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When I was a reporter a few years ago, I began covering the fast rise of Linux to dominance on the Top500 Supercomputer list. Since the list comes out every six months, I would end up getting a response like, “Is it that time of year again already?” to which I would respond, yes. My previous editor’s exasperation aside, I thought it was incredibly significant to see Linux with as much if not more dominance as Microsoft in a market. The fact that it’s the high end of high-performance computing (HPC) only increases the significance, in my opinion, since it is generally a harbinger of things to come in more mainstream enterprise IT. So, is it that time of year again? You bet.

If you are into email like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were in the movie You've Got Mail, you probably want to be warned as soon as any message enters your mailbox. If you use Gmail, you can try one of several Gmail-specific applications that let you know when new messages arrive.

Cisco is offering $100,000 in prize money to Linux application developers that help the networking giant defeat Microsoft in the unified communications market. Here's the scoop, only from The VAR Guy.

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the turkey :)

Have you ever had to reinstall your ubuntu installation, and then bear the pain of manually installing the applications you've come to love (i mean use :)) everyday? If yes, then cheer up buddy, because all you really need is some magic (read scripting), some typing and spend some time digging the package names of your favourite applications.

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 10 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

Free Linux distro openSUSE will from now on release without an end-user license agreement. The project will be using the same license notice as their competitor Fedora.

Hi All, Here's my 12th tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series: "You want to switch from slapd.conf to the configuration backend to slapd":

Linux distributions come and go by the dozens almost every day, and most of them live and die an unknown, irrelevant life, mostly because no, changing three icons and adding the suffix '-nix' to any random word doesn't make it different from Ubuntu. Anyway, sometimes, a new distribution is started that brings something new to the table. One such "distribution" is Glendix, which aims to combine the Linux kernel with the userpsace tools from Plan 9. Distribution is probably not the right term for this project.

To hear Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin tell it, the operating system war is over and Linux has won. “Linux represents the ultimate flight to safety in troubled times,” he said while offering some predictions for 2009. “People want a platform they trust, that’s low cost, that allows them to consolidate infrastructure, and that’s Linux.

The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is tomorrow, and so, like everyone else is going to do today, I'm going to ponder some of the many things I have to be thankful for. I'm thankful that at age 51 I'm healthy, sort-of fit, and have a multitude of things to look forward to. There are so many things I want to do I'll need three lifetimes to do them all. I have a great job, and awesome co-workers. (Hi Dan, Michael, and Vangie!) I'm thankful that I have a nice home, a wonderful significant other, a varying herd of critters large and small, great neighbors, and the best views ever...

This past weekend has produced a version 1.0 of Processing, a Flash alternative product that runs under GPL. With the help of some simple code, Processing will create 2-D and 3-D models and animations.

Give a gift of a netbook this year; I will be. These ultra-light computing devices are versatile, affordable and appealing. But which one to buy? Should you pay more for a laptop? What are the pros and cons between different models? Never fear, here's how to work your way through the morass and buy with confidence!

Just in time for openSUSE 11.1 RC 1, we’ve finished the new and improved license for openSUSE 11.1. The days of agreeing to a click-through EULA for openSUSE are over!

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, November 26, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Stories covered in today's newscast include SCO rising from the undead with an appeal, a shiny new Fedora 10, a brighter than bright future for Linux, Wyse guys make it big by being thin, and RedHat stock needs some lovin'.

Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we're most thankful for. Whether you're an indie hacker putting out the occasional script or an employee at a giant internet company building out a webapp with millions of users or a voluntary coder contributing to an open source project, we salute you this Thanksgiving in gratitude for all the things your work enables us to do every day. Short of covering you in candied yam kisses and cranberry sauce hugs, please accept our hearty thanks for your work. We like you. We really, really like you.

[I give Thanks to absolutely everyone who has contributed to the FOSS movement, ever. Happy Thanksgiving from LXer Everyone! - Scott]

In a better-late-than-never move, Blockbuster has introduced a video-on-demand (VOD) service accompanied by a “free” set-top box (STB). Like TiVo, Roku’s Netflix box, and many other modern Internet-enabled A/V gadgets, Blockbuster’s new VOD STB runs Linux.

Nagios is a free, open-source tool that can be used to monitor network components and services. When it detects a problem, it can send alert messages by either e-mail or pager. It can also be configured so that only designated personnel can view status information for particular services or equipment. This tutorial will show you how to install Nagios 3 on an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

Open source conferencing startup Dimdim is set to formally exit its beta period on December 3rd. The new release will include a bunch of cool features including synchronized web browsing. This will let you navigate the web from within Dimdim, with your attendees following along as you click and scroll

Today I read an article on Slashdot about a software maker concerned that open source software was causing a “race to zero” (as in the price of software). His problem was that his company produced a piece of software worth $5K one year and, because open source developers were creating the same tools and giving it away, the next year the software was worth $0. This occurrence is becoming more and more common as open source software grows. But what does it mean?