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Audacity® Wins SourceForge.net Community Choice Award for "Best Project for Multimedia" 1 day, 8 hours ago

San Francisco, CA, August 23, 2007 -- The Audacity Team today announced that Audacity, its free, open source software for recording and editing sounds, won the "Best Project for Multimedia" category in SourceForge.net's 2007 Community Choice Awards [ Note: SourceForge owns Linux.com ]

Linux data recovery services By Promise Data Recovery 1 day, 9 hours ago

Linux data recovery services by Promise Data Recovery. Experts in ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, jfs,xFs file system recovery and partition recovery. Corrupted group descriptior block, damaged or deleted partition structures, and damaged super block & inode table are common problems while operating Red Hat, Mandrake, Turbo, SuSe, Debian, Ubuntu, and SCO. Since Linux is an open source operating system and uses Linux Kernel, therefore it is easier to handle all these encounter problems. One solution is Live Distro or live Cd.
India throws MS open format out of the window 1 day, 19 hours ago

India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents.
ESTO for Linux on POWER 1 day, 19 hours ago

ESTO is a tool that tunes the set of parameters for optimizing a specific target program. Expert System for Tuning Optimizations (ESTO) is typically used for tuning, for maximum performance, the optimization options used by a compiler when creating an application. ESTO is currently geared toward tuning GCC and Post-Link Optimization for Linux on POWER.
"I'm a VIP," Thanks Apple 1 day, 20 hours ago

Apple products have gone from being the rejects of the technology world to the most desired gadgetry around in a fairly short amount of time. Ten years ago, almost everyone except the die hard fans wouldn’t even consider purchasing a Mac, but that’s all changed nowadays.
MainConcept: Release MainActor Into Open Source! 1 day, 20 hours ago

This is an open letter to the creators of MainActor. MainConcept, I fully understand your need to better focus your efforts on your encoder business. But correct me if I 'm wrong, is MainActor not the perfect vehicle for moving the MPEG encoder?
Mobile Linux gets it right 1 day, 21 hours ago

Mobile Linux is gaining support as a cellular operating system from the handset industry, according to market watcher IMS Research.
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux 1 day, 21 hours ago

Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
Microsoft kills off anti-Linux campaign 1 day, 22 hours ago

Microsoft has killed off its controversial "Get the Facts" anti-Linux campaign and replaced it with a new message called "Compare".
Did Microsoft Buy Netcraft? 1 day, 22 hours ago

Okay, I'm not seriously suggesting Microsoft is paying off Netcraft to produce positive survey results (although this is certainly a standard operating procedure for Microsoft). But something is odd, if not rotten, in the state of Netcraft. I have often cited Netcraft web server surveys as evidence that open source beats closed source. The Netcraft surveys almost always showed Apache leading Microsoft IIS by a wide margin, and showed Apache growing as Microsoft IIS market share was shrinking. Lately, however, Netcraft began to claim that Apache market share has been shrinking rapidly while Microsoft IIS has been gaining the market share lost by Apache. Netcraft even proposed that, "Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position." Microsoft IIS may displace Apache as the most-used web server? Could this really be true, or is this reporting from the Bizarro world? And does anyone else find the wording rather odd? "Windows" may challenge Apache? Huh?
Intellectual Property Cold War Rages On 1 day, 23 hours ago

I have pointed this out time and again. Like it or not, the patent war is already here. Luckily, if it hits full throttle, Google will be a part of it on the side of Linux vendors. Google uses Linux and is ready to battle alongside the rest of Open Invention Network, utilizing a collection of Linux patents against Microsoft if it comes down to it. In short, we have ourselves a virtual cold war of intellectual property (IP) propaganda.
Why Microsoft Should Be Worried About Privacy 1 day, 23 hours ago

Flash forward to today: have we really learned anything here? While Microsoft has managed to protect themselves, are they actually doing little more than fanning an already white hot fire driving piracy? The individual who was sentenced for his crimes here in the States is actually an exception to the rule.
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 Screenshots 2 days ago

The feature freeze, upstream version freeze, and the first artwork deadline passed last week for Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. With these freezes, Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5 has been released with the last of the new features until Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Ubuntu has now adopted system-config-printer (which was originally developed by Red Hat and Fedora) for handling the printing needs that gnome-cups-manager once had controlled, CUPS being upgraded to 1.3, a plug-in finder wizard and extension manager for Firefox in Ubuntu, and the new displayconfig-gtk panel for graphically controlling your X settings. Ubuntu 7.10 is shaping up very nicely and we have one more Tribe release and then the beta release, followed by the final release of Gutsy Gibbon on October 18.
How To Use NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Fedora 7 2 days ago

Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to use ntfs-3g on a Fedora 7 desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.
How do you market your FOSS project? 2 days, 1 hour ago

Blue GNU has launched a simple poll aimed at understanding whether and how FOSS projects market themselves. The 4-week project is an effort to help the community understand marketing and its impact on the progress of various projects.
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Can developers reclaim donated IP?

