This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.
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Yoper 3.0 requires some tinkering
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Yoper claims to be a high-performance Linux distribution optimized for newer processors. It incorporates components from other distros, but its packages have been built from scratch to provide enhanced performance. I tested a beta of Yoper 3.0 on my desktop a year ago and was so impressed that when 3.0 was released this month, I installed it on my new Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv6105 notebook.
Read more »PEAK is dead... kinda, sorta
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The Python Enterprise Application Kit no longer exists as an integral project, according to a status report posted by its developer earlier this week, but some individual elements are thriving and will continue to receive attention.
PEAK is an application kit intended primarily for developers who create enterprise applications using Python
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Day one at the Ottawa Linux Symposium
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The opening day of the 9th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) began with Jonathan Corbet, of Linux Weekly News and his now familiar annual Linux Kernel Report, and wrapped up with a reception put on by Intel where they displayed hardware prototypes for upcoming products.
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Virtualbox on 64-bit Ubuntu works like a charm
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Innotek's GPL-licensed Virtualbox software lets you create a virtual operating environment inside your PC's real operating system. I've been using Virtualbox for several months now on a 32-bit laptop running Ubuntu 7.04, and I've been impressed with the software.
Read more »Options in OpenOffice.org Calc
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Like other OpenOffice.org applications, Calc has several dozen options in how it is formatted and operates. These options are available from Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org Calc. Thanks to OpenOffice.org's habit of sharing code between applications, some of the tabs for these options resemble those found in other OpenOffice.org applications.
Read more »How Microsoft helps open source
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Matt Asay: “We have deep integration into Office, through web services, even though we’re a GPL product. If someone is wedded to Microsoft we’re probably not for them.
So Microsoft opens, and open source closes. Is that how it goes in your business, too?
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What's Open Source Worth on Wall Street?
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The open source model, as Red Hat has proven, can be extremely profitable," says Kevin Harvey, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, and MySQL's chairman. "It's not a story of profits at first; it's a story of profits you'll generate as you grow." MySQL would like to see considerably more growth, even before selling stock to the public.
Read more »ComputerWorld - Free Software Foundation to unveil new GPL Version 3
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This begins as a reasonable recap of the new provisions in GPLv3, then as they run out of material (or think so), it degrades into a parade of filler. Hence, "It concerns me a little bit that we're kind of getting politics into the legal documentation". The FSF getting political? That's unpossible!
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The $72 PC - Popular Science
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Want to build a PC for $72, running Damn Small Linux? You do? Read on!
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easy Linux Distribution Chooser
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Here is very nifty little automated guide to choosing a Linux distro based on your experience, preferences and hardware.
Give it a try. It's great fun. Will it come up with a selection of the distros you would have chosen yourself?
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LinuxWorld Korea reflects boom in Asian Linux use
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Lhe second annual LinuxWorld Korea took place in Seoul's Coex Convention and Exhibition Center June 20 through June 23.
Read more »Blogging from the command line
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If you're not afraid of the command line, take a peek at Bash Blogger. As its name implies, this application is a bash script that automates all of your blogging tasks (aside from writing, of course). Bash Blogger's shell scripts come in a 36KB archive.
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Entering A Safe Mirror When Logging In With Unionfs And Chroot
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When reading a 'hint' on the website of LinuxFromScratch I discovered the special capabilities of unionfs, specially in combination with chroot. Later I read a HowTo on a wikiwebsite of Gentoo, about entering a chrooted homedirectory when using a special script as shell. Combining these two brings me to using a chrooted environment, which you enter when logging in as a special user
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Cygwin - bring the Linux command line to Windows
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Cygwin is a great application. What it allows you to do is bring the command line environment and many commands from the Linux world onto a Windows machine. If you have no choice but to use a Windows-based computer, yet you wish to have the power and flexibility of a Unix system, then Cygwin is for you.
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