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Tech, G.P.: Linux experiment is going my way 2 hours, 22 minutes ago

I've been wanting to confirm a theory that I've held for a while now, that the Linux operating system has progressed enough to be usable by "regular" computer users. For those of you who don't know what Linux is, picture a run-of-the-mill PC, and then think of Windows, which runs on it. Windows is the operating system of the computer.
More EC Troubles for Microsoft? 4 hours, 22 minutes ago

Now the EC is reportedly examining whether Microsoft's highly publicized shenanigans in promoting its efforts to get OOXML adopted as a standard for document interchange in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) further violated European antitrust laws, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal.
Get the Most out of the Latest Vim Editor with new Hacking Vim book 10 hours, 22 minutes ago

This book teaches everything from personalizing Vim according to the user’s work cycle to optimizations that will boost the user’s productivity.
GnuCash - Keep Your Cash (or lack thereof) in Order 14 hours, 22 minutes ago

GnuCash is a personal finance and accounting application created to keep you crazy organized. It can do simple things like recording expenses and take care of register transactions, but it can also handle tracking bank accounts, income, and a slew of financial instruments and derivatives.
Microsoft responds to Save XP petition 16 hours, 22 minutes ago

Microsoft's decision to discontinue OEM and packaged sales of Windows XP at the end of June - leaving businesses and consumers with the less-than-celebrated Vista as their only choice of Windows operating system on new PCs - has drawn considerable criticism and led to an outpouring of support for the continuation of XP sales.
Software Philosophy: Consider the (Open) Source 18 hours, 22 minutes ago

Trying to explain Open Source philosophy to the uninitiated. Philosophy, not a subject that is normally associated with software, is actually major component of the current revolution in software.
Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest 20 hours, 22 minutes ago

Apple's OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month.
Microsoft Upbeat about Windows on the OLPC`s XO 20 hours, 52 minutes ago

The company is conducting field trials to ensure the OS can work well with the low-priced PC.
A New User Guide to Linux Communities 21 hours, 22 minutes ago

Are you a new Linux user? Fantastic! Welcome to the world of freedom. Freedom of choice, freedom of expression, freedom from vendor lockin. You’ve made an excellent choice. Now that you’ve chosen, installed, and are using Linux there are a few things you should keep in mind as you learn the ropes of your new system.
OOXML-ODF: The Harmonization Hope Chest 21 hours, 52 minutes ago

Brian Jones has reported that there is a great deal of interest in harmonization of ODF and OOXML in some way [1]. Subsequently, Brian reported on the ECMA response to ISO/IEC JTC1 DIS 29500 (OOXML) ballot comments requesting harmonization [2], quoting from the ECMA response:
The seven largest Open Source deals ever 22 hours, 22 minutes ago

To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It’s the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a series of large open source acquisitions.
Why MySQL sold out 22 hours, 52 minutes ago

It’s good to see MySQL’s CEO, Marten Mickos, explaining his reasons for abandoning the company’s IPO in favor of being acquired by Sun. What made him and the open source database company’s top brass change their minds (apart from $1bn)? Mickos lists ten factors that convinced him that Sun was the better option:
Is Microsoft a doomed dinosaur? 23 hours, 22 minutes ago

There, I knew that would draw a crowd. In the maelstrom of comment and analysis that has followed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, two extraordinary assumptions have been very common.
Web 2.0: Unsafe At Any Speed? 23 hours, 52 minutes ago

Paul Ferguson, a network architect with antivirus vendor Trend Micro, summed up Web 2.0 as thus: "We're basically training our online users to be exploited."
Top 25 Linux Games for 2008 1 day ago

If you’re interested in games for a Linux platform, then you know that game probably is open source, free from cost in most cases, and free to modify. The latter attribute is why Linux games are so popular…a developer can take a great game and make it even better, share it with the world, and become a hero. So, why waste your time and money on proprietary games when so many great Linux games are available?
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Sending love with OSS for Valentine's Day

By Chad Files on February 09, 2008 (2:00:00 PM)

What can a Linux geek do for that special someone on Valentine's Day? Create a gift using open source software, of course.

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Weekly Wire -- 2-8-2008 (video)

By Linux.com Staff on February 08, 2008 (9:00:00 PM)

Lisa was at the Kennedy Space Center for this week's launch of the STS-122 crew aboard space shuttle Atlantis. While they counted down to liftoff, she recapped this week's news and stories.

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Building an attractive, usable desktop on a budget laptop

By Jake Tolbert on February 08, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)

Creating a light, attractive desktop environment on a new low-end laptop using Openbox in Ubuntu is simple and offers you most of the features you need for everyday computing without much of the load that comes with GNOME or KDE.

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Set up a virtual FTP server with pam-mysql

By Cunpeng Wang on February 08, 2008 (4:00:02 PM)

Setting up a virtual File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server with a database back end offers many benefits. By using a database, you can store a large number of users centrally, so it's easy to manage. It offers more security than traditional Unix OS authentication methods, because virtual users can access only the FTP server's resources, not the OS's. You can use the many Web tools that are available to easily install, configure, and manage the database back end. A virtual FTP server also supports some special characters, such as @, that FTP itself doesn't support, which can come in handy if, for example, your company uses its employees' email addresses for identity purposes.

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Ubuntu's Upstart event-based init daemon

By Mark Sobell on February 08, 2008 (9:00:00 AM)

Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does not deal well with modern hardware, including hotplug devices, USB hard and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems, Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon.

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New consulting company gambles on KOffice demand

By Bruce Byfield on February 07, 2008 (9:00:00 PM)

Although KOffice has its admirers, in many people's minds, it runs a poor second to OpenOffice.org. However, some European developers expect that situation to change, and to encourage that change, they have created KOfficeSource, a company incorporated in Germany. The company plans to offer support and training not only for KOffice, but also for Open Document Format, and programming using the Qt toolkit. The company's business plan highlights its founders' hopes that KDE-related technologies will become mainstream, and illustrates the current level of acceptance of free software tools in business.

