Evilwm folks, you will love it. A twitter desktop client that is completely controlled from Terminal. Twidge is a command line twitter desktop client for Linux. It's feature rich and obviously easy to use.
Read more »Twidge Twitter Client is for Those Who Terminal-ly Hate GUI
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Botnets exploit Linux owners' ignorance
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Preparing To Let Go Of GTK+ 2.x For GTK+ 3.0
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GTK+ 2.22 is expected to be the last stable GTK+ 2.x series release before all future development efforts are focused on GTK+ 3. GTK+ 2.22 will be released at the same time that GTK+ 3.0 makes its premiere this September with GNOME 3.0.
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Nagios Meta Check Part 3
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In part one of this series the basic trusses needed by the Nagios check_systemhealth script were put together. In part two the actual checks themselves were coded. In this the third and final part of the series compulsory checks are added, the main loop is constructed and the finall full source listing produced. It is worth noting that this is only one of many methods to achieve the same goal.
Read more »How to compile a Ubuntu Lucid kernel
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The Ubuntu kernel developers have decided to change things up yet again for the Ubuntu Lucid kernel. The steps in this article will be significantly different from previous Ubuntu releases.
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Compiz master testers needed
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So we have about 95% of all the bugs fixed for a release and now we need YOUR help to identify the remaining bugs in git master before making the new development branch *official*.
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Setting up an Ubuntu 9.10 chroot for Android OS builds
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So the goal of this post will be to install a 32-bit chroot of 9.10 in my fresh install of 10.04 as 9.10 is easier to build and test Cyanogen's custom Android rom. I have modified some guides from here and here. I have also elected to use schroot as it allows for easy chroot access.
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Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 10.04/Debian Lenny With Coloured Interface
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rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the "screen" program provide you all the tools you need.
Read more »GNU Zile 2.3.16 released
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Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone. Zile is short for Zile Is Lossy Emacs. Zile has been written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home. This release fixes a potential buffer overrun, and a long-standing bug in the handling of the key string "C-_", and cleans up the code a little more.
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GNU gettext 0.18 released
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gettext is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, gettext utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages.
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Midgard2 10.05 'Ratatoskr' LTS released
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The Midgard Project has released the first release of Midgard2 10.05 "Ratatoskr" LTS. Ratatoskr LTS is a Long Term Support version of Midgard2 Content Repository.
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The Phoronix Ubuntu benchmarks- what is that really?
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"As much as we would have liked to see Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx handily beat Windows 7, this was not the case, but to some extent the opposite." That about summarized the conclusion on the *11th* page of an article titled Is Windows 7 actually faster than Ubuntu 10.04? written by the folks over at Phoronix.
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What Were Novell's Original Goals With RadeonHD?
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Whenever bringing up the RadeonHD driver at Phoronix it generally leads to a heated discussion in our forums between community members, developers, and other representatives over the history of the RadeonHD driver and what really was its purpose, among other dissenting views.
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Closed source software hurts GUI development
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As operating systems increasingly become visual feasts, those who want to create useful interaction enhancements are having to bend over backwards thanks to closed source software in order to bring innovation to the user's environment.
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 3) - Graphics
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The AMD and Intel graphics drivers now support a wider range of chips and make better use of power saving features on the older chips. A major revamp of the recently introduced KMS driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware means that the Nouveau driver for X.org will in future make use of kernel-based mode setting
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