More about the bonuses/benefits given to Novell's CEO and the grim future which lies ahead as a result of self-imposed dependence
Read more »The Novell/Microsoft Deal Failed, But Not for Ron Hovsepian
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Fainting and the Linux audio stack, or Know Your Enemy
I've been working off and on to draft a Linux audio overview in the vein of Bryce's excellent X Window System architecture docs. Lennart, the brains behind Avahi and PulseAudio, already has a quite-good writeup on the different APIs with well thought-out reasons for choosing whichever one(s) for a task.
Read more »Corporate investment the price of Linux's freedom
It may be open source, but Linux has frequently required corporate support, including from the proprietary software market.
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Simple Code To Implement C's stat() function On Linux And Unix
Checking out the C stat() function and using it to interrogate files.
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Bridging the gap between companies and communities for OSS
GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters discussed ways to bridge the gap between companies and open source software communities during a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo.
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Howto block DDOS attacks on Ubuntu
I will show you howto install PSAD on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server to block DDOS attacks (distributed denial of service) and port scan.
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Why the Philosophies of Nietzsche and Rand Are Poison To Geeks
With a title like that, I hope you're not expecting this post to be light reading. I'm also blindly assuming that you have at least a passing familiarity with the concepts of Objectivism and the Übermensch. If you aren't familiar with these concepts, you can skip this. I envy your bliss.
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Brilliant Brainstorms #49 - Preview That Song
Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: automatic media ratings; image previews; and hardware configuration databases.
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IPTraf - Console based IP Traffic Monitor in openSUSE
IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. IPTraf is an IP traffic monitor that shows information on the IP traffic passing over your network.
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Chess Software for Linux
Once there was a time when chess software for the home was slow, weak and expensive. To find human opponents, you had to go to your local chess club. Today, the situations is different.
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Linux is like an onion
Linux is like an onion. Not in the sense that it will make you cry. All operating systems do that every now and again, some more than others. It is like an onion in the sense of how it is constructed.
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Building belonging is the secret to open source success
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon explained the importance of community building during a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo.
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Read Popular Magazines for Free Using Firefox
Do you buy or subscribe to popular magazines like Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, ELLE, Esquire, Macworld, Playboy, and Penthouse? If you do, then you may like this simple hack that could save you a few bucks. The trick is not really that complicated and you will only need Firefox to read these magazines and more for free.
Read more »Novell Flirts with New Lows
Market cap nearly falls below $1 billion and stock (NOVL) at risk of tumbling below $3
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Dia: A useful, though flawed, solution for simple diagrams
Including Dia in this series is just a bit of a stretch, because it is not a conventional "vector graphic editor". Instead, Dia operates at a somewhat higher level of abstraction. But since that abstraction is very appropriate for dataflow diagrams (such as the one I picked as a comparison project), I think it's important to note what it can do.
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