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Your CMS Is Not Your Web Site

02.01.2012 · Posted in LinuxJournal

ShareTweet A content management system is a centralized repository for your content. A Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. If it’s not a Web site, what does a CMS do? more>> Linux Journal – The Original ...

Get Your Embedded Linux On: Join Me at Yocto Project Developer Day

02.01.2012 · Posted in News

Building an embedded Linux distribution can be a daunting task. From the Board Support Package (BSP) to Kernel configuration, root file system setup and the selection many additional software package there are many choices to make and taking the wrong turn can easily lead to a dead end and many hours of wasted time. ...

Angry Birds Boss Credits Piracy For Popularity Boost

02.01.2012 · Posted in Slashdot

ShareTweet An anonymous reader writes “Mikael Hed is the CEO of Rovio Mobile, the company behind popular mobile puzzle game Angry Birds. At the Midem conference Monday, Hed had some interesting things to say about how piracy has affected the gaming industry, and Rovio’s games in particular: ‘”We could learn a lot from the music ...

Red Hat Extends RHEL Lifecycle from Seven to 10 Years

02.01.2012 · Posted in News

Red Hat announced that it has extended the lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years to give users more flexibility in long-term operating system deployments. - Red Hat announced it has extended the production life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5... ...

Bid for Mandriva Fails

01.31.2012 · Posted in News

The Mandriva saga continues as an external bid fails. But the company's COO says that financial circumstances mean the company still has some weeks to find a new solution... ...

Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.5.1

01.31.2012 · Posted in News

Endian Firewall 2.5.1, an updated version of the Red Hat-based firewall distribution, has been released: "An update for Endian Firewall Community to version 2.5.1 is now available. This release introduces a number of new features. Connectivity - support for most modern UMTS/3G USB dongles. ...

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block Pirate Bay

01.31.2012 · Posted in Slashdot

ShareTweet judgecorp writes “Two Dutch ISPs have complied with a demand to block the Pirate Bay, but KPN and T-Mobile are refusing to block the site.” Torrent Freak has a bit more info. T-Mobile at least seems to imply they would respond to a court order, and are merely refusing to take down sites at ...

Hello World.

01.30.2012 · Posted in Linux

ShareTweet There is great satisfaction in being able to post these words . I first dipped my toe into the Linux world back in 2002.with red hat. But no way could I find or install a working modem ,we were on snail dial then..Every modem we tried just failed . So played with around linux ...

Rockbox’s Developers Weigh In On Open Source Digital Music Innovation

01.30.2012 · Posted in News

The world of digital music is now dominated by lots of useful proprietary tools--with Apple's ruling the roost--but there are also many free open source tools and applications worth looking into. Of these, Rockbox, an open source firmware replacement for MP3 players from manufacturers ranging from Archos to iRiver to Apple, is easily one ...

Moose

01.29.2012 · Posted in LinuxJournal

ShareTweet Perl has been around for more than 20 years. During that time, it has received its share of both praise and criticism, and lots of misconceptions surround it. Much of this stems from long-outdated notions of what Perl used to be, but have nothing to do with what Perl actually is today. more>> Linux ...

Excuse me, is this Antarctica ?

01.29.2012 · Posted in Linux

ShareTweet Hello, world ! This is my first post. I have been reading various posts at this forum for a couple of months, or maybe years and found them pretty useful, so I decided to register although it will probably take me some time to become a helpful participant since my experience with Linux is ...

Web management KVM

01.29.2012 · Posted in Linux

ShareTweet Hello, I would like to ask you if you have some experiences with a web management for KVM? I find managing it from CLI a bit difficult. Have you tried for example Convirt www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php LinuxQuestions.org ...

Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors

01.28.2012 · Posted in Slashdot

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 ...

Want to allow SNMP in FreeBSD Server

01.28.2012 · Posted in Linux

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 ...

The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is At Stake & What You Can Do

01.27.2012 · Posted in Slashdot

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 ...