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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 280

This week's DWW feature story looks at the global economic crisis and its impact on Linux distributions and businesses. It turns out that the release of Fedora 10 isn't the only good news for Red Hat as a major Wall Street analyst sees a bright future for the company

Tux makes home on the iPhone

The iPhone DevTeam has managed to get a Linux image to boot up on an iPhone, at least to console level, though they've resolutely failed to explain why one would want to do such a thing. It's hard to imagine there are many iPhone users out there who love the hardware but are unhappy with the OS and interface, but that's never stopped the Linux crowd before. They won't be happy until the little penguin has been replicated everywhere, and today it's the turn of the iPhone to feel the touch of rebel code.

Extensions for Chromium?

From the Problem Statement: "Chromium can't be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user to the next. The feature needs of one person often conflict directly with those of another. Further, one of the design goals of Chromium is to have a minimal light-weight user interface, which itself conflicts with adding lots of features."

[I found this and thought it would be of interest. - Scott]

Interview with Adam Williamson - Mandriva Community Manager

In this interview we talk with Adam. In specific, we talk about: What’s new in the latest Mandriva release. Relating directly to the users instead of the developer community. Differences between user priorities and developer priorities. Deciding what should be included in the distribution. What will become of the “year of the Linux desktop” idea? The future of open versus closed development.

OpenLDAP Quick Tips: OpenLDAP Logfile analysis

Hi All, Here's the 14th tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series and today it comes from "Pablo Chamorro". You want to analyse your OpenLDAP logfile? There are various ways to do this yourself by hand, but the have community already done the work for you and written the: OpenLDAP Logfile analysis utility.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by phoronix on Dec 1, 2008 5:14 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
We previously had looked at the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and Radeon HD 4670, but if you are looking for a graphics card that's positioned between the two and costs less, there is the Radeon HD 4650. The Radeon HD 4650 is clocked the same as the Radeon HD 4550, but is based upon the RV730PRO GPU and is able to provide a bit more processing power than the lesser RV710 solution. Sapphire though manufactures a Radeon HD 4650 graphics card that operates well beyond the reference core and memory frequencies for the RV730PRO and sells it at a very affordable price. In this article we are seeing how well the Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC graphics card can perform under Linux.

Fixing Linux: What's Broken And What To Do About It

  • InformationWeek; By Serdar Yegulalp (Posted by tuxtom on Dec 1, 2008 4:16 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Despite the fact that it's been around since 1991, Linux remains a work in progress. It's not perfect, nor does anyone pretend it is. The places where it needs the most immediate improvement are also a matter of debate: what's crucially important to some is only marginally important to others. Still, there's no question that there are key areas where Linux is lacking -- not just missing individual features, but things that are actively dysfunctional and which need immediate attention. I'm going to run down several major areas where Linux, as an operating system and as a platform, needs work.

[Broken? How is having a choice make it broken? Linux can always be improved upon that I will not argue, but it doesn't need "fixing". Windows on the other hand.. - Scott]

[Video] USvMicrosoft: 10 Years Later - David Boies

David Boies, founding partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner and the DOJ's special trial counsel in the Microsoft case. - Berkman Center Channel.

Microsoft's $20 billion Yahoo deal: bogus?

Looks like the Times Online’s report about Microsoft offering $20 billion to buy Yahoo was bogus, with key figures in both the Microsoft and Yahoo camps saying there’s no truth to the story. The thing is, the denials could be yet more misinformation...

Recent Firefox extensions for tab addicts

The number of Firefox extensions continues to grow. For example, when I last wrote about tab extensions just over a year ago, about 110 existed. Now, despite the need to rewrite many extensions to make them compatible with Firefox 3.0, the number is over 190, and the choice is greater than ever. Basic functionality, coloring options, positioning of the tab bar, automatic opening of tabs at startup -- whatever your need, you can probably find it on the Firefox add-ons site.

