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LXer Weekly Roundup for 22-Nov-2009


LXer Feature: 23-Nov-2009

Chromium OS, Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook Remix Benchmarks

Intel released Moblin 2.1 earlier this month, Canonical released Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 late last month, and various other vendors have offered up their fall distribution refreshes too. Oh yeah, and Google just released the Chromium OS source code a few days ago! With all of the netbook-focused distribution updates, we found it time to run an onslaught of new benchmarks, comparing some of the leaders in this field along with running a couple full-blown desktop distributions for this round of Linux netbook benchmarking. Here are our benchmarks, including the world's first look at the Chromium OS (Chrome OS) system performance from the latest development build. Covered is everything from the video playback performance to encoding to battery power consumption and CPU/memory usage tests.

Linux Foundation's New TAB

There are many faces behind what goes on at the Linux Foundation: the officers and employees who run the day to day show, the Board of Directors who keep the ship on course, and of course, the volunteers who support, promote, and participate in the Foundation's activities. Among that number are those that act as the voice of the people themselves. The Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board is described as one that "collaborates with the Linux Foundation on programs and issues that affect the Linux community" and "fosters bi-directional interaction with application developers, end users, and Linux companies." The ten individuals are elected by the kernel community itself — half one year, half the next — and sit on the TAB for two years, with the possibility of re-election. Its chair — who will be elected at the Collaboration Summit next March — holds a seat on the Foundation's Board of Directors.

Chromium OS - Digging deeper into the open source Chrome OS

With the arrival of the first code of Chrome OS, also known as Chromium OS in its open source form, the H takes a deeper look at the browser-centric operating system. When Google announced Chrome OS, many people assumed Google was launching an assault on the desktop - going after Microsoft Windows and were just not saying that was what they were doing. Now Chromium OS, the open source branch of Chrome OS, has arrived The H has taken the source code and built it to see how it feels in practice.

Configuring and Strong Wi-fi (802.1x) Authentication in Linux

Setting up proper wireless encryption is easier than ever on Linux. WEP is broken and has been for a long time, but WPA and WPA2 are still going strong. Eric Geier shows how to configure your Linux client to connect to a proper wireless encryption and authentication server.

Chrome's mission: Making Windows obsolete

Some people are already convinced that Google will fail with its Chrome operating system. Others think that Chrome can't possibly be a threat to Windows. Both groups are so, so wrong. First, for those who think that Chrome is simply a failure from the word "go", their reasoning is pathetically flawed. They argue that Chrome will fail because it's based on Linux. What century are these people from?

Open Source Poses “Huge Risk” To Organisations

A chief information officer for engineering giant General Electric (GE) has said that open source software is only suited for internal “playground” applications and that businesses that use it for mission critical infrastructure are taking a huge risk. Responding to a question from eWEEK Europe UK on the first day of the Central and Eastern European IT Leaders Summit & Expo, in Budapest, Peter Gyorgy, chief information officer of GE's Consumer and Industrial division in Europe, said non-proprietary code presents a significant risk to companies.

Digium Seeks Even More Partners

  • The VAR Guy (Posted by thevarguy2 on Nov 23, 2009 1:44 PM EDT)
  • Groups:
Digium is expanding its partner program -- potentially engaging more consulting firms and resellers that want to embrace Asterisk, the open source IP PBX. Digium has been particularly active with a range of partners in recent months.

Google Chrome OS: a threat to Windows 7?

It's interesting, for sure, but Google Chrome OS as a game changer? No way! Everything from assuming people will want another Apple-alike 'buy the hardware to get the OS' model to thinking the average user is ready to surrender a PC paradigm for a cloud-based existence is wide of the mark. Google would appear to have got this one about as wrong as it got Google Answers or Google Lively. Remember them? No, thought not...

Will Windows 7 Promote Linux Adoption?

  • DaniWeb; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Nov 23, 2009 11:44 AM EDT)
It could happen. For the curious at heart, Linux is just around the corner for Windows 7 users.

