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2007/08/29 Hardy Heron Announced!
Here is comes the Hardy Heron! Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 29, @01:58PM from the limping-llama-still-to-come dept. Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution name “Hardy Heron“. “Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it…
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2007/08/27 Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile
Here is a story from slashdot: Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 26, @11:40AM from the to-send-better-ads dept. mrcgran writes “Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc. This…
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2007/08/25 FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity
Here is a story about FOSS Licensing: Posted by kdawson on Friday August 24, @04:51PM from the do-what-i-say-no-me dept. E5Rebel writes “Business is embracing open source like never before, but the effective demise of SCO’s claims against Linux doesn’t mean an end to licensing problems, an analyst warns. The debate on Slashdot seems to focus…
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2007/07/31 Slashdot: A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move to Vista
Here is the story from Slashdot IT: oDDmON oUT writes “An article on the Computerworld site quotes polling results from a potentially-divisive PatchLink survey. The poll shows that the majority of enterprise customers feel there are no compelling security enhancements in Windows Vista, that they have no plans to migrate to it in the…
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2007/07/29 IT on Slashdot: Don’t Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing
here is a story on Slashdot: Firedog writes “There’s been a lot of recent debate over why Linus Torvalds chose the new CFS process scheduler written by Ingo Molnar over the SD process scheduler written by Con Kolivas, ranging from discussing the quality of the code to favoritism and outright conspiracy theories. KernelTrap is…
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2007/07/27 Slashdot: A historical Look at the First Linux Kernel
This is a article on slashdot taking a look at the historical Linux Kerel 0.01: LinuxFan writes “KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel “Freax,”…
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2007/07/26 Slashdot: Dell is asking for Better ATI drivers on Linux!
Now here is a story with a better voice for the greater good of Linux: Open Source IT writes “According to a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2007, Dell is working on getting better ATI drivers for Linux for use in its Linux offerings. While it is not known whether the end product will end up…
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2007/07/25 Slashdot.org: Virtual Containerization
Here is a story from Slashdot.org: Virtual Containerization AlexGr alerts us to a piece by Jeff Gould up on Interop News. Quoting: “It’s becoming increasingly clear that the most important use of virtualization is not to consolidate hardware boxes but to protect applications from the vagaries of the operating environments they run on. It’s all…
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2007/07/23 SSH Tricks
Here is some cool tricks for SSH! This would be great for all the people who use SSH on their computers and their servers. It looks alright though I am hoping that it could help more people then what I have been getting viewing my Blog. Here is an excerpt from http://polishlinux.org/apps/ssh-tricks/# : SSH (secure…
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2007/07/21 Ubuntu Developement announcement
Today I have decided that I would talk about something else other then How to install Applications. Todays post will be about Ubuntu and Launch Pad Send ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list submissions to ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body ‘help’…