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A List Of Lisp and Emacs Books

  • Greg Laden's Blog; By Greg Laden (Posted by gregladen on Sep 27, 2011 12:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNU, Linux
Land of Lisp and three emacs related books, reviewed.

HP Board Misses One Shot Opportunity

Whitman’s hiring looks like a desperation move. This is unfortunate, because the message HP needed to send with Apotheker’s firing was that the situation at the company is under control, that sanity is at the helm. Instead, they end up looking as if they’re merely grasping at straws.

Owning the stack: The legal war to control the smartphone platform

  • Ars Technica; By James Grimmelmann (Posted by BernardSwiss on Sep 26, 2011 9:28 PM EDT)
In the last few weeks, the smartphone industry appeared to produce more lawsuits than phones. Apple briefly managed to stop the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all of Europe, and is now going after the whole Galaxy line. Back Stateside, Google first complained that Microsoft and Apple were using "bogus patents" to target Android, then spent $12 billion for Motorola and its patent arsenal. These are big, high-stakes fights—and the last company left standing may walk away with control over nothing less than the smartphone market itself.

In the flood of stories about tactical filings and counter-filings, it's easy to get lost in the details. But step back and it's clear that the Smartphone Wars aren't just a war of all against all; there's an underlying logic to these disputes. Most companies are fighting to control one part of the hardware-software stack, then use that control to pry money free from the layers above them.

But the really big players—the Apples and Googles of the world—are fighting over the stack itself. Their combat arena: the global legal system.

Dell and Intel team on next-gen Linux supercomputer cluster

The University of Texas has teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a Linux supercomputer cluster, as part of the NSF's "eXtreme Digital" program. Due in 2013, the & Stampede& comprises several thousand Dell Zeus servers, each with dual eight-core Intel Xeon E5 CPUs, plus Intel's new parallel computing & MIC& co-processors, and will be & the most powerful x86-based Linux HPC cluster& deployed in the U.S., say the partners....

Google Summer of Code Achievements - Chapter One

Over the past few months, members of the KDE community mentored students as a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). In this annual program, students receive a stipend to write code for a Free Software project, mentored by someone from the project. With KDE participating for the seventh time, students worked on many KDE projects, some of which are already being included in KDE releases. 47 of 51 projects were finished successfully this year. This is the first article featuring students’ achievements in the Google Summer of Code program. read more

Tinycore 4.0 released

  • linux-news.org; By Linux-news.org (Posted by linuxaria on Sep 26, 2011 6:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Yesterday has been released the version 4.0 of Tinycore linux, one of the smallest linux distribution around. Tiny Core Linux is a very small (<12 MB) minimal Linux GUI Desktop. It is based on Linux 3.0 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, and Fltk

Red Hat engineer renews attack on Windows 8-certified secure boot

Linux lock-out row rumbles on.

A senior Red Hat engineer has lashed back at Microsoft's attempt to downplay concerns that upcoming secure boot features will make it impossible to install Linux on Windows 8 certified systems.…

Microsoft Denies Locking out Linux Stories

There have been rumors that the secure boot of MS Windows 8 would replace BIOS with UEFI, thereby locking out Linux. This would even lock out the earlier Windows versions from new computers. This rumor was disturbing for people who wanted both Windows and Linux on their systems

Kernel.org Still Struggles To Return

It's been nearly one month since Kernel.org was hacked -- the home to the Linux kernel source-code repository, among other services -- but it's still not back online yet...

Cardapio Menu Gets A GNOME Shell Extension

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Sep 26, 2011 11:04 AM EDT)
Cardapio is a menu for GNOME that can work as a panel, AWN or Cairo Dock applet and even as a stand-alone application and now, it comes with a GNOME Shell extension too.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta Released | Introduce Plugin Management System

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 has been released. Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 will introduce some new features and new user interface design kinda looks suitable to the upcoming release Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Now it’s available to install for tester and developer through Launchpad PPA.

Book : Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing by Vivek Ramachandran

This book will provide a highly technical and in-depth treatment of Wi-Fi security. The emphasis will be to provide the readers with a deep understanding of the principles behind various attacks and not just a quick how-to guide on publicly available tools

Automatic Login For SSH/SFTP on Ubuntu

  • http://technonstop.com; By Abdullah Chougle (Posted by linuxsavvy on Sep 26, 2011 8:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This is a quick tutorial explaining three simple steps you'll need to automate your SSH/SFTP logins to remote Unix/Unix-like servers from your Ubuntu or other Linux distro.

GTK+ 3.2 Released With HTML5 And Wayland Backends Support

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Sep 26, 2011 7:16 AM EDT)
GTK+ 3.2 has been released with two eagerly expected features: experimental support for Wayland and HTML5 "Broadway" (which allows running applications in a web browser) backends.

Creating A Bootable USB Device On Linux Mint 11

  • HowtoForge; By Christian Schmalfeld (Posted by falko on Sep 26, 2011 6:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This tutorial will show you how to make your USB hard disk device a bootable Linux system. Linux Mint 11 needs about 4.7 gigabyte of free space on your hard drive, so make sure your device has at least that much space available. I am using an 8 gigabyte stick which is enough to install Mint on it and additionally have some space left to save data. In my case, I will install Linux Mint 11 on my USB device, but it should work similarly with other systems. To create a bootable disk, you need either an iso-image of the desired Linux system or a real Linux DVD.

Custom Weekly Backup with tar

  • ERA Computers & Consulting; By Gene Alexander (Posted by eracc on Sep 26, 2011 1:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This page describes one method of backing up data from one's Linux or Unix based system to an external medium using a bash script and tar. Here is the script for the impatient ones who "Just want some code!"

Facebook's Flashcache For The Linux Kernel

Facebook has made many open-source contributions over the years from their high-performance PHP-To-C++ compiler, to parts of their infrastructure, to some of their development tools. One of their open-source projects they made public last year for increasing their database performance was Flashcache. Flashcache is a kernel module that provides a block cache for Linux with various caching modes...

IPCop's VPN and firewall Linux updated

  • The H Open Source: News and Features; By Dj Walker-Morgan (Posted by vainrveenr on Sep 25, 2011 10:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements; Groups: Linux
The newly released IPCop 2.0 Linux firewall distribution updates the kernel to version 2.6.32, adds hardware support for Cobalt, Sparc and PPC systems and includes a new installer that assists users with such tasks as setting up a network. The developers have also revised the user interface: for example, the system menu has a new scheduler for time-based actions, the web proxy menu includes more advanced settings, and the DHCP server menu has been simplified.

Inpatient Distro Developer Sings A Song.

After waiting 2 years longer than promised for JULinux to be listed on distrowatch.com, developer Justin Breithaupt came up with a creative approach that may not be received well by all, but it was creative and funny none the less. Enjoy.

Linux Pipes – what are they and example of use

  • http://www.linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Sep 25, 2011 8:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Unix based operating systems like Linux offer a unique approach to join two commands on the terminal, with it you can take the output of the first command and use it as input of the second command, this is the concept of pipe or | . Pipes allow two separate process to communicate with each other also if they were not created to do it, so this open an infinite series of opportunity.

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