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More Right Window Button Ideas For Ubuntu 10.10

  • Web Upd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Mar 30, 2010 9:54 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
Since Mark Shuttleworth said that moving the Metacity window buttons to the left "opens up the space on the right nicely", lots of button ideas came out. The most controverted one is probably Esfera, an idea which Mark forwarded to the Ayatana mailing list. A recent idea by Izo makes a lot more sense than all the previous ideas. Have a look (it's called "The Workflow Button"):

Learn To Use Functions

  • BeginLinux.com; By Mike Weber (Posted by aweber on Mar 30, 2010 7:59 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Bash Shell scripting...every Linux admin needs it to save time. One aspect of shell scripting is writing functions. Creating functions in your scripts allows you to create containers of code that you can reuse in one script or multiple scripts. This tutorial, with examples, shows you how to create functions. The article is a part of a free shell scripting course.

Sony axes PS3 Other OS over “security concerns”

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Mar 30, 2010 7:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Sony plan to drop the Install Other OS feature from the PlayStation 3 via a new Firmware update (3.21) due this Thursday. The ability to install Linux distro’s on the popular console is a key feature of interest from the Open Source community and the move has already caused uproar on the Official PlayStation blog which is filling with comments of outrage from its small, but vocal, Linux user base.

Mac OS X 10.6.2 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 Performance

While we are just weeks away from delivering the most comprehensive Mac OS X vs. Windows 7 vs. Linux benchmarks , and Apple is on the heels of releasing the major Mac OS X 10.6.3 update, for those impatient ones today we have published an extensive set of tests comparing the performance of Mac OS X 10.6.2 against a development build of Ubuntu 10.04. This is our first time exploring how Canonical's Lucid Lynx can compete with Apple's Snow Leopard.

What is Unity Linux?

There’s been a lot of confusion about exactly what Unity Linux is.

I thought I’d talk today a bit about that. I’d like to talk a bit about what Unity uses for it’s ‘guts’. I’d also like to dispel some myths surrounding Unity. Lastly, I’d like to talk briefly about how Unity is doing all it can to further Open Source and Linux by contributing to projects it is involved with.

Sun's IBM-mainframe flower wilts under Oracle's hard gaze

Larry Ellison likes to buzz rotten fruit off some corporate type’s head. Over the years Microsoft, PeopleSoft, BEA Systems, SAP, and Red Hat have lined up to be been duly pelted during calls with Wall St or during Ellison's company's mega OpenWorld customer and partner conference.

Interview with Aleix Pol of KDE Edu and KDevelop

Hello again to all the KDE people. We are here with a third interview. Last time we had Tobias König, a KDE PIM developer. Today it’s the turn of Aleix Pol, a contributor to KDE EDU and KDevelop. As usual, there is also the original interview in Italian if you prefer to read that.

It no longer does everything: no more Linux on PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 Sony launched has very little in common with the system you can buy now. The PS3 launched when rumble was a last-generation feature, backwards compatibility was a core part of the hardware strategy, and the ability to install Linux on the hardware was attractive for those who liked to tinker with their hardware. So what happened?

Minimalist Linux desktops

  • Heise; By Richard Hillesley (Posted by zigzag on Mar 30, 2010 1:19 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Lightweight desktops have a multitude of uses, on netbooks, for mobile devices, for older hardware, for users with limited requirements of their systems, for connecting to applications in the cloud, and for bare knuckled programmers who prefer to work closer to the metal.

Set up a Personal Blog in 5 Minutes with Tonido Thots

  • Linux Beacon; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Mar 30, 2010 12:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
While there are quite a few services that offer free blog hosting, there are situations when you’d want to run a blog on your own server. This approach has its advantages, but setting up a server and then installing and configuring a blog system can be a daunting proposition – unless you choose to use Tonido, that is.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 28-Mar-2010


LXer Feature: 29-Mar-2010

Review: 75 Ways to Secure Your Linux/Mac/Windows Systems With Open Source

The Linux/Free Software/Open Source world is cram-full of first-class security applications. Best of all, they're not just for Linux, but protect Mac and Windows too. Cynthia Harvey collects 75 to share with us.

Catalyst vs. Mesa Performance With Ubuntu 10.04

Over the past two weeks, we have published a variety of articles looking at different aspects of the open-source Linux graphics stack. These articles range from comparing the Gallium3D and classic Mesa performance to comparing the kernel mode-setting and user-space mode-setting performance. Today we are continuing with this interesting Linux graphics coverage by publishing benchmarks comparing the performance of the Radeon Mesa DRI graphics driver to AMD's Catalyst 10.4 proprietary driver. Is the open-source driver finally catching up to AMD's highly optimized driver? Continue reading to find out.

How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed

  • debianadmin.com (Posted by gg234 on Mar 29, 2010 8:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
How to Set Up a High Performance Cluster (HPC) Using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed. There are many guides found on the net describing Kerrighed and how to set it up using Ubuntu and others.However, to the best of my knowledge there isn’t a step by step guide specifically designed for Kerrighed using Debian Lenny. So here it is. You can set up your own Beowulf Cluster using Debian Lenny and Kerrighed in about 50 steps. Many of the steps described here are taken straight from other guides because there are applicable here (see sources at the bottom.) Many other steps are based on my own trial and error.

The Alexandria Project, Chap. 11: Have I got an App for You!

While CIA Agent Carl Cummings was being taught to heel, Frank was sitting at his kitchen table, tapping away at the cramped keyboard of a cheap netbook connected to a neighbor’s unsecured WiFi network. Even this was risky, he reminded himself, so this brief session would have to be his last until he moved on.

Report: Malware capital of the world is Shaoxing, China

  • ZDNet; By Andrew Nusca (Posted by tracyanne on Mar 29, 2010 7:52 PM EDT)
Computer security firm Symantec announced on Monday that Shaoxing, China was malware capital of the world last month.

[Something we never have to worry all that much about, but interesting in a morbid sort of way, I thought.]

Comparing Files

You often may need to compare one version of a file to an earlier one or check one file against a reference file. Linux provides several tools for doing this, depending on how deep a comparison you need to make.

Stop Wine-ing: 15 Games for Linux

  • Linux Magazine; By Susan Linton (Posted by linuxmag on Mar 29, 2010 6:00 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Time to kill? Check. Running Linux? Check. Now, here’s the last piece of that puzzle: 15 current and future gaming options that don’t require Windows.

IBM, Novell Plot More SUSE Linux Moves

When it comes to hardware and software, IBM and Novell have a longstanding SUSE Linux business relationship. So where are the two companies heading next together? Novell and IBM provided some clues during last week’s Novell BrainShare conference. Here are the details.

Quanta Plus Review

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Ibbotson (Posted by russb78 on Mar 29, 2010 4:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
An open source, Linux-based web development package that’s crammed with features. Sukrit Dhandhania takes Quanta Plus for a test drive…

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