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Patent fights could change Google's Android pitch

Microsoft has now joined Apple in a guerrilla war against Google's Android, and Google's next steps are far from certain. The smartphone industry is still in its infancy, but its strategic importance to computer companies big and small can't be overstated. Recent moves from Apple and Microsoft show that the big guys are not going to be shy about deploying their array of patents as competition increases.

Is Linux, not Windows, to blame for spam epidemic?

The latest MessageLabs spam index reveals that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine. But what are the facts behind those headline grabbing numbers and can Windows really get off the hook that easily?

LinuxCertified Announces its next "Linux Fundamentals" Course

This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for May 13th - 14th, 2010.

The Top 12 Native Linux System Monitoring Tools

  • DaniWeb; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Apr 29, 2010 9:58 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
System Administrators (SAs) have a tough job: Dealing with users and user accounts, security, patching, updates, upgrades, disk space, performance and other miscellaneous tasks often known as "other duties as assigned." For some SAs, the day never ends. Despite the challenges, pitfalls and occasional irate user; system administration is a fulfilling job with intangible rewards like no other position in IT. To assist those weary SAs in their quest to conquer their Linux systems, I've devised this list of 12 native Linux system monitoring tools that are always at my fingertips.

jQuery: Novice to Ninja

  • A Million Chimpanzees; By James Pyles (Posted by tripwire45 on Apr 29, 2010 8:44 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: PHP
I was first introduced to jQuery a year or so ago when I read David Sawyer McFarland's JavaScript: The Missing Manual from Pogue Press, which was more about jQuery than learning JavaScript basics (as I had originally assumed). It was a happy accident though, and I discovered how to get a lot more out of JavaScript by leveraging the jQuery framework making my efforts generally more quick and less painful (well, I'm not lightning fast, but I'm not an expert, either). I've been looking for a "pure jQuery" book for a while, but there really aren't a lot of good books on the topic out there. When I saw the Castledine and Sharkie book was available, I jumped at the chance to review it.

Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice

Starting in December 2009, hard disk manufacturers began introducing disks that use 4096-byte sectors rather than the more common 512-byte sectors. Although this change is masked by firmware that breaks the 4096-byte physical sectors into 512-byte logical sectors for the benefit of the operating system, the use of larger physical sectors has implications for disk layout and system performance. This article examines these implications, including benchmark tests illustrating the likely real-world effects on some common Linux® file systems. As disks with 4096-byte sectors become more common throughout 2010 and beyond, strategies for coping with these new disks will become increasingly important.

Firefox Mobile - Review

  • Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland (Posted by Jeff91 on Apr 29, 2010 6:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
I've been using firefox as the primary browser on my N900 since just prior to it's 1.0 release, the following are my summations of what I think of Mozilla's mobile browser.

Hewlett-Packard Will Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion

  • BusinessWeek ; By Connie Guglielmo and Ari Levy (Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 29, 2010 5:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to buy Palm Inc., the money-losing handset maker that was once a Silicon Valley icon, for $1.2 billion to challenge Apple Inc. in the smartphone market. Palm’s common shareholders will receive $5.70 a share in cash, a 23 percent premium over the closing price, Hewlett- Packard said in a statement today. Elevation Partners LP, Palm’s biggest investor, gets $485 million for its preferred shares and warrants.

Videos: 8 Presentations from LinuxFest Northwest 2010

With the permission of the presenters, I recorded all of the presentations I attended at the LinuxFest Northwest 2010 conference this past weekend in Bellingham, WA. This was the 11th annual event and it as fantastic. All videos are posted in Ogg Theora format and playable inline in Firefox via the HTML 5 video tag. They are actually streaming from archive.org.

