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Firefox powers research
Firefox is more than just a browser, it's also a research tool on steroids. Mozilla's Firefox is a pretty good browser. But, thanks to a number of add-ons, it can also be an essential research tool for anyone working online. We look at some of the best add-ons available for improving Firefox's research capabilities.
PclinuxOS2010 Gnome: The black pearl | Screenshots tour
Few days ago PCLinuxOS2010 was released, the new version comes with many new features and improvements, the Gnome version comes with a Full Gnome 2.30.0 Desktop, Kernel 2.6.32.11-bfs kernel for maximum desktop performance, Nvidia and ATI fglrx driver support..
Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' — and it's easily fixed
My particular Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation is not suffering from the Xorg memory leak. So what's my increased use of swap all about? I don't know if it's beneficial or not to have so much swapping going on, but a couple of readers have told me that Ubuntu's "swappiness" is set to a level of 60, which is optimal for servers. Desktops run better with lower "swappiness," and 10 is the suggested level. All of this "swappiness" information is available in the Ubuntu community's Swap FAQ.
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.
Working with Suse Studio : An exercise in online virtual appliance creation.
Making custom Linux distributions can be an arduous task. Luckily, there are companies out there that are looking to make the process more friendly. Previously, I reviewed the Reconstructor Web UI, a web-based Debian/Ubuntu customization utility, and today, I'd like to present you with a SUSE-based alternative called SUSE Studio. Although SUSE Studio does have some offline components (such as SUSE Studio Onsite and the rest of the SUSE Appliance Toolkit), this review will focus on the online components which are freely available at susestudio.com. For those that are following along at home, I'll assume that you already have an account with SUSE Studio.
Ubuntu 10.10 Will Get A Global Menu By Default
Mark Shuttleworth announced today that Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition will come with a global menu. He also states that ONLY the Ubuntu Netbook Edition will get the Global Menu.
Say Cheese: Building a Photo App for Your Android Device
Today it is hard to think of a phone without a camera. In fact we are just as likely to take a picture with our phone as we are to make a call. And once we take a photo, we are quite likely to send it as a message to someone else, but that is a topic for another day! In this column we are going to write a simple Android application which demonstrates taking a photo and displaying it to the screen of your phone.
Diskless Workstations Bundles Support for Ubuntu Operating System with LTSP Thin Clients
TROY, Mich., April 27 - DisklessWorkstations.com, a leading supplier of thin client hardware and solutions for open source thin client environments announces Bundled LTSP Support. Bundled support is included as part of LTSP Thin Client purchases for use with the Ubuntu operating system (versions 9.10 and later). Bundled support incidents are awarded based upon the quantity of thin client devices purchased and are provided at no additional cost.
EasyPeasy and the Challenges of Linux Netbook Design
Netbook desktops in free and open source software (FOSS) are in a state of rapid development. Should a netbook be treated as more as a mobile device than as a laptop? Should developers assume that netbooks are used for light computing such as social networking, rather than for productivity? These are just two of the questions whose answers affect the design of any netbook desktop.
Japanese tech giants tip Linux-compatible mobile OS
Six Japanese technology firms have announced they are developing a new application platform for mobile phones that will be compatible with Linux, Symbian, and possibly Android. Developed by NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic, and Sharp, the unnamed, multimedia-focused mobile platform is scheduled for arrival in phones in early 2012, say the partners.
Google to hire two Android developers to work with the kernel community
As reported by Computerworld (from the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2010), Google plans to assign two developers to work on integrating enhancements developed for the Android Linux kernel into the official Linux development tree maintained by Linus Torvalds.
IPs Continue To Dwindle
It's widely known, at least within geekdom, that the number of available IP addresses is on a collision course with the number zero. The depletion of the IPv4 address space, and the necessity of migrating to the next-generation IPv6, has been discussed ad infinitum in geek circles since RFC 2460 was published in December 1998. That discussion has not always been about the best way to resolve the issue, however. The imminence of IPv4 exhaustion has consistently been denied, and its emergent nature downplayed. Indeed, APNIC Director General Paul Wilson's 2003 statement on the subject — describing depletion predictions as "misinformation" and "rumor", while stating that existing IPv4 would suffice for another twenty years — brings to mind the infamously mis-attributed quote "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
15 Stunning Linux Desktop Customizations - Must Watch!
If you think Linux desktops are ugly, think again. Here is an awesome collection of 15 jaw dropping Linux desktop customizations made by users. I wouldn't mind calling them works of art instead of just customizations. They are that good. A good number of them include clever conky modifications.
Full Steam ahead with CrossOver Games 9.0 beta
Software guys are often accused of wanting to spend too much time polishing their beloved programs. I'm very guilty of that myself, and that's doubly hard because of our work on Wine. While Wine is amazing, it's not perfect, so there is a challenging balance in deciding that we've made enough progress to justify a release.
Processing 10000 Pictures Using Many Computers With Oropo (Debian/Ubuntu)
Have you ever had a lot of data to process? In such a moment after a while of processing we realize that it will take ages to complete. It would be faster if we could use two or three or even more computers. Let's use some computers - you think it is a lot of configuration? You are wrong. With Oropo it's easy. Let's discuss a problem of processing large number of pictures. First approach for solving this problem is to process pictures sequentially on one computer. Second approach is to process pictures parallelly on many computers.
A great way to install Ubuntu (and other distros)
For those that have been burning CD's for years to install linux, here's an alternative that will save time and money. Pendrives/thumbdrives/jumpdrives/flashdrives, or whatever you want to call them are an ideal way to install and run linux. They are now very cheap and plentiful everywhere you look. Plus, pendrives (as I will call them) can be reused 1000's of times before they wear out, making them a very green way to go about things.
Report: Linux adoption highest among APAC SMBs
Linux server adoption among small and midsize businesses (SMBs) is reportedly 25 percent higher in the Asia-Pacific region than it is in the United States, and growing faster than the worldwide average, says a new study by Springboard Research and Spiceworks.
Online tool for converting video files
There are video converstion programs available for Linux . But if that doesn’t do the trick for you there is a website where you can upload a video have it converted to the desired format online and then when it is finished you are provided with a download link for the file.
Ubuntu 10.04 - Running before release, maybe schizophrenia is part of the deal
Between all that's been happening in the weeks before the release of Ubuntu's third long-term-support release and what's happening in my own computing oeuvre (hey, if you can throw in an obscure French word every once in a while, why not just do that?) I think schizophrenia (hello, LatinGreek) is my personal order of, if not the day then this Debian-FreeBSD-Ubuntu month.
Am I suffering from the Ubuntu Lucid X memory leak?
A commenter just wondered if my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid system's increasing use of swap was due to the known memory leak in X on the soon-to-be-released distro. Could be. After 5 hours 30 minutes of uptime, htop shows 9 MB of swap is being used — or at any rate "reserved." Remember, I have 1 GB of RAM on this Intel video-equipped laptop.
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