Technologies: Linux and Unix

Notification Disappointment in Ubuntu Jaunty

13.04.2009 12:33

Deciphering Glyph: "I really like Ubuntu. In many ways Jaunty looks really slick, and I'm generally enthusiastic to upgrade. But this notifications stuff? Wow. What a disaster. Read more…


Back In Time - easy, schedulable backup utility

13.04.2009 12:33

Vadi's Web Forum: "Enter Back In Time. Available for both Gnome and KDE, it is well-maintained, featuring snapshots, automatic backups, and a Ubuntu & Fedora repositories to install from. Read more…


How to Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper

13.04.2009 12:33

Wikileaks: "Open source is an outsider, not part of the establishment. One price it pays for this is not being privy to all the decisions that are made in the field of governmental policy. Read more…


Concurrent Booting: make full use of your multi-core processors in Ubuntu

13.04.2009 12:33

Giz Village: "This is a great way to make full use of your multi-core processors during boot time. I have an Intel core 2 duo processor and I have seen a notable change in boot time. Read more…


Linux Store Open for Business: A Fantastic Voyage

13.04.2009 12:33

Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "It has 1GB RAM and a 160GB Hard Drive for $296. Awesome deal. Read more…


5 Excellent ToDo List Apps For Linux

13.04.2009 12:33

makeuseof.com: Most Gnome users probably use Evolution, the default PIM, to manage their tasks and ToDo lists. Read more…


10 Individuals who have contributed the most to FOSS

13.04.2009 12:33

l2admin.com: This is a followup to my previous post on the top 5 companies involved in enterprise Linux. enjoy! Read more…


DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 298

13.04.2009 12:33

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: First look at PC-BSD 7. Read more…


Installing Asterisk + PostgreSQL To Manage CDR & RealTime Config On Debian

13.04.2009 08:30

HowtoForge: "In this tutorial, I will describe how to install and configure Asterisk 1. Read more…


Vista SP2 and Windows 7 More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X Leopard

13.04.2009 08:30

Softpedia: "Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is the absolute apex in security when it comes down to operating systems, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, has indicated at the Midmarket... Read more…


Steve McIntyre re-elected Debian leader

13.04.2009 08:30

itwire.com: British developer Steve McIntyre has been re-elected leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project (DPL) for 2009-10. Read more…


GNOME vs. KDE: The Final Smackdown

13.04.2009 08:30

linux-mag.com: Hello ladies and gentleman, and welcome to the Linux Magazine Arena in beautiful downtown San Francisco! Read more…


GNU Radio: the open-source software defined Radio (13 Apr 2009)

13.04.2009 04:30

Pretty cool stuff. Prices from Ettus don't look too bad. Read more…


Handle Compressed and Uncompressed Files Uniformly

13.04.2009 04:30

Linux Journal: "When looking at log files or other files that are compressed and rotated automatically, it's useful to be able to deal with them in a uniform fashion. Read more…


New Test Release Of Intel X.Org 2.7 Driver

13.04.2009 00:30

Phoronix: "We are now into the second quarter of 2009, but Intel will soon release its X.Org driver for Q1'09. Read more…


Ubuntu Goodies

12.04.2009 20:30

Beastly Tech: "Believe it or not, Ubuntu has a control panel. Firstly, it's just called the control center, and secondly it's kinda hidden. Read more…


Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #137

12.04.2009 20:29

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #137 for the week of April 5th- April 11th, 2009 is now available. Read more…


An Easter Story: More ASCII Art For Linux And Unix

12.04.2009 16:33

The Linux and Unix: "It's yet another holiday that we haven't ASCII'ed yet, and we've got another script to print a somewhat-tame Easter story, and picture, to your terminal. Read more…


Ubuntu 9.04 Beta

12.04.2009 16:33


Shutter on Ubuntu: is this the mother of all free software Screenshot Utilities?

12.04.2009 16:33

Like anyone else who writes about software I like to illustrate my text with timely and relevant screenshots; so... Read more…


How Microsoft Changes the Prices at OEMs to Block GNU/Linux Sales

12.04.2009 12:32

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Antitrust exhibit shows how Microsoft changes its pricing to suppress interest in Mandrake... Read more…


Six Best Portable Operating Systems

12.04.2009 12:31

lifehacker.com: Why restrict yourself to merely carrying around your data on a thumb drive? Take your entire operating system on your flash drive. Read more…


Give Ubuntu Jaunty An Apple Flavour

12.04.2009 12:31

bigbrovar. Read more…


Funny Or Die: Unix Trouble

12.04.2009 08:30

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I visited my grandfather in the hospital. He had all kinds of gadgets by his bed...I spent hours playing with those machines. Read more…


Six Interesting Gnome Panel Applets

12.04.2009 08:30


Antique Linux on an Antique PC

12.04.2009 08:30

crashedpips.co.uk: Lying about somewhere in my loft, I uncovered a Targa TS30AS laptop, from sometime in the early to mid 1990s. Read more…


goplay: discover interesting packages

12.04.2009 08:30


Backtrack security testing distro another great tool to convince people of Linux

12.04.2009 04:31

Handle With Linux: "When I tell them what you can do with Linux, they only think about the effort it will take to learn a new OS. Read more…


