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When Lenovo recently launched four ThinkServers, The VAR Guy noticed that the systems — designed for small and midsize businesses — emphasized virtualization. Hmmm. So, The VAR Guy began to wonder: Are virtualized servers (running a mix of Linux and Windows) really starting to push into the SMB space?

This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 9.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

This article is a continuation to my other Bash-related post, 6 Bash Productivity Tips. Since that article gathered many useful comments and I bumped over several more over the net, here are 5 more tips and tricks. Although these may not be necessarily productivity-related, they will surely ease working in a Bash terminal and it may be worth knowing them. If you're not familiar with the terminal, command-line interface and Bash you can go ahead and read my introduction to Linux CLI.

When Jenny Zhang needed a portfolio website to invigorate her job search, she turned to The Daily Ubuntu author Mary Riley to create the design. Mary built the entire website using completely free tools on Linux, including Bluefish, Kate, and frameworks like Prototype. Jenny is part of a whole slew of marketers and communicators who are turning to open-source applications to promote and build their sites.

The federal government has denied Oracle's request for a speedy approval of its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, requesting more time to give the purchase scrutiny before passing it on to the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission for approval. The DoJ's decision means it will take another 30 to 60 days to perform due diligence on the proposed merger, announced in April after talks between IBM and Sun collapsed.

To setup a sniff account to spy on all outgoing and incoming mails from your Qmail server. The sniff account will be smart enough to not store all the marked mails.

PCManFM is the default file manager in LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Its goal is to offer a fast execution speed, providing in the same time enough functionality for a file manager of its class.

The next version but one of Nokia's Maemo mobile Linux operating system will use Qt rather than GTK+ for its application development framework. Basing Maemo Harmattan on Qt will make it easier for developers to write applications for both Maemo and Symbian, Nokia's smartphone platform, the Finnish company's development platform product manager Quim Gil said last week at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.

DenyHosts is a Python script that analyzes the sshd server log messages to determine what hosts are attempting to hack into your system. It also determines what user accounts are being targeted. It keeps track of the frequency of attempts from each host.DenyHosts is designed for the use by Linux system administrators, the script can be useful to anybody running an sshd server.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has approved South African company Jumping Bean as an official LPI Training Partner. The LPI qualifications are an internationally recognised Linux industry certification. “Becoming an approved LPI training institute is an important achievement for us” says Joseph Neusu. The vendor-neutral LPI certificate has three levels of certification from junior to senior Linux professional.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from July 20th to July 22nd.

First the big news: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise patent licensing to both C# and the CLI. The announcement was done by Peter Galli at Microsoft over at Port25. A few months ago we approached Bob Muglia and Brian Goldfarb (@bgoldy) at Microsoft with a request to clarify the licensing situation for the ECMA standards covering C# and the CLI (also ISO standards, for the ISO loving among you). Previously Microsoft had detailed the patent license plans and today they have delivered on those plans. Astute readers will point out that Mono contains much more than the ECMA standards, and they will be correct. In the next few months we will be working towards splitting the jumbo Mono source code that includes ECMA + A lot more into two separate source code distributions. One will be ECMA, the other will contain our implementation of ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Winforms and others.

Epiphany is usually the first choice for GNOME users who want to use a web browser which is lighter than Firefox and integrates well with GNOME. Of course, there are alternatives like Konqueror or Opera out there, but they are either too bloated compared to Epiphany, or they don't integrate very well with the GNOME desktop environment. Being the default web browser in GNOME and built using the GTK toolkit, Epiphany became over time a well-known web browser especially for the fact that it is lightweight and has a basic, clean interface.

I had the pleasure to talk to Amanda McPherson, one of the minds behind LinuxCon, “LinuxCon is a new annual technical conference that will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux”. Where and where: September 21 - 23 2009, Portland. Read the full interview at Freesoftware Magazine.

Award Winners David Faure, Celeste Lyn Paul and Peter Penz accepted by Sebastian Trueg The Akademy Awards for 2009 have been announced, celebrating the best of KDE contributors. As always the winners are chosen by the winners from the previous year. Read on for the winners.

A normal litigant would just fold up shop and call it quits, now that Novell has been ruled the owner of the copyrights that SCO was suing AutoZone about. Not SCO. It is addicted to litigation, I guess, or someone is making them do it. Like the Devil.

Dedicated to those who like order over chaos, to those who like simplicity over complexity, to those who think that less is more, to those that just want more for less. Sabayon 4.2 will catch you: just the best of the Out-Of-The-Box, KDE 4.2.4, multimedia applications and nothing more than what you need for your daily tasks, but what about your free time?

What is the operating system of the cloud? Linux vendor Red Hat would like it to be Linux, while for networking giant Cisco, there are multiple operating systems. "We don't want the functionality of the network to work only in one cloud OS," Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said. "So, from that point of view, we are neutral." Warrior added that Cisco is going to make sure that their cloud initiatives work with multiple operating systems, including Red Hat and its Linux offerings.

Red Hat has shown impressive and steady growth for several years now, despite giving away its core product. So what's the problem? Paul Rubens wonders where all this business will keep coming from, once the high-end Unix market is no longer easy pickings.

One of the requirements for the upcoming public release of Officeshots.org is that all uploaded files are run through a virus scanner before they are made available. Picking a virus scanner for this job was easy: ClamAV. Finding a PHP library to interact with ClamAV proved harder though. The 3rd party library page for ClamAV points to two different libraries that provide PHP bindings for ClamAV but both appear to be dead and expunged from the internet. So, I created my own using the clamd TCP API, and because Officeshots is built using CakePHP I implemented it as a Cake plugin.