Once upon a time, neither long ago nor far way, repeated server crashes caused a client’s IT management to replace about 40 x86 Linux servers with nice reliable Windows products.
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Linux Not Ready for the Desktop? Really?
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I was somewhat amused to read Michael Gartenberg's comments that Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Please don't tell that to any of the people who last year logged in 40,000 times to the 28 Linux computers at our small town library and community center in Takoma Park, Maryland. These people are using a Linux solution called Userful, which puts up with robust use day in and day out.
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Installing Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu
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If you are running Ubuntu and want to use the Tomcat servlet container, you should not use the version from the repositories as it just doesn't work correctly. Instead you'll need to use the manual installation process that I'm outlining here.
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Liberating Linux...
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Judge Dale Kimball’s 102 page opinion Friday in the SCO Group, Inc. v. Novell, Inc. (available here), has been widely reported on. It is a surprisingly easy read: Bravo Judge Kimball (and clerks). My comments are limited to the copyright aspects of the case.
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Open source CMSes worth the price
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When last surveying open source Web content management systems (CMS) I provided some common-sense advice. For example, it's important to look for not just functionality but also frequent updates, a healthy user community, and the availability of professional support. Some points are still true today, but new offerings may get you rethinking the role of these products in your enterprise.
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URGENT! You, your relatives, and friends are in grave danger!
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People, churches, and businesses have been getting viruses that turn their computer (without their knowledge) into a file sharing server that shares illegal copies of music, movies, etc to people all over the world. One of these entities who were prosecuted against was a lady for having downloaded 14 songs.
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An Absolute Review
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Absolute Linux is a stripped-down version of Slackware. It is made for speed, stability, security, and ease of use and development. Its chief aim is to make installation and maintenance easier than of the original Slackware. Absolute Linux uses the ultra-lightweight IceWM window manager and ROX for handling files.
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Mozilla aims Firefox at mobile devices
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Another star is coming into alignment in the mobile Linux galaxy: Firefox.
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Ubuntu Open Week is a-coming
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With the up-and-coming release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon coming, I am pleased to announce another Ubuntu Open Week, this time taking place the week following the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon launch - Mon 22nd Oct - Sat 27th Oct on #ubuntu-classroom on Freedode. The sessions take place from 15.00 UTC to 21.00UTC
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Red Hat Linux in professional portal push
http://www.daniweb.com –
Red Hat has opened a dedicated online resource for its partners around the globe, giving them access to the product, program, pricing and training information on both Red Hat and JBoss solutions and services from one single location which is localized in the Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish languages.
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Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.2
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Version 1.4.2 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion (http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/), a cross-platform source port of Hexen II, is released. This release adds support for 64 bit platforms, provides compatibility with older Hexen II protocols, fixes several opengl problems, fixes some security issues, updates the software renderer to support non-intel processors, among many other things.
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Time To Break Out The 'Prove It' Pins Again, Mr. Szulik?
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Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik is not known for avoiding conflicts that threaten his company. So how much longer will it be before he unleashes his legal team to defend against Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s patent accusations in the same way he railed against SCO Group's copyright claims?
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How To: Stream Music From The iPhone In Ubuntu
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This is the first how-to article that holds your hand step by step to stream music from the iPhone in Ubuntu over Wi-Fi. This will work on other distributions, simply replace apt-get with your package manager of choice.
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New Linux 2.6.23
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This new versión of the kernel 2.6.23 includes the new, better, fairer CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, variable process argument length, make SLUB the default slab allocator, SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over
Read more »Running a Jabber server under Debian with eJabberd
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"I like to run my own jabber server, so that I can be contacted as tom@jerakeen.org. Also, I’m a sucker for punishment. I’ve run serveral different Jabber servers over the last year or so, and yesterday I started toying with ejabberd. It was probably the easiest to set up of any of the servers I’ve tried, and I recommend it..."
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