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Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:32:01 +0000

SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the inspiration for many of the easy-to-use distributions available today.

Interview with Richard Stallman

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:42:55 +0000

Richard Stallman answers the top 25 questions from reddit readers.

A fascinating interview …

The Perfect Desktop – OpenSUSE 11.3 (GNOME)

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:06:17 +0000

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

Toshiba NB300 netbook review

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:09:06 +0000

Since Intel’s N450 Atom processor boasts such excellent power-saving capabilities over previous chips, it has powered almost all netbooks released in the same period – Toshiba’s mini NB300 was no exception…

Systems Administrators Changing Roles

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:36:24 +0000

It’s a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times, and adapt their skills to make the best use of their experience, without becoming redundant themselves. The role of Systems Administrator may soon be one of these changing jobs, simultaneously much less, and much more, than what it is today.

CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 9.1 And CrossOver Games 9.1 For MAC And Linux

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:42:02 +0000

On the heels of the highly-anticipated release of Wine 1.2, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the simultaneous release of CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 for both Mac and Linux.

Spotlight on Linux: SimplyMEPIS 8.5.x

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

GNOME 3 not ready yet, release pushed back to 2011

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:38:15 +0000

The developers behind the GNOME project have gathered in the Netherlands this week for the annual GUADEC conference. During a meeting that took place at the event, the GNOME release team made the difficult decision to delay the launch of GNOME 3, the next major version of the popular open source desktop environment. The new version has been deemed unready for mass consumption and will need another round of refinements before it can achieve the level of maturity and robustness that is expected by the software’s users.

AMD Ups The Workstation Ante With A New FirePro Driver

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:11:20 +0000

Whether you are an owner of an ATI FirePro V3800 that retails for just over $100 USD, the proud owner of an ATI FirePro V8800 that goes for over $1,300 USD, or any of the FirePro products in-between, you will want to update your graphics driver when AMD puts out their next stable software update. Back in March AMD put out an amazing FirePro Linux driver that increased the performance of their workstation graphics cards already on the market (and the other Evergreen-based workstation cards that entered the market soon after) by an astonishing amount. Our independent tests of this proprietary Linux driver update found that the performance in some workstation applications had increased by up to 59% by simply installing this updated driver while other OpenGL tests had just improved rather modestly with 20%+ gains. AMD though is preparing to release another driver update for Microsoft Windows and Linux that ups their workstation graphics performance even more! We have run some tests of this new beta driver against their older driver with both their low-end and ultra-high-end FirePro products and have found the improvements again to be astonishing.

Emulating an Amiga in Linux

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:53:02 +0000

The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC’s of it’s time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC’s in the 80′s. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available.

Monitoring Network Traffic: iftop and nethogs

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:40:28 +0000

This how-to will teach you two commands, iftop and nethogs, that you can use to monitor network traffic on a Linux machine. You can use iftop to view traffic by individual connection, port, network segment, or remote host, which gives you a detailed accounting of all packets coming in and out of your machine. Nethogs is a great program as well, and lets you know which processes are using bandwidth on your computer.

Top 10 Empathy Themes For Ubuntu/Gnome

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:46:06 +0000

We have seen already how to install latest version of empathy IM in Ubuntu from PPA, now lets do some customizations with its look and feel.

Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:25:54 +0000

ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimental Btrfs. ZFS is copy-on-write, self-healing with 256-bit checksums, supports compression, online pool growth, scales much better than the UFS file-system commonly used on BSD operating systems, supports snapshots, supports deduplication, and the list goes on for the features of this file-system developed by Sun Microsystems. In this article we are seeing how well the performance of the ZFS file-system under PC-BSD/FreeBSD 8.1 stacks up to UFS (including UFS+J and UFS+S) and on the Linux side with EXT4 and Btrfs.

Periodic table of the open source graphics and design apps

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:33:11 +0000

Are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of open source software projects produced by the community? Even when looking at just a subset — such as graphics applications. Let’s examine each design field in turn. We’ll start by describing the leading program or programs in each, followed by the smaller or younger projects, and end with the special-purpose tools.

Gereqi – Yet Another Amarok 1.4 Clone That Just Works

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:36:00 +0000

For Amarok 1.4 lovers, there is more good news. Gereqi is yet another Amarok 1.4 fork, which is still in its early stages of development. And it is already looking good.

OpenOffice.org 3.3 Definitely On Its Way

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:38:49 +0000

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was released on June 4 and a new master workspace was branched off for the upcoming 3.3 on June 5. The code in this branch will be stabilized and later become the product release that will find its way onto your desktops. With the feature and UI freeze of June 24, only fixes will go into this new OOO330 release code branch. New features will be merged into the DEV300 development code line as 3.3 is readied for release.

Downgrade udev 157->151 on opensuse 11.3 to bring back to life Xen 4.0 (2.6.34-12-xen)

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:41:38 +0000

Well known Bugzilla Bug 1612 “Can’t start VM when vif set and udev version is greater than 151? is also affecting xenified aka Suse kernel 2.6.34-12-xen. The workaround for the issue might be udev downgrade from 157 to 151. Following bellow is step by step description of this procedure on Opensuse 11.3 successfully fixed “Hotplug scripts not working” error.

