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The book Geeks Bearing Gifts, by Ted Nelson is a collage of computing history book. Not only does it directly cover computers, it also covers the origins of ideas that we see in computers. While short, it does go over many interesting things. Ted Nelson is a writer well-known for promoting his ideas for Project Xanadu, a hypertext system that was designed before the Web. Nelson, a self-proclaimed visionary, has been treated as a fringe figure in the computing industry even though his ideas are well-reasoned and well-thought out. Read the full review at Free Software Magazine.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 11.2 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

I've recently found some patched (by mriya3) Nautilus packages for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic (Nautilus 2.28.1) which has "Undo" and "Redo" actions integrated - a really important feature missing in Nautilus. I've been using it for a while and it works great!

What is it about these guys? Betamax/VHS, HD DVD/Blu-ray and now DECE and KeyChest. Can't the consumer electronics industry and studios cut us a break? Well, I guess not

As Firefox gets closer and closer to that 50% market share around the world (it's already there in some countries), the question is: what next? The answer is Mozilla Drumbeat, an ambitious project to "make sure the internet is still open, participatory 100 years from now."

This tutorial is written for those who are not familiar with Ubuntu/Linux and is very detailed. If you are experienced feel free to just grab what you need from it.If you’re like me you have an iPhone and a portable computer running Ubuntu and you would like to have mobile internet without paying for an extra data plan from your carrier. Thanks to a few devoted individuals tethering the iPhone to Ubuntu is simple. The only prerequisite is that you must have an iPhone 3G or 3GS running OS 3.0 or higher. If you’re running 3.0 then you can do this without jail breaking your phone by installing a modified carrier profile. However, if you’re on OS 3.1+ then you will need to jail break your phone to install the modified carrier profile.

Getting the performance-monitoring data for a server can be invaluable for a person handling a production environment. Once you collect this data it can be quite a challenge to interpret it accurately however. This is where Linux User & Developers guide comes in handy…

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that voting for the 2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in a variety of categories. Awards will be given out in 27 categories this year, including Server Distribution of the Year, Desktop Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Office Suite of the Year, Desktop Environment of the Year and Database of the Year. The polls will close on February 9th. This is the ninth annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Last year's winners include Ubuntu, Firefox, VirtualBox, Eclipse, MySQL and KDE.

For those of you attending the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) next month in Los Angeles, Matthew Tippett and I will be hosting a talk. This talk is entitled "5 Stages of Benchmark Loss: PTS and You" and, of course, covers the Phoronix Test Suite software and its capabilities and more for autonomously testing Linux and other operating systems.

For me, the hardest part about teaching the LPI 101 course is teaching about text-stream filters. It’s not that they’re difficult to understand. It’s just that showing the examples of how they work is easy, but showing examples of how they can be used in real life is a bit more challenging. Real-life examples from the Linux admin world are fairly complex, and are beyond the level that most beginning Linux students are able to grasp. So, in most LPI books, the student will see how these utilities work, but not how to use them.

Skype, Polycom and a range of other partners are gearing up for Digium's Asterisk World conference (Jan. 20-22). But the big focus for Digium at the open source IP PBX event will likely involve updates to several new Digium initiatives. Here's an update.

Kaseya -- a fast-growing provider or remote systems management tools -- is preparing to introduce remote management software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux, and other Linux distributions. Here are the details.

We sometimes find what we are looking for while searching for something completely different. This happened to me recently. I was searching for a way to fix some graphic performance issues being experienced on kubuntu, When I stumbled upon (no pun intended) a packaged named ppa-purge.

We’ve had the battle of the apps and now it’s the battle of the handset. But after all the hype, it has not been the greatest start for Google and the Nexus One phone - maybe we should be looking forward to the Nexus Two and all that might bring with it?

With a bit of a delay, Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 has been finally released. We already posted a quick what's new guide (initially, 0.5 was supposed to be released on 1th of January, so read about most of the new features there), but let's have an even quicker look at what's new:

The Ftrace tracing utility has many different features that will assist in tracking down Linux kernel problems. The previous article discussed setting up Ftrace, using the function and function graph tracers, using trace_printk(), and a simple way to stop the recording of a trace from user space. This installment will touch on how user space can interact with Ftrace, faster ways of stopping the trace, debugging a crash, and finding what kernel functions are the biggest stack hogs.

Ubuntu Customization Kit is a GUI tool that helps you customizing official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. You can add any package to the live system, for example language packs, or applications.

Recent “zypper update” on November’s openSUSE 11.2 release brought system to the most recent status. Current 2.6.31.8-xen kernel works fine. Seems like a next generation of xenified aka Suse kernels is on the go right now. However, i believe,that vm-install on recently updated 11.2 works same way as before maintenance update. So, in meantime vm-install doesn’t inderstand either HTTP or CDROM sources attempting to create PV Guest and virsh scripting appears to be the only one option to create Xen PV Guests manageable via virt-manager. Notice, that F12 PV Guest install doesn’t require HTTP or NFS share , pygrub performs install just via F12 ISO image , like OpenSolaris PV Guests get installed as usual.

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 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.

Open Shot Video Editor Version 1.0 has released. OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source, non-linear video editor for Linux. Here is how you can actually install OpenShot 1.0 in Ubuntu.