No matter how hard you try to build a 100 percent Free/Open Source (FOSS) computer, there are a few bits you can't reach that contain non-FOSS code: ROM chips. These power the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), Ethernet interfaces, SCSI controllers, and SATA/PATA drive controllers.
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Merging Multiple Apache Access Logs Into One Overall Access Log
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Obviously you do not want to have page view statistics for each Apache node, but overall page view statistics. To achieve this, we must merge the access logs from each node into one overall access log that we can then feed into Webalizer or AWstats.
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Learn The Ideals And History Of Free And Open Source Software
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"There are lots of resources available online to learn about Free and Open Source Software. If you want to understand the essence and ideals of this movement, a great start would be to read the following 4 books..."
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OLPC developing new 'supercharger'
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As One Laptop Per Child prepares to ship its highly anticipated XO laptops in two weeks, it is developing a "supercharger," a mass battery recharger that will draw power from cows and yo-yos to help the laptops run longer. (Australian Joel Stanley is working on the charger system for the XO-1 laptop, read his story here).
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Simplify Server Management With Service Processors
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The mainstream adoption of service processors has been hampered by a number of factors. Primarily, many enterprises are unaware of the potential power of service processors. There are also a number of specific concerns about how to integrate service processors into the existing management framework.
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How To Upgrade Your Desktop From Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) To 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
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This guide shows how you can upgrade your desktop from Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
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Ars at FOSSCamp: integrating Internet services into the GNOME desktop
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A FOSSCamp session led by Red Hat developers presented the GNOME Online Desktop project, the nexus of GNOME's efforts to integrate support for modern web services into the open source desktop environment.
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Vyatta Updates Open Source Router
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Open source networking vendor Vyatta is rolling out the latest community edition of its routing software, continuing efforts to target Cisco users in a battle for a slice of the multi-billion-dollar router market. But while Vyatta Community Edition 3 (VC3) adds new features, users of Vyatta's subscription-based edition may not notice much change.
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Review of Linux Distributions - Part 2
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Last week I wrote the first part of this series which discussed the installation of Mepis, Kubuntu, OpenSuse, and Freespire on my laptops. Now that I have had time to play with each of the operating systems I would like to discuss my impressions of the different distributions. I have not spent any time on OpenSuse yet so I will leave it out of the discussion.
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Open Web Gains New Open Source Development Tools
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"ActiveState Releases Open Komodo and Initiates Komodo Snapdragon Project"
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My Distribution is the most updated.
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The stable repositories of Arch and PCLinuxOS have latest Gimp (2.4.0) just two days after its release. The remaining ones including Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva all have a previous version in their official stable repositories. This indicates how frequently these distributions update their repositories with latest software.
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PCLinuxOS Bounces Back on Distrowatch
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PCLinuxOS had temporarily lost its lead in PHR on Distrowatch to Ubuntu, after release of Gutsy Gibbon, but now has regained it.
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US tops dirty-dozen spam-relaying countries for Q3 2007
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Sophos, the anti-virus and anti-spam software maker, have released their report on span-relaying countries for Q3 2007.
US still leads the pack of spammers with over 30% contribution to SPAM
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GIMP 2.4.1 Released
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"GIMP 2.4.1 is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.4 series. It fixes problems that were discovered after the 2.4.0 release..." via http://www.gimp.org/
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Howto Have Grub Like SUSE on Ubuntu
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Ubuntu by default has a text based grub menu, which is not very pleasing to eye. On the contrary OpenSUSE has a very beautiful GRUB. This article describes how to emulate SUSE grub on Ubuntu.
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