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CLI for noobies: making and melting tarballs

  • Linux.com (Posted by dave on Jan 18, 2004 8:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
This is important. We're talking about tar, that sticky software that bonds files together into one big ball. It's one of the most important programs you'll learn to use from the Linux CLI. Why? Because most free/open source software makes use of tar in distributing itself, that's why. So unless you know - at a minimum - how to untar a tarball, you will remain cut off from a vital flow, nay, from the heartbeat of free/open source software. That's why tar is a necessary skill for you to learn. That, and the fact you need to know how to use it to earn your CLI merit-badge.

Linux luminaries get soaked in Oz

  • LWN.net (Posted by dave on Jan 18, 2004 8:56 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
At a recent Australian Linux conference, Linux luminaries took turns at the dunking booth.

Oracle's Linux Boss Gears Up for Grid

To further Oracle's ongoing quest to spread Linux everywhere, the company's Linux chief, Dave Dargo, will address enterprise Linux standardization in his

Database, Security, Storage Are Next Layers For Open Source ...

  • CRN (Posted by dave on Jan 18, 2004 5:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Key open source advocates point to databases, security and storage as the next big categories ripe for commoditization. At a panel

Software Execs Debate Open Source Procurement Policies That Shut ...

  • CRN (Posted by dave on Jan 18, 2004 5:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Software industry executives sparred at Harvard Business School this weekend over open source procurement policies being adopted by some governments that could

Linux student gets second chance

  • Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand (Posted by dave on Jan 18, 2004 5:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
He was turned down. Earlier that year -- 2002 -- Kruchio had won a worldwide Linux program writing competition. He had entered a

Maddog and Linux men go out in the desktop sun

  • Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 4:38 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Sun; Story Type: News Story
The Linux operating system will pervade the desktops of the corporate world during the next two years, Linux guru Jon "Maddog" Hall has forecast.

The true cost of software ownership

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 4:38 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU; Story Type: News Story
Free software often comes with a license, like the GNU General Public License, or others, that grants rights that feel a lot more like ownership.

Mozilla 1.6 Finale

  • New Dimension FR, France (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 4:38 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Mozilla; Story Type: News Story
One of the most requested Mozilla Mail features, an option to separate the Recipient and Sender columns in the thread pane, has been implemented.

Epiphany 1.0.7 released

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use. This new stable release

Future PHP Releases Evolutionary, Not Revolutionar

  • php architect, Canada (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 9:17 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The forthcoming PHP version 5 releases will be more about evolutionising the scripting tool and ensuring its smooth interaction with other programming

Using PHP 5 SimpleXML

  • php architect, Canada (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 9:17 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
SimpleXML is a new and unique feature of PHP 5 that solves these problems by turning an XML document into a data structure you can iterate through like a

Black Duck Hunts Open Source's Legal Pitfalls

  • eWeek (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 4:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Black Duck Software Inc. has a different idea to help software developers avoid legal woes: an auditing and management tool for detecting and managing proprietary and open-source code in programs.

Red Hat Updates Enterprise Linux Lines

By Daniel Drew Turner. Red Hat Inc. on Friday released Update 1 for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 line of its open-source distribution.

It's Not ALL About Linux

worries over open source. There's no denying that Microsoft is worried about Linux — and justifiably so. But, contrary to prevailing

Linux Taking on Higher Enterprise Profile

  • eWeek (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 4:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Linux and open source may be reaching a new era as the faithful congregate next week at the LinuxWorld conference in New York. As

Open source lock-in

  • InfoWorld, CA (Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2004 4:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: MySQL
With the release of MySQL 4.0, the licensing policy of the wildly popular open source database underwent a subtle change. The code

Oracle apps to work with Mozilla

Oracle is working on a project to let Mozilla's open-source desktop software work better with Oracle's business applications, the latest move by the database

Roadmap Update: Mozilla Application Suite will be Sustained

Brendan Eich has updated the Mozilla Development Roadmap, adding a note that the Mozilla Foundation has no plans to retire the Mozilla Application Suite in the

SCO to Europe: Please Pay for Linux

  • InternetNews.com (Posted by dave on Jan 16, 2004 5:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, SCO
As its copyright infringement lawsuit against IBM (Quote, Chart) regarding code in Linux wends its way through the legal process, SCO Group (Quote, Chart) is SCO Wants To Expand Its Money Coll

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