The scripts located in /etc/init.d are part of the bootup sequence of every Debian-like distro. Very often Ubuntu's documentation and guides have suggested - in order to deactivate init scripts - to change the permissions of the scripts in /etc/init.d, making them non-executable. This will have the following consequences:
Read more »Boot-Up Manager (BUM) - Graphical runlevel editor
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Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.5 has been released
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SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.
Read more »RabbitVCS - Easy version control for Linux
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RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Currently, it is integrated into the Nautilus file manager and only supports Subversion, but our goal is to incorporate other version control systems as well as other file managers.
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Talking About Kernel Mode-Setting
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There was a talk last week at LinuxTag in Berlin by Egbert Eich about kernel mode-setting and the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) graphics stack on Linux. Egbert is, of course, a long-time X developer and openSUSE developer at Novell who was one of the masterminds behind the RadeonHD graphics driver and has worked on various pieces of X over the years.
Read more »Java father Gosling backs managed runtime gallop
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Java father James Gosling has endorsed plans to juice managed runtimes on Linux from a company that was once at loggerheads with Sun Microsystems over his beloved language.
Read more »Ubuntu's Koala food mixes with Windows VMs
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Eucalyptus Systems — the open source outfit that mimics Amazon's so-called compute cloud inside private data centers — has released a major upgrade to its commercial product, Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition.
Read more »Google Android Market lets developers down
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After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts. On Saturday, a number of developers started complaining about incorrect download counts on Android Market.
Read more »BeRTOS real-time operating system with ARM Cortex and Arduino support
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BeRTOS 2.5 supports most of Atmel's AVR microprocessors as well as AT91 processors with ARM-7 core and, for the first time, the ARM Cortex-M3 family of processors
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NetBeans IDE 6.9 arrives
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New features of version 6.9 of the NetBeans open source development environment include a new JavaFX Composer, OSGI interoperability and support for the Zend and Rails 3.0 web frameworks
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Creating a NAS Box Using OpenFiler
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In a recent walkthru we outlined the steps for taking an existing server and converting it into a NAS box. That article assumed that you already installed Linux on the server and you will maintain that installation (i.e. updates, security, etc.).
Read more »FFmpeg 0.6 adds WebM/VP8 support
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The FFmpeg project has released version 0.6 of FFmpeg, improving HTML5 video and adding support for the latest open WebM / VP8 video format introduced by Google as part of the WebM Project
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Microsoft and Oracle lose among open sourcers
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Microsoft and Oracle are losing out to Linux and MySQL while cloud computing's not exactly taking off, according to the latest survey of Eclipse users. The number of those building software using a PC running Linux has grown by thirteen percentage points in three years to almost a third, while those using a machine running Windows has dropped by 16 points to 58 per cent since 2007.
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CentOS / Redhat Linux: Setup KVM Virtualization
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KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT or AMD-V. How do I install KVM under CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.5?
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Invoking Bash and Start-Up Files for Your Open Source Software Needs
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If you've ever tried to change system-wide bash settings, you know there are three major ways of invoking bash, all of which behave differently when reading in settings files.
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Showing Progress with Android
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Passing data with Handlers, Messages and the ProgressDialog
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