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Put your site under Siege

Do you want to test how your new site work under an heavy load ? Put it under siege !

Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet. Siege supports basic authentication, cookies, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It lets its user hit a web server with a configurable number of simulated web browsers. Those browsers place the server “under siege.”

Calls for papers issued for ELC Europe, Linux.conf.au

Calls for papers were announced for CELF's Embedded Linux Conference Europe, co-located with LinuxCon Europe in Prague on October 26-28, as well as the Australian Linux.conf.au, planned for Jan 16-20, 2012 in Ballarat, Australia. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation announced Kim Blanche's & Flying Penguins& as the winner of the 20th Anniversary of Linux T-shirt contest, earning her a trip to next month's LinuxCon Gala in Vancouver....

Now Powered by Simply MEPIS 11

  • Linux Moose; By Linux Moose (Posted by Moose on Jul 2, 2011 3:42 PM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE
I wanted stability without losing the package variety I am accustomed to from Ubuntu so I opted for the only Debian stable based distro out of those, MEPIS 11.

Gawk 4.0 Is A Major New Release

Besides releasing libgcrypt 1.5 this week, another GNU project has been updated. Gawk 4.0.0 has been officially released as a major update to this popular free software utility. Gawk 4.0.0 presents several new end-user features along with revamped internals...

Introducing Multithreading to Mature Desktop Applications

Today, all programs must parallelize tasks if they are to enjoy the power available through multicore processors. Until recently, though, parallel programming was the domain of server programmers and their scientific counterparts. Now, programmers from other domains are faced with the problem of migrating existing applications from serial to multithreaded architectures.

Unbelievable statements in GPL related case in the Supreme Court of Mauritius

5. Licenses of open-source software like "Linux" and "Asterisk" have no copyright restrictions which in effect puts no restrictions on their use or distribution. As a consequence, any work which is derived from the open source software as conceptualized, created, installed and managed, by the Applicant becomes the ownership of the Applicant.h

Dirk dashing 2 First Teaser Trailer

  • gamingonlinux.com; By Rustybolts (Posted by rustybolts on Jul 2, 2011 8:21 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Troy from my games company posted on our forums his teaser trailer of Dirk dashing 2. I have moved the full post to the news section so you can see the trailer in action. Up until now, I've only shown still screenshots, so this is your first look at the game in-action! Even though it's short (it's a teaser), you can see the new graphics and lighting effects, Dirk's new tranquilizer dart gun, some of Dirk's new moves, and some of the new characters - including the Ninja I just finished!

Linux-based networked DVR can record from 64 cameras

IndigoVision announced a doubling of capacity to 2TB disks on its NVR-AS 3000 of Linux-based, surveillance-oriented network video recorders (NVRs). The NVR-AS 3000 systems are now available with up to 6TB of usable RAID 5 storage, as well as RAID 0/1 options, and can record full framerate video and audio from 64 cameras, and play back 20 streams simultaneously, says the company.

7 Useful Commands For Ubuntu Linux Newbies

First off, let me say that I am not one of those terminal loving Linux fans. I think it is cool and all, but I tend to save the command line for things that either require doing a massive batch job, or when I need to do something really specific. Other than that, I stick to the Gnome GUI, and work within the parameters that various menus offer me. That works for 99% of what I need done.

Major gaps of Open Office Impress versus Microsoft Power Point: what do you think?

“after struggling for over 1 year, sadly Sergio had to stop using Open Office Impress and go back to Microsoft Power Point”. After asking Sergio, I reformatted and put his list of complaints online to gather more feedback on whether OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) always present such problems when compared to PowerPoint:

How to remove duplicate files on Linux without wasting time

Here are some code snippets to streamline the search and removal of duplicate files on your Linux computer.

Facebook, Google+, and Centralized Proprietary Monocultures

The Facebook/KDE fiasco should teach us all to not put all our eggs in one cloudy basket.

7 of the Best Free Linux Bioinformatics Tools

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jul 1, 2011 9:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
Bioinformatics has been defined in many different ways, but it is common ground to regard this discipline as the application of mathematics, computing and statistics to the analysis of biological information. The objective of bioinformatics is to enable the finding of new biological insights, and to create a broader, more critical view from which unifying principles in biology can be perceived.

Thunderbird Made Default In Ubuntu 11.10, Final Default Email Client Decision Not Yet Taken

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jul 1, 2011 8:08 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
According to a recent change, Thunderbird is now the default email client in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, replacing Evolution.

Hope and Change Inside My Computer - Part II

  • heliosinitiative.org; By helios (Posted by helios on Jul 1, 2011 6:40 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
Prologue: I can't tell you exactly when I made the decision but somewhere between playing with LibreOffice and the webcam software, I found myself dropping and dragging important files from my Windows world onto a portable hard drive. It was about 6 PM that evening, roughly 9 weeks ago, I double-clicked the "Install Linux Mint" icon.

Unified Messaging Menu / MeMenu On The Way Mockup

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jul 1, 2011 5:43 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
According to a recent update to the Ubuntu Wiki Messaging Menu page, the MeMenu will be integrated into the Messaging Menu.

Dead Cyborg, New Episodic Science Fiction Adventure Game Coming to Linux

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Jul 1, 2011 4:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Dead Cyborg, a new donation based episodic science fiction adventure is coming soon to Linux. The game is based on Blender game engine and is made by one person Endre Barath, who has done all the coding, designing and written the story as well. Apart from the game itself, the donation model also looks interesting. This model is not new but more and more games are adopting alternative pricing/revenue strategy, may be after after success of Humble Indie Bundle and the weekly alpha model adopted by Wolfire Games. Also such models in themselves act as a promotion strategy otherwise many good freeware games fade just because of lack of promotion.

LibreOffice 3.4.1 Is Now Available for Download

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 1, 2011 3:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A few minutes ago, July 1st, The Document Foundation company announced the first maintenance release of the LibreOfficeb 3.4 open source office suite for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes.

Five Links for Developers and IT Pros 7/1/11

This week we look at Firefox dissing business, a Windows Server 2012 wish list and why you want developers with a back bone and an opinion.

5 Quick Tips to Improve Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Performance

In my opinion, one area where successive Ubuntu releases continuously under-performed is on the overall system performance front. Every new Ubuntu release feels more and more bloated, especially so with latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

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