By Joe Barr on August 24, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

In 2004 Daniel Robbins, the founder of Gentoo Linux, walked away from the project after creating the nonprofit Gentoo Foundation to handle its intellectual property (IP). In a blog post last month, Robbins wondered if he should take back the software, since it didn't appear the foundation was taking care of things. While Robbins didn't follow through on his thought, he raised an interesting question: Can someone convey intellectual property rights and then reclaim them?

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Searching database content with Sphinx

By Federico Kereki on August 24, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

If you use Google or any other search engine, you already are a user of full text searching: the capability to search for a word or group of words within many texts for the best matches for your query. Sphinx is a full text search engine for database content, which you can integrate with other applications. (You can test it or use it with a command-line tool, but Sphinx is most useful as part of a Web site, not as a standalone utility.)

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LightScribe disc labelers for GNU/Linux

By Bruce Byfield on August 24, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

LightScribe technology, which allows users to etch labels directly onto CDs and DVDs, finally arrived on GNU/Linux in late 2006. LaCie LightScribe Labeler for Linux (4L) was released in October 2006, with Hewlett-Packard's LightScribe business unit releasing its own Simple Labeler a month later. Both are free downloads with proprietary licenses, but they are currently the only tools available for using LightScribe on GNU/Linux. Both offer basic labeling, but each is limited in its own way.

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NCSA's CyberCollaboratory community thrives on open source

By Tina Gasperson on August 23, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) gave us Mosaic, the first Web browser with a graphical user interface. Today, the NCSA is still innovating, creating a project that monitors how global climate change is affecting plants and wildlife, one that tracks oil spills, and another that predicts the possible effects of seismographic activity on bridges and other structures. To facilitate communication and collaboration between stations, NCSA is making use of the Web infrastructure it helped to launch almost 15 years ago, in a research program called the CyberCollaboratory. Not surprisingly, open source software is an integral part of the Web-based intiative.

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Comprehensive integrity verification with md5deep

By Mayank Sharma on August 23, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

Most of the ISO images and other software you grab off the Internet come with a message digest -- a cryptographic hash value that you can use to verify their integrity. While almost all Linux distributions come with utilities to read and generate digests using MD5 and SHA1 hash functions, the md5deep utilities can do that and more.

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The Etherboot/gPXE BoF from LinuxWorld 2007 (videos)

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller on August 23, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

EtherBoot isn't an application you install on your Linux desktop, but if you run computers that boot over a network -- or would like to explore network booting for either fun or profit -- it is an essential free software project.

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Portrait: Phil Shapiro

By Tina Gasperson on August 22, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

Phil Shapiro seems to delight not only in remaining a staunch supporter of free software ideals, but also in his role as a encourager and defender of people. "I see myself as more of a follower than a leader," he says. But Shapiro really is a leader, the best kind: one that nurtures the gifts in others instead of promoting himself.

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Share your open source success story

By Linux.com Staff on August 22, 2007 (7:00:00 PM)

Has your organization migrated a key part of your IT infrastructure to Linux or an open source application? Share your success story with Linux.com readers.

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SIMILE Exhibit: Data publishing for the rest of us

By Dmitri Popov on August 22, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

Tools like phpMyEdit allow you to create a quick-and-dirty front end to a database, but what if you need to publish a spreadsheet or BibTeX file on your Web site and give your visitors the ability to dynamically sort, filter, group, and visualize the published data? For that, you can turn to SIMILE Exhibit, an impressive data publishing framework that uses plain old HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript to create Web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and data visualization. Exhibit requires neither database nor server-side coding wizardry, and you can master the tool in no time, even if you don't have any programming experience.

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Sun ODF plugin chokes on Office 2007

By Bruce Byfield on August 22, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

Users regularly cite lack of compatibility with Microsoft Office files as a reason for not using OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org does include Microsoft Office export filters, as well as a number of settings for increased compatibility, but these features provide only good, not complete, compatibility. For this reason, Sun Microsystems' ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office, released earlier this year, sounded like good news. Promising export and import filters for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the free download appeared to tackle compatibility from a new but promising angle by giving Microsoft Office users the ability to open and save files in Open Document Format, the default format for OpenOffice.org 2.0 and higher. Unfortunately, the plugin is designed for older versions of Windows and Microsoft Office. If you're using the increasingly ubiquitous Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, the plugin delivers only a fraction of what it promises.

