"This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix."
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10 Linux Shell Tricks You Don't Already Know. Really, we swear.
"Yeah, I’ve read them too. Lists of shell tricks you already know - pstree (wow!) bc (bash already has built-in math), and a dozen commands you see in every Linux site, book, and training course."
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ZFS on Linux: It's alive - LinuxWorld
One programmer, Ricardo Correia, has what could be an answer, however. A technology called Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE), introduced in the 2.6.14 kernel released in October 2005, enables Linux to use filesystems that run as ordinary processes. FUSE already hosts an implementation of the NTFS filesystem, NTFS-3g, that runs with decent performance.
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How To Compile A Kernel - Debian Etch
"Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on a Debian Etch system."
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Getting Yesterdays or Tomorrows day with shell date command
When invoked without arguments, the date command displays the current date and time. Depending on the options specified, date will set the date and time or print it in a user defined way. I’ve seen many people writing a perl script for calculating yesterday or tomorrow. Computer loves numbers but we love relative terms like 2 days ago.
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Why Microsoft and Linux companies are tying the knot
OK, so why have Novell, Xandros, and Linspire all gotten into bed with Microsoft? Is it...
1. They were seduced by Steve Ballmer's charming smile?
2. They've gone over to the dark side of the force?
3. Terror of Microsoft's mighty patent portfolio had them groveling at Microsoft's feet?
4Front Technologies Releases The Source Code For OSS v 4.0
4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System (OSS) v4.0. The software currently runs on Linux, SolarisTM, SCO UnixWareTM and FreeBSD platforms.
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Know your regular expressions
This article describes some useful tools and techniques for learning to build and hone regexps across a range of UNIX® applications, including:
* Highlighting matches
* Showing only the matches and not the lines
* Calling a wizard
* Studying docs
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Ubuntu founder urges Linux patch/bug collaboration
The open source community needs a federated but decentralized system for tracking bugs and patches, according to Mark Shuttleworth. Speaking in a keynote address at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Sunnyvale this week, the amateur astronaut and Ubuntu founder called for better collaboration among open source developers and companies.
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FSF - 'Play Ogg': FSF launches free audio format campaign
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Wednesday, May 16, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOgg.org, a campaign to encourage use of the patent- and license-free standard Ogg Vorbis as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.
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Shuttleworth urges Linux patch and bug collaboration
"When Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., spoke at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the Googleplex, he didn't talk about Ubuntu, patents, or hardware vendor partnerships. Instead he devoted his keynote speech to the importance of collaboration in fixing bugs and getting timely patches out to Linux users."
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Linux Foundation Improves Printing Functionality in Linux With LSB Driver Development Kit
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the availability of the Linux Standard Base Driver Development Kit (LSB DDK) for print drivers.
Read more »From the Camera to the Web with Konqueror
There are plenty of ways to transfer photos from your digital camera to the World Wide Web. Here's how you can take your photos straight from your camera to your website with Konqueror, the KDE desktop's web browser and file manager.
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Venezuela launches sale of Bolivarian Computers powered by GNU/Linux
The Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez announced the launch of their "Bolivarian Computers" last week, consisting of four different models produced in Venezuela with Chinese technology. The new computers will run the open-source Linux operating system.
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Amarok 2.0 Interview: Jeff Mitchell
In the lead-up to KDE 4, Amarok will be undergoing a number of large changes both under the hood, and cosmetically with the user interface. I managed to interview a developer, Jeff Mitchell, to talk about the things changing in Amarok from the 1.4 stable branch to version 2.0, including the playlist redesign, the context view and the new web services framework. Read on for the interview.
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