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ASUS' Motherboard Comes With Linux Embedded
3 hours, 22 minutes ago
A new motherboard from ASUS has hit the market. The P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-Ap@n has some features that other motherboards don't have: an integrated Linux distribution and instant access to functions like surfing the Internet, VoIP and Web emailing without entering the operating system. If you want to buy it, then you should spare $360, because that's how much it will cost. -
Locating Linux-loyal Laptops
3 hours, 52 minutes ago
A look through most department store catalogues reveals a bevy of alleged “deal” laptops; you know the type – cheap and cheerful, sub-$1,000 – but far from bleeding-edge specs. These may be naff at resource-hungry Windows apps but can be a great Linux machine for no extra cost. But can you check out any hardware gotchas prior to purchase, and be sure the Penguin will run? -
U.K. embedded conference announces talks
4 hours, 22 minutes ago
The program has been announced for this month's Embedded Systems Technical Conference, set for Oct. 17 and 18 in Birmingham, England. Said to be the U.K.'s largest forum for the embedded system design community, the event is co-located with the Embedded Systems Show (ESS) 2007. -
Novell OES 2: Powered by Linux
4 hours, 52 minutes ago
Novell is continuing its push toward Linux with the release today of its Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2). OES 2 enables Novell's NetWare users to run NetWare in a paravirtualized environment on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. -
openSUSE 10.3 - Review
5 hours, 22 minutes ago
While openSUSE’s efforts to simplify Linux or Window-fy Linux can be commended, the inconsistency in their implementation is its downfall. Opening applications quickly becomes a chore with the excessive amount of clicks needed to find the application you want. The application browser loads slowly. looks cluttered and uses icons that are too large. Yast has been improved but still feels slow. -
Tales from responsivenessland: why Linux feels slow, and how to fix that
5 hours, 52 minutes ago
Desktop performance on Linux computers has been a hot-button issue of late, and a source of longstanding fights among the Linux developers. Today, I want to show you how I boosted (and you can boost) desktop performance dramatically. -
Mac and Linux fail to capitalise on Vista mistakes
6 hours, 22 minutes ago
IT LOOKS like the Mac OS-X and Linux operating system have failed to do any damage to Microsoft Windows, despite the Vista fiasco. -
GPhone Not a Phone, But A Linux Software Suite: NYT
6 hours, 52 minutes ago
Not necessarily news to regular MocoNews readers: the so-called Gphone from Google won't be an actual phone, but a suite of service, or even a new mobile OS. NYT now comes around to it, after speaking to its sources. -
Customize your Emacs world
7 hours, 22 minutes ago
This tutorial walks you through some of the useful ways you can customize and configure the Emacs environment. Learn how to change everything about the Emacs environment to your liking, from the behavior of minor modes to the default key bindings. -
Granular Linux on DVD
7 hours, 52 minutes ago
The first DVD edition of Granular Linux was released today as announced by Anurag Bhandari, the lead developer of the project. It will have the name Granular FunWorks 2007 and it is a DVD extension to Granular Linux v0.90. -
Linux doubles desktop share
8 hours, 22 minutes ago
Linux has doubled its share of the desktop market over the past year, but has still to reach even 1% of computers according to the latest figures from Net Applications. -
OpenOffice.org 2.3: New features, extensions and the much anticipated charting tool
8 hours, 52 minutes ago
The new OpenOffice.org 2.3 includes enhancements to Writer, Calc, Impress and eFax. With several smart changes, a new way to add features and a brand-new charting tool, the latest release of OpenOffice.org is worth checking out. -
LugRadio: Season 5, Episode 2 - Lock, Stock, and One Smoking Barrel
9 hours, 22 minutes ago
In the latest episode of LugRadio, "Lock, Stock, and One Smoking Barrel", the team talk to Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux Driver Project, explore the potential of Open Source online office suites, discuss how the Free Software community approaches criticism and takes another mystery tour to find a long-lost free software project, all presented with the usual humor, colour and flourish that you have come to expect from the LugRadio team. -
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.0
9 hours, 52 minutes ago
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.0 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Secure your webserver using SSL and TinyCA
10 hours, 22 minutes ago
SSL is especially suited for HTTP since it can provide some protection even if only one side of the communication is authenticated. In the case of HTTP transactions over the Internet, typically, only the server side is authenticated. This workshop explains how to setup a virtual host using OpenSSL and TinyCA on an OpenSuse 10.2 server. - More News
Talking FOSS at the UN
When Nathan Eckenrode goes to the United Nations in New York City next week to help demonstrate the technology behind open source software, he doesn't really expect to discover the answer to world peace. If he gets a little closer, though, he's all right with that.
Skype for Linux 1.4 out of beta
Skype 1.4 for Linux after five months of testing. Now that it's officially out of beta -- along with a slew of bug fixes and new features -- developers are calling it a recommended release.
Novell is not forking OpenOffice
From recent media reports, casual readers could easily believe that OpenOffice.org, the popular free office suite, is fragmenting. Slashdot reported last week that Novell is backing an official fork, while Ars Technica suggested that if what was happening fell short of a fork, then it was still "serious fragmentation" and "not a good thing for the OpenOffice.org community." However, a closer look at the situation shows that what is happening is less of a dramatic split than the airing of long-time grievances and the media's discovery of a long-established institution.
