Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical, is unhappy with Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the Linux kernel maintainers, because of Kroah-Hartman's keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
Read more »Canonical CTO bites back at Linux Plumbers Conference keynote
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Reverse SSH Tunneling
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Have you ever wanted to ssh to your Linux box that sits behind NAT? Now you can with reverse SSH tunneling. This document will show you step by step how to set up reverse SSH tunneling. The reverse SSH tunneling should work fine with Unix like systems.
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Not a lot of old tosh: the new Toshiba NB100 Netbook revealed
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It was only ever a matter of time before Toshiba stripped off and jumped in the rapidly crowding Netbook pool. That time is now, but what sort of a splash will the Toshiba NB100 make?
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Simple dual monitor setup with XrandR in Ubuntu
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«This article will be a quick tutorial on how to set up a dual monitor display system on GNU/Linux with the XrandR program.»
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What's GNU, Part Four: find | Linux Magazine
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«A few months ago, we finished the third of a series about features added to longstanding utility programs. This month we’ll look at the new features that GNU programmers and others have added to all of the other features that find(1) already had. (You can “find” an introduction to find in here: A Very Valuable Find.»
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 271, 22 September 2008
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Welcome to this year's 38th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! The feature story of the this week's issue is package management or, more precisely, an attempt to create a command-line package management cheatsheet that would cover just about any Linux distribution available today.
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Canonical Provides A Solution to A Frequent Misconception
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For a number of reasons, Linux is significantly different from other operating systems. One of the ways in which it differs is that it is free. This makes including licensed media codecs very difficult, leading to reviewer complaints such as this one which appeared a while ago in the Wall Street Journal:
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Open Source Think Tank, Sponsored by… Microsoft
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Microsoft is going to define -- as part of a group at least -- directions in open source software
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The EPO Crisis and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
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Lots of news about patents, including the problems in Europe and Microsoft's patent troll of choice.
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How to Install Chromium (Google chrome) in Ubuntu using deb package
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We have already discussed how to install google chrome using wine .Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser.
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Video - Installing and Uninstalling Adobe AIR and Applications
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Yesterday, I reported on Adobe AIR for Linux. What I didn’t do in that post is show how to install it and applications built with AIR.
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How to add metadata to digital pictures from the command line
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Digital media files are more useful and accessible when tagged with metadata -- that is, descriptive information about each photo that either can be embedded inside images themselves or stored in external databases. ExifTool is an efficient, flexible, and portable way to manage image, audio, and video metadata under Linux.
Read more »Spam prevention with Exim and greylistd - Part 2 - management and stats
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In part one of this tutorial looked at installing and configuring greylistd alongside Exim to help combat the evils of Spam. In this second part I will look at getting some information out of greylistd — handy if you need to troubleshoot why the CEO’s “urgent” message hasn’t arrived yet!
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Songbird Rocks!
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I'm not that picky when it comes to desktop audio player. Typically, I just use whatever audio player that comes with my Linux distro. As long as it plays all of my audio files (with the right plugins of course), I'm good. Until most recently, when I've tried those iTunes replacements that I wrote about a while ago, I've discovered Songbird, and it quickly became my favorite audio player.
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Get thin client benefits for free with openThinClient
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Thin clients reduce hardware costs, offer added security by stripping away storage options, and ease management tasks by storing all configurations on a centralized server.
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