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Subtitle manipulation tools for Linux

By Razvan T. Coloja on February 07, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)

Subtitles may not mean much for the English-speaking part of the world, but for the rest of us, they are the difference between truly enjoying a movie or just watching the screen, trying to decipher the events. While Windows has a nice variety of tools to manipulate subtitles, Linux applications too can accomplish such tasks. From editing to ripping to converting, here is a list of some useful tools.

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sudo, or not sudo: that is the question

By Federico Kereki on February 07, 2008 (4:00:00 PM)

If you've dabbled even a little bit with security matters, you know that giving root rights or the root password to a common user is a bad idea. But what do you do if a user has a valid need to do something that absolutely requires root rights? The answer is simple: use sudo to grant the user the needed permissions without letting him have the root password, and limit access to a minimum.

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Use dvdisaster to protect backups on optical media

By Ben Martin on February 07, 2008 (9:00:00 AM)

Storing backups on optical media such as DVD-R discs suffers from two major drawbacks: DVD discs are easy to scratch, and the media itself degrades after a while. You can deal with the scratching issue by careful handing of the media, but even expensive media becomes unreadable over time. Dvdisaster aims to help you recover the information off scratched and aged media.

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Moving my mother over to Linux

By Michael Reed on February 06, 2008 (9:00:00 PM)

To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades. She doesn't need a cutting-edge computer because she's not a power user, but she does need a reliable machine to run a few basic applications and to access the Internet. I moved my mother from Windows to Ubuntu Linux, and the experience was a surprisingly smooth one.

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Cinelerra community forks the video editor

By Thomas King on February 06, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)

The community surrounding Cinelerra, one of the premier non-linear video editors for Linux, has decided to strike off in its own direction and rewrite Cinelerra under a new codebase.

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Well-appointed Darkstar Linux has a dark side

By Mayank Sharma on February 06, 2008 (4:00:00 PM)

Darkstar Linux 2008.1 is one of the first stable distro releases of the year. This distribution from Romania is based on Slackware and is available as a DVD image. For a desktop-oriented distro with its first release in 2004, Darkstar Linux has a lot of scope for improvement; its rock-solid performance and range of applications is overshadowed by its poor hardware skills.

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Linux.com chats with new OpenSUSE community manager Joe Brockmeier (video exclusive)

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller on February 06, 2008 (1:00:00 PM)

Yes, it's the same Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier who used to be editorial director of Linux.com, and was later editor in chief of Linux Magazine. This week he was named openSUSE community manager, a position analogous to the one held with great distinction by Max Spevack at Fedora until just a few weeks ago. Just about every publication that covers Linux and FOSS has been clamoring to interview Joe, and he's been typing email interview answers like crazy. As a break from that routine he stopped by the Linux.com editorial office and talked a bit about how the new job is going, what he expects to do, and how it feels to be the interviewee instead of the interviewer.

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In latest release, Nmap looks better than ever

By Joe Barr on February 06, 2008 (9:00:00 AM)

December's release of Nmap 4.50 marked the popular port-scanning tool's tenth anniversary. The 4.50 release includes Zenmap, a cross-platform GUI front end for Nmap which includes a command creation wizard, a scripting engine, and a host of other improvements. Zenmap makes it easier than ever to use Nmap.

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SAAS application monitoring company relies on JMeter

By Tina Gasperson on February 05, 2008 (9:00:00 PM)

RTTS tests and monitors mission-critical applications to help companies prevent failures that could shut down operations. To do that, it combines open source tools with its own custom-developed interface and offers a software-as-a-service solution that proves the adage "necessity is the mother of invention."

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Video conversion in Linux with RippedWire and WinFF

By Nathan Willis on February 05, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)

In the past we have examined OggConvert and Thoggen, two GUI tools for simple encoding or transcoding video into free Ogg formats. But if you are interested in codecs other than Theora and Dirac, you have a lot more options to choose from. Let's consider two utilities that advertise both ease-of-use and quality: RippedWire targets DVD ripping and conversion specifically, and WinFF, which can convert DVD content and other video sources.

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Elive distro illustrates power, beauty of Enlightenment

By Mark Scheck on February 05, 2008 (4:00:00 PM)

The Elive Linux distribution combines beauty with ease of use. Elive is based on Debian and uses Enlightenment as its windows manager, which gives the distribution a Mac OS X look and feel. Elive comes with dozens of easy-to-use desktop applications that just work.

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CLI Magic: Manage all your archives with atool

By Ben Martin on February 05, 2008 (9:00:00 AM)

The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface. Atool uses other tools behind the scenes to perform the heavy lifting. With atool, you can handle any archive without having to remember what command-line tool to use to expand it and which options that particular tool expects.

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Junction Networks uses Asterisk to tailor VoIP to customer demands

By Tina Gasperson on February 04, 2008 (9:00:00 PM)

Like many VoIP telephony companies, Junction Networks uses Asterisk and other open source software to provide its customers with highly customizable VoIP service. Junction has been able to migrate its business model from a conference bridge service provider to a full-fledged telephone services company largely because of the flexibility and lower capital requirements of open source. "We're a completely bootstrapped company," says Mike Oeth, founder and CEO. "We were never locked into a business plan that was sold to investors." He says Junction is successful because it has been able to follow its customers' desires with open source.

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Chyrp: A lightweight tool for simple blogging

By Dmitri Popov on February 04, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)

High-end open source blogging applications may have all the features you can think of, but you may not need all that. For simple blogs, a lightweight alternative like Chyrp is worth a closer look.

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