Another suggestion for disengagement from Novell as a new release of OpenSUSE is announced
Read more »Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions
Thanks so much to RMS for taking the time to answer our questions and thanks to the community at /r/gnu for all the questions.
Read more »Cool User File Systems: ArchiveMount
Have you ever wanted to look inside a tar.gz file but without expanding it? Have you ever wanted to just dump files in a .tar.gz file without having to organize it and periodically tar and gzip this data?
Read more »Diversity is Good, Proprietary Software Giants Are Not
Timely perspective on Apple, Microsoft, and the substitution of "Linux" with Android (Google's trademark)
Read more »DOJ Pushing to Expand Warrantless Access to Internet Records
This morning's Washington Post reveals that the Department Of Justice has been pressuring Congress to expand its power to obtain records of Americans' private Internet activity through the use of National Security Letters (NSLs).
Read more »Linux Desktop: Command Line vs. User Interface
In the Linux desktop world, the graphical user interface is here to stay. Old Unix hands may grumble, but the fact remains that, without all the efforts poured into GNOME, KDE, Xfce and others, Linux would not be as successful as it is today.
Read more »LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 filesystems tuning for small files heavy load parallel I/O on Debian
Thousands concurrent parallel read write accesses over tens of millions of small files is a terrible performance tuning problem for e-mail servers.
You must understand and fine tune all your infrastructure chain, following the previous articles for data storage and multipath on Debian 5.x Lenny.
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GSmartControl - Useful Hard Disk Drive Health Inspection Tool For Linux
GSmartControl is a really useful Linux app to check the health of your hard disk drive. GSmartControl is basically a graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. Only ATA drives including both PATA and SATA are supported for now.
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Sabayon 5.3 LXDE Screenshots
I recently tried the new Sabayon 5.3 LXDE release and found it to be lightweight yet still hold up Sabayon’s feature packed, out-of-the-box way of doing things.
Read more »Oracle shuts down open source test servers
Oracle has shut down servers Sun Microsystems was contributing to the build farm for open source database software, PostgreSQL, forcing enthusiasts to scramble to find new hosts to test updates to their software on the Solaris operating system.
Read more »A New Sports Activity Tracking App (still needs a name)
This one’s an activity and sports tracking application similar to Sport Tracks or Garmin Training Center. It’s not a hundred percent complete yet and has its share of rough edges and its author is looking for a good name for it.
Read more »Gnash development is stopped: funding plea
So the Gnash team is broke, and has been for most of a year. This has forced many, but not all of the Gnash developers to find paying work, and mostly stop working on Gnash. The few of them left focused on Gnash like to eat and pay bills.
Read more »Woah, It Looks Like Oracle Will Stand Behind OpenSolaris
Since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems last year, the future of the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems have been called into question especially as the OpenSolaris 2010.1H release was missing and has been that way for months now with no official communication from Oracle. A new OpenSolaris release hasn't come in more than a year and we still are left wondering if or when it will arrive.
Read more »Help Extend the Ban on Software Patents in New Zealand to Australia
Head of Microsoft New Zealand steps down, New Zealand permits software patenting only with the "device" trick, and Ben Sturmfels is working to marginalise software patents also in Australia
Read more »Reject UltraViolet DRM
Throughout the relatively short history of Digital Restrictions Management, we have seen various methods of user restriction come and go. Now, there is a new threat on the horizon: UltraViolet. A soon to be implemented DRM scheme, UltraViolet -- or should that be Ultraviolent -- is a joint effort between companies such as Sony, Adobe, Cisco, HP, Microsoft and Intel.
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