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Pain-free disk space management with LVM

By Shashank Sharma on August 21, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

Managing disk space used to be a royal pain for admins and users. Running out of disk space often meant reinstalling Linux or spending a few hours with tools like Parted to resize partitions. However, using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) tools, you can grow, shrink, and manage disk space with very little hassle.

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Stallman survives Peruvian quake

By Richard M. Stallman on August 21, 2007 (6:00:00 PM)

More than 500 people were killed when Peru was hit with by an enormous earthquake last week. When we learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL under which the GNU/Linux operating system is licensed, was in Peru during the quake, we asked if he would share his experiences with us. Here's his report.

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Fine-tune RSS feeds with ListGarden

By Dmitri Popov on August 21, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

Most Web publishing systems on the market can automatically generate RSS feeds, but there are situations where you might want to have fine-grained control over your RSS feeds. For example, you might want to provide alternative RSS item descriptions, or to manually select which RSS items to publish. While you can code an RSS feed by hand, you'd be better off using a dedicated tool like ListGarden. It can help you to not only create and manage RSS feeds, but also to do more advanced tasks like publish the feeds on a remote server, back up the feeds, generate an HTML page, and much more.

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Bringing the free software message to TV

By Bruce Byfield on August 20, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

As a former course designer and academic, I used to be experienced in talking in front of people. However, one thing I hadn't done until now is appear on television. That, more than anything, is why I agreed to appear on the computer show Lab with Leo Laporte in a five-minute spot about the GNU/Linux desktop. The show is scheduled to appear October 11 on G4TechTV in Canada and the How-To Channel in Australia, with my spot being posted to Google Video on the same day. I won't know if I look savvy or imbecilic until I see how the segment is edited, but the experience taught me several points about appearing on TV in general, and evangelizing for GNU/Linux in the studio in particular.

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Preview hyperlinks with Interclue

By Mayank Sharma on August 20, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

Interclue is a Firefox extension that lets you preview whatever a hyperlink on a page is pointing to. Unlike other link previewers, Interclue doesn't just display a tiny replica of what's hiding under the link. It uses algorithms to intelligently construct a summary of the target page and displays it in a window with lots of other information and statistics about the page.

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Freespire aspires, but fails to inspire

By Susan Linton on August 20, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

Freespire, the free as in beer version of the Linspire Linux distribution, this month released Freespire 2.0, the first version of the operating system based on the popular Ubuntu distribution, and the first to contain proprietary codecs and drivers. Despite its attractive appearance, it left me with mixed feelings.

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OSI email group gets catty over Microsoft's Permissive License request

By Tina Gasperson on August 18, 2007 (3:14:08 PM)

The OSI License-Discuss mailing list has been ablaze for the past few days since Microsoft submitted its Permissive License (MS-PL) to the OSI [Open Source Initiative] for official open source license approval. Jon Rosenberg, source program director for Microsoft, posted, "Microsoft believes that this license provides unique value to the open source community by delivering simplicity, brevity, and permissive terms combined with intellectual property protection."

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Battle Tanks is a blast

By Dmitri Popov on August 17, 2007 (9:00:00 PM)

Finding an addictive computer game on a Friday evening can be dangerous. Instead of doing things you have been promising your wife, you spend the weekend in front of your computer playing the game and trying to explain that "this is for work." This is exactly what happened to me when I discovered Battle Tanks.

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Turn Apache into a collaborative authoring platform with mod_dav

By Murthy Raju on August 17, 2007 (4:00:00 PM)

Ever thought about how nice it would be if you could edit the files stored on your Web server directly without the cumbersome download-edit-upload routine? Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is the way to do it. A WebDAV server works like a file server that uses HTTP as the underlying protocol. It facilitates collaborative editing and versioning. If you manage a Web server or an enterprise document management system, where different authors need to edit resources, WebDAV is a useful way of providing write access to them. You can use the Apache modules mod_dav and mod_dav_fs for basic WebDAV functionality, while a Subversion module for Apache, mod_dav_svn, provides versioning support.

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Two tools for enabling wireless cards

By Bruce Byfield on August 17, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

No other hardware nowadays supports GNU/Linux as weakly as wireless network adapters. Between the constant release of new models and major vendors who are uninterested in supporting the operating system, free drivers for wireless cards are next to impossible to reverse engineer. Nor can you find many retailers willing to customize laptops as readily as they do workstations. In this situation, ndiswrapper and the Broadcom firmware cutter provide a functional, if not always satisfactory, solution.

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