBC adds a full Linux board support package and a 7-inch LCD module, says the company....
LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Acrosser announced two Linux-ready & All-in-One& boards for gaming and AWP (Amusement With Prizes) machines. The ACE-B5296 supports an Intel Pentium and 915GME northbridge, and the ACE-B5692 runs a Core 2 Duo and GME965, and both offer dual VGA outputs, PCIe expansion, plus Ethernet, USB, serial, storage, ccTalk, and JAMMA I/O....
Hardware 2.0 (Free subscription) | yesterday
After yesterday's Google Chrome OS announcement I've had a little time to think about Google's vision for the OS and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux.
Phoronix (Free subscription) | yesterday
Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa. The Intel Linux driver stack can be attributed with many firsts, but continually...
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments.
TechEnclave (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Hello, I have heard that the latest Ubuntu 9.10 has been found with many bugs, dont no about fedora 12 or Opensuse 11.2 and also Mandriva2010 linux. So plase tell me as i ma a novice and only for some time used Ubuntu 9.04 through Wubi install, and not anyo ther linux distro, which among the four...
Complete Dose of Linux Poison (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you are a Network Administrator with little knowledge in Network Protocols and IPtables, don't worry you can also controll your network traffic with a simple tool named wondershaper. Installation: OpenSuSe 11.2 user can use "1-click" installer to install Wondershaper - here Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install wondershaper $ifconfig this will help you to find the network interface (eth0, eth1...
Complete Dose of Linux Poison (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Wammu is a mobile phone manager that uses Gammu as its backend. It works with any phone that Gammu supports, including many models from Nokia, Sony-Ericssonn, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, Huawei and others. Feature: * Read, edit, delete, copy for contacts, todo, and calendar. * Read, save, and send SMS. * SMS composer for multi-part SMS messages, and it can display SMS messages that include
O'Reilly Linux DevCenter Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
While I'm very positive about the openSUSE team I must say that I am a lot less sanguine about some in their community. Some fans (or really fanatics) came out in force ready to attack the reviewer (me), to question my skills and even my sanity, to attack Ladislav Bodnar for posting the review, to blame the hardware, anything at all but the distro code which is, according to some, "the best release...
Web Upd8 (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
After 15 weeks of development, Shutter 0.85 has finally been released. Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. New in Shutter 0.85: Shutter now supports undo / redo...
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | yesterday
VENENUX GNU/Linux is a Debian-based community distribution developed in South America and designed for Spanish-speaking users. The second release candidate for the upcoming version 0.8 was announced today. Changes: cleaner and more comfortable desktop theme; improved performance; "libre" Linux kernel 2.6.31.4; support for ext4 file system; addition of....
Didier Beck's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
via 451 CAOS Theory I haven’t realized yet how far Linux extremely dominates the Supercomputing market as Operating System. Evolution of the Linux OS share in the Top500 ( Supercomputing 2009 ): November 2007: 84.6% November 2007: 87.8% November 2009: 89.2% All Top10 systems are based on Linux. The 451 Group published also another “worth-to-read” article about Open source software...
Phoronix (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Linus Torvalds this afternoon put out the Linux 2.6.32-rc8 kernel release. The Linux 2.6.32 kernel, which brings 3D DRM and KMS support for ATI R600/700 GPUs, new wireless drivers, an improved VIA frame-buffer, and other improvements, is getting ready for release...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
aaaaaaargh! writes "I'm using a laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 for work, a netbook with Ubuntu 9.10 when I'm outside, Mac OS X 10.5 for hobby projects, and Windows XP for gaming. For backups, I'm currently using Jungle Disk and Apple's Time Machine, and I use a local svn repository for my work data. Now I need to frequently exchange and synchronize OpenOffice and Latex files and source code in various...
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klauswagner112 | 11/18/2009
So you wish to know the way to install Linux on your PS3 , huh? Well if you do not know what Linux is, it is an operating system just like Windows. This programme is available for free online and there are various versions available to suit different wants. Installing linux on your PS3 could be a tricky process, if you do not know what you do. Linux For Ps3 Installer simplifies this process by offering...
mnkstllr | 11/09/2009
In Linux and other Unix-like operating system, you can detect and repair hard drive errors using fsck command. This command runs in 5 phases. In the first phase, it checks data blocks and their size while in second phase file and directory pathnames are checked. In the remaining three phases, the connectivity, file reference counts and the cylinder groups are examined respectively. If in the second...
mnkstllr | 11/03/2009
In Linux operating system, file system stores all of the critical information about files located on the hard drive. Without file system, operating system can not locate files stored on hard drive and thus they can not be accessed. This is the top priority for an operating system to ensure that file system is intact. It should not be corrupted for proper accessing of data. Otherwise, all of your critical...
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