Ever wanted to learn Vim, but weren't sure how to start? No problem. We have you covered! This will be the first of a four-part (possibly longer) series covering how to use Vim and where to start using the world's best text editor.
Read more »Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim
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Canonical’s Landscape: The Ubuntu Management Strategy
In this WorksWithU podcast, editorial director Joe Panettieri speaks with Ken Drachnik, Landscape manager at Canonical. Landscape is Canonical's remote management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems.
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Midgard2 9.09 "Mjolnir" released
The Midgard Project has released stable release of Midgard2 9.09 "Mjolnir" - second release of the new generation of the Midgard content repository.
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Linux Kernel Recompilation: Is it Worth the Pain?
With Linux Kernel 2.6.32 around the corners I see some guru's suggesting users to recompile their own kernels for a dozen of reasons: performance, fast booting, support of some esoteric drivers, bla... bla...
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What Does a User Cost?
Godin writes today about embracing the "lifetime value" of a customer. Open source projects may not have customers, but it pays to think about the lifetime value of users as well.
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NSA helps Apple, Sun and Red Hat harden their systems
That the American National Security Agency has previously helped Microsoft harden various Windows versions is old hat, but what is news is that the NSA now also assists Apple, Sun and Red Hat with increasing the security of their operating systems.
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Interview: Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers on November 3rd. A couple of weeks before the release, I emailed Red Hat media relations contact Kerrin Catallozzi and asked for an interview with some Red Hat employees regarding Red Hat Enteprise Virtualization. It took a several weeks to get the answers back mainly because the official product release happened...
Read more »Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages
Fedora bug #534047 contains an interesting Fedora 12 surprise: "PackageKit allows you to install signed content from signed repositories without a password by default. It only asks you to authenticate if anything is unsigned or the signatures are wrong.
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HP ProCurve One : Linux Based but Does it Matter?
HP expands its app blade switch effort with new partners and programs. And does the fact ONE is Linux-based matter?
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Intel Divulges Information on TRIM for Linux
Intel made a couple of points that cleared up a lot, starting off with the fact that TRIM is indeed alive and well in Linux, and it comes down to having the right software installed to take advantage of it.
Read more »A tiny cloud in Android
This article proposes creating an Android-based service that emulates a network server that enhances the value of the local machine in unique and unexpected ways. Put a tiny cloud in your Android handset and experience the usefulness of a local Web server.
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New to Java programming?
New to Java programming? This page provides an overview of Java technology basics and explains how the technology fits into the context of contemporary software development.
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Gerrit: Google-style code review meets git
Gerrit, a Git-based system for managing code review, is helping to spread the popular distributed revision control system into Android-using companies, many of which have heavy quality assurance, management, and legal processes around software.
Read more »Exploring HTML 5's Audio/Video Multimedia Support
The audio and video tags were among the first features to be added to the HTML 5 specification. Find out how these elements enable the browser to work with both types of media in an easy-to-use manner.
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Stumbling and Sniffing Wireless Networks in Linux, Part 3
In this third and final installment of how to survey the airwaves with Linux tools, Eric Geier shows us more tools for network surveying and discovery, deep snooping, and intrusion detection and alerting.
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