First dual-monitor LTSP 5 set-up?
(Oct 10, 2008, 20:05 UTC) (76 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "DisklessWorkstations says one of its thin clients now supports dual monitors, when used with LTSP 5 (Linux Terminal Server Project v5). The Troy, Michigan based thin client vendor claims to be the "first to release how to configure dual monitors using LTSP 5.""

Zimbra Collaboration Server, Keeping the Discussion Going
(Oct 10, 2008, 17:05 UTC) (374 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) separates itself from the pack in several ways. First and foremost, it occupies a newly emerging niche of "commercial open source" products. That is, the base version of ZCS is open source software, free to acquire or modify."

Linux at 17 - What Windows Promised to Be
(Oct 10, 2008, 12:05 UTC) (1039 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "It is hard to guess how many programmers and system administrators have been educated by the Linux development project, but it forms the core of what so many experts and newbies believe in terms of what an operating system should have in it, how that code is created, and how the systems software stack that rides atop of it is created and maintained."

Using cron to Automate Maintenance
(Oct 10, 2008, 08:35 UTC) (884 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "From very often to every so often, cron happily minds the clock and runs jobs day or night. Learn how to configure and maintain cron, and discover just some of its many uses."

Midgard 8.09.0 "Ragnaroek" Released
(Oct 10, 2008, 06:05 UTC) (595 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Midgard CMS: "The Midgard Project has released stable release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted for mid-to-high-end web services."

Ubuntu Scores Major Wikipedia Win
(Oct 10, 2008, 03:05 UTC) (1862 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "While I find Wikipedia about as trustworthy as any random stranger at a pub, I can't deny that Wikipedia is incredibly popular. According to the Web traffic monitoring site Alexa on an average day 8.5% of the world's Internet users will visit the site."

Netbooks Will Boost Adoption of Linux, Says Novell CTO
(Oct 10, 2008, 00:05 UTC) (904 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
CIO: ""People typically don't care what operating system is on the netbooks, because they don't buy them to run a suite of applications like Microsoft Office, but to be on the Web using a Web browser," Nat Friedman said in an interview with IDG Applications Service."

10 Questions to Ask Before Migrating to Linux
(Oct 9, 2008, 23:05 UTC) (1508 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
10 Things: "If you’re thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it — but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step."

Google Refutes Cloud Computing Negativity
(Oct 9, 2008, 20:05 UTC) (994 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Treasures: "when Richard Stallman, the Dean of the free software movement weighs in that it's actually stupid, it's going to make you stand up and take notice. So to get yet another view on all of this, I had a chat with Rishi Chandra, the product manager for Google Docs Enterprise."

Cisco: All the Open Source That's Fit to Ship
(Oct 9, 2008, 16:05 UTC) (950 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Road: "Or how about Cisco, with this impressive list of open-source licenses used for software embedded in Cisco's security appliances?"

OOXML Documentation: ISO Concerned
(Oct 9, 2008, 15:35 UTC) (2360 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "The International Standards Organization (ISO) is up in arms over the fact that documentation for Microsoft's OOXML data format is now publicly available on the Internet."

After 2.0 Release, Miguel de Icaza Reflects on Mono's Past and Future
(Oct 9, 2008, 12:05 UTC) (1059 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "On one hand, as an implementation of Microsoft's .Net that's sponsored by Novell, it has been vilified both for the company it keeps and as a possible source of patent claims, should Microsoft choose to get nasty. On the other hand, Mono has been the platform of choice for such major projects as Second Life, which uses it to increase the efficiency of its servers."

Quick Reference Guides / Cheat Sheets Collection
(Oct 9, 2008, 09:05 UTC) (1818 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Technacular: "Please find a list of links to quick reference guides/cheat sheets below. I will keep on updating this list as I find more."

Open Source and the Financial Meltdown
(Oct 9, 2008, 06:05 UTC) (1456 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "I noted that Bill Gates said this past Sunday that there will definitely be no depression and no major recession as a result of the current crisis. "It's a very interesting crisis," he said. That's how you react when you have tens of billions of dollars."

