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What is each distribution best for?
What do you think each Linux distribution is "best for"? You can only pick one selection for each distribution (which, by the way, we know is going to be difficult). We'll compile results and share them in an upcoming article. Make sure your voice is heard! more>>
Who Will Be Collaborating On What And When
Each year, the Linux Foundation is responsible for putting on some of the biggest names of the conference season. LinuxCon, the Kernel and End-User Summits, the Linux Plumbers Conference — they all have the Foundation behind them. The next up on the schedule is the Collaboration Summit, and as of last week, attendees can now check the details on the Summit's who, what, where, and when. more>>
Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released
SCO Email to O'Gara: "I Need You to Send a Jab PJ's Way"
A Face Lift For The MPL
As Phyllis Diller would attest, a face lift isn't necessarily a bad thing. Most things — legalese included — can use a good going over from time to time, and that's just what the good people at Mozilla will be doing this year. more>>
Storage Cluster: A Challenge to LJ Staff and Readers
For a few years I have been trying to create a "distributed cluster storage system" (see below) on standard Linux hardware. I have been unsuccessful. I have looked into buying one and they do exist, but are so expensive I can't afford one. They also are designed for much larger enterprises and have tons of features I don't want or need. I am hoping the Linux community can help me create this low cost "distributed cluster storage system" which I think other small businesses could use. Please help me solve this so we can publish the solution to the open source community. more>>
Linux Arpeggiators, Part 1
In my last article I looked at performance loopers for Linux. This week I begin a 2-part review of similar applications called arpeggiators. more>>
Tweaked: Ubuntu on a HTC Touch Pro 2 [Video]
Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas
GNOME's Google Summer of Code Admins are looking for a few good ideas. In case you missed it, here's the post from Ruben Vermeersch that went out to devel-announce and foundation-announce:
It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 29, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of projects from them to chose from and have mentors ready to volunteer their time.
Interview with Linux Journal Virtual Editor Bill Childers
Carlie: Bill Childers is Linux Journal's Virtual Editor. How do you think your editor Jill Franklin came up with that one? more>>
OK Palm, We're Ready for the Foleo Now
Ahh, poor Palm. Sure, they have their fancy new WebOS toys -- but it wasn't that long ago they were banking on the Foleo changing the mobile world as we knew it. Sadly, they were just a little too early, and a little too lame. Here's the good news, Palm: We're ready now. Let me give you a bit of a vision, and you run with it... more>>
Book Excerpt: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
This article is an excerpt from the new 2nd Ed. of Mark Sobell's book, A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, published Nov. 2009 by Prentice Hall Professional, ISBN 0131367366, Copyright 2010 Mark G. Sobell. For additional sample content from a selection of chapters, please visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0131367366 more>>
Report: North Korea Develops own Linux Distribution
Ubuntu dumps the brown, introduces new theme and branding
Ubuntu gets a new logo and ditches brown!!!!!!111
Illegal use of term - five yard penalty
From Thursday, March 4, 2010 Washington DC Express print edition:
Megan Fox Thinks She's Linux...Or Something Megan Fox has slept with only two men...."My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine -- the world owns everything else." more>>
Interview with Linux Journal Associate Editor Shawn Powers
Carlie: What is it that you do for Linux Journal?
Shawn: That's a scary question for your boss to ask... :)
Carlie: I meant "Tell our readers what you do for Linux Journal". :p more>>
Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently?
Sudo Axes Escalation Glitch
Among the important benefits of Linux's permission hierarchy is its ability to keep untrusted users from running amok. The all-or-nothing nature of root access, however, can present headaches when users are trusted, but only so far. That is a problem the sudo utility attempts to solve, and does so fairly well — except for the occasional glitch. more>>