Writing Better Shell Scripts – Part 2

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:44:27 +0000

This post is the second in a series on shell script debugging, error handling, and security. The content of this post will be geared mainly toward BASH users, but there will be information that’s suitable for users of other shells as well. Information such as techniques and methodologies may transfer very well, but BASH specific constructs and commands will not. The users of other shells (CSH, KSH, etc) will have to do some homework to see what transfers and what does not. There are a lot of opinions about how error handling should be done, which range from doing nothing to implementing comprehensive solutions. In this post, as well as my professional work, I try to err on the side of in-depth solutions.

Two Creative Button Concepts For Ubuntu By Izo Design

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:47:16 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth said, “Moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely, and I would like to experiment in 10.10 with some innovative options there.” So if you guys are wondering what did he even meant by that, you have take a look at this.

AMD Catalyst 10.7 For Linux Has Eyefinity Support

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:50:05 +0000

As was widely anticipated, today AMD is rolling out their Catalyst 10.7 graphics driver for Windows and Linux platforms. On the Windows side, their Catalyst 10.7 rolls out support for OpenGL ES 2.0. ATI Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series graphics cards (along with the FirePro hardware) running Windows can now take advantage of OpenGL ES 2.0 support with HTML5 for in-browser graphics rendering. However, that support hasn’t yet made its way to the Catalyst Linux driver, but there are other changes packed away in this month’s update.

Android 3.0: 10 things Google should change

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:52:51 +0000

Android 2.2, AKA “Froyo,” was announced amid wild phone-nerd scenes a couple of months back, although we’re yet to see much of it in the wild. The only phone currently running a non-hacked version of Google’s latest OS incarnation is the Nexus One, with all the other Google-powered smartphone users of the world still anxiously scrolling up and down the ‘About Phone’ page waiting for an over-the-air upgrade to arrive.

Living the Linux Lifestyle

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:37:00 +0000

Why do some people choose to run Linux as their PC platform of choice while others opt instead for other ways of running their computing experiences? Is it market share, perceived ease of use, slick marketing overtures, users wanting to use what they already know? This list might explain why people might choose OS X or Windows. But what approach to computing (and life) prompts a person to use a Linux box on a daily basis? I’ll share my insights based on personal experiences and other observations accumulated over years of living the Linux lifestyle full time.

Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 4) – Architecture and infrastructure

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:39:49 +0000

Measures to optimise the power management code and fully support the Turbo Core function of recent AMD six-core processors increase the data throughput and processing speed of Linux 2.6.35. Further kernel additions include tracing interfaces for KVM, another kernel configuration program, and functions for de-fragmenting the working memory.

Alexandria Project Chap. 27: Here’s to the Company!

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:42:38 +0000

In which Frank get a revelation from an Irish drinking song, George comes in from the cold (sort of), and the FBI launches a nation-wide manhunt for you know who.

GNOME and LiMo Foundation partner for assault on mobile market

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:45:24 +0000

The GNOME and LiMo Foundations have today announced their intention to collaborate closely with a key partnership. With immediate effect the LiMO Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for the LiMo Foundation. According to the pair, this development represents a natural formalization founded upon the significant use of GNOME Mobile software components within Release 2 and Release 3 of the LiMo Platform.

Running ZFS With CAM-based ATA On FreeBSD 8.1

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:21:49 +0000

As was mentioned in last Friday’s article, Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD, tests of FreeBSD atop the ZFS file-system (rather than UFS2+S) are currently underway and those results are expected to be published in full later this week as the ZFS disk performance is compared directly to UFS2+S, UFS2+J, and also Ubuntu Linux with the EXT4 and Btrfs file-systems. Today though we have a few ZFS performance numbers to share as we look at the performance of the new CAM-ATA sub-system on FreeBSD.

Using Linux To Create a Music Blog

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Saxophone? Check. Digital recorder? Check. Camera? Check. Ready to rock & roll. Or do some blues. A bit of jazz? How about some Zydeco. Honky Tonk?

We’ll see when we get to the Second Street Brewery this Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That’s when the weekly open mic session kicks off at 7:00pm, led by Case Tanner and his house band. more>>

The Future of IT…Here They Are.

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:32:07 +0000

The idea was to gather 20 kids, ranging from 3rd to 5th grade and teach them how a computer works. We were going to use perfectly good computers, take them apart, teach the kids how to identify the components, teach them the function of said components, put it back together and then install Linux on it. Given it would even start after said exercise.

Smitten with Xfce 4

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:34:56 +0000

If you’ve read me long enough, you know I am a desktop junkie. Much to Jaqui’s chagrin, I do love my desktops. So much so I could have a different desktop every day and still not be completely happy. During my trials and tribulations with the Linux desktop I have, surprisingly, missed the whole Xfce train. Why? I have no idea. I’ve known of it, I’ve used it briefly, and never really thought much more about it. That is, until recently.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 25-Jul-2010

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:46:45 +0000

LXer Feature: 25-July-2010