True IT Tales of Horror: Crazed Wax Custodians Hold School District Hostage
(Oct 8, 2008, 23:01 UTC) (1215 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Today Blog: "In part 1 of our little series, True IT Tales of Horror: Dave's Not Here we were introduced to the Precious Progeny Public School District, and learned that the combined efforts of IT staff, a teacher, and multiple administrative assistants are almost adequate to the task of ordering a laptop battery."

Linux for the Accountant?
(Oct 8, 2008, 22:31 UTC) (1365 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterpriser: "Your company's accounts department can migrate to the Linux platform, however let us take a look at findings of our survey of a typical accounting SMB, and then see the solutions offered by Linux."

Stallman vs. Clouds
(Oct 8, 2008, 22:01 UTC) (1519 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "I respect Richard Stallman for the same reason I respect gravity. The man is a force of nature. He is like the iron core of the Earth: fixed, central, essential. So, when I read a story like "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman", which ran in the Guardian last week, I take notice."

Going to a Linux or Open-Source Show?
(Oct 8, 2008, 21:31 UTC) (568 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Practical Technology: "The Linux Foundation recently announced that they’d be holding a new get-together, LinuxCon and a few days later IDG announced that they were transforming LinuxWorld into OpenSource World. My question: Will you be going to either one? Or, to any of the other major open-source shows like OSCon?"

Puppy Linux Live Trumps LinuxDefender In More Ways Than One
(Oct 8, 2008, 21:01 UTC) (938 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "The one thing that blew my mind is that the download links for LinuxDefender Live don't even work any more...I knew they'd been swallowed up by BitDefender (or am I getting foggy and not remembering them always being under that umbrella? ;), but I had no idea that the entire project had been trashed."

Why Mono and Samba Are Patently Different
(Oct 8, 2008, 19:31 UTC) (1845 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Enterprise: "Here's a very good question: why are people (including me) nasty to Mono, but nice to Samba?...To understand the principal difference between Samba and Mono, we need to explore what they do, and how they do it."

Red Hat Looks to Mainstream Markets for Growth
(Oct 8, 2008, 14:01 UTC) (624 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Expanding Linux adoption beyond key vertical markets is an important driver for Red Hat's growth, which remains steady even as one of its strongest customer sectors, financial services, is getting hit hard by the U.S. crisis, the company's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, said Tuesday."

IBM Brings 5GHz Chip to its Top-Selling Unix Server
(Oct 8, 2008, 13:01 UTC) (1184 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
InfoWorld: "The Power 570, IBM's top-selling midrange server, is now available with a 5GHz Power6 processor, which was previously available only in IBM's high-end Power 595 system, as IBM targets customers who want to use its hardware for virtualization and server consolidation."

8 Ways to Maintain a Clean, Lean Ubuntu Machine
(Oct 8, 2008, 07:31 UTC) (2771 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Make Tech Easier: "Once in a while, you may want to do some maintenance on your Ubuntu machine and clean up unnecessary files that are chunking up large storage space in your hard disk. Here are 8 ways that you can use to clean up your Ubuntu:"

Venezuela Acquires One Million Classmate Laptops in Deal With Portugal
(Oct 7, 2008, 23:35 UTC) (858 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software in Latin America: "The agreement includes the creation of a factory in Venezuela to build the computers. The Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology, Socorro Hernandez, reported that Portugal will deliver 500,000 computers during the first and second quarter of 2009."

10 Power-Saving Myths Debunked
(Oct 7, 2008, 19:35 UTC) (2013 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
InfoWorld: "how can you be certain that the power-saving strategies your company has adopted are, in fact, the best ones? After all, there are plenty of myths out there about saving energy that are patently false. In this report, we examine 10 such myths and bring the truth to light."

Fun Way To View Logs With logstalgia
(Oct 7, 2008, 17:05 UTC) (931 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxHaxor: "But if you are looking to make your server monitoring a lot more interesting (besides using woopra), you should definitely try out "logstalgia". Also known as "ApachePong", it displays apache access log as a retro arcade game-like simulation in real time."

