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Comic: Linux's Marketshare

Perhaps the Linux Marketshare issue should be framed in the context of other similarly pointless debates.

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Lenny server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

11 of the Best Free Linux Voice Over IP (VoIP) Software

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on May 4, 2009 11:12 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
Voice over IP (VoIP) software enables telephone-like voice conversations across IP based networks. A VoIP phone service is often cheaper than a traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) phone service and removes geographic restrictions to telephone numbers.

This week at LWN: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Despite a steady stream of rumors, IBM did not, in the end, buy Sun Microsystems. But, on April 20, Oracle did. This acquisition could have some interesting implications for the Linux community. Your editor, while not really knowing more than anybody else, suspects that the outcome could be mostly positive. What follows, here, is some wild speculation on where this could all go.

Speed up Firefox by mounting the profile in tmpfs (RAM) [Linux only]

tmpfs is a virtual, RAM-backed filesystem. It’s lightning-fast, but since it’s RAM-backed, any file written to tmpfs uses precious memory while it’s there, and the entire contents of the virtual partition are lost on shutdown or crash. The good news is that these detriments can be minimized, making tmpfs a viable choice for your profile directory. This document gives some tips on how to mount your Firefox profile in a tmpfs partition while minimizing the downsides of tmpfs.

Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp

In this phone interview that took place in front of an audience at OOPSLA 2008, Guy Steele spins a yarn with John McCarthy, the father of Lisp, attempting to find out some details surrounding the language inception in the 50’ and its later evolution.

Who Runs Dell

He decided it was time to get a new desktop. Knowing that Dell had Linux options, he navigated to their website and began his shopping. No one relates an experience better than the person experiencing it, so let me present it straight from the source. What follows is a verbatim account of his experience with Dell Sales on the telephone. Things fairly well turned to poop from there.

How Oracle-Sun Could Use Google to Become New IBM

There are several paths that Oracle could take to fully utilize the assets they are acquiring from Sun to become more dominant. The most obvious is to simply become a platform vendor and sell off the hardware to HP, Dell, or Lenovo in exchange for cash and a stronger strategic relationship with the company they chose. The most powerful result would come with HP. And - combined with a reinvigorated Unbreakable Linux, Oracle and HP could effectively take control of much of the corporate market. However, what if Oracle wanted to make a play to become as strong as IBM was when it was at its peak? Could they parley this acquisition into something vastly greater? Let's explore that today.

Top 7 Reasons People Quit Linux

I've been writing Linux guidebooks for some time, and it's fair to say that most people who buy my books are Windows users looking to make the leap to Linux (or perhaps just wondering what the fuss is about). Because of this, I've heard a lot of excuses why people quit Linux, and return to Windows. I'm happy to say that the excuses are getting far less common nowadays, compared to 2003, when I wrote my first book. But I still hear 'em. Here are the top seven reasons I've come across. No doubt you've heard them too.

Getting The Year From Wtmpx/Wtmp - Part 2 - The Easy Way

Getting the year from wtmpx/wtmp has never been easier. That is, if you don't count the past few years that I've been doing it the hard way ;)

Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government

It’s the most secure distribution version of Windows XP ever produced by Microsoft: More than 600 settings are locked down tight, and critical security patches can be installed in an average of 72 hours instead of 57 days. The only problem is, you have to join the Air Force to get it. The Air Force persuaded Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to provide it with a secure Windows configuration that saved the service about $100 million in contract costs and countless hours of maintenance. At a congressional hearing this week on cybersecurity, Alan Paller, research director of the Sans Institute, shared the story as a template for how the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products. And those could eventually be available to the rest of us.

Deja Vu all over again

On that venue, in the summer of 2005, I wrote an article that pissed thousands of people off. To date, that article posted the third-most comments we've ever received. Many of them were not positive. I lost friends over it. I made publicly some fairly controversial statements. I said that the current model of the GNU/Linux desktop system would flounder in obscurity until a permanent level of standardization was reached. And then I crossed the line.

Netbook OS Shouldn't Matter, But It Does

  • DaniWeb; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on May 3, 2009 8:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
The Netbook OS really shouldn't matter, but evidence suggests that consumers have rejected Netbooks running Linux and some suggest Android Netbooks could suffer a similar fate.

Unpacking lock-in, silos and walled gardens

In the Linux and FOSS worlds we've been complaining for decades about vendor lock-in, platform and service silos, walled gardens and other annoyances. So now I'm wondering what scholarship has been devoted to these practices.

Windows 7 free and legal until 2010

How desperate is Microsoft? It appears that from May 5th you will be able to download and install Windows 7 release code and keep it, free of charge and legally, until June 2010 on as many machines as you like.

K9Copy - Powerful DVD Backup Tool for KDE4

  • Tux Arena; By Craciun Dan (Posted by Chris7mas on May 3, 2009 5:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE
K9Copy is a KDE application which allows to transcode and backup your DVDs. K9Copy is one of the big players when it comes to DVD transcoding, together with dvd::rip and AcidRip, allowing to encode DVD ISO images and mounted DVDs too.

Pretending a Package is Installed by Creating an Empty Package with Checkinstall (for Debian-based Distributions)

After installing ffmpeg from svn with checkinstall, I had the problem that the also installed library libavcodec51 is not compatible with the one delivered with Ubuntu. But I could not simply uninstall it so that the manually installed version was used because that caused problems with libxine1-ffmpeg, which stopped kaffeine, amarok and other software from running properly.

The Fear of Knowledge

  • TromboneChamp.Wordpress.com; By Max Shinn (Posted by trombonechamp on May 3, 2009 3:11 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
I had the opportunity of listening to a presentation by a poorly-informed faculty member at my school regarding copyright laws. This was an eye-opening experience for me into the way those who believe to have a solid grasp of copyright view it. My class of 30+ students listened intently, believing everything they were told, as Mrs. Smith started her lecture…

How Well Does Computer Humor Age? Decade Check.

  • The Linux and Unix Menagerie; By Mike Tremell (Posted by eggi on May 3, 2009 2:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Humor; Groups: Community, Linux, Sun
linux, unix, computer, humor, decade, 1998, 2008, funny

Complete Aspire One Install Guide for Ubuntu Netbook Remix in English

This is a guide I've written for the new Ubuntu release with LXDE. Tweaking for SSD included. It is targeted for the Acer Aspire One A110, but it will work with any other Netbook. Some Conky tips for LXDE included.

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