Rusty Russell posted on LKML some patches to add documentation for his actual kernel work known as lguest. In one of his patches Rusty wrote:”Indeed, no code changes, and I feel strongly that it should go into 2.6.23 because it’s fun. And (as often complained) there’s not enough poetry in the kernel.”
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Lafarge cements use of Linux firewall
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Lafarge Africa have awarded a contract to Jeshurun Consulting to deploy the Linux-based Smoothwall firewall solution at its various sites through out Africa.
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Launchpad PPA Service: Software Development the Ubuntu Way
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During the Ubuntu Live Conference in Portland, Ore., Canonical announced the beta release of its Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other contributions to free software.
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Mozilla confirms own URL handling bug
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The Mozilla Foundation acknowledged over the weekend that its own Firefox browser allows links that can send malicious code to external programs, a security issue that the group had previously argued should be fixed by the browser maker.
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Who Are the Desktop Linux Users?
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Our OpenSUSE.org crew did some very enlightening research about who the Linux Desktop user is, and here’s what they found.
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Creating PDF’s with Free, Open Source and Commercial Apps (Updated)
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The first and most obvious option for creating PDF’s with Open Source is the excellent OpenOffice.org suite, where creating a PDF is just a quick click on the Export to PDF icon away.
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Meet the OLPC's XO
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One Laptop Per Child's XO (commonly referred to as the $100 laptop) is designed to change the world by bringing computing resources to children in the developing world. But the many innovations in the XO may also end up changing the world of technology.
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Linux Foundation names Markus Rex as CTO
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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit group dedicated to accelerating Linux's growth, announced on July 24 that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will serve as the Foundation's new chief technology officer.
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NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World
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NASA's new SGI Altix system is expected to be installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 processor cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux(R) -- creating the largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world.
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Build your own server: Part 2
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The previous article about Ubuntu based file serving hit like a bomb. The main focus of that article was to spark interest and get the server up and running in no time, showing what the possibilities were.
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Linux: Custom Kernels Trim Fat and Tune Performance
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I have some shocking news: despite the astonishing growth of Linux, there is a whole new generation of Linux users who have never, ever compiled a kernel.
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How to set up surround 5.1 audio in Linux with Alsa
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The main problem I had with the sound setup in linux was getting it to work so that i can use all my speakers.
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Linux tip: Job scheduling with cron and at
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You need to run a job at midnight when system usage is low, or you need to run jobs daily or weekly, but you would rather be sleeping, or enjoying life in some other way. Other good reasons for scheduling jobs include letting routine tasks happen automatically, or ensuring tasks are handled the same way every time.
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"Pretty much anything [Mac] has, Linux can do better." Hogwash. Can we kill the zealotry?
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Torvalds said, “I don’t use either [Windows or Mac OS X]. OS X is kind of pointless (pretty much anything it has, Linux can do better) and Windows offers stuff that I don’t much care about (mainly games — and I’ve got games machines for those).” Before I comment on this any more than I have, let me just say that I have been a near-exclusive Linux desktop user since 2001.
Read more »Convert .flv (Google Videos) to .mpg using ffmpeg
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FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most operating systems, including Windows.
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