The Oregon State University Open Source Lab's data center hosts some of the Linux community's heaviest hitting projects including the Linux Master Kernel and the Linux Foundation. Despite housing such high-profile open source projects, the lab's systems administrators are actually OSU computer science students.
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Announcing Radio Tray
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After using so much fine open-source software, I finally released something back to the community. For a long time I intended to create or participate in a Linux project, but for some reason never got the chance to do so. Anyway, it’s not much, but here it is: Radio Tray, a simple online radio player with a very simple interface.
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Samba Tutorial: Create Private User Shares
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If you use Samba you certainly want to create shares which provide users with private shares. This tutorial will show you how to create a share that is accessible to one user to store their information.
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Windows Mobile Suffers Another Defeat Amid Linux Triumphs
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Another sign that Sony Ericsson may shift more focus to GNU and Linux after Xperia X2 launch gets delayed, then downscaled
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Avatar Movie Made Possible With Linux
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But then I realize the significant absence of credit for the underlying operating system that made these extreme and complex computer generated graphics possible. Where are the accolades for Linux?
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Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?
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Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year's Eve, the "Help MySQL" initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn't somehow indecent. Let me explain.
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Automate Your Pen Testing with Fast-Track and Linux
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Automated penetration testing tools are a two edged sword: they make it easy to check for well known vulnerabilities on your network, but they can also be used by hackers to try to compromise any vulnerable machines on your network.
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WebKitGTK+ hackfest improves HTML renderer for GNOME apps
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Contributors to the WebKitGTK+ project recently gathered for a hackfest to improve the open source HTML renderer's integration with the GTK+ toolkit. They added some cache control APIs, improved support for HTML5 video, form persistence, and other features.
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5.7
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Mozilla is out with the first update of 2010 to its open source Firefox Web browser. Unlike its immediate predecessor, Firefox 3.5.7 is not being issued to fix security issues, but rather is an update for a trio of stability-related bugs.
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Welcome to Google's Nexus One -- and the "Nexus" Device
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As you may have heard, Google launched a mobile phone yesterday:...Google leads with the fact that this is as much about *how* people buy phones, as what that phone is.
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Trial in SCO v. Novell Now Scheduled for 15 Days Beginning March 8 - Correction
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The trial schedule for SCO v. Novell in Utah has been altered. It was set as a 3-week trial; now it's set for 15 days
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How change display resolution settings using xrandr
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Xrandr is used to set the size, orientation and/or reflection of the outputs for a screen. It can also set the screen size. There are a few global options; the rest modify a particular output and follow the specification of that output on the command line.
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Netbook Speculation: Lenovo, Dell, HP... And Linux
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The Netbook. Once considered a toy, it now seems like the preferred device for many productivity-driven workhorse travelers.
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Ubuntu 9.10 brings polish but may demand tinkering
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A few months ago, a widely used operating system received a major upgrade -- and Microsoft and Apple had nothing to do with it. This upgrade came from the developers responsible for one of the most popular versions of the open-source Linux operating system Ubuntu.
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Linux on Netbooks at the Netbook World Summit in Paris
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Industry Linux overview by Linux experts Aaron J. Seigo, Community leader at the KDE Foundation and Arnaud Laprévote, CTO Chief Technology Officer at Mandriva Linux. They analyse the influence of Linux on the Laptop industry with the advent of the Netbooks.
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