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Back in November of 2006, I wrote a piece about the One Laptop Per Child Project. I was afraid that the project's focus on creating a whole new paradigm (the Sugar UI) would ultimately intervene with the actual goal of the project: teaching stuff to kids. Ivan Krstic, former director of security architecture at OLPC, wrote an essay in which he heavily criticises the OLPC project.

To be honest, I would much rather be writing this on my desktop with its full sized keyboard and 22 inch monitor rather than a sub-notebook with half-sized keyboard and 8.9 inch screen. However, that's an unfair comparison. I would be using the Eee PC on the road instead of say my Dell Latitude or a MacBook, not in my office. Then the comparison becomes more valid and the ratios reduce. At 21 cm (8.25 inches) the Eee PC 900 keyboard is a bit more than 70% the width of my Dell notebook's and the 8.9 inch monitor is about 65% the diagonal length of my notebook's.

The largest stock exchange on Earth is a Linux shop. NYSE Euronext has chosen Red Hat's Linux offerings to power the critical financial trading platform that services approximately $141 billion in daily trading volume. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time.

This tutorial deals only with how to add an extra encrypted physical volume to a volume group pool containing other encrypted physical volumes. This is typical scenario if, at first, you have set up your encryption at a physical partition level (/dev/sdaX where X is the a number of your partition), then you set up your LVM on top of the encrypted partition. If at some later time you want to add another partition in your volume group, you will also want to have it encrypted in order to maintain the same level of security.

Red Hat and SAS are two of the 30 most influential technology companies in the world, according to a report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group.

Soothsayer is a predictive text input system. Many folks reading that sentence will think of the word completion offered by mobile phones. Soothsayer is different from such mobile phone systems in that it tries to use context and other statistical information to offer predictions instead of just presenting a list of words that might match the first few letters you type.

Which open source companies are best positioned for long-term initial public offerings? Here are three open source firms to watch, according to The VAR Guy.

The Fedora Project Tuesday said Fedora 9, a free, open source Linux operating system, is ready for download. The software features a unique portable capability that lets it live on a USB stick. Users can boot the operating system from the USB stick and add applications and download and store data to the environment.

For details that I might be missing a good resource is: http://howtoforge.com/ubuntu-8.04-server-install-xen-from-ub...
I will clean this up and do more testing when I have time
Any problems, questions leave a comment or post to the xen-users mailing list.
Also, this is just proof of concept, in production I would recommend things like LVM and network storage solutions like AoE, iSCSI, and DRDB.

In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps -- they're easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ever before. There's also that many more of them -- which means that many more possibilities to sift through. In this roundup I've looked at seven Linux distributions, all mainly aimed at desktop users. Some ought to be household names; some are less widely sung but still worth looking at. All are meant to be top-of-the-line, "throw-and-go" distros for general use, so I paid careful attention to how they behaved on a fairly broad range of hardware -- how display, networking, or other default configurations were set to behave both out of the box and after an update (if one was available).

* In a message to the Debian security mailing list, senior developer Florian Weimer said it had been discovered that the random number generator in the package was predictable. OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols and a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

In a previous post, we have made our point that dual licensing was unfair and community debilitating. In a search for a better solution, I met this weekend with Ludovic Dubost CEO, Founder and original contributor of xWiki. xWiki.com is making its income out of enterprise support, software guarantees and integration projects. This last part being a substantial source of revenues for xWiki.com

If you’re following this blog, and don’t know me personally, than you’re probably also interested in becoming a Linux Network Admin, right? right. You might be wondering where to start? Well, first and foremost, you need to be familiar with Linux as a user. You should know the basics of PC hardware, software, and also have some conception of what UNIX, Open Source programming, and Linux are. We’ll begin by installing Linux on your computer.

Every free software enthusiast probably already knows that distrowatch.com, created by Ladislav Bodnar, is a great source of information on different open source operating systems. We can pretty much admit that every respected distribution based on Linux or BSD is at least mentioned on his website. You can find there descriptions of systems, starting from those small and fast ones, to the enormous distributions filled with packages that even the actual creators of those systems wouldn’t even think of.

This weekend as classes have started to wind down I had a bit of time to mess with my laptop for some general geek fun. Playing with KDE 4 is something I’ve wanted to do the past few months but avoided for fear of breaking things when I had too much going on to spend a full day getting them working again. Encouraged by a brief trial of the Kubuntu KDE4 Remix LiveCD I decided to give it a try.

This tutorial will use the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in in Eclipse Europa to show you how to build Web services in PHP. Also, learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects, learn about the philosophy behind contract-first development, and understand the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

Ever since Laura Thomson wrote her first program in the fourth grade, coding has been a major part of her life. Over the years, she has been a lecturer in computer science at RMIT University in Australia, a principal at OmnTI, a consulting company that designs Internet systems, a trainer of other programmers, the co-writer of PHP and MySQL Web Development and MySQL Tutorial, and a frequent speaker at free and open source conferences. She is currently a senior software engineer at the Mozilla Corporation, where her recent work includes the API for the Add-ons Manager on Firefox 3. With this background, Thomson has strong views on coding, its future, and its place in business, especially where free and open source software (FOSS) is concerned, which she shared with Linux.com at the recent Open Web Vancouver conference.

May 13th brings with it a 100% chance of sulphurous rain. But don’t worry, this particular sulphur isn’t a sign of global pollution. Instead, it is Fedora® 9–codenamed “Sulphur”–the latest in a continuing line of innovative releases by the community-powered Fedora Project. Get a copy of your very own right now.

Details of Microsoft’s recently announced plan to extend the life of Windows XP for ultra low-cost PCs are trickling out. IDG News got its hands on what it says are Microsoft documents outlining the program for PC manufacturers. Until now, the big question was: What exactly defines an ultra low-cost PC?

Recently, we took action against the Boston Public Library (BPL) demanding that they embargo the use of DRM technology on their collection and create a policy that respects the motto that hangs above their door: "free-to-all." To send a message to all libraries that they too should respect their patrons' freedom, we urge you to sign our open letter. To take action against your local library, we urge you to customize a letter from our template. Please, let us know if you have contacted or written your local library, and please let your friends and fellow patrons know about the open letter. In solidarity, Josh, John, Matt, Peter, and the DRM Elimination Crew.