One Android developer is earning more than $400 a day from his find-your-car application, proving it's not just Apple fans who'll pay for basic apps. Much has been made of the millions awaiting those who decide to develop for Apple's iPhone: the UK government even sponsored a help guide.
Read more »Android app brings in $13K a month
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Build a Netbook NAS With Linux
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Is your netbook nearing the end of its usefulness as a portable? Are you desperate for some network storage? Kill two birds with one stone.
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Who Needs Exchange Anyway?
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Good things come to those who wait. It took about 12 months now, but I've reached my personal goal: Getting the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration into Fedora.
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Sudo Axes Escalation Glitch
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Sudo versions 1.7.2p4 (now superseded by 1.7.2p5) and 1.6.9p21 patch the vulnerability. Mandriva, Red Hat, and Ubuntu have already pushed updated versions out to users.
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Samba 3.5 release includes experimental SMB2 support
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The new version is the first stable release to support the SMB2 protocol and 100 nanosecond timestamps
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Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked - Part 2
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Gentoo is a source based distribution which lets the user decide how to optimize their system in many ways and includes building for a specific CPU architecture. Linux Magazine benchmarks four such options; i486, i686, pentium3, core2, and throws in Ubuntu for good measure.
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Major Linux 2.6.34 Kernel GPU DRM Update
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There's already quite a bit of code that has been merged into the Linus 2.6 Git tree for the Linux 2.6.34 kernel tree, but the first pull request for the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) code has went in this morning.
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Set Up a VNC Linux Server in 5 Easy Steps
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Virtual Network Computing (VNC) allows you to log into a full desktop on a remote server (as opposed to just opening windows on your local machine, as with X11 over SSH). It can be very useful, and it's very fast to set up.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Fedora 12 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »Darcs 2.4 released
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The free, open source code management system, Darcs, has been updated to version 2.4 with experimental interactive hunk editing, faster record and revert operations and a plan to take on performance
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Python 2.6.5 gets a release candidate
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The Python developers have published the first release candidate for Python 2.6.5, addressing nineteen issues in the Python core and over fifty library issues
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Is Open Source Software More Secure?
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We've all heard the the cliche that more eyes lead to more secure code when it comes to open source -- but is it true?
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How old is our kernel?
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April 2005 was a bit of a tense time in the kernel development community. The BitKeeper tool which had done so much to improve the development process had suddenly become unavailable, and it wasn't clear what would replace it.
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Report: Linux Management and Monitoring Lacking
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I admit it: I'm slightly jealous of Microsoft server administrators. You see, in the Linux world, we have the power to create crazily robust and creative systems, but we're often reinventing the wheel.
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The Ultimate PC repair kit: SystemRescueCD 1.40
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Like everyone who makes his living from computers, I'm always getting called on by friends and family to help them fix their PC problems. Thanks to the Gentoo Linux-based SystemRescueCD though, I'm usually able to fix most of their troubles without breaking a sweat.
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