Finally after a very long wait for a easy-to-use Remote Desktop application over the HTTP and cross-platform, GNU/Linux users can now have reasons to feel ecstatic. The popular TeamViewer application is released in GNU/Linux today.
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Cherry-Picking Open Source Licenses
The widespread creation and reuse of open source software by commercial companies has introduced a whole new level of complexity to the legal challenges related to software licenses.
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Ubuntu Lucid in final stretch
Lucid Lynx, otherwise known as Ubuntu 10.04, is now in the final stretch. Yesterday the Ubuntu Developers announced the Release Candidate, the penultimate release before its final April 29 release.
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Clang, Chromium, ZFS Improve On FreeBSD
Daniel Gerzo with the FreeBSD project has issued a status report concerning work going on within FreeBSD and related projects for the first quarter of this year. Catching our interest in particular were the updates surrounding LLVM/Clang as the compiler for FreeBSD's base, the Chromium web browser porting efforts to FreeBSD, and ZFS file-system enhancements.
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Cfengine Revs Up Configuration Management
Mark Burgess [...] put together an entire configuration management system in 1993 while doing a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Oslo, just because he was tired of managing his systems manually with scripts and wanted to do it better. Which is right up there with [...] Linus.
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MS MVPs Deception and Bribery, and Libeling GNU/Linux Users
Words of clarification and a call for action against Microsoft AstroTurfing, which is rampant and is a violation of the law
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FOSS Enables Developing and Developed Countries to Free Themselves From Intellectual Monopolies
The heartwarming story of Ecuador, the political opposition to software patents in New Zealand, and areas where patents stomp on people's lives
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Dell preps bevy of Android devices
Dell is planning to release a bevy of ARM-based mobile devices, according to what Engadget says are leaked company documents. The devices include four Android-based phones, two Android tablets, and the company's first Windows Phone 7 device, the website says.
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Full Steam ahead with CrossOver Games 9.0 beta
Luckily for our gaming customers, Valve has forced our hand. That is, they have released an entirely rewritten version of Steam today. And, unfortunately, it does not work at all in our existing CrossOver Games releases. And since Steam is a large part of what our customers use CrossOver Games for, we've been forced to rush out a release to provide that support.
Read more »Bash: Handling Command Not Found
After a recent O/S version upgrade (to openSUSE 11.2) I noticed that bash started being a bit more intelligent when I did something stupid: it started giving me a useful error message when I typed the name of a command that wasn't in my PATH but that was in an "sbin" directory. My reaction at the time was "huh, that's nice", but today I decided I needed a bit more information.
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Linux System Information Decoded
System Administrator Dilemma #942: Send a Data Center Service Tech out to pop open the case to tell you what’s in your system or use two simple commands.
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Why Mono is Technically Inferior for Development and Why Microsoft Keeps Promoting It
A look at the latest news about Mono/Moonlight and what we can learned from the pertinent observations and facts
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Ubuntu wants Adobe, even if Apple doesn't
I recently suggested that, given Apple and Adobe's growing war over iPad and iPhone applications, it would make sense for Adobe to move not only its end-user applications, but its Creative Suite development stack, to Linux. While I don't know if Adobe is considering it, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, would welcome Adobe.
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Analyzing I/O performance in Linux
Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any sysadmin. Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. What is an IOP? Should I use SATA, SAS, or FC? How many spindles do I need? What RAID level should I use? Is my system read or write heavy? These are common questions for anyone embarking on an disk I/O analysis quest.
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Install Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Linux from USB stick
If from any reason you are not able to install Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Linux from conventional CD/DVD-ROM or you just do not want to walk around with cd's, there is always option to use USB memory stick to do this job. This short tutorial will describe this simple task from preparing your USB stick, load a Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Linux image and finishing with boot process.
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