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Now, keep in mind that the things we have to do involves carpentry and sheet rock skills....and that in turn involves the operation of power tools. I believe we're up to 13 states and Tonga that prohibits me from touching them. Some of them have filed a restraining order that keeps me at least 200 yards away.

This issue of Linux Journal is all about how to get Linux in your pocket. In this article, I go one better and tell you how to get Linux on your fingernail. Now, before you get too excited, I won't be discussing some new nano-computer being used by James Bond, unfortunately. Instead, I discuss how to put Linux on a micro-SD card (or any other USB drive, for that matter). Using this, you can run Linux on any machine that can boot off a USB device.

Yahoo! may spin off its Hadoop engineering division, creating a startup offering support and services around the open-source distributed number-crunching platform, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! is "weighing" a Hadoop spin-off and that Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital has discussed the possibility with the company. Such a startup – in which Yahoo! would retain a stake – would compete with the likes of Cloudera, the Northern California startup founded by an all-star lineup of former Yahoo!, Google, Oracle, and Facebook employees.

Canonical has released Ubuntu 11.04, née Natty Narwhal. But this release is not your ordinary update with a handful of new features in the same basic Ubuntu you know and love. No, this marine mammal is an entirely new beast, with the Unity shell replacing everything familiar about the Ubuntu desktop. After a bumpy ride with the initial beta – which I dubbed the single worst beta release of Ubuntu I've ever tested – I did not have high hopes for the final release. Those low expectations were fortunate, because although things have certainly improved, they're a long way from the level of polish that we've come to expect from Ubuntu.

LXer Feature: 29-Apr-2010

The buyer (me) acts as the investor for this project since their pre-order money will be used to fund the project. It was originally pre-ordered for $330, but after over a year of waiting for the production to take place I canceled it. Now in addition to pre-ordering, the Pandora can be bought and shipped in a week for a premium price of $500 which I took the opportunity, but is it worth the cost? Let's find out..

The first update to Firefox 4.0, version 4.0.1, addresses a total of three vulnerabilities, two of which are rated as critical. The browser's WebGLES feature contains bugs that could lead to crashes, potentially resulting in the execution of malicious code. The Windows version of Firefox was also found to have been compiled without ASLR which could allow an attacker to bypass ASLR's protection against malicious code if a memory corruption flaw was found. Several critical memory safety bugs have in the browser engine used by Firefox have also been corrected. These bugs reportedly contained evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances. The developers presume that, with enough effort, some of them could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

Amrel announced the availability of Linux on a ruggedized, military-focused handheld PC that includes a five-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen. The Rocky DB6 has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor, 32GB of RAM, 64GB or 128GB of SSD (solid state disk) storage, and a Mini PCI Express expansion slot, the company says.

Openfiler is a Linux based NAS/SAN Application which can deliver storage over nfs/smb/iscsi and http://ftp. It has a web interface over that you can control these services. This howto is based on the latest version of openfiler at this date, you can download it from the official homepage http://www.openfiler.com.

If you've just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, there are probably a few things you'll miss, so here is how to get them back as well as some other things you may find useful.

This week, the 5 links for developers and IT pros include the meaning of Agile, Amazon EC2 outage work-arounds and a humorous look at closing IT Help Desk tickets.

he Kubuntu team is proud to announce the release of 11.04 - codename 'Natty Narwhal': the latest version of our popular Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu and KDE's Plasma and Applications 4.6. With the combination of its Ubuntu backbone, the amazing KDE Software Compilation, and a few unique extras, 11.04 aims to provide the best fusion of stability, beauty, and up-to-date software. Kubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Screenshot Tour

SandForce has developed a very interesting and unique SSD controller that uses real-time data compression. This affects data throughput and SSD longevity. In this article, we perform an initial examination of the IOPS performance of a SandForce 1222-based SSD. The results can be pretty amazing.

Today it’s the day, Ubuntu 11.04 has been officially released and they server are now under “attack” by all the Ubuntu users that are trying to download the new release or update a former version, for me it took around 3 hours to finish the download of the 1400 packages needed to upgrade from Xubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 with 2 disconnection. But Ubuntu is not the only thing released in these days; yesterday, has been released Slackware 13.37 ( codenamed leet ) and today it was also released version 2011.04 of Chakra Linux. Really a lot of news.

Google has released the stable version of Chrome 11. After the update, users will have version 11.0.696.57 of Google's web browser. As previously reported, Chrome 11 features the addition of a new logo that drops the previous 3D bubble look for a flatter and more simple look.

The Ubuntu 11.04 desktop isn't the only thing with a new look in Ubuntu today; as Inayaili León points out on Canonical's blog site, the Ubuntu website gets a new look as well.

Talk about a busy few days in the Linux market. Oracle is making Linux partner specialization claims; Canonical is preparing Ubuntu 11.04; Red Hat Summit kicks off within days; and the Attachmate-Novell business combination was approved earlier today. Now, it's time for Linux customers to decide which Linux platform offers the best cloud and virtualization story. Here's why.

I’ll admit up front – it’s embarrassingly late for me to have discovered screen. Friends and coworkers have been suggesting it to me for years, but it wasn’t until recently that I had a concrete need for it. Now I wish I’d had it all along. In short, screen gives you the equivalent of the “workspaces” you find in Gnome, KDE, and other desktop environments, but for the command line. It may not sound like much, but like the graphical equivalent, you begin to see the power after a few uses. Today we’re going to cover some screen basics useful for your home desktop but especially useful if you use remote access tools like SSH.

If you host your own photo gallery using either Piwigo or Gallery software and you happen to use an Android device, the ReGalAndroid app is right up your alley. Despite its spartan interface, this is a rather capable app that offers a few handy features. For starters, it supports the Piwigo and Gallery2 applications as well as the new Gallery3 release. The app supports full-screen viewing and it can cache data to speed up navigation.

The final release of Ubuntu Natty Narwhal is almost out. It’s scheduled to be out in the 28th of this month. After you actually get done with the installation, there would likely exist a heap of things you still need to take care of. This post will share some interesting insight and ideas about what you can and should do after a successful installation.

With Gnome and Ubuntu shaking up the Linux desktop market it might be time to look at an alternative desktop interface