GNU Radio: the open-source software defined Radio

12.04.2009 00:33

Your Electronics Open Source: "GNU Radio is an open source Software Defined Radio (SDR) project that was started about ten years ago by Eric Blossom, an electrical engineer. Read more…


Review: KTorrent 3.2.1 - Popular BitTorrent Client for KDE

12.04.2009 00:33

A few days ago I reviewed Deluge, a powerful BitTorrent client for GNOME, so today I will continue in the same manner with the latest release of its KDE counterpart, the popular KTorrent. Read more…


Living Life Without Windows: An Introduction to Linux

11.04.2009 20:30

Raiden's Realm: "Figure out where I am going here? I am talking about the mindset that you MUST have Microsoft Windows installed on your PC to do ANYTHING. There is nothing farther from the truth. Read more…


Zen For Ubuntu Users

11.04.2009 20:30

zenlife.comze.com: I am reading a lot of posts where new users are completely discourages by the seemingly over-complexity of Linux. Read more…


Stepping away from evangelism

11.04.2009 20:30

brucebyfield.wordpress: I rarely evangelize about FOSS when face to face. While I will argue in favor of FOSS in articles, or in speech, I hardly ever do so in casual conversation. Read more…


Ordering Ubuntu on a Dell Laptop

11.04.2009 20:30

red-gecko. Read more…


Guake Terminal reaches 0.4 and looks mature

11.04.2009 20:30

stefanoforenza.com: While the project has been active for years, the first releases were a little bit buggy, so I ended up uninstalling it without looking back. Read more…


Windows 7, Mac OS X and Ubuntu: A Tale of Three Operating Systems

11.04.2009 20:30


When did you first use Linux?

11.04.2009 16:31

Cyber Cynic: "At the recent Linux Foundation Summit in San Francisco, several people were asked when they started with Linux, which lead me to the same question. Read more…


10 must-have Linux Web-based tools

11.04.2009 12:31

10 Things: "Linux is an outstanding operating system for serving up applications. And there are a ton of possibilities. Read more…


Top Microsoft strategist signals a big change in its IP strategy

11.04.2009 12:31

The Open Road: ""Open source is not going away. Read more…


Moblin Linux - Test drive the future

11.04.2009 12:31

dedoimedo.com: Thinking globally, I decided to test Moblin, a Linux optimized for the next generation of mobile devices. Read more…


Ubuntu Needs To Monitor Consistancy - Not Appearance

11.04.2009 12:31

lockergnome.com: I would love to see Ubuntu evolve into something more visually attractive, but I hardly see this as a focus at this point. Read more…


Inkscape: one essential vector graphics application

11.04.2009 12:31

freesoftwaremagazine.com: Inkscape is my vector graphics application of choice. It can do a wide variety of vector drawing tasks with relatively little effort. Read more…


Free to a Good Home: Junk

11.04.2009 04:31

Linux Journal: "We've really come to the point where computer hardware is like a plastic fork. If a tine breaks off, it gets thrown away. Read more…


Funny Unix and Linux Quotes

11.04.2009 00:30

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Beginning another weekend of work (following a week of work, of course ;) I thought I'd inject some more humor into this blog (since I seem to be needing it more and... Read more…


ntop in openSUSE to probe & monitor Network Traffic

10.04.2009 20:31

SUSE & openSUSE: "ntop is a free opensource network traffic probe that shows the network usage. ntop is based on libpcap and can run on Linux/Unix and Windows operating system. Read more…


Why Mozilla must win the hearts of new Web users

10.04.2009 20:31

The Open Road: "The Web has about doubled in size since Safari and Firefox came on the scene, and since that time, Firefox has captured almost half of that... Read more…


Conficker Twitch Leaves Security Sleuths With More Mysteries to Solve

10.04.2009 20:31

LinuxInsider: "On Tuesday, computers infected by the Conficker worm woke up and downloaded a new variant. Named "Worm.Downad.E" by Trend Micro, "Conficker. Read more…


Cloud Computing Poses E-Discovery, Legal Risks

10.04.2009 20:31

Enterprise Storage Forum: "In a presentation titled "Computing (strike that -- Litigation) in the Cloud," Steven Teppler, senior counsel at KamberEdelson in New York, said cloud computing and... Read more…


Mozilla SUMO Is No Lightweight

10.04.2009 20:31

InternetNews: "For the millions of users around the globe using Mozilla's Firefox, that's where SUpport Mozilla (SUMO) aims to come in, with a support forum and live chat features to help users get... Read more…


OpenOffice.org 3.1 delayed to the end of April

10.04.2009 20:31

h-online.com: Only a few days after the release of Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of OpenOffice 3.1.0, the developers have discovered new bugs that they need to eliminate before the final release. Read more…