Polygon Modeling of a Handgun using Blender 3D 2.49

  • http://www.packtpub.com; By Allan Brito (Posted by remsai10 on Nov 23, 2009 10:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups:
This article covers modeling by using concept drawings to create a base model in Blender, how to set up and configure a background image which is used to transform a mesh and use of tools such as Edge Loop tool, Face Loop Cut tool, and 3D Cursor as a tool.

Jaguar outruns Roadrunner

  • MyBroadband; By Alastair Otter (Posted by rpm007 on Nov 23, 2009 9:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux claims an even larger portion of the world's top supercomputers and IBM's Roadrunner gets run off its feet by a Jaguar.

Adium Themes in Pidgin [Ubuntu Karmic Koala How-to]

We've managed to use Adium themes in Pidgin on Ubuntu Jaunty and in Empathy (Ubuntu Karmic). But how about Pidgin and Ubuntu Karmic? That's pretty easy actually; here is what you need to do:

digiKam and Kipi sprint

The developers of digiKam and the Kipi project came together in Essen, Germany on November 13-15 for the second coding sprint for KDE photography applications. With digiKam preparing for the 1.0 release shortly before Christmas, plans were discussed and work began already in feature branches for the following release. A lot of work was put into polishing Windows support, with collaborative testing and bug fixing. The developers of Kamoso took the opportunity to bring Kipi support to their application. A lot of discussion was centered around a future architecture for Kipi plugins for syncing with web services and how Akonadi could help in this context.

Setup Ubuntu 9.10 Server PV DomU at Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 (2.6.31.6 pvops kernel) on top of Fedora 12

  • Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets (Posted by dba477 on Nov 22, 2009 3:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Red Hat, Ubuntu
A brief description of Xen 3.4.1 and Libvirt 0.7.1-15 deployment to Fedora 12 follows bellow. Next step is install Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server in HVM DomU with ext4fs image via virt-install. Ubuntu Karmic PV DomU gets loaded via pygrub profile due to Xen Hypervisor has been built on F12 along with e2fsprogs-devel package, what allows to handle PV DomUs images (F12,Ubuntu 9.10) having ext4fs on boot partition.

The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.2 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Nov 22, 2009 2:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: SUSE
This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, MyDNS DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

The Future of Linux

  • Eleven is Louder; By Bradford M. White (Posted by olefowdie on Nov 22, 2009 2:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
So here we are. Windows 7 launched and it isn't like the whole world changed. We knew it wouldn't. Snow Leopard launched with much less fan fare, but it brought some changes that someone needed to make. A fully 64bit OS that focuses on multi-core technologies as well the disposal of the Power libraries that permeated the Darwin landscape. Windows and Macintosh will be battling this out for many years to come. What changed with Linux? With the latest release of Ubuntu we saw some major changes. Things have become more tightly integrated, flashier and heavier.

Google Chrome OS 0.4.22.8 Screenshots

  • My SEO Company (Posted by lqsh on Nov 22, 2009 6:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux, PHP
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. Chrome OS 0.4.22.8 Screenshots.

This week at LWN: Toward a smarter OOM killer

The Linux memory management code does its best to ensure that memory will always be available when some part of the system needs it. That effort notwithstanding, it is still possible for a system to reach a point where no memory is available. At that point, things can grind to a painful halt, with the only possible solution (other than rebooting the system) being to kill off processes until a sufficient amount of memory is freed up. That grim task falls to the out-of-memory (OOM) killer. Anybody who has ever had the OOM killer unleashed on a system knows that it does not always pick the best processes to kill, so it is not surprising that making the OOM killer smarter is a recurring theme in Linux virtual memory development.

Linux is Best for PHP Development

Development in PHP is always a tricky road to follow, with many elements outside of your control. (Server, browser, operating systems). In this article we'll discuss the two most important things we should try to remember when developing in PHP.

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