<b>Tech Source:</b> "Do you want to install Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution on your netbook? If yes, then allow me to show you the necessary steps needed in order to do so."
One might expect Oracle to be doing everything in its power to discourage customers from moving away from UNIX. Yet the company seems determined to hawk Linux.
Linux's NetworkManager has evolved into a solid tool that manages wired and wireless Ethernet, mobile broadband, Bluetooth, roaming, IPv6, and offers both a GUI and command-line interface. Joe Brockmeier gives us a tour of the new features in NetworkManager.
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum: </b>"CTERA Networks is giving the Linux Ext3 file system additional data protection in the form of new snapshot capabilities. The file system is also the basis of the company's Cloud-Attached Storage appliances, the C200 and CloudPlug."
<b>Software Engineering with FOSS and Linux:</b> "It is often the case that an sftp transfer gets interrupted for one reason or another, resulting to partially transferred files. This can be annoying, especially in the case of large file transfers."
Bashish is a theme engine for the Linux terminal, so you can make your console more readable, easier on the eyes, and give useful visual cues. Juliet Kemp shows how to customize your terminal with Bashish.
<b>TuxRadar:</b> "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward."
<b>Kotaku:</b> "On April 1, Sony removed one of the PlayStation 3’s original features, the option to install an alternate operating system such as Linux, with its latest firmware (version 3.21). Today, one man claims to have reinstated that feature."
Ubuntu developers invented Upstart as a replacement for the hoary old SysV init system, with the aim of meeting the complex demands of booting modern Linux systems. Upstart is being adopted by Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE. Akkana Peck introduces us to this Ubuntu success story.
<b>Computerworld AU:</b> "The Australian Taxation Office is pushing the AUSkey public key infrastructure (PKI) for secure data exchange when submitting tax returns, but Linux users say they have again been left out in the cold."
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "QNAP VS-5020 VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) is a high performance network video surveillance system for high-end IP-based real-time monitoring and video recording"
<b>Delimiter:</b> "Telstra today revealed it would launch its Linux-based T-Box integrated media centre set-top box from mid-June at a stand-alone price point of $299, with a sledload of free and pay-per-view content available and an associated revamp of its broadband plans in the works."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "ChinaGrabber is selling an unlocked, quadband GSM cellphone that runs Linux on a 624MHz Marvell PXA310. The $570 BPhone features a 5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen with 180-degree rotation, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and up to 16GB flash expansion."
Cliff interviews Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, about why Oracle decided to support Linux, what the different levels of support will be, how this benefits Oracle applications customers, and whether Oracle will continue to support other operating systems.
<b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "I got a good illustration yesterday of how easy things can be on Linux, especially compared with kicking a dead whale down the beach (using Windows)."
<b>PC World:</b> "Does your family need an extra PC? Educator, Mac expert, and Linux enthusiast Phil Shapiro explains in this YouTube video how, for less than the price of some operating systems, you can configure a useful, virus-free computer..."
<b>LinuxCommand.org:</b> "Over the next few weeks, I will show you how to take an old, slow computer and make it into a text-only Linux workstation with surprising capabilities, including document production, email, instant messaging, audio playback, USENET news, calendaring, and, yes, even web browsing."
<b>Montana Linux:</b> "I recorded them with a Samsung SC-MX20 which is a very inexpensive / budget rig. The sound quality is fair to good considering the camera does not have the ability to use an external mic. The video quality is fair to good considering that most of the rooms had the lights turned off for viewing projected presentation slides."
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "With Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many people are testing the feasibility of switching small and home office software to their open source equivalents."
<b>IT World:</b> "Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser. But there's also another way to watch Hulu and that's to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux."
<b>DaniWeb: </b>"I've run across ten new Linux distributions inspired by current news stories. Some, of course, are better than others and a few just have no practical use or purpose whatsoever but still are worth a mention."
Take a small box. Add a 64-bit CPU, two SATA hard drives, a Compact Flash slot, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and quiet operation, and what do you have? The VIA M'SERV mini-server. Could this be the perfect Linux box?
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox:"