Wall Street firms increasingly are buying into Linux, but some still need convincing that open source licensing and support models won't make using the technology more trouble than its worth.
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Embedding a File in an Executable, aka Hello World, Version 5967
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I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I'm working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to make this happen.
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Why Linux Failed at Walmart -- And What to Do About It
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Over the past few years, various distributions have worked to make a name for themselves by selling their Linux PCs over retail Websites provided by Walmart, Sears and so on. Yet in nearly every instance, there has been a sudden stopping point where the big box retailer drops the provided Linux PCs like a rock.
Read more »Opera 9.50 Is Out! Review of the Newest Opera Release
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A complete review of the Opera browser in its newest form: release 9.50. The article reviews all major aspects and features of Opera, like widgets, speed, documentation, BitTorrent support, new interface and much more.
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How many ways can you install an RPM in OpenSUSE Linux?
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Package management in OpenSUSE in recent years has had its share of challenges. In OpenSUSE 10.1, the package management was an epic trainwreck. Package management in OpenSUSE 10.3 is as good as that was bad. There are various types of speed improvements. Some of them huge. There is some caching of the repository package info. Progress bars so the user knows what’s going on.
Read more »Dimdim Open Source is a bright-bright solution for Web conferencing
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Dimdim Web conferencing software, which competes with services like WebEx and GoToMeeting, provides almost all the important features you need for conducting a conference over the Web.
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Finally, it's time for Wine
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Fifteen years in the making, everyone's favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release.
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Easy automated editing of /etc/files with Augeas
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The days of parsing configuration files with awk and making quick changes to configuration files with ad-hoc scripts may finally be at an end. With Augeas you can forget about the parsing and focus completely on what settings must be changed. So if the configuration file moves a piece of data to the fourth column, you don't need to care; Augeas will still show it to you as it did before.
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Screencasts in Ubuntu, part 2: FFmpeg
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I had an ambitious plan to have a perfect knowledge of ffmpeg as well as possible. I have to admit that getting the most of this program is out of my reach at the moment. That’s why a little disclaimer is necessary; I’m not an expert in video transcoding, but I will show my personal experiences.
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3 BitTorrent Clients for Linux - Review
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KTorrent is definitely the most full-featured BitTorrent client for KDE.
Read more »The power of ‘root’ in Linux
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Root is the default name for system administrator in a *NIX system - a super user who can do anything and everything within the operating system. As a result, root login should be used with special care. While working with a root login, we can end up doing a lot of harm to our system as well as the data, accidentally.
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Examining the importance of Free Software licenses at IOTC 2008
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"...Shane Coughlan will represent FSFE's FTF at IOTC 2008 in Dublin, Ireland. He will deliver a speech to open the conference on Wednesday the 18th of June discussing Free Software in business..." -- via http://www.fsfeurope.org/events/#2008-06-18-2008-06-20
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Changes to Gobuntu
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"Hi all, The Gobuntu development team would like to announce that after 8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu, such as our "Free Software Only" installer option which only installs software considered free by the Free Software Foundation's definition of software freedom.
Read more »Sabayon Linux Partners with NetCraft Communications to Enhance Versiera's Support for Linux OS
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Sabayon Linux today announced that it will partner with NetCraft Communications, a global provider of computer infrastructure management services and makers of Versiera, Remote System Management and Monitoring Software. As part of this strategic alliance, both companies will leverage their technologies, including Sabayon Entropy to provide broader software distribution methods.
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Three UK 3G modem in Ubuntu Linux
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I have recently bought a Huawei E220 HSDPA access device (or a so-called “3G modem”) from Three UK. In this article I’ll share with you my experiences of using it in Ubuntu Linux distribution. And don’t worry, it works just fine
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