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ShareTweet LinuxCon ended Aug. 19 in Vancouver, after celebrating 20 years of Linux. Highlights included plans for a universal long-term Linux kernel, keynotes from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and IBM Linux guru Irving Wladawsky-Berger, and Linus Torvalds calling for calm in the code rift with Android. DesktopLinux.com ...

ShareTweet dynamo52 writes “I have been tasked with replacing a managed Wi-Fi system for a mid-sized hotel. They have already selected Comcast to provide a 100mbps connection, which unfortunately must come in at one corner of the ~5-acre property. The hotel plans to provide this service for free, so there is no need for any ...

ShareTweet Hello, I’ve just provisioned a laptop with Arch Linux, using OpenBox3, Tint2, Cairo Dock and Sakura. I seem to be encountering an issue with Sakura – I ssh/screen to my irssi setup on a remote machine and after a time it becomes unresponsive, I can no longer use my keybinds to change channels. It ...

ShareTweet wisebabo writes “Researchers in China have proposed sending a solar sail-driven probe to hit the asteroid Apophis to make sure it has no chance of going through a ‘keyhole’ near earth in 2029. If it goes through the keyhole, then it will hit the earth seven years later. The reason why they need to ...

ShareTweet Attachmate’s SUSE unit announced a partnership with Xamarin, which formed to support the “Mono” after Attachmate jettisoned the Mono team. The agreement grants Xamarin a license to all IP covering Mono products, and calls for Xamarin to provide technical support to SUSE customers using Mono-based products. DesktopLinux.com ...

ShareTweet belmolis writes “Here in Canada we have an old-fashioned paper ballot voting system that by all accounts works very well. We get results quickly and without fraud. Nonetheless, Elections Canada wants to test on-line voting. From the article: ‘The head of the agency in charge of federal elections says it’s time to modernize Canada’s ...

ShareTweet The 17th annual Readers’ Choice Awards are under way! Voting will close on Sep. 2, 2011. Please note: You are not required to vote in every category, please simply skip over a question if you wish. Thank you for participating! Your friends at Linux Journal more>> Linux Journal – The Original Magazine of the ...

ShareTweet itwbennett writes “Using a secret vSphere console, Jason Cornish, formerly an IT staffer at the U.S. subsidiary of drug-maker Shionogi, wiped out most of the company’s computer infrastructure earlier this year. Cornish, 37, pleaded guilty Tuesday to computer intrusion charges in connection with the attack.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Slashdot ...

ShareTweet Linux 3.0 was released, featuring a storage backend for Xen virtualization and a scrubbed up antifrag version of the Btrfs filesystem. Meanwhile, Thomas Gleixner released a major new, real-time Linux patch to match Linux 3.0 for highly-deterministic applications. DesktopLinux.com ...

ShareTweet hi all . i want write a program with eclips in linux . please guide me for start this program . how do identity a usb when it connected or removed ? thanks LinuxQuestions.org ...

ShareTweet How To Fix “no Such Partition” Error In Linux Operating System? <!– @page { margin: .79in } P { margin-bottom: .08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } –> Are you ineffective to boot your computer from Linux operating system in a double-boot configuration with Windows? Your system cannot acknowledge the Linux partition and you ...

ShareTweet mormop writes “The Chinese government has praised UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan for censoring social networking sites at times when the government feels threatened, believing it legitimizes China own behavior. Quoting Chinese state media website Global Times: ‘Britain’s new attitude will help appease the quarrels between East and West over the future management ...

ShareTweet Red Hat released version 5.7 of RHEL, adding new drivers and KVM hypervisor improvements. In other enterprise Linux news, Oracle acquired Ksplice and its Linux-based hot-patching technology, and an eWEEK review says the Ubuntu-based Stackops Linux distro speeds the process of configuring and deploying OpenStack clouds. DesktopLinux.com ...

ShareTweet angry tapir writes “The Chinese city of Kunming has stopped 22 fake Apple stores from illegally using the company’s iconic trademarks after Apple lodged a complaint with authorities. Kunming authorities found 20 unauthorized Apple resellers. Currently, 11 of those resellers are being investigated. Two other stores were discovered for related violations. Slashdot first discussed ...

ShareTweet Geeks like their soda Mountain Dewey, their coffee strong, and their source open. But what I’m REALLY curious about is what color car we drive. You know, for science. Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Silver Gold White (possibly not a color) Black (possibly not a color) Grey (possibly not a color) Clear ...

ShareTweet Microsoft and Attachmate business unit SUSE announced a four-year extension of their controversial strategic collaboration that involves Microsoft’s purchase of $ 100 million in SUSE Linux certificates. Meanwhile, the Linux community puzzles over Microsoft’s major contributing role to Linux 3.0, and its surprise birthday greeting to Linux. DesktopLinux.com ...

ShareTweet anonymousNR writes “A CERN physicist has a new theory explaining the rotational curves of galaxies. ‘The key message of my paper is that dark matter may not exist and that phenomena attributed to dark matter may be explained by the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum,’ Hajdukovic told PhysOrg.com. ‘The future experiments and observations ...

ShareTweet Linus Torvalds weighed in on the debate over the controversial GNOME 3.0 environment, recommending that someone fork the “unholy mess.” Meanwhile, version 4.7 of the KDE desktop has arrived with new touchscreen and OpenGL 2.0 support, and Netflix may be be working on a Linux port. DesktopLinux.com ...

ShareTweet OverTheGeicoE writes “Wired has a story about TSA’s known crewmember program, which allows airline pilots to bypass traditional airport security on their way to the cockpit. Pilots will be verified using a system known as CrewPASS that relies on uniforms, identity cards, fingerprints, and possibly other biometrics to authenticate flight deck crews. Once they ...

ShareTweet Package management in Linux is great, but unfortunately, it comes with a few cons. Granted, most distributions keep all your software, not just system software like Apple and Microsoft, updated. The downside is that software packages aren’t always the latest versions. Whatever is in the repository is what you get. more>> Linux Journal – ...