OpenSUSE 10.2 goes gold

Despite loud arguments over Novell and Microsof's relationship, and attempts by Ubuntu to talk openSUSE developers into coming over to their distribution, openSUSE 10.2 has arrived sooner than expected.

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FSF debuts fully-free Ubuntu/Debian variant

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has unveiled a new Linux distribution, free of the proprietary software contained in most Linuxes. gNewSense is based on Ubuntu and Debian, and offers users "the stability of Ubuntu with the addition of freedom."

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Real Player To Support Windows Media In Linux...

RealNetworks will release open-source software this year that will let Linux computers play Windows Media files.

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The Most Powerful Linux/Unix Command Nobody Ever Uses

lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. If you're not using it almost daily, you should be...

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Send Steve Balmer Monopoly Money to Pay for Linux

A novel idea to pay Steve Balmer and Microsoft for their intellectual rights they claim exist inside the Linux Kernel.

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Subversion Quick Reference Guide (Essentials)

A quick reference guide to using the wonderful Subversion source control. Shows the most used syntax with examples for each command.

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Ubuntu 7.04 Herd 2 is out

The second alpha of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04 development branch ) is out

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Ultimate boot CD

A Linux boot diagnostic CD that has many different anti virus,hard disk,networking,bios,system info, and benchmarking apps

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How to connect to your headless Debian/Ubuntu server with VNC/GUI

Generally I connect to this machine via CLI and do what I need to do. However it’s used by several other folks in my office, not all of who are as comfortable with CLI. I don’t have a GUI desktop installed on this thing, so here’s what I did to make everyone’s life a bit easier.

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User-modifiable Linux phone ships

Trolltech is shipping the Greephone, its open, user-modifiable Linux mobile phone aimed at helping developers write applications for or modify components in its Qtopia Phone Edition (QPE) software stack. Additionally, the company has quietly released a GPL-licensed "community" version of QPE.

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Linux multimedia phone launches in China

Taiwanese pop superstar Jay Chou launched Motorola's thin, Linux-powered Rokr E6 multimedia phone, in Hong Kong this week. The fourth-generation music phone is just over half an inch thick and features a 2-megapixel camera and business card reader. ***Includes YouTube video***

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What Beryl (Compiz) can also do

Yeah, you think you've seen it all. Compiz, now Beryl, with XGL or AIGLX. But you haven't. My brother and I thought we'd show you the greatest things Beryl can do, greater, still, than the touch screen. Really? Yes, really.

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Latest Ubuntu xorg-core update breaks X

If you run Ubuntu be very weary in applying the latest xserver-xorg-core update. It can bring your machine to an abrupt halt. There is a fix suggested in the forums.

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Ohio Linux Fest 2006!

Ohio Linux Fest -- The name says it all. Don't miss out if you live near Ohio, because the biggest Linux event in the area is about to go down September 30.

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Installing and using Linux for the total newbie

So you've heard about Linux and you want to try it out, but you're scared you may screw up Windows or that it's too hard to install. Well fear no longer, here is a guide for the total newbie.

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Ubuntu Stickers - "Powered by Ubuntu"

Do you run Ubuntu? and want to get some cool “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers?

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2006: The year that changed Linux

Linux was already well along on its way from being the tech fanboy operating system of choice, to becoming one of big business' favorite operating systems. But in 2006, that progress smacked many Linux fans in the face.

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Oracle's Red Hat rip-off

No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat's trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue.

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Developing Flash apps on Linux for free using Flex

A video showing someone writing a Flash application (a YouTube viewer) on Linux using the free Flex 2 SDK.

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Beginners Guide to Linux Desktops

So you use Linux, but have you ever used a different desktop environment than the default? Surprisingly, there are too many to even count, but we are taking a look at a few of the most popular and explain advantages of each one.

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A blog by a moderator at www.ubuntuforums.org

This is my new blog. I, ubuntu_demon, am a moderator of www.ubuntuforums.org. I mostly blog about interesting threads at www.ubuntuforums.org. Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions and www.ubuntuforums.org is one of the most popular Linux forums.

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Hell freezes over: Microsoft, Novell partner on Linux

Microsoft and Novell have announced a set of broad business, legal, and technical collaboration agreements to build, market, and support a series of new solutions that will make Novell's Linux and Microsoft's Windows products work better together.

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Tiny, sub-$100 PC runs Puppy Linux

This tiny device can serve as an ultra-low-cost platform for thin-client, kiosk, and electronic signage apps, or as an affordable PC for students and others in developing countries.

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Goodbye Razr, hello Linux-based Motofone

Motorola is shipping the first model in its Scpl ("scalpel") line of mobile phones set to replace the ubiquitous Razr. The Linux-based Motofone F3, available today in India, is an extremely low-end device featuring an "electronic paper" display, breakthrough battery life, and usability features for the illiterate.

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How to Configure an $80 File Server in 45 Minutes

Step-by-step directions on how to quickly and easily configure a cheap Dell GX150 into a fully functional headless file server using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) with Samba for accessible network shares, phpMyAdmin for MySQL administration, and TorrentFlux for BitTorrent transfers.

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Linux version of Democracy Player 'internet TV' released

Democracy Player, the desktop video RSS downloader / viewer is finally available for Linux as of... right now! You can download torrents, search, watch fullscreen, and there's a built-in Channel Guide with more than 400 video feeds.

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Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience

A cool article that just shows that you dont need to have a ub3r server to survive the digg/slashdot effect, this guy survived it on T1 with a 486!

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Mirror Your Web Site With rsync

This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror.

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4 years later, 64-bit Java Plugin is still "long ways off"

Even though this RFE (Request for Enhancement) is #3 in the list of top requests, don't expect to see Java working in Firefox until Java7 is out:"The point of my post is that there will be no more hand feeding from Sun ... they are now committed to including a fix for 64-bit support in JDK7."

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Ubuntu Video - Share Your Ubuntu With The World

It's a new video blog / portal that gathers up the best Ubuntu tutorials, demos, and testimonials to show potential switchers just how cool Linux is these days and help new users get up to speed. Hopefully some advanced tutorials will appear.

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