What’s New in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx, is the result of years of continuous work from the open source community and Ubuntu corporate sponsor Canonical. A new version of Ubuntu is released every 6 months, but version 10.04 is a special “long term support” (LTS) release which will be supported for an extended period on both desktops and servers. Lucid Lynx also brings us an incredible amount of changes in both the look and functionality of Ubuntu. Here is a list of the most noticeable changes and new features that you’ll find in desktop edition of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Ubuntu One wasn't working on my 10.04 box - how I got it going

Now that the Ubuntu One cloud-storage service can sync any directory in the system instead of just things in a Ubuntu One folder, I have been anxious to start using it to sync my files to the cloud for availability not just on any other Ubuntu machines I might set up but also via the Web interface (and hopefully in other OSes, Linux and not, in the future). So I tried to get Ubuntu One going in this newish 10.04 installation. No go. I logged in, but nothing would sync. Perhaps my "situation" is unusual (but there are enough Ubuntu users that it could be more common than I think).

Set up Ubuntu 10.04 Server PV DomU at Xen 4.0 Dom0 (pvops 2.6.32.12 kernel) Dom0 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server

  • Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets (Posted by dba477 on Apr 29, 2010 2:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
The procedure bellow in general follows Thiago’s Martins submission to xen-devel mailing list. However,sequence of steps has been changed, /dev/xen/evtchn device hard linked with with pvops kernel, git checkout procedure is more straight forward and one Change-set from xen-4.0-testing.hg back ported to Xen 4.0 to support grub2 notation ‘(hd0,1)’ specific for Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx. The way as Xen 4.0 Dom0 set up worked on Ubuntu 9.10 (04) Servers doesn’t work any longer.

Shuttleworth Clears Ubuntu 10.04 for Liftoff

It’s official: Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support arrives April 29, and this particular blogger was privy to the press conference about it. Canonical Chairman Mark Shuttleworth and CEO Jane Silber discussed the plans and progress of new operating system, and then fielded some Q and A. The key news: More than 80 ISVs are supporting Ubuntu. But here’s what it means for the desktop users and Canonical as a whole...

Account Manager coming to Firefox

Last month Mozilla Labs announced a new concept series on online identity. As part of this exploration, we developed the Account Manager. The Account Manager makes it incredibly easy for users to create new accounts with optional randomly generated passwords, and log into and out of them with just a click. As a web developer, adding support for this feature could take as little as fifteen minutes of hacking (in fact, we’ll mention the first 5 people to add support – read below to learn more.). We want to make signing into websites easier for all Firefox users, and are looking to ship this feature as soon as possible in Firefox.

Bash Associative Arrays

The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: "It's too big and too slow" (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won't want to read about the "new" associative arrays that were added in version 4.0 of bash. On the other hand, if you've ever used any modern Office Suite and seen code-bloat at it's finest and just think the bash folks are exaggerating a bit, then read on.

LLVM project's 2.7 release out with a Clang

On Tuesday, the LLVM team announced the availability of its 2.7 release. LLVM is an open source project with a license similar to BSD's; it offers front ends for a number of programming languages, compiling them to intermediate code that can be interpreted by a Just-in-Time compiler or immediately compiled into native code. The 2.7 release marks a major milestone for LLVM, as it's the first time that its C language compiler, Clang, has sufficient C++ support to self-host, meaning that it can compile a functional version of itself.

Gnome Commander Whips Files Into Shape

As a file manager, Gnome Commander has the look and feel of early workhorses like Norton Commander and Midnight Commander. Among its many talents, Gnome Commander is a life-saver when it comes to synchronizing files. Something I wish were available in more apps I use is the ability to do advanced renaming of files, and GC does this with support for various types of meta-data.

A Future Opening

As I look through DistroWatch's list, I see a trend. The top ten at the moment are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon, Arch, and MEPIS. Strangely, we find two relatively non-n00b distributions in there: Arch, Debian. The other 8 distributions aim to be relatively easy to use, while Debian and Arch are not.

Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Mandriva 2010.0

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Apr 28, 2010 7:29 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Mandriva
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Mandriva 2010.0) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Mandriva 2010.0 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

Apple: Worse for open source than Microsoft?

Things need to change and Apple needs to be seen for what it really is: a threat to innovation and freedom. For as long as anyone can remember Microsoft has been seen as the primary enemy of free and open source software (FOSS). Free software advocates over the years have held Microsoft up as the pre-eminent example of how software should not be produced and distributed; an example of how they did not want it to be.

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