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Damn Small Linux 4.4 RC1 under the microscope
2008-05-29 12:24:00
I wasn't able to boot Damn Small Linux 4.4 RC1 on the machine I really need it to run on — the $15 Laptop (aka Compaq Armada 7770dmt) — so I booted it on my VIA C3 Samuel test box, the machine that ran my two Puppy Linux torture tests. I've already written about how the inclusion of Firefox 2 (renamed Bon Echo) in DSL 4.3 has breathed new life into the live-CD distribution as far as I'm concerned.
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Top 5 ways not to be a Linux evangelist - humor
2008-05-29 11:27:00
From my conversations and my own personal perspective I include a list of the top five ways not to evangelize Linux , or perhaps restated, how not to screw up a good thing:
More About: Humor

Three sitemap generators for WordPress
2008-05-29 10:29:00
Some search engine optimization (SEO) experts say sitemaps are important tools for promoting your site, because when a search engine picks up your sitemap, it automatically picks up a link to every page in your site. Not only does the spider crawl those pages, but the sitemap page shows up in search results for keywords on your blog. Sitemap s also make it easier for visitors to your blog to find what they're looking for, faster. Here's a look at three sitemap generators for WordPress and my experience with them.
More About: Wordpress , Linux , Generators

OOXML ? dead format walking?
2008-05-29 09:32:00
Microsoft's controversial OOXML document format is not going anywhere, observes Jason Brooks in a blog posting at eWEEK. Brooks points to discrepancies between the ISO-approved version of the format and that used in Office 97 in suggesting that OOXML hardly measures up with ODF (Open Document Format ).
More About: Linux , Walking , Dead

Penny Arcade: Linux Screenshots
2008-05-29 08:44:00
Hothead Games together with Penny Arcade released a very interesting game called “Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness”. It can be purchased at $20 in Greenhouse Internet store, which is a counterpart of more known Steam Games. Nothing peculiar, you say? And you’d be right if not for one small detail: the game is available also for GNU/Linux . PolishLinux has a short review with screenshots.
More About: Screenshots

Add semantic value to your Web pages
2008-05-29 07:46:00
Discover what Semantic Web standards can do for your current or next Web site project. In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement a semantic URI scheme, the conceptual structure of the pages of your Web site, and how to apply microformats and RDFa to your markup to add semantic value to your Web pages.
More About: Linux , Pages

Universities Embrace Open Source IT Monitoring
2008-05-29 06:49:00
When The VAR Guy wants to see the future, he heads back to college. There, he often spots hot trends in IT. The latest involves 18 universities embracing GroundWork Monitor, an open source alternative to traditional network and systems management platforms. Here's the scoop.
More About: Linux , Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source

How to import Facebook events to iCal or Entourage
2008-05-29 06:00:00
This brief tutorial will guide you through the steps required to export Facebook events and import them to iCal or Entourage on your Mac. Find the Facebook event you want to add to iCal/Entourage and click the Export button. Save the .ics file to your desktop or downloads folder. click to enlarge Navigate ...
More About: Software , Events , Import

Split on support for ?old? Java in next Eclipse
2008-05-29 05:52:00
A summit on the next version of Eclipse platform - E4 - has exposed fundamental disagreements between those who want to update the platform and those wanting to continue support for "old" Java . The dispute is over whether to focus on Java 5 or to continue supporting its aging predecessor Java 1.4. Eclipse projects currently embrace several versions of Java ranging from 1.4, released six years ago, to the latest Java 6.
More About: Linux , Support , Split

Linux On The Desktop: Who Cares!
2008-05-29 04:55:00
Every so often, you read on Slashdot, Digg, or some other techie news site that Linux is finally ready for the desktop. It's finally to the point that any end user could sit down at a computer and happily compute away. The applications are sufficiently sanitized and Windows-like that even Grandma can use them. I think it's fair to say that most of our previous conceptions of "ready for the desktop" are moot points.
More About: Desktop

CSIR to switch 2300 users to Ubuntu Linux
2008-05-29 03:58:00
Parastal CSIR, South Africa’s national science and technology research organisation, is readying to switch most of its more than 2300 staff to using Ubuntu Linux as their default desktop.
More About: Ubuntu Linux , Switch , Users

Cisco proposes open-source alternative to Soap
2008-05-28 13:26:00
Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol Soap--and made it open source. Cisco said its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the Soap standard and the company will release the source code. A beta version of Etch will be launched this summer, as part of version 2.5 of the Cisco Unified Application Environment (CUAE). Within that environment, it will replace the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standard, Soap, said Cisco, providing a more lightweight and faster interface, suitable for real-time interaction.
More About: Linux , Open Source , Alternative , Open , Source

Why the pre-loaded Linux Desktop is important
2008-05-28 12:28:00
I will never cease to be amazed at how fast things change and how quickly people forget. Today’s example is a Slashdot posting with the title, “Why Buy a PC Preloaded with Linux ?” Specifically, the dotter—slasher really doesn’t give the right tone—wants to know “‘Why should I buy a PC preloaded with Linux?’ They are more expensive, and it’s not hard just to reformat the PC with Linux. I hate paying the Microsoft Tax as much as anybody else, but if paying that ‘tax’ allows companies to reduce my price by bundling with my PC products that I will never use, why wouldn’t I just buy a Windows-loaded PC and reformat?”
More About: Desktop , Loaded

VIA Unveils Open Source Notebook Design
2008-05-28 10:34:00
The idea of open-source hardware is slowly slowly but surely gaining traction. VIA Technologies, Inc., joined in on the fun today by unveiling an open source reference platform for low power notebooks, based on its own processor technology (obviously). The CAD files have been released under a Creative Commons license. The machine is tentatively named Open Book.
More About: Linux , Design , Open Source , Notebook

Google opens app engine to all, details pricing
2008-05-28 09:37:00
On the eve of its first-ever developer conference, Google Inc. threw open the doors for its Google App Engine to all takers Tuesday and unveiled pricing details for the cloud-based development environment. Google's App Engine, which the company first announced in April, provides hosted dynamic Web serving, persistent storage, automatic scaling, a local development environment, and authentication and load balancing aimed at making it easier for developers to build Web applications.
More About: Linux , Details

Blogging with Movable Type 4.1
2008-05-28 08:40:00
As the popularity of blogs continues to rise, blogging software platforms continue to evolve. With the recent release of version 4.1, the popular Movable Type application offers improvements that allow bloggers to expand their control over the publishing process. Movable Type is professional open source blogging software developed by Six Apart, written in Perl, and released under the GNU GPL. It requires a Linux , Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl (LAMP) server or an equivalent to run, and a mail server such as Sendmail or another SMTP-capable engine. The Apache server must be configured to execute CGI scripts. To start, you can try a functional online demo.
More About: Blogging

Secure and anonymous browsing with Firefox and TorK
2008-05-28 07:34:00
Often, the web browser that comes with an operating system is not set up in a secure default configuration. Not securing your web browser can lead quickly to a variety of computer problems caused by anything from spyware being installed without your knowledge to intruders taking control of your computer. As a result, exploiting vulnerabilities in web browsers has become a popular way for attackers to compromise computer systems. For that reason, it is very important to take control and to decide what kind of browser and plug-in to use. But here is the good news; Linux is already using Mozilla Firefox as a default browser. This workshop will describe how to use additional plug-ins to browse the Internet more secure but also anonymously on a Mandriva 2008 Spring client.
More About: Browsing , Anonymous , Secure

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