| Linux Today News KILLER OPEN SOURCE MONITORING TOOLS
"In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don't know what your network and servers are doing at every second of the day, you're flying blind. Sooner or later, you're going to meet with disaster." FIRST JAUNTY JACKALOPE (UBUNTU 9.04) ALPHA HOPS INTO VIEW
"A particularly exciting community-driven effort for Ubuntu 9.04 is the jump to Mono 2.0, a major update of the open source .NET implementation that was recently released by Novell." OSCOMMERCE IS DEAD: LONG LIVE THE NEW OSCOMMERCE PROJECT
"Fed up with waiting for eight long years with no final product in sight and no visible development activity, a splinter group of osCommerce programmers has left the dormant project and officially formed a new osCommerce project." NO ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE FOR LINUX?
"There is no OSS accounting...solutions worth a hoot. This is the main reason we still run so many Windows machines in the office. Of course this is the main drawback of any OSS adoption. There is a serious lack of good applications." PHOTO MANAGEMENT ON LINUX - PART 1
"As Thanksgiving falls particularly late this year, we opted for the weekend before, and had 20 or so people for dinner Saturday. That resulted in a lot of digital pictures being taken, which brought my attention back to photo management on Linux." FEDORA 10 RELEASED
"Fedora 10 has just been released to the waiting masses. Andy Hudson takes the distro for an early test run, exploring the new features and seeing how it stacks up against the other major players in the Linux league..." CLOSED LINUX DRIVER PROBLEMS DESCRIBED
"Binary-only Linux drivers will never work for the majority of Linux users, Harald Welte told hardware developers at a Taipei conference. The Linux kernel's lack of an ABI and intentional lack of stable APIs make binary drivers a losing battle purely for technical reasons, he suggests." ON TECHNOLOGY
"I did a very informal survey and discovered that most people do not carry any bills in their pockets on most days, relying instead on their debit cards." OBSERVATIONS ON POWER MANAGEMENT
"The "powersave" and "performance" CPU governors in the Linux kernel are misleadingly named. Powersave will generally not save you energy. Performance will generally not provide you with extra performance." NOVELL NEEDS A RECOUNT: RED HAT STILL LEADS IN CERTIFIED APPLICATIONS (UPDATE)
"Novell has been doing a lot of good things lately in its Linux business, but counting certified applications is apparently not one of them. Novell on Monday announced that it has taken the lead in certified applications vis-a-vis Red Hat, with more than 2,500." GOOGLE LAYOFFS: 10,000 JOBS BEING CUT, REPORT CLAIMS
"Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway." OPEN MOBILITY?
"...when people did talk about "Openness", it had the focus of "It is great that your product is open, but why should I open up mine?"" HOW TO CHECK PACKAGE DEPENDENCIES WITH APT-RDEPENDS ON UBUNTU
"By default, apt-rdepends shows a listing of each dependency a package has.It will also look at each of these fulfilling packages, and recursively lists their dependencies." A RECOVERY PLAN FOR A SUPERBAD SUPERBLOCK
"Linux therefore has multiple copies of the superblock in different locations. Thus, even if you get a "bad superblock" error, you can still rescue your filesystem, as described here." RECESSION PROOF YOUR ENTERPRISE WITH LINUX-BASED VIRTUALISATION
"Businesses everywhere are looking to cut costs in the grip of reduced consumer spending, decreased advertising and a general slowdown of trade. Linux can aid you in cutting your infrastructure costs - no matter your platform of choice." FREE AS IN FREEDOM, NOT FREE AS IN FREELOADER
"There is one other major point that goes hand-in-hand with free as in freedom, and that is that ethics matter. All decisions have an ethical basis. We hear "leave the zealotry and politics out of it, and just make a purely technical decision." There is no such thing, and if you don't make a consciously ethical decision then it will be made for you." MANAGE YOUR MUSIC WITH ID3 TAG EDITORS
"I checked out half a dozen of the more popular and stable graphical ID3 tag editors available for Linux. I found that going from no tags to great tags requires keeping more than one of these editors on hand." ONE GUY, 3 NETBOOKS
"Netbooks are a new category of laptop computer, defined mostly by their small size and cheap price. The category started only a year ago and has evolved drastically since. I tried the first netbook, an Asus Eee PC with a 7-inch screen and didn't like it; the keyboard and screen were much too small. But many disagreed with me, and the popularity of that first Eee PC led to dozens and dozens of imitators." ACCESSING YOUR MYSQL DATABASE FROM THE WEB WITH PHP
"In this chapter, we explain how to access the Book-O-Rama database from the Web using PHP. You learn how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data." GCC HACKS IN THE LINUX KERNEL
"GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization. This article explores many of these important extensions and shows you how they're used within the Linux kernel." A TALE OF TWO FORKS
"While I was writing last Friday's editor's note, "Linux Should Copy Amiga", I kept thinking what a different story it would have been if Amiga had been released under a Free Software license. I'm sure I'm not the only one with that thought..." 2008 STATE OF THE PENGUIN REPORT - PART 1
"Blog of helios is happy to publish their findings after over 1000 separate Linux installs. This will be the first part of a three part weekly series. We hope there is something for all of us to learn within." HARDENING THE LINUX DESKTOP
REDUCING IT COSTS WITH LINUX
"With all of the talk these days about the desktop Linux taking on Windows in the enterprise sector, have you ever considered that with some simple compromises, using Linux desktops running different thin clients can work very well within the confines of what most businesses need?" FREE ICON-TO-SPEECH: OPEN-SOURCE SPEECH FOR DISABLED
SECURITY BREACH CAN'T HALT FEDORA 10'S DEBUT
"Despite a security breach earlier this year, Red Hat is out today with its tenth release of the Fedora Linux distribution, promising new open source security, virtualization and appliance-building technologies." LINUX STILL TOPS IN SUPERCOMPUTERS
"When I was a reporter a few years ago, I began covering the fast rise of Linux to dominance on the Top500 Supercomputer list. Since the list comes out every six months, I would end up getting a response like, "Is it that time of year again already?"" LINUX THIN CLIENTS: RECORD SALES IN OCTOBER?
