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ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes to point out reports that Asus is “working on a new laptop that will include Kinect gestures and will be compatible with Windows 8,” and adds, “What does this mean for the consumer? Portable gestures in Windows 8!” Wired has an article based on the same report, which mentions also ...

ShareTweet Hi Friends, I need your help to allow snmp port (udp-161) in my freeBSD server. I have my monitoring system and i am monitoring my linux servers through SNMP protocol. i installed SNMP in my FreeBSD server but not able to get detail through snmpwalk command from my monitoring system. i think my ipfw ...

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. and elsewhere, but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention this week. Several months after the majority of ACTA participants signed the agreement, most European Union countries formally signed the agreement yesterday (notable ...

Vim's syntax highlighting and color schemes can be a blessing, or a curse, depending on how they're configured. ...

All files previously stored in the Linux distribution's /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories will shortly be moved to equivalent sub-directories in /usr/... ...

Red Hat has established a GlusterFS Advisory Board to promote the technical development of the distributed file system. ...

ShareTweet Canonical, Red Hat, and Arch Linux have released patches that fix a vulnerability in Linux kernels 2.6.39 and above that enable attackers to gain system root access. The distro patches followed a kernel patch to fix the vulnerability, but proof-of-concept exploit code examples have already been posted. DesktopLinux.com ...

Use of Linux in the mobile/embedded space is exploding, and we find many companies are adopting the open source Yocto project to build custom embedded Linux systems. The project is hosting a free day of training on Yocto on Feb 14th as part of the Embedded Linux Conference ...

ShareTweet First time accepted submitter azrael29a writes “22 EU members signed the controversial ACTA treaty today in Tokyo. However, the signatures of the EU member states and the EU itself will count for nothing unless the European Parliament gives its approval to ACTA in June.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Slashdot ...

Systemd, Lennart Poettering's new init system that is taking the Linux world by storm, is all full of little tricks and treats. ...

This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. ...

ShareTweet Portability is a huge advantage that Linux enjoys over most other desktop operating systems as most major distros work very well when installed to a flash drive. However, there are still machines in service that just won’t play ball when it comes to USB booting. Fortunately, I found a nice little utility that can ...

This morning, HP gave further details of its contribution of the webOs platform to the open source community. I find these details and the timeline associated with the release to be positive developments, both for Linux and for the wider mobile markets ...

Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt ...

ShareTweet cweditor writes “One afternoon this month, a hacker toured a dozen corporate conference rooms via equipment that most every company has in those rooms: videoconferencing. Rapid7 says they could ‘easily read a six-digit password from a sticky note over 20 feet away from the camera’ and ‘clearly hear conversations down the hallway from the ...

ShareTweet Hi, I’m trying to implement the automatic creation of a mount point defined by the volume name of an usb drive when inserted and also the removing of it once unplugged. Autmounting works as expected. However, unmounting doesn’t. It looks like the lines linked to action:=remove aren’t executed at all. Any idea to help ...

A lot of things change in 10 years. Many of the Linux conferences we were going to in 2002 are no longer around, but the Southern California Linux Expo has not only survived – it's grown into a major event for anybody interested in Linux. ...

HyperShop has begun selling a pocket-size, battery-powered adapter that turns a USB storage device into a wireless file server, sharing files with Wi-Fi-enabled devices including the Apple iPad and iPhone. ...

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “An article by Andy Young in The Kernel makes the case that lessons in programming should be compulsory learning for modern school kids. He says, ‘Computers help us automate and repeat the many complicated steps that make up the search for the answer to some of our hardest problems: whether ...

ShareTweet All of sudden my ubuntu 10.0.4 has stopped booting. As i switch on the pc it gives the following error. Target filesystem doesn’t have /sbin/init. run-init: /etc/init:Permission denied [1.636730] Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! thnx LinuxQuestions.org ...