Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well.
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Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop
This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.
Read more »Lets drive your car in Linux
Here are three racing games for Linux, on this article I assume you use Ubuntu...
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Write Your Own Musician!
Let me just tell you that a collection of musicians has been written today that you can throw in any song you want. It's hilarious -they don't even know what's happening-.
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playonlinux - Play Windows Games on Linux
playonlinux seems to be similar to cedega except that playonlinux is open-source and free. playonlinux almost support 11 Linux distros. Although there is no package for Ubuntu Intrepid but adding Ubuntu Hardy sources file to my intrepid seems to be working fine.
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AUS: Update XML File Malformed (200) Firefox Update Error
This AUS Update XML File Malformed 200 error traps many issues, the simplest being unable to access the Internet. So, most of the time you can safely ignore this warning
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Ubuntu & Songbird, sitting in a tree…..
I’ve spent the past two days down in Mountain View. Yesterday I spent some time at the Ubuntu Developer Summit meeting with the great guys from the Ubuntu Mozilla-team to see about integrating Songbird into Ubuntu (ideally Jaunty, but we’ll see).
Read more »Using Wine + Wubi For A Smooth Transition
Yesterday, I discussed the possibility of Wine's inclusion in Ubuntu. That possibility on its own is quite interesting, but it becomes even more interesting if you start thinking about the possibilities for migration from Windows.
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Gentle Warning About OSBC 2009 and OSCON 2009
Microsoft has very strong presence in events that supposedly represent F/OSS
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Ubuntu FOSScamp builds community
The week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) meets every six months at changing locations to discuss what will be in the next release of Ubuntu. The mostly unpublicized FOSScamp always meets the weekend before. The FOSScamp un-conference has no program, no invited speakers, and costs nothing. Like some sort of geek Woodstock but smaller, the Ubuntu hip just show up.
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Tracking build status with Pulse
Pulse is a build server that can monitor your source repository and trigger a build and test cycle every time somebody does a commit. With Pulse you will always know if the most recent sources in your revision control system compile and if they pass your unit and system tests.
Read more »Ten Linux and Open Source milestones in 2008
As we are winding up another year I felt the urge to write about milestones. Of course they would have to be Linux and Open Source associated milestones. I also have a personal milestone which I just reached with this post. I have written a full two bytes worth of articles. Yep, this is my 512'th article.
Read more »Myst Online goes fully open-source
As many know, Myst Online: URU Live has had an incredibly rocky road throughout its history. First sunsetted by Ubisoft, then by GameTap, URU's fans agreed to trying MORE (Myst Online Restoration Experiment) after Cyan Worlds got their IP back. Most recently in October, Cyan posted word that due to financial difficulties, URU and the entire MORE project would be placed on indefinite hold.
Read more »Azureus is dead, long live Vuze
When it comes to downloading content from the Internet using a P2P protocol of some sort, I'm more of an eMule (aMule) sort of a person. This is because I like to hunt down old, mundane, forgotten, obscure stuff that you can't possibly find anywhere else - think mime Hungarian movies from the 20s.
Read more »Lancelot, and the Knights of the Plasma Widget
As controversial as it has been, i've been a supporter of KDE 3's Kickoff menu ( as introduced by openSUSE Linux ), and hence a supporter of the new KDE 4 default menu. There are some vocal protesters, but i feel that this sort of menu is a huge leap forward in general
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