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GNU/Linux users given false hope over Windows 8 issue
Over the past few days, GNU/Linux users have been complaining about the Windows 8 secure boot specification, an issue that was raised in these columns a few days.
Performance monitoring with nmon
In this tutorial I will describe, how to use nmon (Nigel’s performance Monitor) to monitor performance data in the interactive mode or in the capture mode.
New Features on Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich
The latest update for Google’s open source Android software has been nicknamed “Ice Cream Sandwich”. Version 4.0 of the mobile phone software is believed to be surfacing in October or November of 2011. There are some impressive new features in this update that may further chip away at Apple’s dominance of the smartphone market. Currently over 100 million activated Android phones are out in public, with 400,000 new devices being activated each day. A new Verizon smartphone called the “Droid Prime”, is speculated to be introduced in the next 2 months, sporting the latest version of this open sourced platform.
Here's What's Coming in GNOME 3.2
The highly anticipated GNOME 3.2 desktop environment will be released in a few hours, a release that will bring tones of new features and improvements.
How to Download an Entire Website with WGET
If you have ever had to or needed to copy or move a website, wget is quite handy. Wget is open source, available on Linux, OSX and Windows and is very easy to use. A whole website can be downloaded with one simple command.
Using cron scheduler on Linux systems
If you already have some experience as a Linux system administrator, chances are you know what cron is and what it does. If you're just starting working with Linux, it's essential knowledge that will certainly serve you later. Either way, if you already have the knowledge, this article will refresh it. If not, you will get a guide to start you up. So you're only expected to have some basic knowledge of Linux systems and, as usual, a desire to learn.
NeonView 0.2.0 Image Viewer First Version Released
This first release, codenamed ‘Betta splendens’, includes just a handful of features for now, however it is the base on which development of more advanced features will take place. Still, the goal of NeonView is to remain clean and lightweight, while also trying to implement only the needed functions that a simple image viewer should have.
3 easy steps to strengthen your ssh server
Back on ssh topic, i think this is third or perhaps the fourth article regarding ssh, one of my favorite tools on a Linux server, and that a lot of times is not used or configured properly. In this small guide i’ll show you some setup to make your ssh server a bit more safer from the most common attacks.
Intel Drops MeeGo
Intel (proudly?) announced yesterday, September 27th, that it will rename the MeeGo Linux-based operating system project to Tizen.
Alternative Web Browsers for Ubuntu Linux
A freshly updated list of browsers available for Ubuntu. What browser will you be using with Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot?
Award-winning Airtime releases new packages for Ubuntu & Debian
Airtime 1.9.4 has been released with new DEB packages for Ubuntu and Debian that keep installations automatically updated with the latest version. Airtime is Sourcefabric’s open source radio software for scheduling, automation and remote station management via any web browser. It can be downloaded free from airtime.sourcefabric.org
Xonotic - Free Shooter Based Off Nexuiz
Xonotic is a free first-person shooter game for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The Xonotic project started as a fork of Nexuiz, a game which was popular for many years on Linux. The fork was created because Nexuiz was licensed to IllFonic game studios, and it is to be used as a platform for developing a commercial game for Steam, Xbox and PlayStation.
Clonezilla Live 1.2.10-14 Stable Released, Download Now
Steven Shiau proudly announced the final and stable release of its popular Clonezilla Live operating system, used for cloning hard disk drives.
Seven Things to do after Installing Bodhi Linux
So you've taken the plunge and opted to install Bodhi Linux. Perhaps you read a recent review or one of the screen shots in our gallery caught your eye. Either way you've got a newly installed system and you might be wondering what exactly to do next. The following are seven things that are a good idea to do on a cleanly installed Bodhi system.
Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle!
Pay what you want. Support charity. Get awesome games.
Amazon's Linux AMI is All Grown Up
Amazon has declared its Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) production ready. With the update, Amazon is introducing a security center to track security and privacy issues, providing 50 new packages for the distribution and adding access to Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).
The KDE vs. GNOME Schism In Free Software
For those looking for an interesting read today, Martin Gräßlin, the maintainer of KDE's KWin and known for his insightful blog posts, has written about fighting the schism in free software; in particular, the KDE vs. GNOME battle...
Microsoft's Secure Boot Gambit
Will Windows 8 prevent Linux from being installed? And where is Linux 3.1 anyway?
Lessfs 1.5 On CentOS 5
For this HowTo I used a VirtualBox with CentOS 5.7 x86_64. I attached a separate 20GB Data drive mounted to /data. This will hold the lessfs DB and data. The lessfs mountpoint I put at /lessfs. This is a very basic setup, just to get it running. There is plenty of tuning to be done based on volume size, file types, and compression choices. The latest lessfs required more recent versions of fuse and tokyocabinet than was in the CentOS repository, so I chose to install most of this from source.
Only Human Studios - Ensign - New linux game in early production
Here I'm just talking about what I'm currently working on with my space sim, network programming and how docking on ships will work.
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