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Pain-free networking is the promise of Gnome's NetworkManager. For mobile laptop users NetworkManager is great, but what about desktop and server deployments? Charlie Schluting takes it for a torture-test to find out.

The Linux Driver Project (DLP), started by kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman about two and a half years ago, is a group of Linux kernel developers and project managers that focus on developing and maintaining Linux kernel drivers for device manufacturers. The group works with manufacturers to create free drivers for various hardware. The project also aims to make sure that work on new and experimental drivers, takes place publicly.

Although it has been one of Novell's success stories, the company has none-the-less remained circumspect about committing to Linux. Novell's recently released figures for the second quarter of 2009 showed an 8.5 per cent drop in sales compared to the previous year – not a big surprise in light of the much debated economic crisis. Even so, the latest figures are in line with the broad trend at Novell. Sales have been falling for years – from just shy of $300 million per quarter in late 2004 to around $216 million now.

One of Firefox’s great advantages is the ability for users to create custom extensions. While add-ons have historically been non-trivial to write, Mozilla Labs is looking to make this considerably easier with JetPack.

A little sidestep from my learning of the Gtk toolkit for Perl GUI programming. I was thinking it would be nice to try some 2D animation on the desktop. Not the most useful thing maybe, but I like to make my learning process as much fun as possible. That keeps me motivated and happy. Custom windows It took me a lot of searching on the internet before I found a reasonably easy way to do this. The point is (or seems to be, I'm not an expert) that when I want to draw something to the Desktop with Gtk2 I always need to create a window (A square shaped window). I found out it's pretty easy to set the window decoration to false which provides me with a window consisting of a background alone. What I wanted though was some kind of invisible canvas on which I can draw an animation.

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since iRedMail 0.5, it supports Debian 5.0.1 (it supports both i386 and x86_64). Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple and easy to use. iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users.This tutorial shows how to use OpenLDAP as the backend.

As open source burgeons in popularity, contributors are flocking to websites to share and borrow code. Github is one of the most popular. This inaugural installment of "This Week in Github" introduces the service and highlights some of the best projects available.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been recently released. Since ZFS offers a lot of flexibility and advantages as a storage platform, many would be interested in running the opensolaris stack. In this article I'll be installing OpenSolaris 2009.06 para-virtualized under a centos-5-x64 dom0. This setup has the advatange of running OpenSolaris on storage controllers that may not have native solaris driver support.

The Apache Tomcat developers have released patches to fix three vulnerabilities in their implementations of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. When Tomcat receives a request with invalid headers via the Java AJP connector, it closes the connection without returning an error message. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker in load balancing environments to initiate a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Google's Chrome browser was released for Windows last year, but they are now finally pushing out development builds of this unique web browser for Linux and Mac OS X. Linux users could previously try out the rough equivalent of Chrome via Google's open-source Chromium project, but this is the first time they are releasing a development version of the official Chrome web-browser for Linux.

Intel is getting into operating systems big time. The OSes in question run on Mobile Internet Devices and Intel has a big future mapped out for these things. It may not be betting the farm on them, but certainly the double garage, some of the barns and half the furniture could end up on the table.

Then I learned of a new model from Acer with a 10.1" display screen (called the AOD150 or D150) and it has almost the same specs as the previous model but with one important difference... it provides access to the hard drive, memory, and wireless card via access panels on the bottom of the unit. Upgrading or replacing a defective part in the D150 is easy. The larger display is a bonus although it offers the same resolution (1024x600). Although the case was slightly wider to accommodate the bigger screen, they kept the same exact keyboard from the A150. The MSRP on the D150 model seemed to be $349.99 and a few local retailers had it so I decided pick one up.

The Moblin project started out in life as an operating system targeted at the Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform but has morphed into a prime candidate for the Netbook world. Paul Ferrill tests Moblin on a Lenovo S10e; hits some bumps, has some fun, and reports on his findings.

I was configuring iSCSI initiator in one of our Red Hat Linux 4 server, couple of weeks ago, after a day's work at last I became successful. Ohhh thank GOD. Last week again I have asked to configure iSCSI on Red Hat Linux 5 server I was cool, I already did this on RHEL 4, but after installing the package on RHEL 5 and looking at configuration file takes my breath away, a completely new configuration file not even able to compare with RHEL4. Ohhhh GOD help me. Again after a days work I was successful sharing my work with you guys it may helpful to you.

Russia's state anti-monopoly service launched a probe of Microsoft Corp over cutbacks in supplies of the Windows XP operating system in Russia, it said on Thursday. The agency said it thought Microsoft had violated antimonopoly legislation by cutting delivery of Windows XP to Russia both separately and pre-installed on personal computers, as well as in its pricing policy on the product.

While Enlightenment E17 is still undergoing development , the Enlightenment E16 window manager has finally reached version 1.0.0. As Kim Woelders points out in the 1.0.0 release announcement, there are not any fundamental changes since version 0.16.8.15, but it just felt like it was time this X window manager reached the 1.0 status.

Here is the latest hot trend in anti-Linux baloney: supposed Linux fans and advocates who really really love Linux and have been using it for years, but can't recommend it for anyone else because "It's not ready."

Luciano Martini has released the second beta version of Resulinux 3.0, a Brazilian desktop Linux distribution featuring the latest KDE 4 desktop. What's new? Fixed bug with GParted not starting up during system installation; fixed bug with non-functional wireless networking; system now uses NetworkManager for managing networks; applied workaround to a KDE bug that froze the system when opening some applications as root; applied workaround to permission changes to KDialog when run as root; new guide showing how to create icons on the KDE desktop; applied workaround to a bug in KMenuEdit; updated Java from 'Squeeze' repository; updated Shockwave Flash from 'Lenny' repository; fixed bug in Remastersys.

Google is planning to release version 2.0 (code-named Donut) of its open source Android mobile operating system this year. While presenting the latest stage of development at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google announced that Android 2.0 should be ready in approximately three to six months.

Saying it will improve the netbook user experience on Linux, RealNetworks Inc. is licensing its RealPlayer for Mobile for the popular Ubuntu Linux distro running on x86 and coming ARM-based netbooks, as well as three up-and-coming "instant-on" Linux operating systems. Besides Canonical Inc.'s Ubuntu, RealNetworks has signed deals with Xandros Inc. for its Presto instant-on Linux desktop, DeviceVM for its similar Splashtop product, and Phoenix Technologies Inc. for its also similar HyperSpace Linux environment.