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New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents
Friday, July 03, 2009 @ 01:21:28 CEST by tw45admin (13 reads) |  Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem. A new Linux kernel patch that was published last week offers a workaround that might make it possible to continue including FAT in Linux without using methods that are covered by Microsoft's patents.
Continue reading at arstechnica.com.
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Installing Themes in Linux
Friday, July 03, 2009 @ 00:15:15 CEST by tw45admin (16 reads) |  This guide works for the gnome desktop manager (used by Ubuntu and other Linux distributions). First we go to Gnome-looks. This is a large collection of themes and other artwork that can be used to make gnome look any which way you like. From there we select and download a theme. Since many people have asked what theme I use, I chose my theme, SlicknesS-black, for the example. Once we’ve downloaded our theme and saved it to the desktop, we will then extract it to the desktop.
Text and video tutorial found at linuxhaxor.net.
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New version of Symbian nears beta testing
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 20:15:04 CEST by tw45admin (11 reads) |  A new version of the Symbian mobile phone operating system is to begin beta testing within the next few weeks. Symbian^2, the first version of the software since the Symbian Foundation said it planned to go open source, should be ready for release six months after that, so smart phone buyers may see the first devices using the software in the first half of 2010. The foundation was created when Nokia bought software developer Symbian, with the intention of uniting the underlying Symbian operating system with user interface layers such as S60 or UIQ that had been developed on top of it.
The rest of this news article is at Techworld.com.
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OpenOffice Portable in Version 3.1
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 20:10:58 CEST by tw45admin (13 reads) |  OpenOffice Portable 3.1, like its predecessor, serves as an on-the-go office application and can be started via USB stick without installation. However, this works with 3.1 over Windows with Python only, although Linux has a workaround using Wine. The new portable OpenOffice is, unfortunately, more geared toward transitioners between the Linux and Windows worlds.
Learn more at Linux Pro Magazine.
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PostgreSQL 8.4 now available
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 14:16:46 CEST by tw45admin (20 reads) |  The PostgreSQL developers have released version 8.4 of the open source database saying it is "Now easier to use than ever". The release, which comes after sixteen months of development by the PostgeSQL Global Development Group, adds a number of new features such as per-column permissions which gives more control over which users can see which columns in a database. Parallel database restore has been included to speed up recovery from backups by as much as eight times, while in-place upgrades using pg_migrator should allow users to upgrade from PostreSQL 8.3 to 8.4 with minimal downtime. New monitoring tools allow administrators to profile query activity, load and deadlocks to optimise their deployments. Other optimisations include a reduction in the overhead of VACUUM, used to tidy the database storage.
Full story at h-online.com.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta released
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 14:15:14 CEST by tw45admin (18 reads) |  Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL), which in my view is a lot more than a typical point release. Sure we're all waiting for the big RHEL 6 release, but there are some major changes in RHEL 5.4. The most obvious change is the shift to the KVM hypervisor (as opposed to Xen). Xen is still in RHEL, but with RHEL 5.4, Red Hat is signaling its intention that KVM (eventually) is to be Red Hat's preferred Hypervisor. It's a preference that Red Hat execs have indicated at multiple points this year and should be no surprise since Red Hat now owns lead KVM vendor Qumranet.
Announcement and analysis from Internetnews.com.
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Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 14:13:23 CEST by tw45admin (25 reads) |  As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ("Lenny") distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, "Squeeze." GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents. Debian forms the basis for a number of desktop and embedded Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and Xandros. The second stable release, made available this week, is said to include numerous security fixes, as well as "a few adjustments to serious problems." But, the upcoming Squeeze release appears to have some serious problems, according to Debian insiders.
More about this from linux-watch.com.
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Installing Adobe AIR 1.5.1 For Linux On Ubuntu 9.04 (i386)
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 14:11:48 CEST by tw45admin (58 reads) |  falko writes
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Five best download managers for Linux
Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 14:11:23 CEST by tw45admin (26 reads) |  donadony writes The typical download manager at a minimum provides means to recover from errors without losing the work already completed, and can optionally split the file to be downloaded (or uploaded) into 2 or more segments, which are then moved in parallel, potentially making the process faster within the limits of the available bandwidth. So what is the perfect download manager i should use in Linux ?
Five best download managers for Linux
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Emergency Operations With A Live Linux CD
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 @ 19:15:08 CEST by tw45admin (52 reads) | Having a seemingly non-reproducible disk error can be a real heart-breaker. Lost work, multiple fsck.ext3 exercises, and frazzled nerves were common for those agonizing couple of days. The adventure began with my recent upgrade to Jaunty 9.04. Couple that with my dubious decision to experiment with the Compiz eye-candy package along with the upgrade and you can see where this was going. It's kind of like being a pilot who suddenly insists on enhancing the control panel or hot-rodding the engine--while the plane is flying through a thunderstorm. Don't laugh, I know many of you are also secretly guilty of the same computationally questionable behaviors. Fortunately, we almost always seem to get out of our scrapes.
Read the rest at Linux.com.
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