July 27, 2005
/. - Nokia Could Make Linux Top Embedded OS
Slashdot | Nokia Could Make Linux Top Embedded OS
Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, @11:01PM
from the sea-changes-considered-not-promised dept.
prostoalex writes "Nokia's experiment with N770 prototype device and its own Linux-based dev platform got the folks from ARCchart thinking - Is Nokia ready to jump the Symbian ship and switch to Linux? TechWeb chimes in: "Such a switch by Symbian would make Linux, in one fell swoop, the leading mobile device platform. It already is riding a wave with PalmSource's decision to port the Palm OS to Linux and a defection by Nokia would seal the deal.""
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June 14, 2005
A softer, gentler transition into KDE
Guide introduces KDE to non-technical users
DESKTOPLINUX.COM
Jun. 08, 2005
The folks at ReallyLinux.com have noticed that the K Desktop Enivornment is attracting more and more non-technical users. To help these "average" users get their bearings, Andrea W. Cordingly, along with ReallyLinux.com editorial staff, have put together a beginner's guide to KDE.
Part of ReallyLinux.com's "Windows to Linux" series, "The Beginner's Introduction to the KDE Desktop" gives an overview of the K Desktop Environment interface, and also offers a number of tips on basic configuration. Concentrating on the Konqueror file-manager/web-browser, and the KDE Control Center, the "Introduction" is thoroughly supplemented with screen shots.
Check out The Beginner's Introduction to the KDE Desktop if you, or someone you know, could use a helping hand getting acquainted with KDE.
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June 13, 2005
Switch: List of Linux apps comparable to Windows apps
A table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. Pretty comprehensive list, take a look.
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April 29, 2005
Farewell RH 9...
This weekend I will be parting with my beloved Red Hat 9 to embrace CentOS 4. I've been using the Prodigy service to patch RH 9 since 05/04, but the availability of that support offering is now in doubt.
CentOS is a RHEL clone, and with YUM, I'll be able to upgrade RH 9.
The Yum upgrade (from CentOS Forums)..........
HOWTO: yum upgrade to CentOS 4.0
A method of upgrading from RH/Fedora/whatever to CentOS 4.0 with yum:
Substitute your choice of mirror sites
(install GPG key)
rpm --import http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4.0/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
(need these 3 files)
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4.0/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-release-4-0.1.i386.rpm
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4.0/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-yumconf-4-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4.0/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.2.0-1.centos4.2.noarch.rpm
(install)
rpm -Uvh --force centos-release-4-0.1.i386.rpm centos-yumconf-4-2.noarch.rpm yum-2.2.0-1.centos4.2.noarch.rpm
(upgrade)
yum upgrade
After the list of packages is displayed, choose 'y' to download and install.
If a new kernel was downloaded, then you might need to modify the grub.conf to set the 'default' entry to the new kernel. Kernel entries in the grub.conf are numbered starting with 0, not 1.
Reboot. That's it! You're done!
(Instructions modified from "Upgrading Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core with yum" @ www.brandonhutchinson.com)
As with RH 9, I'll have to add the NTFS driver, Linux-NTFS.
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zdnet~Xen: a greater threat to Microsoft than Linux?
Xen: a greater threat to Microsoft than Linux? by ZDNet's Chris Jablonski -- I bet you recently have heard of Xen Source, a company that for the last month or so has been generating a lot of buzz for its open source-based virtual machine technology known as Xen. (See David Berlind's blog and Stephen Shankland's article). Gartner sets high expectations for Xen in a recent report (client reg. [...]
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March 27, 2005
Knoppix + Old PC = Digital Jukebox
O'Reilly: Resurrect Your Old PC for Music—with Linux
This is a pretty decent breakdown on how to save an old PII/III or AMD K6-2/3 for use as a jukebox using Knoppix. The 2 page article is "chock full" of pretty little screenshots, linked term defintions and corollary instructions to configure Knoppix and the apps you need to use. It doesn't get easier than this.
Are you the kind of person who can't toss out old gear? I know I am--though I must admit that embracing the art of junk-collecting has come in hand from time to time. For instance, this article will show you how to resurrect a tired old PC by installing a modern operating system, and then revitalize the computer as an internet-enabled CD player, DVD burner, and MP3 jukebox.
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March 14, 2005
Fedora coming on strong
Netcraft: Fedora makes rapid progress
Fedora makes rapid progress-Netcraft News
March 14, 2005
Fedora, the community-driven Linux distribution started by RedHat, is the fastest growing Linux distribution in the web server survey. Based on distribution names contained in the server banner, Fedora has outpaced all its rivals over the last six months, growing fastest both in absolute numbers and in relative terms.
