They asked the question that all tech support are bound to ask "What operating system are you running?" Before I could say anything my landlord chimed in with "I think he uses Linux or something like that."
Read more »AT&T: Linux is why the Internet isn't Working
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Never reboot again with Ksplice
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If you use Linux, you don't reboot very often. In my case, the only time I reboot is when I upgrade a system. But suppose, just suppose you didn't have to do that. Suppose you could even make major updates and never have to reboot your system? You don't have to imagine it anymore. Ksplice delivers the goods.
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MariaDB 5.1.42 released!
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MariaDB 5.1.42, a new branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes, and many community patches, has been released. We are very proud to have made our first final release, and we encourage you to test it out and use it on your systems.
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Eben Moglen on Network Services - "It’s late in the game and we’re behind"
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Eben Moglen gave a talk last week on ``Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing''. If you are interested in the problem of network services, you need to watch this!
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OpenDNSSEC 1.0.0 released
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Internet engineers continue to enhance Internet security with the release of OpenDNSSEC, a tool which simplifies the process of signing one or more zones with DNSSEC.
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RMS GNU/Linux-Libre!
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RMS GNU/Linux-Libre is a project to create a complete free software distribution of GNU/Linux that's small enough to run on a USB key, or pendrive. The distribution, which promises to be the perfect pocket companion of freedom lovers, supports the ability to save your changes to the pendrive, as well as install, update and disable software packages in the form of modules.
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Power Up Linux GUI Apps
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One big disadvantage of GUI apps is that you’re mostly limited to whatever the interface lets you do — unless you want to re-code the interface yourself, that is. For instance, how can you use a photo viewer to see all of the photos you put in various places on your disk this past Monday?
Read more »Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux
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Ksplice Inc. today officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers. The Cambridge, Mass., start-up has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief Operating Officer Waseem Daher.
Read more »An Interview With Jono
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I’m about 100% sure that the next person to be interviewed needs no introduction – everybody will have heard of Jono at some point, whether it be from his role within the community, his activity on identi.ca & twitter, or maybe even from Lernid…
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Design contest launched for tiny Linux net server
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Lantronix announced a design contest based on its recently introduced XPort Pro, touted as the "world's smallest Linux networking server. Lantronix will award prizes of $6,000 and $3,000 to the two top entries for Best Linux Design.
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Serious auditing with Lynis
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If you want to do a thorough system security audit on a Linux machine what do you use? Cobble together a few of the pre-installed tools? Search through the numerous locations for a tool that might give you enough information to determine if your system is safe? Or, do you open up a terminal window and use the Lynis security auditing tool?
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Gimp is being sabotaged
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They're munging Gimp up again. I say it over and over again. And truly, if every interface overhaul was so great, then why would they need to change it again? Huh? Hmmm? Where's all the 2.4 advocates saying that 2.4's interface change was so perfect, now?
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MultiCD Builds a Multi-boot CD / DVD With Many Different Linux Distributions And / Or Utilities
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multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD / DVD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.
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Ubuntu and SUSE: Targeting Red Hat's ISV Base?
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Two recent moves by Canonical and Novell, respectively, show promise as Ubuntu and SUSE Linux seek to compete more aggressively against Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here are the details.
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Install Quantum GIS in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a cross-platform Geographic Information System (GIS). It offers support for vector and raster formats, including spatially enabled tables in PostgreSQL using PostGIS, common GIS vector formats such as Shapefiles, and geo-referenced rasters (TIFF, PNG, and GEOTIFF). Many plugins are available to dynamically add new functionality.
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