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Setting up a Linux-based Open-Mesh Network, Part 1

A wireless mesh network lets you multiply a single wired Internet connection over as large an area as you care to manage, such as a farm with remote buildings, a school campus, a neighborhood, even marinas (Internet on your boat!). You can quickly quickly adapt to changing conditions without laying so much as a foot of cable. Eric Geier shows us how using Linux and open source management tools.

Ubuntu brings Google Android apps to netbooks

Canonical has unveiled the first fruits of a project that could put applications for Google's Android on a netbook sooner than the search giant can deliver itself. Ubuntu's chief sponsor has demonstrated an execution environment that lets applications built to fit the screen, power, and hardware of an Android smartphone on an Ubuntu-powered PC. The execution environment potentially lets these applications take advantage of features common to a PC such as support for mouse-based input instead of touch, multiple windows open simultaneously, and have an application run while the CPU is idle.

More on Using the Bash Complete Command

In the video last week I showed how to use the bash complete command for simple use cases. Today I'll show you some of the additional ways that you can use the command for more complex scenarios.

Where to Find and Post Linux News

  • beginlinux.wordpress.com; By Andrew Weber (Posted by aweber on May 27, 2009 4:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups:
Two things I do every morning no matter what are drink my morning coffee and read the latest Linux news. A day without either of them would be a disaster. Because getting Linux news is so important to me I’ve kept track of several Linux news sites and tested the value and focus of their articles. I’ve also participated in many of these sites and have noted significant traffic changes as we move deeper into the age of social media. As things change it may be time to re-evaluate where you're reading and submitting your Linux news.

Filmaster: free and open social network for movie buffs with reviews and recommendations

  • PolishLinux.org; By Borys Musielak (Posted by michux on May 27, 2009 3:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNU
Filmaster is a new social network for film buffs that features personalized content and recommendations. What makes it special is that it is an open service: both code and content is free as in freedom.

First Annual SouthEast LinuxFest Announces Speaker List

Triumphant Return of Linux in the GNU/South - June 13th, 2009 The SouthEast Linuxfest is occurring on June 13th at Clemson University. It begins at 9am, and runs till around 6pm, followed by an after party.

$24 Billion Microsoft Partner Plans Open Source Blitz

Tech Data, a $24 billion technology giant with deep Microsoft relationships, has developed a 24-month plan to emerge as “the voice for open source in distribution,” The VAR Guy has learned. Here's the scoop and its implications for the global open source movement. Details here.

Linux Unified Kernel Reaches Version 0.2.4

Linux Unified Kernel which I was telling you about a few days ago was recently recently reached version 0.2.4.

Simulator runs Android apps on Ubuntu

Canonical demonstrated a prototype version of an execution environment for Ubuntu that lets it run Android apps, says an industry report. The environment acts like a simulator, and is based on the Xorg X Window environment, says the story. Ubuntu sponsor Canonical demonstrated the Android emulator at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, Spain, according to a Ryan Paul story in ArsTechnica. Based on the Xorg open source implementation of X Window, the execution environment functions like a simulator, enabling Android apps to run alongside conventional Linux applications, writes Paul.

Vancouver Opens Up

If proprietary software is the proverbial dam, Open Source is the raging torrent pushing to break through one might even continue the analogy to identify certain figures in the proprietary world as the little boy with his finger in the hole, with more nefarious intent, of course. More and more cities, countries, and even continents are embracing Open Source with open arms and, given the analogy above, snorkels and as of last Thursday, one more municipality has been fitted for fins.

Giving New Life to Old Macs With Linux

If you've run older PowerPC-based Macs in your businesses you may be wondering what to do with them now that Apple has made the transition to Intel, and the G3, G4 and G5 processors are beginning to show their age. Paul Rubens suggests scrapping OS X, and turning the machines into servers or workstations running Linux.

Intel Adopts an Identity in Software

Intel has worked hard and spent a lot of money over the years to shape its image: It is the company that celebrates its quest to make computer chips ever smaller, faster and cheaper with a quick five-note jingle at the end of its commercials. As Renee J. James of Intel puts it, “You can’t just throw hardware out there into the world” without accompanying software. But as Intel tries to expand beyond the personal computer chip business, it is changing in subtle ways. For the first time, its long unheralded software developers, more than 3,000 of them, have stolen some of the spotlight from its hardware engineers. These programmers find themselves at the center of Intel’s forays into areas like mobile phones and video games.

Mandriva get into the cloud backup business

Mandriva, the Linux vendor, has announced "Click'n'Backup", its own web based backup system. The service, reminiscent of the recently launched Canonical's Ubuntu One, includes online secure storage space and a backup and restore tool. Unlike Ubuntu One, the backup and restore tools are available for non-Mandriva Linux systems, Windows and Mac OS X. The system can be configured for backup, or as a shared and synchronised file store, allowing users to keep files up to date on multiple machines.

Survey, Bought a Win License, only to wipe it for Linux?

A Survey done in Google Docs, See what others have to say about the burn rate on MS licenses becoming Linux and more..

Controlling Group Access To Directories Recursively And Automatically Using Simple FACL's On Linux

A quick tutorial on managing directories, and files and subdirectories, on the fly, within those directories, using file access controls.

Karmic Koala to run Android applications?

The Ubuntu Developer Summit, currently running in Barcelona, is reported to have three sessions dealing with Google's Android operating system, fuelling speculation over what Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10, will offer in the way of Android compatibility. A specification page on the Unbuntu Wiki for the Android Execution Environment, suggest that the plan is to allow Android applications to execute in their own chroot'ed environment with the non-X11 graphics of the mobile operating system being modified to display either via the X server, or through some other display mechanism. To a user, this would probably appear as a desktop window which contains an Android desktop.

Organizations Find Switch from Windows Better than Expected

  • Linux Pro Magazine; By Anika Kehrer (Posted by brittaw on May 26, 2009 3:14 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
British market researchers took some lessons from a survey of 1,275 Linux migrators in organizations worldwide.

AMD Phenom II X3 On Linux

Earlier this year AMD launched the Phenom II series to succeed the original quad-core Phenom processors, with these newer desktop CPUs being built upon a 45nm process, tripling the amount of Level 3 cache to 6MB, and offering support for both DDR2 and DDR3 system memory. Prior to the launch of the Phenom II we had tested the AMD Shanghai Opterons on Linux and benchmarked these CPUs on OpenSolaris too, which were the server/workstation version of this new AMD 45nm core. With the Phenom II series there is the X3 and X4 line-up for triple-core and quad-core processors, respectively. In this article we are looking at how well the AMD Phenom II X3 710 performs under Ubuntu Linux.

Netflix Where Art Thou?

OK...I think we can put the old wive's tale to bed that Linux Users just don't spend money. 2DBoy will be the first to punch a pin in that bubble. What has been proven is that Linux users will shell out a few bucks for what they want. We have another non-believer in our midst. NetFlix.

Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions On Debian Lenny

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on May 26, 2009 12:15 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server on Debian Lenny. A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. This is handy if your client computers don't have CD or floppy drives, or if you want to set up multiple computers at the same time (e.g. in a large enterprise), or simply because you want to save the money for the CDs/DVDs. In this article I show how to configure a PXE server that allows you to boot multiple distributions (i386 and x86_64): Debian Lenny, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 10, CentOS 5.3, OpenSuSE 11.1, and Mandriva 2009.1.

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