"Even as the economy went into a nosedive, Wyse Technology Inc.'s thin client sales continued to climb higher. In fact, Wyse - which increasingly promotes Linux-based solutions through channel partners - says the company generated record revenue in October." RED HAT'S WINNING FEDORA 10 LINUX ARRIVES
"You'll end up making a bloody mess of yourself with most bleeding-edge programs. Fedora 10, however, is a true cutting-edge Linux distribution." THREE APPLICATIONS FOR MAKING DISC LABELS
"Making labels for DVDs and their cases is an often overlooked task. Many discs are lucky to have some terse information quickly scrawled on them after burning. But there are some fine open source applications available for creating labels for CD-ROM and DVD disks and printing jewel case inserts, including gLabels, kover, and cdlabelgen." INTERROGATING A LINUX MACHINE
"The other day, a client called upon me to perform a hardware and software inventory on all of the computers on his network. There weren't that many machines to inventory, but we needed to gather quite a bit of information about each one." PHOTO MANAGEMENT ON LINUX - PART 2
"When I am looking for a photo management program, I want one which meets most or all of the following requirements: - Allows me to store my photos where I want on the disk." OBVIOUS MISTAKES CAUSED EUROPEANA SITE FAILURE
""Brussels, we have a problem." That was the message to the paymasters behind Europeana, an Internet portal designed to pool all of Europe's most treasured cultural icons, as it tried unsuccessfully to launch last week." TIDDLYWIKI DERIVATIVES HELP YOU GET THINGS DONE
"With TiddlyWiki derivatives, you can manage tasks, track projects, keep tabs on contacts, and organize book collections. Like the original TiddlyWiki, each derivative consists of a single HTML file which you have to download to your local hard disk. Open the downloaded file in a browser, and the TiddlyWiki-based tool is ready to go." Holiday Guide to Laptop Computers:
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APPLE SLAMMED FOR KILLING OPEN-SOURCE ITUNES
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticised Apple's attempt to quash efforts to help the latest iPods and iPhones work with non-Apple software such as the Linux operating system." ASTERISK FOUNDER TALKS ABOUT HARDEST PART OF BEING OPEN SOURCE PBX CREATOR
"Imagine an IP voice and unified communications system that can be integrated into any application and customised to meet business needs... Well that project is the Asterisk IP-PBX and it's free to use and you get the source code." STEVE BALLMER LOVES LINUX
"He says so many negative, nasty, and acrid things about Linux that there is only one possible answer: Steve Ballmer Loves Linux." XAVIER SCHOOL DEPLOYS 600 UBUNTU LINUX DESKTOPS
"Xavier is the latest K-12 school to move Ubuntu Linux to the head of the class. In fact, the school has deployed more than 600 Ubuntu desktops, according to Pierre Tagle, Xavier's consulting IT director." TESTING THE LINUX WATERS - LIVE CD VS DUAL BOOT
"It is understandable that they would prefer a setup wherein they can continue working in the environment that they are familiar with and be able to try out Linux during their spare time. Luckily, these people have a couple of options: a Live CD or a Dual Boot System." EGROUPWARE VERSION 1.6 AVAILABLE
"The eGroupware project has released version 1.6 of its web-based software. Amongst the changes is a completely revamped filemanager which uses PHP stream-wrapping and WebDAV, and ACL control on files and directories." ANALYST: RED HAT "DEEPLY UNDERVALUED," ORACLE LINUX "HAS FAILED"
"Red Hat has been taking a beating in the stock market recently, but in a recent research note leading analyst Mark Murphy of Piper Jaffray thinks this represents an exceptional opportunity to buy into a "deeply undervalued" company." DIMDIM OUT OF BETA ON DECEMBER 3RD
"Dimdim first demoed their software a year ago at DEMO - and their "Eagle" release came out in May of this year. Dimdim has also recently benefited from the investment of Zimbra founder Satish Dharmaraj." | 
