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Lenovo finally started shipping SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on its T-Series ThinkPads for its mainstream business users. Now, the company appears to be considering offering another Linux, very possibly Ubuntu, for the enthusiast market.

Howto Boot debian in text mode instead of graphical mode (GUI)

LXer Feature: 09-Sept-2007

The big stories this week include Microsoft and the ISO vote saga, the countdown is on to Ontario Linux Fest, The French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers over to Linux and The Women of Tech. All this and more in the LXer Weekly Roundup.

It seems that we are watching a project being eaten alive...and some of us are ambling over and stabbing a fork full for ourselves and wandering away without so much as a thank you or a glance back. But isn't that the way of the internet? If it's free, just take it and move on in search of the next freebie...right? It's not long before that freebie isn't there any longer...but hey...we got ours while it was there...right? Screw those too slow or too late.

GCompris, an official GNU Project providing educational software for children aged 2-10 years, announced the release of version 8.4 today. Changes include upgrading to the GPLv3, as well as major structural changes. And lead developer, Bruno Coudoin, says the project could use some help.

Smoothwall Express is an internet firewall, which allows you to protect your network, as well as providing NAT functionality. It is ease to use and configurable via a web-based GUI. This open source firewall distribution requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use. This workshop shows the installation and basic configuration of the current release Smoothwall Express 3.0.

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A new SuSE Linux powered forensic computer from a UK based company promises to make the task of gathering evidence at the scene of a crime much easier.

This tutorial describes two ways how to give users chrooted SSH access. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system. Your users will be jailed in a specific directory which they will not be able to break out of. The users will also be able to use SFTP in their chroot jails.

Debian and SELinux developer Russell Coker did a nice comparison of Debian and Fedora. I’m often asked about that, even from companies, so if you need this to compare the different versions of Debian (from stable to unstable) with Fedora or RHEL or even CentOS, go ahead and read it.

While it's not as easy as apt-get update, apt-get upgrade in Debian/Ubuntu (or the Update Manager), there's something very sane about maintaining a Slackware box. For one thing, you know way more about what goes into it. One thing with Slackware -- it pays to read. Read the documentation, keep up with blogs and Web sites that write about Slack.

Built from the ground up to create identical output on both printer and screen—all in a cross-platform way—cairo is becoming a huge player in the Linux graphics space, as well as BSDs, Windows, and OSX platforms. Learn about cairo, a free software vector drawing library that can draw to multiple output formats.

This is our first look at Sabayon Linux 3.4f. This distro has an excellent KDE desktop and we have produced a small flash video to see Sabayon Linux 3.4f in action

In this blog post, i have a few minor updates along with one important message: I draw a parallel in an unexpected place to prove the point I'm raising concerning the promotion of Free and Open Source Software. We need numbers and we need to take action now. The time for debating the most effective methods is over. The overall message is simple: Just do something already.

Stefan Richter posted the IEEE1394 subsytem and FireWire subsystem TODO lists noting, "it seems also appropriate to disclose the current manpower behind FireWire driver development and maintenance. There are just two people who regularly work on the drivers: Kristian Høgsberg (author and maintainer of the new firewire subsystem, in the past also involved with the old ieee1394 subsystem) and me (co-maintainer of both the new and old subsystems). But we both have a lot of other projects going on at the moment."

Slackware provides security updates all the way back to version 8.1 along with 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0 and 12.0, so if there is a reason you're using an older version of Slack, it is still being supported by the distro's creator, Patrick Volkerding and his team. ... Slackware is still supporting version 8.1 a full five years after its release. That's the kind of commitment I like to see for a distribution. If you want to install it, you won't be left out in the cold if you want to stay with an older version that does what you want it to do.

When typewriters ruled the desktop, all paragraphs had a ragged right justification, with each line starting at the same position on the left, but with a variable right margin. Full justification -- lines whose left and right sides all ended in the same positions -- were the mark of professional typography, and beyond the means of the average user.

Tagua, a generic boardgame for KDE, is approaching version 1.0, and the developers decided it's time to get the word out on this exceptionally cool application by releasing a first Alpha.

Bharata Rao posted a query to the Linux Kernel mailing list looking for ideas on how to best handle filesystem namespace unification with Union Mount, "typically this is done by reading the directory entries of all the union'ed layers (starting from the top and working downwards) and merging the result by eliminating the duplicate entries. This is done by extending the getdents/readdir system calls to support the notion of union'ed directories."

One of the more humorous ad series today is the Geico "caveman" commercials, featuring a caveman complaining about the stereotype of something being "so easy a caveman could do it." Since we don't have to worry about offending cavemen (or cavewomen), companies can safely poke humor at that demographic group and not worry about alienating anyone. However, you might want to think twice about saying "it's so easy your mom can do it."

How easy is it to buy a Dell Ubuntu PC? Not as easy as you might imagine, and Dell is causing all the problems.