Installing Cherokee Web Server With PHP 5 & MySQL 5 Support On Ubuntu 8.10

  • HowtoForge; By Leszek Taczkowski (Posted by falko on Dec 1, 2008 12:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This tutorial shows how to install Cherokee from source with PHP and MySQL support on an Ubuntu 8.10 server machine. The reason for compiling from source instead of using apt to install binary packages is that there are older versions in the repositories than the ones available on Cherokee's homepage. The main goal is to install the webserver so I didn't bother compiling everything else. That way you won't spend to much time on doing things I didn't want to describe.

Good OS Cloud: Linux as Quick Start for Web and Windows

  • Linux Pro Magazine; By Uli Bantle (Posted by brittaw on Dec 1, 2008 11:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Best known for its Wal-Mart Linux PC called gOS, Good OS is presenting a new Cloud browser operating system at the Netbook World Summit in Paris. The compressed Linux kernel boots up as an integrated browser.

Why Use Open-source Software?

  • computersight.com; By Razvan T. Coloja (Posted by Cypress on Dec 1, 2008 10:42 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Free software is sought by Internet users everywhere because it is accessible right away and doesn't cost a dime. But did you know there's something better? Try open-source software. Open-source software goes beyong being free. If from a freeware application you can expect no costs, from an open-source one you can expect the same, plus the ability to tweak it in ways you never thought developers would allow you to. And not only that.

Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools

The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past. Blank optical discs are dirt cheap, they work virtually everywhere, and if you bought your computer sometime in the last 5 years, chances are you've got the necessary hardware to quickly burn anything you want to a disc in just a few minutes. Now all you need is the right authoring tools. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite CD and DVD burning tools, and today we're back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a closer look at your favorites, then cast a vote for the burning tool you like best.

Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs in Ubuntu 8.10

  • ubuntugeek.com (Posted by gg234 on Dec 1, 2008 3:32 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text- based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

Bash Script To Find Free Online Fiction and Non-Fiction Books

We spent so much time scripting out TV, it's time to get some online reading in ;) For some reason, it's Monday again and time for another "online reference ripper" script. For this week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script we're going to do the (almost) exact opposite of what we've been doing for the past few weeks.

Metastasis

  • fixedbylinux.com; By helios (Posted by helios on Dec 1, 2008 2:34 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linux
But if we are to understand metastasis, then we know it's the spread of cancer throughout the host. Ballmer had no idea how right he was to use this term. Unrelenting, untiring, unstoppable and destructive. Fortunately, the only thing being harmed by this metastasis is Microsoft's business model. I'm going to share with you bits and pieces of an amazing three day period. Let me show you "metastasis".

6 of the Best Lean Linux Desktop Environments

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 1, 2008 1:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
Mainstream Linux distributions typically default to one of two desktop environments, KDE or GNOME. Both of these environments provide users with an intuitive and attractive desktop, as well as offering a large raft of multimedia software, games, administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, artwork, web development tools and more. However, these two desktops focus more on providing users with a modern computing environment with all the bells and whistles featured in Windows Vista, rather than minimising the amount of system resources they need.

Ideas can be owned

"A lot of the past discussions on this site involved the question of idea ownership, mostly as part of the overall discourse on Free Software. I've usually been the one to state that ideas cannot be owned or at the very least fall under some sort of collective ownership. Today, however, I believe I was wrong. Not only do I no longer believe in collective ownership, but I do believe that ideas can and are being owned as good old fashioned private property."

Set up a SSH-based point to point connection

  • linux-tip.eu; By Frank Neugebauer (Posted by fneagle on Nov 30, 2008 11:46 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, SUSE
OpenSSH version 4.3 introduced a new feature: the ability to create on-the-fly "Virtual Private Networks" via the tunnel driver (the so-called "tun" driver). This allows you to create a network interface that bridges two physically disparate network segments in different locations. This article explains how to use SSH to set up SSH-based point to point connections with OpenSuse 11.0 which can then be used to create routes that create virtual private networks.

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