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This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.

German Wikipedia users now have several print options. They can print pages via the print version option on the Wikipedia page, or they can order a complied document through a new print-on-demand option. The print-on-demand feature is the result of work that started in 2007 between the Wikimedia Foundation and PediaPress. While the print-on-demand (POD) service is currently only available on the German language Wikipedia, English language Wikipedia and other Wikimedia project support is coming in spring 2009

SlashGear caught up with Xfce creator Olivier Fourdan, whose desktop environment has not only been selected by Intel for Moblin but can be found on many existing Linux netbooks, and talked Intel, Moblin, the future for netbooks and what challenges he sees for open-source newcomer Android.

The One Laptop Per Child project has quietly shut the door on small-scale OLPC deployments, preferring to focus on large-scale installations only. The move is a serious blow to many already-existing projects in countries such as South Africa which were built around the programme in order to get OLPCs into schools.

Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 4 has been released, two months ahead of a final release in April. Jaunty, or Ubuntu 9.04, has a few small changes in this release including X.Org 1.6, better font settings and notification improvements.

CodeWeavers is having a Pre-Valentine's Day Sale to give their customers plenty of time in order to have the perfect gift. Nothing says "I Love You" like no more need for Microsoft Windows!

Is Ubuntu ready for prime time in the enterprise? Ubuntu users think so, according to a recent survey from Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, Canonical, and IT consultancy Red Monk. Unlike many surveys that land on the desks of IT journos each week, the one done by Canonical and Red Monk was based on a very large number of responses. People from 6,819 companies answered questions about the operating systems they have deployed in their organizations and how these OSes are used to support mission-critical and other workloads.

Some pundits think Canonical's new Ubuntu Server Edition user survey is designed to attract more customers to Canonical's server software. In reality, I think Canoncial had a far different — and far wiser — goal for the survey. Here it is.

In continuation to my last post, I wish to pick up from where I left off. I had expressed some disappointment with my initial experience just after I installed the Intreprid Ibex (8.10) server edition of Ubuntu...

No, this isn't a book that directly maps to FOSS or Linux or programming...exactly. On the other hand, the paths to programming in open and closed source usually move through this realm, so I think it is relevant. Picture yourself a would-be programmer who likes to code in your spare time, but you've got a problem. To really become any good at what you'd like to be your profession, there are math requirements, and you think math is almost as interesting as watching wind erode granite. Fortunately for you, O'Reilly and the Head Start series has come to your rescue. They created "Head Start Algebra".

RIAA-fan Biden's influence in the Obama administration may be larger than anticipated, at least when it comes to file sharing: His good pals with RIAA and BSA connections keep getting Department of Justice's seats.

If you are a gamer, we want YOU to give us your feedback with this short 10 minute survey. Open Source software has had a tremendous influence in nearly every area of computing - including the gaming space. The goal of this survey is to get a deeper understanding of the current general perception of Free and Open Source games

[I normally do nto post surveys but I checked this out and it seemed legitimate. - Scott]

SCO Group boss Jeff Hunsaker has done away with corporate speak in his latest seasonal note to partners and customers and replaced it with a terse, blunt message that reads: "Blah. Blah. Blah." Sadly the CEO and president of the bloodied and bruised software company was not immediately available for comment, but we think this link here speaks for itself and we have a screen dump here just in case it mysteriously disappears.

And I’m no Google fanboy, I just believe their browser is OK and that making a Qt4 user interface for Chromium could make Chrome a viable choice or alternative to Konqueror, thus enabling more users to switch from Gnome to the excellent KDE 4(.2).

While not necessarily a Linux article, the arch-nemeis (of some) Gates stands with many FOSS proponents in solidarity with and advocation for those in under-developed nations (as much as the founder, and continuing supporter, of a monopolistic organization can).

LXer Feature: 06-Feb-2009

Why does the newspaper deserve to be saved? Just because they have been around for a long time? That is not a good enough reason for me. Or the arguments that society will somehow be lessened by their absence or be less informed without them is arrogant and presumptuous.

On behalf of the KDevelop team I am happy to announce that we have reached the next milestone on our way to a final release, KDevelop 4 Beta 1. We feel that KDevelop 4, although in no way feature complete, is now usable and stable enough to get first feedback from a somewhat wider audience. Being a beta there are of course still bugs and missing functionality, but we have excellent language support for C++, integration of the CMake buildsystem, subversion, git and even starts of Qt GUI designer integration.

The Fedora project is proud to present the availability of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Alpha. Now is the time to test, now is the time to improve. The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with testing Fedora 11 by way of Rawhide. Fedora 11 Alpha Screen Shots

That’s right!! Today is the 4th anniversary of Linuxtracker.org. We uploaded our first torrent (a slackware torrent) 4 years ago today and in honor we’re celebrating by giving away some pretty impressive stuff!! For starters we have an impressive pack of swag supplied by Pandora as well as a linuxtracker.org shirt.

I met MySQL founder Monty Widenius last year in Portland and he wasn't particularly thrilled with Sun at the time - he was however publicly hopeful that things would improve for him. Apparently they didn't. Widenuis has now officially resigned from Sun.