Firefox extensions for tab addicts
For Firefox users who are constantly referring to multiple pages, tabbed browsing is not a feature, but a way of life. There are enough of us that the Firefox addon page lists more than 110 extensions related to tabs. These extensions feature everything from simple add-ons to various means of saving tab addresses and sessions to thumbnails and collections of functions, as well as one or two uncategorizable ideas.
Uruguay poised to make first governmental OLPC purchase
Uruguay's government this week announced the results of a study indicating that XO computers from the One Laptop Per Child project were a better value for the nation's schoolchildren than Intel's similar offering, the Classmate PC. The next step is likely to be a purchase agreement between OLPC and Uruguay for at least 100,000 laptops. Though nothing has been finalized yet, when asked what needs to happen for formal agreement to occur, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte simply says, "business closure."
Linux-based airline seat-back entertainment system is a winner
The Linux-based eX2 in-flight entertainment system (IFE) from Panasonic Avionics was the big winner at this year's Avion Awards, sponsored by an IFE trade group. The Best Overall IFE awards went to Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, all running variants of eX2.
Symantec asks G4L to stop infringing on Ghost name
Michael D. Setzer II, the leader of the project once known as Ghost for Linux (G4L), recently received a cease and desist email message from a lawyer representing Symantec. The company is demanding that the project change its name because the use of "Ghost" violates a trademark held by Symantec for its Norton Ghost disk imaging software.
Automate FTP with macros
Has it been a while since you used FTP from the command line? While there are decent GUI-based FTP clients (such as gFTP), you can automate operations with the command-line version and handle file transfers with no user interaction at all.
Secure remote access to your desktop
Accessing your home server safely can be problematic, especially if you don't have a fixed IP address, but with Linux, DynDNS, PAM, and NX Free you can create a safe remote access path to your machine.
Digitizing records and tapes with Audacity
You've been ripping CDs for years, but what about those dusty cassette tapes in your attic and all that bargain-basement vinyl at used book sales? With Audacity, you can capture those vintage tunes, clean up their sound, and carry them around on your MP3 player.
Sweet Symphony is out of tune with OOo
Last month, just one week after IBM announced it would help with OpenOffice.org's development, the company released Lotus Symphony, an office suite based on OpenOffice.org code. I found a lot of slick features in Lotus Symphony, but I worry that Symphony could affect the OpenOffice.org community adversely.
Kudos for Kino
Kino is a video editor that allows you to produce your own video masterpieces using only free and open source software. With it, you can capture and edit clips from your video camera, add titles, insert still images, create transitions between scenes, and output the result in a number of formats. Best of all, it's easy to learn to use. But don't rely on the version in your distro -- grab the 1.1.1 release from SourceForge.net and build it yourself.
Workrave fights repetitive strain injuries
Taking frequent computer breaks can save you from a debilitating repetitive strain injury (RSI). However, if you're like most people, you probably get caught up in your work and forget to take breaks as often as you should. The Workrave desktop applet can keep you on track.
Read webmail from any email client with FreePOPs
You can send and receive messages from most Web-based email services with your favourite email client by using FreePOPs, a webmail access daemon.
A script to tell which workstations are using Samba shares
A combination of Linux utilities can help you determine who on your network is using which of your shared filesystems at any given time, allowing you to ask those users to log off while you update the system.
Open source entrepreneur turns his hobby into an Inc. 500 enterprise
iFAX, a commercial company that is built on open source fax server software HylaFAX, was recently included in Inc. Magazine's 2007 list of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the United States. iFAX founder Darren Nickerson says one of the keys to iFAX's success has been its commitment to the open source community behind HylaFAX. "Our success is tied to the openness of the software."
Backing up and restoring your DSL configuration
Damn Small Linux (DSL) is primarily a live CD, or emulation thereof, which means that the base system is read-only. So how do you save your settings? Mastering DSL's backup and restore method is essential to enjoying DSL without using a traditional hard drive install. Here's how to back up your DSL settings, files, and applications to a single archive file on a local medium (such as a floppy disk, pen drive, or hard disk).
Office shootout: OpenOffice.org Impress vs. Microsoft PowerPoint, round 2
How does the current version of OpenOffice.org (OOo) compare with Microsoft Office in its ability to produce slide presentations? The last time I tried to answer that question, two years ago, both OOo Impress and Microsoft PowerPoint had features that the other lacked. To see how the two programs compare now, I installed Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 2.3, and went through the process of designing a slide show from start to finish. To my surprise, the results were more decisive than in my last comparison. They're not enough to award a knockout victory, but, even based on points, the winner is clear.
SourceKibitzer benchmarks open source Java projects and developers
Ever wondered how much your contribution was worth to a project? If you are a Java developer helping out one of the hundreds of open source Java projects, head over to SourceKibitzer. It's a social network of Java developers that provides various metrics for open source Java projects.
SamePlace: A Jabber client for Firefox
If you spend most of your computing life in Firefox, it makes sense to consolidate other online activities in your browser. There are extensions that can help you to do just that: you can manage your bookmarks with the del.icio.us extension, chat on IRC channels using Chatzilla, and read RSS feeds in Sage. Jabber instant messaging users have their own extension: the SamePlace, a nifty IM client that, besides the basic Jabber functionality, offers a few unique and useful features.