RedHat's strategy of reserving the RedHat brand for its commercial offerings, while using community-driven development in Fedora to try new features, seems to be working well. RedHat seems to have the best of both worlds at the moment: market-leading status for RedHat Linux, plus the fastest growing community distribution in Fedora. While share for RedHat itself is falling, taken together with Fedora its share is around 50% and rising slightly.
Among the other distributions, Debian has the fastest growth in absolute terms, and is secure for now in second place. But some of the smaller distributions are growing faster relative to their existing user base. Gentoo continues to roughly double each year, albeit from a low base. Mandrake's recent acquisition of Conectiva will boost it only slightly, as there are only a few thousand Conectiva sites in the survey; Mandrake's own growth is more significant.
See here and here for past articles on Linux distribution growth.
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February 24, 2005
XAMPP-Very interesting package
Product Review: XAMPP, an Apache Distribution | Linux Journal
from Linuxjournal....................
Product Review: XAMPP, an Apache Distribution
By Daniel McCarthy on Thu, 2005-02-10 00:00.
Can doing a LAMP installation really be so easy as to require only two steps?
XAMPP is a collection of free software for installing and using the Apache Web server. Basically, it is an Apache distribution that includes the Apache Web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl an FTP server and phpMyAdmin. XAMPP is available for Linux, Solaris and Windows. According to the Apache Friends Web site, "The philosophy behind XAMPP is to build an easy-to-install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache."
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February 03, 2005
~OSNews: Linux Live CD Roundup
Linux LiveCD Roundup - OSNews.com
Spotted this OS News article on slashdot. Doesn't get into system benchmarks, but more ethereal analysis, offered by a user, a library admin, of LiveCD performance of sub 1GHz processor pcs with 128/256MB of memory. Worth looking at if you have an old pc you want to hang on to, curious about Linux, but have never used it, like the portability and no fuss-no muss of a LiveCD, and want some names to start googling. I'll stick with Knoppix. The article does mention a problem I had with SUSE's LiveCD. I had it hang looking for a printer as well. The biggest headache I found with nearly all LiveCD distros is the lack of drivers for older and/or cheaper hardware. I've also found that they don't support newer wifi cards using the Broadcom chipset (Linksys WMP11), even with linux-wlan-ng. It's been about 7 mo. since I fiddled with finding a driver, perhaps someone has written one by now.
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January 29, 2005
~slashdot: This guys nails it on the head
Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth
Who is accountable for Windows? (Score:5, Insightful)
by nharmon (97591)on Saturday January 29, @08:40AM (#11513727)
(http://www.harmontek.com/)
From Windows XP's EULA:LIMITATION ON REMEDIES; NO CONSEQUENTIAL
OR OTHER DAMAGES. Your exclusive remedy for any breach
of this Limited Warranty is as set forth below. Except
for any refund elected by Microsoft, YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED
TO ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, if
the Product does not meet Microsoft's Limited Warranty,
So, are we believe that if Windows crashes my data, that I can hold Microsoft accountable?At least with Linux I have access to the source code, and can hire programmers to scratch my itches for me. Somehow, I don't think microsoft would give out source code if they went under.
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January 26, 2005
Yippie Skippie! Thank you Novell: Evolution ported to Windows
nat friedman:Evolution to be ported to Windows
I read about this on slashdot, and I am really anxious to see if they succeed at completing the port. I love Evolution and would gladly dump Outlook to use a stable Evolution port. See Nat Friedman's post below.
17 January 2005 #Evolution for Windows
I am thrilled to announce that we recently hired Tor Lillqvist into the Novell Desktop group. Tor is famous for his work to port Gimp and the Gtk toolkit to Windows, and these days he helps keep Gimp running on Windows.
For Novell, Tor is working along the same lines, making Gtk and various parts of the Linux desktop stack run better on Windows to improve the experience for cross-platform developers. He is currently working on a dbus port to help complete Fredrik Hedberg's port of Beagle to Windows.
Beagle running on WindowsAfter that is done, however, his major project will be to port Evolution to Windows. The scope and difficulty of this work is currently unknown, so we don't have a timeline (or even a "development plan" to speak of), but you will be able to follow his work on the various mailing lists and on Tor's blog (once he starts one). The Evolution porting will be discussed along with all Evolution development topics on e-h.
If you're interested in helping, I'm sure Tor would welcome you with open arms. It's a big project.
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