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Developer Q&A: Syllable OS
Techworld Australia caught up with lead Syllable OS developer Kaj de Vos to talk about the operating system and its philosophy. The result is a (very) lengthy Q&A.
Video Tip – Finding Open IP Addresses
In this tip we’re going to explore a couple of ways to find open IP (Internet Protocol) addresses on your network. You might need this information if you were going to temporarily set a static IP address for a host. Even after you’ve found an open IP though, you still need to take care to avoid IP conflicts if your network uses DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Please also be aware that one of these techniques uses the nmap network scanning program, which may be against policy in some environments. Even if it’s not against corporate policy, the nmap man page states that “there are administrators who become upset and may complain when their system is scanned. Thus, it is often advisable to request permission before doing even a light scan of a network.”
Red Hat's biggest enemy? VMware
Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its big break into corporate Linux? All good guesses, but Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, is pretty sure that Red Hat’s biggest competitor in 2016 will be VMware.
Simple off-site backup of a MD RAID 1 system
Standard backup tools like BackupPC are great for backing-up moderate amounts of user data but they can be impractical with huge data stores such as multi-terabyte RAID arrays as they need a backup store that is larger than the source data. My simple solution is to clone the array with another drive and store it off-site.
Microsoft rolls out open-source Python extension for Visual Studio
Microsoft released on August 29 an integrated environment for developing in Python using Visual Studio 2010. Known as Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), the new, free tools are available under the Apache 2.0 license, and available for download from Microsoft’s CodePlex site. PTVS came out of the Technical Computing Group unit at Microsoft.
Oracle retires licence for distributing its Java with Linux
With a brief news item, Oracle has retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (DLJ) that was created by Sun in 2006. The non-free licence had allowed Linux distributors to package and distribute Sun's, and later Oracle's, Java versions in their Linux distributions. Sun made this licence available after releasing Java as open source at the JavaOne conference in 2006. It was designed to ensure that users had easy access to packages containing the well-tested Sun Java during the development of the free OpenJDK.
GhostBSD: not "just another BSD"
GhostBSD is GNOME implementation in FreeBSD system. Latest version is 2.0. It was released at the end of March 2011. This version is based on FreeBSD 8.2.
How to use Conky for automatic system notification and administration
Conky is a graphical system monitoring tool for Linux, that can also be used for automatic maintenance and event notification on local or remote computers.
Best Free Android News Aggregators
A news aggregator is software which collates news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a central place for fast, convenient viewing. Given the plethora of news sources that are available on the net, news aggregators play a vital role in enabling surfers to find breaking news and articles of particular interest.
The Linux Setup - Dusty Phillips, Developer
Interview with developer Dusty Phillips about his Linux desktop setup.
The perfect tools to blog, if you are a Linux geek
If you are a Linux geek, and you want to start your own blog, you will want to do it "The Linux way". Here are some tools you may need to start it.
Mandriva 2011 Linux Release Finally Comes
While the Mandriva Linux distribution lost most of its charm when many of the developers left to form Mageia Linux and the remaining stakeholders switched to just doing one official release per year, the 2011 final release was published on Sunday...
A Complete Review of Bodhi Linux With Screenshots
Bodhi Linux was recommended to me as a possible solution to try after I mentioned having system resource issues with Ubuntu One. I have to admit I’ve been rather curious about Bodhi as I have read several rave reviews on it.
Xbox 360 reset glitch hack, Xbox 360 Linux on its way?
Hackers GliGli & Tiros developed a Hack which glitches all recent Xbox 360 Kernels to run unsigned code on.
Installing Proftpd with MySQL in Ubuntu Linux
Proftpd is a modular FTP server that runs on Linux. One of the proftpd modules is for MySQL and enables users to be stored in the database instead of the system. Users can have a different home directories as they are set per user in the database, different quotas can be set for users as well.
Using An Android Smartphone As A WLAN Hotspot
To access Wireless LAN you usually need to find a so-called hotspot where you can use the local Wireless LAN to access the Internet. Android smartphones however have a feature which enables them to become a wireless hotspot themselves - they use UMTS to connect to the Internet and make the Internet connection available to other computers/devices via WLAN. This article describes how you can configure this feature.
sun-java6 packages removed soon from Debian/Ubuntu (and all other linux distros)
For the story, due to license reasons, the version of Java packaged in Linux distributions is not the same as the one released on the official website. Each time a new version of Java is was released, Sun/Oracle people are were publishing a other distro specific release available on a dedicated website.
How to customize Mandriva 2011
Mandriva 2011, the latest desktop edition of the popular Linux distribution, was released yesterday. If you have just installed it, you would have noticed, if you mouseover the update manager icon, this message: “No medium found. You must add some media through ‘Software Media Manager’.” That is just telling you that the package (or update) manager is not pointing to any remote software sources or repositories. As a result, no updates can be applied to the system. If you are new to Mandriva, this brief tutorial will show the simple steps you can take to add (remote) software sources to the system, plus a few other customizations tips, such as replacing the default menu.
The Graphics Stack, Requirements For Ubuntu 11.10
If you're thinking about trying out the Ubuntu 11.10 Beta release later in the week or are beginning to wonder about what the graphics driver options for Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" when released in October, here's a collection of information you'll want to know about the graphics drivers to be found in Ubuntu 11.10.
Six Months With OpenBenchmarking.org
It was exactly six months ago that Phoronix Test Suite 3.0-Iveland and OpenBenchmarking.org were released during the Southern California Linux Expo. Here's some numbers from where OpenBenchmarking.org is at today...
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