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Linux and Windows network commands: a comparison

  • Doug Vitale Tech Blog; By Doug Vitale (Posted by DougVitale on Jan 25, 2012 9:16 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Although familiar networking utities like ping, netstat, and nslookup are available on both Linux and Windows, their respective command switches vary greatly between the two operating systems. This article lists all the networking command options available for both Linux and Windows in an easy-to-read format.

Updated Edition of the Book The Geospatial Desktop: Open source GIS and Mapping

  • floss4science.com; By eocasio (Posted by eocasio on Jan 25, 2012 8:19 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements
Locate Press published an updated edition of "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools" written by the creator of Quantum GIS.

Why Don't Other Linux Distros Use Unity?

  • The VAR Guy; By Christopher Tozzi (Posted by thevarguy2 on Jan 25, 2012 7:22 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Last week I wrote about spinoffs of Ubuntu, noting that some of the once popular ones have now gone dormant. But later, I realized something else interesting: No Ubuntu variant — not a single one — uses Unity as its default desktop interface. Keep reading for some thoughts on why this might be, and what it says about Ubuntu and Canonical.

What Is ACTA And Why Is It A Problem?

Yesterday I noted that the anti-SOPA/PIPA crowd seemed to have just discovered ACTA. And while I'm pleased that they're taking interest in something as problematic as ACTA, there was a lot of misinformation flowing around, so I figured that, similar to my "definitive" explainer posts on why SOPA/PIPA were bad bills (and the followup for the amended versions), I thought I'd do a short post on ACTA to hopefully clarify some of what's been floating around.

Megaupload Details Raise Significant Concerns About What DOJ Considers Evidence Of Criminal Behavior

  • TechDirt; By Mike Masnick (Posted by BernardSwiss on Jan 25, 2012 5:37 AM EDT)
Yesterday I wrote up a first reaction to the Megaupload case. Having spent some more time going through the indictment in much greater detail, I have some more thoughts and concerns.

Status of Ubuntu for ARM Laptops and Servers

David Mandala, Manager of the ARM Team at Canonical talks about the status of Ubuntu Linux on ARM Laptops and Servers, and about their plans for Ubuntu on ARM until 2014 and beyond...

Spain’s Extremadura Moves 40,000 PCs to Linux

Teodomiro Cayetano López, Extremadura's CIO (Chief Information Officer), confirmed on January 23rd that the administration of Spain’s autonomous region will move all their desktop PCs to Debian Linux.

HUD to replace menus in Ubuntu 12.04 – a further kick to the hornets nest?

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Jan 25, 2012 2:45 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Canonical have today introduced a new Head-Up Display feature due to arrive with Ubuntu 12.04. Read on for full details and video demonstration, not to mention our take on the new feature…

Virtualization With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Jan 25, 2012 1:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

The silver lining of the MegaUpload shutdown

  • freegamer.blogspot.com (via fsdaily.com); By Bart K (Posted by mbaehrlxer on Jan 25, 2012 12:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
This blog post isn't about whether it was right for MegaUpload to be shut down. There's plenty of debate going on about that, and it's something that I'm not personally interested in taking part in. What we do know is that there were a substantial number of people using MegaUpload to distribute pirated media, and, let's be honest: a lot of people are pissed off because piracy just got a lot harder. If you're one of those people, and you're angry and suddenly in search of ways to entertain yourself in the wake of the big shutdown, this post is for you.

Outlining with nano continued

  • Field notes of an Audacious Amateur (Posted by wayover13 on Jan 24, 2012 11:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
As a follow-up to the last installment regarding creating outlines with nano, I've done some further experimentation with LaTeX and wanted to post here a template I created. The template contains the mark-up that, when appropriately applied, can turn a nano outline into one that prints nicely on a page. After running pdflatex on the created file (which should be given a *.tex extension first), a nice pdf can be output for sending to the printer.

We Will Be Heard Now

  • heliosinitiative.org; By helios (Posted by helios on Jan 24, 2012 11:08 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
On this date, at approximately 8:31 PM CST, the petition requesting that Chris Dodd be investigated for bribery was validated by the required 25,000 signatures.

Untethered Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Under Linux

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 24, 2012 10:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The Chronic Dev Team has just released a few minutes ago the a new version of their Absinthe jailbreak tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices, bringing support for the Linux platform. Until now, the Absinthe untethered jailbreak utility for Apple A5 devices had support only for thr Mac and Windows operating systems, but starting with version 0.3 Absinthe also supports Linux.

HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI

No drop-downs in the future Canonical has unveiled HUD, which it has billed as the "menu of the future" for its next Linux desktop.…

Good Debate On The Unintended Consequences Of Rogue Website Crackdown

I recently was able to attend an interesting Cato/Techfreedom/CEI debate on the unintended consequences of the rogue website crackdown. The specific focus (not surprisingly) was the debate over SOPA/PIPA, but thankfully some of the debate went further back, to discuss how the government and private actors were already using existing law to do questionable things to sites they declared "rogue." This became even more timely with the Megaupload takedown... which happened about the same time that this panel ended. It was especially nice to see some discussion over the problematic seizures around Dajaz1 and Rojadirecta, as well as the fact that Veoh went bankrupt defending a bogus copyright lawsuit under existing law. These are not "hypotheticals".

Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops

  • CNET; By Declan McCullagh (Posted by jhansonxi on Jan 24, 2012 8:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case.

Life-giving software should be open: GNOME Foundation chief

Software that controls vital human functions should always be open source, else it could prove to be a danger to one's existence, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation says.

Hack, Slash, Loot - A New Roguelike/Dungeon Crawler Released For Linux

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Jan 24, 2012 6:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Hack, Slash, Loot is a single-player turn-based dungeon crawler Linux. You take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters and plunder valuable treasures. The game features perma-death and randomly generated dungeons making it a nice coffee break game.

Desura Goes Open Source With Desurium

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 24, 2012 5:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Desura gaming client now has an open source brother, called Desurium and hosted on Github, licensed under GPL (GNU Public License) version 3. Detailed instructions about how to install and run the open source version of the Desura client on both Linux and Windows platform are also available on the Github page.

Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015

David Mandala of Canonical talked last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 about the history of Ubuntu Linux supporting the ARM architecture, what's coming up for Ubuntu ARM in the 12.04 LTS release, and even what's expected from Ubuntu on ARM as far out as 2015...

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