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Certainly the most watched standards-related legal conflict of the decade involves the participation of memory technology vendor Rambus, Inc. in a working group hosted by standards developer Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) in the early 1990s. Rambus has been involved in more litigation than SCO, but last week for the first time it settled a case with a regulator. The question is why?

ThinkFree announced the availability of a Linux-compatible office productivity suite designed for netbooks. ThinkFree Mobile Netbook ESD version offers word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications, with "round-trip" Microsoft Office compatibility, synchronization and online document collaboration features, and 1GB of free online storage, says the company.

It is not common see a Cisco crash: Software forced crash, Bus Error, Software watchdog timeout, and so on…

The 2009 Open World Forum (OWF) will take place on the 1st and 2nd of October at the Eurosite George V convention centre in Paris. The banner for the forum is "FLOSS: AT THE HEART OF THE DIGITAL RECOVERY" and it promotes free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) as a path to economic regrowth.

I was running Windows, and before it came along, MS-DOS, applications on Unix and Linux for ages. It was never especially easy, but experts could do it. With CodeWeavers' latest CrossOver Linux 8, though, it's become so easy that anyone should be able to do it. Now, if all your desktop needs are already being met by Linux applications, you don't need to worry with Crossover. But, if like many of us, you still want to use Quicken for your banking or you're stuck with a Web site that refused to work with any Web browser except Internet Explorer, then Crossover Linux 8 is for you.

Canonical continues to build the Ubuntu partner program. Although the effort isn’t generating headlines yet, solutions providers can measure Canonical’s progress by keeping their eyes on four key Ubuntu partners. Here they are according to The VAR Guy.

What do you look for in a corporate-capable distribution? Prejudices and opinions aside, at some point in your career you'll be asked to select a viable Linux distribution for your corporate network. How will you choose? Will you use the same distribution that you use at home or will you do some research and find something that's corporate-ready? Are you up to the task? Do you know what to look for in a distribution to support a corporate environment?

This 13 page course features reviews and comparisons of 11 top Linux distributions examining history, category, desktop, help resources, my opinions and more for each distro. Written from a windows user perspective, this course brings Linux newbies a comparison of top Linux distributions and likely choices through numerous basic desktop videos, reviews, and a final knowledge test.

Expect more forthcoming Android charts. We are working on establishing sales charts for the major mobile contenders, including the iPhone.

LXer Feature: 22-Jun-2009

Is Mono an affliction that should be eradicated or a choice that should be respected? Does its inclusion in a distro reek of obeisance to Microsoft, or should the threat of a Microsoft claim to "ownership" be considered irrelevant to true FOSS believers? The debate over Mono continues to touch some raw nerves.

We had brought pallets and pallet jack, shrink wrap and other assorted implements of destruction to get the job done. Note to self...21 inch CRT's do not stabilize well unboxed and on a pallet. Trying to put 8 monitors on a pallet and shrink wrapping them resulted in monitors trying desperately to escape the shrink wrap oh, I'd say about every 5 feet of forward transport. Once we did succeed in getting a pallet of them down the elevator, we found that the 12 degree lip on the liftgate was much too steep to get the pallet jack onto it...not without bumping it with an 18 inch head start. Which resulted in monitors wanting to impact upon the hot asphalt in the worst way. Bad idea.

The editor Vim supports Unicode natively. If your X or console keymap is set up to enter unicode characters via the keymap, it will work fine in Vim. Alternatively, there are two other ways of entering these characters. The slow way is just to use their hex code. Hit Ctrl+V, then u, then type the hex code. For example, hex code 00BF will give you an inverted question mark, ¿. This is useful if you only very occasionally want to type one of these characters. Lists of UTF-8 character codes are available online.

The Slackware-based VectorLinux project has been around for almost a decade, making regular releases of the fast, desktop-friendly Linux distribution. Robert Lange, the project's co-founder and lead developer, was kind enough to agree to an interview. How did it all start? And what does the future hold for the project? Read on to find the answers to these and other questions. In the news section, the Fedora community announces a new live CD featuring the lightweight LXDE desktop environment, Mandriva prepares for its 2010 release with major changes to the development branch, and Ubuntu gets set to tackle minor annoyances which impact negatively on user experience. Also in the news, we link to an interview with Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre and O'Reilly publishes answers provided by developers about the recently released OpenBSD 4.5.

Over the years, more than a 1,000 computers have made their way through my office and lab. They've included a $25,000 PC, Gateway's very first 486; several SPARCstations; an IBM AS/400 mini-computer; and a NeXTStation Turbo Color, which I wish I still had. Most of them only stayed long enough for me to review them for magazines like Computer Shopper, Byte, or PC Magazine. I've also owned close to a 100 computers, and some of those have stuck around.

The Remote Exploit Team has released a Pre Final version of the BackTrack 4 (BT4) security distribution (code named 'pwnsauce') as a 1.3 GB ISO image file. BackTrack offers a wide range of tools to enable users and administrators to test the security of items ranging from web applications to RFID systems. These include LAN and WLAN sniffers, password crackers, vulnerability scanners, the Metasploit exploit framework and several others.

Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It's stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. We did show you before how to install Nagios in this Tutorial

The first alpha of Mandriva Linux 2010 has been released and includes several updates, boot time improvements and new features. The main focus of the 2010 release is to improve the user experience for daily tasks. In a blog posting, VP of Engineering at Mandriva – Anne Nicolas-Velu, provided an overview of the new features included in the development release and the current list of 2010 specifications.

Written in Python, Minirok is a minimalist audio player which ships with a simple and intuitive interface, which kind of resembles the 1.4 interface, except all the major features were removed. The latest version was released on June 1st, and it is the first release for KDE4. If you want the KDE3 version (although it is rather poor when it comes to features), you can download and install release 0.9.2 from the official homepage.

This howto shows one method of doing mass virtualhosting using mod_rewrite to dynamically map a list of directories on your filesystem to virtual hosts. Additionally, by rewriting the incoming URL to the user's home directory we can make use of suEXEC to have Apache execute CGI scripts as the owner of the script.