In this final installment of Paul Ferrill's series on building your own high-powered Linux workstation, it is time to install the operating system. Or actually several operating systems, putting a whole computer lab in a box.
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Reduce Linux power consumption, Part 3: Tuning results
In Part 3, the author compares the performance of the five in-kernel governors in both tuned and untuned states to show you how to optimize a Linux-based System x server.
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Mozilla Firefox plugin check will make the web a safer place
Now Mozilla has a solution to the problem that I personally think is so simple, yet effective, it will change the web security landscape for tens of millions of Firefox users.
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Install Firefox 3.5 or Firefox 3.6 (daily build) in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
If you want to install Firefox 3.5 or firefox 3.6 Beta in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy use this procedure
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Recent Foibles Expose Dark Side of Cloud Computing
Now you and I might have assumed that Apple would do something simple like test the world's most advanced operating system to see if it would destroy all that data *before* releasing it to the public.
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Google bets on ARM to kill both Intel and Microsoft?
To accelerate the process of getting more people using Chrome OS and getting them using Google online services, information is coming to light from our industry sources that indicates Google may very well plan to battle Intel and Microsoft on 2 separate fronts to win the OS, browser and services wars.
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Ubuntu Wins!
I never thought I would say that in this blog. But there it is, for all the world to see.
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Mozilla says Microsoft browser malware can Firefox off
Odd isn't it, how Microsoft kicked up a fuss when Google announced the Chrome plugin for Internet Explorer on the grounds that it could make the browser more insecure. Indeed, it went as far as to suggest that it doubled the potential surface area for malware and scripted attacks. Yet, amazingly, Microsoft sees no such problem with installing a plugin into the Firefox browser.
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MythTV 0.22 RC1
MythTV 0.22 Release Candidate 1 is released. MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It also includes media center capabilities.
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“Open Core” Is the New Shareware
Ultimately, “Open Core” is a glorified shareware situation. As a user, you get some subset of functionality, and may even get the four freedoms with regard to that subset. But, when you want the “good stuff”, you've got to take a proprietary license. And, this is true whether the Core is GPL'd or permissively licensed.
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Is Kubuntu Caught in a Downward Spiral?
Kubuntu has been my favorite Linux distribution since the very first release. Unfortunately, Kubuntu later became known as Canonical’s third wheel, and each release seems to steadily diminish in quality. What’s responsible for its current status, and what should be done to improve it?
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Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software
Jeremy Allison from the Samba team argues that Mono and applications that depend on Mono should be put in "restricted" repositories
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The growth of Linux in developing regions.
There are many Linux users in developing regions of the world. The population is large and this will increase the Linux user base.
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Gentoo: “We're Not Dead”
In 2008 the Gentoo Foundation ceased to exist, sending rumors of Gentoo’s demise and ultimate death circulating around the Internet. Almost two years on, the distro is still here and celebrating its 10th anniversary. How close did the distro come to disaster, and where does it stand now?
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Linux Succeeds Across the Board
Linux is doing, in a word, great. There are several areas where Linux and open source software are doing great, especially in the new technologies where open source encourages innovation:
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Read contents from Free Software Magazine
Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.


