Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now! [Pic]
July 4th, 2009Well at least according to Dell’s website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft’s latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!Read more…
Wine 1.1.25 Released
July 4th, 2009- A ton of translation updates. - Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad. - Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL. - Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically. - Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementationRead more…
Ten ways to smooth the switch to Linux
July 3rd, 2009Without sending users on some sort of boot camp, changing the preconceptions of users may seem a daunting task. But there are ways to ease the pain of learning Linux.Read more…
CentOS 5.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
July 3rd, 2009 |
CentOS 5.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
CentOS 5.3 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol
as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone
server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user
has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all
users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser
July 3rd, 2009Ianopolous writes “Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser! The latest JPC, the fast 100% Java x86 PC emulator, is now available with online demos and downloads. JPC is open source and is the most secure way of running x86 software ever — 2 layers (applet sandbox, JPC sandbox) of independently validated security make it the world’s most secure means of isolating x86 software. Visit the website to try out some classic games and play around with Linux all within your web browser. Rrefresh = reboot!”
Moblin: a First Look at Intel’s Open-Source OS
July 3rd, 2009Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and people who use them. On a technical level this means Moblin is built for the Atom x86 chip found in many netbooks, while on a practical level it means Moblin is an Internet- and multimedia-focused operating system.Read more…
Installing Adobe AIR 1.5.1 For Linux On Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64)
July 2nd, 2009 |
Installing Adobe AIR 1.5.1 For Linux On Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64)
Adobe AIR
is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop.
With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications.
This tutorial explains how you can install Adobe AIR 1.5.1 for Linux on
an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop (x86_64) and how you can install AIR
applications.
Linux Patch Clears the Air For Use of Microsoft’s FAT Filesystem
July 2nd, 2009Ars Technica is reporting that a new kernel patch may provide a workaround to allow use of Microsoft’s FAT file system on Linux without paying licensing fees. “Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers behind the Samba project, published a patch last week that will alter the behavior of the Linux FAT implementation so that it will not generate both short and long filenames. In situations where the total filename fits within the 11-character limit, the filesystem will generate only a short name. When the filename exceeds that length, it will only generate a long name and will populate the short name value with 11 invalid characters so that it is ignored by the operating system.”
How To Remotely Shut Down Windows XP Computers From A Linux Server
July 2nd, 2009How To Remotely Shut Down Windows XP Computers From A Linux Server
As a budget cutback, our school administrators asked us to shutdown
all non-essential classroom computers at night to save electricity. I
teach Linux in a classroom that has a Dell Poweredge 2850 Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL5) server and 29 Dell Optiplex 745 student lab
computers running Microsoft Windows XP SP3 as the host operating system
and VMWare Server to provide virtual Linux machines for our classes. I
researched on the Internet for the best solution to remotely shutdown
the student lab computers at night. I was not able to find one post or
how-to that completely answered my questions, but I was able to piece
together a solution. In an effort to document this project and help
others with similar needs, here are my notes on the project.
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft’s FAT patents
July 2nd, 2009A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft’s patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.Read more…