Tip of the Trade: LDAP Master Server Problems
(Oct 7, 2008, 14:35 UTC) (788 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Serverwatch: "LDAP allows you to have a master+slave server setup, with automatic failover in case of problems or just to spread the load. This has obvious advantages, but it can hide problems with the master server."

Open Source vs. Proprietary Intranet Software, Part 3
(Oct 7, 2008, 12:05 UTC) (927 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Intranet Journal: "An organization's choice of either an open source or proprietary intranet software solution must be based on its own specific needs and resources -- not on what others are doing or saying. What worked for one company might not necessarily work for yours..."

Network Block Devices: Using Hardware Over a Network
(Oct 6, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (1222 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "While NFS, SMB/CIFS, and similar protocols are handy, they aren't always ideally suited to what you need to do. One obscure Linux tool can sometimes help on this score: Network block devices (NBDs)."

Vista R.I.P.
(Oct 6, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (4266 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "Vista is awful. Everyone knows it, including Microsoft, and now Microsoft's actions have made it clear that Vista is on its way to the Microsoft junkyard with such similar failures as Windows ME and Microsoft Bob."

OpenOffice.org Breaks Records Everywhere
(Oct 6, 2008, 19:33 UTC) (2412 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Open Enterprise: "For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million users in Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there."

OpenOffice.org in the City of Katowice, Poland
(Oct 6, 2008, 18:03 UTC) (709 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Polish Linux: "We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in Łeba. Today we are introducing yet another example of a well-done implementation of OpenOffice.org, in Town Council of Katowice."

Red Hat CIO: The Secret to Open-Source Success is "Iteration"
(Oct 6, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (1187 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Road: "How to make money [in open source]? A lot of people started with the support model.... What Red Hat did was fundamentally different....It's not about trying to monetize the bits or the services. Everybody can do that."

Using Zivios Identity Management
(Oct 6, 2008, 10:33 UTC) (978 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "Zivios is an open source web based identity management application featuring single sign on, certificate authority, user, group and computer provisioning with remote management of services."

Alfresco's John Newton Gives His View of the Cloud
(Oct 6, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (1047 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Treasures: "There are security risks and data ownership issues that you have to take into consideration. To get another point of view on the matter, I talked to John Newton, who is the Chairman and CTO at open source content management Alfresco..."

Enhance Your DNS and DHCP Services With dnsmasq
(Oct 5, 2008, 02:33 UTC) (1828 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "One solution is to implement Domain Name Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) with dnsmasq, and thereby cache external DNS addresses for performance reasons, dynamically assign IP addresses to all of the members of your network, and manage everything from one location."

How to Troubleshoot RHEL Performance Bottlenecks
(Oct 4, 2008, 03:03 UTC) (1798 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "You've just had your first cup of coffee and have received that dreaded phone call. The system is slow. What are you going to do? This article will discuss performance bottlenecks and optimization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL5)."

Gameloft Moves 1,000 Business Desktops to Ubuntu Linux
(Oct 3, 2008, 23:32 UTC) (1690 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu LinuxBusinesses are catching on to Ubuntu, Canonical’s Linux distribution. The latest example: Gameloft, a major mobile games developer, has moved more than 1,000 desktops to Ubuntu..."

Standards, Open Standards and Double Standards
(Oct 3, 2008, 15:32 UTC) (2008 reads) (11 talkbacks) (feedback)
Interop News: "I am not impressed with OpenOffice as an alternative to Office. And I am really not impressed with IBM’s attempt to ram the little-used ODF down our throats."

Norwegians Leave Their Standards Body in Protest
(Oct 3, 2008, 13:02 UTC) (2095 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
No OOXML: "Remember that Standards Norway was voting Yes with the support of only 2 companies (Microsoft and Statoil), and against the will of the rest of the technical committee (read our previous article "Norway: 21 "No", 2 "Yes" and Microsoft still gets its way?")."

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