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Can solutions providers profit from Amazon Web Services? The VAR Guy found the answer by spending some more time with Levementum, a solutions provider that integrates multiple open source applications (such as SugarCRM and Compiere ERP) into Amazon’s cloud for customers. Here’s a bit about Levementum’s strategy and future direction.

Please join us for South Carolina's only Open Source Software conference. We've worked long and hard to make April 18 the most fun and productive Saturday you're ever likely to have! Red Hat's CIO Lee Congdon and Open Invention Network's Keith Bergelt will each give talks. Bergelt speaks on a topic dear to our hearts here, "Keeping Open Source Open - The Battle Continues and Why It's Important" and Congdon on "The State of Open Source Today".

Mark Shuttleworth, the benevolent dictator of Canonical and Ubuntu, has big ambitions for Linux. He wants to make the Linux experience seamless, elegant, and superior. Can Linux deliver both power and beauty?

JBoss Drools Business Rules is a new book from Packt that helps readers understand the basics of business and JBoss rules with minimal effort. Written by Paul Browne, this book guides business analysts to capture business processes and harness JBoss Drools Business Rules in an organization.

Intel's convertible "Classmate" PC for schoolchildren has been released in China for the first time, as the Hanvon HCQ890 (left), the chipmaker says. Separately, Computer Technology Link, one of several companies marketing the Classmate in the U.S., supplemented its offering with a standard netbook, the UW1.

Learn how to copy files from the commandline with rsync in this video tutorial by Shawn Powers.

Ubuntu sponsor Canonical has posted a blog entry disputing Microsoft's claims that it owns 96 percent of the netbook market, and that Linux netbook returns are four times higher than with Windows. Canonical was responding to a blog earlier this month from Microsoft's Brandon Le Blanc. Written by Chris Kenyon from Canonical's OEM Services, the blog post, "Microsoft, FUD and the netbook market," claims that Microsoft's Le Blanc was incorrect when he wrote that Canonical confirmed a 4x return of Ubuntu-based netbooks, compared to returns of Windows XP-based netbooks.

Amarok 2.1 Beta 1 is out in the wild! Featuring one of the longest ChangeLogs in Amarok history, this beta release showcases what is possible when building on the strong technical foundations that have been laid with Amarok 2.0. Nearly all parts of Amarok have received attention, and while not a final release, it is already very usable and quite stable. Hop on over to amarok.kde.org to read the full release announcement including the epic sized ChangeLog.

We are currently building a boot server at work so I thought I would share the process with you. I will cover setting up a basic DHCP server and TFTP server along with the configs needed to get them all working in cohorts. I will do this for both debian and centos. The last part of the article will show you how to add more OSes to the server.

A Marvel of a Marvell - SheevaPlug Development Kit. What could you do with a headless computer system which has 512-Megs of DDR2 400-MHz RAM, a 1.2-GHz processor, a 1-Gigabit Full-Duplex Ethernet Interface, a USB-2 Host interface and a SD/SDHC port? Can you say File, Web, Music Server? How about a machine that draws less than 5-watts of power and has NO Footprint! Well - at least not on the desk or floor! Check it out! They have arrived!

ntop is a free opensource network traffic probe that shows the network usage. ntop is based on libpcap and can run on Linux/Unix and Windows operating system. ntop provides a very easy to use a web access to navigate through ntop traffic information and get a dump of the network status.

In this tutorial, I will describe how to install and configure Asterisk 1.6 on a Debian system to work with PostgreSQL in order to manage CDR (Call Detail Records) and real-time configuration. For this we will use a clean and up-to-date Debian Etch/Lenny system.

Being able to run Linux straight out of a USB drive is a great way to enjoy the liveCD experience, letting you run Linux from any computer you want. And it saves you from the trouble of carrying a CD along all the time, with your USB drive easily tucked away in your pocket.

Vuurmuur 0.7 is released. Vuurmuur (Dutch for Firewall) is a powerful Firewall Manager built on top of Iptables on Linux. Vuurmuur has a simple and easy to learn configuration that allows both simple & complex configurations. The configuration can be fully configured through an Ncurses GUI, which allows secure remote administration through SSH, or on the console. Vuurmuur supports traffic shaping, has powerful monitoring features, which allow the administrator to look at the logs, connections & bandwidth usage in realtime.

Imagine a Linux distribution with binaries that adapt to whatever processor you run them on (no 586/686/etc specific versions). That's one of the things that LLVM could enable. Compile once, run anywhere.

A couple weeks ago I started a project which required me to do some design work in Solaris. I figured no problem...I'll grab the x86 version, drop it in a VM and work it that way. Coming from a recent identity integration project that required several Windows Server 2008 machines to design, not to mention all my existing machines and VMs, it was painfully obvious that my lab needed upgrading. Which brings me to XenServer 5...

Intel remains committed to its mobile Linux project, it has said, despite handing over supervision to the Linux Foundation. The chip giant has pledged it will provide additional engineers and resources to refine Moblin, the project to build a ready-made Linux and hardware stack for a range of consumer devices. Despite pulling in more of its own people, though, Intel not only believes it can attract more independent participation in Mobiln. It will also use external participation to help measure Moblin's success.

When you're tracking down wayward processes and figuring out what they're doing, lsof is an indispensible command for finding all open files, and the processes that opened them. Juliet Kemp gives us some good tips on using this simple but excellent command.

Either a lot of these are unique or I'm still behind on my humor ;)

Clean your glasses, tie up your ponytail, groom your Van Dyke, turn on your digital voice recorder and slip on your ninja suit* for a trip into geekdom through this crash course: Geekonomics 101.